towerofanimus | in the end it doesn't even matter!!

Characters: Saber and YOU!!!
Setting: Room 1-01, floor 22, and floor 15
Format: Starting with action, but I'll match what others reply with!
Summary: Clearly the tower doesn't have enough Sabers.
Warnings: Likely to have spoilers for Fate/Extra I guess?!

ROOM 1-01;

[It's one thing to wake up out of sleep paralysis. It's another to wake up in an unknown room. It was another just to even wake up given all that had happened, but all of those things were just minor details in Saber's mind as she stood up and looked around. More importantly, she looked at herself.

And what she was wearing.

Sorry roommates, if you were sleeping or just happened to be chilling in the room, there is now one ungodly and furious screech coming from the newest member of the room.]

FLOOR 22: ART GALLERY;

[Obviously the thing to do when you wake up somewhere weird is check the place out, right? Find out where she is, where she can go, if there's anything neat around here--all that stuff. In this case though, a certain newcomer seems a little too invested in investigating the tower...

Or in other words, Saber can be found critiquing the pieces in the art gallery i.e. yelling loudly about how much better she'd be able to do.]

To think this is what they call art in some worlds! Had I but a brush and a canvas, I would paint a masterpiece finer than anything this dreadful tower has ever seen. Umu, to not enlighten those here with what true beauty is would be the greatest tragedy.

FLOOR 15: WORKSHOP;

[And sadly enough, that's exactly what she does... After scouring the tower in search of material, Saber ends up in the workshop with a few different canvases in front of her. Curiously enough, the subject of the paintings seems to be the same person, albeit in different poses and unfinished states.]

What an unsightly state this is. To capture Praetor's beauty in paint is far more difficult than I had imagined. There are too many ideas, too much inspiration! If a picture is worth a thousand words, a thousand paintings would never be enough for her. [That's one way to worship the ground someone walks on... Regardless, she continues to speak aloud to herself while painting.] However, as difficult as this may be, a challenge shall only make it all the more rewarding. After all, I am the only one capable of completing such a challenge!

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It does certainly sound like that, doesn't it? Saving us from our world's uncertain fate only to put us through a gauntlet of challenges. Hypocrites; all of them.

[A shrug, either ways he doesn't really care since he's dead back home anyways, and in fact, it's proper punishment for a man who desperately tried to change the world.

He got his come-uppance, and he might as well live through it.]

Though in a sense, they are in a similar predicament to us ever since the beginning.

Hypocrites are usually the type to be left in charge. [Though any bitterness she might feel she keeps to herself; it was a simple stating of the facts, after all. But let's just say she was never none too fond of the politicians in her time and all...

You won't be saying that if Shirley shows up I mean--

Oh, but that gets her attention.]

A similar predicament? How so?

Sadly, that is the truth. [And he's kind of the worst king to ever live, but that was all part of the plan.

And she isn't here right now so he'll say everything he wants okay!!!]

They were natives, trapped in this tower since time immemorial it seems.

[Uh-huh, riiiiiight.]

So they were simply born into this dreadful captivity? What prevents them from leaving for elsewhere if they are seemingly pulling us from different worlds?

[With a completely straight face-]

Space whales, general deathly creatures of the world wouldn't be that surprising of a guess.

... space.

Whales.

Did I, or did I not stutter?

[Yep.]

Do explain something as ludicrous as that. [Says the person who ran around in a monster infested aquarium BUT STILL.]

It just happened that a flying whale breached through the tower's defense system a few months back, leading to a monster uprising all throughout the tower no thanks to all the floors the whale damaged.

Ah. I see. [said with the Flattest Stare Ever but] A flying whale just happened to crash into a tower.

It is certainly up to you if you wish to believe it or not, but that was the truth.

I suppose I have no choice but to... It seems I've learned something new though: not only is this tower capable of horror, but it also seems to have a taste for ridiculous bordering on comedy.]

Morbid, but an attempt at comedy, nonetheless.

[SHRUG, and fixing his Mad Hatter top hat:]

And who is this supposed to be, a friend from home?

[RIGHT so somehow during all their talking, Saber kept painting on the whole time... Such is her devotion to Hakuno I guess, but she has to make this PERFECT for her beloved praetor okok.]

Umu, indeed she is. This girl is my most beloved praetor.

Edited (fixing this comment like 8 days later) 2013-02-03 01:22 (UTC)

[The term is somewhat familiar, but considering it has been a long while since he had been around any educational materials of some sort...]

And what, pray tell, is the meaning of that term?

The meaning at this point is entirely symbolic, but simply put, she is in command.

In other words, your leader.

[Perhaps there is another term for it, but this seemed strange to him, as he's pretty sure from her manner of speaking; she's probably a royalty of some sorts.]

That term lacks far too much in warmth and familiarity, [though only someone like her would probably think of "praetor" like that] but it will do.

Ah, a term of endearment.

[He noticed that, but he decided to say nothing more lest he strays into unsafe waters.]

And this 'praetor' of yours, is she here?

[And boy was it ever. After all, it's not like many emperors would be willing to let just anybody direct them.]

Umu, indeed she is. [Her voice is even when she says so, but there's an underlying tone of YOU BETTER NOT BE THINKING ANYTHING STRANGE ABOUT HER.]

I see.

[Oh no, he's not thinking any strange things, but merely filing it on the back of his mind as he gave that nod.]

Have you anyone dear to you in this tower?

Yes, my dear sister, in fact.

Sibling camaraderie! How admirable indeed. Are you the elder or perhaps the younger?

The elder, naturally.

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