towerofanimus | Finally, another party

Characters: ProtoLancer

puppy_lancer, Zero Lancer

oathshackledbird and anyone interested in attending a birthday party. Details here.
Setting: Meadow
Format: Anything goes
Summary: Lancer throws his brother a party. Everyone can come except for the Archer (meaning they can come crash the party anyways)! Feel free to tag into any of the threads set up or invent your own scenario.
Warnings: None yet!

[It had taken some preparing, but the party was finally set up in a satisfactory way. There was a table for food and drink dragged in from the cafeteria, a wooden bucket filled with water with fruit floating in it, a strange paper mache Jason head pinata stacked on a scarecrow body, and a board with a pig with a Ganon head scribbled on it along with several spiraling paper "tails" attached to thumbtacks. There are no party decorations, but Lancer figures the flowers and sunshine should be decoration enough.]

[Now it's just a matter of waiting for people to show up.]

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Tohsaka is a difficult person to deal with normally, I assure you.

[Sighing, Waver adjusted his sunglasses as he considered what to say.]

I don't really think it's your fault, or hers for that matter. It isn't a simple thing to figure out and even less so to explain. Don't blame yourself for not understanding, but try not to hold her at fault for being so difficult.

I don't. I don't blame her for anything they did to her.

[Diarmuid shakes his head.]

I just worry about my inability to understand making things worse for her. She doesn't deserve to be hurt anymore. And it doesn't help she doesn't like talking about what happened to her. I can't blame her, but at the same time it just makes things that much harder for me to understand.

I noticed a change in how she was treating me little before and after my curse acted up, so I mentioned it to her because I had to make sure she wasn't being affected. Now she is not speaking to me.

[He gives Waver a worried look.]

Did I do the wrong thing? I knew she would be enraged if she found out later I suspected something and didn't say anything especially if it turned out that she was being affected, but...

I just want to help her...

It doesn't really sound like you did anything wrong as far as I can tell Just try to be patient with her--I'll see if I can manage to talk to her without getting maimed or something.

I am trying to be. It is why I have decided just to give her some space for now. Perhaps in a week or so I will write her again and see if she answers me. I know she is not completely alone. While it's hard for her to trust, she does have others who watch out for her.

[Though, it's obvious from his expression, Diarmuid isn't entirely happy with others watching over her when he had been the one who said he would.]

I really don't know if now is a good time to talk to her, but if you do, please be careful. I don't want to see either of you hurt.

I wasn't intending on any confrontation. But at the very least, I should try to approach her even if only through writing. Troublesome as she is in any world, I would like to help her if I can.

Confrontation and her sometimes go hand in hand no matter your intentions, so a letter might be the best to start things off. Hopefully, you will have better luck than I have so far. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know.

Of course I will. Who else would I possibly rely on to help me with anything?

[Diarmuid grins at Waver.]

I don't know. There is another Lancer in the tower. How do I know you haven't decided to trade me in?

Perish the thought, my friend. So few people other than you can tolerate me, so why risk it?

Mm...now how much trouble will I get into if I say I don't believe it's that you are that unlikeable, it's just that you are being lazy?

Maybe it's both. Who can really say for sure?

[Diarmuid laughs.]

Perhaps. Who can say? I guess I will just have to study you and see what I find out.

I don't think I'm used to other people studying me. I wonder how long it will take for me to bore you senseless.

That depends, my friend.

[Diarmuid smirks at him suddenly.]

If you are challenging me, then you may find it takes a very long time indeed.

I might just test your seemingly unlimited patience, my friend.

[His smirk widens.]

Test away, my friend. You are welcome anytime.

You might regret saying that later.

I dare you to try and make me.

That's quite a risk you're taking.

Oh, is it now? But I thought you said you would be boring me to death. Risky things are never boring...

You're risking being bored to death, how's that?

That honestly doesn't sound all that risky to me.

[Diarmuid grins at him.]

Would you like to try again?

Well, if that doesn't scare you off I doubt anything I could come up with will.

I think, my friend, you are just going to have to face it. When I said you were stuck with me, I meant it. I don't scare easy.

Of course. My courageous knight wouldn't be frightened off by a simple matter of boredom, now would you?

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oathshackledbird - 2013-05-17 01:37 (UTC) - Expand