Confringentur 2; a Madoka Magica / Fate/Stay Night sequel
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Day 26 Chapter 20
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[X] Plan: Dinnertime Chill
"I won't say that we can't start again," Aífe says, "But that's what it would have to be; a fresh start. It's too late to change the past now, sister. We can't go back and pretend like we've always had the kind of relationship that father would have wanted for us."
"I know. But I'm more than willing to start fresh if you are," you say. "Just the fact that we're able to sit down for dinner together and talk like siblings gives me hope that we'll be all right."
Aífe nods her head. "If that's what you believe," she says, "I won't waste the energy trying to fight you over it." You'll take that and keep your small victory for as long as you can. "Now then, was there anything in particular you wanted to say to me, or were you just looking to make small talk?"
There are plenty of heavy subjects that you could ask your sister; her thoughts about her son, Connla, for one. Did she ever love him as a mother should, even just a small amount? Was she saddened by his death, or just glad to be rid of your pupil's crime against her body. Whether the thought father would be proud of her accomplishments, that she was still known as a fierce warrior and sorceress even despite being known as your rival. You could press any number of subjects which you would have liked to ask your sister when you were both alive.
But you don't. You decide to stick to the small things, instead, and ask "How are you liking your master and her cousin?"
"That wench? We get along about as well as fire and water." Your sister's opening words mean little to you; she's insulting even at the best of times. "Well, she's the reason I'm stuck in the Assassin class, and not the Rider or Caster classes I would have preferred. At least her bumbling hasn't deprived me of either my magic nor my skill with the sword, but…" Aífe stares longingly at the horses on the television screen, adding "I miss my horses. They would have only followed me into the Rider class, and I… I miss them. I haven't seen them in such an age."
Your sister's horses were precious to her; her most precious possessions in the entire world, and she's been without them for two-thousand years. "Being summoned into the class of the skulking sneak would have been enough of an insult in its own right, but being summoned without my horses is what I ultimately hate the most about the class my master summoned me into."
"I'm sorry."
"Why? This is the one time you haven't done anything wrong," Aífe says. "You didn't know. Besides… I doubt my master knew either, what modifying the ritual to force me into the Assassin class would do to my abilities." Aífe sighs, picking at her salmon – her meal smells absolutely delicious. The salmon is baked to perfection, and the mushrooms, carrots, and onions look like they've been seasoned to perfection – as she adds "I don't… I don't hate my master, not as much as I did when she first summoned me. She… She's not a bad person, deep down. She just has an… Abusive, way of showing it."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, if she's fond of someone, she'll needle them constantly. Her cousin says it's just a bad habit of hers, but she doesn't seem to mind it when my master needles her about whatever small thing comes to her mind."
"What about her, then?" you ask. "Your master's cousin." Maybe you're pushing too far by wording it this way, but you have to know. "Do you have the same fondness for her as you do for your master?"
"Oriko is the most inoffensive person I've ever met," Aífe says. "She tries way, way too hard to be polite and unobtrusive. It almost comes across as stifling and uptight with how polite she is." Your sister snorts, adding "She could stand to loosen up a bit, maybe be a bit more casual with the people around her."
"Or she's just genuinely that polite of a person, and isn't putting on an act," you suggest. "She does appear to come from a wealthier family than most of our masters. Maybe it's just how she was raised."
"Then why isn't her cousin as annoyingly polite?"
"Maybe they weren't raised by the same people. They are cousins, after all, not siblings."
"Then how do you explain all that Jesus crap they're both so fond of?" The way Aífe words her statement, the specific tone she puts into her words, makes you chuckle. "Seriously, it's so weird. Why would anyone want to worship a dead guy on a stick? He's dead; he's not committing any great deeds worthy of being worshipped when he's like that. Why not worship whoever nailed him there in the first place? They've at least got some muscle on them."
