[7rings] catchall for medb

[shiftingwinds]

cries about wanting to make visualosities while i'm at work

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w5, sunday

[shiftingwinds]

[this time it's sqx's turn to linger outside of the medbay! she's... not going in, because she's been pretty explicitly told to just let fate run its course with regards to childe, but. she calls out.]

...Medb? Are you still in a pod, or...?

[fergalicious]

I'm out! I'll come to you.

[ She is going to be limping a little. Her ankle is a little tender still, but she is 80% healed. It's all fine even if she's trying to... not really ignore her feelings but trying not to dissect them just yet. ]

Hi, Qingxuan.

[shiftingwinds]

[whew! she looks instantly relieved upon seeing her]

Hi, Medb. [...] Sorry to interrupt you while you're healing - but it's good to see you up again.

[fergalicious]

[ She wave a hand, but she smiles in gratitude for the concern. ]

I wasn't going to let another shitty alien monster get away with trying to kill me. I'll heal again later.

[shiftingwinds]

[haha! sounds like medb. kick its ass, queen.]

Good. Are you hungry? Healing is hard work - we should get you something to eat. [she reaches into her belt to pull out her phone] Though - sorry to jump straight to business, but have you had the chance to check your messages since you came out of the pod?

[fergalicious]

Sure, but - my messages?

[ She blinks and takes out her phone. ]

Was I supposed to receive a message?

[shiftingwinds]

Some of us have gotten some strange ones. I thought you might have, too.

[she holds out her phone to medb to show her her screen - on it, there's a message from an unkonwn sender, which reads:]

i̴̯̋m̵̿̍ ̷͆͒o̶̾̽ḱ̵͝ ̸͆̕p̵͠͝l̸̓̽e̷͗̌ă̷̈́s̵̊̚é̴͘ ̷͊͒i̷̋̋n̸̍̕d̷̏̍u̸̾̈́l̵͒͂g̵̒̚e̸̅̄ ̸́̾-̶̈́̅ ̵͂͋d̷̊̈́

[fergalicious]

Wow, now I feel left out.

[ She's not popular? Imagine that.

She looks at this message with a frown. That's kind of creepy. ]

Who's okay?

[shiftingwinds]

...that's the thing, I'm not sure. Some of the others have said they've received messages from people we know to be dead.

[...]

The only person who might sign with a "D" that I can think of is someone I would have expected to write to you.

[fergalicious]

The dead?

[ She's genuinely surprised to hear that. ]

They can contact us now?

[ She looks down at the message again. ]

Well, if it's them, they probably think they don't have to worry about how much I indulge.

[ She indulges just by breathing sometimes. ]

[shiftingwinds]

That seems to be the case - unless it's something else, borrowing their names. But Mineo received messages that were signed by Law and Fukuda...

[so... there's that.]

...ahaha, I wonder if I've given them the impression that they need to worry about my indulgences. I've done well enough so far, I think.

[fergalicious]

Mineo's popular, huh?

[ Or is it because he's loud.... both?

She hums. ]

Maybe it's because you switched to Envy, and they're worried about them, too.

[ Although... how much Douman worries for anyone is another question entirely. ]

[shiftingwinds]

Sounds like it... ahaha, if I'm a little jealous, do you think that counts for one of my indulgences?

[would be funny if it did]

It could be. Or maybe they're concerned that I haven't found many others to indulge with since they died.

[fergalicious]

If you are, you can probably make a good argument for it!

[ She is half-serious, but she doesn't exactly think that is something that would make SQX jealous, really. ]

That could be it, too. You two really got along, huh?

[ Before it turned out they might have killed for gay drama. ]

[shiftingwinds]

Ahaha... a teeny, tiny bit. Probably not enough to count!

[alas! shi qingxuan really is the type to get jealous over petty things like that.]

...we got along pretty well, I think. [she smiles] They were very kind to me.

[which

let me tell you


was not at all what i expected when i got that cr.]

[fergalicious]

[ britt, after modding snowend: is this the same clown?

Well, then! Maybe envy isn't that terrible of a sin team (steam) to be on for SQX. ]

Does that outweigh what people think they've done?

[shiftingwinds]

[FOR FUCKING REAL, THOUGH.]

...it's hard to reconcile what people think they did with the person who spent time with me. [...] I just wish I could have - asked them.

[fergalicious]

They could be both.

[ There's nothing to say a cold-blooded killer can't also be kind to someone. ]

I don't know if the dead can contact us, then we can contact them back, but...

... A Servant like Ashiya Douman can be summoned again. Not here or now, but it's not impossible for someone like you when you have all your powers.

[shiftingwinds]

I suppose that's true.

[god! why do so many of her friends turn out to be killers. laughs in douman and mahito.]

...but they wouldn't remember, right?

They said - they said that Servants typically forget their experiences upon returning and being summoned anew. [...] ...but wherever they are now, they're okay. That's something, I suppose.

[fergalicious]

If they're summoned for the usual reasons, that's true, but it's not always the case. I remember one of my past summonings.

[ F/GO does whatever it wants for its narrative purposes. ]

But they could also always pretend not to remember.

[shiftingwinds]

You—?

[???]

But I thought you were a Master, not a Servant...?

[fergalicious]

You can be both. All you need as a Master is to provide energy to a Servant.

[ She makes some kind of vague hand gesture, as if to say it's a little more complicated than that, but it's fine. ]

[shiftingwinds]

[huh. sounds like there's a lot about fate/ that sqx just doesn't understand. which works, because i sure as hell don't understand it either!]

I see...

[fergalicious]

[ She can see that SQX doesn't see, but it's fine. She doesn't care to explain too much either. ]

Don't worry too much about it. What Douman and I had was... [ She waves a hand. ] Special circumstances.

[shiftingwinds]

...it would almost have to be, right? Since - there's not really a way to provide that energy to anyone, here.

[they're all NERFED]