#whose main servant ~just so happens~ to be cu

[lovemeonlytilthespring]

Don't worry, I'm not dead. Just very, very Fatepilled now. And the friend that got me into the series is on the Other Website. So. Yeah.

[sugarthebee]

okay this is gonna be long so I'm putting it under a cut

so in the world of Project Tsuno (<the official name. Me and a friend of mine came up with it, be proud of us) gods come in pairs

chaos/order (Sozo + Yasashi, Ink + Aether) is a common one, but there's also fate/fortune, (they don't have names yet,) time/space (Arlon + unnamed space god,) want/need (the Starlit Spectre + the House of Red Tea) (they also serve as chaos/order again,) fear/??? (Osore + unnamed,) sky/sea (Alectrona + Amphitrite) (Alectrona is also the literal sun, the moon used to be alive but Alectrona fucking killed her. Amphitrite is the moon's daughter and out for revenge,) and optimism/pessimism (Yorokubi + Mu Kanjona)

so. the story begins uhhhh sometime about 500+ years ago

Ink and Aether have this kind of eternal hunt going on, Ink gallivanting across the galaxy being his glorious chaotic-evil gay femboy self and Aether chasing after him trying to apprehend him

there's also this other spirit god thing? named the Conductor whose job is to clean up the Funky God Portal Dusttm they leave behind, he hasn't really done anything but he's very blue and kind of hot and I love him

so important things Ink has done on his Gay Murder Gallivants:

-accidentally started a cult (he doesn't know about that but put a pin in it) run by Cult of the Lamb copyright infringement named Voodoo. Or Overkill. She has this cursed halo thing and normally she's kind of chill and her name is Voodoo but if the halo breaks (either through physical force or her getting too emotional) she goes crazy and then her name is Overkill. Voodoo's chill to just worship Ink because Cool Femboy Chaos God but Overkill wants to hunt him down and yoink all his power for herself

-destroyed multiple planets, the most important of which being the planet Arlon. Unsurprisingly named after + worships that time god I mentioned earlier. The Arlonians now live in a gigantic mothership trying to recuperate. They would eventually send Nyx and Dzien, two siblings blessed by Arlon to see the future, to Felandon (our main setting) to collect information and provide cryptic messages, however, they aren't allowed to change the future. Nyx thinks that's bullshit and has a tendency to be Not That Cryptic anyway and is in trouble with the time police

-that's all I really know about past Ink but he's gay and that's cool

So oh dear we've reached the 400 years ago mark, zoom in on planet Felandon because something important happens now

two sentient building spirits, the Starlit Spectre, want + chaos, and the House of Red Tea, need + order, manifest on the surface of the planet

however, unless it's a blood moon (because fuck yeah,) they're confined to the forms of unmoving buildings (during blood moons they're giant glowing white dog things) (the Starlit Spectre is technically a thylacine,) a tea house (wow) in the House of Red Tea's case, and an inn in the Starlit Spectre's, earning it the nickname 'the inn at the edge of the world'

so realizing this, they each create for themselves a Minigod servant/child/thing they can communicate with telepathically and, to an extent, control the physical forms of (things like health and basic patterns, nothing like number of limbs or whatever past their initial creations. They're stuck with what their babies look like)

SOZO FANS REJOICE YOUR GIRL HAS BEEN BORN I KNOW YOU EXIST!

so the House of Red Tea is pretty content to let Yasashi just keep its building form maintained and clean, but the Starlit Spectre is far less kind and definitely not me projecting my older brother issues

from day one, as a chaos spirit, Sozo's been somewhat rebellious

how do you solve this issue? emotional abuse, that's fucking how

the Starlit Spectre was in its creation's head 24/7 telling her to commit atrocities to keep the Spectre fully staffed, at all times, or she would be punished

'cus see, Sozo was created with a collar and anklets that, should she ever try to run away, would slowly start to constrict around her until she either died or was forced to return to the Starlit Spectre

so after a while of the constant psychological torture Sozo snapped and managed to convince herself she was sadistic and enjoyed how much she was forced to hurt people

five years before the war starts, a young kingfisher griffin named Carousel Rose manages to regain control of her body long enough to flee her abusive, manipulative older brother Monarch Aetherius and Sozo plops the entrance to the Spectre in front of her (see 1.)

and Rose, not fully control of her mental faculties and very desperate, is like "sweet. a not-at-all suspicious hotel" and takes that sweet sweet opportunity to get herself some damn rest

however, Rose, while traumatized, isn't stupid, and quickly realizes "oh shit, the innkeeper is evil" and does the rational thing (she's crazy, remember?) and tries to tear the inn down with her bare claws and her magic (she can summon + manipulate rose vines)

Sozo, not taking very kindly to this, realizes that the Spectre can turn her into a GIANT ACID-SPITTING DRAGON and attacks, killing a family of swamp dragons (remember them) and sheering Rose's wings off

Rose runs off into the wilderness and meets Peppermint, a dragon/cat hybrid who may or may not have accidentally killed and subsequently absorbed the spirit of Gaea herself, and Hecate, an adorable little kitten with a terrifying shadow monster named Umbra as a familiar

the Witch Cat Trio has been formed, they soon make their way to the House of Red Tea because they're a trio of traumatized girlies who really need a hug from an older sister figure

I'm not sure when Voidface happened so we'll say that was around here

Osore is the god of terror, his face is solid black and made of goo

out of that goo he can tailor nightmarish hallucinations to his victims

so when he encounters Sozo, turns out, her greatest fear is someone that sees her for who she really is and hates her anyway

enter Voidface, genderfluid warhammer-wielding chaos jester thing

Voidface, unlike Osore's other creations, manages to gain sentience when the Spectre instructs Sozo to put a collar on them identical to the one that binds Sozo

Voidface is forced to serve Sozo as a court jester of sorts so she can placate her own terror for a while

until Voidface realizes, you can just

take the collar off

yes it causes mortals to hear the voice of the Spectre in their head, but that isn't physical

so Voidface takes off the collar and runs away to live with Yasashi in the House of Red Tea

fast forward about four years

now remember Ink and Aether? they still exist

and so does Overkill :)

so Ink is jumping through a portal to run away and Aether tries to go after him, but Overkill, in her desperation, shoves Aether through the side of the portal as it closes

Ink gets away, Overkill is left disgruntled, and Aether's fucking soul splits into pieces as she's rammed through the multiverse

thing about the Starlit Spectre, it kind of doesn't exist- Sozo (at the Spectre's command) can put the entrance in front of whoever she wants, but it doesn't really have a definite location

as a result of this, the entrance- now much like Aether- exists somewhere outside reality

so Aether lands in the lobby of the Starlit Spectre and Sozo's like "whoa. that's a pretty rude way to enter. anyway" and gets Aether a room, not realizing that this is a very injured goddess

yet :)

so Sozo heads back to her room to formulate a plan to Soulbind Aether (Sozo's scorpion tail allows her to bind the soul of whoever she pierces to the Starlit Spectre, much like herself) and sees a weird little glowing shard thing on her pillow

wonder how that got there and what it is (<a chunk of Aether's soul that landed there from across time and space)

too tired to think of anything else, she shoves it into the glass sheep dragon statue she keeps next to her bed

by the time she falls asleep, the statue comes to life and feels a strange pull to the guest in a nearby room

it doesn't take Aether long to realize what's happened and leaving the statue (who would eventually name herself Mukoa) confused and still wondering how she's apparently alive now

so Aether tries to kill Sozo and Sozo tries to kill Aether in retaliation and Aether flees to the House of Red Tea to recuperate

if you're wondering where Ink landed, he's on Felandon too now and ready to be gay and do crime

he meets Muffle, a teenage moth/cat hybrid (we don't talk about how she was born) with a penchant for GLORIOUS SCIENCE

but not just any science

soul science

so Ink's like "huh, I could do so much chaos with this" and agrees to offer Muffle protection and more equipment in return for her making custom souls for him

and Muffle, somewhat traumatized from the death of her father and the fact she's cripplingly lonely, is like "this isn't a terrible idea at all! SCIENCE!" and accepts the deal

I'm not sure when Alibi happened either so we'll say it's around here

Alibi is a dog/dragon/demon/thing that died in a fire and the devil of Project Tsuno was like "wait, why are you in Hell? go on, git" and sent her back to Being Alive

she is now immortal and chilling at the Starlit Spectre

so Muffle and Ink are currently kind of Just Chilling, but Ink will eventually go bother Sozo for Glorious Chaos Reasons and she thinks she has a crush on him

she does not, she is lesbian

but she really wants validation from anyone she thinks is better than her and Ink is decidedly better than her

so she becomes unhealthily obsessed with him and he treats her like shit and woops hello there, my relationship with my brother, how'd you get in here? go on, git

so the stage is set

the pieces are all in place

Aether decides Sozo is too much of a problem and asks the Red Tea Gang to help her fight and they're like "sure why not"

Sozo, realizing she done messed up, starts collecting minions

among these minions are:

-Starshine, a former student of Amphitrite who Sozo managed to get a collar on

-Asterisk, a terrifying soul-eating space parasite mercenary who turns to solid gold if it isn't hungry (it can still move. It's just a lot harder to hurt)

-Voodoo/Overkill, that cultist from before who agreed to help Sozo in return for Carousel Rose's severed wings. I don't know why she wants them. Nor do I want to.

