#SIN lostbelt

[cynthiaandsamus]

Weren't you guys literally just tearing this ship apart to study every bit of it? Or is learning only evil when poor people do it?

[zmeyel]

I know Road to 7 is only on Götterdämmerung, but since it's Easter it might be a good idea to clear SIN if you haven't already.

[joanplou]

Oh my god Jing Ke I love you you genius assassin

[morsking]

regularly scheduled lostbelt 6 post but man doesn't it fucking kill you the fsn lostbelt trio was the characters most known for being self-sacrificing and having been destined to meet an unsightly end just like how the entirety of faerie britain and everyone in it only existed as a sacrifice of retribution for an irreversible sin because a promise had been made and it was a promised that was owed.

you had the emiya shirou who gave his life and afterlife for the greater good and to keep his promise to fulfill kiritsugu's wish serving as the vessel for senji muramasa who promised he'd forge a sword that would sever karma and destiny and used his whole spirit origin to save artoria caster from a lonely death. artoria caster who was born to forge the holy sword artoria pendragon would wield into the years her kingdom would fall, the faerie dragging herself to her demise and the demise of king arthur and camelot kicking and screaming but doing so because her life was a promise to the star in the storm. and cu chulainn who died defending ulster never refusing the people who asked for his help yet being undone by the geass (the promises) he broke because above all he had promised himself he would walk no other path other than this very one he had chosen in his childhood so he was the perfect man to keep odin's promise that something of humanity would remain after the cataclysm in his stead. all of three of them standing in contrast to the fujimaru ritsuka who made a promise not to save the world but to carry on for the memory of romani archaman and to keep hold mash kyrielight's hand as she believed her brief life was coming to an end in the collapsing command center of chaldea and oberon who was the promise of a complete and absolute end to the tragedy of britain's existence.

lostbelt 6 is about promises dammit and it doesn't matter how painful they are they have to be kept because to live is a promise when you die you must have fulfilled your promise just as gareth fulfilled her promise as the last of the mirror clan just as percival fulfilled his promise to melusine just as melusine fulfilled her promise to aurora just as koyanskaya fulfilled her promise to muryan just as muryan fulfilled her promise to herself and the rest of the wing clan and just as habetrot fulfilled the promise she made as totorot. and that's why excalibur is the sword of promised victory. as long as it exists there is a promise that even in the furthest and darkest battlefield, waged not even by armies but by a small and ordinary person against despair itself, victory is promised it will be achieved so long as you hold on to the hope radiating from that promise.

[zeravmeta]

i still fucking adore this plot twist especially because of how it also recontextualizes oberons actions at the very end. vortigern as a curse made to destroy britain is this giant handsome fella

which is a conglomerate of bugs all made to consume the land and destroy it. the land of fairie britain is not only made of corpses but also sin, as it continues to grow it only further damns itself because the fairies are fickle beings who act purely in self interest, unable to truly change. when they die their bodies remain and a successor to their name is born from the land, once again taking their place and once again being unchanging, which is why the land of fairie britain has been an unendingly cruel land subsumed in curses and its also why vortigern is the one meant to destroy it. the insect of the abyss is called as such but in fact doesnt really look like anything its just a tube with wings, at MOST you can MAYBE say it looks like a leech or lamprey but in fact hes just a void that consumes and annihilates everything only adding to its mass. a curse and a lie all ultimately as such because there is no meaning other than total destruction to the curse but oberons will is what motivates the destruction of the lostbelt and chaldea and not vortigern and thats why its so significant

oberon-vortigern isnt just destroying britain. hes letting the bodies rot and the sins fade away, quite literally the bugs on a corpse that let it decompose and pass on

[empty-dream]

Knowledge leads to doubt. Once people are trapped by such delusions, they inevitably begin comparing themselves to others and resent the world itself. Without such wicked individual egotism, this world can be paradise everlasting. It is through ignorance that our people live their lives in peace and health.

Fate/Grand Order • Cosmos in the Lostbelt : Syncronized Intellect Nation, SIN

[fiannalover]

Fate Fic Recs

Because I read a lot of fics and am always rolling that ao3 gacha, so I felt like sharing a non exhaustive rec list under read more. Feel free to reblog and add more!

past the lingering smoke - Kadoc-senpai is best senpai! Post-ID. Hurt/Comfort.

