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

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[ex_cashcow493]

A knight is ill-suited to be a jester of the court.

[ Besides, she might need a sense of humor before she can make jokes. ]

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[wontdieifkilled]

Well, it sure sounded like deadpan humor to me.

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[ex_cashcow493]

The dead cannot celebrate a birthday, Shirou. So if this day is anything, it is Mother's Day and not my twenty-fifth birthday.

[ By the way, she's older. dealwithit.gif ]

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[wontdieifkilled]

You're not dead here. You're just as alive as--

--wait, twenty-five?

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[ex_cashcow493]

Yes, twenty-five. A quarter of a century. [ Just in case he needed that extra bit of help. ] Although if you wish to be truly accurate it would be one-hundred, two-hundred, five-hundred...

[ Please don't let her continue to count up how many centuries have passed. ]

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[wontdieifkilled]

Whoa, whoa, hey, those don't count!

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[ex_cashcow493]

[ ... ]

Are you able to contest me on this day of all days? I thought one would have their way on their birthday.

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[wontdieifkilled]

That's not an absolute! What if you were to say that the sky is green?

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[ex_cashcow493]

Would it be anymore unlikely than everything else we have seen the past week, Shirou?

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[wontdieifkilled]

Yes, because the sky has never been green!

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[ex_cashcow493]

If God wills it to be green, then it will be green. If that day ever occurs, I will accept a lunch of burgers from you.

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[wontdieifkilled]

All right, I'll take your bet.

[Shirou Emiya: The only man who will take a bet that is impossible to win.]

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[ex_cashcow493]

[ Goes to submit a plot to turn the sky green to the mods!! ]

I should fetch a gift for the lady for this day, should I not?

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[wontdieifkilled]

Huh? But she isn't your mother...

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[ex_cashcow493]

Could I not appreciate the work she has done for both of her children..?

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[wontdieifkilled]

...Well, I suppose so...

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[ex_cashcow493]

Then I will think of a lovely gift...

Perhaps a weapon. [ Really Saber? ] Yes, something she can use to defend herself just in case.

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[wontdieifkilled]

Hold on just a second!

[What the hell is she thinking?]

First of all, can she even use a weapon? Secondly, you'll get her arrested!

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[ex_cashcow493]

She does know how to fight, so possibly. [ Shirou pls. ] Hm, the latter does pose a problem.

Perhaps some armor then.

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[wontdieifkilled]

That'd just inhibit her traveling. Besides, where are you going to get armor?

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[ex_cashcow493]

Surely there is an armorsmith in this land. [ Shirou pls. ] I had something else crafted for me, so surely armor would be easier to come by.

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[wontdieifkilled]

...Uh. I don't know if you noticed, but this place is...really lacking in blacksmiths.

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[ex_cashcow493]

Yet I still found one to craft a blade for me.

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[wontdieifkilled]

What the -- are you crazy? Are you trying to get arrested?

Geez, what's with Sabers and insisting on breaking the law?

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[ex_cashcow493]

Have I been arrested yet? [ Seriously Shirou. ] A king should not have to follow the laws of another land, especially one that intends to put not only my life, but the lives of those I care for in danger. I would explain it, but I believe my words will be meaningless to you.