WanderingTwix
Posting something good once in a full moon
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I am always awake and never awake until proven otherwise.What, did you all wake up at the same time or something?
Confringentur, Mk.2; a Madoka Magica / Fate/Stay Night crossover
- Thread starter SVS
- Start date
- Crossover
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- United States
Not in this timeline she isn't![X] Plan How To Give Kyoko Hope
Wait a minute… isn't Madoka Hope?
[jk] UNDO UNDO UNDO
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- Around here
A word of care to everyone voting for the current plan- I will be addressing this point, but it will not be in the coming post. I have a much more appropriate place and time in mind for it.
Day 33 Chapter 11
- Location
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[X] Plan How To Give Kyoko Hope
"Alright girls, it's time."
After lunch, and after the adults have cleared the table and done the dishes, Archer addresses you and the others. "Now's a good time for me to help you out with your magecaft, if you want." He looks to you, and to Hitomi; he also looks to Sayaka, but lacking his beginner materials there's little he can teach her, as you understand it. "I'll be more than happy to help out any of you, if you want it."
You have an interest in furthering your Reinforcement, and you see Hitomi elect to join in Archer's study circle as well; though that was something which you expected. What you did not expect was to see Mikuni Oriko and Kure Kirika elect to join in as well. "You speak so highly of Archer-san's teachings," she says. "I'd like to see what Archer-san has to teach as well, if I might."
"And if Oriko's gonna be watching, then so am I!"
You hadn't seen Madoka's hand when Archer made his initial roll-call, but as soon as she hears Kure Kirika's words, Madoka's hand is up. "Me too! I want to see what Homura-chan is doing."
"So that's one-" Archer counts off for each of the girls with raised hands; you, Madoka, Hitomi, Mikuni Oriko, and Kure Kirika. "-two, three, four, and five." He looks over at Sayaka, Tomoe-san, and Kyouko, who for one reason or another have opted not to join in; and there's one more person that has opted not to join in, as well. "You know, I thought you would have wanted to sit in for this," Archer says to Kure Minako. "Don't you want to see what your daughter can do?"
Kure Minako looks unsure, and her words reflect this. "I mean, I guess I'm a little curious about what it is my daughter and her friends get up to when I'm not around, but..." There's a sad look in her eyes as she glances over at her daughter, and she says "The less I know, the easier it is for me to pretend like she'll be okay."
You aren't sure that's how it works, but there's little you can do to convince her otherwise. Wisely, your servant decides to leave the matter be as well, saying to Kure Minako "Well, alright. But just know that you're welcome to watch if you decide you've changed your mind. I'm sure your daughter would appreciate seeing you take an interest in her life." Again, Archer's eyes glance over to Sayaka, Tomoe-san, and Kyouko, and he asks of Kure Minako "Well, if you don't want to watch us, can I ask you to keep an eye on those three? Especially red and blue; they're liable to get into trouble if no one's around to keep them in line."
Kure Minako nods at Archer's request, and the girls opting out of his magecraft lesson file out for more time on the beach. Now, it's just the five of you plus your instructor, but before you can get started, there's something you'd like to take care of. "Archer, would you be willing to check the Elements and Origins of Mikuni Oriko and Kure Kirika before we get started?"
The pair stare at you as you speak their names, and your words prompt Mikuni Oriko to ask "Pardon me, Akemi-san, but what are those? 'Elements' and 'Origins', what are they?"
"I dunna what an Origin is, but Elements must refer to, like, elements in Pokemon, or something," Kure Kirika offers as a suggestion for her girlfriend. "You know, Akemi's a fire-type, Shizuki's a grass-type, and so on." She looks to Archer, hoping to find conformation for her idea in his eyes. "Right?"
"You're farther from the mark than you think you are," Archer says, dashing Kure Kirika's hopes of confirmation. "But, all things considered, you could have done a lot worse. Elements and Origins are concepts in magecraft that determine who someone is, and what sort of things they can do with their magical energy. For someone just starting out with magecraft, it's useful to know your Element and Origin because it can give you a better idea of where your strengths and weaknesses might fall, or give you an idea of what you might be able to accomplish as a mage. For example, both my Element and Origin are 'Sword'. I don't think I need to explain to you what that allows me to do; but that should give you an idea of what your own Element and Origin might let you accomplish."
"You mean, crap out an entire world of swords, right?" Kure Kirika asks, a question to which Madoka's eyes go wide; that's right. She wasn't there that night to see Archer's Unlimited Blade Works. "You mean, that's something one of us could do?"