-Mukoa, that really chill glass girlie who's sharing a soul with Aether. She can see the future and doesn't really care, but it is what causes her to stay with Sozo and put up with all the abuse- she knows Sozo is hurting, and will get better

so a fucking war between gods starts and it's awesome and it manages to get Amphitrite, child of the moon and queen of the tides, to look away from trying to murder the sun long enough to be like "shit. that doesn't look good. Uhhhhh what would be poetic and fitting and kind of cruel"

so she pokes her face into the Underworld and is like "hellooooo poetically fitting souls come out come out" and eventually settles on Mina, youngest child of those dead swamp dragons I told you to put a pin in

so thing about Mina

she's alive again

but Amphitrite couldn't really heal her acid injuries

so her vision is horrible because her eyes are melted and she can't walk too good because her legs are melted and she can't fly because her wings are melted and she speaks with a slur because her teeth are melted

so Amphitrite does her best and tells her new freak of nature technically child "Hey. See that war? See the red dog with blue horns? Her name's Yasashi. She's good. Go fight for her and I'll let you actually die"

so Mina, thoroughly disgruntled at being made to be alive and really just wanting to die, is like "Fine, I hate you" and fucks off to go fight the war

she meets Alibi and they become the first canon couple in Project Tsuno! Lesbian zombie spies! (Alibi is pan but Mina's lesbian so it counts)

so that's everything up to the war

holy shit that's a lot

and that's not even talking about all Muffle's stuff

but it's all the important stuff

is anyone interested in my loredumping about my ocs

they have so much lore

(and I mean my original OCs. the ones on my yt. not like my bsd ocs or anything. most of their lore is already public anyway)

[dailyarturia]

please tell us the petty reasons you hate jalter

her event happened when I expected cu alter (a servant id been wanting to see for YEARS executed far better than I could’ve ever hoped for) to get his rateup for me to throw the 300+ quartz i had saved at and instead i had to wait literally another whole fucking month

she became the servant with the highest flat attack barely a week after cu alter got that title

she was the SECOND avenger who is not angra mainyu to be added to the game (which is incidentally why i hated dantes’ guts for a long time too)

while her character concept as “someone who was never supposed to exist and hated the world for not needing her so much that it somehow caused her to exist anyway” is super interesting they barely actually do anything with it because ch orleans was clumsy and her event superficial (to be fair i can’t fully talk for shinjuku bc i havent properly read up on that one yet. maybe she’s better there in the parts i didnt pick up on. i kind of doubt it.)

jalter santa lily was a mistake and so so very obviously meant to cash in on jalters unexpected popularity and while i guess character wise jalter lily turned out somewhat ok the whole deal still leaves me very annoyed that this character i just do not give one singular shit about keeps getting so much attention

saber jeanne and even emiya alter were in shinjuku but not cu alter?? if you’re gonna write a chapter with two alter servants who were your enemies before as your allies where the fuck is the alter servant whose entire thing is that he has absolutely no qualms whatsoever about working with former enemies?????? pander to me more nasu god dammit

she’s fucking EVERYWHERE and people keep hailing her as the best attacker in the game even though she’s made of wet paper towels while my main man cu chulainn alter is right there being an unkillable god who’s only outdone by her when it comes to burst damage she can only pull off once per 6 turns at most

[thetain2018]

UPDATE.

This is an additional information post regarding the choice and general roleplay mechanics. We've noticed that it elicited a lot of confusion so far. If you have a question that is not included here, do send an ask so we can address your concerns.

Q: Can I pick two choices at once? A: No. However, the next person who will reply after the one who's answering the choice prompt can follow through one of the options. Here's a simple example:

The choices for Servant A are as follows:

Use your Noble Phantasm to kill the enemy Servant.

Ask the Master to watch your back.

Retreat for now.

Servant A decided:

Use your Noble Phantasm to kill the enemy Servant.

Example of Servant A’s writing here describing how the Noble Phantasm is activated.

Servant B's turn to reply includes: Example of Servant B's writing here requesting for the Master to watch Servant A's back as Servant A unleashes their Noble Phantasm.

Q: What if I pick a choice but I want to write more than what's just dictated? A: You may, so long as it does not coincide with one of the choices given. For example:

The choices for Servant A are as follows:

Use your Noble Phantasm to kill the enemy Servant.

Ask the Master to watch your back.

Retreat for now.

Servant A decided:

Use your Noble Phantasm to kill the enemy Servant.

Example of Servant A's writing here describing how the Noble Phantasm is unleashed, but Servant A activated one of his class skills before doing so and his Noble Phantasm killed not just the enemy Servant but the other NPC as well.

Q: Does Brynhildr's Hero's Bridesmaid ability apply here when it comes to NPCs who may or may not be heroes? A: Some event Servants were known in life. Brynhildr will be able to see through them. In the event that a Heroic Spirit who have gained fame in history resurfaces, their name will immediately be revealed in the thread wherein Brynhildr is present. However, non-Heroic Spirits and Divine spirits will not be affected by it.

Q: What about the trait Brynhildr's Beloved? A: Archer (Cu Chulainn) will be on her list.

Q: Is Angra Mainyu's Noble Phantasm Verg Avesta changed for this event? In Grand Order, it does double (triple with Level 5 Noble Phantasm), whilst in Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, it's a 1 to 1 ratio. A: No. Avenger will retain the impact of his Noble Phantasm in the Grand Order canon, seeing as this event is indeed set within the Grand Order Universe.    

Q: Can we switch the reply orders? A: Yes, but only if you're switching between two people whose reply order are next to one another and you can only do this as long as you're not in a fight thread per turn. To manipulate the reply order freely regardless if you're in a fight thread or not, the Master has to be wearing the CHALDEA COMBAT UNIFORM Mystic Code. For example:

Group A’s reply order is as follows:

Servant A > Servant B > Master > Servant C > Event Blog

On the next turn, it was altered:

Servant B > Servant A > Master > Servant C > Event blog

Group A with Chaldea Combat Uniform:

Servant B > Master > Servant C > Event Blog > Servant A

Q: What else can we do during the event? A: Side interactions! Interludes such as shared dreams between the Master and the Servant. Exploration with one or two members of the party. So long as the main progression stays in the group thread, you're free to write with your party members. You cannot, however, write with those affiliated with other groups as it coincides with the event's development.

Q: What about in group replies? A: The Discord server has specific group channels. Whenever it's someone's turn to reply, you can tell that person how your muse will react on the events and the one who will reply can add that when they respond to the thread. For example:

It's Servant A's turn to reply. During the Discord chat, Servant B and Master talked about how their characters would have reacted.

Servant A replied:

The choices for Servant A are as follows:

Use your Noble Phantasm to kill the enemy Servant.

Ask the Master to watch your back.

Retreat for now.

Servant A decided:

Use your Noble Phantasm to kill the enemy Servant.

Example of Servant A's writing here describing how the Noble Phantasm is activated and how Servant B disapproved at what Servant A decided to do. Servant A also described how Master A was amazed at what previously happened.

Q: Why is CENT so good? A: I am on Brynhildr's Beloved list. So, I beg to differ.

[throwingideasatthewall]

Clone Wars     The Mandalore Plot

             Season 2 Episode 12 

 - -    🖕     (I’m     sorry      that’s       just        for        the      morale       (Moral)         After         last    episode.     .

 Any way,  

 “15      Hundred,”

   Five         Leaders

   One    clearly     more     important,

  The   Galactic       senate       was      closer.

  Republic        Senate

  Leader

   Duchess        Saltine         .           Secretly       building         her         own       army          . . .

    Her    business.       . . .      Separatist        ...   

  She’s already       separate              ....    

    Also there’s a hologram     so it must be true             .         Never mind           Yoda’s     all powerful gossip mill ever being wrong

       Can’t            have          that              -            So they’re sending         Obi-Wan            and            Anakin              to             snoop,

          Or              just         Obi-Wan           *Pffft*

       Claims

        Going               to            snoop                  -           Going to get some tea          for master Yoda-                  -

     (I won’t do the standard valley girl-               Gossip clichés)

             Damn                   Aight!

              Blue                    Eyes!

              Blue                  Theme

           Snar-king

             Also is           that bitter-             ness-

         Okay.

           Big!

         (Scale                is               nice)

            Whelp,                 White

               Big                   Doors.

              Aight                  Whelp-

              Skipped                 tour

                Also,                    Painting                      Of                      Self                        ...                  Aight                       ...                    Glass                         . .                           It’s                       Glass.                        (Am                           I                        supposed                             to be                          getting                         something                             big                               and                            grand                                . .                                Or                             Holy?                                 .                                 It’s                                 the                                 same                                   as                                      any                                           big                                 building                                         ...                                      With                                  glass

...    Does     Obi-Wan      just     have          a       thing        for        glass       we      never       knew         about             ?

     Emotions          what           am               I         supposed            to            feel?

      Okay            ...         Recognized             ...           Also            who              is             this                 guy?               .                He’s               not               really             wearing              the              blue             themed                 clothes                  of                    the                guards                     ...                   and               everyone                    else                     ...                 Prime                Minister                    Alec                      ...                   Authority                  assumer                     .                     .                   Public servant

                One                     authority                     assumer                     to                      the other..

                    Also, like there’s                       anything else                          ...         Like he still a “peacekeeper”                          In his job                       description                         No?

                  They                     haven’t                     switched it                         to                     military                           yet                       (Quite)                        ...                     False                         ...                        IDK                             ...                        Yoda’s                           got                       holograms.                        ...

                       And the                           damn                         rumor mill.                          ...                      Can’t                         piss                          the                          guy                             off                             . .                       Republic                           ...                       Is this a trap?                             ...   

                     The Dutchess                          Satine values peace more than her own life.

                       But no   account       ability.

  Views

  What?

  ....

  Past?

  ?

 Okay yeah he was out of        order  

  But that immediate         sharp     response          Was      pretty      damn      harsh          ...

   Like dude sounded like he had     stabbed his toe against the table          ——         This dude took it to        murdered it’s family         ...    Why?

    Dude              ...     Assuming         a lot    of      authority         .           Over        the       tone           .

    Like      whose         family          did      Obi-Wan’s      statement           kill

     Damn         tox..       and          sharp            . . .             Severe             ...            Are            you           certain?         . . .           Damn             you            want              to          check            their            bodies...       . . .         Ser-      iously,       You’re          here          to          collect           a      statement               ...              (And           maybe           grab           some                 tea                for             Yoda...   ..

           Yeah like               dude escalated it         to a whole new level                  ...                    But you          are not helping                    ...               Mandalorian                armor                 ...                Right

           -                How-

            Dude seems              ,truthful-

            Also why is dude here getting the blight           of Obi-wan’s rage.

