Forgotten Realm

If you walk down the path that you believe is right, you cannot be wrong. There is no rule that an imitation cannot defeat the original. (This is now an independent RP account for Emiya Shirou.)

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[dearlyinfected]

How long had it been since they were together anyway? How long had it been since she took him on as an apprentice too? It had been a while and although there had been a few bumps in the road they always got along quite well. Rin already anticipated the years to come when they went abroad together and such. Shirou would be able to learn more about magic and she would improve as well, they’d be doing this together. She had no doubt that they would always be by one another’s side. Besides, she did promise Archer to make sure that Shirou didn’t end up like him. He said Shirou wouldn’t as long as he had her by his side and she believed that.

“Alright, I’ll think about it tonight and give you an answer tomorrow.” She’d have to check the weather first to make sure it didn’t end up ruining their plans.

Rin took a moment to stare at him, it was a bit obvious that he was happy. Inwardly she smiled as well, Rin was excited for this date too. Even if it was part of an apology for not telling her where he was going to be for so long. Which is why she was going to have as much fun as she could on this trip as well as making sure Shirou had fun too. After all it wouldn’t be any good if she was the only one enjoying herself.

Dinner? Hmm…Well it’s not like she really had anyone else to eat with so she thought she might as well join him.

“Sure, why not? I expect you’ll be cooking something delicious as always Shirou.” She couldn’t help but smile, it had been too long since she had his cooking and much less since she was able to spend some time with him.

[borrowedideal-blog]

[Shirou smiled at her approval and remembered that she liked a lot being treated as the proper lady she was so thought doing something gentlemanly for once and offered one of his arms to her, ready to escort her already. And he obviously also wanted to make a good impression to her.]

Shall we go then?

[And even though she might see through his intentions, he knew that she wouldn't let go of this chance either and still smiled.]

Of course, today will be a western style dish so you see how much I've improved at it!

[And even though he knew she was still a little better than him with western dishes, he always tried to improve on them to surpass her and at least be able to beat her in that single area since she well... pretty much beat him in a lot more, specially on magic ones.]

[king-arthur1101-blog]

I have some confuses here. Illya is Kiritsugu and Irishviel daughter. In Fate zero, Illya is 8 years old when the 4th Holy Grail war starts. 10 years later, the fifth begin => Illya supposes to be 18 years old girl (she is still a kid =.=)

Saber knows Illya is her master’s daughter. She doesn’t recognize illya in Fate/stay night :O

[borrowedideal-blog]

[[About Saber not recognizing Illya, I think she might have done so but didn't say much since she was an enemy to her new master and she was pretty changed so she couldn't do anything about it. And she also mentions later to Shirou about her being Kiritsugu's Servant before but she hid it until much further in the fight so she might've hidden this fact from Shirou as well since it wasn't really useful information for battle tactics and thus wasn't needed for him to know.

And well, Illya's still a child because she's partially a homunculus and it's stated at the starte of Fate/Zero in the novel that she would stop growing up because that was how she was intended for the purpose of being the host to the grail. So yeah she's basically even a bit older than Shirou.]]

[dearlyinfected]

borrowedideal started following you

[dearlyinfected]

She smiled when he replied that he didn’t have any place in mind and that of course it would be her choice. If it wasn’t obvious before it should be obvious now that currently Rin wears the pants in this relationship.

“Good, I’ll let you know where I want to go as soon as I think of it.”

“The weather has been getting nice lately so we might either go out to the beach, aquarium, or an amusement park.” All typical date places considering she couldn’t even remember the last time they had one.

So yes, Rin was planning on using up almost all of the money that he earned from being stupidly helpful but she had forgiven him already. She just didn’t say so and allowed Shirou to think what he did. If anything she would probably buy a few things for him…without really saying they were for him at first because she’d like it to be a slight surprise but well that’s topic for a different day.

“…well of course I wouldn’t pull you away just like that since you want to help them out. I’m not that mean…am I?” Her tone softening a bit, she was trying to be a bit…nicer seeing as how it’s been so long since they were together.

[borrowedideal-blog]

[It was incredible how these two managed to work these things out. And still, the fact that he promised to go with her once she went abroad was something that he had always in his mind so it was more reason for him to help as much as he could for the time being. Once he was gone from this country, even if only for some years, he would be completely at her mercy and having her as a teacher would prove to be both enjoyable and quite tiresome since their relationship wouldn't make her go easier on him once there.]

