One more sidestory to go, still on vacation. Peeps enjoying the reveals?
 
6.19 - Ruby and Ayako

Thanks to @Armoury for the beta!



"He's clearly cheating on us." Ruby chirps.

"I wasn't aware he was dating you," Ayako hisses.

"He got to third base with his fingers!" Ruby replies. "Soft, supple, yet callused and manly fingers. Like a lion, playing a violin."

"The fuck does that even mean?" Ayako asks, holding the stick up in front of her and glaring. "And regardless, he did nothing to you."

"Oh keep telling yourself that," Ruby replies, the glint on the gemstone moving… disturbingly like an eye rolling. "He was quite handsy."

"You're a plastic stick!"

"No, I'm painted birch, and I don't need a hanger-on getting between me and my man." Ruby replies, hopping out of Ayako's grip and landing on the floor of her new bedroom. "You're old news, good for little else but… dressing up as a third-rate magical girl!"

Ayako was captain of the Archery club at school, she got good grades, she was a model student. She had decorum, self respect, and a good head on her shoulders.

As she dived off the bed to attempt to strangle a magical talking stick, none of that was evident. "Did I ask to be a magical girl?! That was your idea!"

"Who was I supposed to pick, your mother!? Nobody above the age of eighteen can be a magical girl, the market isn't there!"

"What are you even talking about you stupid stick?!"

"I." The stick flexes. "Am telling you to stay away from him, he's mine."

Ayako drew in a breath. "You said birch, right?"

"Sourced from Blem-"

"Don't care, you want to burn in that fireplace?"

The stick goes very still.

"I don't give a rat's ass about being a magical girl, I am his girlfriend, and I will protect him from the people around him and this whole… bullshit crazy situation."

"You… you wouldn't dare. You couldn't." Ruby hisses. "And he may be your girlfriend but I am his lover."

"Get him to admit that and we'll talk," Ayako replies. "You are going to teach me this magical bullshit or I'm taking you two blocks over."

"And do what?" Ruby asks.

"Dog park."

Ruby goes very still for several moments. "Slut."

"Bitch. Yes or no?"



"Get a pad and paper," Ruby says slowly.
 
He got to third base with his fingers!" Ruby replies. "Soft, supple, yet callused and manly fingers. Like a lion, playing a violin."

"The fuck does that even mean?" Ayako asks, holding the stick up in front of her and glaring. "And regardless, he did nothing to you."

"Oh keep telling yourself that," Ruby replies, the glint on the gemstone moving… disturbingly like an eye rolling. "He was quite handsy."
… did Ruby's personality engram get swapped out with Atomic Heart's NORA?

Because don't tell me this Ruby wouldn't act the same if they had hands.
 
Tldr: An idiot magus summoned Satan, who told everyone he was just a big fae, whereafter many of the Tower execs both believed him and decided to take gifts from an admitted fae.

They got what the deserved, and things are getting worse.
Man what is it with fae liars messing up Britan? It deserves it in both cases, but still
"And he may be your girlfriend but I am his lover."
Oh christ I thought we wouldn't have to deal with the Melusine lover bs in this quest
"You are going to teach me this magical bullshit or I'm taking you two blocks over."

"And do what?" Ruby asks.

"Dog park."

Ruby goes very still for several moments. "Slut."

"Bitch. Yes or no?"



"Get a pad and paper," Ruby says slowly.
How do you keep making character relationships even funnier than the previous ones? I'm in awe
 
Man what is it with fae liars messing up Britan? It deserves it in both cases, but still
Iirc in Type-moon its because Britan and more specifically Camelot was the Close of Fantasy. It was the last spot of magic and magic bullshit gathered at that spot to get while the getting was good and then fuck off the to the Other Side. This is why Camelot was full of so much ridiculous bs including the Picts being aliens iirc?
 
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Catching up on the last months of updates (summers been hell) but YE. Back when I realized Sauron was going to be the big bad I wasn't immediately onboard, but it sort of grew on me once I saw it as a great conflict to connect Gudako + Mash with the main group. And now I'm totally on board with it having seen the Clocktower falling, especially the way it did. Shirou's problems with the holy grail war are sort of an extension of problems with magus society overall (as seen in tea time) so the Clusterfuck expanding the conflict to the bigger fish of the Clock Tower, or rather it's corpse, feels satisfying. Love to see the tower fall. The greater grail already kinda looked like a Barad-dûr silhouette.

My goal is for Medea to be the only one not laid by the end of this somehow.
Well at least I'll always have that Valentine's post (been a bit since i last looked it up, but I still enjoy it). I'm p sure I'll be happy as long as their romance still progresses because it's been delicious so far.

Regarding the Taiga Vote, it's called, and I'll probably do it in an omake to not crowd the quest.
Unfort, but acceptable. I'll be looking forward to it!

Also, thank you for all of these side stories <3
 
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Ruby is a weapon. Shirou has looked at Ruby.
She's now in him somewhere, seeing the sights.

Alas he cannot actually PROJECT a tool of the Kaleidoscope without doing untold damage to his mortal meats, but the inner Ruby is exploring!
 
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