           Well

Not exactly    formal..

  ‘Shining       Jedi      Knight’

    What?

       ‘Again’

Should- I recognize this       person

   I     Distinct  

            Also did they send someone with the                baggage?

              After all these years you’re more beautiful than ever

              There was no emotion   in that line

             Flat

But then    again    maybe     he’s   moved      on          ...     Is         a      knight

...

 No     Attach      ment-

 Accuses

 Treachery

 It’s not     treachery     it’s-    leaving    neutrality-

  But   yeah      he      is a       gosp.

  Also yeah we just switched towns from a     unprofessional       to   professional       (Narc        Terms)

  Okay

   One     dude

  Why?

    He         had     emotion          ...     For             a       moment            ...   

   Aight

   Okay..

  Right...

   —-  Right

 “Violence,”

   Claiming authority      over a whole lot of people       ...

 Dark        ...      Commandos    

 He couldn’t have possibly been one guy

  Jedi       .

  Everyone-

     People         AUTHORITY

 .        trust worthy

 .    I know we sound defensive.

 What?

  No-

  Okay,    seriously,    what          is        with         the        tone     ...

Like yeah the dude was   sharp       ...

    But        not         in         a      defensive         way...

        In a             Whoa             WTF             Dude,             Where               Did               that            come             from-

          On the               Whoa            someone’s                not                    in a good mood

              Nothing                  defensive

              Dutchess                     flips on a                    dime                               .                       But that’s on a                    snark                      to                   professional                     Scale                        ...                      Only person acting sus is that dude that has no reason to be here and we have no idea what he’s doing

                     And I’m kind of worried that’s because the authors                        forgot to act-                         ually put anyone acting sus

                       So just had dude say it

                         Like yeah it’s obviously him that caused the problem

                          She has a valid point

They are       100%    snoops;

   And        if you didn’t want him here      why did you allow him.

     But mostly I’m on Obi-Wan        who they continue to treat           as a kicked puppy            ...

Like no   he was fine.  till a few minutes ago

  And is   equally guilty      (Particularly        of the things     he’s accusing him of)

  And the tone      suddenly       changed           To a smaller         Quasi-one for him

       He isn’t innocent

        And I don’t know why this keeps happening            to the Male characters

          When   an actual point is brought up against         them

 But like he was fine taking    pot shots        At       Dude,

    Now there’s suddenly         accountability

        The HECK,              Writers,

       Oh god,

       This is          turning            Boomer               -     And the mandate   dictating you learn   the baggage of the past      (Because dear frick    If the past       Fixed        The          Past,        Absurd)

  And not like the present      would be non-tox     enough not to start shit

 ...

   There seems to be a clear imbalance between       How the male characters are written and how the female characters are written

                                                                                                            Note; I                                                                                                                don’t                                                                                                                 give                                                                                                                      a                                                                                                                  fluff                                                                                                                   for                                                                                                                gender                                                                                                              Just                                                                                                         that                                                                                                          there’s                                                                                                            a                                                                                                       clear                                                                                                       dip                                                                                                     In quality                                                                                                     emotion

                                                                                                    When                                                                                                         one                                                                                                             it                                                                                                        identifies                                                                                                            as                                                                                                         such                                                                                                            Is                                                                                                          on                                                                                                      -screen                                                                                                          . .  .

We   have   three    main    female   characters;

  Padme; Who is       characterized           as          a       shrew        (Fine         you       can      cover        to        toxic      Relation     ships)

Ahsoka;        A child     who acts      far beyond        her age           (Unchildlike           Mature)           And             is           held          to       unfair  accountability         by        the     narrative        (And assuming           Anakin is an adult              This is only a problem        with the female characters               Barisse,               Quickly               Suffer-              Ing               Similar...

          But             not         anyone               else              (The               two              other                un-gender              ed          Padawans            React              Ing              In            Properly            Ordered                Fear              (About)

       Now Saltine            Characterized                Well                 Her              actions             pro-claim                  her                   A                  pretty                  fair                  Leader                     (If                snippish)                     Which                    is                    fine                     if                      you                 want                     to                   write                  about                    (Tox                       Ic                      And                  enabling                 relationships)                   -                  The                   issue.                    -                    is                  the                 way                    -                    The                  male                  leads                      Are                     portrayed..

  Look at this;

 What emotion is it trying to portray?

   Anger?          Jealousy?

   Heartbreak

    Innocence..      Is the only valid       answer I could         Come up        with..

    When I call it, 

                         - “ A kicked                              puppy dog look,”

       I mean;

                       “Lowering the standards to animalistic                                  To avoid accountability,”

                         It’s                         Cheating

                        If it was hurt,                            the irises                              Would                             Be                             Dilated                         Narrow-ed

                           Lip straight

                           This doesn’t   portray any human emotion

                           It’s cheating

                         -Good thing- I won’t ever have to worry about holding                             Obi-Wan or any of the others accountable                             -With puppy dog-                                          And it never happens with any of the                              female characters

                           Always 100%                               accountable

                           Even when                          they shouldn’t be. .

                                                                                              - Amidala,                                                                                                    Saltine                                                                                                       And                                                                                                    Ahsoka                                                                                                         are                                                                                                  characterized                                                                                                          as                                                                                                     shrew,                                                                                                   unreasonable                                                                                                   (Kicker                                                                                                        of                                                                                                     puppies)                                                                                                         And                                                                                                abomination

                                                                                                   While                                                                                                        our                                                                                                      (main)                                                                                                            male                                                                                                   characters                                                                                                           ...                                                                                                     Nothing                                                                                                              .                                                                                                         The                                                                                     second consequence                                                                                                       comes a knocking                                                                                     The puppy                                                                                                           Dog                                                                                                             eyes                                                                                                            - -                                                                                                           Come                                                                                                               Out-

                                    [Which is unfair                                       To characters of any                                        Ident-ification-

 ——

                           That’s enough about the                                  character rants                               Back to the                                 story

Aight

 Seriously,       What?

  [I know     that’s like being threatened by the army..”]. 

  But,       dude’s reaction was tame..  ...

  Layout keeps    changing        .       [Not a       consistency issue,          Just a        confusion one,]   

      -

     Okay          -         No        Emotion           -          Forced

           ???  

     Prospere

        Also that was a            tonal          change             ...       

       Whoa                ...

      Where            did         these        emotions         suddenly           come            from??

         Group              Death               watch

Great

           Tox               inside            enabling                 ...             Re-negades                  Hey plot relevan   -ce 

             Violence                     —                  War

              Tox

The very   definition        of      tox

             Great

               Oh you’re                 going to solve it                 with violence..

               Aight..

                Work-                       Ing-

               Criminals

                  On                      going                invest-igation                                       -                    Wide-spread                           Small

              She clearly noted it was            small..

              Move-ment

              Exact-ly

              Hooligans

              Vandalize

                Aight,                   Adults,

                Nothing                     More

-

               Cus-tody    

                Con-cord     -ia  Dude      stop      being        a        doubting        asshole        .

Thank God cut away from this unhealthy-

  Anyway,        It cuts      to what is assumed to be the moon.

   Al right just a     small camp

      If the            tox          people           want                 to        quarantine        themselves             . . .          O-kay             . . .              Well-

       Jedi

       Upset

You decide        The people         you        Inter-act          With              (And          tolerate        presence           of )

     Support              the           Death           Watch                  .           Your            small          club               .....       house             Isn’t             that              much              Of               a          concern              to             him              .  . .               And            clearly           wasn’t             serious                   .     .                    Duchess                Saltine.                   . .                   Peace                 -loving                   - -                   TOO                  subtle.                       .                     (She’s                        still                        an                      enabler)

                    So I                       wouldn’t                          get                           too                       wo-   rried                    

                  And

               “Promise,”

No he     doesn’t                                       . . .    this     seems    pretty   particularly      a     “screw        you      move”-     Sit        Ua-   tion        -       How-

  Yeah this is a pretty           “screw you” situation  

  Take        Over

 Whelp.

  That’s          Am-    bitious.

    Once the senate

     Mandalore

 Look,  that’s unlikely

  Like      she didn’t just explain yeah it’s nothing    don’t worry about it       . . .

   Like unless you watch something      go down    right in front of you.

  That’s it        —

   The “guy who caused the problem, is dead

   You’ve been given advanced warning about a group

   No reason to       escalate

    Military          Pr         esence

    Unlike the usual assumed authority they           are surrounded with,

     This will 

    piss them off.

    Most          Dis         tast          ful

    dude’s really assuming the worst but then again that’s the Dark side’s MO

       Death              Watch

   This is really some conspiracy          theory territory.

    Urgh, this plan        really sucks.

     Death         Watch

     Well it’s small, they have  armed guards...

       Gonna go with            no

       Back here

     Peace-keeper-

    Sure

     Front lines

              Of conflict

     Yeah,         As in they caused it by      assuming authority            Inst-      -           A job he had no authority to do and basically covers all peaceful resolution           -            Insinuating all the rest of humanity is savages ready to tear themselves apart, and only this dude’s influence - stops the 

      You know- they could study    peace instead.        Write       articles about it,          Do           Works.           Like you don’t need to start a war...          Or assume authority..

          To enjoy peace

           And to              keep it

 If it can be done with suffering,      it could be done very easily without,

             The work              of a peacekeeper is to make sure conflict                  does not                   arise

       No that’s extreme-      Authority           Assumption

     If someone’s going to be a      douche        bag,

     A peacekeeper          (Accountable)           As someone who doesn’t        enable bad behavior              (When it is enacted          against them,)

       And holds      them selves          Acco       untable,

    Desc-ription

And   your’s       is.    . . .   Seriously both these two have a pretty...  negative view of the world.       Both operating         under a similar; Must      control the world,                 Otherwise      every-thing      will fall apart-        -          Though         Obi-wan            Has              A           Point;            In            the          fact            that            his            Is           a        slightly          more         Per-son       al-        I must     do my part         to protect          the world,         While            Salt           -ine-               “I        must           get          others            to           pro     tect           Others           They         still draw       (erroneous)        blanks                At              the          “Anyone           needs           saving           from          anyone”              . . . .           Thing-   

      Realism         doesn’t         mean         terrible            . . .              (If anything it means having pride in                      your humanity                    and what it has                    accomplished).                              It’s the very   model.. of a good thing.                              If you’re   not   toxic)

                            Ideals       . . .   “Abandon”          -           ?

