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[He gestured with his free right hand in a completely helpless shrug. No, he does not understand this any more than you.]

That's about what I said, but I'm not going to argue who's the rightful king of England when the one in the dress is swinging Excalibur around. Rather makes the argument pointless if the sword's on her side.

[ oh my god hes so stressed
he knows arthurian legend is mostly great fantasy and impossible legend but in a world where it MIGHT ACTUALLY be true history how the fuck could Caliburn let a young woman in the middle it MEDIEVAL EUROPE take the crown of a king there is so much cruelty in that alone, men were fucking animals back in those days Vergil needs to sit the fuck down his brain isn't processing this right ]

And given that the sword bestowed by the Lady in the Lake only reveals its true power to a true king, meaning that if you truly saw a woman King Arthur carrying it with grace and ease....

....

No, I.
I believe I couldn't argue with the proof of the sword being carried, wielded by aforementioned one true king, I.

Do not get me wrong, women make fine warriors and I could stand here and speak of the great exploits of women in power until the shop closes but King Arthur being King Artoria...

....

Oh, the stories that would flip on their heads if that was a commonly known fact. Dear lord.

[it sucks! it does in fact suck and he has tried not to think about the INSANE repercussions of this complete horseshit!]

Oh, it's far from a matter as foolish as questioning strength over something so pointless as gender. [look at ths man does he appear to give a shit about binary presentation] But the fact that she manifested in a way that flies in the face of all known legend defies the idea of Heroic Spirits appearing as they were perceived; in other words, it's the perception that is wrong and Arthur did actually exist.

Which causes a whole avalanche of who and what is or is not grounded in reality. And leaves me sitting on historical fact that most people would look like I grew three heads over, but that's more just a small annoyance than anything.

Edited 2023-04-19 17:56 (UTC)

[ okay, the more Waver talked, the more relaxed Vergil returns to being. If this man HAD been a practical joke sent by his brother to have him on, he wouldn't admit to something like the fact that the man has to LIVE with the fact that he knows this odd fact about the King of Knights and that it's his own personal hell. Having to be the one with the forbidden knowledge that the great king was, in fact, a woman.

this was the hell waver had to live. Vergil was just one of many Waver had to stand there and try to convince he wasn't crazy.
For a moment, Vergil almost feels for him. ]

It makes the mind boggle to how the collective consciousness remembers--or, rather, has a silent agreement that King Arthur is a man and yet they manifest as a woman.
It feels like this place your crystallized heroes are manifested is fundamentally flawed.

[ he has no fucking idea. ]

Perhaps summoning a being from there isn't such a grand idea after all.

[There was good reason Waver never talked about the Holy Grail War back at home. Ninety percent of it was 'the traumas'. Ten percent was 'no one is ever going to believe this in a million years'.]

I don't believe the Throne of Heroes is itself flawed. On the other hand, I have no clue how that one actually happened. Doesn't make a damn bit of sense to me, but it's not like I can argue with what I saw for myself. Worse still where the rest made some semblance of sense.

[ it's definitely one of those topics thats mostly horrifying but also definitely one of those 'it sounds like you read too much fantasy.' Fortunately, Vergil being someone who has 36 years of normal life under his belt and now about 1 year of the supernatural

...he's hesitant to doubt much of anything, anymore. ]

Like a messed up Mandela effect. Everything in the world seems right except one small detail that makes the rest of the world seem like something is deeply wrong with it.

[ and for the first time, Vergil chuckles. It's a low, two-note thing. But it's there. ]

Yeah, something like that. [He smiled in a way that was more of a smirk, again shrugging with one shoulder.] To be completely honest, it was the least of my problems at the time I happened to see her, so I just sort of accepted it and moved on.

Then I thought about it later and realized it was extremely weird.

And I am guessing by the time you managed to figure out that it was strange, it was too late to ask her anything.

What a pity, honestly.

I would have loved to know how different her life was from lore.
...How Mordred came to exist. IF Mordred was even able to exist.

I can definitely confirm that the legends about Mordred exist in my world in much the same form, for whatever that might be worth. Whether those are also grounded in fact somewhere is...

[you can hear the '????????????' in how he trailed off]

...Yeah, I can't begin to guess and don't think I want to know.

Perhaps a case of, in this one specific instance, 'some things are best left up to mystery and the imagination.'

Not usually my favorite thing as a historian, but this one time, I will default to it.

[He laughed under his breath, shaking his head.]

Fair enough, certainly. I'm not about to question it further.

I suppose I should offer you thanks for bringing me such an interesting tale, in any case.
While my interests are focused in physical items like in this shop, knowledge of things I did not have hitherto conversations like this are valuable, as well.

While some of the details are ... odd, I feel I have gained something, at least.

Oh, it's nothing. I don't usually get to talk about this kind of thing with someone that has an academic understanding of the idea, so this is actually pretty entertaining.

Well then, if that is the case.

Feel free to drop in any time.

...

This store is more of a hobby than me actually making money from it. I am far more interested in customers who come to chat about like interests than those who come in to try to pawn off fakes to me or claim my wares are not worth their price. [ being rich has its perks, ]

...That sounds like fun, actually. [SOCIAL LINK GO] I think you can definitely expect me to come by when I'm in the area.

I look forward to your regular patronage in the future, then.

But for now...

[ maybe time to go return to his display of celtic trinkets and mostly-immaculate spearheads that haven't been mounted upon new wood... ]

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