1st round: audio

[caladvwlch]

[ The message comes at around 9pm, hopefully before anyone's gone to bed. There's a light shuffling of sheets before you hear the voice. The voice speaking is distinctly feminine. Although she seems firm, there a small hint of questioning. ]

May I request more information about "New Years Resolutions"? I understand they are usually "self-betterment" requests for oneself, however, is this always the case? In addition, may I hear about resolutions you yourself have possessed in the past?

This may be a private topic, and I understand if you do not wish to reveal your intentions to me.

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[gandrtails]

Saber!

[ LOL IGNORES THE QUESTION FOREVER. ]

Y-You're here! When did you get here?! Where's Emiya-kun?!

video;

[caladvwlch]

Begging your pardon? I am only acquainted with an Emiya Kiritsugu.

[ HOO DIS. HOO EMIYA-KUN???????? ]

video;

[gandrtails]

You mean... Shirou's father?

[ OK, so it looked like this version of Saber is from the past or something. She shakes her head slightly. ]

My name is Rin Tohsaka. We'll meet in the future.

video;

[caladvwlch]

In the future?

Explain yourself, for surely you are not in jest.

filter;

[gandrtails]

There is another Grail War after the fourth one.

video; filtered FOREVER

[caladvwlch]

[ She is HARDLY surprised... more surprised at how she recognizes her and the title, which means-. ]

Was I summoned into the Fifth Holy Grail War as well?

filtered so hard motherfuckers wanna fine us

[gandrtails]

Gold star for you. To make a long story short, I'm technically your master due to some... Unfortunate events.

[ DROPPING THE BALL ON THAT ONE. ]

fresh fine and filtered

[caladvwlch]

Do you have proof of these "events"?

[ Not that she doesn't want to believe you it's just hard to believe you without proof, you know? ]

ey girl lemme show you my filter

[gandrtails]

Are you serious? [ SIGH. She holds up her hand, showing the command seals. ] Is this enough proof? I can't exactly time travel, so...

demo tohsaka-senpai we can't show our filters here

[caladvwlch]

Very well.

[ Although Rin can't exactly prove that she's Saber's master specifically, she can however, prove that there is a Fifth Holy Grail War. The irritation in her voice serves that unless Rin was lying, then what she was saying, and these events, were true. ]

Who is this "Shirou Emiya?"

let your filter hang out kouhai

[gandrtails]

[ She may be manipulative sometimes, but Rin never lies about this type of stuff. She puts her hand down and clicks her tongue. ]

You could say he was your previous master. The Caster in the fifth war used her Noble Phantasm on you and severed your contract with him. She... Ended up taking his command spells.

but filter-senpai, no !!11

[caladvwlch]

That is... possible?

filter-senpai says follow your dreams

[gandrtails]

Surprisingly, yes. We had to rescue you.

but filterin-senpai doushite

[caladvwlch]

[ She's a bit offended, ok no she's extremely offended by playing damsel in distress because it JUST ISN'T HER STYLE. Grr Caster grr, must all Casters be this horrible, etc. ]

... Thank you, for the rescue.

[ EXTREMELY bitter sounding; but not angry at you. ]

because filters

[gandrtails]

[ Nods. She can tell you're upset, Saber. She decides to drop the subject for now, but not after some food for thought. ]

Sometimes things spiral out of control and we can't do everything on our own as much as we want to.

Anyway, my other servant is here as well. He's really obnoxious though, among other things. [ DUMB DIRTY SARCASTIC TWO-TIMING BACKSTABBER WHO TRIES TO KILL HIS PAST SELF AAAAARRRRRGGHHHHHH. ]

filters are the answers to everything

[caladvwlch]

[ Fine she'll reflect on that later but, another servant? The only other servant that fits the description she knows is--]

Then Kiritsugu's son, Archer, was your servant before me?

of course filters are they're filters

[gandrtails]

Yes. [ she's not gonna go into detail about how she lost him. ] But it seems like these gods want to mess with me via past, so now he's back in my life. It's such a bother.

[ there's a pause. ]

... Archer's true identity is EMIYA. [ Saber's smart enough to put two and two together. After all, she did mention that Shirou Emiya is Kiritsugu's son. ]

1/2

[caladvwlch]

[ Give her a moment she's trying to make sense of all of this, she's smart but the whole time travelling thing is enough to give her a headache.]

2/3 I lied

[caladvwlch]

[ Wait a second. ]

3/3

[caladvwlch]

My master... becomes your servant at some point? Or has he always been Archer, and 'Shirou EMIYA' his identity?

[ The hipster archer. ]

STILL A FILTER but everyone knows that

[gandrtails]

Shirou Emiya becomes Archer in the future. He becomes my servant after I tried summoning a saber class servant. So in short, he turns into Archer.

[ There's a pause. ]

Shirou is a nice boy. Please don't judge him based on my Archer's actions. Even so, he doesn't want to admit it, but Archer's still Shirou whether he likes it or not.

merry filtermas

[caladvwlch]

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A time paradox? [ YOU BROKE SABER. Where's Merlin gdi he needs to explain time shenanigans for her. ]

happy filter year

[gandrtails]

Something like that. [ Second Magic, too. ] Archer probably won't talk about it though. He's bitter about everything.

we wish you a merry filtermas and a filter new year

[caladvwlch]

I... see. [ This is all confusing for her to handle. ]

And his relationship with Kiritsugu, what do you know of that?

at least it's not DEENMAS

[gandrtails]

As I said, Archer is Kiritsugu's son.

... Kiritsugu is not alive in the future, if I remember correctly. [ It wasn't something she really thought about. ] So it's hard to say what Archer thinks of his father now. [ Other than abandoning his ideals of being a hero. ]