takeru catchall

[fergalicious]

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[dotcom]

[ ????????

he has no idea what he just watched. why was that man in a suit at the beach. ]

What?

[fergalicious]

[ She sighs and looks away. ]

I was going to hold a contest to increase my popularity to win a festival. The man you saw is possessed by an ancient Chinese strategist. I don't know if you know your Chinese history. Zhuge Liang. He outmaneuvered me by using someone else to disguise themselves as me.

[ She knows that this is a lot of info to dump on him when he doesn't even know what she's a Heroic Spirit and what that means, but she want to glaze past it all. ]

It ended...

[ She shrugs and makes a hand motion that suggests not well for her. ]

[dotcom]

[ takeru is too normie for this. why are all of you so weird. he has to take a moment to mull all of this over to figure out a response. ]

Why?

[ like. why for all of this. ]

What's the point in going against you?

[fergalicious]

For a wish.

[ So maybe not too terribly different than here, only the tone is a bit lighter where she came from since it's a remodeled Hawaii. ]

The prize for that festival was a wish, and I was going to win until that point.

[ She sounds entirely confident about that. ]

[dotcom]

And now you're here.

[ for another wish.

he's still curious, and it shows on his expression ]

[fergalicious]

Now I'm here.

[ She smiles up at him, something in between amused and pleased. ]

If you want to know, you'll have to use your words. I don't give everything away for free.

[ She holds up her hand with her sinbol. ]

[dotcom]

[ that's fair.

he considers what he'd want to know. ]

What are you guys, then? Not regular humans.

[fergalicious]

I'm a Heroic Spirit. In my world, if you do enough deeds to get your name known in history, you can become one after you die.

So... [ She takes a moment to consider how else to frame it simply. ] Think like Oda Nobunaga or Okita Souji.

[ Those are famous enough Japanese figures, right? She thinks Takeru is Japanese anyway. ]

[dotcom]

Or Ashiya Douman?

[ that's the very first one that comes to mind, going by this context. ]

[fergalicious]

Yeah, like them. Although... I think they might be a little different. It's hard to say when we're without our abilities.

[ She looks a little thoughtful. ]

Something isn't quite right.

[dotcom]

Why? How can you tell?

[ he has no idea how any of this works, obviously, because he just learned what a heroic spirit is ten seconds ago. ]

[fergalicious]

They said they were missing much of their memories, and that doesn’t usually happen. They’re a class that usually forms because of a wish, an emotion, some kind of personality aspect strong enough to be on its own.

[ they should at least remember that much. even if it’s wrong because history and popular conception distorted the truth, there are some things that should remain, and when douman says they don’t remember... ]

I think they’re lying.

[dotcom]

[ huh.

he wants to ask what she is, but he'll stick to this line of conversation for now. ]

What would be the point of lying?

[fergalicious]

For whatever reason they became an Alter Ego, I think. I don't know everything about how they work either, but...

[ She shrugs. Sometimes, Servants don't even know everything about how Servants work. ]

I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to backstab me someday.

[ She says that very casually. ]

[dotcom]

I see...

[ well, just because you're from the same place doesn't mean you really knew each other. ]

What about you?

[fergalicious]

[ Yeah, how much do you know about Mineo's sex life, Takeru? ]

I love talking about myself, but you'll have to be a little more specific.

[dotcom]

How do you fit in?

[ she said that douman was a certain kind of... heroic spirit? so she's one too. ]

[fergalicious]

I'm Medb. Queen Medb. Right now, I'm a Saber, but I'm usually a Rider.

[ A beat. ]

It's self-explanatory what I can do.

[dotcom]

That's--

[ i forgot i never shared my memory. so, was he opens his mouth to respond, another memory hits (stop at 12:10).

when the memory ends, he looks... mad, but not at her. ]

[fergalicious]

[ i was going to yell at you in my next tag if you didn't share a mem

It doesn't seem to be that emotional of a memory despite the reveal that this man orchestrated a bombing. It seems Takeru was more than ready to confront that issue. She knows Takeru likes his privacy, and he thinks memory sharing is annoying, but that anger.... ]

Was what he said next that bad?

[ That's her guess. ]

[dotcom]

It was annoying to deal with. It's also one of the last things I did over there before I showed up here.

[ he sighs. ]

But it's fine.

[fergalicious]

Is it, Takeru?

[ She tilts her head. Her tone isn't insistent, but she's watching him carefully. ]

Is it really?

[dotcom]

Yes.

Adonis is full of assholes, so the idea of them having any opinion on me is exhausting.

[fergalicious]

I—

Wait, why would you name your organization after someone who died because of a pig?

[ That's some naming sense. (Medb has no room to judge in her glass house, but she judges anyway.) ]

[dotcom]

They're morons.

[ he shrugs. ]

Terrorist groups are usually full of it.