[Joint Catch-all] What if you're making me all that I was meant to be?

[readytolearn]

🧙 WHO: Archer (EMIYA), Elsa, Jean Kirstein, Mamoru Chiba, Ren Jinguji
⚔️️ WHAT: Closed and Open thread starters for April
🕒 WHEN: April
🗺️ WHERE: Around Camelot and potentially other places, will mention in top levels
⚠️ WARNINGS: will be added on threads

for additional plotting, you can reach me in PM's or sasageyo. All of the top levels can also be wildcarded.

Comments

[fujimaru]

It could be worse, I guess... you could have been the Berserker version, not the Lancer.

[ Would that even be feasible? Surely that tail alone would count as a weapon, even as a prop in cosplay. ]

[unknowntodeath]

[Well that's... new.]

There's a berserker version?

[A memory of Lancer's more feral faces passes on his mind. Mostly whenever he was about to use his Noble Phantasm.]

... I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

[fujimaru]

It was kind of a weird case, with special conditions. I don't actually get most of it.

[ Theoretically, the Berserker version had only been a construct of Queen Medb, but it had been a very real Servant who'd stepped out of her summoning circle not that long after the American Singularity had been resolved. Ritsuka shrugs. ]

Anyway, he's got this big spikey tail. You probably wouldn't even be able to walk with it on.

[unknowntodeath]

... yeah, I'm glad I only have to deal with spandex. And being shirtless.

[It's only April, he would likely catch a death flu before he got rid of the costume.]

[fujimaru]

...that's right, you guys can actually feel the cold here...

[ Maybe he's just upset because of modesty standards? But it's early in the year, and he's not wrong about the chill... ]

[unknowntodeath]

Unfortunately. I'm as human as I will ever be again, here. Including feeling too cold or too hot.

[Which is a pain in the ass, let him tell you.]

[fujimaru]

Stay inside the convention hall, then. There's enough people for it to feel warm, even if you're not wearing a shirt.

[ It works for her when she's got a skirt and no tights; it will probably work for a guy without a shirt. ]

[unknowntodeath]

I wasn't actually going to stay at the convention at all. I was passing by on an errand and got caught by that jerk.

[Not that he has to go back to work today, it's his day off, but.]

Though I guess since I'm already dressed up...

[fujimaru]

Take advantage of it. Get some cool photos.

[ Flirt with a booth owner to get a discount! Not that Ritsuka has ever done that herself, but she's certainly watched other Servants do it often enough that she feels like she knows how it works. ]

Anyway, isn't stuff like this fun? Everything's been so grim lately--why not enjoy something nice while it's here?

[unknowntodeath]

[He would like to argue that he doesn't do fun... but it's time for some soul bonding with his cosplay! He grins and puts the fake Gae Bolg on his shoulder.]

You know what, you're right. I should make the best of the whole situation. Want to go with me?


[He's gonna die of embarrassment and cringe later, he knows it.]

[fujimaru]

[ That's... so weird... she's a little surprised that his face hasn't cracked into a thousand pieces in saying that. ]

Uh, sure? Are you sure you're feeling okay?