[NOW HE FEELS BAD FOR TALKING SHIT ABOUT DEAD PEOPLE kind of a little.]
Ah... I'm so sorry. [He's realizing in this moment that their age is just fucking ? as he's wondering how long they've been without family.] Is it... a distant loss?
The time period I originally lived in was a very, very long time ago. But because of recent events, I was able to come back to the world many centuries later. Everyone I knew is gone.
[ they're going to write out an explanation and hand it out to people. ]
Yes. I was poisoned from a battle, and I did not make it. [ not a great way to die but here we are. ] That should have been the end of it all, but I was summoned after death to fight in something called the Waxing Moon Ritual.
[The way this just reminds him of someone else's lore and now he's like "is this just a thing that happens across worlds? What the fuck is up with the moon?" Him and everyone else in touken ranbu asking the same question.
The first bit just gets an empathetic look. DYING OF POISON. IN SUCH A WAY. NOT A GREAT WAY TO GO!!! The rest of this is so fucking bizarre he's not even sure what to say about it.]
So, then... You died after being summoned from death- again? In the fight...?
More or less, yes. It has all been a bit of an adjustment.
[ please understand that the reason saber is so bad at technology isn't because they are from edo japan it is because they are from over 1000 years before that. they are fucking struggling here. ]
So many of you seem to come from such complicated situations... [WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT FORM. Lucas just like DID YOU FUCKING COME BACK AS A VENGEFUL SPIRIT????] ...I'll pray that you can come to a conclusion that you're most satisfied with.
[He is constantly tired over the fact that he wants to help but cannot really do much to help. Everyone stop being so exhausting.
Anyway, as they walk through the mirrors, they can have a return memory before i forget wahoo! puts you to bed as well it is so late for francys]
saber pauses mid-step at the memory, and their grip on lucas' hand tightens for a moment as they process what they just witnessed. it is... interesting. there are some similarities to their situations in the memory, but reversed, and they have to try to think of something to say. ]
Lucas' grip tightens just a little on reflexive return, but he doesn't seem overly-bothered watching this play out across the mirrors.]
Ah, this again... [FROWNING. They can start there, but he will begin with:] This didn't happen to me. Not in this way, at least... My sister, Nadia, was very ill, though. She's been unwell since birth.
[He seems to be thinking this over for a second before nodding.]
Nothing particularly bizarre happened to me last week beyond becoming a child once or twice, but I did hear other people were beset with strange memories.
[Multiple people pulled a yaywon and au'd themselves in love with him, he is so intimately familiar with aushare.]
...I did end the lives of my parents many years ago, but they were in pursuit of us. I couldn't allow my sister or anyone kind enough to take us in be hurt.
[Sometimes you are just in a place where you can't condemn your insane father for being insane... He gets it...]
I appreciate it. Thank you, Saber, dear. [He reaches out with a free hand to lightly touch their shoulder.] I do wish that things hadn't come to it, but I could never regret saving Nadia's life.
[Sometimes you just wholesale kill your sibling...
He always loves talking about Nadia though, so he nods without pause.]
Of course. Dear Nadia is such a lovely girl - the strongest and the sweetest you could ever meet. Even from the start- [Before everything became MURDERS.] -I was grateful that she wasn't here with me, since she still has so much living to do, but I do find it quite sad that she can't meet the rest of you... She's very curious and quite the social butterfly, you see, but doesn't have many opportunities to make new friends or meet new people. I could see her asking everyone here so many questions, it would be the cutest thing.
She sounds wonderful. It is too bad our reason for coming here isn't great...
[ it is sad that lucas is separated from his sister, but also, saying you want her to be here is kind of an insane thing to say considering the situation. ]
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[ it does not matter because they no longer have a family to deal with. so. ]
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Ah... I'm so sorry. [He's realizing in this moment that their age is just fucking ? as he's wondering how long they've been without family.] Is it... a distant loss?
[Just based on the way they said that.]