"You would need to have both your Element and Origin aligned to 'Sword', and even then, the ability to create a Reality Marble is something that's a much higher level of magecraft than what I can teach you in the time we have." Kure Kirika rolls her eyes, crossing her arms over her chest just as Archer says to her and Mikuni Oriko "Alright, now I need for both of you to hold out your arms so I can check for your Element and Origin."
"Oh, no, that's quite alright Archer," Mikuni Oriko says, pulling her arms back a safe distance as your servant asks for them. "Really. I just want to watch, that's all. You don't have to go out of your way on my account."
"Are you scared, perhaps, Mikuni-san?" Hitomi asks, taking a seat desire her on the opposite side from where Kure Kirika is seated. "There's really nothing to be afraid of; it's just like having your pulse taken, nothing more."
Come on, Oriko, it'll be fun!" On the opposite side of Mikuni Oriko from Hitomi, Kure Kirika is hard at work convincing her lover in a different manner. "We could be hiding the ability to crap out entire worlds, and we'd never know it otherwise. Just imagine it; a whole world where the only thing that matters is us. It could be all ours, but we'll never know until we try." Kure Kirika uncrosses her arms, presenting them to Archer as she says "Here, I'll do it first."
Archer hesitates for a moment, looking into Mikuni Oriko's eyes as if to ask permission to touch her lover, before laying his hands on her arms. "It's a little out of the ordinary," he says, finally pulling his hands back after about a minute of investigating the pulse of Kure Kirika's soul. "But I guess it is fitting for you, to have both your Element and your Origin as 'Love'."
"You hear that, Oriko?" Kure Kirika asks, giving her lover a kiss as soon as Archer is finished. "From the very bottom of my being, I'm nothing but in love with you."
Mikuni Oriko smiles, and with a roll of her eyes she relents, saying "Very well, I suppose there's no harm in letting you take a look, Archer." Mikuni Oriko undoes the sole point which fastens her wetsuit jacket at the front, taking it off to reveal what she's done to her sleeve of Command Seals; rather, it's become an entire tattoo jacket of Command Seals, covering almost the entirety of her back and shoulders, then snaking around her shoulders to cover her arms near to both elbows as well as parts of her breast. As a single sleeve, her Seals were clustered so close together that her arm looked like an unidentifiable mess of crimson scar tissue, but now that she's spread them out along the length of her back, biceps, and breast, their patterns, some jagged, some swirling, some in shapes you can't even begin to describe, are more easily identifiable.
Hitomi stares with eyes wide open; she's probably never even seen a tattoo before outside of the movies, and yet to her here is a girl completely covered in them in such a way that she appears like a hardened Yakuza leader. You think you see now why she chose to wear her wetsuit jacket to the beach. "Mikuni-san, what..." Hitomi's words fail in her mouth. She gasps, her brain struggling to find the right words to convey her thoughts, eventually settling on a very simple "What are those?"
"These are Command Seals, the marks by which a master is granted the right to command their servant."
Mikuni Oriko's words do little to calm HItomi; rather the opposite, they seem to have invited in her even more suspicion than before. She continues to stare at Mikuni Oriko, but her words are directly squarely to you as she asks "And... If I chose to summon a servant, like you've asked of me, would I... Would I end up with half my body tattooed like Mikuni-san?"
"No," you respond, showing Hitomi the two sets of Command Seals at your wrist. "Mikuni Oriko is a... Special case." And you'll leave it at that. You see no reason to invite any more shame on Mikuni Oriko than the reveal of her Command Seals must have already brought her. "In a normal case, a master would only have three Command Seals, located at the back of your hand or on your wrist. I have two servants, but even with six Command Seals nobody but other masters ever seems to notice that we have them. Were you to summon Saber, I see no reason why you would be any different."
"I see." Hitomi finally manages to break her gaze away from Mikuni Oriko's mass of Command Seals, and she says to you "Well, this is certainly unexpected. I wish you had told me that becoming a master came with... Tattoos."
While you and Hitomi have been talking, Archer has been surveying the pulse of Mikuni Oriko's soul. As soon as your servant has finished, Mikuni Oriko hurriedly puts her wetsuit jacket back on, and Archer says "You've got 'Light' for an Element, and 'Prudence' for an Origin. I'm not sure if I agree with those choices, but far be it from me to argue with your soul."
After that episode, the five of you break off into groups; somewhat. While you've nominally splintered into three groups of two, consisting of you and Madoka, Hitomi and Archer, and Mikuni Oriko and Kure Kirika watching on the sidelines, occasionally one or both members of another group will come and mingle with another group. Currently, you're working on practicing your Reinforcement.
