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[stages]

[Action - mid-afternoon - Ricardo Street

Denizens of 506 Ricardo, you might see an odd sight this afternoon: a vertically-challenged egotist scaling the walls of your house, a megaphone tucked under her arm.

...wait, what?

Yeah no you saw correctly! She's absolutely just impudently scrambling up onto the roof, not even giving a shit that this isn't her house. Why doesn't she just do this at her own house? Damned kids and their horseplay.

Once settled onto the roof, Saber faces the house across the street - 505, her own home - and brings the megaphone to her lips.

Just what could be so important that she's shouting about it from a goddamn rooftop?]

Hakuno Kishinami! There is something I must tell you! Will you listen?

[...oh so she's calling out her derp of a Master, that's cool. Was that it?

...apparently not; she turns towards each end of the street, as she continues.]

Friends! I would have witnesses on this momentous day!

[Goddamn showboating.........]

[ooc: okay so here's the dilly-yo: saber's going to be pouring her heart out to hakuno, and more or less asking her out (although in much more grave and dramatic terms). she's been trying to do this for a while, but hakuno is DUMB AS A BOX OF ROCKS, so... she's finally decided that the proper way is to literally shout her love from the rooftops. make sure to include who your character is talking to - saber, hakuno, or both - in the subject line!]

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[captainofthe10th]

[ Garviel drives up on his massive bike, after hearing the Megaphone. ]

I will witness it! On my honor.

[badladyscramble]

[WHO THE HELL IS CLIMBING ON HER HOUSE!?

Have one (1) parasol popping out the second-floor window followed by one (1) angry vampire waving it around as she yells at Saber]

What are you doing on my house?!

[stages]

[A wide grin splits her face, as she calls down to the gentleman space marine.]

You have my thanks, my friend! To share a joyous moment is the greatest of pleasures!

[And, considering that she dabbles in hedonism? You can probably trust her word on this.]

[doesnotgetit]

[What

just

wat

This... this can't be good. But she runs outside anyway, at least to get her Servant to stop yelling!]

S-Saber! What are you doing!?

[captainofthe10th]

[ He smiles up at her, a ghost of a smile on his craggy face, and nods. ]

Indeed! Proceed at your leisure then, I'm curious where this is leading.

[stages]

[Saber pokes her head back over the edge of the roof, shouting down at the ornery midget through her megaphone, despite it... not being even the slightest bit necessary.]

Be silent, knave! To offer up your roof for a purpose such as mine is a privilege!

[stages]

[Never gonna stop yelling, baybeeeeeeeee]

Taking the final option left to me!

There is something I have been trying to tell you for quite some time. Will you hear it, now, undiluted, and without apology?

[stages]

[She gives a gracious nod, and continues. presumably this will then pick up after she's done speechifying at Hakuno?]

[doesnotgetit]

[You'd think she'd be used to having a flamboyant Roman Emperor as a Servant by now

N O P E]

Final option...? [She raises her voice again, so Saber can hear... all the way at the top of the house...] Sure! But why do you have to do this on a roof?!

Both

[answerer_sword]

[Bazett stares at the screaming woman, complete dumbfounded.]

King Arthur...?

[But she sounded just a little bit different. Did she have a cold? Could Servants get colds? And then there's the matter of her screaming into a megaphone for Kishinami...]

What is going on here?

[She calls to the Servant on the roof.]

Kishinami, what is going on here?

[She turns back to the girl, hoping to get a answer out of her in case the Servant ignores her question.]

[badladyscramble]

No, it's a nuisance! Get down from there!

[stages]

[She can't help it, Hakuno. She was Born This Way. She is Beautiful in her way. God didn't make a mistake.]

Tradition! And to be heard, far and wide!

[She closes her eyes for a moment, takes a deep breath, and...]

Before our friends and allies, before our captors, before their puppets, and before the gods above, hear me! With they as my witnesses, I tell you now: Hakuno Kishinami... [She throws one arm theatrically wide. ...I love you!

[There's more, but she's giving it a moment to sink in, so Hakuno's not trying to absorb too much at once... since. that. probably will result in her brain needing a hard restart.]

[stages]

Absolutely not! Just be grateful that I chose to scale your wall, rather than dashing through the house proper! It was considerate, so be properly grateful!