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[ they have to explain fate/. hate it here. ]
The time period I originally lived in was a very, very long time ago. But because of recent events, I was able to come back to the world many centuries later. Everyone I knew is gone.
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Ah? [HUH.] ...A bit like this place, then? Where time doesn't necessarily line up...?
[Close but not quite time travel but good enough to get the base concept.]
...That sounds so terribly disorienting. When you say "come back", do you mean to say that you already died in your original time period?
[NECROMANCY?]
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Yes. I was poisoned from a battle, and I did not make it. [ not a great way to die but here we are. ] That should have been the end of it all, but I was summoned after death to fight in something called the Waxing Moon Ritual.
I was in the midst of that when I ended up here.
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The first bit just gets an empathetic look. DYING OF POISON. IN SUCH A WAY. NOT A GREAT WAY TO GO!!! The rest of this is so fucking bizarre he's not even sure what to say about it.]
So, then... You died after being summoned from death- again? In the fight...?
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[ please understand that the reason saber is so bad at technology isn't because they are from edo japan it is because they are from over 1000 years before that. they are fucking struggling here. ]
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I can imagine so. I'm so sorry that your soul has yet to find rest, even after going through so many trials...
[Just let this fuckin fool rest in peace my god. There's another little bit of hesitance, but he eventually asks:]
...When all is said and done here, do you intend to return...?
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[ human? still a heroic spirit? there are so many questions. ]
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[He is constantly tired over the fact that he wants to help but cannot really do much to help. Everyone stop being so exhausting.
Anyway, as they walk through the mirrors, they can have a return memory before i forget wahoo! puts you to bed as well it is so late for francys]
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saber pauses mid-step at the memory, and their grip on lucas' hand tightens for a moment as they process what they just witnessed. it is... interesting. there are some similarities to their situations in the memory, but reversed, and they have to try to think of something to say. ]
... your sister?
[ they will start there. ]
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Lucas' grip tightens just a little on reflexive return, but he doesn't seem overly-bothered watching this play out across the mirrors.]
Ah, this again... [FROWNING. They can start there, but he will begin with:] This didn't happen to me. Not in this way, at least... My sister, Nadia, was very ill, though. She's been unwell since birth.
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[ a pause, and they frown. ]
Like last week?
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Nothing particularly bizarre happened to me last week beyond becoming a child once or twice, but I did hear other people were beset with strange memories.
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[ they do not. ]
What do you mean this isn't what happened to you, then?
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...I did end the lives of my parents many years ago, but they were in pursuit of us. I couldn't allow my sister or anyone kind enough to take us in be hurt.
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Ah...
[ that is a bit confusing, if he's saying it doesn't match up perfectly. ]
What did they want to do with your sister?
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They wished to end her life. [Well. It is not untrue.] So when they found us, I knew that I couldn't allow her to return with them no matter the cost.
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[ blatantly ignores the hypocrisy of saying this to lucas while being unable to condemn their own father. it's fine. ]
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I appreciate it. Thank you, Saber, dear. [He reaches out with a free hand to lightly touch their shoulder.] I do wish that things hadn't come to it, but I could never regret saving Nadia's life.
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[ as someone who who did not have a good sibling relationship, it's not to hear about people who do. ]
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He always loves talking about Nadia though, so he nods without pause.]
Of course. Dear Nadia is such a lovely girl - the strongest and the sweetest you could ever meet. Even from the start- [Before everything became MURDERS.] -I was grateful that she wasn't here with me, since she still has so much living to do, but I do find it quite sad that she can't meet the rest of you... She's very curious and quite the social butterfly, you see, but doesn't have many opportunities to make new friends or meet new people. I could see her asking everyone here so many questions, it would be the cutest thing.
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[ it is sad that lucas is separated from his sister, but also, saying you want her to be here is kind of an insane thing to say considering the situation. ]
Does she look like you?
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I've been told we bear a remarkable resemblance.
[THEY ARE SO IDENTICAL.]
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[ they are imagining a tiny lucas... ]
I'm glad you have someone so important in your life.
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