"Hey, Homura-chan, can you tell me a little about what you're trying to do?" You look up form your practice as Madoka speaks to you. "Sorry, I didn't mean to distract you. I'm just curious about what you're doing, is all."
"It's not a bother at all, Madoka," you respond, snuggling up close to your girlfriend as you think about how to best explain what Archer has taught you about Reinforcement. "Do you see what Archer and Hitomi are working on?" you ask her, pointing over to the pair as Archer works on instructing Hitomi on Reinforcement. "We're working on a discipline of magecraft called Reinforcement. It's used to make objects, well... More, of what they are, I guess would be a good way to put it."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, Reinforcement makes an object it's used on stronger, but in addition if you were to use it on, say, a pencil, that pencil's graphite would wear out slower, make more visible marks, and be less susceptible to fading." To demonstrate, you make a few marks with the pencil you've been using, before gently applying the slightest amount of Reinforcement to the pencil, and making another set of marks. The difference is noticeable, and you say to Madoka "See the difference?"
Madoka nods, but just as she's made an affirmative "Mhm," she is interrupted by Kure Kirika. "You think you can give me a hand here, since you're such an expert and all?" You're hardly an expert; Archer would be the better teacher to ask for if Kure Kirika needs help, but Archer is currently very deep in his tutelage of Hitomi; so it looks like you'll have to do. "I've been trying to follow along with what you're doing, but, well..." Kure Kirika gestures to the blades that have been left scattered around the couch where she and Mikuni Oriko are sitting. Mikuni Oriko, deep in her own self-study, doesn't seem to notice the large number of blades at her feet. You hope she notices before she cuts her feet on them. "I have no idea if I'm doing this right or not."
"Well, what are you trying to do?"
"I'm trying to make these more blade-ey, but they're already pretty sharp, so I don't really know if I'm doing this right or not."
[ ] How do you suggest helping Kure Kirika?
-[ ] Material hardness test
-[ ] Practical test
-[ ] Get Archer to help her
-[ ] "Just go back to kissing Mikuni Oriko and leave me alone."
-[ ] Other (write-in)
[ ] What do you do after everyone is done studying?
"Alright girls, it's time."
After lunch, and after the adults have cleared the table and done the dishes, Archer addresses you and the others. "Now's a good time for me to help you out with your magecaft, if you want." He looks to you, and to Hitomi; he also looks to Sayaka, but lacking his beginner materials there's little he can teach her, as you understand it. "I'll be more than happy to help out any of you, if you want it."
You have an interest in furthering your Reinforcement, and you see Hitomi elect to join in Archer's study circle as well; though that was something which you expected. What you did not expect was to see Mikuni Oriko and Kure Kirika elect to join in as well. "You speak so highly of Archer-san's teachings," she says. "I'd like to see what Archer-san has to teach as well, if I might."
"And if Oriko's gonna be watching, then so am I!"
You hadn't seen Madoka's hand when Archer made his initial roll-call, but as soon as she hears Kure Kirika's words, Madoka's hand is up. "Me too! I want to see what Homura-chan is doing."
"So that's one-" Archer counts off for each of the girls with raised hands; you, Madoka, Hitomi, Mikuni Oriko, and Kure Kirika. "-two, three, four, and five." He looks over at Sayaka, Tomoe-san, and Kyouko, who for one reason or another have opted not to join in; and there's one more person that has opted not to join in, as well. "You know, I thought you would have wanted to sit in for this," Archer says to Kure Minako. "Don't you want to see what your daughter can do?"
Kure Minako looks unsure, and her words reflect this. "I mean, I guess I'm a little curious about what it is my daughter and her friends get up to when I'm not around, but..." There's a sad look in her eyes as she glances over at her daughter, and she says "The less I know, the easier it is for me to pretend like she'll be okay."
You aren't sure that's how it works, but there's little you can do to convince her otherwise. Wisely, your servant decides to leave the matter be as well, saying to Kure Minako "Well, alright. But just know that you're welcome to watch if you decide you've changed your mind. I'm sure your daughter would appreciate seeing you take an interest in her life." Again, Archer's eyes glance over to Sayaka, Tomoe-san, and Kyouko, and he asks of Kure Minako "Well, if you don't want to watch us, can I ask you to keep an eye on those three? Especially red and blue; they're liable to get into trouble if no one's around to keep them in line."