"I really couldn't tell you," you say. "The Grail gives us knowledge, but I think the context is a bit lacking. Just to have the knowledge that Jesus 'inspired' people, or that his sacrifice somehow allows them to be 'saved' isn't enough for me to understand why so many people would worship him."
"'Saved' from what, is what I'd like to know," Aífe says. "Isn't he the one who told people about their so-called 'Hell' in the first place? If he'd just kept his mouth shut, wouldn't his followers not even need 'saving' in the first place?" Aífe sticks out her tongue, adding "If some dead guy on a stick ever tells me that I need saving, I'm going to punch him in the mouth and prove that I'm capable of saving myself, thank you very much."
Again, you can't help but laugh at the way your sister inflects her words. "What's so funny?" she asks.
"Just the tone you use when talking about this," you reply. "It's so… I can't help it."
"Stop being weird, sister. It's not that funny." Oh but it is funny. "Anyway, since you're so keen to ask me about my master, what about yours? Have you taken a liking to that pipsqueak?"
"Kazumi is… A very unique master," is probably the best way you can word your feelings about the girl, in a way that won't give away the truth to your sister. She's probably the only person who could have summoned you, at least as far as an inexperienced master summoning without a catalyst is concerned. "She shows great promise, both as a student and as a leader, and I look forward to watching her continue to grow, for as long as she'll let me."
"Sounds like you like her a lot, then," Aífe says. "So tell me, have you given her the reward that so many of your other students have claimed from you?" You know exactly what your sister is implying, so it's wholly unnecessary for her to quantify her words by adding "Have you let her fuck you yet?"
"Don't be crass, sister," you say, wagging your chopsticks in your sister's face as you scold her. "It's true, I have given my body to many of my most exemplary students in the past, but that was only after years of training with me and only if they impressed me utterly with their mastery of all I had taught them. Kazumi has been training with me for only a few weeks, and it is only the promise of her future successes that impress me at the moment."
"But you would let her fuck you if she impressed you in the future, yes?"
"Only if she wished to," you say. "But I doubt that she does. At the moment, she displays an almost innocent embarrassment towards the idea of intimacy, and more than that, she has a girlfriend. When she comes of age to desire physical intimacy with another, I have no doubt that she would prefer her first time be with Niko, and not me."
"Did your student having a significant other besides yourself ever stop you before?"
"Am I not allowed to try and better myself from who I was in life?" you ask. "Niko may be an utter idiot – in fact, all of Kazumi's friends, save for Berserker's master, are utter idiots – but the love she has for Kazumi is genuine. I don't want to take that away from them for a casual fling with a student who hasn't even demonstrated an interest in sex."
"Are you sure about that?" You're almost insulted at first, that Aífe would suggest what you think she's suggesting, until she clarifies her statement with "That Boudica's master is not an idiot, I mean. She's stuck with the rest of those idiots so far, so how sure are you that she isn't an idiot herself?"
You know, maybe your sister has a point. But you won't concede it to her, because if you concede that Berserker's master is an idiot for sticking with her friends, then you'll also have to admit that Kazumi is an idiot for sticking with them as well; and that's something you won't do. "What about you, then?" you ask, changing the subject rather than admit defeat. "You're so keen on the idea of me sleeping with my master, but what about you? Perhaps you're just projecting your own lust for your master onto me?"
"You've got some nerve, sister, implying that I'd ever want to sleep with that wench."
"Well, you haven't expressed interest in anyone else while you've been here, have you?"
"What interest even is there for me to show?" Aífe downs the last of her beer, before slamming the mug down and signalling to the bartender for another. "The modern age sucks. Magic is weak, there's hardly any good fights to be had, and we've been summoned to a time and place where we're stuck having to clean up the messes our masters get into."
Aífe goes silent as the bartender pours her another beer, only for her to resume as soon as he's stopped giving her strange looks for the tongue she's been speaking in. "This whole thing with that 'Sidonia' woman is horseshit. My master and that insolent little master of Archer refuse to let me be used to my fullest ability. Rather than let me fight on the front lines, they stick me in their workshops and ask me to make things for them. It's infuriating. What's worse, the one time I was actually taken out and allowed to fight properly, that stupid Sidonia woman almost killed me!"
