Question Meme II

[cloakanddaikon]

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[cloakanddaikon]

So! Zexion on Arturia. The non-mana transfer kind.

He likes her. She's polite and dignified and strong willed, proud in a way that is far from boastful, and she doesn't hesitate to sacrifice her own happiness for the happiness of those she cares about. Right from the start, those were all traits that made a very good impression on him. Rin holding Saber in high esteem didn't hurt either, as Rin (much to her possible surprise) is someone Zexion respects, and someone he also trusts to have reasonably discerning taste.

When he asked Rin why she had sent Archer to him rather than contracting with him herself, he honestly had no idea that Rin and Saber were linked, or that Masters could have only one Servant. But the fact that Arturia herself was asking Rin the same questions impressed him—it was his first time meeting her, his first impression of her, and it was a really good one.

When he first offered her the option of a contract with him, he suspected that she would eventually have no choice but to accept. Offering it the way he did was a strategic move: she wouldn't reject it outright if it was presented as a contingency plan, rather than an immediate offer, and if she chose to accept it she would only be doing so after enough consideration to truly be comfortable with the idea. Additionally, he would have time to get to know her, and she would have time to come to know him.

She caved a lot sooner than he was expecting.

The truth post was both very good for finding some measure of footing in their relationship, and really not very good at all in terms of his assessment of her self-worth. Learning what questions were important to her was something he definitely considered key, but the questions she asked . . . she was given the opportunity to learn anything about him. His past, his character, whether the ideals she sought in a Master were present in him at all . . .and the only question she asked him, the only one she wanted a truly honest answer to, was whether he would use her for unjust purpose.

It was a succinct and incredibly unsatisfactory look at how much she was expecting from his (or, more likely, any) partnership. "Anything is fine so long as I'm not forced to violate my principles." All her talk of desires and ideals, of what she wanted from this chance to choose a Master of her own, ultimately amounted to nothing. She was given freedom and had no idea how to pursue it.

It was about then he figured that something at some point broke her. Broke her very well, and very deliberately. And as a person whose main tactic is breaking people, Zexion really couldn't help but make note of it. It gave him a kind of immediate understanding of much that had puzzled him before, while at the same time . . . she became a lot more comfortable to him. He knows broken people, he's used to broken people. He's spent a very long time now working at fixing broken people

I guess right about then was when she became a lot more . . . mmm. Real to him, too. That she became someone he'd invest in for his own sake, rather than Rin's.

Meeting Prussia, finding out who she was from Prussia, hearing her full name . . . those things were fascinating. That she'd never introduced herself to him as who she was is a fascinating indication of the divides she has between her past identity and her identity as a Servant (and for more on that and his Nobody pings, see here). Until she herself says otherwise, he'll never treat her like Arthur, King of Briton, because that's not who she's indicated she wants to be to him.

He wonders if she even knows he doesn't know her. If the anonymity she sought in concealing that information really is hers for the taking.

And then all of this sort of culminated and spilled over when Rin passed him Saber's contract and he had a Feeling. Both for Rin's sake, because Rin needed to know that this wasn't a replacement, and that Zexion really had no intention (or ability) to be the Master she was, and for Saber herself.

It was a kind of an affectionate feeling. Just a bit of, you know, this really isn't going to be as bad as you're anticipating it to be. And just a little bit of, "I want to see what you'll do with freedom."

I think there's more, but you can ask on specifics. Anything she thinks of Zexion you'd want to share?