ғaтe/alт.dιѕтorтιon ii

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Private AU/PSL RP, set in the Fate/stay night universe. Multiple Servants of each class are being summoned or are rogue and appear from mysterious rifts along with shadow-like monsters, threatening to tear apart this unstable and distorted alternate reality. ➤ PART I ➢ FSN AU Lien Kha. ➤ FSN AU Ai Thao Kha. ➢ Fate/ALT.distortion Playlist.

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i want you to know that i almost tagged this on my kirei account

[lansaigh]

Well. I've got more...

[ And he jerks a thumb over to the wall where he heard that noise from. ]

...But I might give your sister a heart attack, so I'm laying off.

i cannot rejoice anymore...

[emotive]

[Ah... Ai shakes her head, but looks satisfied enough. She lowers her voice though, so that only he can hear.]

She's been relearning spells using her Eyes right? Like, cramming them all into her mind so that she can be more well equipped for the war.

... I just don't want her to overdo it. She keeps pushing herself and won't say a word about it so I hope she hasn't been trying to do that thinking you wouldn't notice.

[lansaigh]

...Huh.

[ Maybe she has, maybe she hasn't— he's not quite sure how her magic works, so he looks a little curious. ]

How would I be able to tell if she has been?

[emotive]

She does sleep a lot to make up for it. But it sounds like she's been pacing herself at least.

[Ai leans against the railing again, looking thoughtfully at her feet.]

Since her Mystic Eyes aren't of the common variety, Lien would get requests to study and verify objects or people, usually the former. It was how she earned and saved up money for the both of us. But it's taxing as you can imagine. Sometimes she'd stay passed out for a few days...

It hasn't happened for a while though. I tell her not to do that anymore.

[lansaigh]

Huh. Yeah, she hasn't been going into comas in front of me yet, so I'd say we're safe. For now.

[ A thoughtful tap of his feet on the ground, once, twice, before he shrugs. ]

Chances are she won't listen to me even if I tell her to cut that kind of thing out, though.

[emotive]

She's already used to me being worried about her. If it's someone different though, she'll have to rethink things.

[lansaigh]

Is that right? I'd think she'd be more eager to listen to you. You're scary.

[ Cu?! ]

[emotive]

[She's tempted to puff up her cheeks, but holds back. Can't let things get to her all the time!]

It's just... Sometimes, I think she doesn't want me to be worried. She wants me to focus on myself because she sees herself as a burden.

[lansaigh]

That's because you both think too much. If one of you is bogging the other down, just say so. Tell them to stand on their own two feet for a while.

You're both not gonna go anywhere if you stand around pretending to know what the other one thinks.

1/2

[emotive]

[It's just that simple, isn't it? Ai looks at Cu and then back at her hands that she's clasped together.]

Still... In the end, I think this is the happiest I've ever seen her.

[Ai wonders if Lien will be able to display that in the future.]

It's good. That's all I needed to know.

[psychometer]

Oi.

[Had Lien been listening this whole time? She only caught parts of the conversation after being flustered by Cu's words about her. And maybe what Ai just said.]

Ai, you should probably stick to Diarmuid before he thinks you like this Lancer more.

[Ai sighs, but takes the jab with good humor.]

[lansaigh]

[ Well. Cu snorts a little in response to that. ]

What if she does? Maybe that'd finally give me an excuse to fight him, huh.

[ Cu?! ]

1/3

[emotive]

D-Don't fight over something silly like that! I mean, it's not true anyways!!

[YEAH SHE'LL FIGHT LIEN AND CU BOTH!]

[psychometer]

Ah, but I remember a very not-sober sister of mine basically admitting that Cu Chulainn holds up VERY well...??

[Lien!?]

[emotive]

Leave me alone.

[She can't win.]

[lansaigh]

Huh. Poor guy, he'll probably be pretty heartbroken. He's pretty naive...

[ Diarmuid looks this way, furrows his brows. What's going on over there... ]

1/2

[emotive]

[ARRRRRGH!!]

F-Fine, I'll leave you both alone, I get it! You don't have to pick on me!

[She heads in the direction where Diarmuid is, but not before turning to Cu and pointing at him imposingly.]

Don't think you're the only one who's protecting her! Got it?!

[AI OUT!]

[psychometer]

[... When her twin leaves, Lien muffles her laughter with one hand over her mouth as she makes her way down to Cu.]

She's scary, huh?

[lansaigh]

Both of you are.

[ A hand goes on Lien's head, ruffles her hair roughly. ]

That's part of the charm, I'd say.

[psychometer]

[And for that, she moves so that she's next to him and leaning against his arm. Closing her eyes, Lien exhales softly, smiling all the while.]

Am I now? That's a new one.

Just one of the things that you could have said to give me a heart attack I take it?

[lansaigh]

[ A mock second passes where he feigns consideration, where he taps his foot on the ground and pretends that he needs to think deeply about how best to answer this.

And after it comes and goes, he reaches out to put a hand over Lien's heart. The gesture is surprisingly simple. ]

Nah. I can still feel it beating.

[psychometer]

[Well! It may have skipped a bit. Lien feels as if her heartbeat feels more solid and more real because of that. She puts her hand on top of his so she can turn it over to look at his palm.]

... There's a lot of things I like about you too, you know. Like your hands.

[She pulls his hand to her cheek so she can cup her face with it, full of affection.]

I could name a few other things, but I need time to make sure I have enough to blindside you.

[lansaigh]

[ His hands. It's such a sincere thing for her to say, and he laughs about it, though the sound is laced with unmistakeable fondness. The hand on her cheek pats it once, twice. ]

That's incentive enough for me to make it out of whatever this is gonna be alive. Most princesses are stingy, they only give you a handkerchief or something to remember them by— you're promising to stroke my ego, that's huge.

1/2

[psychometer]

[More than ever, Lien wants to make it out of this war alive. That at least could count as a wish.]

Ah. Well, aren't we strange princesses then...

[emotive]

[Princess No. 2 has made her way back to Lancer No. 2 looking somewhat frazzled, but still standing tall nonetheless.]

Well! I made it back alive believe it or not.

[And the snark has rubbed off her...]