For Want Of A Relic - Fate/Zero Servant Swap AU where Waver gets Diarmuid and everyone else swaps around too. The resulting team-ups are honestly delicious and you get very good Diarmuid out of it. The writer came back after 4 years of hiatus to finish the fic and write sequels, go give them a round of applause!

Fragments of Chaldea - stares directly at the camera

Café of the round - Reincarnation AU Coffee Shop. The Main Round Tale reincarnate within the Fate Universe and get together to own a coffee shop, meeting and remeeting other nasuvere people along the way.

AND GUINIVERE IS THEEEEEERE!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 yaaaaaaaaaay

Multiple Case Studies of the Strange Concept of Love - a Servant is summoned to Chaldea, and spends her days looking at the romantic couples within it and analyzing the emotions she feels. Once you learn who is the main character you'll start crying. Also, RamaSita, yay!

Sunset Cocktail - BediGudao Valentine’s day fic. Bedivere saves Gudao from stalker of the day, takes him to Moriarty’s bar, on Moriarty’s suggestion. Bedivere regrets his trusting of shifty old men from the word go, more at 11.

a planet between your teeth - Drabble. The god asks if the fairy wants to eat him.

what name is there for what we have done? - Post-LB6 Fic where Mordred is, quite frankly, blowing up after Morgan and Baobhan are summoned to Chaldea, specially with how much the former looks like him. This takes him to Bedivere’s room. Hurt/Comfort, amazing Bedivere, amazing Round Table dynamic (author uses he/him for Mordred)

vignette 50 - Sieg & Guda farming at New York Event. Cute. Cute. Cute. CUTE! def a fic to read to warm up cozily at the end of the day, I get cuteness giggles everytime I read it.

Taste-testing - CharlieGudao baking fic. Pure, unaltered fluff. Charlie lays the sugar Thick.

Conversation by the bus stop - Bedivere talks to a fairy who is not there

But we stay silly - GudaCas. Guda shocks Artoria out of dissociation by barking like a dog. Adorable. I SWEAR this is cute. Trust me.

Sign here - Modern AU GudaCas stuff following on that part of the chocolate competition where Cnoc says the winner will marry Ritsuka. A lovely comedy drabble that will Not tear your heart apart at the last second, unlike fics made by other authors who followed up on that scene.

遅くの成人の日 (救った世界が必ず貴方を救ったくれる、どんな形でもそれは貴方にきっと届く） - I can only pray the title formatted well. Summer event fic of Ritsuka dealing gwith how long she has been at this, and the acceptance of her own aging.

And Thus Did The Leaves Fall - BediArthur. Bedivere as Arthur dies.

Look at me - GudakoBarth. Gudako, Bartholomew, their feelings for one another and how much one needs to fit another’s type.

She did not want to die - NitoSche fic and character exploration. Amazing Sche character exploration, accompanied by an equally amazing Nitocris POV version of the fic in Act As A Pharaoh. If you like either girl, you HAVE to read it.

Have I Made You Sad, Mom? - Post-LB6 Morgan has been summoned to Chaldea. Baobhan hasn’t arrived yet.

(Free from) Sin - Morgan!Aesc, Aesc!Morgan, and the many times she felt love, wretched, cursed love.

Atonement - Ritsuka going through therapy and readjusting to a normal life post-lostbelt, as the voices of all her Servants remain ringing in her ears.

Your heart in my mouth, bitter on the tongue - MashMorgan. Mash confesses, Morgan vaguely remembers what emotions are. I do love a good rule of three emotional discussion fic.

Bridal Ox - Asterios goes to Habetrot’s workshop to ask for a dress

Taking the bit (heh) to its natural conclusion - Modern AU GudaCas. Guda is face blind, Caster needs someone to help her run away from the cops.

the odds don’t look far - Avicebron and David bonding over being the only jewish Servants in Chaldea (and, post-Part 1, the staff as a whole).

