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[fujimaru]

Ritsuka Fujimaru | 藤丸 立香
19(?) / F / Who knows!!

This is Ritsuka! Leave a message and I'll get back to you.

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[owarifool]

[ He didn't send another message, which by the time he was on her floor, he realized was probably a mistake, but he just sort of... rushed out as soon as he was sure he was presentable. Late as it was, he was pretty sure few else would be up and about, so he couldn't really pretend it wasn't for her sake, either.

The only familiar faces were either others from Chaldea he didn't care enough to know well, or familiar names attached to people from other worlds. The only person to truly know him was here. And something about that he just... he felt like it couldn't settle in his chest. The entire time he paced to her door, he felt like he was going to come apart at the seams.

He'd taken for granted that she wasn't there and now...

He knocks. He isn't sure what to do once the door opens, but... he knocks. ]

[fujimaru]

--One sec!

[ There's shuffling inside, before Ritsuka opens the door.

She looks him over carefully, then nods, satisfied. Yeah, she knows this face, and she immediately breaks into a little smile. It's a relief, honestly, to have another person she recognizes who also actually knows her. ]

Hey. It is you. C'mon.

[ And saying that, she steps aside to let him enter. ]

8/12, early afternoon

[impostorsyndrome]

[Around lunchtime, Ritsuka gets a text, as promised:]

Hey.

[Very eloquent.]

[fujimaru]

[ Is it fair to be surprised? Maybe not, but she is; she has to squint at the phone for a few seconds before she decides: okay, fine. ]

Hey (・_・)ノ
Before you ask, no I am not doing anything right now

🛡️ shear determination (slams in here late, sorry about that!!)

[fooligans]

[ Akira has so many questions about tiny sheep. Why are they so small? And why can they breathe fire? He'd love to look for answers online, but one of the sheep panics all of a sudden and starts spitting fireballs left and right. ]

Ah— [ He tries to gently pet it with his index finger which, unfortunately, makes the sheep even more anxious. ] Uh...

[ The least he can do is to put down the tiny fires to prevent this nervous sheep as well as its friends from getting burned. To avoid damage, one of them shuffles closer to Ritsuka. ]

I think I'm very baaad at this...can you help me out?

°˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° hello hello

[fujimaru]

[ Was that on purpose? That had totally been on purpose, right?! She's not the only one who sometimes makes stupid dad jokes, here?!

What it means is that Ritsuka chokes on an undignified sort of laugh before she covers her mouth. Oops. ]

Mehhh... I can give it a shot?

[ It's not like she's actually indifferent, but if he did mean the bad sheep pun, she has to return it. It's like the law, or something. ]

Delivery >> 25th December, Morning

[peninhand]

[ A small package arrives at her place on the morning of Christmas. Inside is a book about a heroine who doesn't believe herself to be one and who seemingly keeps succeeding through incredible luck, though there is obviously something more than luck about it all.

There is a poem on the card, about heroes and the future. It's signed by Monika. ]

dec 25th gift delivery

[owarifool]

[ it's


it's a skull cup.

merry shitscram, master. ]

dec 25th gift delivery

[beaumains]

[ Ritsuka getting spoiled with 1) a box of homemade truffles, 2) a hand stitched fleece cap, 3) and thanks to her practicing her alchemy she also managed to make a fairly lovely necklace, with a pendent made from topaz.

A card reads; ]

"May the coming year find you well, and all years thereafter, my Master!"

backdated to 12/21

[luciing]

[ This morning, a familiar owl will deliver a package to her, one that isn't a dead snowhare. Instead, it drops a parcel tied up in a blue ribbon.

Within it are a pair of earrings. The primary stone is laboradite, obtained from this realm's Lotus Pod Mountain. In certain lighting, it shimmers like a borealis. A handwritten note accompanies the gift.