   Response

   Political     convenience         . ..         More specifically the        convenience... of self-destructive.. tendencies

       Whelp

       What         The            Frick?

When did    this happen?

  Seriously leaving       unwanton anything should’ve been a warning sign.                       ...    How     did   no one     notice       the apparent-        Un-       Wanted         -        Addi-tion?               -                 Okay

Well hope you have a good       enable healers on staff.

    Or maybe just        healers..

    Depending      on the    awareness           -         Okay

   Smoke

 Hool        igans.

  Yeah they could’ve

  (And we’re probably- going to discover that they did          through very complicated means.

   Like seriously Obi-Wan    jumping to    con clusions-

   Like five people got slightly inconvenienced

Are we sure         it is in a smoke bomb?

  Because that    seems pretty      likely

   Considering we haven’t seen any   damages so far.   

   And no one looks dead

    Also I guess    it’s time to act like a reasonable adult and let      Saltine handle her own problems.

    Off-world              Er

       So the   Separ   atists.

   Are you sure of that

  You’re the one that brought up that it couldn’t be      “Deathwatch”

  Stop bla-

  Eat shit Obi-Wan

   You were wrong

    Okay, time to be an authority assumer and launch an attack on those assholes

   (What?)

  She’s        overall peace

  She was planning...on     bringing those guys in anyway

 Hit     them. .       Hard.        This goes far beyond   vandalism..

   Then show the actual     dead..

    Because all     we saw..

    Was a smoke bomb                 and these guys coughing

     That’s pretty damn     -close to vandalism

          Next to     lighting firecrackers..

          In the park. .      .  

         Political            statement              against            your        government                  Oh          No,

       (Is that supposed to be            threatening?)

       Seriously all they did was throw   a smoke bomb        and heck off

        You

     Don’t act        surprised.

    Palace  

    Here   

             (Oh no                   they might throw another                  smoke bomb?)

               You’re just gonna let     him,

             Like he has a   point

          [But still the      intensity is way too high for what they’ve shown,]

         Oh               no,              Smoke,

      Inter-view

         What the heck    who gave him that authority?

         Like;        He’s just some random        Senate peacekeeper

    That’s...like

      No,

   Also yet no one needs medical attention       so just stay right there

    Dude couldn’t      have possibly been injured in the attack

    Or fled the scene

    Or activated whatever it was with                               remote detonation

   And also it’s up-to the apparently neutral peacekeeper          instead of any local authority

                                                                         Like your job is to dispense                                                                               food and                                                                      make sure everyone’s                                                                              ok

And yeah their military     and  “peacekeeping”          Sections are      Com-      bin         Ed         (And I’ll admit     I don’t know much        About     assumed authority        Lines)

                            But pretty sure                                  that’s like a                                 dude in                                   military uniform                                        (Out of                                        Country)                                       Yelling that he wants to                                      question people.                                       (Like you don’t have the authority                                           to do that)

                                      And is a pretty good way to get a rock                                      chucked at your head.

                                     Make sure everyone is okay,

                                      Then what about selective immediate accountability thing going on here can happen                                            (Appease                                                Logic,)                                           Scene

Dude’s the guards just freaking, bowed to him

I don’t   think-       Police        National     En-for       cers       -      Are usually     so kind

  To extra-     Ven           Ous         Forces         In-          ter           Ven-          Ing-          -        Like this was exactly what     Saltine was talking about              . .       Overextension         of authoritative            power

       (Not acco-untability   just what’s happening)

       .

      What?

      Was that the carrier?

      Who?

     You there

     Dude, that’s a normal reaction to a   military professional           Claiming       bullshit power,  

      Dude could’ve probably mistaken you for the             terrorists..

         Aight,              Right,

         Also       an attack just happened,

        (Yeah       it’s a little delayed          but he could’ve just         gotten news)

        Okay

        Talk

  Dude, the dude just saw an attack, saw an individual standing over the body of their leader (armed     Jedi-        Or          Sith)            I said person claiming to      “stay there”,                                              I’m not saying what   he’s doing is right,         But you’re having        a damn unsympathetic-   React-

    Older           Gentle-             Men-  

     (You know   I’m surprise no one blames Obi-Wan,            After             all,                   He’s the one that        lead her out here,

       Would’ve made sense for the         carrier           Guy,          The one that was acting        sus,  to be the      per-petrator

 (And he would have the knowledge to       frame Obi-Wan)

   That    would’ve been nice,

   Hurt you

    You didn’t

(Ergh)

    Seriously your leader was just-

     No one wanted to take her to a healer?

      After?

       (Like she didn’t want to get the       smoke inhalation thing checked out either?)

       Fair                     (But kinda of stupid)

      Yeet

      Frick

     Movie,          You- did not        earn the tone        to make that         work

   Seriously dude could be saying         “I won’t work with a terrorist,”           -    Also wow a     cult full of old people

  Real            .        intimidating

   Well time together of the guards          hold a funeral for that guy                   (Standard                Prac               -tice)                  And go kick that moon base.

        No- reas-

        He died

       Yeah,          Sucked

But a) don’t make buildings that tall         And           b) he did that           -            Damn             -          Aight            -          Re-            action           -            Why             -             Whelp

       Ahh,           No,

       He was all splayed out

      There’s         nothing dignified about the        position

        Nv

       ...         Emotions               Seriously      what am I supposed to feel.

      Why is there holy music playing in the background?

       Also          no one wants to get a healer?

      Like I know he fell           But seriously, 

      Not even gonna try

   (Like     I know I’m harsh,         But even         I would try..

        Do          Some-      thing       What-

    Why-

   Also Obi-won        is this the time?

    Whelp.

  Com-cord-ia

     Seriously, and that’s not just do you know a     coi-ncidence-

     Our moon

    But what did he actually say?

     [Because if it’s      ‘I thought he was a terrorist’,           Then          fair,]

      Body

     Escort

     Seriously are we not     covering what he said?

      Like the story seems to be lam     -basting him for being Con-cord       -ian

      But I assume innocence until proven     guilty,

   .. .

 Progress

 You can’t even speak their      dia-lect

  Yeah and      I know    (body language)

 But

“Especially     when you’ve just been involved in the death of a colleague,”

   She’s got         a point?

   Seriously, ever since Obi-Wan got here there’s been nothing but destruction

   I’m surprise she didn’t kick him right there right now and      is like this is why we’re neutral

 Like      this could’ve been some good story tension.             .

So what is the actual plot?

The guy who caused the incident   

is dead

The group      is extremely small  And unable    to prevent    arrest,

Cord-       Random        Couple

“I didn’t        kill   him,”

Dude,    seriously

If you were smart   you’d leave

And let Duchess handle the problem      which she was clearly doing

Before     things      went        to       very   light   shit        -      At     arrival         -        i’d        back        away           too          .       “I       Know,”

 How?

You       know what also would’ve been a good conflict?

   Duchess arriving in the    middle of it..

 Only hearing the man say          “Don’t do it,”                   And seeing him fall off..

    Obi-wan’s            “Catch,”              Gesture            ...     

    Mistaken         for             Shov           -ing               -            Duchess           not          seeing           his           face            ——          Showing              the             flaws                 of              her           assumed                guilty                  -                Mind                 Set-

           And               make                 for             some               good          emotional              tension                 -               Instead-

        Why I’m       still talking to you

        Despite having nothing to go on besides faith which seems beyond my general     compr-       ehensive      philos-       ophy           -

   (Con      sist      ent- characterization          what’s             that?

-Normally   I don’t work on the         rag on the         chara-     cterization       because         yeah        adults         can change what they do

  (but I do think it-     could be a bit more knowable        -       The changes seem to happen randomly          - and with little sentiment   connection        -        Or         type          Of       Pre         amble,

    Don’t        get               me       wrong             -             It           does            happen                 -             Rarely               -              I          just           think           it         could              be             done              with                 a              bit              more           delicacy               and           consistency                   -                  And               Care                  -                 What                   is                 that                reaction                      -                   What?

            Okay..

            Alright,                 What?

            Why?

            Okay

            That’s              happen                      -                    Ing

             First

            Right

            Okay..

             Least   they brought             a guard..

        Aight,            Okay,

    Con-cord

       That’s-               a different look

        Not                Gonna-             Com                pare-

        Agricultural

        Wait is that a different planet?

         -

         What?

      Mining           Base

       Yeah let’s   fuck with Mother Earth

  /Con- cord

    That can’t      possibly go         wrong                     -            Forests

       Oh,            yeah

       Dear           Frick

         -

      Finally growing   back-

     So you    stopped with that?

   (No burning pollutants             in the air?)

        Okay,                Well

            A more      well-established            palace than hers.

Which just saw a door        and then there was an even a smaller door

        And glass..

Appar-ently          has a thing         for glass.  

     Whelp-

     Okay- 

    Wait-

  The highly industrialized mass of cities- is the Galactic palace

   But the former mining facility is a beautiful orderly castle in the middle of a green field.

    I think someone got       the sets      messed up...

    Why?

      ?

  [This is really messed up]

  Also yeah there was some kind of   terrorism      and things got blown up...

   That’s weird..

    Council            -

     V-sla     

        Also one of your guys totally     died- 

     Members

Wouldn’t-

 [Okay,         hear me out,          I know         I’m doing       a lot of this;

    What if this conversation happened before,          In the castle;  

    To give us a list of         suspects;     And making sense;           As she is the top ruler of everything

    And then,        we broke into these little bits

      [Establish             the characters

       Then                   make them            plot point,]

                Also, this wasn’t the scene          shown earlier,          Was it?

