Servant Avenger

Moses’s face darkened somewhat, her words falling unpleasantly upon his ears.

“Nothing in life is obtained easily. Struggling and strife is always involved. Sometimes entire generations must suffer in order to ensure a better future for the next, but that means that their struggles were meaningful in the end. These demons… They would unwrite all of history if we allowed them.”

“There are many legacies that deserve to be protected… Many of them haven’t even had a chance to begin yet.” He spoke calmly, but something in him was unsettled. “Why would you say that the world does not deserve to continue?”

“Isn’t it obvious? The world chews up and spits out those who would save it by the dozens! How many heroes live very long after their quest is complete? All those who are truly good in this world are tirelessly crushed by it.” She spread her arms, motioning to the surroundings, “If one man tirelessly hunted and killed every single good person he could find, then he would be rightfully executed. It is merely an extension of the same principle.”

“You’re words continuously cut me, but I shall harden my skin to such things. However I will apologize for antagonizing you, as my fellow servant you do not deserve such a thing.“ Mordred smiled as his blackness returned to its home and he stood there now without a weapon. He’d learned much from this, Ether. Ether was something he hadn’t expected and would take some time to replicate. 

Glavestone however saw these thoughts, and couldn’t deny them. If they could get any advantage they would need it. Including against their friends, for Glavestone would not be able to simply hand over the grail. Still the peace now was necessary, and enjoyed. Walking up close to him he patted Raymond’s back. 

“Well done friend, you handle stress well. Mordred! You are not to wield Balmung again until you can project it properly. To do that you’d need her help, as we both know. Now, lets avoid this from happening again. Strike her at all and I’ll be forced to use a command seal on you.“ Leaning closer to Raymond he whispered, 

“Though in the future, if need be she could destroy her Balmung and he would be inable to use it again. She could reform it in time.“ Then he approached Mordred.

“It was terribly rude of you to interrupt us. Now be on watch, with two servants here it is likely that we will not be able to mask such a presence.“

“Yes, my master.“

Leaping onto the roof he dematerialized and remained quiet, as Glavestone returned to Raymond. This night would go to show just how rocky the road ahead very well could be.

Raymond pursed his lips as he thought about how to keep the two Servants from coming to blows, “Milady, could I ask you to guard the room Glavestone and I were speaking in. We will return shortly as we had not finished our talks on how to maximize the advantage this alliance could yield in the War.”

The female Avenger watched the other’s exit warily before responding to her Master, “Very well, Master. Do not tarry for too long,” before also dematerializing to shadow the Masters until they reached the chamber, there she would fall into a position near the door and keep an eye out for dangers stirred by the near-miss confrontation.

@lindenmarked

She tried to make sense of the words that were slurring out of the woman’s mouth, only to come to conclusion that she was telling her to sleep in the bed as well. “I-I can sleep on the couch! It’s no problem!” Haru nervously stammered, looking at the servant’s flushed face. “Do you need anything before I go?”

“Need you t’stay...” the drunken woman mutters, blindly reaching out to try to grab the other’s wrist and pull her into the bed. “Du bist warm.” She blinks a couple of times, slowly as if determining something, likely which of the 5 Harukas was the real one, before making one final lunge to try to grab the other.

He could only look at Kriemhild with a pained expression as she finished her first sentence, the corrotion of the Avenger’s Class hatred did make her say something he didn’t think she would say… Or was it that he didn’t truly know her as well he thought he did?

  “Even if I am not there, even if I die before you and our son, do not resent the world, Kriemhild. It was just fate running it’s course. This is a beautiful place, this world, it allowed me to meet you. It allowed us to have a long and happy marriage and moments with each other…”

He was relieved his son was sent with his parents for once, at least he didn’t die on that time by that snake’s hands as he remembered the massacre that ensued once the Bungurdians reached Attli’s castle. All the things she went through, all the pain and suffering she also went through, even the curse of the dragon’s treasure befalling on her. Was his death truly for the best, as Hagen told him while his spear pierced his chest, slowly and painful…? 

It wasn’t, it was unforgivable, shameful, enraging. But there was nothing he could do now. All that he could do now was to grab what he has in front of him and protect it once again.

