#fate/

[chronologiical]

I FINISHED THE LN

[junkandstuff]

《Fate Grand Order》 ─ 「Memorial Movie 2023」

[hexedwithluck]

drew baobhan sith cause she's my first lv 100 servant since at least 2018 🥺

[toodleroo]

for girlies who understand. this is my roman empire

[brawltogethernow]

It's an endless font of [emotion...? I'll get back to you] that so many of the iconic "bad translation" memes are straight up fabrications, but the ringer of the set is truly "People die when they are killed," where if you unpack it you arrive at "Oh the anime boy can't be killed and doesn't see himself as a people. Oh I see."

[hohsalle]

i forgot to post my other fanservant designs here. um. i'm not incredibly satisfied with the actual art on these but this is more concept than art so it's fine

design notes below

avenger (amakusa shirou tokisada)

"he already has an avenger alt" that's okay. he can have two avenger alts

he looks closer to the way he did during the 3rd hgw because he didn't incarnate like apoc amakusa

much design inspo from onryo (vengeful ghost) art and noh and kabuki (which feature onryo heavily)

his base white layer is a funerary garment. it's crossed the wrong way because i really wanted to lean into the onryo aspect. he cannot move past his death hence his class

i put another layer under that because he looked naked. it's indigo because in kabuki theatre ghosts usually have heavy indigo makeup, so i wanted it in the color scheme

the haori was because he still looked too bare i'm sorry for always designing 2973926285 layers

however i decided later that it looks too Winter Hanten because i suck at drawing kimono fabric so i made this alt where he's not wearing the haori:

the red knots, obi cord, and over the shoulder cloth are insp by noh theatre. specifically they're common elements in samurai costumes

shoulder cloth is degraded from the usual resplendent fabric used in theatre costumes—first of all i wanted to evoke the fires in shimabara, and second also wanted to give the impression of a funeral shroud

the red around the pupils is also noh; masks might use a convention like this to indicate that someone is not human or has a grudge that they want to avenge

i wanted to play around with the idea of giving him phantom arms because in fate lore his arms were cut off before he was made to watch his comrades being executed but i couldn't draw it well enough. possibly another ascension...

caster (amakuni yasutsuna)

i thought it would be really funny to make a fanservant of amakuni, the first japanese swordsmith, who is not a saber, and who spends all his waking moments correcting people who think he's a saber

i heavily referenced muramasa's color scheme for this, although amakuni is not a shirouface. it's just that he's the only other swordsmith in fgo lol i wanted to have some parallels between them

the bandages: i don't know why i can't stop making design decisions based on involvement with fire. but as a smith i wanted him to have a Physical Sign that he interacts with flames and metals a lot

the scars on his face are also burns

the swords behind him are the body of the kogarasumaru, the sword he forged according to legend—this is not factually true, BUT because of how servants work, he has access to this sword because people think that he forged it

the vented shoulder on the right side of his gi is not authentically correct... it's there because i wanted to sort of evoke the heian-era kariginu style and also cus i figure it gets stuffy in there

he has tengu sandals on because the kogarasumaru (lit. "little crow") is so heavily associated with birds

his eyes are red to indicate divinity, as according to some versions of the legend he attained immortality due to the amount of blood shed with his swords

the cord on his hakama is how we wear the cords of our swords in my school of iaido. this is also not technically something that would have been authentic to amakuni's time, since he would have worn a sword in the tachi style, but since he is sort of the forefather of all swordsmithing in japan, i wanted to represent the more recent eras as well

[kris-and-the-pnictogens]

"Trace On"

So far, in terms of magical spells from fiction, no spell has made better overall sense than Emiya Shirou's "Trace On", which he learned from Emiya Kiritsugu: the one spell that Kiritsugu would consent to teach his son, his compromise with himself. Kiritsugu had come to despise magic and mages and yet his son wouldn't let him alone until he learned that one simple and useful spell.

One magic spell can destroy the world. I'm not kidding. I've come to realize this truth about "true magic", which one feels instinctively is a legitimate concept or category. The Arthur Clarke cliché is wrong, preciously wrong: magic and technology are interrelated but they are always distinguishable from each other. Technology always seems like it's approximating magic, catching up to magic, while the tantalizing possibilities of magic race ahead of technology, always just a bit out of reach. And thus one can easily see that a "true magic" spell, something that can be wielded in a few moments any time the magic-user wants, can do immense damage beyond what technology can manage, for magic permits exceptions to the predictable actions of technology and machines.

An ordinary human being has a gun pointed at them and the desperate human being plugs the barrel with a piece of paper. What effect will that have? None. What if Emiya Shirou plugs a gun with a wad of paper? The gun blows up in the user's hands.

Think of everything in the world, every solid object, that's required to break in some consistent way. What if Emiya Shirou applied "Trace On" to the paper tape at the end of a footrace? The race wouldn't end properly! That's a silly example but now imagine Shirou applying that strengthening ability to, oh, sheets of plastic or paper in an industrial context, gumming up an entire factory because suddenly it can't cut any boxes open or rip open any packages.

I've never seen Death Note but I feel like I get the premise of the show, instinctively: the shinigami's stray "death note" book has world-ending consequences. But even very small magic powers also have world-ending consequences. The machinery of the contemporary human world, Earth 2024 (as it seems), requires utmost predictability in order to achieve its simulation of magic. Corporations have fallen in love with "just in time" scheduling of their operations, i.e. requiring everyone along the supply chain to be always ready to pounce on any request or transfer, and that can only work as well as it does because of the predictability of machinery. Gumming up even one key machine or structure in the process has the potential to cause a major blockade. I'm curiously reminded of the container ship that got wedged in the Suez Canal, one of the world's most important bottlenecks in its supply chains.

