#julius harwey

[nero-draco]

Interesting that the manga seems to painting that Leo desire to know what he is lacking stem from seeing how Hakuno able to save Julius' heart which Leo is unable to.

[typemoonconfessions]

[moebiusx9]

Another reason I love Hakuno-Morgan is the parallels between their actions and Morgans in comparison to Leo and Artoria. Julius can be seen as an Agravain proxy too. 

[kiwikipedia]

Li Shuwen is so much actually. He’s in his ‘heyday of youth’ which is 0% helpful. He’s a theater nerd. He might’ve chewed on rocks in his spare time. He was sold to an opera group as a child. He might’ve actually run away. He’s 70 years old. He appeared in a Grail War 10 years after he died. No one could beat him in a fight so they killed him by poison. He basically had a severed arm collection during the Mooncell War. His Gail Wish is to fight himself. A ton of his voice lines point to him being a masochist. He was once kept like an indoor cat by the First Emperor of China. Julius B. Harwey thinks he’s weird because he enjoys fighting to the death and killing. He is 160 years old. He’ll correct someone who calls him an assassin by saying he’s a professional killer. He complains about saving his allies. He showed up in America just to fight Scáthach. He betrayed Nero and Hakuno just for fun. He’s ridiculous levels of Just Some Guy. He’s the definition of a mean bisexual. He’s so self deprecating yet so confident. He has Childhood trauma from theatre resulting in a bad leg. He thinks Julius B. Harwey is weird for not feeling anything when he kills. He was uninvited to all martial arts events because he kept killing people. He and Beowulf had the gayest interaction in America. His wardrobe is incomprehensible. He claims he can’t deal with kids. He was a teacher. One of his greetings is telling Hakuno not to worry why he smells like blood. He’s the oldest “lily” we have. His Noble Phantasm, No Second Strike, hits three times. It also only hits once. Sometimes it causes an explosion. He offers to assassinate you because a mini Nobu fed and housed him. He once made Elizabeth Bathroy go through an existential crisis. It’s possible he is freaked out by ghosts. He straight up told you he’d kill you if he stuck around with your team in America. It’s implied he gets drunk in the afternoon.

For a man who gets very little traction in GO now days he sure is a lot.

[kaibutsushidousha]

Thoughts on the VA cast for strange fake that's been announced so far?

Fake Ayaka has the same voice as real Ayaka, which is really the only choice. Tsubaki, Francesca, and Orlando are also Fate/ veterans, being Kriemhild, Pollux and Julius Harwey respectively. I think Tine is someone from Prillya too. Anyways, they're all good. Not standout but good.

Morikubo as Dumas is a perfect pick. The man captures his energy perfectly.

Jack, I'm still not feeling his delivery, but Horiuchi was so obviously chosen because he voices Jack the Ripper in Metal Gear, so I can't not love it.

Lynn and Tachibana I'm not familiar enough with but Lynn was pretty great as Assassin. Tachibana's performance as Jester is pretty weak in the one line he's got, but I'm rooting for him because working on Fate/ was one of his main goals in his voicing actor career.

Enoki works for Volume 1's non-pathetic Faldeus, but I don't have great expectations for him when he needs to be our number 1 loser. Vera's was the performance that really didn't do it for me at all.

[wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart]

fate ft au (bc I'm replaying fate/extra)

(also note that fate/extra is like. the only fate content I've consumed in general. and I didn't quite understand everything? I just know it's addicting ok?!)

also also if y'all are ok with game emulators:

https://www.emulatorgames.net/roms/playstation-portable/fate-extra/

> the Heartfilias are the Harweys (so Lucy plays the role of Leonardo)

> Layla died not due to sickness but in the last Holy Grail War (she obviously lost lmao)

> Layla's servant was Aquarius

> Loke is Lucy's half-brother from her mother's side (so he plays the role of Julius)

> Rin Tohsaka is Erza (and her servant is Gerard)

> Rani the Eighth is Levy (her servant is Gajeel)

> Lucy's servant is Natsu

> she only calls him Dragneel so everyone assumes he is Zeref instead of his younger brother

> technically Zeref would indeed have been more powerful than Natsu, but Lucy had always been more fascinated by the overlooked younger brother whenever learning about them in history class (definitely not projecting or anything lol)

> she convinced her dad to summon natsu instead by pointing out that the less known the servant the bigger the advantage

> and her plan actually works pretty well? they always enter the arena with misinformation and since Lucy and Natsu are the only ones who get out again. well. it's not like *they* are gonna go and spread the truth

> Jude sent Loke to the military since this is a respectable position away from the estate

> he was low-key hoping something would happen to him there? he had already arranged a beneficial marriage for Lucy and was hoping they would be his official heirs. (also bc loke technically isn't his)

> Karen can be his direct superior who abuses both her underlings and her power? idk

> so. and here is where things get interesting

> technically the goals for the Heartfilias (aka Harweys) stay the same

> that is also the reason Loke volunteered to participate in the holy grail war. he doesn't care if it is through him or Lucy he just wants peace.

