Fandom: Fate/Stay Night, Today's Menu for the Emiya Family
Word Count: 574
Rating: G
Relationship: Archer & Rin Tohsaka
No archive warnings apply. Technically contains spoilers for games released 20+ years ago?
Summary: Rin gets a cat. Archer pretends to be upset about this development.
Author's Note: Look, fate/hollow ataraxia gave me a scene with Archer and a cat and I couldn't NOT write a fic about Rin keeping the cat. Despite being the follow-up to a hollow ataraxia scene, this is more of a today's menu for the emiya family fic in my mind. I doubt the cat comes up again in hollow, but if it does then pretend this is extra canon divergent I guess? I'm only 2/3 thru the game.
Fic under the read more or on AO3.
"Rin," Archer says, striving for evenness.
"Yes?" she asks, fluttering her eyelashes. It probably works on his idiotic younger self but not him.
He crosses his arms. "What is that?"
Rin raises her bubble tea. "This is-"
"In your other hand," he clarifies.
She clutches the black and white kitten closer to her chest. "N-nothing! Don't worry about it!"
He sighs. First there was that one in the woods earlier today, and now this. "Rin, please tell me you didn't steal someone's cat."
"Of course not! Makidera said she, Himuro, and Saegusa found it stuck up a tree all by itself. After, they searched around for its mother or owner and found nothing."
Of course it's the same cat. Somehow, this is Shirou's fault.
As if reading his mind, Rin says, "None of them could take it, and Shirou claimed he was allergic."
Archer snorts. "Shirou's full of shit." Taiga's probably giving the boy grief about the frequent female visitors to the house, and he correctly deduced that Rin would move in permanently if he had a cat.
Rin grins excitedly, and too late Archer realizes his mistake. If he'd backed Shirou's claim he could've had the perfect excuse for why they couldn't take it, but now-
"Good, so it can stay with us! Here!" Rin thrusts the kitten at him.
He has no choice but to take it. The kitten starts purring and rubbing its face all over his hands.
"I should've let that idiot boy break his back rescuing you," he mutters.
"Aww, it likes you!" Rin coos.
The kitten rolls onto its back, staring up at him with big, round, adoring eyes.
"Don't give me that look again," he scolds it.
"Again?" Rin questions. "Have you met this cat - oh."
Archer does not care for the knowing tone of that oh. "Rin-"
"It was you," she says, and laughs gleefully. "It's so obvious, now that I think about it. The girls kept talking about a weird tall man who wouldn't shut up about the inherent flaws in a hero of justice. Also, Shirou kept angrily muttering under his breath about how he could've saved the day too."
"Shirou's genius plan was to let Makidera jump from his back to grab the cat."
Rin looks thoughtful. "I mean, that'd probably work."
"Neither of them discussed where Makidera was going to land."
Rin winces. "Yeah, that could've ended badly." A smile creeps back onto her face. "Archer, did you step in to save Shirou?"
"Of course not," he denies vehemently. He suspects the cuddly kitten in his arms undercuts his words.
Rin's eyes sparkle. "So, you stepped in to save the cat."
He sighs, realizing he can't win this. "I'll handle the feeding." Just the other day, he'd seen a recipe for homemade cat food that was intriguing. "You can handle emptying the litterbox."
"Deal!" Rin says without any negotiation, which means either she really wants the cat or doesn't realize what cats do in litterboxes. Or both. It's probably both.
It's hard to be upset, though, when the kitten is purring a kilometer a minute and Rin looks so happy. She steps closer and gently pets the cat's soft fur. "What are we going to name our baby?"
"Never call it 'our baby' again, and you can name it whatever you like," Archer says. If his tone sounds more fond than exasperated, well, Rin and the kitten won't hold it against him.
1. i live sorry i haven't been keeping up on this. i think i'm gonna ditch the proof of every day progress and only post finished projects bc like. when i'm in the flow i don't want to stop to take a picture and then oops suddenly it's bedtime and i HAVE to stop.
