Fates Supports/Subaki Orochi

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C Support

Orochi: Subaki! I've been looking everywhere for you!

Subaki: Sorry, Orochi. What can I do for you?

Orochi: It's what I can do for you, my happy-go-lucky friend. Though you won't be so happy, or so lucky, for much longer.

Subaki: What?! Have you seen my future?

Orochi: Yes! Never have I seen a bleaker one. Soon you'll experience one unfortunate event after another. The odd thing is that these events will be minor—though MANY.

Subaki: Minor misfortunes? Then I'll surely be able to weather them.

Orochi: How wrong you are. They will be TOO many, TOO often. You'll get a splinter in your finger...a spider will drop on your head... food will spatter your white clothes... you'll chip your tooth on a peach pit... Any one of these would be forgettable. One after another? Madness.

Subaki: I agree, especially for someone like me. My perfection—shattered!

Orochi: Exactly, Subaki. But this is why I rushed to find you. I know the key to survival. You must stop being such a perfectionist. Accept life's little messes.

Subaki: Certainly not. Why, I'll make sure none of these things happen!

Orochi: Oh? How?

Subaki: I'll stay on guard around the clock for these problems. I need only be extra vigilant. Easily done.

Orochi: Hmm. I'm sure if anyone could survive a maelstrom of minor mishaps, it's you. Good luck, Subaki.

B Support

Subaki: A minute of your time, Orochi.

Orochi: I've always got a minute for you, Subaki. If not several. Hmm. But I don't like the look of that grin on your face, Subaki.

Subaki: Ha! I triumphed over the bad fortune you said was in store for me! I've been vigilant. I've avoided every mishap and pitfall. For example... I saw an utterly unwashed fellow in a nearby town take a tumble. I helped him up—but only after putting a glove on my hand first. No grime, no sludge, not a speck of dirt passed between us.

Orochi: Hmm. But have you encountered more such chaos than usual?

Subaki: Oh, yes. From all sides. But I have risen above it all with aplomb.

Orochi: Well done...

Subaki: Whoa there, Orochi. You sound far from happy for me.

Orochi: I guess I hoped that such a perfect perfectionist might fail. Once.

Subaki: Aha! Well, I forgive you. I'm used to friends hoping to see me fail a little. It must be hard to see me sail through life for those that struggle. By the way... Why are you carrying that ewer of icky-looking fluid?

Orochi: It's a new brew of mine. I stewed herbs with some noxious ingredients. Oh! Ewgh! I'm feeling...suddenly...dizz—

Subaki: Watch out, Orochi! HEY!

(Subaki leaves)

Orochi: Oops.

Subaki: ......

Orochi: Are you all right, Subaki?

Subaki: Urgh! What is this stuff?! It's all gooey and lumpy—like some sort of evil soup! And what are these? Croutons? Noodles? No! Dead insects! Eww! And worms! And rat tails! Ew, ew, ew! Someone! Anyone! Help!

(Subaki leaves)

Orochi: How unlucky. I really shouldn't chuckle. That would be wrong and petty of me. Heh.

A Support

Subaki: Oh. Hello, Orochi. Glad to see you're not toting any more ewers of evil fluid.

Orochi: About that, Subaki. I really am sorry for spilling that on you. Heh. I mean... Very sorry, Subaki. Pfffft—HA!

Subaki: How can you laugh about it? You're not sorry one bit. Do you know how befouled I was by your noxious brew?

Orochi: I know I shouldn't laugh, but... Oh, it was quite a sight.

Subaki: I washed. And scrubbed. And then had to throw away the soap! And even then—I stank forever. It's no laughing matter.

Orochi: Bwa-hee-haw-haw!

Subaki: Sheesh. Stop your braying, you wicked donkey.

Orochi: Oh?! You should THANK me. Don't you realize how I saved you from certain disaster?

Subaki: Saved me?

Orochi: You were able to dodge many minor mishaps, Subaki. But fate is fate. All those chickadees would come home to roost. Sooner or later—and all at once, in a massive flock of misfortune.

Subaki: A flock of—

Orochi: Oh, more swarm, a plague, all falling on your head at once! Lucky for you, I dumped all of that nasty brew all over you. I discharged all the bad luck that was building up.

Subaki: Seriously, Orochi?

Orochi: Would I jest about such a thing? Fortunately, now you're free and clear. The wave of misfortune has passed. You may thank me now.

Subaki: But it was torment having all that gunk on me!

Orochi: You fail to understand. If that bad luck would have continued building up for just one more day... Kaboom, Subaki. Kaboom.

Subaki: Ka...boom? I suppose that means that I owe my life to you.

Orochi: Yes, it does.

Subaki: Well then, thank you.

Orochi: Anytime, Subaki!

S Support

Subaki: Hello there, Orochi!

Orochi: Ah, my good friend—the paragon of perfection. How can I help you?

Subaki: Can you teach me divination?

Orochi: That's a bit out of the blue, Subaki.

Subaki: Not at all. My recent brush with all those minor mishaps got me thinking. You warned me it would happen. If I knew divination, I could warn others too.

Orochi: Noble of you, but divination is my sphere, not yours. Besides, in general, I never tell people that minor mishaps are coming. Everyone would be walking on eggshells all the time. You were an exception.

Subaki: But with us meeting new people now and then, I'd like to do more for them. Are you sure you can handle predicting disasters for all of us?

Orochi: Truth is, I don't peer into every single person's future on a daily basis. I predict our army's future. If there's an ill wind, I find out who it's blowing toward. The truth is also that I do look into one person's future all the time... Yours, Subaki.

Subaki: Really?

Orochi: I like you too much not to probe your daily fate.

Subaki: What?

Orochi: Oh, which shocked you? That I probe? That I'm especially fond of you? We're so often in peril, I couldn't help looking after you.

Subaki: I'm not really shocked. More pleased than anything.

Orochi: You're not toying with Orochi, are you? That would be a mistake.

Subaki: I'm not sure that anyone's really cared for me. Not that much, anyway. And I guess that brings me to why I wanted to speak with you. I like you...too much too.

Orochi: Two of us, liking each other? Then it's not too much at all. But rather, just right.

Subaki: How curious, the way we approached each other—two shy fawns in the woods.

Orochi: Or two vipers in a basket?

Subaki: Either way, I'm so happy we've found each other. And now, Orochi... I definitely need to learn divination from you. I need to protect you.

Orochi: Thank you, Subaki. But I've seen us this far safely with my powers. I will ensure that our happiness lasts FAR into the future, my dear.