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

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

[Shrug.]

So what's her name?

[video]

[wontdieifkilled]

[Shirou looks surprised. He'd clearly expected Lancer to already know.]

Irisviel.

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

[>Lancer
>knowing things

You can only choose one, Shirou.]

...huh. Probably shoulda seen that comin'.

[video]

[wontdieifkilled]

So you do know her. She spends a lot of time with Saber, so I figured.

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

We've crossed paths a time or two, yeah.

[video]

[wontdieifkilled]

You were at least told she's a married woman, right?

[MAMA IS OFF-LIMITS, LANCER.]

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

Never stopped me before, y'know.

[video]

[wontdieifkilled]

Don't. Just...don't. Her husband isn't here, but her son is.

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

Relax, relax. I'm not gonna do anything.

[video]

[wontdieifkilled]

...Good. To be honest, Saber would probably try to kill you if you did.

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

Like that's anything new.

[video]

[wontdieifkilled]

...That's true.

But anyway, I never met her. I guess that means she died during the Fourth Holy Grail War. That must have broke my father's heart.

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

...your father, huh.

[He said it mostly to himself, mind more on a conversation he had with Saber on the subject.]

[It hadn't been a pleasant one. At all.]

[video]

[wontdieifkilled]

...What about him?

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

Hm? Oh, nothin'.

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

[video]

[wontdieifkilled]

Sigh, fine.

[That was about all he could say.]