Aífe slumps over in her seat, sliding her half-finished beer away from her. "It's all so miserable," she says. "You're lucky, sister. You've actually found a reason to enjoy staying in the modern era."
You smile, and reach your hand over towards your sister. It's the first time you've so much as touched her in over two-thousand years, and yet here you are, rubbing her back and trying your best to make her feel better. "There, there," you say, not at all sure how effective your touch is being at soothing her. The bartender looks at her, wondering if she's perhaps had too much, but you shake your head. "I know it's not much of me to offer, but if you'd have me I'd be more than willing to be your reason to enjoy the modern era."
It's hardly much, but at least your master lets you go outside, so you at least know a few things about the comforts of this time period. "Is there anything you'd like to do for fun after dinner?
"What sort of things are there to do that I wouldn't be offended by?"
You aren't sure how to respond to your sister's question. There are plenty of things you could do in a city, but what could yousuggest that wouldn't piss her off?
[ ] See if the mall is still open; and if it is
-[ ] Pick out a movie that's playing that you'd both enjoy
-[ ] Go shopping; help your sister into a new wardrobe that isn't just her master's hand-me-downs
-[ ] Just wander around the mall and see if anything catches your eyes
[ ] Suggest some form of physical activity to help work off your sister's aggression
-[ ] Batting cages
-[ ] Rock climbing wall
-[ ] Grab a ball of some sort at a sporting goods store and have a few rounds with your sister, 1-on-1
-[ ] Just beat the crap out of each other until you're both satisfied
[ ] Take a walk through the park and continue talking
[ ] Find an establishment where you both can relax
-[ ] Onsen; or if neither of you feel like paying, just take a dip in the lake or the river nearby
-[ ] Massage parlour or spa; your sister's got a lot of stress she's holding in, maybe a massage or a spa treatment would do her some good
-[ ] Brothel; your sister needs to get laid
[ ] Other (write-in)
"I won't say that we can't start again," Aífe says, "But that's what it would have to be; a fresh start. It's too late to change the past now, sister. We can't go back and pretend like we've always had the kind of relationship that father would have wanted for us."
"I know. But I'm more than willing to start fresh if you are," you say. "Just the fact that we're able to sit down for dinner together and talk like siblings gives me hope that we'll be all right."
Aífe nods her head. "If that's what you believe," she says, "I won't waste the energy trying to fight you over it." You'll take that and keep your small victory for as long as you can. "Now then, was there anything in particular you wanted to say to me, or were you just looking to make small talk?"
There are plenty of heavy subjects that you could ask your sister; her thoughts about her son, Connla, for one. Did she ever love him as a mother should, even just a small amount? Was she saddened by his death, or just glad to be rid of your pupil's crime against her body. Whether the thought father would be proud of her accomplishments, that she was still known as a fierce warrior and sorceress even despite being known as your rival. You could press any number of subjects which you would have liked to ask your sister when you were both alive.
But you don't. You decide to stick to the small things, instead, and ask "How are you liking your master and her cousin?"
"That wench? We get along about as well as fire and water." Your sister's opening words mean little to you; she's insulting even at the best of times. "Well, she's the reason I'm stuck in the Assassin class, and not the Rider or Caster classes I would have preferred. At least her bumbling hasn't deprived me of either my magic nor my skill with the sword, but…" Aífe stares longingly at the horses on the television screen, adding "I miss my horses. They would have only followed me into the Rider class, and I… I miss them. I haven't seen them in such an age."
Your sister's horses were precious to her; her most precious possessions in the entire world, and she's been without them for two-thousand years. "Being summoned into the class of the skulking sneak would have been enough of an insult in its own right, but being summoned without my horses is what I ultimately hate the most about the class my master summoned me into."
