#Lostbelt Nathan

[nathanrelnor]

Trying the Wise King's patience

Continued from this @sagekinq ---

He nearly jumped out of his own skin when he heard the tapping of Gilgamesh's axe against the ground. His stance quickly became rigid as he rushed to obey the command, meeting the Wise King's stare with his own. "Y-Yes! Yes your majesty! I'll do my best!" Fresh determination flowed through him. Gilgamesh was a harsh task master that didn't accept failure but that was exactly why he'd gone to the wayward caster for help. He wasn't going to get anywhere if his Servants were just going to keep treating him like a toddler after all. He readied the magecraft again, attempting to reinforce the wooden sword that had been supplied to him. It was the simplest of simplest spells that any mage worth their salt could cast without a second thought but Nathan was very far from a proper mage and throttling his od was something he had simply never had to do until very recently. During the Singularities he had mystic codes to do the heavy lifting of casting spells for him but as things were he needed a backup plan just in case he didn't have access to them. Honestly though. How foolish could he be? He'd promised to be less of a burden on his Servants despite barely being of age and he'd decided the best way to fulfil that promise was to go to Wise King Gilgamesh for help. Well. He was going to become a better Master or die trying at this rate.

[ziracona]

Oh BTW what are some things, if any from history/mythology that you wish FGO included?

I would like more diversity in general, but also they make a lot of religious figures and gods heroic spirits for other religions, but the closest they’ve done for Buddhism was Sanzang and I want equality there. Too late for Normal Armor for All means it’s time for Skimpy Armor for All equality is equality. We haven’t had much Norse either despite a whole Lostbelt, but we have had so many gods and suped up spirits tbh I am unsure if I want that, like, the most compelling recent addition was Antonio Salieri. Maybe it’s time to focus on the way personal belief in a spirit affects them instead of 8 divine spirit combo characters. I’d like to see a lot more about characters with Innocent Monster too, and ones who are fictional have had very little story outside of Kojiro’s aside in UBW about how much that fucks you up, and I’d love to hear more. I’d like to see a lot of relationships develop too. I’d like to see Nightingale and Dantes more, see Emiya, Ishtar, and Cú on a team, see Alter Emiya stuck with Ishtar somewhere, see more of Outlaw Squad, see Karna and Arjuna given an arc that’s not the same one as always, see Medea taken seriously like in UBW instead of a joke, see David given ANY screen time to deal with Romani like wtf why didn’t he get major billing in arc one??? See David and Sheba interact, see more of Antonio and Amadeus, Fran and Moriarty. Love to hear more about Hessian Lobo like he was easily one of the coolest characters??? Literally never getting over how this random beheaded hessian soldier’s ghost was tied in death by an outside force to the legend of a wolf who hated humans for killing his mate, and they were trapped together as a phantom spirit and had no reason to be anything but bitter and angry, but when you’re beating the wolf to a pulp the headless corpse of a man scrambles off it and tries without a face or a voice to beg you to leave it alone and not finish it off. How an adopted stray left it’s owner to find him and curl up with him while he bled out. Like holy shit. Uhhhh, I like the kind of emotional ones too: Voyager, Van Gogh. The concept alone there is sweet. I’d like to see them do a non-human well again like. I love Danzo and I love robots but they literally can’t write inhuman characters without making them robots wtf is going on. Stop making Greek gods robots. They’re gods. You used to be able to write Fran and Nursery and shit what the hell happened to the character creation team. Or like. Actually give us a literal robot if you want to do robot humanity narrative so bad but I’m begging you to stop making all the Valkyries and Artemis just AIs like literally begging. Gods are inhuman but you write them different and it’s so fun and not actually hard like just do the assigned work jfc. Please.

If you mean more like what specific characters would I like to see, that’s harder. Personally I’d love a Lucifer if well done because I love a good Sympathy for the Devil character (P5 just gave and gave and gave to me). I’d like more animal spirits like give me Balto, or Laila. If they do more gods like they’ve been I would very much like Bast because she’s always been a favorite. Uhhh I’m a sucker for the personal connections so I would love it if they quit doing alters of existing people and gave us their family members or friends instead I mean the DRAMA. Mmmm tasty. There’s almost no Americans and that’s fine but like it’s Geronimo, Billy the Kid, Tesla, and every American president through Obama in a body with Edison and the 20th Century Fox lion so if they wanted to make it just slightly more normal they could add like Nathan Hale or Deborah Samson or something. Uhhh, from a gameplay perspective, we’ve got interesting and talented supports, but Iri is the only white mage and I’d like to see them play with more range on defense. So I would personally like Lister or some other doctor with highly specialized defensive skills and to play with the defense only mechanics more in the back line. Like team evades are great but I’d love to see someone with a skill to revive a party member but like with a massive cooldown or stun penalty to balance that. Idk I’d just like to see more complexity. Maybe it’s luck based called like ‘Defibrillator’ and it doesn’t always work, like guts but can be used after they’re downed and at any point. I do quite enjoy the specialized skills like how Katsu does little for support unless you’ve got a lineup of Nobunaga and he suddenly becomes the bullet chain in their galtling. An ability to swap formation, or switch the cooldown from one character with another (‘blood transfusion’) could be cool for a doctor. White Mage with 30,000hp, +5 to attack, who can revive downed party member and allocate NP or cooldown among them, or swap formation. Skill where damage he takes is taken by the frontline member with the most HP instead. Or NP that analyzes the enemy skill set and warns before stuns or rapid ult charge. Or can cast small passive buffs like debuff cleanses the way story characters do, but even when in the back line. Lol Romani Archaman build. Uhhh I’m off topic, characters let me think. I personally loved Amelia Earhart as a kid so I guess part of me keeps hoping she’d be added too. I kinda enjoy when unnamed, or less important or well known people get caught up by a twist of fate like the hessian though. I like weak normal people doing their best in an impossible situation.

