#Mysterious Heroine XX Alter

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by イロナツキ＠お仕事募

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水着えっちゃん by かもあし [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[kingchaos20]

Ecchan has gone through quite a journey in FGO.

[i-scream-for-fate]

Foreigner class Mysterious Heroine XX (Alter) for the Archetype Inception Chapter Release in Fate Grand Order.

Illustrator: BUNBUN

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Mysterious Heroine XX (Alter)

1x:

[typemoonconfessions]

[arcadiumstudio]

Still don't have translates for Summer Ecchan but checking out the raw for her voicelines, at least for her first ascension and it's so fucking cool. I dig the English included and swear I hear Fairy Kick, don't know if that actually was until, you know, translations but interesting nonetheless.

[kaibutsushidousha]

Took only 4 days for this one to age funny. There's at least 5 King Arthurs who would have been more appropriate than XX Alter to discuss the worldwide damage of the British Empire, but I understand the circumstances and can appreciate Meteo's choice for his Dubai side story.

So does Minase joins Meteo of being a writer that picked a figure from regions that aren’t as used as much in TM with the Trung sisters belonging to him?

This one is just a self-answering yes-no question, so I'll instead use it as a platform for the Minase thoughts I've been having since the wombo-combo of the new mats, the anniversary interview, and the Dubai event. It's probably what the anon wanted out of it anyway.

My inner ramblings start from something Nasu said in last year's interview and made a point to reiterate this year.

Ordeal Calls are meant to be each writer's best and most emblematic piece. Their artistic identity taken to its peak. That's something I believe Sakurai accomplished and Minase didn't. That obviously raises one question: what would a real Minase masterpiece look like?

By the Ordeal Call's premise, it would still need to be something that gave the supplementary information we were missing about the Alterego class, but let's ignore that angle and focus only on the goal of expressing Minase's personality in the best way possible.

What works with Minase and what doesn't? Compare his worst and best pieces. Agartha sucks because it focuses on his opinions about women and those are categorically rancid. Yuga Kshetra succeeds because it focuses on his opinions about ableism, which are far more poignant and agreeable. Minase has enough care about the subject to ensure that the plot is a series of arrangements where the characters triumph not despite their so-called flaws but specifically because of them.

So an ideal Minase Ordeal would focus on a different subject that Minase recurrently displays passionate, empathetic, and agreeable opinions about. So what can we find in his roster of character? Minase made Servant versions:

Zenobia, whose historical significance is entirely about resisting Roman colonization, although she failed. Minase portrays as someone who literally wears her failure and tries to conduct herself with dignity regardless to prove the point that the Roman conquerors couldn't truly defeat her Palmyra spirit. I think this one is a bust execution-wise, but it's significant that the idea is there.

Lakshmi Bai, whose historical significance is entirely about resisting English colonization. Minase portrays her as someone who can't help but disdain the innocent English civilian Holmes and acknowledges the irrationality of it, but the entire surrounding cast including Holmes himself assure her that she is entitled to her feeling because colonization is that gruesome and traumatic of a process.

The Trung sisters, whose historical significance comes not exactly from resisting colonization, but from leading an independence war, which is similar enough in spirit.

Columbus, whose historical significance comes from being a colonizer. I don't need to tell you how Minase chose to portray him.

With Fate/ drawing its action cast from history books, it's inevitable that we get a decent amount of characters whose bulk of their offscreen backstory was spent conquering, slaughtering, and assimilating other cultures. Some certified colonizers, like Richard and Takeru, are very self-critical about it. On the opposite end of the spectrum, we have Iskandar, who gets flak from Faker and Ptolemy for his stupid decisions toward the Diadochi, but the journey of conquest and domination gets framed as the fun adventure no one is critical of. Either way, none of other characters not written by Minase get irredeemable treatment that Columbus gets.

