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Confringentur, Mk.2; a Madoka Magica / Fate/Stay Night crossover

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[x] Poke your head upstairs to see what the arguing is about.
-[x] Then practice until you fall asleep in Assassin's arms.
 
SVS said:
You exchanged pleasantries with your remaining teammates for a little while after, but soon enough Mikuni Oriko decided that it was time to turn in for the night, and the five of you went your separate ways into the night. Arriving back at your apartment, you are greeted by "Hey kiddo, how's it going?" McRemitz-san's Lancer as he exits the downstairs apartment, holding a fishing rod in one hand and carrying a cooler in the other. "How's life?"
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Agh, where were you when Archer needed some fresh Salmon?! :V

Really liked the Lancer interaction. I wonder if he could take Homura fishing sometime for some more screentime? (Huh, Rider, who's that and why would they need more screentime?)

[X] Poke your head upstairs to see what the arguing is about.
-[X] Then practice until you fall asleep in Assassin's arms.

Sure, why not. Homura probably will just forget to actively supply magical energy to keep herself awake, too engrossed in trying to learn how to Mystic Code, in this case.
 
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Enetious said:
Agh, where were you when Archer needed some fresh Salmon?!

Really liked the Lancer interaction. I wonder if he could take Homura fishing sometime for some more screentime? (Huh, Rider, who's that and why would they need more screentime?)
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Well, you are the ones who never vote to interact with Rider or Kyouko in a way that would give Rider more screentime.
 
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Day 36 Chapter 14
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    You attempt to keep a level head and concentrate as you work at Mystic Code creation, but the noise from upstairs is just too distracting. At times, you can hear almost nothing but brief, whispered snippets, while at other times you're sure you could hear McRemitz-san and Tohsaka Rin going at it in your sleep. You don't blame the blue Lancer for his decision to get out of there. Eventually, you decide to poke your head in and see what all the commotion is about.

    "Excuse me for a moment," you say to Assassin, who pouts like a spoiled child as you pry yourself from her touch. "I just need to know if whatever is going on upstairs requires my intervention."

    You exit your apartment, head up the stairs, and give three knocks on McRemitz-san's door. "Landlord," you call out, waiting a few moments as the commotion inside dies out, and McRemitz-san opens the door for you. She opens her mouth to speak, but with an abrupt "Excuse me," you walk past her, inserting yourself into the apartment. Sometimes, it's good to be the landlord.

    "Akemi, this is... Sudden, of you," McRemitz-san says. "Did you need Tohsaka for something?"

    "Actually, what I really need is to know what all the commotion is about," you say. Your eyes bounce from McRemitz-san to Tohsaka Rin, and you ask of both of them "So, what seems to be the problem here?"

    "Plenty," Tohsaka Rin says, tapping her foot against the floor as she stares at McRemitz-san. "I know you, Archer, and the other girls all gave me the scoop on this town, but I wanted to hear from McRemitz here about how and why she let things get as out of control as they did. Then, I find out that she knew; this whole time, she knew just how bat-shit crazy things were here and didn't report any of it back!" Rin paces back and forth on the carpet; you swear you've heard these exact noises coming from upstairs before; she's probably just reliving everything that just happened previously. "Listen- McRemitz is a scary, scary person; and as a mage I have absolutely no desire to get on her bad side."

    "That being said, in my current capacity as representative of the Mage's Association to Mitakihara, I technically outrank her right now, and as her technical superiour I've been trying to get in contact with her for days now ever since I got here; only to find out that she's been hiding from me in your attic this whole time! Because she knew that she hadn't been entirely truthful in the reports she was sending back and knew I'd be pissed at her the instant I found out; and rightfully so, I might add!"