"I'm sorry."
"Why? This is the one time you haven't done anything wrong," Aífe says. "You didn't know. Besides… I doubt my master knew either, what modifying the ritual to force me into the Assassin class would do to my abilities." Aífe sighs, picking at her salmon – her meal smells absolutely delicious. The salmon is baked to perfection, and the mushrooms, carrots, and onions look like they've been seasoned to perfection – as she adds "I don't… I don't hate my master, not as much as I did when she first summoned me. She… She's not a bad person, deep down. She just has an… Abusive, way of showing it."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, if she's fond of someone, she'll needle them constantly. Her cousin says it's just a bad habit of hers, but she doesn't seem to mind it when my master needles her about whatever small thing comes to her mind."
"What about her, then?" you ask. "Your master's cousin." Maybe you're pushing too far by wording it this way, but you have to know. "Do you have the same fondness for her as you do for your master?"
"Oriko is the most inoffensive person I've ever met," Aífe says. "She tries way, way too hard to be polite and unobtrusive. It almost comes across as stifling and uptight with how polite she is." Your sister snorts, adding "She could stand to loosen up a bit, maybe be a bit more casual with the people around her."
"Or she's just genuinely that polite of a person, and isn't putting on an act," you suggest. "She does appear to come from a wealthier family than most of our masters. Maybe it's just how she was raised."
"Then why isn't her cousin as annoyingly polite?"
"Maybe they weren't raised by the same people. They are cousins, after all, not siblings."
"Then how do you explain all that Jesus crap they're both so fond of?" The way Aífe words her statement, the specific tone she puts into her words, makes you chuckle. "Seriously, it's so weird. Why would anyone want to worship a dead guy on a stick? He's dead; he's not committing any great deeds worthy of being worshipped when he's like that. Why not worship whoever nailed him there in the first place? They've at least got some muscle on them."
"I really couldn't tell you," you say. "The Grail gives us knowledge, but I think the context is a bit lacking. Just to have the knowledge that Jesus 'inspired' people, or that his sacrifice somehow allows them to be 'saved' isn't enough for me to understand why so many people would worship him."
"'Saved' from what, is what I'd like to know," Aífe says. "Isn't he the one who told people about their so-called 'Hell' in the first place? If he'd just kept his mouth shut, wouldn't his followers not even need 'saving' in the first place?" Aífe sticks out her tongue, adding "If some dead guy on a stick ever tells me that I need saving, I'm going to punch him in the mouth and prove that I'm capable of saving myself, thank you very much."
Again, you can't help but laugh at the way your sister inflects her words. "What's so funny?" she asks.
"Just the tone you use when talking about this," you reply. "It's so… I can't help it."
"Stop being weird, sister. It's not that funny." Oh but it is funny. "Anyway, since you're so keen to ask me about my master, what about yours? Have you taken a liking to that pipsqueak?"
"Kazumi is… A very unique master," is probably the best way you can word your feelings about the girl, in a way that won't give away the truth to your sister. She's probably the only person who could have summoned you, at least as far as an inexperienced master summoning without a catalyst is concerned. "She shows great promise, both as a student and as a leader, and I look forward to watching her continue to grow, for as long as she'll let me."
"Sounds like you like her a lot, then," Aífe says. "So tell me, have you given her the reward that so many of your other students have claimed from you?" You know exactly what your sister is implying, so it's wholly unnecessary for her to quantify her words by adding "Have you let her fuck you yet?"
"Don't be crass, sister," you say, wagging your chopsticks in your sister's face as you scold her. "It's true, I have given my body to many of my most exemplary students in the past, but that was only after years of training with me and only if they impressed me utterly with their mastery of all I had taught them. Kazumi has been training with me for only a few weeks, and it is only the promise of her future successes that impress me at the moment."
"But you would let her fuck you if she impressed you in the future, yes?"
