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- ✝ alistair [dragon age],
- ✝ arthur pendragon [merlin],
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- ✝ harry flynn [uncharted 2],
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- ✝ saber (fate/stay night),
- ✝ vin [mistborn trilogy]
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[somewhere out beyond the city there begins the shakiest video post ever. it's clear that whoever handles this device is not accustomed to using anything like it--but eventually, it rights itself, with some muttering and swearing, and then hello, there's Arthur, in his full armor, standing in the barren outlands. there's a smudge of dirt and blood on his forehead, but otherwise he's very clean and presentable and princely (all indignity of technological unfamiliarity aside).]
I am Prince Arthur of Camelot, recently brought to this place. I do not take kindly to being pressed into service, but as our captors have said, they have no choice in our being here. [yeah right. even with his princeface on, he sneers a little at that. but.]
If we take what we have been told as truth--that there is a force that threatens all of our kingdoms--then our way is clear. We are not united, but this threat gives us common cause. [though the way his mouth tightens when he says that indicates how very not pleased he is by that.] I am not content to wait to be told what to do when my kingdom is threatened. So it falls then to us, to organize ourselves. The training sessions that this Initiative provides--I have found them to be wanting, yet they can be used to our purposes, should we chose to.
But we must first know what strength is ours, and what weapons we have been given. No force can be organized without this information. And if this United Earth presumes to steal resources from our kingdoms, we must know what it is that they would look to steal, so we can better protect against these threats when the time comes. And it had best come soon.
I have set the task of collecting this information to my servant, Merlin, wherever the idiot's gotten off to. He will ask each of you in turn, or else you may come to him.
[and you will answer, that's the message here, and with an imperious nod, he reaches to--fumble around with the device again, and the rest of this is muttering.]
Damn-- thing--
I am Prince Arthur of Camelot, recently brought to this place. I do not take kindly to being pressed into service, but as our captors have said, they have no choice in our being here. [yeah right. even with his princeface on, he sneers a little at that. but.]
If we take what we have been told as truth--that there is a force that threatens all of our kingdoms--then our way is clear. We are not united, but this threat gives us common cause. [though the way his mouth tightens when he says that indicates how very not pleased he is by that.] I am not content to wait to be told what to do when my kingdom is threatened. So it falls then to us, to organize ourselves. The training sessions that this Initiative provides--I have found them to be wanting, yet they can be used to our purposes, should we chose to.
But we must first know what strength is ours, and what weapons we have been given. No force can be organized without this information. And if this United Earth presumes to steal resources from our kingdoms, we must know what it is that they would look to steal, so we can better protect against these threats when the time comes. And it had best come soon.
I have set the task of collecting this information to my servant, Merlin, wherever the idiot's gotten off to. He will ask each of you in turn, or else you may come to him.
[and you will answer, that's the message here, and with an imperious nod, he reaches to--fumble around with the device again, and the rest of this is muttering.]
Damn-- thing--
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Running a bit late, aren't you?
[Rex quondam rexque futurus, and all that.]
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[Now that she's had her bit of fun, she's not going to push, since he's introducing himself as Prince Arthur, and all that stuff with Merlin's temporal confusion is in The Once and Future King, anyway, which is hardly canonical.]
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Not the other Prince Arthur, perhaps. The one that was here before? [soooo sarcastic. he's seen evidence of this but it's ridiculous to even consider.]
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[You are not behaving like a king, kid. Trust her; she knows a king or six.
And hey, maybe the game will get an Aquaman and they really will have a King Arthur kicking around.]
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Was he a Pendragon?
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[She's never met the Arthur who exists in her universe, but she's totally read Le Morte d'Arthur, so it's basically the same thing, right?]
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I've been told of the sorcery that can change time. Perhaps this Pendragon is--a descendant. He is king of Albion, I suppose?
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[She's read a lot of Arthurian legend, okay.]
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[Emma shrugs, and I finally get to use this icon.]
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Then he is no Pendragon.
[or else a pretender. or else-- Morgana, he thinks, but no, that is not a thought he will allow.]
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[He was talking about Merlin, which to her at least implies a tolerance of magic.]
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And why is that?
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"Camelot knows this danger"...you've seen it?
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Yes. I have seen it work betrayal.
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Is that the fault of the sorcery, or the sorcerer?
[She's being a bit Socratic, but the idea of a Camelot that's not lousy with magic is weird to her.]
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[in answer to her question, he snorts--not particularly amused, but it's still amusingly (frustratingly) circular.]
It doesn't work like that.
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[The Phoenix.]
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