August are the auroras that shimmer as twilight. Yuletidings. ]

xmas gift package

[beewulf]

[Look out Master! You just a box with some new hair scrunchies in it, along with a cute dress to match them! (He probably had some help picking it out for her....). And one of these things. The only thing written on it is From Beowulf. So straightforward!]

February 14th - Late Night [Text]

[scriptwriter]

[Now Valentine's Day night should be a quiet night where couples go on dates and get comfy with one another. But Tennouji Kotarou did not anyone special for this day to do anything lovey-dovey with. In fact, he was going through some heartbreak over not getting the SSR character for today. But he did, however, get a special gift from the fae and he was eager to test this. Now he could've tested this himself... But you could never trust a fae and what they were up to.

That's why he needed an assistant for this. Best comes to best, they could sing praises about his noble endeavor! Worst comes to worst, he'd have a meatshield if this thing exploded! Ritsuka felt like a girl who'd try almost anything once, so he unceremoniously texts her.]

FUJI-TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
ARE YOU AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE (゜Д゜;)

[fujimaru]

[ One assumes that at some point, Ritsuka did throw a box of girichoco at his face, though she hadn't lingered for long; it had been mostly a here you go I'll see you later I've gotta go find everyone else on my list kind of thing. Chaldea had more people, but at least they were all relatively easy to find! This Camelot is a full-fledged city! It's huge! Especially for a girl on foot!

But by now she's done, and she's been lying facedown on her bed for maybe about ten minutes. The buzzing of her phone makes has her responding, though she squints at the message. Maybe she should leave him on read-- ]

I never sleep lmao ◉_◉
What's up??

a seasonal gift! [ backdated to the 14th ]

[hitokiri]

[ a gold-wrapped box arrives! inside is a pretty sizeable chocolate bar, but fortunately, it's the kind you can snap pieces off of to eat in responsible amounts. of all the gifts that got sent out, ritsuka's actually has a little card attached: ]

You said before that chocolate is important to give to people this time of year even if it was technically the other you but it still counts.

Happy Valentine's Day!

[ someone else definitely wrote it out because it's not izō's handwriting nor would he have probably ended it with happy valentine's day but that's fine. it's the thought that counts! and since getting chocolate once stuck with him as Meaningful, now he can return the favour and then never talk about it ever because that also counts? ]

Action; backdated to 02/14

[unfalteringwall]

[Here comes Mash, peeking around the corner to Ritsuka’s room. She’s trying to play it cool but her body language is definitely giving away her nervousness. Even though she’s done this exchange every year now, it doesn’t seem to get much easier.]

Senpai, do you have a moment?

[fujimaru]

[ Ritsuka had been lying facedown on the bed--let's assume this is after she's gone on her madcap dash around the city, looking for people. But at the sound of Mash's voice, she does lift her head, smiling and rolling over on her bed, patting the space next to her. ]

For you? Always.

action; mid-May

[impostorsyndrome]

[We're going a-huntin', folks!

Not in the same way Kadoc would usually mean that, if he ever said such a thing, which he wouldn't. But if he did, he'd probably be referring to actual hunting, not some stupid scavenger hunt app game. The thing is, it's been months at this point since he was comfortable with any of the quests, and he hasn't needed the income anyway—but now things have gotten leaner at the shelter, as the stables bring in less income and he burns through some of his savings to keep the animals cared for, and it's time to dip his toes back in now that a quest has finally appeared that isn't about fucking or murdering anyone.

And he doesn't know how it happened, but by now, he has a usual Fetch Quest buddy, and it only made sense to hit her up to attack this as a team and split the winnings.

He's standing on his porch with her now, pulling up the app on his phone while they both watch the screen.]

. . . Should I start it? Damn, I feel like we're just asking for something stupid to happen. I can't trust Technomancy. Maybe I really am a magus.

[fujimaru]

As long as it doesn't do anything weird like lead us to a monster nest or anything, it's probably fine.