"Only if she wished to," you say. "But I doubt that she does. At the moment, she displays an almost innocent embarrassment towards the idea of intimacy, and more than that, she has a girlfriend. When she comes of age to desire physical intimacy with another, I have no doubt that she would prefer her first time be with Niko, and not me."
"Did your student having a significant other besides yourself ever stop you before?"
"Am I not allowed to try and better myself from who I was in life?" you ask. "Niko may be an utter idiot – in fact, all of Kazumi's friends, save for Berserker's master, are utter idiots – but the love she has for Kazumi is genuine. I don't want to take that away from them for a casual fling with a student who hasn't even demonstrated an interest in sex."
"Are you sure about that?" You're almost insulted at first, that Aífe would suggest what you think she's suggesting, until she clarifies her statement with "That Boudica's master is not an idiot, I mean. She's stuck with the rest of those idiots so far, so how sure are you that she isn't an idiot herself?"
You know, maybe your sister has a point. But you won't concede it to her, because if you concede that Berserker's master is an idiot for sticking with her friends, then you'll also have to admit that Kazumi is an idiot for sticking with them as well; and that's something you won't do. "What about you, then?" you ask, changing the subject rather than admit defeat. "You're so keen on the idea of me sleeping with my master, but what about you? Perhaps you're just projecting your own lust for your master onto me?"
"You've got some nerve, sister, implying that I'd ever want to sleep with that wench."
"Well, you haven't expressed interest in anyone else while you've been here, have you?"
"What interest even is there for me to show?" Aífe downs the last of her beer, before slamming the mug down and signalling to the bartender for another. "The modern age sucks. Magic is weak, there's hardly any good fights to be had, and we've been summoned to a time and place where we're stuck having to clean up the messes our masters get into."
Aífe goes silent as the bartender pours her another beer, only for her to resume as soon as he's stopped giving her strange looks for the tongue she's been speaking in. "This whole thing with that 'Sidonia' woman is horseshit. My master and that insolent little master of Archer refuse to let me be used to my fullest ability. Rather than let me fight on the front lines, they stick me in their workshops and ask me to make things for them. It's infuriating. What's worse, the one time I was actually taken out and allowed to fight properly, that stupid Sidonia woman almost killed me!"
Aífe slumps over in her seat, sliding her half-finished beer away from her. "It's all so miserable," she says. "You're lucky, sister. You've actually found a reason to enjoy staying in the modern era."
You smile, and reach your hand over towards your sister. It's the first time you've so much as touched her in over two-thousand years, and yet here you are, rubbing her back and trying your best to make her feel better. "There, there," you say, not at all sure how effective your touch is being at soothing her. The bartender looks at her, wondering if she's perhaps had too much, but you shake your head. "I know it's not much of me to offer, but if you'd have me I'd be more than willing to be your reason to enjoy the modern era."
It's hardly much, but at least your master lets you go outside, so you at least know a few things about the comforts of this time period. "Is there anything you'd like to do for fun after dinner?
"What sort of things are there to do that I wouldn't be offended by?"
You aren't sure how to respond to your sister's question. There are plenty of things you could do in a city, but what could yousuggest that wouldn't piss her off?
[ ] See if the mall is still open; and if it is
-[ ] Pick out a movie that's playing that you'd both enjoy
-[ ] Go shopping; help your sister into a new wardrobe that isn't just her master's hand-me-downs
-[ ] Just wander around the mall and see if anything catches your eyes
[ ] Suggest some form of physical activity to help work off your sister's aggression
-[ ] Batting cages
-[ ] Rock climbing wall
-[ ] Grab a ball of some sort at a sporting goods store and have a few rounds with your sister, 1-on-1
-[ ] Just beat the crap out of each other until you're both satisfied
[ ] Take a walk through the park and continue talking
[ ] Find an establishment where you both can relax
-[ ] Onsen; or if neither of you feel like paying, just take a dip in the lake or the river nearby
-[ ] Massage parlour or spa; your sister's got a lot of stress she's holding in, maybe a massage or a spa treatment would do her some good
-[ ] Brothel; your sister needs to get laid
[ ] Other (write-in)
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Oh my god, is this the first update that is exclusively two adults talking about adult things in... Fuck if I know, but it's been a long time. Probably the last time Archer spoke to Gil was the last time we saw an update of just adults talking about adult things. That's all I have to say about that. It's just Aífe and Scáthach talking about adult things. Nothing more to say than that.
