[open] lookin' for the love getaway.

[babbylon]

Who: Gilgamesh and everyone visiting Heaven's Feel!
When: 5/1—5/8
Where: Caissa, Heaven's Feel storefront
What: The grand opening of Heaven's Feel, Caissa's premier matchmaking service, has arrived! Stop by for food, drinks, and some friendly fun with your fellow Heroes! ...or maybe even pick up a date, who knows.
Rating: General audiences, except for Gil's threads because he was pretty much making out with everyone. Tread carefully.

Heaven's Feel



[Maybe you've heard, or maybe you haven't, but there's a new business in town. It's plastered everywhere, posted on the side of every building and shouted from the end of every street corner in Caissa. Heaven's Feel, Heaven's Feel, come fly with the angels at Heaven's Feel! Really, who writes something so cheesy? The owner must be a real piece of work, you think, yet there's something enticing about the sound of it...

If you do decide to stop by within the first week of May, you'll find a massive celebration awaiting you: the celebration of opening day! Eager workers wave down anyone who gets close, with offers of wine tasting, sweet treats, and even speed dating. The store's interior bustles with activity as visitors fill out cute little survey cards in hopes of a hook-up. The owner in question can be found mingling in the crowd, bartending, and drawing charcoal caricatures of couples for a nominal fee.

Overall, the atmosphere is one of excitement. Hop right in! There's plenty of room for lounging on the cushy furniture, and plenty of time to find your own hottie.

...or perfectly platonic friend. Look, we're not judging or anything.]

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[babbylon]

[He's expecting an argument. A fight. Disagreement, of some kind. Accusations. You became a monster, you did the worst sorts of things, I could never join myself with you. He could picture such words from the mouth of the Saber he knew, bloody and speared through the leg on account of his own violence. He could see it. He could grasp it, unlike so much of everything else that's transpired here.

But he hears something different. Hears... understanding, so rarely shown to him by anyone else, from someone he never would've thought might extend it to him. Of course, he doesn't need it. She's right. Regardless of his behavior in the future, he was the same person. He refused to believe he fell into madness, that he acted without just cause. If he unleashed wickedness upon the world, surely there was reason for it.

A reason like his growing hatred for humanity, nursed throughout their war. But for the moment, the truth of it remains beyond him. Saber spares him, and he heeds it.]

It was...

[Gilgamesh grapples, visibly. Like her, he's still trying to reconcile her status as former enemy with current and future ally. Words that were once venomous are now quiet.]

Thoughtful of you to come today. What we once were, we may never be again, but what we stand to become—I look forward to it.

[Gilgamesh calls one of his staff over. Gilgamesh takes the plate from their hands, a plate full of sugar dumplings, and offers it to Saber. This, more than their hasty pact forged in the basement and upon the tower, seems to be a true offering of peace. ...and, well, he does know something about her nature: easily hungry.]

Hail, King of Knights, Artoria Pendragon. May her glory be known in this world as any other.

[armorial]

[ She has grown rather tame in certain aspects and learned lessons during the next Grail war, really. Even if Gilgamesh will commit many atrocities and puppeteer a sinister plot from what she remembers, he is not the same as the man in front of her. It's a verdict she would want herself if she was in the same position. To be judged for what you might or might not do weighs heavy on someone's mind, after all. As a king and a knight, she believes she can only pass judgment on what one does in the present.

Not many of her decisions are shaky, but this leaves her with some doubts. This man has the toxic potential that can ruin the lives of many, a drive that she's familiar with, but it's put to a different goal. Even if he's tolerable here, she's still not fond of him due to his actions during the war they both remember. However, she can set personal vendetta aside for the greater good.

She doesn't have plans on becoming a close ally nor becoming fond of him. This will be a professional acquaintanceship where he offers her food, she takes it, they train, they fight alongside each other, and that's it. Squinting at him, she can still hold some grudges. ]

You give me too much credit. I came not for you, but to see the nature of your business. [ There's a small vehement huff. It's part of her silent investigation that would deem him dangerous or harmless. Don't talk to her like they hold anything more than what they were and are. Perhaps she may have been too kind, so she'll slip a warning to clarify. ] If you ever step out of line, we will be on different sides once more.

... I'm not one for offerings. [ She says as she takes a dumpling and eats it. ]

[babbylon]

But you are one for sweets.

[Strike one.]

And for food.

[Strike two.]

And since I am offering them in all my generosity and my benevolence, you are naturally attracted to my presence. As well you should be, as you may have failed to understand before but I am most willing to educate you now, I am no mere Servant but a true King of Kings, and therefore it is only right and just you would find yourself enamored, for though we cannot become once were, we may become even greater, and I would show you the true glory of Gilgamesh, in all my...

[Strike three. He's outta there! But it wasn't so bad while it lasted, was it? Maybe there really is more to this man than meets the eye. Maybe. Possibly. Just not right now.]