Thirty-Fourth Projection

[wontdieifkilled]

[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.]

Comments

audio;

[wontdieifkilled]

It's okay, it's okay. Let's just try to figure out where this conversation is going.

[video]

[wontdieifkilled]

...What about him?

audio;

[ex_cashcow493]

Ah, well, do you happen to know what today is?

[ Sounding just a tad bit hopeful. ]

audio;

[wontdieifkilled]

Yeah, Mother's Day.

[Nope.]

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

Hm? Oh, nothin'.

[Honest people made for terrible liars more often than not, but Lancer was damn good at being dismissive.]

audio;

[ex_cashcow493]

Mother's... day?

[ What is this silly day's purpose? ]

[video]

[wontdieifkilled]

Sigh, fine.

[That was about all he could say.]

audio;

[wontdieifkilled]

You didn't know? It's a day set aside to celebrate mothers.

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

...Well, yes, then. That's how life works.

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

And yet when they tried to apply it, it failed. Doesn't that say something?

audio;

[ex_cashcow493]

Is it always on May thirteenth? If so, what a terribly strange way to celebrate that day...

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

What do you mean, applied? It just is!

audio;

[wontdieifkilled]

No. It's always the second Sunday in May. Why, what's special about the date?

audio;

[ex_cashcow493]

You just said what was special about the date. The celebration of mothers, correct?

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

They tried to apply it to economics. The result was the Great Depression.

[...Well, no one said he knew his history, considering how many steps he's missing.]

audio;

[wontdieifkilled]

That's the day, not the date. I said Mother's Day always falls on the second Sunday in May, regardless of the date.

audio;

[ex_cashcow493]

Ah, so you are asking me what is so special about this date?

It is nothing you should concern yourself with, Shirou. Have you been well despite the past week's incidents?

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

[It's okay, she doesn't know enough history to correct him.]

Well, that's because they - whoever that's suppose to be - are trying to control it anyways, yeah? To apply something onto something you've got to hold it down and control it.

And the people who get in charge and try to control those kinds of things are just idiot adults who screw everything up.

audio;

[wontdieifkilled]

Saber, please be honest with me. You wouldn't have brought it up if there was no special significance to it.

audio;

[ex_cashcow493]

I am being honest with you, Shirou. If it were a date that was important, I would tell it to you. Instead, I spare you the trivial details. How is that dishonesty?

Answer wisely, for I do not take kindly to the insinuation that I tell falsehoods.

audio;

[wontdieifkilled]

[Uh-oh.]

Well...um...

You asked me if I knew anything special about today. You didn't know about Mother's Day...and specifically asked about the date. There's something about the date that you're hiding from me because I didn't answer the way you wanted me to answer.

[audio]

[wontdieifkilled]

Not always. A lot of them knew what they were aiming for and the steps they thought would get there. And there are lots of things that grown, educated people have gotten right.

audio;

[ex_cashcow493]

It was a simple misunderstanding in relation to dates. You have a reason to celebrate this day and I have my own reason to celebrate this day. Although I cannot find joy in my heart for something I wish never happened in the first place.

[audio]

[hurtitselfinconfusion]

Yeah, I bet. Like which village to slaughter to win a war?

audio;

[wontdieifkilled]

...Okay, now I'm just confused. You say you have a reason to celebrate, but then you also say that you wish the day had never happened. That seems like a paradox.