I totally get thatāand I forget how nice it is to just hold someone else?Ā I mean, the good thing is, we can do all of those things.Ā You can come in and be awesomeābut you can also justā¦ enjoy this?
Aw, senpai...
[Compliment, unorthodox as it is, successful!Ā She wants to be nicely textured!]
Iām glad we can do this. Iāve been so on edge lately, so this is really, really nice... this might sound cheesy, but I feel like this is all the motivation I need to keep going!
I-I mean, of course Iām motivated to save the world and all... since this is the world that lets me do this with my senpai.
-Thatās pretty gay, Mash.Ā As sort of cool as sheās trying to be right now, being cuddled?Ā Complimented?Ā Genuinely being perceived as cool?Ā Instead of just backasswarding into it through being goofy?-
-She squeezes Mash a little closer, her heart beating a little faster, cold skin gaining a flush of warmth.-
ā¦ I donāt think you would at all, though.Ā IāmāIām just a little gangly, but I think youād look really cool, like, swooping in, saving me, your shield upā¦
Iām stocky and squishy! But thinking about being super cool, coming in shield blazing, being like donāt worry senpai, Iāll protect you...
[She rocks around in Memekoās arms, delighting in the warmth she can feel coming from her. This is nice--her heart is pounding against her chest, and Mash wonders if Memeko can hear it.]
But sometimes... I forget how nice it is just to get held... and I get all soft...
-God.Ā And that is all she wants.Ā Goddamn.Ā She loves this Mash.Ā Adores her.Ā That laugh.Ā Being able to hoist her as if littol puppy.Ā She gets stupid dokis in her heart at the mere moment.Ā Her spirit is r/ambien guy posting about his wife.-
-Eventually she rights Mash so the cuteness of the moment isnāt ruined by all the blood rushing to her head.-
Iām sure you couldā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦.. I look weird enough already, so fear not.
Haha, no, no, what I mean is... well...
[Mash might be nuzzling a little now. Sheās got her arms around Memekoās neck, holding on tight.]
You look so cool just being you, and if little old me tried picking you up and sweeping you off your feet... Iād make you look silly.
As your kouhai, I have to make sure everyone knows how cool you are!
-MEMEKO BASKS IN ULTIMATE POWER. THE POWER TO TRANSCEND BY MAKING MASH ASCEND.-
Iām not tall as my dad or padre but I can still do this!!!
-She dips Mash down.Ā Isnāt she strong.Ā Mash is naturally more jacked than Memeko, make no mistake.Ā This is hax via stone mask.Ā Shh.-
Uweh-weh-weh~! Iām like a princess~!
[She makes a show of being dipped by lifting her leg high, holding her blushing face in both hands.]
Okay, okay, I think Iām fine like this! If I was too tall, gosh... Iād miss out big time! I might be able to dip you, too, but it might look weird...
-Her family is full of fucking huge dudes.Ā Thereās so many huge dude Servants and Swords. Please, god, let Memeko be The Tall One.Ā Just a little.Ā Just sometimes.-
Itād be harder if you were Long Mash and you had long leggy everywhereā¦ harder to do THIS.
-Sheās dead lifting Mash RIGHT THE FUCK UP.-
I guess itās just curiosity, mostly... since I--
Uwah-wah-wah~!
[Okay, she canāt deny the appeal of being Mash-Sized now that sheās lifted up and off her feet. She swoons!]
[Mash bounces from one foot to the other as she leans against a stone wall. Sheās finished up her reps for the day, done her cooldown stretches, and washed up her face. Unless something comes up, sheās free for the rest of the day. Sheād go inside, but the fewer accidental encounters she has with that Saint Bernard-sized... cat? The better.]
[She sinks to a crouch. Thereās a stick near her foot--though she hesitates for a moment, just based on how childish it might seem, Mash reaches for the stick and pokes it into the dirt. She draws a line, and then another, and soon enough, sheās drawn herself a Fou.]
Hmm... pretty good...
[Itās a little crude-looking, but it has a very fluffy feel to it. Sheās not much of an artist, but she doesnāt mind that--drawing is fun!]
But that Fou-san might get kind of lonely...
[Drawing around the Fou, Mash lines out a simple bust of herself; sheās made it so that her drawn Fou is standing on Drawn Mashās shoulder. She hasnāt given her self portrait a face just yet, because she just realized something else. Even if sheās with Fou, it might still be lonely.]
Iāll draw... senpai!
[Leaving her drawn self without a face, Mash goes about drawing Memeko, having her stand shoulder-to-shoulder with her. Mash decides to use multiple lines to really bring out Memekoās dark hair, giving her the cool half-lidded circle eyes that a Cool Senpai would have under her glasses. She also draws cute fangs in her smile.]
