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Diarmuid ua Duibhne ([personal profile] twofoldfury) wrote in [community profile] kaisou2023-07-20 09:14 pm

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WHO: Diarmuid and Waver, then Diarmuid and YOU WITH THE FACE!!
WHERE: A Labyrinth, The Network, Around Town, particularly the outskirts
WHEN: 7/20, 7/21, Generally late July
WHAT: Arrival
WARNINGS: Stuff being on fire and warped reality, this will change.


i. lost in your own mind (locked to Waver)

[His star faded. He returned to the Throne of Heroes. No thought remained in the oblivion of non-existence.

And yet Diarmuid’s eyes shot open, seeing the sky filled with ash and tinged orange and red. The atmosphere unbearably warm while he jolted to a sitting position, necessitating him to get onto his feet as fire spread around him.

It was like a nightmare. And the more he sprinted through, lances in hand, the more the layout returned to his memory. Or rather, parts of the layout as it seemed warped beyond measure.

Fuyuki. Excalibur. Enuma Elish.

Do as you believe is right.

A star worth chasing.

The last thing he remembered hearing from his Master. Everything rushed back but he could not afford to hesitate here. The deeper into Fuyuki’s forest parts of it, assumedly in his haste, looked familiar in a different way. Familiar from his life as a human.

From Ireland. From his hunt all those years ago. Diarmuid blinked once before it returned to Fuyuki. A trick of the light? Something to shake him on purpose?

No… no it didn’t matter. It shook him to his very core. But he needed to move out of this fire.

He needed to find his Master.]


Master...! Can you hear me?!

ii. voice; un: goldenrose

[A dignified and smooth voice is on your feed today, Libra app! Only his voice, though that alone gave the veneer of a face that matched. Of someone very handsome.]


I’m told this Libra network is how most communications are handled easily. I’ve never encountered this technology before, I ask for patience while I fumble with it. Nevertheless, I thought I would take the time to introduce myself and lay my cards on the table.

I am Diarmuid ua Duibhne, first spear of the Fianna.

I’d like to know more about this city from the perspectives of you all. I’d be grateful if you could tell me something you find noteworthy, or perhaps something you find interesting. Anything you have to say is worthy of contribution and I shall bear it all in my mind. I have a second opportunity at life here and I want to make the most of it.

Thank you all kindly.

iii. the other option

[At some point between his texting endeavor and his labyrinth, Diarmuid is literally going to take all the time he needs to painstakingly make a mental map of what parts of the city he can. Even as night fell on occasion within some days of his arrival he can be found just about anywhere.

At just about any altitude as well, check your rooftops cryptids.

During any downpours, however, he will be found taking shelter in establishments or under awnings.

Also, he's wearing sunglasses.]
drewthetower: (Hm?)

voice | un: blackbirdtarot

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-07-21 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
...do you know Waver Velvet?
fionnuisce: (waiting on some beautiful boy to)

i

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2023-07-21 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[One of these days, Waver would learn to stop wandering into random labyrinths. But...well, he'd been perched in a tree near Jun's apartment building, and the flicker of the supernatural in the air a distance away was hard to ignore. The orange-feathered bird cast a look back towards the window--the building was noisy as all hell, and he hadn't noticed anything suspicious outside just yet. Leaving for now wouldn't hurt, and he did have to go home and sleep eventually. He fluttered off down the street before shifting back into his normal form to take a closer look-]

[-and immediately threw caution out the window at hearing a voice that felt like a bucket of ice water abruptly dumped over him. Moving before he could even think, barely even registering the burning field of the worst night of his life, because whether this was an elaborate illusion or not didn't matter. If Saber was here, if that was his Servant calling for him, then-]


Di-?!

[The sight before him twisted in his chest like thorns growing around his heart, ached with a heavy and painful nostalgia and a thousand other emotions he never dared truly name. The knight before him, that Servant could be mistaken for no other.]

[...But that wasn't Saber. There was no cobalt armor, paired spears in his grasp rather than blades--everything about him was ever so subtly different and yet the same, in the same uncertain surreality he had felt upon seeing the knight summoned again in the Fifth War.]

[As Fuyuki's ruins burned around them, a branded right hand was raised uncertainly to his heart.]