Yeah, any of those places sound really good so once you decide where you want to go do let me know.

[He'd be lying if he said that he didn't look forward to spending more time with her already but since this was something he suggested as an apology, he had to make sure that Rin was the one who enjoyed it the most, and of course he would have to take his savings along because this trip would be perhaps the most expensive one he'd have to pay ever.]

And well, for now I was already going home since today I got out early from work so would you like to join me for dinner? 

[Even though it was a bit late, it was still early enough for him to prepare some dinner and since there wasn't any war going on, he could always escort her back to her house after that since the city had been peaceful lately.]

[live-and-die-a-hero-deactivated]

“Jeez, Learn to take a joke Shirou. Lighten up a bit.” However, even he knew he crossed the line there. It wasn’t like he wouldn’t cross it again later, but he would at least try to make amends now. Would make a good start for when he needed to make amends later, and considering how many times he nearly killed the boy before, it was probably a good idea to get started.

“Listen, despite me being here, this isn’t another Grail War. There would be more servants by now. The fact that there is only another Lancer about means that we’re a special case. Something else is going on, but, at least for the moment, you’re not directly involved in it. Neither is Rin, or anyone else. If that changes, you’ll be the first one to know. The benefit of not being enemies with me for once, eh? Everything is fine.” He patted the red-head on the back with a surprising amount of a force, smiling a bit. “So pull that stick out of your ass and enjoy yourself a bit. You better take care of Rin too! I’m not gonna let you make my death any less valuable!”

[borrowedideal-blog]

[That explanation was indeed something that managed to ease his worries this time. If there wasn't going to be another war, at least it meant that people should be safe, for most of it anyway. Whatever the reason for there to be servants appearing there, it would need to be investigated further but just like the man said,  it would be better to keep him as a friend and well, even if their first meeting wasn't what one would call a good memory, he did a lot for them later so he still felt somewhat indebted to him and surrendered with a sigh.]

I do hope it's nothing like a war in that case and I also hope you're right on none of us being involved if there's anything going on... but still your jokes are not funny.

[Although he had decided to give it a try at being friends with this man, he still felt this friendship would be a rough one hearing how crude his humor was.]

[thessaliah]

Upon replaying this route, now I realize why I love this route so much. It isn’t the sudden complexity and layers on characters (heck, Gilgamesh got more subtle characterization in his few scenes here than in most of his appearances in Fate and UBW), or the actual compelling plot, but the focus of the relationships. Yes, romance played a great part (more than UBW, but wasn’t the whole point of the story like Fate), but it touched family relationships (my favorite). The emphasis on the siblings bonds between Shirou and Illya, plus Rin and Sakura was a treat. 

Family play a part as important as romance or ideals. 

[thessaliah]

“It is only natural for your body to heal.

…I finally understand. You were my sheath, Shirou…”

- Saber

Collection of favorite romantic moments in the Visual Novel. For the Fate route.

[thessaliah]

“It’s just that you were unsuccessful. You haven’t made a mistake. If you haven’t made a mistake, you can be proud of yourself even if you were unsuccessful.

…Yeah. To be honest, you’ve always shined. …I won’t regret my actions either. I believe what I’ve done is right, but it’s full of stitches.”

- Emiya Shirou 

Collection of favorite romantic moments in the Visual Novel. For the Unlimited Blade Works route.

[dearlyinfected]

borrowedideal started following you

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She sighed. Rin knew that he’d probably keep that overly helpful personality trait for most if not all of his life. It was going to get him into trouble, it’s already gotten him into trouble. He would end up hurting himself somehow like that and well, yeah she was worried about him.

“It better be soon or else I’m forcing you to leave it early.” She knew that he knew that she was being serious about that. Rin was still currently stronger than him after all.

Her ears perked up and her expression slowly changed when she heard him saying about how they should go somewhere and it would be his treat. Now that she thought about it, with all the time he was gone and supposedly working…that meant that he should have plenty of money to spare.

“Of course it’s your treat, and of course I get to choose where don’t I?” The tone in her voice held no room for argument so yeah, it was her choice. “Unless you have a good place in mind?”

Either way she was going to make sure she used up most of the money he earned as repayment for not telling her where he was this whole entire time. Though she would leave him some of the money to do what he wanted with it, she wasn’t completely mean to him after all.

