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Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Outriders

I'm fine with either 2 or 4, personally.

Fate/Eternum — Reboot

Alter Ego — Meltryllis

Nanako pointing out the supposed 'upside' of her injury only caused Meltryllis to roll her eyes in mild exasperation. She had expected her Master to be somewhat less gung-ho about her injury, even if it had almost healed, and touting the lack of use of an arm was nothing to feel happy about.

Doubly so, given her own lack of properly functioning arms, but that was that and this was this.

Once she had finished her preparations and opened the door for her to lead the way, though, Meltryllis nodded and obliged, stepping out of the apartment (properly) before waiting for her Master to lock the place up.

"So we're going to get you something to eat so you don't end up starving, right?" she asked, crossing her arms as she waited Nanako to finish before walking with her to the elevator. "Do you have anywhere in mind, or are we simply going to wander about until something catches your fancy?"

It wasn't as if she knew much about what shops there were on the ground as opposed to what she had seen from moving from building to building over the last few days; her knowledge of what was at ground level was limited almost wholly to what she had witnessed on their first few excursions, and no more. That lack of information, as nonessential as it was, bothered her.

"I don't mind either way, though."

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Yu☆Gi☆Oh!: Outriders

I'll get a post up in a bit. Was trying to finish up a paper before sitting down to focus on this.

Fate/Eternum — Reboot

Alter Ego — Meltryllis

It was, admittedly, a bit surprising that Nanako had decided to head outside today rather than order food; the purple-haired Alter Ego had fully expected her to dawdle about in her room—doubly so, given her injury—but at this point she supposed that there was no point in pushing for her to stay behind. In many ways, escorting her to whatever place she decided she wanted to eat at was likely safer than playing rooftop guard again. As much as she wanted to get a better feel for her surroundings, Meltryllis had to admit: it was a lot easier marking locations mentally at ground level despite an aerial view making scoping out the area far easier.

Well, that and the fact that those skyscrapers made it difficult to move about without being spotted. She still despised the prosthetic limnbs that Nanako had forced her to use in public, but at this point, it was better than drawing more unneeded attention at this point.

"Fine, fine," she complained, materializing the prosthetic limbs in question before standing back up. "I'll keep you to that promise, then. I'm not going to let you get away with doing anything rash, though, so do keep that in mind."

A few days ago, going along with her Master like this would be near-intolerable, but at this point, there was some semblance of obligation to at least keep her alive. As blockheaded as she had been, it would have been unbecoming of her to let her get into trouble after going so far as to throw herself in front of an arrow like that.

"I'll wait until you're ready. You're the one in need here, not me."

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Fate/Eternum — Reboot

Alter Ego — Meltryllis

When her Master showed that her injury had all but subsided, Meltryllis sighed before crossing her arms and leaning back into her seat. Both of them were aware of her inability to do much of anything to make things slightly more bearable as the arm in question healed, which obviously included preparing or producing any sort of food or drink. As far as she could tell, there wasn't actually anything she could actually do besides play bodyguard at the moment. It was a bit of a shame, but after that incident, even she would prefer to play it safe if possible.

"Well, if it's just about healed, then I guess that those Casters really are something special," she scoffed, motioning with one arm towards Nanako's injured arm before hearing the sound of her Master's stomach growling.

"...Well, if you're a human, I guess it can't be helped. Are you going to call for food again? If so, I'm leaving; there's no point in me staying around and causing needless panic if it's for a simple meal."

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Fate/Eternum — Reboot

No, no, we understand how Servants can be summoned in different classes. The question was regarding the justification for Caster class in particular as a supposed 'best class' more than anything else.

And 'Noble Phantasm' and 'Skill' refer to two different things. There are active and passive Noble Phantasms, but a 'Noble Phantasm skill' is just a confusing way of referring to... Anything, really.

Fate/Eternum — Reboot

I mean, fixing it is fine and all, but Vita was asking for an explanation, not necessarily for a fix re: Caster (yet). It'd be appreciated if that, at least, could be answered.

I mean, no problems if it's excised entirely of course, but... Still.

Fate/Eternum — Reboot

@LukasVolkov: That argument is fundamentally flawed. On multiple levels, actually.

The Nasuverse has a confirmed precedent for noting that Servants closer to the Age of Gods are more powerful than those of the modern era, as we can clearly see by Gilgamesh's power relative to... Pretty much everyone that might fall under the 'modern' bracket. What you're essentially describing—at least, as far as I can tell—is that an Olympic archer could shoot as well as an ancient-era archer on horseback, regardless of scenario. Even placing aside relative skill, you cannot say with the utmost confidence that you could place the two into the same in-combat scenario and expect ANY sort of comparable result.

Or, if we want an example focused around Heroic Spirits, comparing Orion and William Tell. A man who can hunt and kill any thing alive, as opposed to a guy who shot an apple off the top of his son's head? No contest, match in Orion's favor.

It just doesn't work. Period.

Also, yeah, what Rain said.

Fate/Eternum — Reboot

-has been watching from the sidelines as I clear Olympus-

Okay, uh... No? Being able to match the strongest Saber in-lore (cited multiple times throughout pretty much all of Fate) despite being a comparatively modern Servant in a setting where relative age compared to the present tends to be a good indicator of skill? Don't think so.

That'd be like saying you could match Lancelot head-on, which... Logically isn't possible either.

Fate/Eternum — Reboot

Alter Ego — Meltryllis

The days following the incident with the Shadow Servants had left Meltryllis with a distinct lack of anything to do. With her Master out of commission from doing one of the dumbest things she could have imagined a human doing, it was a wonder to the Alter Ego that she was even alive right now. Questioning the logic behind such an action was impossible so long as she was unconscious, of course, and she planned to thoroughly berate the girl on her stupidity, but that would have to wait until she woke up.

It made sense, then, to spend the next few days exploring the city; so long as her Master was not dead, then she wouldn't have to rely on Independent Action to continue manifesting. Though wandering around at ground level was next to impossible due to her legs (and her dislike of the prosthetics that her Master had chosen), leaping from rooftop to rooftop was not.

After two days of exploring on her own, Meltryllis was surprised to find that her Master had actually managed to recover enough to break out of her coma. It was surprising how slow humans were to recover, but given the current year that sort of issue could not have been helped.

The following days had been a far simpler affair; a doctor would come to Nanako's room, check on her condition, and leave; it only took a few days of checking in and treatment before the arm had begun to set properly, which meant that she could be sent home with little issue.

Needless to say, Meltryllis made sure that she was at least able to get home without issue before resuming on her daily outing. The freedom compared to the first few days she had been with her Master felt like a breath of fresh air, and she was more than willing to take advantage of that time for herself.

It wasn't like Nanako was often conscious for more than a few hours at a time thanks to her medication, either. She was slowly recovering enough to not require painkillers, at least, which meant that spending most of her time sleeping was also coming to a close.

With that said, though, the purple-haired Alter Ego's return to her Master's home this time coincided with Nanako's own awakening—a fact that Meltryllis did not fail to acknowledge as she entered the apartment through the window.

"Oh? It's rare to see you lost in thought," she remarked, taking a seat across from Nanako, a single eyebrow raised as she looked at the girl in curiosity. "Has the pain finally gone away, then? I should think that a broken bone wouldn't be that debilitating, but what do I know?"

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