> if he and Lucy are the last ones he actually plans on throwing the fight. with no real support system (he and Lucy didn't really have a chance to grow close due to Jude) his mental state is in a really bad place

> and. here is the awkward part

> Layla actually started disagreeing with the Heartfilia way of seeing things

> she wanted to win the holy grail not for everything to stand still (aka Heartfilia wish), but to wish everything to change and keep going (aka Rin Tohsaka wish)

> Jude never found out (since she never got to actually wish for it considering she lost), but Layla's last words to her daughter was a confession explaining her actual true intentions in the tournament

> and thus Lucy's actual reason to enter the tournament is to fulfill her *mother's* last wish, not the Heartfilia one

> as you can imagine this doesn't exactly help with Lucy and Loke's estranged siblings situation lol

> I hope this makes sense? that's it for now but I'll add to it as I get to the actual fights in the game lmao

[lastencoregraphics]

CONCEPT ART FEATURED IN FATE/EXTRA RECORD ⟶ CHARACTERS

[picaroroboto]

its a shame we never saw Julius actually making curry, but the mental image of this ominous assassin dude stirring an oil drum full of curry like a witch’s cauldron is inherently hilarious

[domus-avrea]

[morsking]

man, i just keep thinking to that one part in fate/extra where julius is beaten for the first time in the holy grail war and he just... refuses to die. all he can manage while kneeling over the ground in agony as he faces his death, while his servant simply tells him to accept his demise, is to absolutely reject with a furious and determined “i! can’t! die here!” 

that refusal to give in, that violent, dignified affirmation of life as he hacks into the system to buy himself more time as a holographic wraith filled with a grudge cut real deep into me. there’s something that just fucks me up about characters in the verge of death simply refusing to die and while nasu does it in literally every single one of his works so far i eat it up every time. there is just something extremely compelling about that wrathful, blazing determination to survive no matter what. in julius’s case specifically, it was the one emotion he was allowed to show, the one selfish desire he was allowed to have after a lifetime of being a cold killing machine for someone else’s glory (heh), for someone else’s sake, which was a role forced upon him that deprived him of a happy childhood and robbed him of his future completely. all his life julius’s entire purpose was to die for leo’s ascension as the ruler of humanity, to be nothing but a stepping stone in a hopeless dictatorship. julius refuses to die and becomes a wraith solely for his own sake, to release his own anger and resentment and WIN not because he’s told to but because he wants to LIVE. he wants to live and god fucking help anyone who tries to stop him.

it was his first and most intense humanizing moment second only to his final death near the end of the game where he parts with a smile, comforting hakuno and begging her not to cry for him either as a gesture of genuine kindness or as one final self-deprecating expression of julius considering himself as something not worth crying over (or worse, both). when he dies he dies because he accepts his time has come to and end and it all meant something because in the end he decided to live for himself and therefore he dies on his own terms. for him to so furiously cling to life and then so peacefully accept his death and then ironically become the one thing that would let hakuno beat and kill leo at the summit of the lunar sea is *chef’s kiss* poetic cinema and i love love LOVE fate/extra with my heart and soul for that.

[nero-draco]

[coloshosify]

[moebiusx9]

I want Vortigern’s master to be a Harwey to continue the theming, so I made Angelo B Harwey. He’s Leo and Julius’ uncle and dies lol.

Also wanted to give at least some ref for potential designs so here’s what i think Berserker Vort would be: https://twitter.com/kamuify/status/1425594097155203074

And Daji: https://twitter.com/extra_Sor/status/1480822431090503681

[mthkera]

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[kaibutsushidousha]

How did you feel about Last Encore?

I have no idea. There was so much to unpack from that experience that I really don’t know what to feel about it as whole. I loved the surprise factor from it being advertised as a simple Fate/EXTRA adaptation but turning out to be something out else entirely. I also really loved how fitting the name “Fate/EXTRA: Last Encore” was to the setting: the anime was simply picking all of the Fate/EXTRA characters and giving them one final showing after their real stories were already over (even if only for them to go out not with a bang but with a whimper).

Anyways, overall Last Encore feels like an episodic show, with some episodes/characters that failed, and some that didn’t. To voice my thoughts about it, I would have to go through each character one by one.

Hakuno/Deadface: I was thought Hakuno (the real deal) was perfectly fine as an individual character but terrible as protagonist, and our Deadface-kun here takes the whole thing in the opposite direction. He is serviceable at best as an individual but much better as a protagonist than his EXTRA counterpart. Both were born from basically nothing at the beginning of their stories, but Hakuno defined their (or in this case her) own character with a strongly compelling drive to survive no matter the cost. While her determination was charming and remarkable, Hakuno somewhat fails as a protagonist because Fate/EXTRA had a whole story going on behind the scenes and we don’t get to see that because the current state of the world doesn’t matter for Hakuno’s survival.