[mako-neexu]

everytime i remember the lostwill episode for guda, i turn into a glitching and screaming bocchi.

illusion!da vinci saying “it’d be bad if you’re not in top shape to take down the lostbelt. replacements are common as to be practically worthless but youre the last master. oh yeah anyways we have kadoc, youre a spare now” and illusion!mueniere going “you can stop being a master now. you’re just a civilian so youre not needed anymore”

illusion!holmes’ “theres no need to worry about your sins. all those people who knew are gone now” and illusion!goredolf’s “theyre merely simulations. there is no need to feel sympathy over them. we are the winners and they are the losers”

chaldea has relied on guda so much that the weight of it cannot be measured. that’s their only purpose now. to be a Master. and to be a Master, they need to push forward the longer this kind of suffering got. “to live” they still want that, believe in that. but that meaning gets muddled everytime the tears mixed with your bloodstained hands, with the same hands you used to hold your friend yaga’s hand with, to eat with the little girl from scandinavia, to get a high five from the twins from olympus, to reach out to the people you lost.

then to holmes and goredolf’s lines: its meaningless, so why try? why try indeed... a way to have guda’s will collapse, the antithesis of what the’ve been doing in the lostbelts all this time. “its already hard for you so why dont you give up? your efforts are meaningless” they’ll disappear in the end no matter what.

isnt life meaningless? how, in the end, we’re all going to die anyways. and the only thing we can do... is to give our lives purpose. to find meaning because thats what everyone has been doing ever since the beginning.

guda thinking “relax. what does it mean to relax? someone dying in front of me, a body torn topieces in front of me... training those legs that are desperate to flee, training to clear my mind...i cant recall any other way of life now” but theyre still hoping that they’ll be able to move past the blood after all of this is over

and then GUDA ADMITTING SOMEONE WANTED TO TELL THEM THAT WHAT THEY CARRY IS A BURDEN MUCH TOO PAINFUL FOR THEM TO BEAR THAT YOU CAN LEAVE IT BEHIND AND UNFINISHED THAT YOU CAN RUN AWAY BECAUSE ITS YOUR DECISION. YOUR DECISION. YOUR LIFE. that its enough.

and to live... is to live without regrets. to move forward because you still have that ‘something’ to hold on to and reach towards. 

just like he said.

[bittertomato]

Woops, I still have Lostbelt 6 feels. Sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Every other Lostbelt King got to go down after a tough battle against the heroes, but not Morgan. Morgan died the way Oberon said would be the only way to beat her: deception and assassination. And damn did it take so much bullshit falling into place to literally stab her in the back.

But that's not what gets me about Morgan's death. It's that Fujimaru, Mash, and the rest of their party will never know about it. The only ones to witness it and remain in this "future" past the collapse of Faerie Britain are Baobhan Sith (who did NOT need more suffering) and the audience.

It's why Oberon Vortigern's My Room line to Morgan tugs at my heartstrings.

I had to do everything within my power to kill you. Despite all that, I never even got to face you when you died. …So, let me be clear: I didn't hate the picture book you drew.

Oberon can scoff and say that once the story is over it'll be something people just move on from. Not me. Morgan's super fucked up ending will stay with me for the rest of FGO's lifespan. Because it works so well narratively-speaking for a character who has so thoroughly convinced herself that she is a villain—the witch that the heroes must strike down, no matter what version of Morgan this is—to die a wretched death.

Except she wasn't defeated by the heroes. She died under thousands of years of Faerie Britain's sins—including her own—and there isn't even anyone besides the audience who will mourn how massively fucked up this is.

[rake-rake]

@avaloniamagus

“   is it getting bad again?  ” / Vortigern :>

For the heavy hearted.

It is Vortigern's back that is turned towards Merlin, Vortigern's hands that are gripping his own arms in some sort of bizarre embrace, only to let go with a sudden tremor. Yet, when he turns to look at Merlin, it is brown and pink hair framing kind features and healthy skin, and it's Oberon meeting his gaze.

"No no, see how it is?" he tut-tuts at Merlin, an index finger wiggling in the air between them in disproval, "It is been a while since we last spoke. Take a seat and listen for a while. It is my turn now. I said sit down."

The smile never stutters but the inflection of his voice leaves no place no arguments. Oberon himself takes no seat, leaning his back against the wall behind him and crossing his arms over his chest, hands gripping his biceps in a similar way Vortigern had been doing moments ago. His eyes flutter shut, bushy lashes brushing pinkish cheekbones, a gentle smile to his lips. Yet, there's a certain air and feeling to the room, a finality to the tone of his voice as he continues to speak.