Lan...cer...?
Edited 2023-07-21 01:39 (UTC)
fionnuisce: (though it's dark)

owwww

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2023-07-21 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Diarmuid was Diarmuid no matter what class he was summoned into--this fact was undeniable in Waver's mind. it was memory that was the crux of the issue; 'Saber' could see fragments of Waver's memory, but that wasn't the same as having those experiences from either side. In that respect, 'Lancer' was dead and gone...and had been so for a decade.]

I-I...

[But that was really him, wasn't it?]

[Not Ritsuka's, and god fucking forbid not Kayneth's, but his Lancer. The same knight who had answered his summoning ten years ago, the same one who had fought and died for him. Who remembered everything about who he had been, who recognized him even years later and thirty centimeters taller. Waver's left hand gripped his cane so tightly he thought something might break, eyes locked on the knight as if afraid he would disappear.]


I...need you to trust me right now. I'll--I'll explain everything, I swear it, but let's get out of here first.
drewthetower: (Default)

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-07-21 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Context August thankfully has.]

Well, he's gonna lose his shit. August Villareal, friend and coworker and the guy making the idiot take fucking breaks.
fionnuisce: (rays of sunlight cast the dawn)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2023-07-21 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Perhaps luckily, turning away had the excellent side effect of hiding Waver's face and the stricken look he was struggling to keep off of it. Everything he had doubted and feared Saber would see him as was sneaking very quickly back to the forefront, irrational paranoia though he knew it to be. How was he ever going to explain it all again, and on top of it everything to do with what was going on in the city itself? For god's sake, he'd been planning to kill someone not ten minutes ago.]

[Waver took a deep breath that smelled uncomfortably of smoke and ash as he carefully retraced frantic steps to find the labyrinth's exit, a hundred thoughts colliding in his head to form a cacophonous scream. Don't look back, lest Eurydice turn to ash and Orpheus be seen as the overwhelmed failure he believed he was.]
fionnuisce: (crowds of monochrome)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2023-07-21 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[It should have been easier to breathe once he found the labyrinth's exit, out of the blazing ruin into a warm summer afternoon in a calm city. Should have been, and yet his heart had lodged itself harshly in the vicinity of his throat. Did he even dare turn around to face the Servant that couldn't possibly exist? Who could only possibly be alive through the complete reversal of all logic and reason that this place created?]

[Fuck. Shit. Goddammit. He'd have to get back to keeping an eye on Jun's apartment building, but...no, there were others alerted to that specific problem. This took precedence for the moment, and with that as a starting point he slowly started to unravel a horrid tangle of thoughts and feelings.]


It's-... [His voice sounded hesitant. Weaker, maybe. Or maybe just in a tone he hadn't used since he was nineteen.] ...been a long time, Lancer.
prunedworlds: (what's going on?)

iii

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2023-07-21 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Kaisou is a big city, but there's some areas that, for whatever reason, those who have the.... dubious honor of being app-users tend to frequent. Probably has something to do with the spirit gates or whatever.

But the point is, Ritsuka's happened to spot someone terribly familiar-looking, enough to make her stop and double-take.

"... Diarmuid?"

The outfit throws her a little, especially given her experience meeting Gil, so while she's sure of who it is she still isn't sure. But hey, that sure is someone with visible command spells on her right hand recognizing him!
drewthetower: (Ah)

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-07-21 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
No proble--oh, fuck, did he go bird?
drewthetower: (You're So Dumb)

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-07-21 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
[Oops.]

Uh, ask him.
fionnuisce: (though we try to forge on ahead)

un: silverrose

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2023-07-21 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
you are SO dead
drewthetower: (Still A Stupid Young Adult)

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-07-21 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Waver I know how you get under stress

this seems like it'd be stressful

can you blame me for thinking you went bird?!
fionnuisce: (see the place where you used to live)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2023-07-21 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
then think it, don't just say that shit! that was on a REAL long list of shit to process here i was GETTING to it
drewthetower: (Hmph)

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-07-21 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
it's not my fault I don't know what shit you gotta process!

hell if there's that much shit even more reason I'd think you'd go bird!
fionnuisce: (oh how can i begin)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2023-07-21 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
i am capable of managing many stressful things at once and have incredible willpower sometimes. never mind. cat's out of the bag, or bird such as it is.
drewthetower: (You're So Dumb)

[personal profile] drewthetower 2023-07-21 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
you handle stressful things by being a workaholic
fionnuisce: (through my heartbeat's megaphone)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2023-07-21 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
i prefer to call it 'dedicated and hardworking'.

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