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call me out v. 15.0
Call out one of the characters from my muselist with a starter, a prompt, a general 'hey can we do something with these characters' comment, a smoke signal, etc., and I'll get back to you with some kind of RP thread!
Old CR, new CR, assumed CR, canonmates, AU, crossover, whatever, it's all good.
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You said that I abandoned Camelot. That might have been what 'your' Merlin did, but not me. I did everything I could to keep all of you alive.
[Lancelot should be reassured by that. That was what he was bitter at Merlin for. ...So why does he find himself at a loss for words?]
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...This isn't getting into alternate universes, is it? Because we had to promise not to allow any kaleido-stuff into the city after the thing with Mr. Zeltretch that one time. Zuri's mom was really serious about that one.
[...it's probably better not to ask.]
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"...What?" [Lancelot's not following this any better either.]
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[A phrase that has caused incredible amounts of trouble throughout pretty much the entire span of human history.]
So... how did things change, then? And how did you get summoned here? [At least she's pondering it from a scientific perspective, and not an emotional one.]
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As for changes... As Lancelot says, the 'proper' Merlin abandoned Camelot, and I didn't. That's all there is to it, really.
[Surely the details aren't important.]
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Oh, I guess that explains the part I dreamed, then! I thought it didn't seem like any of the stories I'd read about Camelot, but I wasn't sure if it was just history being wrong again.
[Doesn't consider even for a moment that she should maybe... not talk about this openly.]
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You could just ask me, you know.
[Lancelot ignores him.]
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[A dream, a memory, a point of connection between Servant and Master... and Servant, now that there's a third point in their little tangle.]
Then she didn't wake up, and you told everyone it was a curse? They all seemed really upset...
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See, when you say it like that, it sounds bad. But she was fated to die, and I kept her alive in a pleasant dream. It isn't my fault that I couldn't explain that properly to everyone.
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[It's a genuine question, is the worst part. Why couldn't he just explain that to everyone, if it was all right and it wasn't his fault? She sincerely believes he must have a good explanation for all of it, and she really does want to know.]
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So it wouldn't work right if I told them.
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Why did you need to put them in a dream to protect them in the first place? If you knew she was fated to die, couldn't you just warn her about that? ...Can fate not find people when they're asleep?
[LISTEN, SHE DOESN'T KNOW HOW DESTINY WORKS, SHE'S NOT GOING TO RULE IT OUT.]
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The surest way to avoid fate is to avoid as much contact with the world as possible.
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If the king and all the knights knew what was going to happen to them, couldn't they choose differently?
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"I-"
Even without clairvoyance, you must have known that your affair would be discovered eventually. And that in Artoria's position, she would have to punish her unfaithful wife to maintain the dignity of the king - and that your interference could only end badly. But you still took that path.
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Putting someone in eternal enchanted sleep without their permission does feel a little, um... [She makes a deeply awkward noncommittal hand gesture, as though trying to convey a concept she has no real natural understanding of.] Ethically sticky, though?
I'm not very good at ethics, that's not really my field- [Yeah, we probably could have guessed that around the time you chopped a woman's hand off, Mercy.] -but I'm almost sure that's the sort of thing you need patient consent for.
Ideally in writing! It's always fine if they sign a form.
[NO IT'S NOT????]
Hypothetically, would you have been willing to sign something for that, Sir Lancelot? [He's probably the expert on his own bad decisions, right?]
[...then again, there are actual Arthurian scholars. She wonders what it would be like to know someone out there has a PhD in analyzing the bad choices you made.]
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It's quite a bit different, I think you'll find. Death isn't nearly as pleasant of a dream as the ones I give.
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[Frantically flipping to a new page of her notebook and grabbing a pen.] Do you remember what being dead was like? Can you explain it in detail?
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Servants are copies from the Throne of Heroes, so whatever afterlife you'd expect for the original versions, they wouldn't have experienced it.
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[Looks like if she wants to study the afterlife she's just going to have to commit necromancy the old-fashioned way.]
So I guess if we can't confirm whether or not eternal sleep would be better than death, objectively, it's really a matter of personal preference.
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Maybe you could try studying necromancy or summoning? [THAT'S MUCH WORSE.]
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See? He agrees that my way is better.
"...Necromancy is a very low bar to compare it to."
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[Mercy looks completely baffled.]
The whole Servant summoning ritual is basically necromancy with training wheels already, and you seem fine now! I haven't had to ward off even one vengeful ghost, and no one's become a Dead Apostle or anything.
[Ever the honest soul, she pauses and conscientiously adds:] That I know of.
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[He doesn't sound judgmental about it - it's a good question, and he's trying to explain the answer.]
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