    This is news to you. You've known for awhile now that the Mage's Association is, at least according to the people involved with it, nothing to scoff at in terms of the lengths they're willing to go to to keep their secrets hidden; and even if both of the women who have acted as its representatives to your city have been at least passable in their tolerance of how different things are in Mitakihara, you know that you've probably been very fortunate not to have run afoul of any of the Association's less-kind mages. But to learn that McRemitz-san had been intentionally lying to her higher-ups in her reports so as to keep you and your friends and teammates safe from further intervention...

    Tohsaka Rin stops her pacing. McRemitz-san looks like she's torn between punching a hole in her face or making a dash for the exit. Maybe she can still catch her Lancer if she's quick enough. "I get it, though- You're all good kids, and she was hedging her bets that keeping the really heavy stuff a secret would keep you girls safe if the wrong mage got the wrong idea; but still! If Archer had gotten in touch with me sooner, and McRemitz had kept the Association one-hundred per cent informed, maybe I could have figured out a way to prevent that... Wraith, witch, whatever-you-call-it, thing, from eating six-hundred people in one night! Because that's the kind of thing that really draws the wrong eyes, not the fact that things are a little different here... Well, okay, maybe a lot different; and maybe the average mage wouldn't hesitate to tear your brain out to, quite literally, poke around for the secrets of how magic works here, but still..."

    Tohsaka Rin stops talking for a few moments, catching her breath. "Okay, yeah, now that I say that out loud I'm... Not actually all that mad at McRemitz-san for lying in her reports. You girls did the best that you could under the circumstances, and having to deal with whoever the Association sent to pick your brains would have only made things worse."

    "Which is what I've been trying to tell you for the past half-hour," McRemitz-san says, calmly, but with an undercurrent of anger in her tone. "I made the choice to keep the secrets of this city safe from the Association at large, because I thought greater intervention would only make their jobs harder." She folds her arms across her chest, and the tugging of her sleeves as she does so reveals the silver glint of her wrist; you'll never not be amazed at the craftsmanship that went into making her new arm. "I'm glad we've finally reached an agreement that I did the right thing. Even if it took you having to restate my entire argument to another person before you got it..."

    "So, I trust there's no more reason for the two of you to be yelling?" you ask. Without waiting for a response, you say "Good. I'm trying to practice creating Mystic Codes, and I'd like to go to sleep after I'm done, so I would appreciate if the two of you could save any further yelling you need to do for when I'm not busy." You try your best to smile, but you aren't sure how convincing you look given the irritation you feel deep inside. "Thank you."

    With that, you head back to your downstairs apartment. Assassin is waiting for you to return, and now, hopefully, with a little quiet, you can finish your practice.
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    • It's the end of another day, so you know what that means. Relationship changes, objective changes, thoughts on what we want for the morning, and anything else you can think of.
     
    I want to add helping Kirika with her school work to Homura's objectives, but well, Bis Sis is a Big Sis. Her schoolwork is more advanced than Homura's.
     
    [7 -> 8] Kure Kirika: She's your 'Big Sis' now, apparently. You might be spending a little bit too much quality time with your pseudo-sister, considering how much familially closer the two of you have become (you even taught her how to shoot). You still find her quite annoying at times, though that's nothing out of the ordinary for even close siblings.
    [6.5 -> 7] Assassin: She's been doing good, and you're glad she's been so compliant with your demands. Now that Assassin has some appropriate clothes, maybe you should allow her to accompany you and your friends sometime in the future (which some Archer-Projected Toadstone rings just in case)?
    [6 -> 6.5] Kure Minako: Your opinion of her has risen since the Kure family dinner, and you think that she'll treat Archer well.

    Poor Kyoko, Kirika just shot past her on the relationship chart, somehow. Guess we'll have to come up with some excuse for Homura to spend time with Kyoko and Rider at some point in the future if only to get to know them and trust in each other more before Walpurgis, considering Homura's one of the defacto team leaders.