Kure Minako nods at Archer's request, and the girls opting out of his magecraft lesson file out for more time on the beach. Now, it's just the five of you plus your instructor, but before you can get started, there's something you'd like to take care of. "Archer, would you be willing to check the Elements and Origins of Mikuni Oriko and Kure Kirika before we get started?"
The pair stare at you as you speak their names, and your words prompt Mikuni Oriko to ask "Pardon me, Akemi-san, but what are those? 'Elements' and 'Origins', what are they?"
"I dunna what an Origin is, but Elements must refer to, like, elements in Pokemon, or something," Kure Kirika offers as a suggestion for her girlfriend. "You know, Akemi's a fire-type, Shizuki's a grass-type, and so on." She looks to Archer, hoping to find conformation for her idea in his eyes. "Right?"
"You're farther from the mark than you think you are," Archer says, dashing Kure Kirika's hopes of confirmation. "But, all things considered, you could have done a lot worse. Elements and Origins are concepts in magecraft that determine who someone is, and what sort of things they can do with their magical energy. For someone just starting out with magecraft, it's useful to know your Element and Origin because it can give you a better idea of where your strengths and weaknesses might fall, or give you an idea of what you might be able to accomplish as a mage. For example, both my Element and Origin are 'Sword'. I don't think I need to explain to you what that allows me to do; but that should give you an idea of what your own Element and Origin might let you accomplish."
"You mean, crap out an entire world of swords, right?" Kure Kirika asks, a question to which Madoka's eyes go wide; that's right. She wasn't there that night to see Archer's Unlimited Blade Works. "You mean, that's something one of us could do?"
"You would need to have both your Element and Origin aligned to 'Sword', and even then, the ability to create a Reality Marble is something that's a much higher level of magecraft than what I can teach you in the time we have." Kure Kirika rolls her eyes, crossing her arms over her chest just as Archer says to her and Mikuni Oriko "Alright, now I need for both of you to hold out your arms so I can check for your Element and Origin."
"Oh, no, that's quite alright Archer," Mikuni Oriko says, pulling her arms back a safe distance as your servant asks for them. "Really. I just want to watch, that's all. You don't have to go out of your way on my account."
"Are you scared, perhaps, Mikuni-san?" Hitomi asks, taking a seat desire her on the opposite side from where Kure Kirika is seated. "There's really nothing to be afraid of; it's just like having your pulse taken, nothing more."
Come on, Oriko, it'll be fun!" On the opposite side of Mikuni Oriko from Hitomi, Kure Kirika is hard at work convincing her lover in a different manner. "We could be hiding the ability to crap out entire worlds, and we'd never know it otherwise. Just imagine it; a whole world where the only thing that matters is us. It could be all ours, but we'll never know until we try." Kure Kirika uncrosses her arms, presenting them to Archer as she says "Here, I'll do it first."
Archer hesitates for a moment, looking into Mikuni Oriko's eyes as if to ask permission to touch her lover, before laying his hands on her arms. "It's a little out of the ordinary," he says, finally pulling his hands back after about a minute of investigating the pulse of Kure Kirika's soul. "But I guess it is fitting for you, to have both your Element and your Origin as 'Love'."
"You hear that, Oriko?" Kure Kirika asks, giving her lover a kiss as soon as Archer is finished. "From the very bottom of my being, I'm nothing but in love with you."
Mikuni Oriko smiles, and with a roll of her eyes she relents, saying "Very well, I suppose there's no harm in letting you take a look, Archer." Mikuni Oriko undoes the sole point which fastens her wetsuit jacket at the front, taking it off to reveal what she's done to her sleeve of Command Seals; rather, it's become an entire tattoo jacket of Command Seals, covering almost the entirety of her back and shoulders, then snaking around her shoulders to cover her arms near to both elbows as well as parts of her breast. As a single sleeve, her Seals were clustered so close together that her arm looked like an unidentifiable mess of crimson scar tissue, but now that she's spread them out along the length of her back, biceps, and breast, their patterns, some jagged, some swirling, some in shapes you can't even begin to describe, are more easily identifiable.
Hitomi stares with eyes wide open; she's probably never even seen a tattoo before outside of the movies, and yet to her here is a girl completely covered in them in such a way that she appears like a hardened Yakuza leader. You think you see now why she chose to wear her wetsuit jacket to the beach. "Mikuni-san, what..." Hitomi's words fail in her mouth. She gasps, her brain struggling to find the right words to convey her thoughts, eventually settling on a very simple "What are those?"
"These are Command Seals, the marks by which a master is granted the right to command their servant."
