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

[ghostfromthemachine]

Somebody who disliked you would just drink it themselves. Or ignore you outright. Which, speaking of, if you'll excuse me—

[ rolling over so her back is to him. ]

[goatsongs]

[You think you're the only petty one? Caster has not yet begun to petty.

Chuuya sits on her.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ —SQUAWKS and hits him in the leg with her book. it's a hardback. ]

[goatsongs]

[Curse his low rank in Endurance.]

Ow!

[As he flails around, he accidentally...ish... elbows her in the side.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ meanwhile hers is A+ IS THIS A FIGHT YOU REALLY WANT TO PICK, CHUUYA,

she yelps again, crackling with electricity this time— thankfully not the cursed, poisonous stuff that Dantes bristled with, despite their shared class, but the sharp prickling is still only just shy of painful... and carries a heavy current of seething resentment and hate that doesn't match even her behavior at her brattiest at all.

avengers, man. ]

Get off!

[goatsongs]

[Fucking Avengers. Chuuya rolls off her onto the floor, deciding he doesn't want to fuck with that level of hatred right now.]

You could've just given me back my sake.

[...or at least, he only wants to fuck with it a tiny bit.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

You could've just called me by my damn name— I don't have it.

[ technically true. it's hidden somewhere else. ]

[goatsongs]

Is that seriously what this is about? Because I didn't call you your name?

[That is dumb?]

[ghostfromthemachine]

...

[ clipped ]

I didn't so much as have a name for a long time. After "now," from my point of view, since it was something "I" gained after the time I'm summoned from.

...I'm tired of epithets, is what I'm saying.

[ "Avenger" is better than "monster," but not by that much. they're still both just roles she's ended up taking. ]

[goatsongs]

[It's not unreasonable. Even he can admit that. But just calling her by her name goes against both his stubborn pride and a tiny part of himself that remembers why he didn't call her by it in the first place.]

Sparks.

/2

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ . . . ]

[ghostfromthemachine]

...I suppose that works. But if I hear you calling any of the other electrical-themed Servants that, I'll personally make sure you never taste alcohol again.

[ carefully marking her place in the book (no dog-earing here) and brushing herself off. ]

[goatsongs]

It's your own exclusive nickname, promise.

[Today he has not been murdered by his own teammate. Yet.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ yet. she huffs— ]

All right, all right. Stay put.

[ —and rolls ungracefully right out of the chair, only to dissolve into nothingness before she can hit the floor. Presence Concealment is her friend and like Hell is she letting anyone else see where she stashes things.

...ugh, she's going to have to find something else to offer to Shuten-sama, though. damn it. ]

[goatsongs]

[Offer your own damn stuff to Shuten!

Chuuya waits, still huffing. This whole conversation is dumb.]

[ghostfromthemachine]

[ why on earth would she ever have alcohol, and in which reality would a famed oni not prefer stolen goods?

also your face is dumber, Chuuya.

a few minutes later there's a faint chill, and then she boops him with zero force on the head with the sake bottle from behind. ]

There you are. Happy?

[goatsongs]

[He turns so he can grab the bottle before she changes her mind.]

Yeah. Thanks, Sparks.