Be a man! [Closed]

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

WHO: Issei and Lancer (Diarmuid Ua Duibhne.)
WHEN: Afternoon, October 24th.
WHERE: The park
SUMMARY: Issei would like to not die so easy, so he's going to pick up the sword apparently.
RATING: PG for training!
WARNINGS: They'll be swinging swords around.

Issei was ready for this.

...Well, no, he wasn't really.

He had done research about the proper ways to hold a sword, by Googling it. And he had found heavy objects like metal pipes to practice getting accustomed to carrying their weight. But he wasn't actually ready to train with a sword. He just didn't want to completely embarrass himself on his first day.

He wasn't one of the best students in Homurabara for nothing, though. He was studious and attentive. He would listen to every word his teacher spoke and put it to memory, and he would be able to get better.

He had also gotten there an hour early. Better safe than sorry.

Comments

[croibhristeoir]

Technically speaking, I'm twenty-five. Not so unusual, I should think.

[Beat.]

...then again, I assume the standards for what constitutes an adult aren't what I'm used to.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

...If I assume that you waited until you were the ripe age of twenty and your wife was extremely fertile, she would have killed you by the third one. If I assume that you were perhaps seventeen - I'm seventeen. I don't want to think about having children now.

[croibhristeoir]

Truthfully, I can't recall precisely--that was something of an incredibly difficult time in my life. I might have been sixteen or seventeen when we met, and she was pregnant with Donnchad perhaps a few months after.

[TOTALLY. CASUAL.]

At least I believe it was a matter of months. It was difficult to keep track in such circumstances.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

...you really don't waste any time, do you.

[He might be taking a step back from you now.]

[croibhristeoir]

[FACEPALM]

It's not--I mean, it's really not quite what it sounds like.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Many people these days do not marry nearly as young as that. Someone sixteen or seventeen would be in school still, and it would be a badge of shame to have a child then. The age where someone would be getting married for the first time would be - well, twenty-five.

[croibhristeoir]

Look, were it up to me I wouldn't have been married for quite some time. Circumstances seemed to dictate otherwise.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

That's a problem. It's bad to be lured into that kind of trap early.

[The wiles of women.]

[croibhristeoir]

...You have no idea the kind of understatement that is to me.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Because you haven't told me.

[croibhristeoir]

It's not a pleasant story. But since you know my name, it's not one I imagine would be hard to find.

[He twirled the sword around in his hand again, almost absentmindedly.]

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

It might be rude to go snooping into your past. Would you look into mine if it was available to you?

[croibhristeoir]

There's a difference; you're not a heroic spirit. I've come to expect revealing my identity goes hand in hand with an understanding of my past.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

It feels rude to me, so I won't do it.

[croibhristeoir]

Very well, forget I said anything.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

All right.

[He never forgets worrying material.]

[croibhristeoir]

[Keep bothering him about it, you're gonna get another rock thrown at you. I mean what.]

Is there anything else you think I should cover? I'm really not sure if there's much more to work with on your first day.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I think that might be enough for now, if you'd like. I don't think I'm ready to take this out at midnight, but that's a given.

[croibhristeoir]

No, of course. If I were you I would devote more time to training before risking things with one or more actual enemies.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

That makes perfect sense. I will.

[croibhristeoir]

Excellent. Do make an attempt to be more careful, would you? Emiya's hard enough to deal with normally, worse when he's shouting about something or other.

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

That idiot... You still haven't seen the worst of him. I have seen the worst of him.

[croibhristeoir]

...I shudder to think. But Saber seems to hold him in high respects, so how much worse can he really get?

[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

...Bad.

[Under his breath, in an imitation of Shirou's voice.]

"Issei, don't ask questions and just take your clothes off."

[Normal.]

I hate you so much sometimes, Emiya.

[croibhristeoir]

...I'm sorry, he said what.