    We should also plan some sort of outing for Homura and Sayaka/Hitomi/Madoka at some point in the future as well, if only to bump up Sayaka and Hitomi's ratings from 8.5 to 9. I foresee a lot of social outings in the near future (the Archery Club thing, the Kyoko/Rider thing, this thing, maybe some Miyuki thing, maybe an OG!Lancer thing, probably an Assassin thing, etc.). Oriko's probably due for another rank up soon, assuming they either get closer through adversity (unlikely before Walpurgis) or if she goes out with the team/Homura on a social outing.

    EDIT: Something I forgot to mention about the whole Kirika jump boost thing is that Homura's gotten attached to the idea of having a family, and Kirika and Minako are getting to be included into that by Archer and Minako's whole possible/probable relationship. That definitely contributed to the entire point of a boost in Kirika's case, combined with Homura and Kirika's previous activities.
     
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    I want to add helping Kirika with her school work to Homura's objectives, but well, Bis Sis is a Big Sis. Her schoolwork is more advanced than Homura's.
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    Well, that's what Archer, Mami, Oriko, and Miyuki are for. I'm sure we can think of something.
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    Poor Kyoko, Kirika just shot past her on the relationship chart, somehow.
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    You clearly voted for this to happen. We could have spent more time with Kyouko. Instead, we chose to hang out with Oriko and Kirika, driving Kyouko straight into the arms of a certain annoying Blueberry for lack of anyone else to spend time with.
    Guess we'll have to come up with some excuse for Homura to spend time with Kyoko and Rider at some point in the future if only to get to know them and trust in each other more before Walpurgis
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    Too late. With the mating ritual complete and Kyouko's tongue firmly latched in place haflway down Sayaka's throat, separating the two will be deadly to both. if we want to spend time with Kyouko, it'll have to be done alongside Sayaka.
    We should also plan some sort of outing for Homura and Sayaka/Hitomi/Madoka at some point in the future as well, if only to bump up Sayaka and Hitomi's ratings from 8.5 to 9. I foresee a lot of social outings in the near future (the Archery Club thing, the Kyoko/Rider thing, this thing, maybe some Miyuki thing, maybe an OG!Lancer thing, probably an Assassin thing, etc.). Oriko's probably due for another rank up soon, assuming they either get closer through adversity (unlikely before Walpurgis) or if she goes out with the team/Homura on a social outing.
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    We've got a lout of outings to plan for with a lot of people planned in attendance; and considering the copious amounts of couples that comprise our friends' circle, I have a feeling that many of them will have to be double-, triple-, or even quadruple- or quintuple-dates, assuming we want Archer and Minako and/or Bazett and Cu as chaperones. And speaking of, we should really get on with pressuring talking to Mami about Kasuga-san.

    Dear lord, this whole town has become one giant ball of relationships. At least Caren and Assassin are still single and with no dating prospects in sight.
     
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    tbh, all the big sis and little sis repeats are egging me on a bit, but it's not a big deal.
     
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    But really guys, I'd like to hear what you're angling for come the start of tomorrow.
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    Hm, Homura texting everyone about a team exercise set-up by Mami/Caster to help implement Miyuki and Saber into the team ASAP before Walpurgis. Maybe if Homura wakes up soon enough she could try and cook breakfast with Archer. Amy head-scratches are always a thing. Maybe reminiscing on how much progress she's made towards Runic Mystic Code crafting? Also a tidbit about Homura falling asleep in Assassin's arms, which presumably happened.
     
    Day 37 Chapter 1
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    • The first thing you see as your eyes open is the white expanse of your living room. Waking up in your living room is not a new thing for you; you've done so many times throughout this timeline; and in fact, waking up in your own bed has been a rare treat on more than one occasion. That isn't the strange part. The strange part is waking up with your head resting atop a sleeping Assassin's lap.

    Have you been like this all night?

    Assassin is leaned back against the back of your couch, with one hand stuffed into the pocket of her baggy grey hoodie, and her other hand nestled in your hair. At the far end of your living room sits Amy, staring at the two of you. You reach your hand out, beckoning her over, but she turns her nose up at your offer and scampers off. You sniff your hand; you don't smell anything out of the ordinary, but Amy must smell Assassin's scent all over you. You'll have to shower off before breakfast if you want any chance of giving her the comforts she's so greedy for.

