The Holy Grail War meme!

[theothermist]

The HOLY GRAIL WAR Meme
Seven Masters, magi of the present day. Seven Servants, heroes of days past. One Holy Grail, granting whomever claims it a wish. Only one team of Master and Servant may claim it. Who will it be?

For those unfamiliar with Fate/stay night or Fate/Zero, you can find a better explanation of the Holy Grail War here. (Note: The Holy Grail War in Fate/EXTRA functions in a dramatically different way, and one not followed for purposes of this meme.)

Instructions
1. Comment with your character. In the subject line, put that character's name, canon, and which role (Master, Servant, or either) you would like them to fulfill. Add other preferences if you would like. (NOTE: If your character can fill the role of Servant, I suggest you state which class(es) -- Saber, Lancer, Archer, Rider, Caster, Assassin, or Berserker -- they fall into.)
2. Reply to others' comments. Pick your character's role (and the other character's if they list "Either" as their preference), then use the RNG to pick a scenario that fits the two characters' roles.
3. Enjoy! Though there might be triggers, depending on how the prompts are interpreted.



TWO MASTERS

1. Battle. Who says that Servants get to have all the fun? After all, most Masters try to kill each other, too. Whatever the circumstances, the two of you are locked in a fight. Neither of you are willing to use your Command Spells just yet, so no Servants here. Just two magi duking it out.

2. Alliance. There's a bigger threat out there. Either one Servant is exceptionally powerful, or the situation has changed and the participants need to take action aginst it. One way or another, you're teamed up with one of your rivals for the Holy Grail. How long will this last before you try to stab each other in the back? Or, will something more develop?

3. Protection. Uh-oh! One of you has lost your Servant! Unfortunately, there's no way you'd get to the church safely on your own, so the other one will help you get there! Or maybe you don't trust the priest presiding over the Holy Grail War and are giving shelter to them yourself? Given their track record, no one would blame you.

4. Death. One or both of you lay dying. It might have been by the other's hand, or by someone else's entirely. How will you spend your last moments in the presence of one of your rivals?

5. You, Too? Surprise! You may have been friends before, but you've just discovered that you're both Masters! How will you handle this revelation?

6. Wild Card. Roll again, pick one of the previous options, or make one up!


MASTER AND SERVANT

1. Are You My Master? The summoning is complete. Whether intentional or not, catalyst or not, a magus has summoned a Servant. What kind of meeting was it? Was everything totally under control, or did a hitch occur? Or maybe it happened in the middle of a life-or-death situation!

2. Identity. Either the Servant has flat out told the Master their identity, or they unleashed their Noble Phantasm. Either way, the cat is out of the bag. How will the Master react, now that they know their Servant's name and legend? Will anything change between the two?

3. Battle Aftermath. A battle has just ended. Who participated? Are either of you hurt? Did the Master have to use a Command Spell? Any number of things could have happened here.

4. Discord. Uh-oh. It looks like the Master and the Servant don't get along. Here come the arguments! Don't do something stupid, like waste a Command Spell over a triviality...

5. Love. And then, there's the opposite. Sometimes Masters and Servants fall in love with each other. How will this affect things?

6. Wild Card. Roll again, pick one of the previous options, or make one up!


TWO SERVANTS

1. Battle. This is what usually happens when two Servants meet -- they duke it out. This probably says enough as it is.

2. Alliance. There's a bigger threat out there. Either one Servant is exceptionally powerful, or the situation has changed and the participants need to take action aginst it. One way or another, you're teamed up with one of your rivals for the Holy Grail. How long will this last before you try to stab each other in the back? Or, will something more develop?

3. The Grail Dialogues. Maybe you're not interested in fighting just yet. Maybe you just want to sit down and talk with the other Servant. Find out what they want, what makes them tick. Get some wine while you're at it -- nothing like good wine to go with good talk!

4. Death. One or both of you lay dying...again. It might have been by the other's hand, or by someone else's entirely. How will you spend your last moments in this War in the presence of one of your rivals?

5. Identity. Congratulations, you've just learned each other's identities! Will this change the situation, or will you press onward?

6. Wild Card. Roll again, pick one of the previous options, or make one up!

Comments

beatrice - umineko no naku koro ni - servant caster

[endlesswitch]

Master and Servant, 1

[tryagain]

[Homura was desperate.

Madoka was dead, gone, never coming back, she was alone again, it felt so much worse now that she had actually experienced something else, and... she didn't think she could bear it. She didn't know what to do with herself.

So she'd heard some silly rumor or another, about magic and wishes, and... she'd gone to the library in her house. Her father had a lot of books, she was so young when he died that all she could remember about him was the smell of musty old tomes. She'd picked one randomly off the shelf and flipped through it.

Normally, she'd have realized how silly she was being and left well enough alone, but she was desperate, so she'd gone through and done all the book's instructions, step by step. Some sort of magic circle in chalk, matching the picture in the book down to the smallest detail, a sloppy looking seal in blood in the middle, the corpses of two dead butterflies... she rubbed her right wrist, still sore from the self-inflicted cut, and flipped through the book again. Something about a catalyst, but some of the pages had gotten weathered with age and fallen out. They could be anywhere in the room, and it was small but crammed wall to wall with bookshelves. She didn't like the idea of trotting through the dusty old place...

