everdistant_utopia: (A little confused here)
Servant Saber (Arturia Pendragon) ([personal profile] everdistant_utopia) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2012-11-28 06:50 pm

[Open]

WHO: Saber and YOU
WHERE: Around the Porter building, radiating outward
WHEN: 28 November
WARNINGS: None
SUMMARY: Freshly ported to the City, Saber goes scouting and hopes she turns up one of her allies.
FORMAT: Prose to start, tagger's choice

Typically, when awakening in a strange place, there was a certain protocol the beings nebulously called Servants, named by the magi who summoned them for the purpose of fighting for the Holy Grail. Under normal circumstances, the first thing a newly-summoned Servant would have laid eyes on would have been her Master.

It had not been entirely unlike when Emiya Kiritsugu had summoned her, but the inherent need to recite her part in that ritual had failed to surface, to say nothing of any memory of being defeated and returning to her own time first. But what had been a more pressing concern was the decided lack of connection to the Holy Grail, which not only imparted knowledge of the era and her potential opponents, but kept her anchored to the physical plane. That lack of anchor would have been worrying if not for the fact that she no longer seemed to need one.

The petite blonde was conflicted. The lack of a Grail meant no Masters and by extension no Command Spells she was compelled to obey; for all intents and purposes she was as free to act as independently as any Archer-class Servant. Similarly, she was no longer dependent on the elusive artefact to anchor her to the material plane. On the other hand, the existence of the Grail -- and more importantly, its wish-granting property -- had been her entire reason for submitting to the Holy Grail War in the first place.

Saber would have demanded answers from her would-be Master, had there been one to ask. Instead, she had been greeted by a mechanical voice requesting her name. Belatedly she realised she should have been more cautious; in her bemusement she had given her true name instead of her class designation and immediately cursed herself afterward. The "hero alias", on the other hand, had been even more bewildering. Had the machine meant her class designation or her title as the King of Knights? She decided on the former; at least that would afford her some level of anonymity...if other Servants had been summoned to the unfamiliar city as well. For the moment, she sensed none. However, that might have been due to her new status, whatever that was. Nearly all her abilities as a Servant had been sealed or removed, leaving a few of those she had possessed during her natural lifetime. As best she could tell, Arturia was human again. She wasn't sure whether to be glad or frustrated by her renewed status.

Whatever the situation truly was, Saber was now on her own. The request to be returned to her proper place had been met with frustrating silence, and what scant information she had been given wasn't anything she could use in the immediate sense. Simply staring at the strange device she had been given would yield no answers. The petite blonde decided that, if this was no conventional summoning, the possibility that either her Master or Irisviel -- her decoy Master and whose company Saber admitted she would have preferred -- had likewise been "summoned" existed. Perhaps it might not have been the wisest course of action, but the King of Knights decided that reconnaissance of the city was in order. And if her search turned up Kiritsugu or Irisviel, all the better.

[personal profile] gandere 2012-12-03 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Rin's not likely to go outdoors. The last couple times she did, they have been full of death and staring down those who had died previously. However, it's not doing her a whole lot of good to sit around in her apartment watching the hands on the clock tick on by all while waiting for someone to return to her. That kind of dependency is unhealthy and when it comes to a Servant who doesn't remember their entire time together, Rin knows better than to take unnecessary chances. Especially when it comes to letting someone in close.

So she's not paying much attention when she's out walking today. Dressed in a red jacket and scarf, she's absentmindedly looking towards the other people who are also out, choosing to stay far away from them. Some creepy old guy, some bald guy who reminds her of Mr. Bradbury, some golden haired girl that looks strangely like Saber, a pup--!! ]


Huh, Saber? [ There's no way that's right, but she'll wave a hand. ] Saber!

[personal profile] gandere 2012-12-08 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ Bwuh? Rin's had a pretty rough time in the city; between Archer's death in Venezuela, her emotions going haywire as a result of the very same virus, Minako's death, the deaths of at least sixteen others, then her own death? Yeah, it's been rough for her. So what little pleasurable hope she might have drawn from reuniting with her proper Servant leaves her out of breath as confusion seeps into her expression. ]

No recollection? [ Was this the fault of that 'Porter thing? No, because so far everyone she's seen come back from the dead seems to remember things. ] Hold on, you honestly don't remember me, Saber?

[ A conversation she had just a few days prior clicks in her mind and suddenly it makes sense. Not in the kind of sense that Rin prefers, because this kind leaves her alone again in that regard. ]

Ugh, you don't remember... [ Flipping through befuddlement straight into annoyance, her mood changes are as obvious as ever. ] It's me, Tohsaka.

[ Probably not the best way to introduce yourself, Rin. ]

[personal profile] gandere 2012-12-09 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Nonsense.

[ Rin doesn't even notice the shift in the air between them as she holds up a hand to wave it around as though she were dismissing the thought. ]

I'm the Master of Archer, er, Saber...

[ Her pride doesn't last long enough to cultivate into ego as her hand lowers to her side in a limp manner. ]

How do you know my father's name?

[personal profile] gandere 2012-12-18 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, my father.

[ Irisviel? The name doesn't ring a bell, but it is filed for later. ] Tokiomi Tohsaka was my father.

[ Was. The topic is enough to draw discomfort from the young teenager as her gaze averts Saber's own, finding interest in the grass beneath her. ]

He was killed ten years ago. [ She adds before Saber can ask about it. Better to come out on her terms than others. ]

it must have taken my rp drive with it HA, now I counter apologize for being late <3

[personal profile] gandere 2013-01-12 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, that's correct. There was a problem with the conclusion of the Fourth that caused it to reappear so shortly after.

[ Rin explains without any hesitation. That was her role pretty much in Fate/ after all. ]

I don't know much of the events that took place, but I do know that as a result my father was killed. Clearly he wasn't the victor, so someone else during that time must have won.

stupid RL /beats it into submission

[personal profile] gandere 2013-01-22 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's probably not a good idea to tell her she was brought here to be Rin's proper Servant since Archer is doing a poor job of it. It's also probably not a good idea to tell her that she was more than likely brought here to counter Archer since Rin still doesn't know about Rider oops. ]

Who knows? I arrived and shipped off to another country within a couple days. There's a lot of strange incidents that occur here and to be frank, this place could use a hero like yourself, Saber.

just a few more months e_e;

[personal profile] gandere 2013-01-28 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, there was the time they tried to kill them all with a virus. At least that's the gist of it in her mind, but no need to worry Saber. ]

I don't know much of the politics here, but individuals like ourselves are frowned upon by the populace. That sort of thing. [ Completely helpful. Not. ]