    Separatists

      That would’ve been a          good line          earlier   

     ...

    Truth

    This was the man        who murdered

    So wait,         you did know about that?

     So why were you acting like the         Separatist claim was so out of the question?

  Correct;       Reaction            “Yes ma’am, of course ma’am             sorry about what happened,

      We-”

      Like Dude is acting pretty chill for one of his         citizens screwing someone up

      And        it’s             sus

    “Bomb,”

    So no one‘s         dead?

 Also         wait     ‘Memorial shrine,’”

     The heck           was that               never brought up?

       I thought it was just        the outside of the castle

       The dude screwed with a                     memorial ?

   Why?

        [The intensity in this            is whack..!]

   Hm.

  He was apparently part of       Death Watch     Wait,       when was that ever confirmed?

   Do          you        speak?

 A worrisome prospect

 That’s,       your reaction  

   Pardon

    What..?

   [The tone is   way off.]

  Not as in writing a     child-    like       an     adult       or   writing      an        adult       -like          a       child

    (Or        Animal)

    This is the         “What’s the emotion?,”

       There’s

Er-

   [The tone is so damn-]

   Whelp

   Aight-

  Random        Grab!

    Not         Okay!

    Words.        (Circ           um         stance-)

   Favor

  What

  Dinner

   - - -

     ?

   What?      The lip-sync’s      -  Off?

 I can’t   -tell-

   The tone is so   - distorted -

   Look     Around            Mining      facilities-

    Like        Seriously            -

   Do you     want-

   Also, he could’ve asked for a          damn tour

    [No need to do this             subterfuge.]

   Seriously,          Obi-Wan        is lazy         avoidant          smart,           Till it comes to      instigate            some shit

Un-      necess-        arily-

  aight... .

Oper-ational  

   [Damn      It]

     Tox

   Problems

Literally doing it

  Right now

Could, just asked for the   tour . .

Solutions

  No-

  Opposed

Well if you actually had some - character-ization

 .

Weren’t

  Tox*

|my brain’s starting to go numb 

    Why?

     [Not the brain,           The               Plot.]

      Whelp

      Right

     Also yeah, dinner after that

    Different guy?

   Dude-     Completely different    hairstyle?

Duchess

Condolence.

Retrieve

 Seriously,

  Just       Emot-        ion

 Very properly

That - looks     pretty different-

Where?

   ?

  Okay?

  Sh   adows-

 Okay cave carvings

  Right

 Aban-            On           -ed

I mean

It does

There’s stuff on it yeah

But they could take people for   tours down here  [The things samples on how it worked)

 [People do     stupid things]

  Wow

  OK so they have some helmets because it used to be a       manufacturing        plant

  Makes         Sense-

  Maybe you shouldn’t     screw with someone’s     display?

 What

  One dude  

 Great, you have one   Mandalore enthusiast

   Or a role          Actor-

  Whelp-

  Okay-

Mission

  With a light saber

   Yeah you start a talking 

  then you do the action          [if       necessary.]

   ...

Seriously      it’s one guy,

 Two?

  Okay

   ...

 Dude, Force     them.

  Obi-wan           -         

Obi-won sucks..     

...

Mis-      information

This dude’s a   dick isn’t he?

Like,          The     tone has been damn off            ...

  But this dude is supposed to be the villain   I think

(And it’s not the   carrier apparently)

Watch

Death      Watch.

Stands

Why do you care?

A person just died

And      we’re focused on this?

  Like,        Ma’am                -          Is your reputation     seriously,        The      biggest       thing       worry-           ing       you        right    now?         —-        Without         any      sardonics             -              Or        any               -  self-awareness          -       The tone  has been on the   floor since we started,

Right

Okay seriously 

that’s villain       lighting

Engineer

  How?

Also,                Some guys manage to smoke down the        outside of the palace.

   This is turning into the       intergalactic        incident?

        It            Isn’t-

      That’s a very          interpersonal matter.

And also ‘oh yeah this is gone beyond anything that I can expect but I won’t question you person who was supposed to keep track of it?

   Hmm

 Literally..

   Nothing about these        characters have been established

   Are      Satine and that dude close?

    What

  [it is a      Mess,]

Along

You

But       Is

Se-     paratists 

  Power-ful

   Don’t         Drink

Also wait   what was that logic?

   No-

  Okay,

   What?

   Jedi

  This one’s weak

  [if it was any other Jedi     these guys would be arrested 

     by        then]

   Harm- less

 I mean even      with it he was        fecking      useless..

So you’re going to call      Saltine          Now?

   Love..

   Whelp

   “Hey Satine I got my ass kicked again,”         (Why do they send him on           missions?)

       Time?

             Okay,

           Ice

         Fair,

      General

     Good,

        Right

        He clearly saw that              right?

     Al       -right

   Okay,         Now,

    Fatal-

    Why?

    Good,

      ??

     Took              ....          Dick               . .               Yet              ...

          Aight

          Nice

...

         Try                  Ing                 .. .

        Whelp

        Why?

        Look.

       Why?

       Whelp

 Obi-won is a     weak        bitch            (Term)

    Hate

    Un-

Un think the dialogue is       reversed here,

 Saltine was the one that was     heavily against             Involved           (Direct)           Approach

And the hair stroking thing 

just seems like something 

Obi-won       Would            Do...

     Killed

      This is really backwards

Obi-Wan is the one that is directly involved

Sal-tine          She’s very       sit on the sidelines     from what we seen..

       It        would        make        more                 ....

   ?

   ?

Ser-iously?

(What is going on with the        chara-             cter-             ization-       )

      Ag-

     Right-

I honestly thought that was     Rex for a minute

   Blue     ...is a theme

     ?

   Whelp

   (The        reenactors       are          getting          pretty           serious,)

     (Then again             she did        punch out)

       Jedi

      There’s two-

     Which           is two            more than           general Kenobi can handle,

    But he’s got Satine,        so that’s all right?

..

  Whelp

   Screw-

    Now         More

    Stand             and        fight

     So just          Satine.

     Stand            ...    

     You got your ass   kick-       ed

   Satine        should’ve         gotten         that line,

    Frick

   Whelp.   ..

  Heck..

     ?

   [Recap; That twist was real fucking stupid,  Obi-won gets beat up the fifth time the Remix, and does Satine get injured?

 I don’t know

  ....

   WTF!

When it’s not excusing it’s characters from   some accountability by   using cheap tactics,

    It’s tone         is a mess;

    The emotions          nowhere to be found

     The chara-cterization              “Off the wall”

* Not       in       a       good     way            .         I can’t honestly say            a single thing I           Le-           ar           n            ed 

    About          The         Chara-cters

     Satine? Apart from the narrative treating her like she’s completely unreasonable

      Nothing,

       I can’t say        a single thing for this character

       There’s seem to be an attempt   of banter between her and   Ken-obi

       But it’s completely               inconsistent

Honestly,    it feels like the writers     had      an      idea (Or       a line       Of       dia-       log        ue-         And        just       threw         it        in     hap     hazardly-”

Result-ing  in some (border  ling) reality breaking scenes

   Where a    character says something        happened

   Didn’t

 Which could work

 If the tone     wasn’t an absolute     MESS!

   Also the      villains

  Suffer        From       Clovis         Syn-drome

              (Or a near variant)

Because     nothing     is set up       -     The     tone   isn’t      even

   It feels like   we’re supposed to hate     this guy       Before    anything bad happens       (The same as with the      carrier-            Who             Did           Nothing)

     Screw     ing              Up             The            Story

Which is “Obi-Wan screws up        Every       -Thing         And          Lives-    -”

my thoughts on this episode;                 (In a more organized                form,)

  Is      that;

   “Obi-wan screws up everything,”        (As is my alternative       tone for this episode)

    *title

   Is a       Confused

 un- alt        ere         -d

 Mess

 Suffering;        From

   Lack of set- up, proper chara-cter-ization          Proper         Tone-       Emotion-           al        De-        vel          op          e         ment,       None           Chop-      ped,    flow-       ing          Narra-       Tive-

   And borders,        on not being able           to be         considered             a           story

    [Resemb-          Ling              Much            Of              The          “Blue         shadow           virus,”.          arc,          Except            With             -out              The         Abominations              But        More               nonsense,

[Bring back a persistent writing issue,      To refuse       to develop anything             correctly,]

Addition    Al;           A         Quick       Possible           Re-           Write        Recap;      (To wash     the bad taste    out of my mouth)

-Obi-wan             arrives           at the          Palace

   (Possibly           Soft,         Mournful               Play            Ing                 To           Indicate                        Sadness,          Loneli            ness,           Turn-             Ing             To           Harsh          -er            -Tri-            um           ph          an            t          (Pro            fes         -s        Ional          Music         [Heavy          Brass]

      The          Carrier           Greets           Ner            Vous                     ly            (Poss            Ibly             Try           -ing             To          Ex-pose             Dis        -spell-           The         Rumor      -s               (This         is his      cover)

    Poss-        Noting

    Obi-wan            meets          Sal-tine           Not-       Ic-eable               Wrist           Ful          Nes         s-

    Saltine             Is           Con-             Cern              Ed

       Snip-               Ish

        Believing            it to be        the Jedi Council.

          Dis-liking                 the               military            involvement                   in                    her country/                      Planet

             Till              Obi-wan               clarifies             that this is a             social call.                       .                  Ordered                     To                     Re-                 new                                Their                  Neu-                  trality                pledge-                    By                  Chan                   -cellor                         Palp                     atine,                The             rumors             Back               Hill,              Gossip,

          They go outside for               Saltine                  To                  Give                     A                   Public                 State                   Ment-                      That                     Goes                        Off                        —-                            (Possibly in the middle of Satine and                 Obi-Wan hav-ing                          An                        Argue-                      Ment                          Over                         Per                         form                           a                          tive                       Action                       (Neutral                          Vs                           Active                                    Phy-                        Sical)

                      That                           Occurs)

                     Obi-Wan                              is                             held                               in                            suspicion                              for                               being                               a                              military                              personal                              (                                 And the damages                         only beginning                                   when he arrived)

                                Not to     mention;

              Him being in, the hallway,                    The only one they can     place                    Where are the bomb                        was set     Things         Go   Badly

   (Possible circumstantial       Evidence,                        -Fram                  -ing

Either      way     Obi-Wan        is now     awaiting     some kind of trial

          Which                he makes it worse,

           By refusing,                 To wait,

           And trying             to find the actual                 suspect..

