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Suzaku Kururugi ([personal profile] swordofzero) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2019-05-10 08:42 pm

Operation distract Iskander

Who: Saber, Iskander, Suzaku, Edge and Waver
Where: Saber's temple and then somewhere on the Near Shore
What: Dinner at Saber's temple followed by Saber taking Iskander out drinking. (We do apologise)
When: May 20th
Warnings: Mentions of alcohol. I will add as we go on if applicable.

Dinner for Five

Suzaku had been in the kitchen for the last hour or so. He had been quite confident when Saber had mentioned friends coming over that he would be able to cook something. His cooking had been steadily improving and ever he could admit that his food tasted alright most of the time.

A couple of notable exceptions but there hadn't been any major disasters in at least a month. He hadn't seen how adding two more people would make a difference.

To be fair it wasn't a disaster. Yet. But there had been more things than Suzaku had thought to keep track of and he had no idea how he could look at a machine and understand how everything fit and connected together and yet a meal was so complicated it might as well be magic.

It does mean that when guests arrived it will be someone other than Suzaku who opens the door.

Drinking time

[After the meal Iskander and Saber go drinking. Try not to cause any diplomatic incidents.]

Waiting up...

[Leaving the shinki to do their best not to fret about their gods and the trouble they might get into.]
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[personal profile] towards_okeanos 2019-07-04 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Iskandar nods. He wishes he had a different experience with his own family but the truth is he didn't.]

Has there ever been a royal family at peace with itself? I cannot recall any that was. Mine certainly wasn't.

[It's the same story with the second part of Saber's story. Just a lot of bad luck.]

Shipwrecked, huh? Tough situation to find oneself in.

[Still marginally better than in antiquity. There would be no ransom if Saber got shipwrecked in Iskandar's times. He'd just be sold into slavery and probably never heard of again.]
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[personal profile] fauxcalibur 2019-07-08 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Probably not the toughest I found myself in! But then I have quite a talent for surviving incredibly dangerous situations only to fail in ones that most people would manage quite easily.

[And that hasn't changed, either. Just ask his shinki.]

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[personal profile] towards_okeanos 2019-07-08 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! Not the toughest you say? You surprise me, Lionheart!

[Enjoy being smacked right in the spine by King of Conquerors. Ouch.]

Then you must have quite the stories to tell if getting shipwrecked, held captive by enemies with your brother refusing to pay ransom for your freedom is not the toughest of predicaments you got yourself into!

[Wouldn't be a Heroic Spirit if both of you didn't have some heroic stupid in you. That's a fact. Just ask Waver. He'll confirm.]
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[personal profile] fauxcalibur 2019-07-13 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thank god for a Servant's durability. Otherwise he might not have a spine left...]

I wouldn't want to sound like I'm bragging. A wiser man probably wouldn't have left home in the first place.

[For all that he talks about himself, he's always strangely humble about it. Almost as if he doesn't want people to think well of him.]
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[personal profile] towards_okeanos 2019-07-14 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
A wiser man? Hm? Or a coward?

[Iskandar shakes his head slowly. Nothing can't be further from the truth Saber.]

To have stayed at home, to wither on both mind and body with the passing years and die in your own bed out of nothing else than old age? With nothing to your name other than "he lived long"?

No, Lionheart. This may be wiser for the common man. But not for a king. Never for a king.
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[personal profile] fauxcalibur 2019-07-19 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[He laughs a little at that. It's a real laugh this time, but still a little humorless, no matter how much he tries to mask it.]

Well, staying home wouldn't have meant staying out of trouble! I didn't die until I'd returned from the Crusades, after all.

[Which is a miracle in and of itself.]

And one, I think, would expect a king to spend at least a little time ruling his kingdom.
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[personal profile] towards_okeanos 2019-07-20 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I get it, I get. I never managed to even go home! So you beat on this one.

[He might be playing this for laughs but there's one thing he's not saying. That he would probably never say. That he lost the will to go home. In truth, he lost the will to do anything at all. Somewhere that would be Ecbatana he lost everything he ever cared for. For what was left of his short life nothing was able to replace that loss. Becoming a Heroic Spirit helped though. Mainly by negating that loss.]

One would expect that avenging my father and conquering the Persian empire would be enough for me. But it wasn't.

[Also ruling is boring. He hates it. He would prefer to have people do this for him instead so he can go and conquer some more until there's nothing to conquer anymore.]