Test drive meme!

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TEST-DRIVE MEME

Maybe you've considered appping a new character but you're not sure how well they would adjust to the in-game scenario? Well, here's a chance to give it a try!

• Post with a character journal you'd like to voicetest or you've considered apping to Ruby City. Feel free to play them as newcomers or as if they've been here for a while - the setting is your own choice.

•Respond to other threads with new characters or with characters who are already in the game.

• Explore different interactions, find castmates, develop possible CR - anything you want, as long as you have fun!

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Arthur Pendragon/Saber | Fate/Zero

[untilavalon]

[This... this is not Britannia, nor is it Japan. Arthur hasn't lost the Grail war-- no... she knows this. She remembers, in distinct detail, who exactly the last opponent she killed was.

This is not the only strange thing. She is not, for some reason, aware of how the technology she's apparently been entrusted with. Once Arthur gets the video working, however, she adjusts it so that only her mouth and the collar of her suit are visible-- she musn't give herself away. Masking her name to hide her identity, she clears her throat.]

My name is Artorius Pendraig. If anyone receiving this broadcast can tell me what exactly is going on, I would be very much obliged, as I have necessities to return to.

[The message is short and curt, and the transmission ends quickly as Arthur decides to investigate the area around the station. Feel free to approach her.]

OOC Note: Arthur presents very androgynously, so it's alright if your character reads her as male instead of female. She responds to both identities because of her admittedly complicated gender things-- so let your character read this dapperly-dressed individual whichever way they please!

hi there buttface.

[gordianknots]

[Waver may have only just gotten here as well, but he's definitely figured out how the network works (after a lot of trial, error, and unamused swearing.) So, give him a moment to stare, boggle because that cannot be who he thinks it is, and then send back a video response that sums up all his emotions in one, simple word]

--Saber?!

EW

[untilavalon]

[--That voice sounds familiar, and certainly knows her, but the face of the person on the transmission isn't familiar except in... strange ways. Frowning, Saber keeps the camera where it is on her transmission.]

Who are you, that you know me?

oh that's charming

[gordianknots]

[Okay, that confirms that it is exactly who Waver thinks it is. And if she's here, then time's gone askew, and one of the proper magics is in play. Fifth magic, most likely, or the second. Something well beyond his ability to use.

He takes a beat, because if this is in any way related to time traveling then what he says could have an impact on the fourth war, or else the fifth, and thus his life.]

It'd probably help you if you pictured me twenty years younger and falling around on my ass. [he takes his hair up in his free hand and holds it up to where about where it fell at age nineteen]

as always.

[untilavalon]

[Is that--]

Rider's master?

[Arthur allows the camera to rise to her face, looking a little dumbfounded for just a moment.]

...I beg your pardon, I was... never privy to your name.

[She clears her throat, obviously trying to hide some level of concern for the situation.]

But by what magic could this be?

assbutt.

[gordianknots]

--Ah, no, you wouldn't have been, would you? [It was always boy, until that bridge. Not that he thinks Saber ever learned about that little moment, and it can be discussed later. Not now, not when there are far more important things to hash out.]

Waver Velvet, with the edition of Lord El-Melloi II. As for magic, my guess is the fifth, which deals with time travel. Problem is I don't know who is using it. And if you're here and I'm here, then there are probably plenty of others as well, scattered from different years.

[untilavalon]

Time travel...

[For some reason, Arthur isn't so sure. But with such a title, it would be true that Waver was a well-studied educator, would it not be?]

Then are you with a servant? My masters--

[...right.]

...My master is not in the vicinity.

[gordianknots]

I am not, nor are there to be any more servant and master teams, or any more grail wars. I dismantled the thing alongside one of the founding families of the Grail War system about, mm, a month ago.

1/2

[untilavalon]

[untilavalon]

You... how can this be?

[Perhaps... Perhaps by his time she has... It should be of no concern to her, she would have won by then, would she not have?]

[gordianknots]

What's the last thing you recall concerning the war?

CASUALLY SWITCHES CANONPOINTS MIDWAY THROUGH WOOPS

[untilavalon]

I...

[She clears her throat, shaking her head.]

I lost in the presence of Gilgamesh.

sits, laughs at your pain

[gordianknots]

So, the fourth war then?

your'e terrible

[untilavalon]

No... Yes, it was the fourth, but...

[But what could that mean? He couldn't have been alive, or at least not as young as he is on her communicator.]

Sky's blue.

[gordianknots]

I see. [he takes a beat and considers all of this, including her previous statement and--] -- Ah, well that's that mystery solved.

[Not that he just made sense to anyone else.] There was a glitch in the grail system, meaning that the grail reappeared after ten years rather than the usual sixty.

[etgehenna]

[ What's this? A black clothed doppelganger just standing there at the station? What manner of fiendishly foolish plot is this?

So, here you go, Arthur, one short little blonde woman who looks exactly like you, except her eyes are green, and maybe she's got a little more of a haughty stance to her body language. She's most certainly regal, in the way she carries herself.

She looks Arthur up and down, and then reaches out to poke her squarely in the boob. ] Hm. For a facsimile you certainly are well made.

[untilavalon]

[Did she just.

What.]

Excuse me? I'm not a facsimile of anything or anyone.

[Similar though they may be, Arthur certainly can't comprehend Nero's attire. And is she poking her--]

Must you?

[etgehenna]

Well, you can't be the original. That's me, of course. [ It's cool, Arthur, she's moved on to circling you with her hand on her chin, taking you in with a critical eye. ] And you're certainly not an exact replica. You're too small. [ Nero claps her hands and moves to stand in front of Arthur again, putting her hands on her hips. ]

You're a fan, then, inspired by my greatness. I am much flattered.

[untilavalon]

I cannot be a fan of someone I don't know.

[Who the hell is this? Arthur can't quite stand still, frowning and taking a step back.]

I assume you are a servant. What then, is your title? [She looked so similar-- but no two servants could serve in the same class at once, right?]

[etgehenna]

[ Nero sputters, but recovers quickly, raising a hand to the air. ] Of course! You know not my true identity! All is well, then. You may call me Saber. Are you my Master?

[untilavalon]

Saber--

[No, that couldn't be right! Did this mean they were not in a Grail War at all? Where, then, were they?! She ought to be in Camlann--

Yet, she can't restrain herself.]

But I am saber! I can't be your master!

[etgehenna]

[ Nero ponders this. ] So, you're an enemy servant then. [ The idea of two sabers? Doesn't phase her in the slightest. ] Very well! We shall meet on the field of battle, a pair of glorious warriors, clashing with steel and force!

[untilavalon]

[Is she insane.]

Not only am I without a master, there can't possibly be two Sabers at once in a war! Do you even realise what this means?

[...Not that Arthur has much a clue herself.]

[etgehenna]

[ Probably. ]

That we've not yet met in the battlefield. What else could it mean?

[untilavalon]

I don't believe we are on a battlefield. Nor is this the Throne of Heroes...