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[X] Suggest some form of physical activity to help work off your sister's aggression
-[X] Grab a ball of some sort at a sporting goods store and have a few rounds with your sister, 1-on-1
Sorry for being late, doing housework and all that. Still on my phone, actually. Historically, celts have always been down for tossing-based sports, even in ancient time. Plus, fantasy slice-of-life hyper sports are a Type-MOON staple.
-[X] Grab a ball of some sort at a sporting goods store and have a few rounds with your sister, 1-on-1
Sorry for being late, doing housework and all that. Still on my phone, actually. Historically, celts have always been down for tossing-based sports, even in ancient time. Plus, fantasy slice-of-life hyper sports are a Type-MOON staple.
Don't Japanese brothels basically double as massage parlors due to a loophole in regulations?
[X] Suggest some form of physical activity to help work off your sister's aggression
-[X] Grab a ball of some sort at a sporting goods store and have a few rounds with your sister, 1-on-1
... Why would you know this?
-[X] Grab a ball of some sort at a sporting goods store and have a few rounds with your sister, 1-on-1
... Why would you know this?
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Be around enough weeb communities and you hear the word 'soapland' get tossed around. I got curious and looked it up. I turned 19 like 3 months ago, there is no chance I learned by experience.
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The difference was, do we want to treat Aífe to a spa so she can relax, or so she can get laid. I was going to comment on the distinction, but then I forgot.
If you think it's bad that a teenager who was raised by the internet knows about Japanese brothels, you should not ask what sorts of things I, an adult who still remembers a time before there was a computer in the house, know.
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True story- When I went to draw the Nachtkrapp, I didn't intend for it to be to scale. But when I was finished, I realised that it was almost perfectly in scale with a Lego minifigure. I almost included a Lego figure in the image, just to really drive home how large these birds are. I know I haven't done that for the Drekavac or the Basilisk, so I wasn't going to do it here, but for the Nachtkrapp especially, I feel like the added emphasis on just how large these birds are was important, because the Nachtkrapp are large birds, but when they feature in fight scenes in-quest, their sheer size doesn't often factor into play as often as the size of some of Sidonia's other large familiars. Remember; they have to be large enough to pick up and carry off humans.
So when you're looking at the Nachtkrapp, if you scale the picture up to 8.5"x11", the standard size of a sheet of paper, and place a Lego figure next to it, that's how large the Nachtkrapp is supposed to be next to a human whenever I depict Sidonia using them.
So when you're looking at the Nachtkrapp, if you scale the picture up to 8.5"x11", the standard size of a sheet of paper, and place a Lego figure next to it, that's how large the Nachtkrapp is supposed to be next to a human whenever I depict Sidonia using them.
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Because I for some reason felt like going back to this,
Kaoru: (to Umika) "Do you like Huey Lewis and The News?"
Umika: "Huh?"
KIaoru: "Their early work was a little too 'new wave' for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own; commercially and artistically..."
Nightingale: "This outfit is scandalous, an absolute travesty, and it would be entirely unhygienic to practice medicine while wearing it. Not to mention a waste of perfectly good condoms. And the art isn't even that good! Why the hell do people like this so much?"
I also left out Kirika, but I think we've got a pretty good idea of what her tastes are; and Mami, but I guess "tea and cake" aren't really forms of media, are they. We know Mami liked Symphogear, if nothing else, and in at least a few timelines Mami becomes an idol, so she probably likes musical stuff; like Love Live, Idolmaster, etc... I also left out Minako, but something tells me that her tastes are pretty much normal people tastes, and there's nothing that really stands out; would you agree?