[borrowedideal-blog]

[The tone in her voice suggested the worst outcome. He could already feel frightened of how much would she spend on the weekend but it was the least he could do to apologize.]

O-Of course.

But no I don't have any place in mind so we'll just do what you want.

[And even though he'd like to call it a date, given the circumstances until he could properly apologize it would mean that he would do whatever she wanted and he'd end up being more like her servant than anything else so for now he thought it was the best to do that.]

And it would be a problem if you made me quit when they were in problem but lucky enough that's already settling down so I can feel a bit at ease even if you were to do that.

[live-and-die-a-hero-deactivated]

“BECAUSE WHEN YOU’RE NOT AROUND, I GOTTA TAKE CARE OF HER SO SHE DOESN’T DO ANYTHING STUPID, YOU IGNORANT LITTLE JACKASS, SO DON’T YOU GO GET UPPITY WITH ME! EMIYA ISN’T HERE TO LOOK OUT FOR HER, AND, AS FAR AS I KNOW, THE ONLY OTHER SERVANT AROUND THE AREA IS THAT OTHER LANCER, SO IT’S NOT LIKE SHE HAS MUCH TO OCCUPY HER TIME! BESIDES, CONSIDERING I PRETTY MUCH DIED FOR BOTH OF YOUR THANKLESS ASSES, I FIGURE I MIGHT AS WELL ENJOY YOUR COMPANY!!”

In a short view of it all, it really did seem like the Lancer was rather lonely. Sure, he flirted with any female who came by, but that didn’t really mean he had friends, now did it? He saved both of them before (though he did seriously regret doing so afterward) with little thought to the consequences. He said it was for revenge or to get back at Kotomine, but that was only so believable…

“Besides, with you busy, I might as well take my chances. Rin’s pretty cute you know.”

[borrowedideal-blog]

[Yet again, Shirou knew how the man was right and it annoyed him the most.]

I never said I wasn't thankful for that time but that's that and I don't think she would like anyone saying that she needs to be looked after. If she heard you, you'd be in for a lot of trouble.

[She wasn't that prideful for nothing and he knew that better than anyone but had somehow managed to learn how to handle it already. But still Shirou was having a hard time accepting the idea of Lancer being back in the place but just like the man said, if they were stuck with each other, they might as well get along.]

“Besides, with you busy, I might as well take my chances. Rin’s pretty cute you know.”

[Well, now he remembered why he felt so defensive when it came to Rin when being around Lancer, even as a joke, he sure knew how to annoy him.]

YOU-!!! I Knew it, your being here is not something good after all!

[elesia]

[live-and-die-a-hero-deactivated]

“Eh. Why should I? Got more important things to worry about. Now that I don’t have that rat bastard, Kotomine, breathing down the back of my neck, I’m a free man and I plan to make use of it.” Of course, his shit luck would most likely come back to bite him in the ass, as it inevitably always did, but he was going to enjoy what time he had in this world to the fullest. He was doing a damn good job of it already too. “Anyway, enough about me, the hell were you? Leaving Tohsaka alone like that! I had to take ‘er fishing with me just to occupy her time!”

[borrowedideal-blog]

[As expected of the carefree man, Shirou couldn't help but sigh at his reaction since he couldn't really feel mad at him because there was no real reason for it right now.]

Ugh... you're the last person I would want telling me about that.

[Even if their relationship wasn't bad, Shirou still couldn't stand some of his jokes. He respected him, that was a given but still his personality sometimes was too much since the man was always blunt and didn't hold back when touching sore spots.]

I've been quite busy with work lately so I know I should do something to apologize since I've been going home only to sleep. Though WHY DO I NEED TO EXPLAIN THIS TO YOU?!

[Shirou didn't know why he would need to explain himself even if he had already done so, at least partially but perhaps the fact that the man was right was what annoyed him the most.]

[dearlyinfected]

borrowedideal started following you

[dearlyinfected]

After yelling at him so much she took a few moments to calm herself down by taking a few deep breaths. They had been apart for so long, seriously just what was their relationship supposed to be if he didn’t even leave a simple note telling her where he was…she was worried about an idiot like him.

“That personality of yours never changes…” She said more to herself than him. It was because of that personality of his that he got into most of the trouble he went through.