Mikuni Oriko's words do little to calm HItomi; rather the opposite, they seem to have invited in her even more suspicion than before. She continues to stare at Mikuni Oriko, but her words are directly squarely to you as she asks "And... If I chose to summon a servant, like you've asked of me, would I... Would I end up with half my body tattooed like Mikuni-san?"
"No," you respond, showing Hitomi the two sets of Command Seals at your wrist. "Mikuni Oriko is a... Special case." And you'll leave it at that. You see no reason to invite any more shame on Mikuni Oriko than the reveal of her Command Seals must have already brought her. "In a normal case, a master would only have three Command Seals, located at the back of your hand or on your wrist. I have two servants, but even with six Command Seals nobody but other masters ever seems to notice that we have them. Were you to summon Saber, I see no reason why you would be any different."
"I see." Hitomi finally manages to break her gaze away from Mikuni Oriko's mass of Command Seals, and she says to you "Well, this is certainly unexpected. I wish you had told me that becoming a master came with... Tattoos."
While you and Hitomi have been talking, Archer has been surveying the pulse of Mikuni Oriko's soul. As soon as your servant has finished, Mikuni Oriko hurriedly puts her wetsuit jacket back on, and Archer says "You've got 'Light' for an Element, and 'Prudence' for an Origin. I'm not sure if I agree with those choices, but far be it from me to argue with your soul."
After that episode, the five of you break off into groups; somewhat. While you've nominally splintered into three groups of two, consisting of you and Madoka, Hitomi and Archer, and Mikuni Oriko and Kure Kirika watching on the sidelines, occasionally one or both members of another group will come and mingle with another group. Currently, you're working on practicing your Reinforcement.
"Hey, Homura-chan, can you tell me a little about what you're trying to do?" You look up form your practice as Madoka speaks to you. "Sorry, I didn't mean to distract you. I'm just curious about what you're doing, is all."
"It's not a bother at all, Madoka," you respond, snuggling up close to your girlfriend as you think about how to best explain what Archer has taught you about Reinforcement. "Do you see what Archer and Hitomi are working on?" you ask her, pointing over to the pair as Archer works on instructing Hitomi on Reinforcement. "We're working on a discipline of magecraft called Reinforcement. It's used to make objects, well... More, of what they are, I guess would be a good way to put it."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, Reinforcement makes an object it's used on stronger, but in addition if you were to use it on, say, a pencil, that pencil's graphite would wear out slower, make more visible marks, and be less susceptible to fading." To demonstrate, you make a few marks with the pencil you've been using, before gently applying the slightest amount of Reinforcement to the pencil, and making another set of marks. The difference is noticeable, and you say to Madoka "See the difference?"
Madoka nods, but just as she's made an affirmative "Mhm," she is interrupted by Kure Kirika. "You think you can give me a hand here, since you're such an expert and all?" You're hardly an expert; Archer would be the better teacher to ask for if Kure Kirika needs help, but Archer is currently very deep in his tutelage of Hitomi; so it looks like you'll have to do. "I've been trying to follow along with what you're doing, but, well..." Kure Kirika gestures to the blades that have been left scattered around the couch where she and Mikuni Oriko are sitting. Mikuni Oriko, deep in her own self-study, doesn't seem to notice the large number of blades at her feet. You hope she notices before she cuts her feet on them. "I have no idea if I'm doing this right or not."
"Well, what are you trying to do?"
"I'm trying to make these more blade-ey, but they're already pretty sharp, so I don't really know if I'm doing this right or not."
[ ] How do you suggest helping Kure Kirika?
-[ ] Material hardness test
-[ ] Practical test
-[ ] Get Archer to help her
-[ ] "Just go back to kissing Mikuni Oriko and leave me alone."
-[ ] Other (write-in)
[ ] What do you do after everyone is done studying?
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- United States
[X] Plan Tutor The Kirika
-[X] Before anything else, calmly alert Oriko about the potential danger to her feet
-[X] Reassure Hitomi that Command Seals are temporary existences that can be transferred about the body, and that she could always give up her Command Seals (and thereby her Servant) to someone else once Saber is summoned anyways
-[X] How do you suggest helping Kure Kirika?
--[X] Inform her that she shouldn't be focusing on trying to make a blade (or any object for that matter) more "blade-ey", but rather she should focus on the simple visualization of "filling in the gaps" with her magical energy; the mystery behind this Magecraft will enhance the object that's being Reinforced accordingly, as it becomes "fuller" and "more of itself"
---[X] Also remind her - just in case - to take it slow and start off pouring in very little magical energy and increasing the amount accordingly, as too much will cause whatever she's attempting to Reinforce to break as it becomes "over-filled"
-[X] What do you do after everyone is done studying?