    Today is a Thursday, you think to yourself, as you scrub the scent of Assassin off in the shower. What do I have to do today? There's archery club practice after classes; you should probably think about how you're going to get Nagatsuki Miyuki and Saber settled into their roles on the team soon; and you'll need to make preparations fr tomorrow's dinner with the Kanames and Kures. Is there anything else?

    You make your way into the kitchen, only to find that Archer is nowhere to be seen. Signs of life are present in the kitchen; the dishes are drying, and there's a lunch box already waiting for you in the fridge, but you don't see any signs of the man himself "Good morning." Of course. "Looking for someone?"

    "Yes, as a matter of fact. Perhaps you can help me find him; and when you do, maybe you can tell me what he's been up to?"

    Archer laughs, and says to you "Well, I've been thinking about this whole 'family' arrangement we've got going; and, I mean no disrespect to your birth parents when I say this; but I was thinking about you and I maybe moving their shrine into another room so that I'm not just floating around with nowhere to go at the end of the day."

    "There really isn't anywhere else to move it to," you say. "There's not enough room for them in my room, putting them in the living room would probably be weird for my friends, and it wouldn't be respectful of me to put them in the attic. I understand what you're saying- You want to take being my father more seriously than just saying you're my father, and I don't begrudge you wanting a room of your own-" Especially with a girlfriend on the way; though why Archer couldn't spend the night at the Kure apartment if he wants to do that with Kure Minako? "-but there aren't too many options for us in this apartment; and that's not even counting Assassin. If you get your own room, I'm sure at some point she'll feel left out and want a room of her own at some point."

    "Then we'll cross that bridge when we get to it," Archer says, crossing the threshold into the kitchen, approaching the stove with intent. "Maybe Kaname Junko can give us some advice tomorrow night when we go over for dinner. Now, what do you want to have for breakfast?"

    Kaname Junko will probably try to sell you on a house, now that your little family is expanding... Family; your father only died last year, officially, but to you it's been an eternity since you had a real family. But in a very short period of time, you've come into a father, and may soon be coming into a mother and an older sister as well, if they haven't already decided to make you family without the need to wait. "Pancakes," you say; and Archer gets to work making breakfast for you.

    You almost ask him how things went last night; how well-behaved Kirika was; how late he stayed, or if he spent the night; but you hold your tongue. You'll speak if Archer decides to bring it up, but otherwise you'll keep silent, or find something else to talk about.

    [ ] Wat do?
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    Thursday, 21 April 2011

    Major objectives:
    - Maintain your relationships with Kaname Madoka, Miki Sayaka, Shizuki Hitomi, and Tomoe Mami
    - Go on another date with your girlfriend some time in the near future
    - Try to cultivate a better relationship with Sakura Kyoko
    - Try to figure out just how you want to view Mikuni Oriko and Kure Kirika in the future; you've gotten closer to them and you don't know what to do
    - Try and integrate Nagatsuki Miyuki and Saber into the Holy Sextet as best as you can before Walpurgisnacht arrives
    - Further your knowledge of Rune thaumaturgy and practice your chosen Rune
    - Further your knowledge of Reinforcement thaumaturgy under the tutelage of Archer
    - Help your non-Puella Magi friends gain enough personal power to fend off minor threats, at least
    - Prevent Kaname Madoka and Miki Sayaka from contracting and becoming Puella Magi
    - Figure out a way to more reliably locate the Incubator in order to nip any problems from it in the bud
    - Find out some way to ward off the Incubator from Kaname Madoka; maybe your teammates could help you with that?
    - Make sure that none of the Shirome girls meet an untimely demise
    - Try to help out Miyuki with her drinking problem if you can
    - Defeat the Witch known as Walpurgisnacht
    - Investigate, identify, and prevent the occurrence of the event that caused a fundamental force of this universe to be twice overwritten
    - Protect Homura from harm in this unusually dangerous loop and from being taken advantage of by the denizens of the Moonlit World
    - Further Homura's skills in Magecraft, now that she has mastered the fundamentals of Projection
    - Aid Homura in coordinating her allies so that they stand a better chance of defeating the various threats plaguing the city
    - Be a good dad to Homura
     