             He                does

              The            “Incident”                 Happens,

  And now it looks      worse than ever;

 Sateen cradling the   dying Man-d-      a-lorian

 Who        Invokes           The           Jedi            To           Blame

   Satine             Is           Up-          Set          (~Angry)

    Obi- won         Eventually            proves-        The Existence                  Of Death          Watch.                       But that       point-     It’s                      Al-ready                        Too                     Late,                  Bridges                   Burned                         In                      his                 pursuit                    for                  justice,                     Along                     with                      his                   relation                      ships                        . . .      Saltine             Taking               The               Evi                 dence            Coldly       Tell          -ing             Him               “To               Leave,”

         Victory                     At                  the                  cost                   of             everything                 dear,

[Leader               Not        Reveal        ed      Yet]

[Citi-       Zens         Pri-       Med         For          Darth         Sidious]

[Castle’s          Blue,         Fading           To           The            Neutral         Re-         flec-         tive         White)

        [Carrier               Possibly                 Hint-                  Ed                  Gone                  Often]

  [Senator           Possib           -Ly          Engaged/            Husband,               If               You                 Want            That           Drama

     Moral;            About            Mov-              Ing                On

                     [Ending                          scene                          possibly                             kept the same)

                     *To                          Foreshadow                           possible                              Anakin

                        But with a lot more weight-

               [End]

[spectralspices]

Okay, so, basically: 

The “normal” parts of Fate are Fate/(something) like Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Strange Fake, Fate/Redline, etc. Those are Light Novels, Visual Novels, Manga, and Anime adaptations of those things about the Holy Grail War-A ritual performed by Magi to create a wish granting Holy Grail for the winner. To facilitate this, they summon Heroic Spirits-figures of myth, legend, and history whose deeds and names are so esteemed that they are known to this day. People like King Arthur, Gilgamesh, Hercules, Cu Chulain, Vlad Tepes, etc. 

The summoners (Masters) and heroic familiars (Servants) fight it out. Ideally, the last remaining receives the Grail, and both they and their servant’s wish is granted. It often...does not go that way. 

Anyway, Fate Grand Order takes a bunch of the lore from Fate, as well as other works by the original author Kinoko Nasu (whose name means “mushroom eggplant” as I just googled) and says: what if it was longer term than just a few weeks/months for a Holy Grail War? What if those figures you summoned stuck around, and also, you had to Do A Gacha about it?

The result is Fate Grand Order, a game where you play as a Master working for an organization named Finis Chaldeas, or just...Chaldea. Essentially, using complex science, magecraft, and a lot of dedication, they’ve made themselves TIME HEROES. By detecting threats, current or in the past, against the flow of “Proper Human History”, they send people and their servants back in time to fight the incorrect histories that spring up. These can take the form of Singularities (isolated to a single area, I think, and limited in scope) and Lostbelts, which are the result of an Elder God tampering with things (The Elder Gods are. Involved.) 

Essentially, each Lostbelt is set in a different area of the world, in a different time. A displaced master and servant were thrown there, and given the task of protecting Their World, where some calamity has ruined humanity and the course of history. For example. One is in Russia, where an endless winter happened, so Ivan the Terrible and the local mages in Russia, using the time that their people had because they were good at surviving freezing conditions, fused everyone with magical beasts. So now Ivan the Terrible is a giant flaming mammoth man, and everyone else is a wolf furry.

TLDR: 

The Dinosaurs are alive because an Elder God fucked with history, and the Mayan Gods are involved (and are all white for some fucking reason) and also there’s a version of the main characters from another Nasu work called Tsukihime but now the girl is a giant white brontosaurus and the boy is a utahraptor with glasses.

I don't know about the fate games. What the fuck is a lostbelt?

[nanami314]

My thoughts on Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works

**SPOILERS FOR FATE/STAY NIGHT: UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS** (and some quite major spoilers for Fate/Zero as well)

Fate/Zero was great. The animation was great, the soundtrack was great, the fights were insane. Everything was great. Then, UBW comes in, and blows it out of the water.

I definitely preferred Unlimited Blade Works to Zero by a long shot. Everything that was good in Zero, UBW did better. Even better fights. An even better story. To an extent, even better characters (though certainly not all, there's not many that'll beat Kerry). I liked Zero. I loved UBW. Though, to really explain why, there's gonna be quite a difference between this and my Zero post.

This is the second one out of the series that I watched, so I have something to compare to now, as well as there's not a definitive set of Masters and Servants thanks to Kirei's meddling and Caster summoning a servant of her own. As such, I'm going to compare the Servants by class, as well as talking about all of the Masters as a whole, and then a few in particular. After that, I'm gonna talk about the entire story as a whole, as well discussing the two key characters: Archer and Shirou.

Servant Comparisons

There really isn't going to be a set order for this, however I want to go over Saber last, given how she's the same character from Zero. I'm also gonna go over Gil as well, because he has his own role in the story, too. With that said, let's get going.

Caster: Princess Medea I'm starting off with an interesting one. Caster in Zero was crazy, and wasn't really that great of a villain. Though, the fight with his monster was quite good. Medea on the other hand, is flat out evil, which makes her a much better character. I thought Kirei was made out to be hate-able, but Medea was on another level entirely. Not to mention they gave her one of the most tragic backstories in the history of Fate. UBW Caster was the main antagonist of the first season, and went well into the second season as well, and in my opinion, she did a much better job than Zero Caster ever could. Let me just tell you some of the things Medea did over the course of the series. She: ⦁ Drained multiple at the school just to resupply herself with mana ⦁ Did the same thing at the temple she's residing in ⦁ Dragged Shirou to her temple while he was sleeping just to attempt to strip him of his command seals ⦁ Later on, actually did manage to take Shirou's command seals, thus taking control of Saber. ⦁ In order to enact the above point, kidnapped and held hostage one of Shirou's best friends ⦁ Bound Saber because she refused to serve her ⦁ Summoned a Servant of her own, Assassin, as a Servant herself. If this woman isn't just plain evil, I don't know what is. I don't think I can do her evil deeds justice even with the points above. The good thing about it was that this in turn made her a great villain throughout the time she was the main one, and an overall much better character than Gilles.

UBW: 1 Zero: 0

Assassin: Koujirou Sasaki Much like Caster, UBW's Assassin is so much better than Zero's Assassin. He didn't appear all that much, and his only real purpose was to guard the temple under Caster's orders. However, he was certainly an interesting character despite this. For one, his real identity is that of a famous Japanese swordsman, one that's consider the best in the world. I'm inclined to believe that, given that his Noble Phantasm allows him to perform three strikes at the exact same time with three different swings. He could slash three different ways and all would hit his target at the same time. But get this. The truth is that he doesn't really have a Noble Phantasm, and he can do that based on pure skill alone. Combine that with the fact that Assassin is only taking that famous swordsman's name, and it makes for quite the interesting character. Not to mention, his fights with Saber were about as enjoyable as her fights with Lancer from Zero. Hassan had nothing interesting about him except for a cool design. Koujirou has that and a whole lot more.

UBW: 2 Zero: 0

Rider: I don't even know Unfortunately, not all of UBW's servants could be as interesting as Assassin and Caster. For example, this Rider really got the short end of the stick. When I first saw her, I honestly thought she was gonna turn out to be Assassin based on how she looked. But then Assassin got revealed, and by process of elimination she had to be Rider, which makes absolutely no sense to me. I'm sure there's some reason she was summoned as a Rider class, but whatever it is, we don't see it here. UBW didn't even reveal her name. She dies very early on, like the episode or two after you first see her. Though, I've heard she plays a much bigger role in the other routes of Stay Night, and she's quite popular, so I'm just going to chalk this up to her just getting shafted in this route. If I were to ever talk about the upcoming Heaven's Feel movies, I may come back to her. But for now, in this route only, she's not that good, and given that Zero's Rider is one of the best Fate characters ever, well, yeah.

UBW: 2 Zero: 1

Archer: To be revealed later Okay, this is gonna be very short, because I'm going to be extensively going over him later on, so I'm going to say only one thing for the comparison's sake. UBW Archer > Gilgamesh. Fite me

UBW: 3 Zero: 1

I will take this opportunity, however, to go over Gil's role in UBW. I don't know how Fate did it, but they actually managed to make me like Gil. I think that maybe it's cause of the more background role he played up until the very end. Also, I was never a fan of his golden armor he sometimes wore in Zero, and was much more a fan of his causal wear in terms of appearance, and that's most if not all of what he wore in UBW. I mean, that black jacket looked really cool, not gonna lie. Also, Gil turned out to be the main antagonist of the last few episodes, after a certain other Archer and his shenanigans, but more on those later. One thing I think was improved on Gil from Zero to UBW was the fights he was in. His only good fights in Zero were his dogfight with Berserker, and his "fight" with Rider, which was really more of an amazing moment rather than an actual fight. Likewise, he had two really good fights in UBW. The first was with UBW's Berserker, which I've yet to talk about, but he actually almost beat Gil. If he hadn't -removed cause spoiler until I go over Berserker, then he might've had a chance to win. Against Gil. That doesn't happen often. And oddly enough, Gil is one of the two participating members of my favorite fight in the Fate series. However, I won't be revealing the details behind that fight until later, because it involves another character I've yet to talk about. Overall though, I actually liked this Gil. He's the same Gil he always was, but the focus on him this time was always on other things rather than how he is as a person, which I still don't like. Though, he did make the finale a whole lot better than it would've been otherwise, and I quite enjoyed watching him and his fights in this one. Gotta give credit where it's due.

