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sage-basil · 3 months ago

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Log hora for the ask!

Dying to know about the male top three lmao

this is the real reason we're here

3 male characters I love:

Eins

William Massachusetts

Rundelhaus Code

3 female characters I love:

Nureha

Takayama Misa

Rayneshia El-Arte Corwen

3 romantic ships I love:

TouEi (no one expected this)

LeoCope

uhh in general lgh is an outlier among my likes and awakens a slumbering shipper in me, but I'm actually more of a nuance than romance enjoyer. don't have a third one i can subscribe to with my whole chest

3 platonic dynamics I love:

Silver Sword

the junior group of Log Horizon the guild (with an asterisk)

Nazuna and Soujiro Seta (read: girl one day you'll have to ditch his crazy ass)

3 favorite moments in canon:

so many. in volume 12. god. Eins' final push before leaving. Elisa comforting Rayneshia. Shiroe meeting Touri and appraising him. Eins' and Touri's conversation during the night. Isaac's parting words. etc etc. i unironically cry when i read all that but i'm also crazy

Leonardo and Coppelia looking at the stars in v9

Rundelhaus and Touya meeting with Eins in v14

3 favorite headcanons: time to pick the most normal ones that don't require writing an essay to justify my reasoning

William is autistic. So are Pianississimo and Dincron. Autism is stored in the elf

a propos that. I think WIlliam is deep Tolkien nerd. Got good at English to read Silmarillion in original level deep. His favourite character/thing ever is canonically Legolas, but in the novel he is not blond and from that i can draw my own conclusions. As to why he'd make himself an elf archer with silver hair. Appendices and legendarium and genealogies reasons

Isaac is bi (with some aro flavour)

3 least favorite things about it:

oh loghora women i wish you were in a better series. reading about "female powers" gets nauseating after. well, it's like that from the start

Plant Hwyaden (with the exception of Nureha, though there's a different problem with how the writing treats her). Not even because they are antagonists, but because all of them are so cartoonishly evil I can't help, but find them annoying. All the locations in the west are also described as (beautiful) dens of all the evil of the world, as if the author suddenly got allergic to nuance

the incredibly weird narration bit that all of the world is overcome with lawlessness and dog-eat-dog mentality BUT NOT JAPAN. Because Japanese people are so used to law and order and that's why they could organize themselves so well into a functioning society. Technically it's a character saying that, but as it's the only time we get this sort of exposition, it's impossible to escape the impression that it's the author's words and not the case of an unreliable narrator. The argument of loving order and structure does come up a few times in the story on separate occasions. (in the similar vibe vein, so to speak, the idea that "dictatorship doesn't always have to be bad" gets brought up in the story)

#this got long. rip #ask game #answered #summerofthelaterose

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skygemspeaks · 8 years ago

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I'm afraid this might be pestering but do you have the part 2 for that Log Horizon AU?

Okay okay my dear, I’m sorry it took me this long, but here it finally is! Part 2 of my Return to Earth au.

While Minori has always been Shiroe’s protégé in regards to being a strategist, Rudy is the one who inherits Shiroe’s magical talent. Rudy is the one that’s stayed up with Shiroe throughout the nights, studying magic, researching new spells, trying to find a link between the worlds.

When Rudy wakes up one day to find his entire family gone, to find himself the only adventurer left in the entire world, it just about breaks him.

He’d always suspected that he’d have to say goodbye one day, he’d always expected that he’d end up alone. But when Shiroe had come up with the idea to find a way to allow the adventurers to travel freely between their own world and Theldesia, he’d started hoping. He’d started hoping that he’d be able to keep these warm, laughter-filled days. He’d hoped that this would be his new forever. They’d been making good headway too, but now that his master, his much admired older brother is gone, Rudy just doesn’t have the faith in himself that he’ll be able to bring them back.

He wallows in his grief for a long time. Him and all the other People of the Land who’d made Akiba their home. The reason they’d all come to Akiba was because they’d been drawn to the adventurers, to their carefree ways, to their bright, colourful lives, to their fascinating culture. And now, with half their population gone, with their Round Table Council no longer upholding the peace, their town quickly crumbles, becoming merely a shell of the beautiful place it had become with the arrival of the adventurers.

Lord Sergiatte orders his granddaughter to return to the Palace of Eternal Ice. Now that the adventurers are gone, there is no longer any reason to have an embassy at Akiba.

