#julius harway

[rayless-reblogs]

my short list of things I want from Fate/Extra Record + the likelihood of them happening

Alternate costumes for both the Servants and the Hakunos. Both Extella games have had at least a few costumes for the Servants, and CCC had costumes for the Servants and Hakunos as well. We already know the game devs are implementing new things into the gameplay and story, so why not clothes? On the other hand, they haven't teased anything clothes-wise, which they've never been shy to do with the other games. Likelihood: 6/10

Romance route with Archer. While Archer and female Hakuno are sometimes put together in stuff outside the games (Blossom Sensei, Fate/Extella's backstory) and female Hakuno gets some unique dialogues with him in the games, they've never really been an official couple, certainly not to the level of HakunoNero and HakunoTamamo. This is probably because the game devs don't want to run any risk of players shipping Archer with male Hakuno. They could attempt to sidestep this by making the romance route available only if you select female Hakuno, but a) they might realize that's a bad look, and b) the Extellas made Hakuno's gender almost entirely immaterial to the story, and switchable at almost any point. Likelihood: 3/10

Reincorporate the alternate story paths and endings. If rumors online are to be believed (sure!), along with the Rin and Rani routes, there were originally Julius and Leo routes, as well as a route where Hakuno opted not to save any of her fellow Masters. There also was at least one different ending. I want to see all of these, and even more. We know the devs are expanding the game, we know there's at least one new character, and they've rebuilt everything from the ground up. On the other hand, this would be a lot of work. Likelihood: 4/10

Confirmed American release. Likelihood: I don't know, I'm afraid to speculate.

[de-sterren-nacht]

wow this fandom really does suck at actually engaging with the text...not even bb has played fate/extra

[nero-draco]

[typemoonsmashorpass]

[luckythereviewer]

So, something I was thinking about when thinking about Extella outfit designs for the Extra cast (or at the very least the Student Council of CCC), we had grown up Leo in Last Encore and, unless I'm blanking on it, nobody really reacted to him looking different, especially because he's the only one who looked different compared to the rest of the Extra cast who looked pretty much the same (save for Alice being turned into a monster and Hakuno, Julius, and Twice all having dead face forms). Not only that, nobody really seems to talk about it, even though I'd argue his design in Last Encore is a lot better than his regular design.

[aestheticallypleasinganimeboys]

Julius Belkisk Harway - Fate / Extra

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10 Years of Hakuno

By whatever unexpected alignment of the stars, 2023 is a significant anniversary year for a lot of my favorite games/characters. So, continuing my series, it's time to celebrate Hakuno Kishinami, specifically the female protagonist of Fate/Extra, a less known entry in the Fate franchise, a last dying gasp from the Playstation Portable generation, and a game whose remake, Fate/Extra Record, goes for literal years without any updates.

But the heroine is great, so let's talk about her.

September 2013. I liked Fate/Extra so much I played it twice back to back, first with Nero, then Emiya. This was drawn during the Emiya run, and I think it's the first picture I did of her.

Like some other female options in JRPGs, female Hakuno gets less official emphasis than her male counterpart. Some people argue, and I see their point, that it shouldn't matter which version is talked about, as in most ways their writing is identical. To a large degree, the difference in gender is only a matter of aesthetics.

March 2014. Evil Hakuno gets to pose with an evil shirtless Emiya.

For me, that only rings true in a perfect world, where male and female characters have a long and equal history of being main characters written with similar depth and attention. But most often, boys get to be the protagonists, and very often the main girl in a game is largely written as his love interest. (Or, worse, all of the girls are his love interests.)

November 2014. Her Command Seal never gets easier to draw.

So just the act of putting a girl at the helm makes her more unique – and more interesting to me. Even if she's only doing what the male protagonist could also do, the fact that she gets to sets her apart. It's a low bar, I know, but it matters to me whenever it's cleared.

June 2015. Tragedy strikes when Hakuno gets blood in her hair.

People might further argue, and I also see their point, that Hakuno, whatever their gender, is a silent protagonist with barely any personality to start with, so how can either version be interesting? And it's true that a lot of Hakuno's personality is just the Basic JRPG Hero Personality. Oh, she has a strong sense of justice? You don't say.

August 2015. Hakuno shares a moment with Julius Harway before he dies. That is, when she kills him. For the second time.

But all character personalities are cliché to some degree, and whether a character succeeds has to do less with tropes and more to do with how those tropes are handled. And something I love about Fate/Extra is Hakuno's running inner monologue as she fumbles, then attempts to finesse, her way through this seven-week death tournament she had no business joining.

? 2015. She deserves more breaks.

Given how much commentary we get from her, I would argue Hakuno is actually very much not a silent protagonist.

November? 2015. Hakuno deploys Unlimited Swiss Rolls Works and her enemies flee before her.

She's funny, sassy, snarky. She's also very relatable. She's kind of a wimp, especially early on. We've built up this idea of antiheroes being badasses like Batman, who feel more like traditional heroes with bad attitudes.

January 2016. I've said it before, but one of the best excuses for drawing Hakuno is all the pretty hair.