--[X] When it's nearing sunset, commence Operation Sunset Madoka
--[X] Gossip about boys and girls, makeup, school, etc. with everyone, and play some games like cards or board games; typical teenage girl slumber party stuff
--[X] (Archer) Spend some time scheduling when you'll come over to help out Minako after this trip, making up a general life improvement plan, and contributing some financial advice; you made do after Kiritsugu passed away while mostly relying on your own funds earned at your part-time job at Ahnenerbe when you were a teenager, after all
---[X] Give her nutritional and food budgeting advice
---[X] You're going to focus on trying to get things to where Minako could drop one of her two part-time jobs, preferably the night-shift one
----[X] Your plan for this is to raid some criminal organizations for money to lend to her (interest-free with no time limit to make sure she's not feeling like she's taking advantage of you), not that you're going to inform Minako of this
---[X] You're going to deliver her breakfast and lunch at least until she's in a better position to cook for herself, no exceptions
----[X] Ask her where and when it'd be opportune to deliver her her lunch; would it be fine to deliver it to her at her workplace just before her lunch break? You'll just deliver her breakfast to her place at a specific time of her choosing.
---[X] You'll visit her on Fridays and/or Saturdays in the evening at her behest - at least until you could manage to get her to drop her night shift, then any day in the evening would do - and to a lesser extent during her lunch breaks if she decides to have you deliver her lunch fresh at that time
--[X] (Archer) Get some input on what everyone wants for dinner
---[X] Cook dinner with your lovely sous-chef
--[X] (Archer) Depending on Oriko's answer, depart to Fuyuki to search for Rin when appropriate; alert Lancer about this beforehand
---[X] Change perspectives to Archer
EDIT: Specifically added in what I told SVS in the thread in regards to Archer's plans with Minako.
Can't wait to see the CW's rendition of The Archer. /s
-[X] Before anything else, calmly alert Oriko about the potential danger to her feet
-[X] Reassure Hitomi that Command Seals are temporary existences that can be transferred about the body, and that she could always give up her Command Seals (and thereby her Servant) to someone else once Saber is summoned anyways
-[X] How do you suggest helping Kure Kirika?
--[X] Inform her that she shouldn't be focusing on trying to make a blade (or any object for that matter) more "blade-ey", but rather she should focus on the simple visualization of "filling in the gaps" with her magical energy; the mystery behind this Magecraft will enhance the object that's being Reinforced accordingly, as it becomes "fuller" and "more of itself"
---[X] Also remind her - just in case - to take it slow and start off pouring in very little magical energy and increasing the amount accordingly, as too much will cause whatever she's attempting to Reinforce to break as it becomes "over-filled"
-[X] What do you do after everyone is done studying?
--[X] When it's nearing sunset, commence Operation Sunset Madoka
--[X] Gossip about boys and girls, makeup, school, etc. with everyone, and play some games like cards or board games; typical teenage girl slumber party stuff
--[X] (Archer) Spend some time scheduling when you'll come over to help out Minako after this trip, making up a general life improvement plan, and contributing some financial advice; you made do after Kiritsugu passed away while mostly relying on your own funds earned at your part-time job at Ahnenerbe when you were a teenager, after all
---[X] Give her nutritional and food budgeting advice
---[X] You're going to focus on trying to get things to where Minako could drop one of her two part-time jobs, preferably the night-shift one
----[X] Your plan for this is to raid some criminal organizations for money to lend to her (interest-free with no time limit to make sure she's not feeling like she's taking advantage of you), not that you're going to inform Minako of this
---[X] You're going to deliver her breakfast and lunch at least until she's in a better position to cook for herself, no exceptions
----[X] Ask her where and when it'd be opportune to deliver her her lunch; would it be fine to deliver it to her at her workplace just before her lunch break? You'll just deliver her breakfast to her place at a specific time of her choosing.
---[X] You'll visit her on Fridays and/or Saturdays in the evening at her behest - at least until you could manage to get her to drop her night shift, then any day in the evening would do - and to a lesser extent during her lunch breaks if she decides to have you deliver her lunch fresh at that time
--[X] (Archer) Get some input on what everyone wants for dinner
---[X] Cook dinner with your lovely sous-chef
--[X] (Archer) Depending on Oriko's answer, depart to Fuyuki to search for Rin when appropriate; alert Lancer about this beforehand
---[X] Change perspectives to Archer
EDIT: Specifically added in what I told SVS in the thread in regards to Archer's plans with Minako.