Lenessia reluctantly obeys, leaving behind the home she’d gradually grown attached to. It’s difficult, getting used to her own peoples’ class-based society once again, after having gotten used to the freedom of the adventurers.

In the end, it’s actually Regan who pulls Rudy out of his downward spiral. It’s no secret to anyone that Shiroe of Log Horizon, the strategist of the Round Table Council, had gained the favour of the Sage of Miral Lake. It had caused quite the stir among the nobles of Eastal - the Sage was a highly respected, if extremely elusive, figure, and it was nigh impossible to even enter into his acquaintance let alone become close with him.

Regan had come to admire Shiroe greatly in the time they’d known each other, so when he learns that the adventurers have all been spirited back to their own home, he immediately sets to finding a way to bring them back. Regan hadn’t had a chance to tell Shiroe yet that he’d been considering taking him on as his successor, the next in line to inherit the title of the Sage of Miral Lake. He’s getting on in years after all, and he already considers Shiroe his equal in terms of magic, if not even superior.

So he and Rudy work together to bring their friends and family back.

It takes them three years.

But finally. Finally, Rudy and Regan are sitting in Shiroe’s office at the Log Horizon guild hall (and it doesn’t matter that Rudy’s been using it for three years, longer now than Shiroe had ever used it - Rudy will always think of it as Shiroe’s) and they’ve got their hearts in their throats.

It’s the middle of the night.

Rudy opens his status screen, and Shiroe’s name is lit up on his friend’s list. It’s the only one so far, but it’s a start. With this one tentative connection, they’re closer than ever to achieving their goal.

Rudy selects his guild leader’s name and a telechat ringtone sounds in his mind, for the first time in three years. He waits with baited breath, and after what seems an eternity, there’s a click.

“Rudy?” asks a familiar voice, an incredulous voice.

And Rudy almost breaks down crying. There’s a lump in his throat, but before he can get even a word out, he hears the wail of an infant, and a quiet curse from Shiroe.

“Shit,” he whispers to himself. “Sorry Rudy, just a second. Let me put the baby down.”

Rudy is confused, and maybe a little heartbroken. Shiroe has a baby now. Had he and Naotsugu broken up then? It feels to Rudy almost like his parents had just separated.

But then there’s the sound of a door opening, and the sound of a sleepy, disgruntled grumble.

“Keeeeiiiii. Make him stoooooppppp,” groans a voice that Rudy recognizes as Naotsugu’s.

Shiroe sounds breathless when he replies that, “I need you to put him back to sleep. I’ve just gotten a call from Rudy.”

“Mmh, fine...” replies Naotsugu sleepily. There’s silence for a moment, and Rudy can picture perfectly in his mind’s eye the moment Naotsugu really realizes what Shiroe had said, because the next moment he screeches, “WHAT?”

The baby’s wailing gets impossibly louder.

“A telechat. From Rudy,” Shiroe insists. “I need you to take the baby so I can talk to him and figure out what’s going on.”

Another moment of silence, and then Naotsugu’s voice, louder, as if he’s yelling right into Shiroe’s ear.

“I knew you could do it, Rudy!” he crows in delight. “You better bring us back home soon!”

There’s a few moments of grumbling from Shiroe then, and a grunt of pain from Naotsugu, and Rudy knows that Shiroe must’ve kicked him in the shin or something for yelling into his ear.

Then the sound of the baby’s wailing becomes more faint, and there’s the sound of a door closing.

“Rudy?” asks Shiroe, “You still there?”

“Shiroe-nii,” he whispers, still feeling all choked up. “You and Naotsugu-nii have a baby?” he asks.

And he can hear the smile in Shiroe’s voice when he replies that, “Yeah. We adopted him only a few months ago. He’s already got Akatsuki and everyone else wrapped around his tiny little pinky, you know?”

“I’d love to meet him one day,” Rudy whispers in response, and there’s a warm chuckle from Shiroe.

“I’m sure you will. Hopefully some day soon, if you can tell me just how you were able to get this telechat to connect,” Shiroe says, voice warm.

And with that, they’re back on topic.

They talk long into the night, working out logistics, with Rudy acting as the go-between so that Regan can participate in their conversation as well.

So far, Shiroe is the only one they can connect with via telechat, and there’s still no way to bring him to Theldesia. But with Shiroe’s input in the discussion, they know it’s only a matter of time before they get the problem solved.

An hour into their discussion, Naotsugu quietly comes back to the bedroom, having finally managed to get the baby to go back to sleep. He keeps quiet for the most part, not able to really contribute much to the topic of magic, what with being a guardian. But every once in a while he has an idea that opens new channels for them.