Hakuno can't aspire to that. She can't fight, she's not genius-level smart, she's not rich, she has no secret powers or hidden destiny to discover. What she has, and I love this so much, is endless grit. She will keep pushing through until she faceplants in exhaustion, and it's this inner strength, not any magical heritage or secret weapons, that sees her through, wins the admiration of her loved ones, and ultimately makes her heroic.

? 2016. Probably my favorite Hakuno hair art. Also my favorite Hakuno + disembodied hand art.

Another thing I've always liked about her is that she seems so humane – very down to earth and resolved to do the right thing. Which sounds basic, I know. Like all JRPG heroes.

April 2017. I was going through a real art slump during this period, but I still got a lot of joy from drawing Hakuno. Sometimes when things aren't working, it's good to have that one character you can keep falling back on.

But in the original game, and all the way through Fate/Extra CCC and Extella, Hakuno is paired with Servants who are among the most immoral, evil symbols in history. Nero, Tamamo-no-Mae, Attila the Hun. For Gilgamesh and Emiya, they're two of the most immoral/morally questionable figures in the franchise, definitely not known for always doing the right thing. Assuming (as I do) that Hakuno resonated with these Servants through some innate compatibility, I think it's interesting that this small, quiet, humane person is consistently paired with these gray, or darker than gray, Servants. The games themselves don't dig into it too deeply, but I enjoy speculating what their hidden commonalities could be, what the connections and compensations are.

January 2018. More Extella art. If you had told me, back in 2013, there would be four Hakuno titles, I would not have believed you.

(As much as I enjoy Charlie in Fate/Extella: Link, I was disappointed that his arrival broke the streak and gave Hakuno a fairly straightforward “good” Servant.)

December 2020. My favorite of Hakuno's looks is Extella: Link. I like the silly dress and the shoelessness of the original Extella, but putting Hakuno in a vaguely action hero-y outfit hits a good note of cute and silly but still determined.

While Fate/Extra was never a perfect game in my book, it shouldn't be any surprise that Fate/Extra Record has a lot to live up to, and how they choose to depict Hakuno – what they emphasize, what they change – will play a very large role in how much I enjoy it. Of course, just having a release date at this point would be a great start.

June 2023. The first Hakuno I've drawn in a while. It still comes very naturally.

But even if the remake disappoints me, or never materializes, I'll still have the Hakuno of the original game. She's a little nobody with no special skills, but she keeps hacking her way into my brain.

[agoddamn]

Not sure if you’re still doing this since it’s Sunday morning now by any Fate/GO (or associated series) fic excerpts? Wasn’t sure if Fates was FE or Type/Moon lol

I guess technically this is fate/extra rather than fate/go, but

The entire point of hacking was to convince the system it was acting naturally. Li Shuwen had been determined by the Harway family to be the most effective Servant for what Julius needed to do for Leo. He was unparalleled in rapid murder, could work without flashy magic, and his obscurity to the Western world was a bonus--his technique would be much harder for an enemy to identify compared to, say, Excalibur. Their finest spirit hackers had worked tirelessly to arrange that this would be the Servant at Julius's disposal. Assassin's belief was perfectly in line with that.

And yet.

“There are rituals my family uncovered,” Julius began, as if it were being dragged out of him. There was no need for him to prove his Servant wrong. He was merely a tool. And yet. “You were called--”

“Kahaha! You can't think that something with the power of the Moon Cell would be controlled by an old teapot? No. I came because I heard your soul, Julius. It sang, it screamed. And so, like a selfish old fool, I came to you like this, as another wolf drenched in blood.”

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Streamed on 22nd July, 2020, with Vtuber-style Rin, showcasing some character designs in the remake as well, includes Rin Tohsaka, Julius Harway, Nero Claudius

[madillhethen]

What week is this? Who’s our opponent? So Rin and Rani are fighting? Are each Elimination Battles on different days? I was under the impression we all started the week together and ended it together? I’m confused...

Wh--I would’ve said Rani looks younger than Rin honestly. She looks 15 to me...

What, omg, he’s just going to appear behind me like this wtf.

I’m surprised he isn’t gunning to take Rin out considering she ruined and called him out the other day.

Oh wait, her name is Rani VIII? Rani the Eighth? Is she the eighth homunculus her professor created...

[exhakunobest]

Red Saber (Nero Claudius) vs Li Shuwen in the Fate/Extra Sound Drama.

Saber Won Obviously.

This is Saber’s first use of her Noble Phantasm in the Sound Drama, and I love how surprised Li Shuwen and Hakuno are about it.

Her ost is a different noble phantasm ost that hasn't been reused in any Fate medium since and it hurts.

[brave-symphonia]

Not for much longer, you aren’t.

So I’m not just an NPC, I’m basically a very old NPC?

[femalemainchara]

I really like Wanda Arco style 😍

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[nero-draco]

Julius strong refusal to his own death reminds me with Hakuno also refusing to die at beginning of Extra.

I think that's why Hakuno moved his hand, since he was once in the same position.

[filthyfateconfessions]

[luckythereviewer]

Well, may have come up with a way for Hakuno, Rin, and Rani to regain the memories of the events of CCC as well as give Julius one more scene near the end of Extra. I can tell you now, it'll be a tear jerker.