Just as she starts to think 'maybe I should give up', she hears a loud crack and turns to the window, expecting storm clouds. But... it's a clear night out. She blinks in confusion. Crack, again, and she realizes it's coming from behind her, where that silly circle is, and then it comes a third time before a flash of white starts to fill the room and she has to cover her eyes.]

Shirou Emiya | Fate/stay night -- Master (obviously)

[dieswhenkilled]

April Sinclair | OC | Master or Servant (Archer/Caster)

[technologic]

2-2

[papermache]

*When Mila wakes up from her dream, she has only one thing to say.*

...Your life sucked.

Rei Ayanami | Evangelion [anime canon] | Servant Rider

[gendos_puppet]

Caster Medea | Fate/SN | Caster or master

[betrayed_by_love]

Kent | Fire emblem 7 | Servant, either Lancer or Rider

[crimsonshields]

Athena Asamiya | King of Fighters | Master or Servant Caster

[shiningcrystalbits]

Elsa Maria | Puella Magi Madoka Magica | Servant Caster

[herlivingshadow]

Romania | Hetalia | Servant Caster or Lancer

[tophatandfangs]

Saori Nakagawa - OC - master or servant assassin

[needsteaplz]

Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi | Fate/Zero | Master

[enjoymyatelier]

[Maybe he wouldn't exist to lose with a different Servant...? Okay yeah no he totally would.]

2-4

[breatheinthefog]

*have fun with the nihilistic 13-year-old Caster, dude...*

Tch. It isn't that i let one opponent live. I eliminated the other, and that was good enough.

Alicia Melchiott | Valkryia Chronicles | Servant Lancer

[valkyrise]

Selvaria Bles | Valkyria Chronicles | Servant Berserker

[imperialvalkyria]

[ Roll: 6, 6, 3. Feel free to pick any additional twists. Apologies that I took so long with tagging. ]

[ Alicia's face was just about the last thing she had been expecting. The labyrinth that they had been placed in immediately separated servants and masters, and in her search through the winding hallways and corridors, she'd stumbled upon, likely, the only other Valkyria present in the grail war. Given the circumstances, powerful foes were to be expected, but to have another whose abilities originated from the same source was surprising. The only difference, though, was the classes they had been summoned as. Selvaria stood, still, having yet to awaken the Valkyrian, and by extension berserker, powers within her. ]

...It seems that I underestimated the chances that we would meet again.

[ Everything had gone blank after Ghirlandaio, but for some reason she was here, now, and very much alive. ]

Tarrlok | Legend of Korra | Master

[bloodisthicker]

OOC

[promised_victory]

100% in the Fate 'verse or do you want to try combining Fate and Avatar somehow?

Giovanni | Pokemon Adventures | Master or Servant Rider

[oftheland]

Servant - Rider (2-1)

[centrifuged]

[...Giovanni, whatever it was that you were expecting, it probably wasn't the green-haired kid with the overly placid smile and the odd look in his eyes.]

Are you the Master that summoned me?

[It comes out a bit too quickly, as though maybe things will go better if he crams all the syllables into one short breath; despite most signs pointing to "nerves," that look in his eyes hasn't changed - it's almost scrutinizing.]

Rock Howard | Garou: Mark of the Wolves | Master

[spreadthewings]

date masamune | sengoku basara | servant saber

[partyrocker]

3-1 | Servant Berserker

[fight_and]

[Berserker waits, arms crossed, sword still in its sheath.]

Why don't you show me what you're made of? SABER!

Shen Woo | King of Fighters | Servant Berserker

[thewarriorfromshanghai]

Switzerland | Hetalia | Master or Servant Archer

[shootsyourcheese]

dawn | pokemon platinum | master or servant rider

[barrette]

Kanata | Trinity Universe | Master or Servant Saber

[demondogking]

Satsuki Yumizuka | Tsukihime/Melty Blood | Master or Servant Berserker

[wheresmyroute]

Mao | Disgaea 3 | Master or Servant Saber

[huffhuffscience]

kyouko sakura ☀ puella magi madoka magica (lancer)

[foodchain]

3-3...

[droppeddreams]

L-look, is there any way we can avoid this fight? I'm really not in the mood for this right now.

[Not only is this Saber's weapon a giant key, apparently, this Servant is not that comfortable with killing people he considers friends, which really showed when his Master had to be forced to use a Command Spell just to kill Archer, who was being controlled by Caster at the time.]

yuna ☾ final fantasy x (master)

[ayurvedas]

2-1

[partyrocker]

[ when the dust has cleared and the summoning is finished, Masamune straightens up and pats off his arms before looking around for whoever had summoned him. it doesn't take long for him to notice Yuna and he cracks a relaxed grin. he holds out a hand. ]

Yo. Are you supposed to be my Master?

Bazett Fraga McRemitz | Fate/Hollow Ataraxia | Master

[godsholder]

2-1 Allen Walker (I keep forgetting most of my accounts don't have names.)

[whiteblackknight]

[All the smoke and residue disappear and whatever left standing....happens to be this mid-teenage kid with pearly white hair.]

....

[smile.]

Oh, I guess you're the new Master, right? I hope I was the one you wanted.