2. i actually finished a bead bracelet sunday i'll try to post tonight or something
and 3.
i started this daily writing challenge for february and. i thought it'd be fun but i'd be bad at it.
NOPE. i've managed three days in a row but i'm not having fun with it at all rip. i think the problem is the word limit and the subject matter and like. that's the whole point of the challenge.
so i kinda want to quit but also. i kinda wanna do it the whole month just to prove i can. bc quantity increases quality right? 28 shitty pots somehow ends up better than 1 quality one except no i think my ficlets are actively getting worse.
and maybe part of the problem is the last two ficlets have been for three person ships with less than 20 and less than 10 fics on ao3 respectively. maybe if i wrote more popular ships i'd get more interaction and that would motivate me to write more? except i doubt even that.
i need hilarity mixed into my porn and with a limit of 250 words it's hard to fit both in. also i'd be writing more words if not for the word limit and that. that kinda sucks. the feeling that for once i have more words in me but nope not needed.
idk i'm slowly muting the whole server it's happening in bc like. so many others can do this in one 15 minute sprint and i need fucking hours and it's pissing me off. and then i feel bad bc i am glad it's easy for them and they're having fun i'm just. not.
Okay, so Day 4 and 5 are going to be one post, because I did a little of cross stitch and writing yesterday and a lot more of both today sooo have a double post of both.
Cross stitch is progressing nicely, I'm really happy that the top right corner is now marked out. Like yes I measured the fabric, but it's always nice to have confirmation you have enough fabric for the top and right edges. It's going to be awhile before I can confirm that for the bottom left, but we'll get there.
As for writing, I have this Percy/Nico fic that's one of those 'elaborate unneeded setup for sex' except I've done that thing where I got invested in the setup and now don't want to write the sex part. Sooo I started writing the morning after which was never part of the plan oops.
Percy is cut off as the phone is plucked from his hand.
"Hey, Grover," Nico says. "Could you maybe stop ruining the morning after and my chances of getting laid again?" He grimaces at whatever Grover says. "Okay, I am sorry about that, but only partially. It's not my fault Percy didn't tell me he had an empathy link with a satyr. Plus, I didn't think my seduction plan would actually work."
He meets Percy's eyes and mouths Sorry like Percy could ever be mad about his plan and how well it worked.
It's a little funny, I don't think I'll ship Percy and Nico in the TV show because the TV show is successfully selling me on the canon ships the books failed to. It's weird, at this point I'm enjoying the TV show more than the books, but I don't have the desire to create for the show like I do the books.
Alright, so yesterday should’ve been Day 3. Unfortunately one of my cats was having issues & I was stressed & needing to monitor him so nothing happened creativity wise.
But today, the new Day 3, I did make a little progress on this project i haven’t touched since early October 2024, according to the file I use for the pattern
What I had:
What I added:
Not many stitches but hey I’m getting back in the habit!
I uh. May have made a mistake. The pattern had this part sticking out and I wanted it flat so i didn't stitch in the back loops as the pattern said but uhhhh it clearly is sticking out anyways. Torn between starting over and just continuing this way.
Day 1, I finished the last of these geode coasters! They're the Make Market brand from Michaels. I've been working on these on and off throughout January and I'm very pleased with how they turned out. If you asked me for my top four favorite colors it would be purple green pink blue so this entire project was very *chef's kiss* for me.
This year I've decided I'm going to be more intentional about tracking and finishing my creative projects, whether it's writing or crafting.
I recently came across the 100 Day Project. I think there's an official one that starts in February, but I'm going to do my own modified version, starting now. For the next 100 days, I want to make some sort of creative progress each day. Maybe it's only a little bit of cross-stitch or a single sentence written. Whatever it is, I'll try to share it here.
Also, I plan to use '#behold: my crafting' for my craft projects, and '#behold: my writing' for my fanfic snippets. That way, if you're only here for one you can easily block the other tag!
To that end, here's a picture of my current craft project taken this morning! I'm close to completing it, so I'll post the finished pic either (later) tonight or tomorrow. Consider this my Day 0 starting point.