Is it telling that both of our Norse servants don't care, or is that just coincidental?
I know you mean sports as in football, but there's a very, very different direction this could go if you think about it...
Kaoru: (to Umika) "Do you like Huey Lewis and The News?"
Umika: "Huh?"
KIaoru: "Their early work was a little too 'new wave' for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own; commercially and artistically..."
Since she lived her entire life without ever seeing a television set I think it's funny to imagine that she doesn't really get how television shows work. Like, she knows they're fictional, but she assumes it's just a single person who's responsible for everything; because hey, that's how radio dramas worked, right? It was just one guy doing it all by himself in front of a radio. So one day she sends Hugh Laurie an embarrassingly long email ranting at him about all the medical inaccuracies in House because she thinks he's the one solely responsible. I also think it's funny to imagine what her reaction would be to her depiction in FGO; not just to her Berserker form in general, but also the sheer bewilderment at just how popular "her" Halloween art is.
Nightingale: "This outfit is scandalous, an absolute travesty, and it would be entirely unhygienic to practice medicine while wearing it. Not to mention a waste of perfectly good condoms. And the art isn't even that good! Why the hell do people like this so much?"
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I kinda forgot about Mami. I figure that if she were in the modern era, she would get way into Vtubers, expanding on what you've given here. I agree that Minako is a normal person, but depending on what Archer may or may not do with his free time in the future, she might get into sentai stuff just to connect with Archer.
Well, that's a new band I'm going to have to listen to.
No, but just in case you do!
Edit: I should also make it apparent that this is one of the biggest reasons for my hatred of FGO. Not the outfit specifically, but creating masturbatory images about people that died literally 100 or change years ago.
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Also in case you didn't know, the person who drew Nightingale's Halloween costume is well-known doujin artist. I'm not even kidding.
I know you're young, but I was hoping that memetic osmosis would have gotten around to you at least to where you'd recognise that I was quoting American Psycho.
EDIT: Oh, right, since it's clearly going to be important, @PlaguePaladin @NMS @K4lepo, what sport do you think Scáthach and Aífe should aim for? I don't imagine someone doing menial retail work in a Japanese sporting goods store is going to know what a sliotar is, so hurling is probably out of the question; but maybe lacrosse, if you can play lacrosse with just two people? Basketball or football are probably the easiest to play with just two people, but maybe the Scots sisters would prefer something a bit more physical, like rugby; but rugby might also just turn into them forgetting the ball and fighting with each other, so there's that to consider. Baseball's out since we opted not to try for the batting cages, and I'm betting the sisters would find stuff like cricket or polo too milquetoast for their liking. So what we thinking?
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I was thinking American football, if for nothing other than the fact that it resembles caber tossing in a way (short-burst high-intensity plays, and of course throwing something into a goal), but with a more competitive orientation. Of course, American football isn't that much of a two-player sport, but I don't think they're going to be sticklers for rules anyhow.
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I guess they could just run into each other and try to take the ball away, but then there's a chance that just turns into them forgetting the ball and scrapping with each other.
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In that case, I guess I'll just put my vote into basketball. It might not be quite as physical as they like, but has components similar to sports they do know, and should be competitive enough.
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All right, that brings up an even more important question. Shirts vs skins. Who gets to keep their shirt on, and who has to take their shirt off?
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I am... fairly certain that a two-player game with people who know each other very well will not necessitate this.
I'm sorry what?
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You've never heard of shirts versus skins? It's an easy way of telling apart who's on what team in a sports game where distinct uniforms aren't a thing; like a game of street basketball, for example. One team will take off their shirts and be "skins" and the other team will keep their shirts on and be "shirts". Easy way to tell who's who; If they're wearing their shirt (or lack thereof) the same way you are, they're on your team.