 “I won’t die again, not by betrayal this time. I have a reason to not die and it is on my arms right now.”

She leans forward, deeper into her husband’s embrace, committing the feeling to memory before replying, “If it is by fate’s whims that I am deprived of you, then I shall rend it apart, if the machinations of a god take you from me, I will topple his throne, and should the very world conspire your death, I would gladly feed it to the flames. I can not, will not, allow a world without you.”

A tear slides down her cheek as she speaks, her arms reaching out and clutching him desperately. She sobs, voice cracking slightly, “I had to live without you once already, Siegfried, and it broke me. Made me into this,” she motions weakly towards herself, “into an Avenger. I can feel the hatred all the time, I fear I am not the woman you married all those years ago with every breath. She was innocent and kind and oh so naive. But she was weak. She couldn’t have avenged you.”

“That may be so, but the past isn’t meant to be undone. It’s meant to be remembered and learned from. Even if we want to change things… it’s better to look forward and focus on changing now, so the future will be better.”

“At least… That’s what I’d like to think. You shouldn’t forget about the things you’ve done, whatever they may be, but you shouldn’t let them keep you from a brighter future either.”

“A brighter future you say. As if such a thing is so easily attained. Life is cruel and brutal, friends and family turn on each other over the most petty of reasons. Honestly, were it not threatening the history of man and therefore my husband’s legend, I’d applaud these Demon Pillar’s efforts.” She shakes her head, a cynical and bitter scowl on her face.

@ krixmhild

There were many Servants in Chaldea. Sometimes, it felt as though there were more than Moses would be able to meet in his time here- especially when more and more were summoned each day. Of course, that also meant that sometimes, he wasn’t sure how long the Servants he was only now just meeting had been here.

This woman was not one he had seen before, but she did not seem to be new. Regardless, he smiled at her as he approached, the spot near her one of the only available spaces at the moment.

“Hello… Is this spot taken?”

The finely dressed woman gave the other Servant a quick glance before pushing the chair beside her out with a foot, “It isn’t, feel free to take a seat.” She gave him a small smile, “Are you one of the new summons? I don’t believe I’ve seen you around...?”

Kriemhild gave the woman an appraising gaze, eyes taking in her weapon and garb, “Perhaps… But I had my own hunt to attend to. Traitors and their accomplices cannot be allowed to fester like maggots in a wound after all.” She gives the Hunter a smile, “I do thank you for the compliment though.”

She wondered what type of life this stranger led. It sounded, difficult. Best not to pry further than what they were willing to state. “I suppose there is always good and bad- I am happy you at least gained some happiness and positive changes.” Anything…she refused to accept? She paused for a moment. Even lives. “I refuse to accept that Heroic Spirits are only weapons to be used by mage’s…they’re, friends, allies who lend us power in return for us hosting their existence upon this world.” Something Misaya found odd as an opinion. “It may be a contract…but, the Association mistreats them-” As for anything she would change. “I believe everything in my life was meant to occur, if I had been given the choice a few years ago- it would be to never enter the Heaven’s Feel. But now…I would have missed out on so much, if I had not been forced to enter. Some other lives I wish I could change but- it’s not my place or right.”

The Avenger smiled, “So it would seem that you wish to effect change, but lack the power to do so, meanwhile I have only one desire at the moment, but have quite a bit of power. What would you say to making an alliance?”

STARTER CALL ||| @krixmhild​​ has ventured forth…

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So, THIS woman was another Heroic Spirit? She certainly LOOKED the part.

Blinking curiously, Emily regarded the stranger for a moment or two – hesitancy in her gaze before she finally worked up the necessary COURAGE to step forward and greet her. ❝Hello there.❞ Oh, indeed, the first manner of greeting to invade her mind was a HELLO to the ENEMY. Emily cleared her throat awkwardly, attempting to regain her bearings after that slight mishap. ❝I-I..am Caster.❞

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Kriemhild regards the other Servant for a moment, then gives her a small nod, “Avenger. It is a pleasure.” She smiles as she speaks, though it is a brittle, cruel smile. She stretches out a hand, the Ring upon it glimmering slightly. As she prepared to unleash a flood of gold should the other Heroic Spirit attempt to initiate hostilities, she called out, “So, how shall we proceed, Caster? Should I cut you to ribbons? Drown you? I’ll be generous and allow you to choose your doom.”