Eventually, when they’ve been talking for four hours already and the first light of dawn is beginning to creep over the horizon, they have to call their discussion to an end. Shiroe and Naotsugu need to get a few hours of sleep in before their son wakes them up again, and Rudy and Regan need to start testing out the things they’d discussed with Shiroe.

Both sides also agree that they need to bring others into the conversation as well.

The next day, Regan sends word to Maihama, to inform the Duke and his family that they are close to bringing the adventurers back to Theldesia. Lenessia arranges to return Akiba immediately, while the other noble families of Eastal argue and debate over the pros and cons of bringing the adventurers back. Regan finds it funny, that they seem to think their opinions mean anything to him - as if he’s asking their permission to bring the adventurers back, and not that he’s merely being decent enough to inform them ahead of time that he’s going to do it no matter what they say.

In the other world, Shiroe gathers together the other members of the Round Table Council. He tells them they’re close to finding a way back to Theldesia.

But before the other guild leaders can get too excited, he warns them. He warns them that this time will be different from the last time they were sent to Theldesia.

This time they’ll have the option of returning to their home world whenever they wanted. And while that has many pros, it also has its dangers - the Round Table Council will have just as many - if not MORE - responsibilities than last time. It’ll be difficult if the members plan on keeping their jobs and their lives in their own world. If they are planning on staying in the Council, he needs to know they’ll be willing to put in the extra time and the effort to continue running the city of Akiba.

“Isn’t it the same for you?” Crusty asks Shiroe, raising one delicate eyebrow. “It’s not like you can just pick up and move permanently to Theldesia. You have your son to think about.”

Shiroe nods, acknowledging his point. “Naotsugu and I have already begun discussing the logistics of it,” he tells them. “We’re willing to put in the extra effort. There’s no way I will ever quit the Round Table. But I don’t want you all to feel pressured into staying as well.”

The different guild leaders all look at each other exasperatedly. There’s really nothing to think about. The entire reason they’d all been sent to Theldesia in the first place, the reason they were STILL on the Round Table Council after all these years despite being back in their own world, was because in their hearts, they were all still MMO junkies. They’d become invested in Akiba, and they wanted to continue helping it grow.

In the end, they all decide to stay.

But even with all eleven of them, it would still be difficult to fulfill all their duties, now that they wouldn’t all be there 24/7. So they decide to bring more guilds and guild leaders into the Round Table Council.

The original seven would continue to be the main voices, the ones with the final say in decisions, but they start contacting other guild leaders, start looking for other people to help run the Council.

Of course, William of the Silver Sword Knights is one of the first people they contact. This time, he agrees to join without a second thought.

The Round Table puts out an announcement on their forum that they might’ve possibly found a way to let them return to Theldesia.

The forum explodes with the news, everyone ecstatic. Even people who’d slowly drifted away over the years return to the site with a vengeance.

It takes a few more weeks after that first telechat between Rudy and Shiroe, but finally, they have the status screens up, and all the adventurers who had gone to Theldesia the first time around find they have the option to “log in”.

It’s a brilliant summer afternoon, when the first of the adventurers materializes in Akiba in a flash of light. The people of the land who had been in the area are startled at the appearance, but the news spreads quickly around Akiba after that, like wildfire.

By the time night rolls around, the once deserted shell of Akihabara is once again alight with warmth and laughter. There’s a party that lasts well into the night.

Rudy really does cry, the first time he sees Shiroe again after all those years apart, and he runs full-tilt into his guild leader’s embrace.

He’s taller than Shiroe now. Shiroe laughs and pats his head. “You’ve grown quite a lot, haven’t you?” he asks, voice fond, and Rudy nods, bouncing on the balls of his feet like an excited puppy.

The parties last for several days afterwards.

There’s a lot of rebuilding to do, a lot of problems to fix and decisions to make, and relationships with the people of the land to rebuild.

It will take the adventurers a long time establish themselves properly in this world again.

But for now, they choose not to worry about that.

For now, they choose to bask in the joy of being with their friends and loved ones once again.

#log horizon #shiroe #rundelhaus code #shirogane kei #naotsugu hasegawa #regan of miral lake #lenessia cowen #sergiatte cowen #return to earth au #fantasycrest asks #lh ask #i really hope you guys like this #i do have some more ideas for this world #so if you want to see more be sure to send me some asks #it might take me a while to answer them though #spy reports

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