[captainofthe10th]

A brave thing, to declare your affections so. I am suitably impressed, and it has been witnessed. [ He looks around at the other gawkers. ]

Though discretion may have been advisable, there is something to be said for a bravura performance, and you delivered that.

[doesnotgetit]

[Towards the end of the War, when Saber would talk about her love and how important Hakuno was to her, it... never really clicked. Hakuno didn't think it was love love; she thought it was a devotion kind of thing.

But this. There was no mistaking this kind of declaration of love. "Shouting it from the rooftops" was one of the biggest romantic cliches, wasn't it?

So when the realization hit her, finally hit her, she was speechless.]

... Huh? [A lame response, but you can't really blame her!]

[stages]

[...King Arthur? ...could that...

Okay no she's way too focused to process this right now but LATER. Later this will probably be very interesting information.

She calls down to Bazett in a terribly magnanimous or at least she thinks so manner:]

A joy that has taken two millennia to obtain! One that I would share with all who would bear witness!

[answerer_sword]

Oh? And what would that be?

[This is when she notices something else odd about "Saber". Her chest had grown more than two sizes. Had something happened to affect her body this way? Were the breasts fake?]

[stages]

[Yeah, it WAS a pretty lame response. She's not holding it against you, though, since she hasn't quite finished yet.]

I say it again, and as many times as you like: I love you!

[She takes a few steps forward, until she's on the very edge of the roof.]

I ask you now - not as a devoted Servant, nor a caring partner... but, as a woman in love - [dramatic paaaauuuussssseeeee] be with me!

Be my lover! My empress!

[Annnnd she basically just jumps right the hell off the roof. Which. Would probably be dangerous? Except she's a Servant, and lands like a champ on Remilia's front lawn take that, you whiny little toad. She lets the hand holding the megaphone drop to her side, takes a few steps forward, and holds out her other one to Hakuno.

Her expression is, for once, not showy; it's pleading, desperate. She's laid her heart out, without holding anything back.

Ball's in your court, Kishinami.]

[badladyscramble]

There's nothing to be grateful about; you shouldn't be climbing up the wall or running through the house! Now get down, or I'll make you get down!

[both of them]

[eternalfuture]

[Oh, this sounds. Important. Anything that someone is going to stand on a rooftop for is important.]

What's going on?

she jumped down off the roof during her declaration jsyk

[stages]

[Saber gives a theatrical bow at the praise; right now, she's basically on top of the world.]

Discretion? That was my first option, naturally. And second. And third and fourth, really. [She gives an amused little sigh] When I said that this was my "final option", I was not exaggerating; my prior advances had... simply gone over her head. More overt measures were necessary.

...luckily, that is precisely what I excel in.

[stages]

[She just gives a blank-faced stare at Remilia for a moment, unable to believe that she is actually having this discussion with a small child.

Finally, her answer is clear:]

Go to your room, young lady.

[badladyscramble]

What? You dare to order me?

[THAT'S IT, SHE'S CLIMBING OUT THE WINDOW AND FLYING UP TO JOIN HER ON THE ROOF... FURTHER UP THE ROOF TO MAKE HER HEIGHT A LITTLE MORE IMPRESSIVE.]

This is my house and there are none here who can give me orders!

[doesnotgetit]

[For several painful, agonizing seconds, all Hakuno could do was stare at Saber's hand. Her heart was fluttering madly in her chest, like a bird desperately trying to escape its cage.

She had been thinking a lot since Valentine's Day. Even back during the war, the thought of being separated from Saber hurt just as much as the thought of being erased was. And here, after being given a second chance... she still can't picture life without her beloved Servant by her side. It made her happy when Saber was with her, and that's something she never wanted to let go of.

She thought it was just embarrassment that made her heart skip a beat and her face heat up. But... she could never feel that way about such honest feelings. So could this really be love?

Slowly, almost hesitantly... Hakuno took Saber's hand.]

I... I think I love you too, Saber. It took me so long to realize it, but... [Her grip on the Servant's hand tightens, and she smiles.] These feelings can't be anything else.

[doesnotgetit]

[It's about now that Hakuno's shock wears off, and she turns to Bazett.]

Oh, um... this isn't the Saber you knew. [She points up to the Saber on the roof with her left hand, so she could show the woman her Command Spells.] This one is mine. The one I told you about.