[we-shall-remain]

It was over. Finally over. The singularities, the lostbelts, all of it, and as a reward, his master had gifted David with a grail. He could have close to any wish he desired, long as it didn’t mess up the timeline or dimensional space.

So he held it cupped in his hands and...

He’d always said that he didn’t have a wish; but in fact he did, a strong one.

“Are you sure?” the man in front of David asked smoothly, smile curling up; a deal with the proverbial devil, and David swallowed.

“...Yes,” the archer said with a nod and Grail tilted his head, his smile far from kind.

“Very well,” he said, folding his hands in front of him; cat that had gotten the cream, “Enjoy your ‘retirement’, King David.”

---

It only took a moment but David soon found himself standing on a rocky outcropping upon an island. He could see the sea no matter which way he turned and between him and it were beautiful expanses of waving grasses, woods and beaches.

It was glorious and while he wanted to allow his heart to fly, he held it back. First, he had to find his family.

So he came down from the rolling, rocky hills and around a turn he found them; his wives and children; all there, all safe. So he rushed down the rest of the hill to embrace them. First his wives; Michal, Ahinoam, Abigail, Maachah, Haggith, Abital, Eglah and Bathsheba.

He gave them each a kiss and embrace, checking them over, making sure they were safe and there were tears of happiness and words of love.

Then his husbands; Michelangelo and Jonathan, whom David promptly tackled in his happiness, all three of them falling into the grass as they hugged and kissed and cuddled and laughed.

After that were the children, all 18 of them. Absalom, Tamar, Adonijah, Chileab, Shephatiah, Ithream, Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, Eliphalet and even Amnon was embraced, hugged so tightly as David wept, promising them all that he loved them and that they were finally free and he’d never leave them again.

Amnon took this especially hard, clinging to his father and breaking down into heart crushing sobs of relief.

Absalom frowned at this but Tamar elbowed him and he quit it while Adonijah laughed good naturedly over the scene.

It felt good to be here, with the wind and the scent of the sea.

On one side was Greece and the other, the gentle curve of land of Egypt, Syria, and of course, Israel.

After that, David parted from his children; because there was one; one he did not see. One he was desperate to find. So he told his family he would return shortly, Michelangelo already working to design and construct their new home, and headed off.

Across the fields, the rocks, down to the beach where he found his last lamb looking out to the water, the wind gently blowing his soft pink ponytail.

His Gift from Jahveh, the Peace of his Heart; Solomon.

Romani.

“We’re home; my son,” David said, his heart taking flight because he was just so happy and they were finally together and safe, “We’re home.”

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@sillydoctor​

[nathanrelnor]

Of Flowers and Mages

Continued from this @avaloniamagus

"Ah. I'm... Not supposed to be here?"

Great. He'd somehow dreamed himself into another impossible to reach place. What was it with him and pocket dimensions full of flowers and beautiful people with long hair.

Wait. Merlin? Like the actual Merlin? Somehow this didn't quite match up to the internal picture he'd built up of an elderly magus but he'd been around Chaldea long enough to expect the unexpected when it came to historical figures.

Shaking off those stray thoughts he nodded his head, "Yes! I'm Chaldea's Master! I know I'm not much but thank you for helping me! I'm not sure what those things are or why they're attacking but I'm sure we can probably talk them out of it if we try!" Talking was better than fighting every day but he knew there were some creatures that just had to be killed in this world. Hopefully that wasn't the case in this utopia of flowers.

[nathanrelnor]

❝  you need to rest.  you’ve done more than enough.  ❞

"M-Merlin! Hah- No! It's fine! I can- I can keep going! We just need to get a little further until we get back to base camp. I can make it the rest of the way... Once we've had a little rest we can finally go after... After the Grail..." The young Master was obviously barely hanging on having difficulty even maintaining a steady pace. It was no wonder too, they'd been fighting and running in the frigid wastes for nearly 48 hours without rest. Despite all of this, he flashed Merlin a determined smile. He simply refused to let Chaldea down. He refused to let his own ineptitude slow his Servants down. It was just a minute Singularity. Da Vinci had told him it should only take a few days to resolve after all, at this rate they were going to fall behind that projection. An odd cracking sound filled the air as his prosthetic leg screeched in protest to the stress he'd put on it. It was clear the scale limb was about to snap straight in half. "I'm sorry..." A quiet apology for his sluggishness escaped through gritted teeth as he tried to reinforce the offending limb with what little magecraft he could manage.