“You could have at least told me…” Rin said softly, not looking at him.

[borrowedideal-blog]

[Of course it would be hard to change his lifestyle so soon. It was something that had quite deep roots so to change that about him it would take some time but she indeed have a point and Shirou felt guilty for not doing at least that much to let her know and when she softened her tone, it was even more so.]

Right, I'm sorry. I know just an apology won't do much but I think that they're finally going to be out of problem so I'll get back to the usual.

[And though he wasn't really helping because of the money, at least they were paying him extra and he had been saving some of that money as well so he felt he should at least do something with it to apologize.]

So I was thinking if you'd like to go out someplace this weekend to make up for it? It would be my treat of course!

[And he was glad that he had more than enough money because he knew that since it was for an apology, she wouldn't let the chance slip by and ask for a lot of stuff in return. And of course he'd be the one carrying it back home.]

[live-and-die-a-hero-deactivated]

“Doing alive? Well…”“Your guess is as good as mine. I kind of just decided to not really give a damn. Though, since I’ve heard there’s another Lancer around, it might that there’s a new Grail War stewing. I’m not sure though, so don’t piss yourself over it.” He gave the bewildered brunette a shrug, a simple summary as to why he was alive now; he had no idea. None. “Funny how Tohsaka took the news so much better than you are.”

[borrowedideal-blog]

[So it seemed that none of them had a clue. Well, if he was alive and there seemed to be even more than one Lancer, it sounded extremely weird. He wasn't a very good mage like Tohsaka so his knowledge on the war was very limited but the fact that there was more than one Lancer was weird even for him.]

Well, Sorry I'm not as composed as her but I thought things were already over and now this? 

I'm even more impressed by the fact that you don't even seem to care about it.

[He didn't like the idea at all. Specially since it meant that there would be more innocent people involved and that tainted grail was not something he would like to have around either]

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borrowedideal started following you

“Been a while, Shirou. Or do I call ya Archer? Emiya? You go by so many names it’s hard to tell sometimes.” Flirt with the women, taunt and tease with the men, especially this particular…friend he had made over the course of the previous grail war.

[borrowedideal-blog]

[That voice was not a really unpleasant one yet it was one he did not expect to hear again.]

Lancer?! What are you--?

[The surprise was enough to ignore the taunt that was thrown at him. Were he aware of Lancer before, he would've been actually annoyed at him calling him that.]

[dearlyinfected]

borrowedideal started following you

[dearlyinfected]

She tried to contain her anger. She really did but Shirou always knew how to flip on her anger switch somehow.

“What do you mean you forgot to tell me!? Do you know how wor-I wondered where you were and if you got hurt or got caught in a trap or whatever else could possibly happen to you! I should have known this was the case! You’re such an idiot!” Her temper flared and she couldn’t stop the words from leaving her mouth. But Rin was a bit worried as to where he had been the whole time, she was glad to see him again. Not that she would tell him that right now though. For now, it’s getting mad at him time.

[borrowedideal-blog]

[Shirou knew he couldn't possibly avoid being scolded with that intensity right now but it was mostly his fault since he could at least leave a note or something and yet he did nothing about it and just kept on.]

W-Well I'm sorry but I can't stop helping when they're so short on people that I need to do a lot of overtime to compensate that.

[And even if his intentions were to help others, he forgot the simple fact that there was someone that would worry about him.]

[dearlyinfected]

borrowed-ideal started following you

She crossed her arms, a slight glare in her eyes as she spotted him. 

“Where have you been Shirou? You didn’t even say anything you just went off and disappeared.” Rin didn’t even really remember what happened when she first got to wherever they were. But she would just blame it on him by saying he disappeared on her leaving her to her own devices.

[borrowedideal-blog]

[Shirou stopped on his tracks as the familiar voice. It's true he was been quite busy with work but the fact that he could also had tried to at least explain it before just keeping on that rhythm of life would have helped not to make her worry but things had been so busy lately that it was easier for him to just keep this pace.]

Ah well, I'm sorry but work lately has been quite hectic and I um... kinda forgot to tell?

[bunny-leech-blog]

[kntking]

If you have time to rest, then you have time for another match Shirou.

[borrowedideal-blog]

"Couldn't you go easier on me for once, Saber?" 'I won't even be able to make dinner like this' he wanted to say but didn't want it to make it sound like an excuse or a whine.