Oh my god, why did I give so many of Sidonia's familiars skin membranes of some shape. Oh my god, having to draw bat wings sucks. And I've still got to draw the Skrzak tomorrow, too! ... In case you couldn't tell, today's familiar is the Strzyga, which is actually the drawing I think I like the most of the ones I've done so far. Aside from having to draw membranous wings for the third night in a row, that is. Now, something to note about the Strzyga, is that it has a tail. I've never described my Strzyga as having tails, so what's going on? Well, when I was finished drawing, I thought its ass - that barely-visible black patch behind the legs - was a little bare. So, despite never being depicted with a tail, I drew it a tiny little stereotypical "devil" tail.
Also to note is that the Strzyga, unlike all of Sidonia's other familiars, are explicitly female. So if you're uncomfortable seeing boobs on a hideous vampire-monster's chest, look away.
EDIT: ... And I just now realised that, because I drew the Strzyga's hand in a clenched fist, you don't get to see the massive sickle claws it has from it being an upgraded Skrzak. Oops. Just pretend that they're there, and let the claws on its feet be enough.
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Was asked to fill in last five posts. Dinner's gonna be in about 10~ minutes so I gotta leave the question here and hopefully expand upon it later. We've explored the Quintet's favorite foods, but what are some opinions on the Saints, or our Servants? Not much of an idea right now, but IIRC, Shirou's favorite food is hamburg steak, since that was Kiritsugu's favorite meal.
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Then I suppose it falls to me. Or so I would say, but upon further inspection, I can't find jack shit about ancient food in certain countries. Plus, I can imagine their diets were not that varied. I could check out the channel of that one cool guy who did that one roman fish juice sauce or whatever, but that'd take a while, and I can't check out the specific culture each one belongs to beforehand, so it'd take a while.
Ah hell, do I need to bring up green beans again?
Ah hell, do I need to bring up green beans again?
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If your palette is unrefined, that's because you probably aren't cooking for yourself often enough. My recommendation? Start cooking for yourself more often. I'd personally put forward chicken parm meatballs, because they're super-easy and super-delicious. I can give you my recipe if you're interested.
Kazumi's favourite is strawberry risotto. I don't think I need to explain why. Umika, based on what I've written before, probably likes beef stroganoff, except the recipe she uses is not the recipe for beef stroganoff. I'm not sure what I'd say for Kaoru, Saki, or Satomi; Mirai's favourite food is Saki, and Niko... Niko probably has a dead palette from all the crap she eats in between projects in lieu of actual food, though we do know that she frequents a cafe in Asunaro whose pastries she really likes.
Tasting History with Max Miller; one of my favourite Youtube channels. I've actually referenced his videos several times when food has come up, and out of the recipes he's cooked, I can probably say something like this, in no particular order:
- Brynhildr and Sigurd - Honeyed heart stuffed with leeks (and lingonberries? I think he used lingonberries in the filling as well?), and a fine, aged mead. Also each other, probably.
- Gilgamesh - Either tuh'u or lamb stew
- Achilles - Is mentioned in the Iliad as drinking Kykeon; though it's reportedly not a pleasant drink, so I'd probably say something generically Greek, like olives. Atalanta as well
- Sidonia - Pork roast with garlic harvester sauce
- Boudica - Literally anything that isn't Roman
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I mean, I could probably think of something for every single one of our servants and other characters, but that would take a lot of time. Also, not from Tasting History, but Scáthach has said that her favourite food is seal, while Aífe prefers the less fatty fish and fowl.
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Personally, I don't cook often. I'm sort of like a more tame version of the 'disaster cooks' often seen in anime, in that everything I try and cook comes out sort of okay but just cursed enough to suck. At least I get hoagies right. I'd try and switch the question to 'what modern foods do the Servants like', but we're already at 5 posts and I'm feeling lazy tonight, so I'll leave it at that.