A War for an Cup (really it's a cup)

[deadliesthero]

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

Ibaraki Douji | FGO

[bananaoni]

[The Berserker that chooses to berserk.]

Patchouli Knowledge | Touhou Project | OTA

[heptagram]

[Master who really wishes she could use this as more of an opportunity to learn about history, or Caster (possibly pseudo-servant or demi-servant for an existing author or someone related to magic?). Open to whatever prompts.]

BISHOP | OC

[getting_better]

[ ooc: Servant Assassin or Avenger. OTA for gen, M/F for ship ]

Monika || Doki Doki Literature Club

[peninhand]

[ A Servant. She is of the "fictional servant" variety, like Nursery Rhyme and Sherlock. Monika was inscribed in the Throne of Heroes by becoming associated with the concept of Sentient Video Game Characters & AIs in the far future. Because she is one of the exceedingly rare future Servant, exists entirely in the digital space and is fictional, there are no relics related to her. That means she's only summonable through either the Chaldea system, or by a Master who makes a mistake in the summoning process / doesn't use a relic.

She comes in three different flavor:

Caster: Her default form. Canon point is post-ending. Her skills revolves entirely around manipulating the enemy Servant's Saint Graphs the same way she would manipulate character file. That makes her absolutely useless against non-Servant characters but excellent against other Servants. In FGO terms, she's essentially a 4-stars.

Foreigner: Her alternate form. Canon point is immediately after her epiphany but before DDLC even began, though she's familiar with the rest of her story. Her skills are less broken than those of her Caster form, but she's actually useful against non-Servants. In FGO terms, she's essentially an event 4-stars freebie.

Moon Cancer (Alter): Canon point is Act 3, though she's familiar with the rest of her story. On top of behaving like her Act 3 self, all her negative traits are being amplified tenfold (extremely love-obsessed with her Master, no care for deleting other servants, suffers from extreme self-loathing). Also comes with a dashing silver hair dye and neat red contact lenses. Much more powerful than either of her other variants. In FGO terms, that makes her a limited 5-stars Servant.

In every cases, her wish is to be allowed to live in the real world. Not a second life, but just a life since she was never really alive to begin with. ]

Ritsuka "Gudako" Fujimaru - Fate/Grand Order - OTA

[thelastchoice]

[ She's not generally in 'normal' HGW, but she's dropped in and crashed them before, so no reason she can't do it again. Two Masters or Master and Servant are the most likely options, unless you want to do the post-FGO servant!Guda AU kind of scenario. ]

Re: Ritsuka "Gudako" Fujimaru - Fate/Grand Order - OTA

[bananaoni]

[How's her potassium levels? And would she like one(1) banana?]

Zheng Jiang | TW: Three kingdoms

[slightestcut]

[Can possibly be either a berserker or assassin.]

Edward Teach | fgo

[devilsson]

[The Rider that might be secretly more dangerous and scary than he first appears. Expect shenanigans.]

[commandseal]

[What sort of shenanigans might someone expect if a Master ends up unintentionally using a command seal to promise that as long as Rider wins, she'll promise to do whatever he requests of her?]

Sherlock Holmes | Fate/Grand Order | OTA

[improbablenotimpossible]

[Either as a Servant as canon - Caster or Ruler, or perhaps as a Master in the Victorian period]

[thelastchoice]

[ Does Master/Servant 3 sound good to you? Because actually tagging Sherlock for srsness sounds like a wild trip at this point. ]

Ky Kiske | Guilty Gear Audio Drama | OTA

[zweivoltage]

[Master, or as a Servant he can be Saber, Rider, Caster or Ruler]

Beowulf | fgo

[beewulf]

[Berserker that isn't insane but still has access to the benefits of madness enhancement.]