[Mash doesnāt stop there. Sheās hit a groove now, and before she knows it, sheās drawn pictures of Dr. Roman and da Vinci alongside Drawn Memeko, Mash, and Fou. Romanās got cute circle eyes, and da Vinci has the cool half-lidded circles like Memeko.]
[Just as Mash puts the last line in da Vinciās portrait, something else hits Mash. She still hasnāt drawn her own face in.]
...
[Her hand hovers over the drawing of herself, the stick just barely above the blank space. For some reason, Mash doesnāt know what to put here. Sheās surrounded by people she loves and holds dear, so she should draw herself smiling, right?]
[... but at the same time... thereās plenty of people that arenāt here.]
[There isnāt enough space to draw every single person she cares about--thatās not the issue. Itās the people that sheās lost, the ones that she hasnāt seen in so long... why didnāt she draw them, too?]
[If sheās surrounding herself with people from Chaldea, she should probably draw Olga Marie. Thereās that Servant, Nemesis, that manifested recently, the one with her face... Mash canāt give the excuse that she canāt remember Olga Marieās face, because not only would it be a lie, it would be nonsense. What do you mean you canāt remember her face, sheās right there?Ā And part of her wantsĀ Olga Marie in this picture, but... she canāt.]
[The same goes for Team A, still frozen in coffins back home. She has even less of an excuse there, because even though they were only together for a short time, Mash dedicated them to her memory all the same. It felt right.]
[Mash wonders how they would react, seeing the weird Demi-Servant drawing pictures of them in the dirt. Pepe would like it, she thinks--they were always so nice to her, she canāt imagine them being mean about Mashās lack of art skill. Ophelia might look at it funny, but she wouldnāt be mean, either.Ā Kadoc might like it, if he didnāt find anything wrong with it. Those three she has a fair idea about... the others, though...]
[Kirschtaria and Daybit are... hard for Mash to read. She doubts that either of them see her as anything but a tool. If they saw that she drew a picture of them alongside her, at best, they would be bemused... and at worst... she doesnāt want to think about it.]
[Akuta wouldnāt give her the time of day. Maybe she would look at it later... but Mash doesnāt know how she would think of it, if she thought anything about it.]
[And Beryl, well...]
[No, absolutely not. Her hands hurt just thinking about that.]
[... there is oneĀ other person she wants to draw, but...]
[If she thinks about him for too long...]
[Some things are better kept for a private canvas.]
Thanks, IāI mean, Iāll rally.Ā Itāll be fine.
-Finally, she does pull her a little closer and holding Mash closerāthen much harder, as if to rally and give the support that she feels like a Master actually should.Ā But at least, her bed head hair is pretty soft to petāand it does wonders to actually comfort her.-
Youāreā¦ youāre right.Ā Ā
I hate that itāit got to me.
I really kind of feel powerless, in this singularityā¦Ā Iām used to being the cavalry, and Iā¦Ā I feel like I was such a weak point that I was the one attacked for it just now.
I donāt want King Gilgamesh to know what happened tonightā¦ It might effect how he handles usā¦ Orā¦ or something.
Take your time, senpai. Iām not going anywhere in the meantime--Iām right here.
[Mash feels her heart swell as Memeko holds tighter; smiling softly, she presses her face into the nape of Memekoās neck, petting her all the while.]
Youāre not the weak link, Master. Youāre the one that keeps us all together--that fake king knows that, and heās so desperate to regain the upper hand, heāll pull cowardly stunts like attacking you where you donāt have backup.
He must really be desperate--weāre this much closer to confronting him, and heās scared.
... I know that doesnāt justifiy what he did. But...
J-Just, why now?Ā Iā¦Ā I mean, why notā¦ why not right now, the fake King of Magic, justā¦
-For once, sheās the one sort of melting into a hug, her arms coming weakly around Mash to try to return it.-Ā Ā
It wasnāt as bad, I justā¦ I, I donāt want to say I was scared, butā¦Ā
Itās okay not to be fine, senpai--itās just me here, and I wonāt judge you for feeling what you feel. I would never.
[It breaks her heart, hearing Memeko try and reassure her. When she weakly returns the hug, Mash dedicates herself to hold her even tighter, one hand moving up to pet at her hair.]
I hate that I canāt be there with my shield in your dreams. That he can just doĀ this, it makes me so angry... and scared.
So if Iām scared... you can be scared too, okay? Weāre together now--Iāve got you. Youāre safe with me.
-Sheās trying to keep it together, to form something sort of coherent, but itās absolutely failing her right now.-
It was reallyā¦Ā It was much worse than that.Ā IāI had anotherālike that one time, even if it was shorter, andāmy dream wasāhe showed upā
That one time, with...
...!!
[Mash comes to sit by Memekoās side, quick to grasp at her shoulders. This may be pretty willful behavior for a kouhai, but this is no time to be worried about that; Mash pulls Memeko into a tight hug, arms firm around her.]
[Her own eyes are getting misty, but Mash keeps her tone soft and even.]
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