Can't wait to see the CW's rendition of The Archer. /s
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So, can we get a hint for what Saber is going to be summoned? I imagine which Saber is determined by who is doing the summoning since there's (probably) no catalyst in play.
I just had a weird mental image of somebody summoning Saber Gilles de Rais. He'd be a calm but mostly dour jackass who is pretty uninterested in anything but occasionally poking paster daughter Kyoko about god being evil and then getting beaten and chased off by Achilles. As he's a Saber that basically transforms himself into a Berserker he sort of would be a counter-example of removing Mad Enhancement from Lancelot.
And then doing his 'oh how I've missed you Jeanne' routine the second Walpurgishnacht shows up and causing an immense shitfest due to not wanting to fight the Witch and Walpurgisnacht focusing on killing him before anyone else.
I just had a weird mental image of somebody summoning Saber Gilles de Rais. He'd be a calm but mostly dour jackass who is pretty uninterested in anything but occasionally poking paster daughter Kyoko about god being evil and then getting beaten and chased off by Achilles. As he's a Saber that basically transforms himself into a Berserker he sort of would be a counter-example of removing Mad Enhancement from Lancelot.
And then doing his 'oh how I've missed you Jeanne' routine the second Walpurgishnacht shows up and causing an immense shitfest due to not wanting to fight the Witch and Walpurgisnacht focusing on killing him before anyone else.
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Who said Hitomi - the studious student she is who happened to get a book on myths as a gift - won't opt to use a catalyst projected by Archer?
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No TV in the cabin, unless you're proposing that all of us hang out at someone's house and do the above once we get back to Mitakihara.
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Miyuki is getting girl Musashi. Who Hitomi gets I won't say, but given the nationalities in play with the book on myths we gifted her, we can expect for her Saber to come from one of the Celtic denominations- And do note, that includes pre-Anglo-Saxon British and Welsh as well as Irish, meaning one of Seibah's knights could be in play. Bazett would have summoned Saber Cu, but she's out of the running since we swiped Lancer Cu away from Caren the other day, and I don't have any Sabers set up for Caren to summon so she's not going to be rejoining the race any time soon either, unless * happens, of course. Sayaka would have summoned [REDACTED] but she's out of the running as long as she remains uncontracted.
Walpol and Jehanne Tart have nothing to do with one another. This flat-out would not happen.
And she does have someone in mind, but I'll let us all stew on who that could be.
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[x] Tell Kirika that since her element is love, that she should try focusing her feelings for Oriko into the blades.
Of course that's what she takes issue with.
Of course that's what she takes issue with.
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Do you know the association tattoos have in Japan? Yes, of course that's what Hitomi, a girl with a traditional upbringing, would take issue with. We spared her much of the gory details about Oriko's activities prior to joining our team, so she doesn't know that each of those Seals represents someone whose death Oriko is responsible for.
... Yakuza?
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Most likely. Seeing how "tattoos" and "gangsters" seem to be a thing.
Hitomi, not wanting to look like she's involved with some sort of Puella Magi Mafia Magica, would likely be "uhhhh I don't want this to make me look like a gangster."
There's... likely also a "delinquent" angle? But "looks like gangbanger" tends to go hand in hand with that.
(Aren't there also laws against tattoos in some places meant to be anti-Yakuza?)
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Hey, you suggested it, not me.
Unless, of course, you meant them only talking about movies. In any case, removed the movies tidbit.
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We could be wrong, but I think there are. I don't know what Mitakihara's laws against tattoos are, but we do know per episode 10 that Kanagawa's 19th district does have a Yakuza foothold, of some form, so it's likely that Mitakihara either doesn't have anti-tattoo laws, or does but the Yakuza foothold is a lower-level operation that doesn't get much tattooed business.
At any rate, Hitomi's definitely wary of looking like some Yakuza boss's daughter like how Oriko does.
I did mean talking about movies, yes. We can talk about them if we've got anything to say. But who among the girls are we talking to? Also, with regards to this part of the voteHey, you suggested it, not me.
what are we thinking in terms of how we'll find time to meet with her regularly, and what sort of concrete advice and help are we prepared to give her?
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Agh, can't it just be summed up as a description of what's going on? It's not like their nightly gossip/game playing will be very important or anything considering the topics. I'd assume that Homura would chat at least a little with everyone else over the course of their nightly slumber party-esque activities, probably talking more so to Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi as she'd be more comfortable with that since they're more traditionally friends/girlfriend. Oriko and Mami would be right under them, with Kyoko and then Kirika as runner ups in terms of Homuchattime.