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    • [X] Plan Nothing Threatening Is Going To Happen For The Next Two Weeks Until Walpurgis
    -[X] Ask Archer if he could teach you how to make a proper pancake breakfast before he gets rolling
    -[X] Text everyone about plans to have a team exercise later today - presumably put together by Mami and Caster - so that they could start on integrating Miyuki and Saber into the team before Walpurgisnacht comes around
    --[X] Yes, you do realize Kirika won't be able to make it, which is why you're hoping to go through some older exercises that the team has already done - such as the faux fight against Elsa Maria's familiars - to focus on Miyuki and Saber's general integration into the Holy Sextet
    -[X] Apologize to Assassin for falling asleep on her while you were practicing, you must've been too engrossed in trying to figure out how to properly make a Runic Mystic Code (and exactly how much progress did you make last night?)
    -[X] Don't forget to do your usual Amy head-scratching duties before you depart
    -[X] Depart for school and gossip with
    --[X] Madoka, Sayaka, and Hitomi
    ---[X] regaling them with the tale of last night's dinner, and the masterful execution of your trap for Kirika in front of her mother who happened to love it
    ----[X] while tempting Sayaka with a vivid description of last night's Archer-directed dinner and subsequent dessert
    -----[X] It seems like Archer and Minako may start going out with each other, so make sure to swear Madoka to secrecy so that she doesn't spill the beans to her mother until Archer and Minako could reveal it Saturday

    On an unrelated note, I recently pulled my second 5-star Servant in Fate/Grand Order, and it was Jack the Ripper. For as much as I disliked her in this story, I love having her as a Servant (the fact that she's much more stable and likeable through her Bond level dialogue without her Apocrypha Master's influence is a factor in this). She also happens to be one of the best 5-star and Assassin Servants in the game, truly a top-tier critical monster. :V
     
    Enetious said:
    On an unrelated note, I recently pulled my second 5-star Servant in Fate/Grand Order, and it was Jack the Ripper. For as much as I disliked her in this story, I love having her as a Servant
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    I think part of the problem was that I originally didn't plan to have an Assassin servant in this War, and only added Jack in once I realised how well she fit, thematically. Unfortunately, I still never got around to making much of a plan for her, and because our team vastly overpowered her there wasn't much I felt I could do even if I tried.
     
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    I think part of the problem was that I originally didn't plan to have an Assassin servant in this War, and only added Jack in once I realised how well she fit, thematically. Unfortunately, I still never got around to making much of a plan for her, and because our team vastly overpowered her there wasn't much I felt I could do even if I tried.
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    She certainly is thematically appropriate, however her having the memories of having gone through a Grail War with her previous Master really messed with her mindset even more than she originally was and put her firmly into Murdermode. Too bad, we could've had an interesting dichotomy between Yuma and Jack, whereupon the former tries to get the latter to become a better, less killy person; that's not to mention the possibility of Rider attacking Jack on sight since she was a serial killer in his last war giving him some character development, especially since Kyoko wouldn't very much appreciate him attacking Yuma and her Servant.

    On a side note, I wonder what Kyoko's doing to deal with Yuma's death, as revenge is rarely a thing that helps in such cases?
     
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    She certainly is thematically appropriate, however her having the memories of having gone through a Grail War with her previous Master really messed with her mindset even more than she originally was and put her firmly into Murdermode. Too bad, we could've had an interesting dichotomy between Yuma and Jack, whereupon the former tries to get the latter to become a better, less killy person; that's not to mention the possibility of Rider attacking Jack on sight since she was a serial killer in his last war giving him some character development, especially since Kyoko wouldn't very much appreciate him attacking Yuma and her Servant.

