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"Bring peace to Chantes, and restore the sun."

I've seen and heard a lot of talk over how we're meant to accomplish this task.

To those of you who are new and those who have been here from the start, I'm curious- ideally, how would you like to see such a goal accomplished?

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[selfimage]

[ now she's curious. ]

Is that what you want? To forever be a Servant?
Not what you are, of course.

What you want.

[ but she's a creature of chaos, and she'll always be a creature of chaos. there are dominos to be pushed in all directions, regardless of the messes made (which, to her, is a very broad term—messes). ]

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[ What does he want?

Someone else asked him the same thing, on this very post, in fact, and truthfully, he knows the answer to that question. He already tried, in his own way, to achieve that one, heartfelt desire -- the one that's been raging inside him ever since he first realized the foolishness of what he'd done.

He was granted one chance at freedom, a chance that wasn't truly a chance, but in the end, he couldn't even deliver the final blow.

It's sobering. Everything about his life has been, and if he ever had any hope to speak of, he doesn't anymore. ]

What I want is an impossibility.

[ The peace he would have found in death when he threw away his afterlife for a meaningless ideal. Heroic Spirits, once recorded, can never be erased, and freedom isn't something he dares to think he could ever have. ]

The fate of those who serve Alaya cannot be altered.

[ His dream might have been a beautiful thing, and he might not have been wrong, but it doesn't change the fact that he will always have regrets. ]

[selfimage]

[ she can spot omission when she sees it. ]

Come ON- that just sounds like you've given up.
If fate can't be altered, then Chantes would have its subjective "happy ending" without us. Well, according to you, anyway.

Don't you think it's a little funny?
ALASTAIR. Timelines. FATE.
The whole you being here and all.
Right in the middle of it.

[ there was something horrible that she was waiting to become back home, and in all of her defiance, she had refused. it would be better for Asgard if she accepted that fate, allowed her mother to box her, become that evil, wicked King Loki who did nothing but sow his personal brand of selfish destruction to revel in the smug satisfaction of the ruin he reaped.

they had been caught before but what would be called fate; the gods circling through an endless cycle of life just to die, becoming fodder for those who pulled their strings. once they broke those strings?

the Asgardians denied their free future, all they wanted was the comfort of an end—not even a happy one. it was sickening to watch them all wander purposelessly, untied and broken.

what ever happened to making your own future? ]

And that wasn't really an answer.

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There is a difference between altering fate and preserving a timeline which has become frayed.

[ It's a fine line, but it's there all the same. ]

The place where Heroic Spirits are recorded is displaced from space and time. Though I am here, my eternal 'true self' still rests within the vault where heroes of many different eras also reside.

It was a choice I made -- to remain apart from the cycle of life, death, and rebirth in exchange for power, a miracle I could not otherwise obtain -- and even if I were to go back in time to that very moment, the time when I made that choice or before, this 'self' of mine would not disappear.

There is no sorcery I know of, in this world or any other, that can break such a contract.

That is why my answer remains the same.

[ It cannot be done. ]

[selfimage]

Do you hear that? That's the sound of you killing the hope boner.

Rules in certain worlds are rules in those worlds. You've been outside enough, haven't you? Some things are harder to change when resonance is involved. Belief can be a powerful thing when it seeps around the seems.
But it's just ideas.

Luckily for you you're about to learn a great deal about other worlds.

[ don't let fate win, Archer. ]

Consider this an opportunity to let that boner raise high.

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[ A "hope boner"...really, Loki?

Archer stares at the message for a long moment before he answers. Yes, he knows belief is powerful. It was the one, slim chance he had of success -- if he could break Shirou's spirit coupled with the paradox involved in the two of them existing together in the same time, one slaying the other, then...

But no. Hope is something that's been crushed far too many times for him to trust it. He'll watch and see what happens, take any opportunities presented, but hope?

He doesn't think he can take another disappointment. ]

You have a way with words.

[ It's hard to tell if that text is meant to be sarcastic. Mostly, he just isn't sure how else to describe it. ]

Only time will tell.