"I've known you before the first flower flourished at your feet. I've known him before the first fruit rotted in his hands. I've known you both since the first light and the last shadow. I was there when your two gazes crossed for first time, I was there when you turned your back. I was there when the sword was pulled from the stone, and I was there when the lance pierced him and you watched the light leave his eyes. I was always there. Vortigern Pendragon hasn't always been me, but I have always been Vortigern Pendragon. Human notions like time, space, and reality mean nothing to a Great Parent."

Great parents, the greatest classification of faeries. Just as Caster, once called Arturia, just as Morgan, once called Vivian. Born directly from the inner sea with a purpose greater than themselves. For Morgan it was to save Britain, which she was shunned by the planet for abandoning and naming herself Morgan, demoted to a shadow of what she once was as the Inner Sea created a new daughter, Arturia, later named Caster, with the same purpose.

Oberon's purpose, however, was way more obscure, shrouded in darkness and light in equal measure.

"I was always there, through everything, not only you and him. I saw, and did. Was it good fortune, that your child never found wild beasts whenever he ventured alone into the woods? Was it cheer luck, that when terribly hungry and gorging on berries, he never found himself poisoned? Was it coincidence, that when lost at night the fireflies would light the way out for him?"

"Dragons are my children too. The ones like him, shining so bright, could never pass my attention. So I aided him, little as I could, shackled to Avalon and conditioned to Vortigern's Pendragon very existence as I was. I did everything I could to aid, to ease his journey. To see him reach the end, and his dream. It was for naught. I asked you— I commanded you to protect Caster, to protect my— Vortigern's— our daughter, so that she would not end up like your King. She did. You failed. Such as you failed Arthur Pendragon as well."

He gives him a snide smile, and there's something different about it now, something closer to Vortigern's cruelty than Oberon's kindness. Suddenly, the air seems too cold, the shadows of Oberon's face too deep and pronounced, making his face more similar to the one he last sported right at the end of the British Lostbelt. And when he speaks his mouth to speak, there are insects writhing under his tongue and clinging at his throat, and Avalon shifts.

"I break the pact, accepting of any punishment that befalls me. I reject you. Begone. Avalon has no place for sin. Thou art more human than fairy, and humans are not of my kin. Vivian, Caster. They are both gone. I am the first Great Father who frees you, I am the last Great Mother who shuns you. Cambion you remain, but never to curse our home again. Thou shalt wander the earth along humanity for all eternity, until you and them have redeemed themselves from their sins, until every drop of water has given pass to grains of sand and until every light has dimmed on the night sky. Repent. The Fae King Oberon Vortigern curses you so."

[la-chica-del-jardin-magico]

fgo x twisted wonderland 4

spoiler warning for Lostbelt No.6: Avalon le Fae.

the events of this Lostbelt are hard for gudako and mash so it is almost forbidden to mention what is happening. gudako has some PTSD regarding the fairies and she was almost eaten. she still gets along with Diasomnia (although at first she didn't realize that Malleus, Lilia and Sebek are fairies).

twisted wonderland fairies are NOT the same as lostbel. that is to say, they do not carry sin in their blood and really are more similar to the beings you would find in a fairy tale (luckily for gudako and the servants).

Morgan is one of the first to threaten Crowley that if something happens to his wife, he will not hesitate to destroy the school and perhaps the entire island to the ground. Crowley can see that Morgan is extremely powerful (besides that she is crazy) so he has no choice but to please her. When she is around Ella Morgan, she usually walks around the island and many are impressed by the queen's melancholic beauty. Morgan is also the first to meet Tsunotaro (Malleus) and is surprised to meet other fairies in this world, Morgan usually treats malleus as a small child since in comparison she IS much older than him. Lilia can tell by her eyes that Morgan has been through a LOT, she doesn't deny it but she prefers not to talk about it. she is also interested in knowing the Valley of Thorns.

Baobhan Sith believes that this is because the Valley of Thorns resembles the ideal realm that Morgan dreamed of. It is VERY possible that Baobhan Sith and Lilia belong to the same race of fairies but there is no confirmation. Baobhan Sith still tends to act like a spoiled child in front of most. but she is still interested in school, she too she often curses Crowley for giving them such an undignified place to stay. She also usually frequents Pomefiore to learn more about fashion in this world, especially her beloved shoes.

