post palace takeout! [week 5]

[beathollow]

( at some point a bedraggled lot in yukatas manage to make their way to the dorm, shower and patch themselves up. and then mafuyu makes a very earnest request that they all go out for dinner, and, well, apparently many struggle to refuse her.

this is how they find themselves in something akin to a denny's or an ihop at like, midnight.




as one does. )

Comments

[vogelfrei]

[ McGillis huffs and... grins a little. ]

I wanted you to come at me properly. There is no need to apologize for that.

[ It's going to be annoying dealing with this injury until it's fully healed, but hopefully some more trips to the Nekiya and some more healing spells can help the matter along. ]

[goei]

Hah. You should see me at full strength. If I had my noble phantasm you'd have been toast fer real.

[He's in a good mood which means he's extremely braggy right now.]

[vogelfrei]

Perhaps, yes. My fencing days are long behind me, and my preferred mode of combat was not available.

[ Fencing was a mandatory class when he was a kid and he was extremely good at it - but not 'defeat a master swordsman' good. ]

Still, I would have like to see you at full power some day.

[goei]

[He's a little surprised McGillis is accepting his claims even a little, but more than that;]

What's yer preference if it's not a sword or that gun of yours?

[vogelfrei]

[ ... how does he explain this to a Ye Olde... ]

I'm a mobile suit pilot. They're 18m tall metal bodies that are piloted from within. They can also wield swords or guns, but it takes a different kind of skill than doing it with your own body.

[ DUAL WIELDING MECHS ARE THE BEST, IF YOU DISAGREE GO FUCK YOURSELVES. ]

[goei]

[McGillis: Damn this ye olde isn't going to understand my future mechs
Izou:]

Oh! Like what that Odysseus guy has!! That's pretty cool!

[vogelfrei]

[ HUH?????????? ]

Odysseus... like the hero from the Trojan war with the long and perilous way home?

[goei]

Yeah, him. He's got that trojan horse mech that turns into a man robot and then fires a beam.

[As you do.]

Kinda stuffy guy but you can't deny that things awesome.

[vogelfrei]

[ WHY DOES ODYSSEUS HAVE A MECH-- actually, this does track thematically, but it's also completely anachronistic, it's... huh. Okay. He's gonna need to process this one for a minute. ]

... that does sound alike to what we have at home, yes. It's a standard method of warfare where I'm from.

[goei]

Makes sense! I mean, Takasugi was tryin' ta make a whole army of something like that too, though his plans weren't nearly so big. Probably about the same size as Babbage's.

[Izou stop mentioning historical figures you shouldn't know about and saying they had a mecha.]

[vogelfrei]

[ Fascinatingly, there is no specific recognition at those names. ]

I am fascinated to hear that heroic spirits still advance in technology this way, even after death. You live an interesting afterlife, certainly.

[goei]

Oh, nah, Takasugi's just some guy I knew when I was alive.

I dunno if anyone's actually comin up with new stuff though lotsa people like the new technology like video games. I know Lady Suzuka plays 'em a lot with those loud sparkly kings... that Pharaoh and uh... Gilgamesh, I think.

[vogelfrei]

[ ... this is insane. He's going to go insane just imagining this. Gilgamesh... Gilgamesh... a gamer... ]

You make some... interesting acquaintances as a heroic spirit. What year is the most recent one you all have experienced, out of curiosity?

[goei]

[Yeah he's like the worst guy ever.]

Uh... 2021 I think?

[vogelfrei]

Ah, that's too bad... then you wouldn't have met the man I'd been hoping to ask you about.

[ Agnika Kaieru wouldn't even have been born yet if it's this far back in some old calendar... McGillis looks a tiny bit disappointed. ]

[goei]

Probably not, though I think there's a couple people walkin' around who're technically from the future.

[vogelfrei]

Ah well... Maybe it's for the best. I've read enough second-hand accounts about him, adding a verbal one to the mix might have been fun but needlessly confusing.

[ Hearing Agnika Kaieru described by Izou might have just given him an aneurysm. ]

[goei]

I mean if he was friends with an guy as wound up as you I probably wouldn't have had much ta talk to him about anyway.

No offense.
[How could it be no offense.]

[vogelfrei]

He died hundreds of years before I was born, actually. A historical figure I admire.

[ No offense taken, despite the obvious offense. ]

[goei]

Ohhh, got it.

Dunno why people do that. They're old and gone, shouldn't you be tryin' ta surpass them?

[vogelfrei]

The world doesn't only change for the better. There are some ideals that are lost with time and worth getting back to.

[goei]

Well sure, but that doesn't mean ya gotta idolize the people, idiot.

When I think of famous swordsmasters like Musashi and Yagyuu, I'm just thinkin' of how I can make them look like fools in comparison ta me.

[vogelfrei]

[ Oh, that makes him smile wider. He likes that attitude, even if his own won't be changed by it. ]

To be fair, I wouldn't mind becoming a better pilot than Agnika Kaieru.

[ He's not, right now. In fact, he very much crashed Agnika Kaieru's car. ]

But that would not negate the way he inspired me in the first place.

[goei]

[Considers this.]

I guess that's normal. Though when I think about it I dunno if I was inspired by anyone in particular ta pick up the sword. I guess my dad? He was a proper samurai, even if he wasn't that good or nothin'.

But then pretty early on people started callin' me a prodigy so then I just kept goin' cause it was fun and I was good at it.
[As Lady Gaga would say, he lives for the applause.]

[vogelfrei]

A family line of swordsmen, huh?

[ Getting into the business of killing people just because you're being praised for it... Well, that's one way of living your life. ]

You must have started training very young then.