[ Technomancy is just magic! It's just magic, with computers! Ritsuka is too much a child of the internet age to really have any intrinsic distrust of what might happen. She goes onto her toes a little to peer over his shoulder at the phone screen. ]

This wasn't a dark web thing, right? As long as it's not, we'll be fine.

early June / text: un: bladeworks

[unknowntodeath]

Hey, it's Emiya. Can I talk to you about some things?

[He's sort of curious about Chaldea and stuff. But also other things, maybe.]

I can prepare you a meal if you'd like.

[fujimaru]

[ !! As if Ritsuka would ever turn down the offer of a meal. ]

I would be happy to talk! ♪(´▽｀)
Should I come meet you somewhere?

/video

[gilgamess]

[ lately this Arthuriana-infused world has certainly seen a number of happenings, has it not? though this world may not be his garden, the King of Heroes is not one to remain outside the know or to sit idly by, especially not where adventure is concerned. ... granted, he is also not in the habit of asking for information or assistance: a Wise King does not simply seek directions from peasants.

but today, he looks rather jovial, having been refining his magic and getting out and about and possibly getting into things. not since the encounter in the Dusklight Forest -- their journey completed successfully, like old times, at least -- has Gilgamesh seen the one whom he would, under other circumstances, identify as the Master. knowing Ritsuka, she and Mash have not been idle. ]

Fujimaru Ritsuka!

[ naturally they need no preamble here. ]

You may rejoice, for today I am giving you the great honor of telling me about recent events within this world, as well as your own adventures of late.

[ and, somewhat unusually, not doing so from the position of a throne. how circumstances have changed for the two of them. ]

[fujimaru]

[ Ah. When the video call comes through, Ritsuka is in the process of eating--cup noodles, because what is actually doing something reasonable like cooking actual food or whatever? So she blinks slowly as he makes his announcement, then slurps up the last of her noodles. ]

Good afternoon to you too, your Majesty.

[ It is an almost-deadpan response, but she does put the cup down after that. ]

I can do that, but--maybe in person? Instead of over a chat.

text; un: bladeworks

[unknowntodeath]

Hey. This is out of the blue, but just out of curiosity. Do you know how do the vessels for heroic spirits like Ereshkigal get determined?

[It's just Rin and Ereshkigal and how Rin ended up as her vessel, really.]

[fujimaru]

Mmmmmm, kind of? o(*￣▽￣*)ブ
A lot of it went over my head
But for Ereshkigal, I think it's partly tied to Ishtar?

text; un: wolfcountry

[impostorsyndrome]

[So, they'd discussed grabbing food together sometime, just, you know, as friends. Definitely not as a date thing, haha! And then Kadoc had eaten himself alive overthinking it: what it meant, and what he wanted it to mean, and what he was capable of saying about what he wanted it to mean. And finally, he'd reached the very mature decision to . . .

not outright say anything about it that would destroy all plausible deniability, but still. It happens that one afternoon he texts Ritsuka a link to a menu to a Place. It's a place they can go eat. It's maybe something similar to this place in its tone and menu, just, you know, with an Arthurian flair. And with that:]

How's here tomorrow night at 6? My treat.

[And she can, you know, draw her own conclusions, and turn him down if she wants, or not, and either way in the meantime he'll shove his head under a pillow.]

[fujimaru]

[ It's not that she'd forgotten--if anything, she's been anxiously circling her phone over what if? today? should I invite him instead??, and always punking out at the last second.

Her hands are shaking a little when she recognizes the screenname, and the menu is...

...

...Does he know this is a date place? He has to, right? This isn't a place you take someone as a "sorry about the really awkward time we had in a sex toy shop." This is a place you take someone you would introduce to your roommates, or whatever. Ahhhh?!

But finally, after a couple of seconds to stare blankly at her phone, considering: ]

Sounds good to me!!!! ( •̀ ω •́ )✧
Everything looks really good
I'm looking forward to it!

[ Nailed it?! ]