Barghest, to her surprise, she is extremely popular among the students, especially in Savanaclaw, several of whom either flirt with her or have directly asked her for a date. Ruggie seems in love not only with her figure but also with her food. Sebek may or may not also have a crush on her.

[swamplevel]

Also I think I'm about halfway through SIN in my Lostbelt catchup quest, and I'm enjoying it. I'm slightly baffled by the hard right turn into making Spartacus an actual character and not a weird joke (did this happen somewhere before this?) but Emperor Qin has been completely delightful as an antagonist.

[hasmashdoneanythingwrong]

The sins of the English cross even into this Lostbelt.

[zeravmeta]

maybe if i get emp to play fate grand order cosmos in the lostbelt chapter 3 synchronized intellect nation (sin) and meet qin shi huang it would fix him

[cyborg-squid]

Hail to the Queen.

What can I say about Morgan that hasn't already been said by Lostbelt 6? Well, I initially thought she was overrated when she came out on JP, as most of the fan content about her I saw was focused on her espousing Guda (and there's still a lot of that now)...

But then I played Lostbelt 6 and Understood. Her End, the way she died, without any resolution, no victory, no catharsis, just a sudden violent betrayal, helpless to watch as the one she over and over again tried to save, is tossed into nothingness, fed to the faes' greatest sin... Having that be the section that LB6 part 2 ended on (iirc) was such a masterful writing choice, there was nothing I could do but think on that for days, and reading that scene, I felt like Shirou and the hill of swords, the past of Saber, desperate to save her from the end but unable to do anything, at most only being able to throw himself to the same end... Both the player and Guda can do nothing to save Morgan, and Guda doesn't even know the parts of Morgan's history that the player is privy to, them being there in the throne room couldn't have changed anything, couldn't have averted this fate, but that didn't stop me from wanting too...

[ryogai]

The time for the assault had finally come, the march upon Camelot itself. Everything they had done and endured had been leading up to this point. Nix never was used to the idea of war, so much loss of life was always expected in such things. Nonetheless, this had to be done in order to hopefully prevent the collapse of Proper Human History and Faerie Britain. Before they separated, Oberon did make a request of Nix; one that caught her off guard. He asked that she summon him in Chaldea after all was finished in Britain. She wanted to reassure him that they would reunite after all the fighting was done but did agree to his request after giving the Fairy King a quick hug. Then they parted to continue with the plan.

Breaching the front gate was simple in comparison to what lied ahead, the large twisting castle town of Camelot. What Nix wasn't prepared for was Morgan to come for them directly and without warning. The group struggled to fight back, the silverette sending support where she could. The knight beside her suddenly took a stance in front of Nix and Altria, separating Morgan from having a clear shot at them and putting distance between them. His sudden action didn't seem to phase Morgan but that wasn't going to stop him, even as she mocked his attempt at chivalry. "Say what you want, Morgan.. But I have hidden my own True Name all for this moment." That's right, Gaheris had kept his own identity secret from all but his Master and those in Chaldea. It was better that way so the Lostbelt King before them would have no prior knowledge of who he was. Though as soon as he activated his Noble Phantasm, this host would fade away since his Spirit Core and Origin was fully repaired now..

'My host, I give you thanks for allowing me to take shelter in your form. Rest now. I will protect the princess from here.' Gaheris drew his blade and held it at the ready. "My True Name is Gaheris! Knight of the Round Table!" A knight that had slain Morgause, a version of Morgan; his mother. There did seem to be a look of mild shock upon her face and the knight pressed on with his plan. His sword gleamed red as he began to activate his Noble Phantasm. "This blade is stained with the blood of vengeance, the death of wrong-doers.." As he spoke aloud, a bright light enveloped his body as Yuuto's form began to fade away to give way to how Gaheris' true form and appearance. It was painful for Nix to see this happen but knew it was for the best. "It now becomes my sin as I draw it once more to deliver justice that must be done. Dienyddio Morgause!" His blade was swung down as a dark red light, sharp as the weapon itself, shot forth to hit Morgan directly. Others around them aided in the final strike to put an end to the Queen.. Or so they thought.