science fact: AUs are as addicting as pringles

[fionnuisce]

Anyone can tell you I've got a thing for recognizing talent. And sure, maybe you've got a little.

But this isn't really the best way to apply it, you know? Instead of screwing around here with me, maybe you should be writing or catching up in those games of yours. Honestly. I've got work to finish, as do you.

...No, I'm not going to imagine what would happen if I watched a musical about miserable French revolutionaries with Diarmuid, thank you. Stop daydreaming for five minutes and do something useful. Idiot.

--Lord El-Melloi II

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[regalbearing]

[ ... youuuuu look familiar. and also mentioned her honourbro's name? this is a suspicious thing and requires suspicion. ]

I must say, I cannot really imagine what appeal that would hold as it is.

[fionnuisce]

I'm not really one for musicals, myself. She has terrible taste.

[oh hey, aren't you that girl that was hanging around the creepy priest]

[not_that_lockon]

Aw, c'mon, cut your mun some slack. At least be flattered that she's interested in you.

And for the record, that musical isn't all that bad. Is that Diarmuid the Diarmuid I'm thinking of?

[regalbearing]

[ wow no excuse you she hates that priest's guts ]

I have never seen one. But the way you describe it, that one in particular sounds very bleak.

[fionnuisce]

Right--because a mun being interested in someone always ends well, doesn't it?

[Sigh.]

At any rate... There's only ever been one of note as far as I'm aware.

[not_that_lockon]

I dunno, it's worked out pretty well for me so far.

Huh. Small world.

[fionnuisce]

[yep, seems legit]

Not everything's got a happy ending. Guess that'd have to apply to fiction too, wouldn't it?

[fionnuisce]

You'd be surprised just how wrong you are on that last count.

[regalbearing]

I suppose it must. If nothing else, it gives us a sense of scale.

[ though happy endings, or at least ones that are not so terrible, would be nice. ]

[not_that_lockon]

Or I might not.

So how is it you know him?

[fionnuisce]

It's probably a nice alternative to a harsh awakening when someone realizes not everything's happily ever after.

[fionnuisce]

[A shrug.]

We fought together, a long time ago.

[gordianknots]

The correct answer to the musical point is likely be very bored.

[fionnuisce]

...And here I thought nothing surprised me anymore.

[gordianknots]

Second and fifth magics, obviously.

[fionnuisce]

Of course. That doesn't really make being confronted with the whole 'parallel-universe self' thing much less surreal.

[He seemed in oddly good spirits compared to his rather grouchy-looking counterpart, dressed in green instead of crimson and adjusting a pair of sunglasses perched on his head.]

Still...impressive, I have to admit.

[gordianknots]

That I fail to be shocked probably says more about me than you though.

The glasses are an interesting touch, but do I want to ask after the symbolism?

[fionnuisce]

I was about to ask the same of your coat, frankly. Never thought red was our color.

[He shrugged at the question itself, folding his arms.]

A friend of mine wore them once. I guess we're the sentimental type.

[gordianknots]

Naturally, but it's already obvious that we have different individuals that the items are in reverence to.

--who did you summon?

[fionnuisce]

I'd assumed as much. [Sigh. Second Magic was such a troublesome concept, really.]

Diarmuid--rather, Lancer. What about you?

[gordianknots]

Alexander. Rider class. [Lancer? Really? The one who kept yelling about honour in the first fight? Well, he's alive, so the man must have done something right in his other self's grail war.]

How did you get Kayneth's servant? Or. Okay, who summoned who?

[fionnuisce]

What do you mean, 'how did I get Kayneth's servant'? [It seemed an odd question; what, did this one not make off with his teacher's relic like a hyperactive squirrel hoarding the last acorn on the planet?]

In complete honesty, I'm still uncertain over a case or two of who was matched with what class. I know Kayneth had Berserker and the Einzberns were stuck with that nightmare of a primadonna Archer. Saber, I saw with who I later determined was a member of the church, and Caster... [He looked vaguely uncomfortable at the thought.] Caster's wasn't anyone I recognized.

[gordianknots]

--Okay, I see where the confusion on that question came from. On my timeline, Kayneth was supposed to summon up Rider. I ran off with that, he summoned up Lancer. So from when you are, he actually was planning to go with Lancer the entire time and you yoinked that relic instead.

[he breathes out, ordering everything else in his head] Archer was with the Tohsaka - I only know because I had the next in line as a student and she wrote her final thesis on the Grail War system, the Einzbern had Saber, Kayneth we've been over, no one knows about Caster, we think the Matou had Berserker but aren't sure and the Church took Assassin.

[fionnuisce]

Well, that's...

[He paused to think that over, as if looking for the right word.]

...that's a hell of a discrepancy.

[Eloquent as ever. You idiot.]

[gordianknots]

No shit.

Tell me you at least have pulled the entire system apart with Rin by now.