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1. WHAT IS YOUR NAME? “I am the Servant Avenger.”

2. WHAT IS YOUR REAL NAME? “...Kriemhild, Queen of the Nibelungen and the Huns”

3. DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU’RE CALLED THAT? “Because I was wedded to both the King of the Nibelungen and later to the King of the Huns.”

4. ARE YOU SINGLE OR TAKEN? “I did just say I was married, do keep up.”

5. WHAT ARE YOUR POWERS AND ABILITIES? “My power, such as it is is enough to take vengeance on any who would betray or wrong me. That is all that needs be known about it.”

6. WHAT COLOR ARE YOUR EYES?  "Dark grey, a few shades off to be anything called silver.”

7. HAVE YOU EVER DYED YOUR HAIR? "Dye is for cloth, not hair.”

8. DO YOU HAVE ANY FAMILY MEMBERS? “My two previously mentioned husbands, I bore Siegfried a son, and Atli two.”

9. DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS? "Not as such, no.”

10. TELL ME ABOUT SOMETHING YOU DON’T LIKE. “Traitors. Filthy, backstabbing beasts the lot of them.”

11. DO YOU HAVE ANY HOBBIES OR ACTIVITIES YOU DO IN YOUR SPARE TIME? “Plotting the demise of my foes, enjoying a good book, and a nice glass of wine or some tea.”

12. HAVE YOU EVER HURT ANYONE BEFORE? "Any who stand between my vengeance and I shall perish as they deserve to. But in the past, oh, a thousand or so? The fire was quite large and I was bisected before I really got to know a bodycount.”

13. HAVE YOU EVER… KILLED ANYONE? "By my own hand? Only two, and two more deserving could not be found betwixt heaven and hell.”

14. WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL ARE YOU? “I’d have to say a mongoose. Curious little creatures from India, they hunt and kill serpents.”

15. NAME YOUR WORST HABITS. “I have a bit of a temper problem when it comes to my issues...”

16. DO YOU LOOK UP TO ANYONE? “Siegfried, my first husband and my love.”

17. GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BISEXUAL? “That is a difficult question to answer. I had thought myself attracted solely to men, but the King of the Huns turned that notion on its head... Questioning would be the best word.”

18. DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL? “I was tutored in the art of being a queen from a young age, if that counts.”

19. DO YOU EVER WANT TO MARRY AND HAVE KIDS SOMEDAY? “I suppose so. I just want my family to be happy...”

20. DO YOU HAVE ANY FANS? "Considering my overall portrayal as a villianess in the Nibelungenlied, I doubt it.”

21. WHAT ARE YOU MOST AFRAID OF? “No answer. Next question.”

22. WHAT DO YOU USUALLY WEAR? "I do enjoy my gowns, and I rotate my selection of jewelry besides Andvaranaut...”

23. DO YOU LOVE SOMEONE? "Siegfried. Forever and always.”

24. WHAT CLASS ARE YOU? “Avenger.”

25. HOW MANY FRIENDS DO YOU HAVE? “I am... unsure. It is hard to speak to most of those I consider peers, given that I cannot be sure they won’t stab me in the back as soon as it is presented.”

26. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON PIE? “I love a well-baked pie. I have a astounding recipe for a spiced apple pie.”

27. FAVORITE DRINK? "Mulled wine. Particularly Glühwein.”

29. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE? “By Siegfried’s side.”

30. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SOMEONE? "Siegfried.”

31. WHAT’S YOUR DICK SIZE? ”...You are a crass one aren’t you?”

32. WOULD YOU RATHER SWIM IN THE LAKE OR THE OCEAN? “Lakes. They feel so much calmer.”

33. WHAT’S YOUR ‘TYPE’? “An idealist, who stands for their beliefs. A Hero.”

34. ANY FETISHES? “...Quite crass.”

35. TOP OR BOTTOM? DOMINANT OR SUBMISSIVE? “...Just stop.”

36. CAMPING, OR INDOORS? “Outdoors.”