The franchise's most prominent colonizer is, of course, Arthur(ia) Pendragon. Both versions are defined by the regret that comes with ultimately failing their kingdom, but their failings are never credited to the notion that violently conquering the British tribes and unifying the isles is an inherently bad thing. That's the image of greater good they fought for, and that part remains unchallenged. The closest Nasu got to criticizing Arthuria for being a colonizer is by showing the Round Table's brutal treatment of the Arabs in the Sixth Singularity. I'm mentioned this specially because this is Percival's first reaction to eating a mixed breakfast buffet in the current Minase-written Dubai event:

Minase's Percival is strongly defined by his respectful interest in foreign cultures and, fittingly enough for a knight who opposed the Lion King, he's maybe the first character to directly criticize Arthuria on her disregard for the traditions she trampled in the unification of Britain. That's a thing I'd appreciate more of and can only imagine Minase daring to touch on.

[akkreti]

Foreigner-class Servants based on how tasty I think they are

Abby: 2/10 puritan diet probably makes for a lean and tough meat

Hokusai (The father): 9/10 chewy :> an actual octopus, I wonder if his insides are also of octopus or if it's a bag of human organs compressed into the shape of an octopus. 10/10 if so, cause the pop would be as satisfying as one of those half-boiled eggs where the yolk is still melty and you managed to pierce it just right in your mouth

Hokusai/Oui (The daughter): 1/10 have you seen how thin her limbs are? Atrocious lifestyle choices too (I'm not eating her until she's taken a shower)

Mysterious Heroine XX: 8/10 active lifestyle, eat a lot of delicious junk food herself, those thighs are thicc

Yang Guifei: 7/10 chubby, life of luxury, already seasoned with some spicy burn

Voyager: 0/10 this is metal. You're trying to get me to eat metal bundled in a scrawny boy's skin. No.

Abby (Summer): 6/10 still as scrawny as her regular self, but all those sugary pancakes have to amount to something

Van Gogh: 10/10 I want to eat her. I wonder if her meat's closer to plant or animal? If it's plant, it probably changes textures based on her emotional state, turning crunchier the hornier she is, like from an onion to a good apple. If it's more animal/human-like, it would probably smell a lot like fish or the ocean's saltwater, mixed with some spice from all the void stuff. I want to suck on her fingers like it's chicken wings. I want to eat her feet chilled like sashimi. I want to eat her I want to eat her I want to eat her I want ot eat her

Mysterious Idol X Alter: 9/10 being an idol is a lot of activity, and her diet of sugary snacks probably makes for a lot of fat

Molay: 7/10 I like lamb meat. She probably tastes like spicy lamb. I'll eat it.

Dark Koyan: 9/10 the best damn steak in the entire world

[vennyriz22]

This Anniversary’s GSSR Summons

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Hey don't cry about Lostbelt 6 part 2 look Morgans are at Mysterious Idol X's concert

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XXオルタ by Gnu@Gnu36

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[kingchaos20]

So in MHXX Alter’s side story for the Dubai summer event, she goes to a mall and buys a LOT of stuff, including several books. One of them is called Rich Villain, Poor Heroine.

Summer Ecchan is quite insistent on her roll as a villain. All the stuff she buys on the mall was with her space credit card, so she has money to spare for her NEET tendencies.

On the other hand, MHXX, her counterpart, has the role of hero and protagonist in the Servantverse and, as we’ve seen several times, she is pretty much always broke.

Therefore. It can be deduced that the book that XX Alter is willingly buying could be a reference to herself and MHXX.

ERGO. WHAT WE CAN CONCLUDE FROM ALL OF THIS IS….

Ecchan reads yuri.

[zeravmeta]

super duper extra mysterious double xx heroine (alter)

[hassiegfrieddoneanythingwrong]

Summer 9 line-up is revealed, with Classes this time (mostly). They are:

Ciel, aka Mystery Agent C.I.E.L (5 star, Moon Cancer)

Dobrynya Nikitich (4 star, Lancer)

Xu Fu (4 star, Avenger)

BB Dubai (most likely Kazuradrop in disguise) (5 star, Moon Cancer)

Tenochtitlan (4 star, Moon Cancer)

Mystery Heroine XX Alter (4 star, Foreigner)

Also, this event will be technically two months long, since it's going to be combined with OC3, a limited chapter (again?!) written by Nasu. It'll be released in three parts like Avalon, and most likely focused on the Moon Cancer Class. It'll also give out a Servant (most likely the Summer Welfare) once completed, and will be moved to Main Interlude at a later point. It's also been stated that there'll be other events going on during this time period (most likely evocation festival/interlude drops/some other campaigns).