    On a side note, I wonder what Kyoko's doing to deal with Yuma's death, as revenge is rarely a thing that helps in such cases?
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    Well, I'm neither particularly a fan of Yuma, nor of the Assassin class as a whole. I didn't want to use Yuma as a master originally, and since I wasn't originally planning on having a seventh servant it wasn't something I was too concerned with. Then I added Jack into the mix because she fit thematically, so I felt she needed a master in order to drop her into the world. Kirika had already killed Nagisa at that point and I didn't know any of the MagiReco girls, so I was left with Yuma as one of the few characters I was familiar with that also wasn't dead.

    Maybe if I had gone with a different version of the draft from that working period, which had Yuma summoning either Berserker Atalanta or Raikou, and forgoing giving Kirika a servant, it might have fit the "found family" thing I've got going better than what I ended up with, but all in all I like Kirika with Lancelot better than I liked Yuma with either of her new mommies.

    And while I'm on the subject, one of these days I think I should make some non-canon omakes for the things I came up with for earlier drafts, because some of them were pretty bonkers. The original end boss of Part 2 was going to be a fight against Oktavia von Seckendorff and Jehanne Alter, back when there was still the risk of Sayaka contracting (that same draft would have had Elsa Maria as Part 2's mid-boss, to give you an idea of the kind of power level Oktavia and Jalter would have been on). But then we accepted Oriko's surrender and passed the flag that would have had Sayaka contracting and summon Saber Jehanne, so that went out the window.
     
    SVS said:
    And while I'm on the subject, one of these days I think I should make some non-canon omakes for the things I came up with for earlier drafts, because some of them were pretty bonkers. The original end boss of Part 2 was going to be a fight against Oktavia von Seckendorff and Jehanne Alter, back when there was still the risk of Sayaka contracting (that same draft would have had Elsa Maria as Part 2's mid-boss, to give you an idea of the kind of power level Oktavia and Jalter would have been on). But then we accepted Oriko's surrender and passed the flag that would have had Sayaka contracting and summon Saber Jehanne, so that went out the window.
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    That sounds crazy. Yeesh, we really had the right idea spending so much time making sure Sayaka didn't contract/summon a Servant if this was the probable outcome. Y'know though, Jalter could have and would have just been summoned as Avenger due to her inherent personality/motivations and the fact that she was originally conceptualized via Caster Gilles' use of the Holy Grail as a recreation of Jeanne and how he thinks she should be like when he couldn't just reincarnate her wholesale. She was literally created to be an Avenger, basically.

    Though yeah, non-canon omakes like that are always welcome. It'd be neat to see the 'what-ifs' of this story, of paths we didn't take.
     
    Enetious said:
    That sounds crazy. Yeesh, we really had the right idea spending so much time making sure Sayaka didn't contract/summon a Servant if this was the probable outcome. Y'know though, Jalter could have and would have just been summoned as Avenger due to her inherent personality/motivations and the fact that she was originally conceptualized via Caster Gilles' use of the Holy Grail as a recreation of Jeanne and how he thinks she should be like when he couldn't just reincarnate her wholesale. She was literally created to be an Avenger, basically.

    Though yeah, non-canon omakes like that are always welcome. It'd be neat to see the 'what-ifs' of this story, of paths we didn't take.
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    Summoning Jalter as Jalter would have been uncessasry considering it's not Jalter as Jalter, but rather Saber Jehanne corrupted by the accumulation of Grief in Sayaka's Soul Gem. She would still have been a Saber, and not an Avenger. Think Saber Alter and the Shadow in Heaven's Feel, and not Caster Gilles summoning his degenerate edgelord waifu in FGO. We are currently not set up to run Avenger.exe on our GrailWar_2011 software.
     
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