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[hyphenated]

I suppose it is time I introduced myself. It has been long enough.

[The woman in front of the camera looks prim and proper; a true lady with a massive ribbon on her chest. She's doing her best to look neat for the video. To hell with camping. Apt people might notice a leaf in her hair.]

After all, it seems we're going to have to put up with each other for a long while. My name is-

[The camera turns.]

No, Derry! Don't you dare-

[SMOOCH. That's bright pink lips right on the screen there.]

Derry! I told you to hold it up to me! How useless...

[She tugs it out of the Smoochum's hands (paws?) with a sigh.]

Ahem. As I was saying. My name is Sola-Ui. Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri, to be precise. I suppose we will see whether it is a pleasure or not in times to come.

...if a man named 'Lancer' appears here, please inform me.

[Nope, no idea about other Lancers. Too busy not dying of OH MY GOD SO MUCH WALKING AND WHY DOES THE WEATHER HATE ME, etc, etc.]

Comments

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

...Listen, uh...Sally or whatever the hell your name was?

Quit dancin' around the subject. If you're looking for somebody named Lancer, odds are either you know I'm a Servant or the name's an amazing coincidence. Point is, being vague is just gonna get annoying fast.

[video]

[hyphenated]

Sola-Ui.

And believe me, nicknames like that are not as uncommon as you may believe. But I suppose I may as well be frank.

The fact that you're here means that you're either from a past War - or that we lost this one and you're from the future, which is extremely unlikely considering the people involved. That, I find fascinating to the extreme.

...perhaps the only fascinating trait of you that is showing right now. Shame on you! No matter when you're from, your Master should have taught you manners.

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[riastrad_ridire]

[>kotomine kirei]

[>manners]

[HIS FACE WHEN

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

[actually, his face for quite a while]

[shit gurl you are hilarious]

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

Hah--! Ahahaha--oh, that was funny as hell. My Master should've taught me manners, she says...funniest damned thing I've heard in a while.

But yeah, whatever. Can't say I know which war you came from, but I'm the fifth and apparently final dead Lancer. Name's Cu Chulainn.

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[hyphenated]

. . .

[Ah, crap. Her mind races over the still-alive servants and masters that she knows of, trying to figure out which one could have killed them. Still, she does her best to keep her cool - although that means that Lancer died, Lancer went away and disappeared forever and nonononononononononono that wasn't fair that wasn't fair at all why-]

[video]

[hyphenated]

[It cuts out for a moment while she frightens Derry with her rage and misery, before returning, seemingly cool.]

How... troublesome. Well then. I suppose I should be fair. I came from the fourth, as the partner to the master of our Lancer, Diarmuid ua Diabhne.

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

...now that's unusual. You're the second person to ask me if I've seen that particular knight, and I'll tell you the same I told the last guy. I know his story, but unfortunately he and I have never met. If Diarmuid's here, I haven't seen him.

...Though I suspect half of Johto would have noticed the mob of women chasing him if he was.

[video]

[hyphenated]

From what I've seen, he has no interest in them.

[UNFORTUNATELY]

Was the one you spoke to before a man known as Kayneth? Blonde hair, blue clothing... relatively smug?

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

Can't really blame him. I've had a crazy woman or two after me, and let me tell you, it gets old pretty fast. Long before she turns into a wolf and tries to eat you, at least.

Wasn't him, no. Shoulda guessed you were with that guy, though. You're both stuck up as hell and apparently have even more names than I do.

[video]

[hyphenated]

We are not stuck up!

Hmph. And nor am I "with" him, if you meant that in the vernacular. I am his fiance. We shared the duties of a Master.

...

A wolf. [Sigh.] I need to read up on your story. I don't remember that part.

[Wait wait-]

Then who was it?

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

A Master and his fiance summoning a knight who got shoved into running off with his lord's fiance. ...Are you idiots or was that completely unintentional?

[Because that's totally relevant.]

Anyway, first it was a raven. Then it was a wolf, an eel, and then a bull. I guess the moral of the story is 'don't piss off a goddess'. [A shrug. Then he realizes oh wait, she asked something. Might as well answer honestly.]

Lancelot. Guess after I introduced myself as Lancer, he got curious about my predecessor.

[video]

[hyphenated]

It was intentional, in a way. My magic resistance was more than enough to deter the love spot. However, he wasn't our first choice; the item we were to use to summon our original Servant was stolen by a disgruntled student of his.

...Did she have nothing else to do with her time?

[Entirely irrelevant person, then... Still, she files it away mentally.]

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

...Uh-huh. [Sola, he knows crazy women. He can just tell.]

How should I know? I guess she got tired of foretelling everybody's death and just decided 'hey, why not try to get into the armor of the prone-to-bloody-murder knight over yonder?'

[video]

[hyphenated]

You sound disbelieving. It's true that the love spot never affected me. [Her voice softens.] That doesn't mean I don't like him.

...

[Sigh.]

That foolish woman.

[Oh the irony.]

[video]

[riastrad_ridire]

Right. And it's just you thinking that? How would you even know if it was the alternative?

...I wouldn't do that. For all I know, she can hear you.

[He still doesn't trust Murkrows.]

[video]

[hyphenated]

It would be quite obvious. But as I said, my magic resistance is more than enough to block it. The only way it could fail would be if I actively tried. We're not as foolish as you seem to think.

Hear me? We're in another world, and from what you say, we're going to die anyway, so why should I mind her?