Lancer: Cu Chulainn If I had to pick an overall favorite Servant class based on the characters I've seen, then it'd have to be the Lancer class. I loved Zero's Lancer, and UBW's Lancer is just as good. When he first appeared near the beginning, I didn't think he'd even be close to the level that Diarmund was, but as the series went on, he actually became a really good character, particularly when he helped out Rin and Shirou in taking down Caster. He also participated in quite a few fights, including two really good ones against Archer, one as the first fight in the series, and one later on when going to take out Caster. It's be a hard to believe that I was rooting against him in that first fight, and rooting for him in the second one. I still don't think he's quite the same as Diarmund, but as a standalone character and Servant, I'd definitely say he's one of the better Servants of UBW. It sucks that his Master turned out to be none other than Kirei himself. From what I know though, which is information outside of UBW I believe, is that Lancer originally had a different Master. However, Kirei, being typical Kirei, did something to said Master I assume, and he took over himself, despite being the Judge of this war much like his father was the Judge of the last war. I think this War needs a Ruler Servant like Apocrypha had, just so Kirei can't cheat himself to the Grail. Come to think of it, he should've taken Caster instead. Those two together would've been practically guaranteed the Grail. But, back to Lancer, his death was one of the sadder ones in UBW. Guess it's just a thing for Lancers to commit suicide. However, his stab into himself somehow didn't kill him, and just as Kirei was closing in on Rin, who was tied up for reasons I'll explain later, Lancer got up, and stabbed Kirei from behind. He also did the same to Shinji, who was also there. Though, instead of stabbing him, he slightly poked him, and Shinji ran out of the room so fast. Lancer then cut Rin's ties, then set the place on fire as she escaped, just to be sure he got rid of Kirei. Lancer went from enemy, to teammate, to total bro. Much like what I said to Diarmund, rest in peace, Chulainn, rest in peace.

UBW: 3 Zero: 2

Berserker: Hercules Hey look, it's a Heroic Spirit that I actually know! Fate doesn't have too many of those, but here's one. And Berseker looks nothing like what I would've pictured Hercules to look like. Though, that's not going to stop him from destroying everything around him. This Berserker is the Servant of Illyasveil von Einzbern. Yes, THAT Illya. Iris's daughter. It's a classic example of a little girl and a giant beast, and boy is this guy a beast. His first fight was against Rin, who's a very capable mage herself, Archer, whose arrows did little to nothing to him, AND Saber, ALL AT ONCE. Not only that, but he practically dominated the entire fight. He's very agile for someone his size, and was very able to keep with all of Saber's swings, and strike back himself. I'd argue he's the single best physical fighter in Fate. Would've liked to see him go up against Koujirou. Oh, and it gets worse. His Noble Phantasm literally allows him to have 12 lives, thanks to the whole Hercules's 12 Labors legend and all. In other words, he's practically unstoppable. Not only that, but Illya herself is a spectacular mage. When Rin tried to go for her herself, she had quite a bit of trouble thanks to Illya's amazing familiars. Gee, I wonder who she got those from. Together, these two probably would've beaten anyone in their way. Anyone, except for Gil, of course. The fight between him and Gil that I've already mentioned is one of my favorite fights in UBW. Berserker actually almost won. If he hadn't spent time trying to protect Illya, instead of just fighting himself, he might've actually beat Gil. He was able to take sword after sword, and just kept going. Of course, one of Gil's trump cards, his chains, was eventually what did him in. Because those chains work better the more powerful the person inside them. Using them against a normal person, they're just normal chains. But using them against a demigod like Hercules, those chains were indestructible. And once Gil pulled those out, it was game over for Hercules. His death is all the more sad, too, because of Illya. Much like her Mother, she carries the Grail inside of her, and during the episode that showed her past (after the events of Zero), she witnessed the horror that was the other failed homunculi. Not to mention the bond she formed with Berserker. At first, she rejected him, but as she was being chased by a pack of wolves, Berseker jumped in to protect her. It was that moment that two forged a bond that wouldn't break, which makes both of their deaths all the more saddening. As a Servant, Berserker is in the middle of them all, but as a character and his relationship with Illya, he's definitely up there. I mean, he's been the single person closest to beating Gil. So far. That says a lot.

UBW: 4 (WINNER) Zero: 2

Okay, that covers all of the new Servants of UBW, aside from Archer, who I'm going over later. So, all that leaves, is Saber. If I had to pick, I believe I prefer UBW Saber to Zero Saber. A lot of that is because she actually had a positive relationship with her Master in this one, and thus, tended to be a lot happier in general. Though, there were some differences to her compared to Zero. First, 10 years have passes since the events of Fate/Zero. As such, Saber has been waiting 10 years for another chance at that Grail. When Kiritsugu told her to destroy the Grail in Zero, she never found out that the grail was corrupted. She disappeared immediately afterwards due to running out of mana. As such, she never saw the massive fire that it produced. So, she still believes the Grail is this holy wishing device, and she wants it now more than ever. She's waited 10 years, and she's determined to get it this time. Because of this, she tends to be a bit more aggressive in this one as far as the Grail War goes. However, that doesn't mean she's always that way. In a way, I believe she treats Shirou in a somewhat similar way to Irisviel, always wanting to protect him. She even wanted to follow him to school just in case he got attacked there. I'm honestly really glad for her that she actually was able to have a positive relationship with Shirou, especially after the way Kiritsugu treated her. Saber even became friends with Shirou's friends including Rin Tohsaka, who is also participating in the Holy Grail War, and actually becomes Saber's new Master once she's free from Caster. She also was nice enough to teach Shirou how to fight after he asked her to. I think the absence of Kiritsugu is a good thing for her. The two of them never got along well, and the only person she could really rely on was Irisviel. However, she's got a lot more people willing to help her, and again, she's a lot happier in general compared to Zero. As for the fights she was in, I would pick Zero over UBW. Yes, her fights with Lancer and Assassin were really good, as well as the fight with Archer.  There's also the Berserker fight, which is probably the best out of all those, but Saber herself isn't the only reason for that. In Zero, however, her fights with Lancer, especially that first one, were better than those (with the possible exception of the Berserker fight), and her fight with Zero's Berserker was a lot more meaningful in regards to her character than any other fight in both series. As a character, Saber definitely developed more in Zero than in UBW. That fight, along with Rider's talk, opened her eyes to what she must've done to her people when she was alive, and that really hit her. I think it's just my preference for Slice of Life that makes me like UBW more than Zero. UBW didn't really develop her that much as a character, but she was already developed from Zero, and as such she didn't really need to be. Still one of the best character's Fate has to offer. However, she's not my favorite character, nor is Kiritsugu. My favorite Fate character comes from UBW. Speaking of which...

Masters

I'm not going to go over all of the Masters and rank them like I did for Zero, but that's mostly because of the messed up situation that is UBW's Masters and Servants. Counting Caster as one, here are all of the Masters in UBW: ⦁ Emiya Shirou ⦁ Tohsaka Rin ⦁ Kotomine Kirei (again) ⦁ Matou Shinji ⦁ Kuzuki Souihirou ⦁ Caster ⦁ Illyasviel von Einzbern Only 4 of those were actually intended to be Masters. Kirei meddled with Lancer's Master and entered himself into the War. Caster is a Servant herself, and she used to have a different Master before breaking off from him and running into Kuzkui, who agreed to be her new Master. Most of the only notable ones to go over on this list are ones that I've already talked about (Kirei and Illya), or ones I'm going to talk about later (Shirou). Kuzuki really didn't do that much as a Master, Caster shouldn't be one in the first place, and Shinji's just Shinji (although I can't help but think of Araragi when he speaks XD). There is one left, however. She, along with Saber, were the only two characters I'd heard about before watching Fate, and seeing the kid version of her in Zero made me all the more excited to see the teen version of her in UBW. And considering she won the most recent Best Girl Contest on /r/anime, I knew I was in for a treat. Although, I didn't know how much of a treat until I actually saw her in the anime. I'm just gonna get straight to the point here.

Rin Tohsaka is my favorite character in the Fate Universe. Period.

Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works revolves around the story of Emiya Shirou, a high school boy who was saved by a man during a massive fire, who would later go on to be adopted by said man. 10 years later, Shirou found himself thrust into the Holy Grail War, and he's the Main Character. However, the very first episode does not come from him. In fact, the second episode covers the very same days, instead from Shirou's perspective. That first episode is from the perspective of Rin Tohsaka. She is the daughter of Tokiomi from Zero, and inherited the Toshaka family's heritage, including the mage lineage, and the entrance into the Holy Grail War. We saw her briefly in Zero, including an entire episode revolved around her, and we saw there how hard she was trying at her mage studies. Now, 10 years later, she's become quite the powerful mage, and, though not quite on the same scale as her father, prepared herself for the War, down to the Servant she would summon. She wanted Saber, the most powerful Servant class. However, her summoning had one mistake: the time it was done She made she everything was perfect, but the clocks in her house were an hour off, and she wasn’t at her magic peak like she was planning to be. Thus, she ends up summoning Archer instead. She also goes to the same high school that Shirou goes to, and is friends with him. And apparently it's just in the Tohsaka family to make alliances in the Holy Grail War, because, after a few mishaps, Rin agrees to team up with him and Saber in order to take out Caster. All of that is Rin from a story point of view, and if that's all there was to her, then she wouldn't be quite at the top of my list as she is now. No no no, there's plenty more to go over. She isn't my favorite character because of how good of a Mage she is. She isn't my favorite character because of anything she does, or any fights she happens to be in. While there are multiple reasons, Rin is my favorite character for one main reason: Her personality. That all can be summed up with one word, one thing I already knew about her before watching Fate. To put it simply, Rin is a Tsundere. As if there aren't enough of those out there in anime already. Some are very popular. Some aren't so much. But, Rin didn't win that Best Girl Contest for no reason. There's a lot more to Rin than just calling her a Tsundere. She's more like the Tsundere. Being the Toradora fanboy I am, I always believed that Taiga Aisaka was the Tsundere Queen. Though, after seeing Rin, I'm starting to reconsider. She is the definitive Tsundere. Some tsunderes, like Taiga, are violent, and that bugs a lot of people. Rin is not. Some tsunderes are more tsun or more dere. Rin has a near perfect balance, going from attacking Shirou because they're technically opposing Masters and pretending their alliance is only until Caster is defeated and telling him she'll kill him once that's done, to never actually breaking that alliance and the fact that there are a few hints here and there that she actually does care about Shirou a lot, and won't actually go through with killing him. Even that time she attacked Shirou, she had the opportunity to finish the job, but she just couldn't do it. Sometimes she's more tsun, sometime's she's more dere. Not only that, but she develops as the story goes on, and in typical tsundere fashion, she begins to act more dere as the series goes on. Including in the final episode, the epilogue, where, while it's not explicitly mentioned, Rin and Shirou seem to be in a relationship. Not to mention the fact that whenever Shirou mentions his feelings for Rin throughout the series, she just becomes a mess of blushing. All of this leads to Rin being on of the best characters of Fate, and my personal favorite. She's great because of the story. She's great because of her personality. She's just great in general. She's not in my Top 5 of all time or anything, but there's no other character in Fate that I like more, than Rin Tohsaka.

