[Forward-dated to tommorrow because all the cool kids are doing it.]

[unknownrival]

Everyone here seems to be a great, noble hero, or else a powerful villain, or else someone who has to save the world, or at the very least someone famous and important. I'm not even that important in my hometown, let alone my country or world.

This place can make me feel... small, sometimes. Unimportant. Uninteresting. And weak.

Every time I've truly needed to do something, I couldn't accomplish it. When Caster kidnapped Midou, I couldn't stop Kuzuki from being killed for the second time. Shirou survived whatever Einzbern did, but it wasn't because of me. Who knows? Rider might be right, I might have made things worse. And Archer - I'd give anything to free Archer from his fate, but what can I do? I'm no one. I can't help him at all.

It's surprising that anyone here even notices my existence.

Comments

[priestessbound.livejournal.com]

I am just as small as you, if it makes you feel better...

[stripping.livejournal.com]

That can't be right. You're at least someone important where you are.

[priestessbound.livejournal.com]

Not...really? I am the daughter of someone important, but only on a very small scale. I mean, aside from our name being attached to the inn, no one knows me.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

You're still more important than me. You'll become head of the inn one day, I'll just be a monk.

Important things could happen to you, even. I know that's not the case for me.

[priestessbound.livejournal.com]

I...guess. That's not very important though.

Maybe. but nothing ever happens in Inaba.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

But the future's not set in stone. Couldn't something interesting happen?

[priestessbound.livejournal.com]

Well...yes. That is true, I suppose.

It just doesn't feel like it will, you know?

[stripping.livejournal.com]

But it could. As long as it isn't set in stone, there's always a chance.

[on-a-whitehorse.livejournal.com]

...Wait you did all that IRL?

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Yes. This isn't actually a game-related forum.

((Oh, and I was told a Guileastos might app here soon~))

[on-a-whitehorse.livejournal.com]

I know I know, okay? What I'm trying to say is that even if you're trying, that alone means a lot. Fame is not a virtue or something worthwhile, I'd rather be unnoticed a lot of the time - and it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what you've actually done. If I had an EXP for every overblown reputation I ran across I'd hit the max level cap.

It's what you do to help others that matters, what you go out of your way to help with, even if you don't succeed.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

That's - I didn't think of it that way before.

Thank you.

[on-a-whitehorse.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it.


((Also omg yey about the Gui~! I forgot to add that onto my last post >_>))

[stripping.livejournal.com]

I didn't catch your name the last time we spoke?

[on-a-whitehorse.livejournal.com]

Prince. And you are?

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Issei Ryudo. It's nice to meet you, Prince.

[steelisblood.livejournal.com]

At least you can have an existence of your own choosing.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

That isn't really saying much.

I'm sorry, Archer. I don't know how I'm supposed to help you.

[steelisblood.livejournal.com]

No one can, and besides, I'm not worth trying for.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

Don't say that! You think I want to let you suffer that fate for all eternity? You don't deserve that!

[steelisblood.livejournal.com]

Why, it's a suitable punishment for a mass murderer.

[stripping.livejournal.com]

That isn't true! Everything you did while alive was because you wanted to save more people, and anything after you died wasn't your fault!