Next LE brings us the Hakuno Deadface, a digital ghost born from our survivalist extraordinaire (+ background characters)’s salt over her defeat by the Twice in /EXTRA’s final battle. The edgy hatred speeches are really tedious, but ultimately he gets a neat arc from finding out he is something inherently bad but he is still wants to make something good despite being bad in nature. Unlike Hakuno being a generic NPC, on his case we get a good reflection of his own nature, which leads him to care about the dynamics of the world around him, since he defines him personal goal as improving it, culminating on him wishing for a “new world” with a Moon Cell reset. That makes him more functional as a protagonist than the real Hakuno. All that said, real Hakuno is still more enjoyable to watch.

On I side note, I love that this set up placed female Hakuno as the canon Fate/EXTRA protagonist, because honestly, who played as male Hakuno? I don’t know a single person.

Nero: Nero is just Nero as usual, which (controversial opinion) is always a good thing. That said, like Septem and Extella, this story (justifiably) started with post-development Nero and (unjustifiably) did nothing new with her character. It was already instantly better than the two above because it retold Nero’s backstory with interesting visuals, but still Nero was just Nero.

Shinji and Drake: Shinji was one of biggest highlights here. Easily his best iteration (I know that’s not real praise, but seriously, LE Shinji is really good). In Fate/EXTRA, Shinji is portrayed as the usual obnoxious ass from /stay Night, but after he is defeated, we get treated a reveal this Shinji was not the same Shinji, he was actually just an 8-years old kid roleplaying and that he didn’t even know that dying in the Moon Cell would cause him to die in real life. The big problem with that is that this reveal doesn’t Shinji any less of an edgy asshole than before, so I couldn’t gather any sympathy from it and the only thing it did was setting up the Week 2 storyline with Hakuno questioning whether or not they are capable of sacrificing people with fully realized lives to preserve their own uncertain life.

Then comes in Last Encore, all pushes all these ideas in a much more interesting direction. Instead of all that poorly-written death drama, this Shinji finds out about the “you die in real life” trope by actually winning his first battle and watching his opponent die. This 8-years-old who was acting like an ass because he thought he was just safely having fun in a videogame is faced with the fact that he unknowingly committed murder and decides that he has to do something about it, creating his stagnated city where no ones has to fight. This was an excellent new use of his previous characterization and it finally created a Shinji that’s sympathetic (as you can tell, I still haven’t played CCC).

Drake is still the same as always. Just a support to other characters with no relevant personal motivations of her own. Nothing noteworthy to say about her.

Amari: We didn’t get to see much of her in the anime and I didn’t listen to her Drama CD yet,so there’s not much to say. She presented herself as a woman who controls those weaker than her out of a crippling fear of not amounting to much, and in the end her character didn’t amount to much, so I guess she was good enough in terms of poetic irony.

Dan and Robin: Watching Dan and Robin was sad, and not in any enjoyable or exciting way. It did a good in setting the bleak nature of Last Encore’s world but it sure didn’t do the characters any favors. Robin’s “Should I just tell the old man to give and die?” scene was really strong and I also liked Dan’s sniping trick, but that aside, those two did not perform really well.

Alice: I don’t feel like I need to say much here because’s Alice’s story is the one thing everyone, Last Encore fans and haters alike, agree to be the best part of Last Encore. The original Fate/EXTRA really failed to make me feel anything about Alice’s character, because it focused too much on the mystery of the two Alices to give her some proper characterization (maybe that part would be better if I and everyone else weren’t already spoiled about Nursery Rhyme’s true nature), and when they did, the focus would be higher on the creepiness than in the tragic factor of the character.

Last Encore, on the other hand, realized the full tragedy potential of the character and created a very beautiful piece about it. And, as if being the most emotionally interesting part of the show weren’t enough, her chapters also get the Madoka witch barrier backgrounds and the Glass Game loops to make them the most visually and structurally interesting as well.

Julius and Shuwen: Julius being a Deadface was clever because he kinda was already one by the last week of the game. However, this time Julius’ Deadface status serves only to make Hakuno aware of what he is to kickstart his arc, while this moment in the game proper was entirely about Julius’ own character. Since he got nothing of that, both Julius and Shuwen appear as complete non-characters wearing familiar faces for no interesting reason.

Rin and Rani: They were nice, but considering their importance, I don’t think I cared nearly as much as the show wanted me to. Rani’s different personality added to the main cast dynamic in the few occasions she was present, but that was barely ever. None of her deaths really stroke with me because she of this lack of presence (and because she’s so dull in the game as well). Rin got to be more present, but her weirdly genki personality here overlap with Nero and was consequently overshadowed by her. This Rin would be better if she was allowed to be more proud and confrontational like her other versions, but I understand how her circumstances are too dire for her to afford that. One thing I did like a lot about this Rin was Hakuno acknowledging her 1000 year struggle and saying she was the one who deserved the Grail. That was really nice.

Leo and Gawain: Leo didn’t get to shine much here, but I’m never displeased with Leo content. Him being made to confront the flaws in his ideology is nice and the hope he gets from the Deadface Hakuno is what made me start liking the protagonist. Gawain was the same as usual and nothing interesting was done with him.

Twice: Twice is exactly the same character he was in the game, except his stupid 2-hour long speech is spread through multiple episodes starting from the first, instead of having him appear from nowhere as the final boss and spew everything at once. Undoubtedly much better but still not good enough to fix Twice’s character.