EDIT to your EDIT:
It depends on her schedule for when Archer could meet with her. Archer can give financial advice, teaching her how to cook nutritionally for herself on a budget/how to get the best deals for healthier food (as eating healthier will impact her life positively overall, be it focus-wise to giving her much more energy to expend throughout the day), and Archer could help by lending her money (by liberating it from the Yakuza and other criminal organization-type places) and maybe trying to help her replace one of the two part-time jobs Minako doesn't enjoy to possibly allow her to drop her third part-time job with all factors applied, at least for a time.
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I mean, sure, but... Eh... You know that's not how I like to do things. I just want to be provided with the specifics in case I need the specifics, or in case someone else who might be voting wants to address different specifics.
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So... what kind of specifics are you looking for? Just a list of who Homura's interacting with? Because if so, then over the time between they start and they go to bed Homura should have sufficient enough time to interact with everyone, unless you mean for Homura to interact with specific people for some purpose that isn't clear to the readers at this time. 🤔
By the way, edited my previous post in response to your edit.
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Well, if you think we've got enough time to interact with everyone, then maybe we could get one or possibly two things to say to each person when we interact with them. Though don't forget, we're heading back to Mitakihara tonight; we're not staying here tonight. Some of our interactions might have to be on the train ride back, in that case.
Minako's schedule looks something like this-
-Wake up at 5, 5.30 at the latest
-Get dressed, be out the door no later than 6
-If you can get breakfast, good for you! If not, you're SOL until lunch
-Store opens at 7, so be there at or before 6.30 to do whatever needs to be done to open it.
-Shift ends at 9.30, have to be at the office by 10.
-It's a good thing you keep your nice suit at the office, because you've got no time to go home, get changed, and make it to the office
-You've got a half-hour to eat before you've got to get back to work. Hope you packed a lunch, because there's a good chance you won't have time to go out and get something with how long the lines at the local places will be.
-Done at the office at 19.00. Congratulations! You've got 3 hours to have dinner and take a nap before you've got to get to your third shift.
-Third shift goes from 22.00 to 1.30. Go home, have a beer or two, and go to sleep.
-Every Thursday and Sunday, you don't have to work the morning shift. Every Friday and Saturday, you don't have to work the night shift. You can get a bit more sleep/go shopping for groceries/see your daughter/go to a bar and get drunk/do whatever you want.
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That should be fine.
Oooookay then. Archer's making her lunch from now on, and considering his lack of a need for sleep and his sheer speed as a Servant it shouldn't be a problem delivering it every day. Priority for dropping a job goes to the night shift, for now, unless it makes Minako tons more money than her day shift for some reason.
Archer can (currently, without any changes) visit her either during her small lunch break (presumably when Homura's at school and doesn't need Archer to do stuff) or on Fridays/Saturdays in the evening. Here's hoping Minako gets a surprise cash injection when Archer goes vigilante. Who knows, maybe Archer could scrounge up some future knowledge to get Minako to invest in some stock of future huge companies (and if not that, then maybe Alaya can send some info by virtue of having access to alternate timelines for viewing)?
(Going to sleep now, so won't be able to respond for a while)
EDIT: Actually, now that I think about it, Archer could probably deliver her breakfast in the morning as well. Not sure why I hadn't included that in the initial post.
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Aww, that's so sweet. I'm sure that's a gesture which she'll really appreciate. Not to mention finding it very romantic, and get all the office talking about how considerate her new boyfriend is.
I don't know how true it is, since the only night shift I've ever worked paid the same as the morning shift, but I've heard that night shifts usually pay better because fewer people want to take them. Minako, obviously, can't be choosy, so she took whatever she was able to get.
No. Bad Alaya. We are not telling Archer about the future just so he can tell Minako what to invest in. That's cheating.
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I wonder how long it'll take for Archer to realize that he's become Minako's boyfriend in the eyes of her office; probably way too late to stop it from being spread I'm guessing.
I think how much the night shift usually pays depends on the job in question and the general wealth of the area; if people are more wealthy in general than less people would opt to torture themselves with a night shift for extra cash, so it makes sense that a wealthy city like Mitakihara, in general, would have more well-paying night shifts. Of course there's only so much a part-time night-shift job could realistically pay their employees, so it's still a priority to get her out of it.
By the way, I edited in the specifics of what Archer's doing - as we discussed earlier - into the plan, just in case.