FATE/GRAND ORDER

[spirithacker]

Seven Masters, magi of the present day. Seven Servants, heroes of days past...

...is what would normally happen with a Holy Grail War, but this is a different system and things are more complicated than that. The organization of Chaldea employs Masters who summon Servants, but they have more important tasks than fighting against each other: various pieces of the past have been destabilized into Singularities, and without Masters traveling into these Singularities to fix history, human civilization as we know it will cease to exist.

In the Chaldea system, one Master can summon many Servants who will fight alongside each other. Spirits who would never ordinarily work together can find themselves building up a rapport from many battles covering each others' backs. Evil Servants and good Servants can function on the same team for the same goals. Masters will bond with their Servants, trusting their lives and their futures to each other.

Besides the Servants who are summoned to fight and the Masters who travel into the Singularities themselves, Chaldea also employs a small staff. These are the doctors who make sure that Masters are in good condition before they head out, the technicians who make sure the machines are in good repair, the researchers who furiously investigate any weakness their enemies might have, and so on.

And in between saving the world, you can all live together in one building and have a little slice of extremely unusual life.

Instructions
1. Comment with your character. In the subject line, put that character's name, canon, and which role (Master, Servant, Staff, or any) you would like them to fulfill. Though not mandatory, it would be preferred that you give a brief summary of your character as they will (most likely) be AU'd into the setting. (If your character can fill the role of Servant, I suggest you state which class(es) - Saber, Lancer, Archer, Rider, Caster, Assassin, Berserker, or a more uncommon Extra class - they fall into.)
2. Reply to others' comments. Pick your character's role (and the other character's if they list "Any" as their preference).
3. I'm not putting in prompts because it's 2 AM and I don't want to.

Comments

[curseseparated]

You won't be ready for duty if you're passed out from exhaustion.

[disinfection]

It won't happen again. You have my promise on that. [Again?]

this is the second time I've wrong journaled you in this thread

[curseseparated]

Again?

[His thoughts exactly, bracket text.]

it's okay everyone wants to know what is up with her

[disinfection]

[There's a very slight flinch in her face as she looks down at her papers. A slip of the tongue.]

It hasn't happened since I've been summoned. You can ask the Doctor or Miss da Vinci on that.

[It must have been a lifetime ago, back when she was more than a nurse. A then young woman pushing her only mortal limits to the breaking point.]

My physiology can match up with any of the other Servants of my class here.

[curseseparated]

[We've all done stupid things in our mortal lives. That doesn't reassure Rama all that much.]

Even Berserkers have to rest eventually.

[He's seen Asterios collapse, Raikou, even Heracles.]

[disinfection]

[She ruined her mortal body thoroughly by pushing it again and again. At the time it had been blamed on illness but with the knowledge she had now... Well. Her own stubborn refusal to stop had done it.]

When I need to rest I'll read the reports, Rama. I can't go off duty.

[...She won't let herself reach that point of uselessness again. She will always be there. Even if it meant pushing even beyond the normal.]

[curseseparated]

As talented as you are, even you can't read in your sleep. And there are other doctors to take care of things while you rest.

[If Chaldea relied only on one person for all its medical care, it would have collapsed before Nightingale was even summoned.]

[disinfection]

You'll be telling me I need to eat next then that I need to take a holiday.

[This seems familiar.]

There's always been others but that doesn't lessen my duty.

[curseseparated]

Oh no, not a holiday. I like to think I know you at least a little too well to suggest it.

[He knows her well enough to know that that's not happening ever.]

[disinfection]

A small miracle, honestly.

[Does she mean him not suggesting it or that he actually knows her? A little of both.]

But the question remains what you're going to do now that I'm refusing your treatment.

[curseseparated]

[A valid question, with a simple and succinct answer:]

Turnabout is fair play.

[He tries to pick her up. For being slight of stature, he's a lot stronger than he looks, particularly when he isn't missing part of a major organ.]

[disinfection]

[Nightingale is no slouch when it comes to quickness or strength but her strengths lie in her endurance and luck. That is to say, that Rama manages to surprise her and is able to pick her up. He might be slight in stature but he is taller than her by a hair.] This--this is an unauthorized procedure! I'm not one of Byron's fainting ladies--! [It means she's struggling pretty hard to get out of his grip but she's at least out of her chair and judging by how she's not getting very far? Her stamina is definitely quite low.]

[curseseparated]

Dignity is not a necessary part of treatment - that seems like something you might tell me.

[She's struggling fairly hard, but he's certainly not going to just put her down without a fight. He starts carrying her out of her office and toward her bedroom.]

[disinfection]

[It does sound like her. ...She's not gaining any ground, though.]

Ridiculous! This is utterly ridiculous. You lack the skill and experience to say what is part of a treatment and what isn't.

[curseseparated]

I could bring you to Dr. Roman and get his opinion if you prefer.

[And by "bring", he means "carry". Heedless of how embarrassing that would be to her.]

[disinfection]

[That would be the most medically sound decision.]

No... I think that won't be needed.

[But her pride protests too much for it.]

[curseseparated]

[Somehow, that's what he thought she'd say.]

If you'll agree to return to your room to rest, I'll put you down.

[He doesn't actually enjoy embarrassing her... that much.]

[disinfection]

[She believes him but she can't just accept it--]

If you bring me to my room, I'll stay there.

[She has no intention of resting.]

[curseseparated]

To rest?

[He's not hearing the most important part here, Florence.]

[disinfection]

If I said that, you wouldn't believe me.

[So she's not because a Nurse Doesn't Lie. ....in theory, anyway.]

[curseseparated]

No, I would believe you. You wouldn't lie to me.

[Which is probably why she didn't say it.]

In any case, since you can't promise that, I'll continue to carry you.

[disinfection]

[She flinches because it's true. She wouldn't and that's why she couldn't promise. Curses.]

You're right, I wouldn't.

[But now she's going to be carried around like a log.]

If you won't let me out of your sight at least transfer me to a private room. [Her pride, it aches.]

[curseseparated]

Certainly, I can do that for you.

[Normal locks aren't exactly deterrents to spirits, after all.]

[disinfection]

Thank you.

[She doesn't mind if he continues to carry her but at least do so in private.]

Now would you set me down?

[curseseparated]

[He sets her down. Turnabout might be fair play, but he really doesn't like carrying her around if she isn't actually on the edge of death like he was.]