Speaking of characters, I believe it is finally time. I've been mentioning it for a while now, but it's finally time to talk about what I believe are the two most important characters in Unlimited Blade Works, and possibly Fate in general. The main protagonist of UBW, Emiya Shirou, and Rin's Servant Archer. In Zero, if there was any one Servant whose identity was most a spoiler, it was Berserker. Here, it's Archer. And what made this twist all the more satisfying is that they practically threw it right in your face without you realizing it. Archer and Shirou have a lot of interactions, and were often compared, particularly by Rin. Archer even attacked Shirou once on the night that Caster had abducted him from his sleep. When practicing fighting with Saber, he naturally used Archer's fighting technique, and when he figured out his projection ability, he even made Archer's swords. There are so many hints everywhere that these two are very similar. That's because Archer is in fact, Shirou himself, but from the future.

I'd like to take the time to explain how Archer was summoned. First, the summoning system doesn't follow the laws of time. Most of the time The Grail does summon Heroic Spirits from the past, but it can also summon them from the future. Case in point, Archer. As for why Rin herself summoned him, the answer is simple. If no catalyst is used, the summoning process still isn't random. In some cases, it summons the Servant that best fits that Master's personality. However, if that Master has some sort of connection to a Heroic Spirit, then that one will be summoned. This is how Shirou got Saber, because Kiritsugu implanted Avalon in him before he died. As such, Shirou unknowingly had that connection to Saber, and she was summoned.  Since Archer is Shirou from the future, and him and Rin likely got together in the future, as seen in the epilogue episode, then obviously they'll have some sort of connection. However, there was in fact a catalyst: Rin's Pendant. Or rather, the copy of the pendant that Archer had, and picked up as Shirou when Rin saved him that first night. The time paradoxes are real. Anyway, with that catalyst, combined with Rin and Shirou's connection, she wouldn't have summoned any other Servant than Archer. 

The Shirou that became Archer followed his ideals of being a Hero of Justice, like his adopted father wanted to be. And like that Father, he came to realize that not everyone would be saved, no matter what he did. After he died, he became what was known as a Guardian. He's now bound to the afterlife forever, always trying, and failing, to help people. When Rin first summoned him, he couldn't remember who he was, likely due to Rin's summoning. However, once he saw Saber, he started to remember everything. I'm sure seeing his former self probably helped that as well. However, he kept his memory restoration from Rin, because Archer had a plan. A plan, to kill Shirou. He knew his ideals were a mistake, and he made a lot of mistakes later on in his life, and ultimately regretted the way he became. As such, he believed that by killing the current Shirou, that he would never live that life. After Caster is defeated, Archer becomes the temporary villain of the show. He had broken off with Rin to join Caster's side earlier on, in order to get to her from inside. As such, he no longer had a Master when she died. And Archer class Servants have an ability that allows them to live quite a while without a Master to supply them with mana. He was free to do what he wanted, and he went straight for Shirou once Caster died. After a heated fight between Archer and Saber, Shirou agreed to fight Archer at Illya's castle. Before he left though, he took Rin hostage, and tied her up at said castle so she couldn't escape.

Everything in the series up until that point led up to that fight. Archer and Shirou clearly didn't like each other much throughout the series, and now, they finally got the chance to fight, one on one, inside Archer's reality bubble: Unlimited Blade Works. A barren land with swords everywhere. I would daresay this might be the definitive fight of the Fate series. When the series started, Shirou could barely fight. He barely survived Lancer trying to kill him at his house. He gradually improved as the series went on, and now, he's fighting Archer. One on one, a fight to the death. Not only that, but this fight's got more meaning behind it than any Zero fight, probably more than all of them combined. The fight itself was also incredible. Both Archer and Shirou projecting sword after sword, blade after blade. There were a lot of close calls where Shirou almost died. The last of which Archer thought he did die, and Shirou surprise attacked him. Despite Shirou's lack of skill and experience compared to Archer, the two were evenly matched. In the end, Shirou won the fight. If you asked me what the best fight in the series is, I'd no doubt give it to this. An incredible fight to watch, and a ton of meaning behind it. Definitely the best fight in the entirety of the Fate series (at least what I've watched, including Apocrophya).

But it's not my favorite.

No, my favorite fight has yet to come.

I've already talked about Gil and the fact that he became the final antagonist, but I didn't quite go over how. After killing both Berserker and Illya, Gil literally ripped Illya's heart, the grail, right out of her. He knew what the grail was capable of, and wanted to use it to, get this, kill off all of the humans because they bored him. Yeah. Though, without a vessel, the grail was useless. This is why he shoved said heart into Shinji, which turned him into a Holy Grail abomination, right outside of the same temple Caster resided at earlier in the series. Rin, Saber, and Shirou all make preparations, and head to the temple to confront Gil, set on destroying the grail once and for all. Their plans get a bit sidetracked when they find that Assassin, Caster's Servant, was still at the temple. Saber was supposed to keep Gil busy up at the front while Rin and Shirou go retrieve Shinji, as without a vessel the Grail can't do a thing. Instead, they had to contend with Gil, with Saber being caught up front fighting Assassin. So, Rin goes to get Shinji, while Shirou stays behind to fight Gil. Yes, you read that right. Shirou, a regular person, was going to fight one on one against Gilgamesh. That sounds like a suicide mission on his part, right? I mean, with Gil's Gates of Babylon, he's unstoppable. Or so he thought. Using mana from Rin's family crest (which she transferred over to him before they got to the temple), Shirou was able to summon Unlimited Blade Works, the same reality bubble that Archer used before. This was the battlefield for the fight between Gil and Shirou, and also my favorite fight in the series.

Now Gil, having the gigantic ego that he does, doesn't believe Shirou to be a worthy opponent. Shirou though, knows better, and makes an example right from the start. Before Gil's first blades could even leave their portals, Shirou projected copies of them and sent them flying at the portals right out of the gate, stopping them in their tracks. Because you see, in this reality bubble, Shirou has access to an infinite amount of swords, and with his increased mana, is able to project as many copies as he wants. For every single sword that Gil fires from his portals, Shirou can fire back and more. As the battle goes on, Shirou is either blocking all of Gil's blades with his own swords in hand, or sending other swords through projection flying at them to stop them in midair. Shirou says it best himself. Against any other Servant, even this world wouldn't be enough. All of the fake blades that he has wouldn't be enough to beat someone who's mastered one. But against Gil, that's not the case. Gil has a variety of different swords, and isn't a warrior himself. Therefore, he doesn't really know how to use them. Shirou can project copies of all of Gil's swords and throw them right back at him. There are very few people in the Fate universe who even stand a small chance fighting Gil. Even Berseker, who is one of those people, eventually lost to him. But then there's Shirou, who is the only person able to beat him. As the fight picks up, Gil is starting to realize the situation he's in, and surrounds Shirou with portals. After the following explosion in that circle, Gil finds Shirou high in the air, with Rho Aias, the same shield that Archer used previously in the series, heading straight for him. Right as Gil was about to bring out his ultimate weapon, Shirou slashed his arm off before he had the chance to use it, thus, ending the fight, leaving Shirou the victor.

Besides the beyond incredible action and animation in the fight, as well as the amazing music, the one thing I love about this fight is the fact that Shirou wasn't guaranteed to win. If Gil had gone all out, using his ultimate weapon, Ea, from the very start, he could've won easily. But his ego was his downfall. He wouldn't even get that weapon out against Zero Caster's monster back in Zero because he didn't feel it worth him using Ea. He thought Shirou was nothing, and that there would be no need to use it. Even after Shirou started showing him that he could in fact win, he still wouldn't do it. He didn't even use his chains on Shirou, but honestly, that wouldn't have been enough. Ea could've stopped him, but to Shirou, those chains were like normal chains. Shirou could've easily projected a blade to slash them open. Instead of Shirou winning the fight, this was more Gil losing the fight. His huge ego got in the way of his fighting, and he severly underestimated Shirou's capabilities, and in the end was his downfall. A fitting end to him in my opinion.

And there we go. That is everything I want to say about the Fate series. I may come back to it at some point and make a post on Apocrypha, as well as the upcoming Heavens Feel movies, but we'll just have to see. In any case, that's not going to be for a while. I know I've barely posted anything on here at all, but that's going to change in the next few weeks. I've got big plans for the month of December, and once the new year starts, I'll be going over one of, if not the only 90+ episode series I've seen. I'm not sure where I'm going to go after that, but that's gonna leave me plenty of time to think. Until then, expect a preview of December sometime in the next week or two. My only hint is: Romance.