#Heavens Feel

[monisalado]

Sorry for being a fate fan in da past

[tomatosmoothie]

"monsters"

[roabe]

Nine lives

[jackoino]

im worried i want you with the power of a thousand suns burning as one

[flabbergastedpigeon]

Did you know? If I don't draw moody Fate art every so often I'll spontaneously combust

[houseofmad]

I uhhh forgot to post this on Shirou Day. My bad 😭 I had midterms around that time so ummm happiest day to our beloved protagonist 🤧

[the-belial]

It's Sakura's birthday!

[izanaa137]

reposting this here 🐍

[grimeye-j]

There's something interesting about the way Fate/Stay Night does plot twists. It's very different from most other pieces of media I know.

The way Fate/Stay Night deals with plot twists is that instead of having big dramatic reveals it just keeps dropping hints toward something until it becomes increasingly obvious and by the time it actually says the twist out loud it expects the reader to have already figured it out.

The most obvious example for this is of course Archers identity. The story just keeps highlighting the similarities between Shirou & Archer at first in a subtle way but over the course of UBW it becomes basically impossible to miss. Then it gets revealed that Shirou still has the Necklace Rin used to save him, even though Archer gave it back to her. Even later, Rin figures it out but the Text still doesn't explicitly tell us who Archer is, just that he's from the future. Only when the final confrontation between Shirou & Archer begins do they actually confirm it for good.

A similar approach is used for many of the other plot twists in the story, for example Sakura being Rin's sister.

Overall, I'm not really sure whether I like this approach better or worse than how other pieces of media tend to do it.

On the one hand, it makes the reader feel smart, as if they figured the plot twist out by themselves even though the game basically led them to the conclusion. It also makes it, so that you can figure things out at your own pace. Some people might realize what the plot twist is right away & others really late which leads to everyone experiencing the story in a unique way.

On the other hand, I really miss the big dramatic reveals and this way of doing things leads to the characters reactions to the plot twists sometimes feeling really underwhelming because they are more like 'I already thought so but now it's comfirmed' instead of 'What the hell is going on? This drastically changes my perspective going forward'.

Anyway, I don't really have conclusion for this, it was just something I noticed while playing through the Visual Novel for the first time and I wanted to share my thoughts.

[kitsuneharmony]

I still haven't recovered from Heaven's Feel...

[wormholy]

“There are corpses buried underneath her. It’s a truth you will have to accept.”

Actually at first this was me lining an ancient sketch of mine and then I got carried away because I just really like drawing hair I haven’t drawn medusa in so long and I miss her

[symoca]

[kikaruuni]

[illyasfeel]

Fate dark Sakura

[dopplerdora]

So I've been thinking about post-heavens feel.

Like there is an over 50% chance some dumb ass magus learns about Sakura and/or Shirou and trys to pull something and I can only imagine it ending like this

Post-HF Rin strikes me as a woman who would approach any threat to her family with absolute overkill.

She zero hesitation bought a body from fucking Touko. I love Touko but the woman has the worst fucking rep.

Anyway I HF Rin is probably 2 degrees from a rabid animal by magus standards.

Like...

Dumb ass:"YES! Once I gain this power"

*jesters to Sakura and Shirou*

"My family's research will be conplete!....wait what that lig-"

*is atomized by prismatic light"

[gabbyp09]