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From: Ishtar
When: March 5th [frontdated]

... So I went to sleep last night, and found myself home. Went through a whole couple months, a bunch of shit happened, and then I wake up here again after it's all over. Kinda feeling jerked around a bit, but what's happened has happened.

Anyway, I've been hearing prayers from people whose relationships are in trouble lately, and if this place is going to insist I be a love goddess, then I guess I'd better do something about it. Problem is, the soulless shinki this place assigned me and I haven't been getting on at all, and considering it's been a few months since I saw him from my perspective, I don't think it'd be a good idea to try and force it.

This isn't easy to admit, but if I'm gonna do this, I need help. Would anyone be willing to help me stake out the Tokyo Museum for a few nights? There's definitely ayakashi involved, so I definitely know I shouldn't go it alone.

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I haven't seen every movie we have... but no. No that's not getting in here if I can help it.

[Which is not the only movie/video game banned on premises now. If Iskandar had Dynasty Warriors, he's sure to have now hidden it from Waver for Reasons.]

Yeah. I like those movies but the important part is not giving him ideas.

Indeed. No further ideas.

Doing things the 'Spartan Way' would be bad enough. Though I should say the 'Macedonian Way' in his case.

He's already pretty different from what history says about him in my world, so I'm scared to think of how that applies to this version of him.

... I don't want to assume. You know what I was wrong on before. ... he definitely wasn't what I was expecting.

It depends in part on how the people who taught him how to fight and how they approached training in his armies were.

It's no use wondering too heavily about it. And... both he and old man Genjurou are nice guys in the end, so I guess we don't have too much to fear.

Besides our bodies being broken and the universe being consumed in a testosterone driven explosion anyway.

That's true. What will come will come. We'll be fine.

I'll just stock up on the painkillers. Total testosterone-induced annihilation will call for Tylenol.

[Well for her. Mages like Waver tend to prefer more herbal remedies for agony.]

You'd be surprised at what kind of punishment a Symphogear can endure.

I was in the vicinity of a nuclear explosion once. But yeah, painkillers would help.

[Excuse me, suddenly alarmed. Nukes. This brings up one bubble of worry that in no way, no sir, came from living through some very tense times in the Cold War.]

You were near a nuclear explosion?!

Yeah. It just barely missed us.

But it's also not even the wildest thing I've just barely survived.

[DISTRESSED RESPONSIBLE ADULT AND REASONABLE AUTHORITY FIGURE NOISES. It's a good thing this is text and Chris can't hear them.

... and hopefully the Temple walls being stone means Iskandar can't hear them too!]

What could be worse than a nuclear explosion?

[Yes, that is underlined.

And come off it, Waver, you don't remember but you've faced worse as well. The eradication of humanity through the history of multiple timelines is pretty bad on the scale of Apocalypse Wow, don't you think?]

Being attacked by my friend when she'd gone berserk, after she'd totally made a fool of the guy who caused that nuclear explosion, to start with.

...

... go on...

I'm already stressing the limits of what's classified. The only reason I've gone this deep is because you're from another world.

But I've also rode a space shuttle down a mountainside, fell from orbit twice, and been shot down by a beam of energy meant to destroy the moon.

Holy. Shit.

That's insane.

Wait.

Does it count as falling from orbit a third time if you did it while riding on the space shuttle?

Yes. It counts.

Right.

They fired us inside a missile at the start of that mission.

And on the way down we shaved a bunch of height off of K2. It's only the third tallest mountain in the world now.

[NO ANSWER.

Somewhere (meaning in his room in Iskandar's temple), Waver is busy thumping his head against the nearest surface. That's probably a desk. All the while making more Distressed Adult Noises (TM) and cursing.... because what the fuck? She's a teenager.

WHO THE FUCK ARE THE ADULTS IN CHARGE OF THIS FUCKING SHIT?

WAVER VELVET WANTS WORDS.]

[Chris is just going to be confused when a reply doesn't come, and is just going to assume Waver was indisposed somehow.

This is all still unfortunately normal from her point of view.]

Is the reasons for all that classified?

[Hi again! Waver has a rapidly healing light bruise along his temple - thank fuck for Servant regeneration - and he has worked out all the flailing from his system. For now!]

I can tell you we were trying to save some astronauts, who were trying to reclaim some dangerous technology and our friends' adopted mother's body. It was an important mission.

Undoubtedly

... hopefully nothing here will be so wild. Shinki don't age, but something like that alone would still cause me to go gray.

I've long since given up that things in my life won't be insane.

But you know, if we didn't do these things, people would have just died instead. I'm not ashamed of being a Symphogear user, and I don't blame my immediate superiors for drawing me into this life.

I'd be much worse off if my friends and comrades hadn't saved me. I owe them everything, even old man Genjurou. He's even my adopted father now.

[... mnnnnnnn... yeah, that much worse off... he dreads how it's connected to the other things that are issues.

Some adult's ass is going to be kicked, he swears.]

I'm not so good at that, I'm afraid. I'm a worrier. I fuss by nature. ... I'd wager even when things that are like that. Do or people die.

At least when it's people other than me.

Iskandar's a good balance for me that way. I can tell he doesn't get so caught up in considering the consequences. At least not in a self repeating loop.

The old man's your dad? Good. Friends and family make everything easier to weather. It's one thing to face those things; it's another to do so alone.

[That eases an old man's heart.]

By the way. If you ever slip up and call Iskandar 'dad' one day, tell me how flustered he gets. I think it would make his day.

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