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Thirty-Fourth Projection

[Audio; Action for Violet City]

[Now that the weather has cleared up, Shirou is outside and laying down on the grass, near the pond on the northern edge of town. After thinking for a while, he decides to muse a bit.]

You know...I've never had a mother figure before. I don't remember my birth mother. I had a father figure and a big sister figure, but that was all I had growing up. I used to try to ignore this day when it came, because there was no point in observing it and there was no point in dwelling on it.

So to finally get one now...it's strange. It just feels different. I'm eighteen years old -- though I guess I'm still seventeen back home -- and now I have someone who I should have had all my life.

Well, better late than never, I guess.

[Video; filtered to Irisviel]

Hey, I sent you a package. Did you get it yet?

[Said package is a brand new umbrella. It's pure white, with silver trim, and it's high-quality.]

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And you elected to share this with the populace at large why?

[If he sounds a little grumpy, well the guy just trekked the last three days through that storm to finally reach the Violet (because he's semi-nuts and very convinced of his own strength) so it's probably understandable. Also, though he has the video option on, it's recording his surroundings, namely the entrance to the city, rather than his face.]

Is today some sort of occasion for reflecting on family matters in this world?

[Well, if he isn't going to show his face, then Shirou is keeping his gear on audio.]

Okay, I guess I should have mentioned it. The second Sunday of May is observed as Mother's Day by...a huge chunk of the world. At least where I'm from.

A day like that would be like a knife in the hearts of many of the children where I come from. A brutal reminder of what they've lost.

[Azeroth is not a nice place. Illidan's surprisingly offhand mention of this is interrupted by a Gible leaping into the video and latching onto his hand with its mouth.]

... Azzinoth, how many times do I have to tell you not to do that?

[Shirou is...just staring.]

Uh...well...

...Like I said. I didn't have a mother until recently, either.

[The video finally turns around as Illidan plucks the Gible off his hand almost casually, revealing a tall, muscular man with a blindfold on.]

I did, but I do not recall her. My brother and my childhood friend are all I remember.

[Shirou is surprised to see the blindfold, and finds himself wondering what it's about. Regardless, he can leave the gear on audio to conserve power.]

Oh. I'm actually in almost the same boat. For me, I can't remember my birth family at all. I just had an adoptive father and a girl who became a big sister figure.

So you said, yes. Situations like that were not uncommon where I came from.

[And they probably became more common after the war.]

Typically, though, it would have been the Priestesses of Elune that took in the orphans. Male adopters were not unheard of, but there was no organization for them to join that had such tenets.

Well, er, if I hadn't been adopted, it would have been up to the church to raise me. It ended up taking in the other children who were orphaned. I just got lucky.

A church is a human version of a temple, correct? That's remarkably similar. Perhaps caring for children is a universal tenet of the Gods.

The church is supposed to offer help to those who need it. So yeah, makes sense.

Supposed to. [He snorts, a tone of wry, almost bitter amusement in his voice.] And how often do things go as they are "supposed to" in your world?

...As far as I know, the church did take care of the other orphans.

[Except not, but he's not from the Fate route, so he has no clue.]

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