hotel: yuri

[shaft]

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[shaft]

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... I haven't heard that one before.

[ashenvaliant]

I do like to be unique.

You and Flayn were from the same Fodlan then? Dimitri sounds like he’s from one that wasn’t mine or yours, and Sylvain is currently a mystery but given he didn’t have any recognition of me at all, I wonder if he’s from a different place entirely.

Even if I assume he stuck with his original house, Dimitri seemed to recognise me. Sylvain did not.

[shaft]

Sylvain also said Byleth was a man in his Fódlan, so there's definitely something strange going on with him.

[ gross ]

But there are constants. Each one of us was thrown into war during the tail end of our time at Garreg Mach.

[ashenvaliant]

[ me getting fire emblem haven cast flashbacks with all the different timelines there were. ]

… Oh, well. That confirms it then. How weird, thinking of the Professor as a man.

[ huh. ]

Yes, that’s standard across the board. I imagine the events as they play out were not quite the same though, given everyone’s different priorities during the war.

[shaft]

Yeah, that does seem to be the point where most of the deviation occurs.

[ ... ]

So we were in the same house...

[ he's just fascinated by this ]

[ashenvaliant]

[ help. ]

Is that really so surprising?

[shaft]

[ looks at him ]

Yeah, kinda.

[ashenvaliant]

[ just a flat look. ]

And why is that.

[shaft]

My last memory of you is helping Edelgard invade Derdriu and attacking all of my friends.

So it's a bit of a shift.

[ashenvaliant]

[ he pulls a face. ]

Ah. That's awkward.

[shaft]

A little. Yeah.

[ he shrugs ]

[ashenvaliant]

Last thing I remember was Grondor.

[ hmm. ]

I'd say no one died there, but that would be lying.

[shaft]

Grondor? Byleth mentioned that when I met her at the school.

There was no battle there that I recall.

[ashenvaliant]

[ ... hm. ]

Well, there was for us. All three houses meeting on the same field five years on.

It's not as though there was any victor, but I would say we got out relatively unscathed. Edelgard retreated.

[ ... ]

[shaft]

Retreated? I can't say I was lucky enough to ever see such a thing.

How interesting... Our paths seem to be quite different.

[ashenvaliant]

[ oof. well. that’s awkward. ]

It was a mess and there’s never a good outcome to it.

Apparently. Given your apparent way of doing things, it’s not as though we dove directly into the thick of Edelgard and Dimitri’s vendetta. Not that it stopped conflict finding its way to where we were, but it was probably the biggest skirmish I can remember.

[shaft]

[ Hums thoughtfully. ]

Sounds like it... What's my endgame, anyway? Stopping Edelgard?

[ashenvaliant]

Surviving, mostly. Stopping Edelgard is a given, but not at the risk of all our lives. [ … ] Luckily things worked out a little easier than expected.

[shaft]

[ He looks... a little frustrated. ]

Funny, how differently things can go with Byleth on your side.

[ashenvaliant]

…

I don’t expect things wouldn’t have worked out with her there. She does seem to be the big variable in all our worlds. But the war wasn’t stopped by her.

[shaft]

I suppose even she has her limits.

[ he doesn't look particularly placated ]

[ashenvaliant]

[ stop trying to give his achievements to byleth although he doesn’t say anything to change his byleth hatesession. ]

[ god it would be funny if yuri was from the end and he was like and then you both got engaged and claude just stared at him like fuck oFF. ]

Outside influence does tend to blindside people.

[shaft]

[ STOP he would have a breakdown ]

And the ability to turn back time.

[ashenvaliant]

Yes. Advantageous for the people it’s used for, less for those it’s used against.

[ … ]

You said Edelgard and Byleth attacked you all at Derdriu. [ and an alternate version of yuri, apparently. ] Did they follow their apparent usual policy of getting rid of most if not all threats?

[shaft]

[ tilts his head ]

That's right.