And somehow I can almost imagine "Trace On", persuading the atoms and molecules to shift just a little way this and that, bonding with each other temporarily perhaps, conferring a sudden rigidity and crystallinity to materials that otherwise lacked them. It's a sensible magic spell all right, and it has a logical consequence: "projection". If you can impose added structure onto a material, then perhaps you can duplicate the structures of materials as well, which Emiya Shirou does. The evolution of that skill is not arbitrary, but suggested by the possibilities of the simpler spell.

See, ma? It is possible to explain why magic "makes sense" in fiction! I feel like I've been working on this problem for...decades, trying to justify an age-old intuition. Bad magic writers (q.v. Jo Rowling) think of magic as arbitrary, anything-goes stuff, but that's not true. Chaos and discord are "anything goes" but magic has structure. Magic needs to be consistent and sensible in fiction in order to be believable. And Nasu...I gotta say, whatever else his faults as a writer and a person, he's careful about writing magic, and thus he's always in (or near) the realm of the plausible from what I've seen.

~Chara of Pnictogen

[fateloe]

¡Fate/LoE te busca!

¡Recibe una calurosa bienvenida! Nos encontramos en un rol inspirado y ambientado en la época de Fate/Stay Night, donde ofrecemos rol con personajes originales muy interesantes y muchos miembros del canon activos en el foro: tenemos personajes que provienen de Stay Night, Apocrypha, Extra, Samurai Remnant, incluso de Tsukihime, Prototype y Grand Order, you name it!Actualmente nuestros usuarios están más interesados en recibir con los brazos abiertos a alguien que quiera llevar a Rin Tohsaka en nuestro foro, ¡tenemos a Shirou, Sakura e Illya presentes por aquí y muchos Servants a los que les interesará hacer contrato con ella! ¿Qué te ofrecemos?

Una comunidad abierta al rol y a la comunicación entre miembros.

Si te gustan los combates, ¡tenemos batallas de todo tipo! A dados, narrativas, contra monstruos de bestiario y múltiples, ¡únete al combate!

Herramientas para tener contrato más rápido, como Light of Tinder, ¡donde se te publicará en nuestras redes sociales y se te hará una presentación apropiada en nuestro canal correspondiente!

Memes, ediciones e imágenes temáticas de personajes de nuestros foros o de nuestros momentos jugando cosas en la comunidad, ¿no me crees? Watch this:

Fate/LoE 2024 Royal Rumble

Dado de defensa quién te conoce

Así es como saludamos en el foro

Un humilde crackshipper

El día de destruir a Marie Antoinette

¿Quién mató a Keyla?

¡Y vienen muchísimos más! ¡si quieres reírte con nosotros o de nosotros(??) puedes seguirnos en tumblr!

¡MUCHAS GRACIAS POR TU ATENCIÓN! ¡Y que tengas excelentes roles!

[skeith-platinumprincess]

Hello! I’ve noticed no one has done this so I decided to compile a full list of all the differences between the original fate/stay night and the remastered version.

I primarily tried to focus on big translation changes and it was really fun to write. If I missed anything please mention it so I can add it!

[desperatecheesecubes]

Bitch you’re King Fucking Arthur. ‘Not renowned or distinguished’ get the fuck out of here.

[chronologiical]

snow drop

[junkandstuff]

2025 Servant Silhouettes

[tsunderful]

I have made a shocking revelation.

Remnant Saber is a Saberface in disguise

[therealeagal]

Fate/Samurai Remnant

A game that I saw so I bought it and played it, as I am wont to do with games.

If you know the Fate/ series, you'll know the basic premise: Hot magic people fight to the death over a cup.

Set in the mid-1600s in an alternate universe Japan, the game follows a similar trajectory to Stay Night, actually.

Our intrepid protagonist - who like Shirou Emiya before him (after him?) is a normie that stumbles ass-backwards into a Holy Grail War - wants to be a total badass like his father before him, and forms a contract with the Saber class Servant after being attacked on the first night by an enemy Servant.

Only it's not a proper Holy Grail War. Since it's only the 1600s the HGW hasn't actually been invented yet. There's backstory involved but basically the Waxing Moon Ritual was cobbled together via the visions of a seer.

Anyway, through the power of friendship and waifus our intrepid protagonist learns to fight with the big boys and no one lives happily ever after because it turns out war is hell and fighting for the grail is just a recipe for misery and disaster.

In addition to the seven regular Servants, nine extra servants are summoned as rogues that can side with anyone. Well, eight, really. The ninth is a Pseudo-Servant, which is a whole thing. Plot is involved.

Anyway, here's the twist. Our intrepid protagonist is none other than Miyamoto Iori, the adopted son of the late, great Miyamoto Musashi.

And here's another twist. Of the three endings, the bad one is the canon one! Which is very unfortunate, but so it goes.

There's more twists but people will get mad at me if I spoil it so give it a gander if you've a mind to.

Easily the best Fate/ game I've ever played, which isn't as impressive as it sounds because it's the only Fate/ game I've played other than EXTELLA Link, which was ok, but lacked what the French call a certain...I don't know what.

I hope you like it and inform me of such enjoyment.

I'm just going to assume that everyone likes it as much as I do and therefore, anyone who says they don't like it is obvious lying. Q.E.D.

[foundfamilyhq]