#serenesouled

[exequiias]

"I want. Your hat." - from Felicity!

"It's not a hat, it's a mask and helmet, but most importantly-- n o ."

[exequiias]

@serenesouled​ (Felicity) / SEMI-CONTINUED FROM (x)

Rudbornn suspends his Resurrección for the time being, and after returning to ground level, he says, “For your sake, I shall forget your threats of ‘tree-killing-juice’,” whatever that was supposed to be, Rudbornn didn’t care to find out,  “and ask you to state your purpose in Las Noches, masked-one. I wish to know how you got in here, as well.”

[weiidafeng]

"Old man yells at clouds." - lovingly from Autumn~

           "Yelling ain't really my thing, too loud, too obnoxious. With me it's more like, grumbling at clouds." Replies Tong, dryly, with a lazy shrug of the shoulders being given. "Also I ain't that old; physically, we're the same age you and I, give or take a year or two." Physically anyway, not so much when it came to Tong's soul, but did Autumn have to know about that stuff? Not all, Tong thought. "So with that in mind, if I'm old as dirt, that means you are too-- I'd prefer you not start 'yelling at clouds' though, not around me anyway, it'll ruin my naps." //@serenesouled

[weiidafeng]

"Hey dad, might have lost something kinda, just a little, might be very small form of incriminating to the church...Might be a problem, haha." - from Autumn

           "Would be your luck to go lose somethin' like that." Tong lets out a sigh, and with his back turned to Autumn, he makes a calm though disapproving shake of the head, with a tone of voice to match as he continued. "I don't know who's worse with this crap sometimes, you or Jia." Jia was definitely worse, far worse, with their drunken escapades and attempts at bedding a certain two Church officials, no doubt about it, but mishaps like Autumn's, even if they didn't happen too often, weren't great for the cause she, Tong, and Jia were working toward. "It's a wonder we all haven't been found out yet and hauled off to the dungeons, or strung up like those lord's the Church put down a few months ago."

           Anyone could tell that Tong definitely wasn't pleased right now, you could even say he was a tinge annoyed, but despite that, he turns around to face Autumn and looks at her from behind his mask, and in that second, his demeanor softens somewhat in a way that she was likely used to by now. "Don't go freakin' out or anything though, you know I'll help you clean this mess up, just like all the other times with you or Jia." Tong gives a casual shrug, "I wouldn't be a very good not-father if I didn't, would I?"

           Tong gives Autumn a gentle, well-meaning bonk on the head with his staff, and then adds, "Now tell me more about this thing you lost; the sooner we find it again, the better..."

// @serenesouled (autumn)

[getsuruito]

“Are you sure your name isn’t Clover?” Tanba leans in closely to Autumn, casting a look of slight disbelief her way, “Because I swear I met someone who looked just like you, named Clover, once, a long time ago.” Tanba was definitely mistaking Autumn for someone else right now, but the resemblance was so striking to him, and so he drones on one more time, “Maybe a sister of yours, at least...? No...?” // @serenesouled​​ (autumn!)

[getsuruito]

♥, ϟ, ⚔! Go, GO!

MONSTROUS HEADACANONS! (selectively accepting)

♥ - STAKED - a jarring event, something that changed their life/outlook

Tanba's had a handful of situations like this, but the most glaring one would have to be Nobunaga's invasion of Iga, or the Tensho Iga War. I've talked about Tanba and Nobunaga's invasion a lot on this blog I think, but for reminders, by the end of the invasion, Iga province was completely razed and it's people slaughtered-- the land that Tanba saw as his own, the people he saw as his subjects, all gone. To make matters worse, Tanba's friends and family were among those slaughtered, too, and then after all of it was said and done, he too, met his end in a rather jarring manner.

All in all, the Tensho Iga War was a horrendous affair, and when Tanba was later summoned as a servant, it was a series of events that stuck with him and definitely changed his outlook on life, though not in a positive way-- Tanba had been overly ambitious and hubristic in life, and in light of what happened in the Tensho Iga War, he ended up doubling down on those facets as a servant. Perhaps Tanba's intensifying/leaning into those toxic facets is his way of coping with what happened, his way of trying not to think about/blame himself for all the death and destruction he likely wrought on himself and his people, but change he did-- he went from wanting to just rule all of Japan with his shinobi brethren to, 'no you know what my problem was, I wasn't thinking BIG ENOUGH, I need to rule THE WORLD, yeah, that's it, that's my destiny'.

ϟ - LIGHTNING - something they thought they’d left in the past, returned

Not necessarily something they 'left' in the past but something, or rather, someone, he wasn't expecting to see so soon was Nobunaga, in Chaldea (cue Tanba's FGO verses). One of Tanba's goals was to eventually use the grails to create his ideal world and then set up a rematch with Nobunaga, so he was intending on seeing them at some point, but when they ended up being summoned as a servant it was... troubling for Tanba, to say the least. If the world/humanity wasn't under all the constant threats that kept being flung their way, Tanba would've probably tried squaring up with Nobunaga again and getting his revenge over with, but now he more or less has to suffer their existence for the greater good/the grand scheme of things and wait on that particular goal until the time is right.

⚔ - DUEL - a meeting or relationship that was important to them

The whole collective situation of him bringing together his band of elite fighters and adopted family, the Momochi Eight! Tanba may not have always expressed the warmest feelings to all of them while they were alive, but bringing them all together and leading them was very dear to him, and his relationships with all of them were something special. The same thing goes for Tanba's dynamic with Hanzo Hattori and Saizo Kirigakure, his cherished students that he saw as literal sons to him (even if they may not have seen things exactly that way themselves).

Then of course there's the relationship that Tanba cultivated with Sylvia (or I guess officially the relationship he's still building with her through our main story threads but also like we've talked about them so much and done so many things on the side that we already know how gr8 they are SDHJKGFSDHJGFSDGHJFSDGHJ), which has helped Tanba sort of grow out of his weird emotional shell and really added a bit of color to his life that he didn't know was missing before!!!

[exequiias]

@serenesouled​ liked for a small starter! (for Autumn!)

"I am astounded by how many spiritually aware people dwell in this city, it is no wonder Lord Aizen sought to use it in his plans." mumbled Rudbornn to himself,  referring to, at least with the former part of his sentence, Autumn, who moments ago was almost the victim of a Hollow attack, and beyond that, who could also clearly see him right now.

"There is no reason for you to shelter behind that tree any longer, miss, you may come out now-- the Hollow has been sent away, and I promise to do you no harm."

[neverxalone]

“It just makes things sadder without music, y’know what I mean?” - from Autumn~

Puppet History Starters

@serenesouled

"Maybe." Nozomi responded with an indifferent tone and accompanying shrug. "I like things when they're quiet from time to time." She had her hands stuffed in the pockets of her khaki jacket. Ironically, she had one earphone sitting in her ears, playing driving and melancholic tunes.

She closed her eyes, the thrum of her song distracting her from the words she felt she was about to utter and, at some point, the conversation as a whole. "You know," Nozomi finally started after an awkward hum that served to grope for the words that struggled to be found while her eyes met those of the bespectacled girl's. "I take it back. It does sound even more miserable not having any music."