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[gandere]

[ Being a mother... isn't as easy as it sounds, Rin's painfully discovering. While the boy she adopted is a sweet little thing, he is also a boy and Rin is lacking in experience when it comes to boys that age. In Japan they were proper and didn't mingle much with girls so there's minimal experience from her childhood to go by. Growing up, there was a baby sister for a few years, but she doesn't like to think about those times either so it's no good. She's been a mother for a week and she's already crawling to her locket after asking around. Turns out most of her close companions either suck at parenting (thanks Saber for everything Mordred) or just planned to never have children at all (because that's helpful, Waver), leaving her in the dark. If only there were self help books available, but of course there's not.

Plus this gives her a reason to actually pester people. See what's been going on now that Caer Scima is rubble and everyone is scattered throughout the world. Let people know she's alive. Give them a chance to speak with her before she shut her locket for good. So here's one Rin, dressed tomboyish for her poking around for all to see. ]

Boys are really a handful, aren't they? No--before you ask--I'm not having relationship problems. I mean little boys. I'm not sulking, but it's really kind of hard to think of activities for someone his age-! [ She's brooding pretty fiercely by now. ] When I was seven years old, all I ever wanted to do was study, so why won't he?

[ Just in case anyone in Allaidh Darach needed further proof that Rin Tohsaka was a nerd. ]

I don't even know what to feed him since Emiya left. [ Yes, that's a public jab at his departure today. She's still a bit sour over it. ] He's a stupid boy, so he knows what boys need! What if I don't have enough of the right vegetables and his growth is stunted as a result. That can happen, can't it?!

[ There's a sound in the background that causes her to nearly drop her locket, the magus fumbling with it for a few seconds before it lands solidly in her palm. ]

Crap, crap, crap! What if he heard-?! Oh no, he's going to think he's an inconvenience and—[ Snapping the locket shut. It'll be a couple minutes to confirm it's clear before she replies to anyone. ]

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[gandere]

Make it a game? [ How do you do that?

It's almost as if she was raised by someone who didn't joke around or play with her. What terrible neglect she's going to pass on to her own child. ]

How do you turn education into something that's fun? It isn't possible.

[ Everything else is written down. Bright colors. Pretty displays. Wraps. All of it makes sense since boys do get messy and will get their hands on everything... from what she's been told anyway. What a lot of work this was turning out to be. ]

[showmeyourwreath]

[Flora blinks, taken aback. Rin is smart, she knows that much, so for her to say something along those lines is actually really surprising.

Wow, okay.]

Um, no there are ways a lot of ways. Making things competitions with other kids or just him. Some kids like straight studying, others not so much, but you can sort of trick them a little bit with the right approach. Things like memory games with flash cards or racing to write the correct answer to a problem on a board or scavenger hunts outside, especially the last--as a kid, I always thought I was going on an adventure whenever we did those, even if they were really exercises in critical thinking. There's a lot you can do.

Part of the fun is also just being enthusiastic and supportive. If the people around him care about it, he will too.

[gandere]

[ It's because she's never thought of it before, geez!! School was school, clubs were clubs, humans were best kept away from magi, and at the end of the day she returned home to an empty house to prepare herself to do it all over again. ]

He has two of the greatest kings to look up to that are fairly charismatic. I think he'll be eager to learn.

I'll... work on the fun stuff. Tricking him seems a bit dishonest, but if we have fun while we learn it won't be all that bad.