George Crabtree | Murdoch Mysteries

[asmyauntsaid]

[Master, non-mage who gets dragged into the mess]

kirschtaria wodime ♔ fate/go

[cryptant]

[ Master. Potential spoilers for Olympus.
Open to Servant scenario too. ]

[commandseal]

[would you be down for a two Masters scenario? Ritsuka could just be a outsider that got dragged in the Grail War and in a alliance with Kirschtaria, since he could become kind of becomes a mentor for her somehow. it could also extend into protection, where Ritsuka loses her Servant and Kirschtaria is protecting her until they get to the church - or maybe due to sneaky shenanigans, Kirschtaria is the one who loses his Servant and now Ritsuka has to protect him (with him providing advice as being a actual mage) due to something being sneaky with the Church?

alternatively, it could go with a Master/Servant scenario, with Ritsuka as the Servant but with a twist! instead of a normally summoned Servant, Ritsuka could be a psuedo-Servant... since she's a normal human that ends up unintentionally involved and seriously injured while Kirschtaria is summoning his Servant. maybe she ended up being the target of a spell meant for him or she did a Shirou and pushed him out of the way from something he could handle and kind of exploded a little, but due to circumstances and timing, she ends up fusing with the Heroic Spirit he summons when they physically manifest?]

Santa Alter || Fate/Grand Order

[evilsantaclaus]

[ Servant, Rider Class. Masters and Servants who don't have the Christmas Spirit or who are on the Naughty List, beware. ]

Franklin Delano Donut | Red vs Blue

[glazedonutholes]

[ Can do either, but he's better as a master, since he'd make a terrible servant. ]

kiryuu zero | vampire knight

[moonlitknight]

[ ota. servant. archer. ]

Rosaria | Genshin Impact | OTA

[nuntoopleased]

[A slam-dunk lancer.]

Saria | Arknights | OTA

[epicdivorcewoman]

[Could be a master, could be a Caster or Shielder (!) Servant. F/F if it goes anywhere shippy.]

Shinano Toushirou | Touken Ranbu

[hizoukko]

[Voicetesting! Technically already a historical figure(?) of sorts, so this fits him well. He's either Assassin or Saber as a Servant.

Quick Reference: Shinano is cheerful, if not somewhat spoiled. He can be cheeky and willful, but he follows the will of his master and is overall very reliable. Since he's a "treasured" sword, it's questionable if he had prior battle experience, but he does his best anyway.]

[snidewinder]

[Something about the idea of being a Master hadn't sat right with him before, but now that he was slouched on the couch with command seals seared onto his hand Python found himself liking it even less.

And the worst part was that he couldn't say why.]

What if I used one of these to order you to get me a pizza?

[And then, just in case his Servant got the wrong idea:]

I'd split it, since you're the one running out to get it and all.

Jack Townsend | Tales from The Gas Station | m/f

[gastationjack]

[A master or "innocent" bystander. The idea of a holy grail war taking place in the shitty gas station at the edge of town where odd things happen really tickles me.]

Enterprise (CV-6) | Azur Lane

[lucky_e]

[Can fit into either the archer or rider role for any potential doctah/master/shikikan.]

ortho shroud | twisted wonderland

[paphos]

[ archer. ]

[slightestcut]

[Any interest in having an assassin as a servant and master servant - 1?]

Junko Enoshima | Danganronpa

[sobored]

[Master, or I can probably justify throwing her into any of the Servant classes, just let me know what you're interested in!]

[moderating]

[ hahah what if junko beast calamity of despair.... haha jk unless - -
i actually have been thinking about Nanami as a moon cell participate in that war where danganronpa & extra kind merge hhmhmhmhmhm. any thoughts? ]

Kiara Sessyoin | Fate/Grand Order

[thotsandprayers]

[Open to her being the Master, but if she's a Servant, Alter Ego or Moon Cancer are your choices.]

[peninhand]

[ Would Kiara be amenable to having a Servant who's more into writing than into fighting? It's certain to be something entirely new bearing zero similarities to what happened in another reality, nope. ]

Ichimura Tetsunosuke | Peace Maker Kurogane | OTA

[fukuchoukoshou]

( Open to being a Servant, Saber class or Assassin class depending the verse. )