I don't think it was a natural one, I think he was deliberately pulling aggro. People were blaming Diabel's death on Kirito abusing beta-tester knowledge, and that was just feeding the existing animosity the new players had for the beta players, which would result in a fatal fracturing of the player base. Kirito succeeded in drawing a line separating himself from other beta players so that Diabel's death was blamed on 'Kirito is a scumbag,' not 'beta players abuse their advantage'.
Fate/Revelation Online
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Yeah, Kirito could see the tone turning sour against the Betas(most of which aren't rekotely as hax as he makes it look) so he did a self sacrifice play because the truth that the guy died because he was a Beta trying to killsteal would be just as bad.
Instead he made himself look like an edgelord with leet skillz.
Instead he made himself look like an edgelord with leet skillz.
It's actually even worse for Diabel when you know the whole story. Kirito's sword at the time was the Aneal Blade which is flat out the best sword for the first 4 floors and even then manages to stay useable until the 8th floor. However, you get it from a quest that requires you to get a drop from a rare spawn in a place with a very dangerous monster (tho exactly how dangerous varies because one of the many changes the movie made was changing the monsters there from like knee height to something like 6 feet tall). Heck when Kirito got his another beta player tried to MPK him because the danger is while it's all 1 monster there there's 2 variants 1 gives the drop the other basically acts as an alarm if atked and all the ones in a wide area come to atk the person in the area.
For whatever reason Diabel didn't have the sword himself but because of him being a beta player and trying for the whole raid leader thing he worked with Kibaou and tried to buy Kirito's for increasing amounts that started at trying to blatantly scam someone who doesn't know it's value to this guy is obviously a beta to pay that crazy amount iirc there was also something about there being a player with a bad rep during the beta called Diablo who was a known gamer that used devil variants as his usernames which Diabel apparently is. Due to this there's also hints they worked together for that whole accursed beta players surrender your loot thing. It's also kind of funny because the last hit item isn't even that big of a deal since it's just a coat that gives a bonus to the hiding skill.
plotvitalnpc
Once more walking the path of the catgirl.
Well he didn't get the cloak, for starters, because Shirou's the one who liquified wormy ilfang.
IIRC Progressive mentions him getting his equipment dyed black sometimes...
Asuna crafted his gloves out of a drop item called Essence of Chu-ni
"Easy to miss," like the broad side of a barn. From the inside of the barn.
Kinda tracks with why he did it though. Iirc he was 14 when he did it.
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Yeah. Kirito is actually uh... pretty dumb when it comes to things he's not interested in. Granted, he's a 14 year old with basically no friends. But you would think he would have the common sense to not do the alicization arc or question why exactly they needed him for the death gun case?
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What specific anime does he reference? Because I refuse to believe Mr "Linker Beam" is above cribbing more stuff with his spells.
...Also due to the nightmare that is "linear time", we now can extrapolate what was popular at SAO launch which I'm pretty sure was meant to be 2022.
plotvitalnpc
Once more walking the path of the catgirl.
One of the fun things about writing ACSN is making reference to things that didn't exist or weren't well known in 2011, let alone 2003.
He didn't have a choice for the Alicization arc. They put him on life support and plugged him into the matrix to try and restore brain function, then they were raided by Plausible Deniability Team 6.
This might be a silly question, but what year is F/RO meant to take place in? I'm trying to figure out a quick timeline for a bit of writing I want to do.
Based on the fact it doesn't seem that long after the grail war for the fate characters I'd guess 2005 or so, but SAO takes place in 2022. So either all of the birth dates of the SAO characters were dragged back so they aren't all children/infants at this point, or the grail war and FSN characters were pushed forwards.
Has it been said at any point? Or should I just pick one of the options at random.
Based on the fact it doesn't seem that long after the grail war for the fate characters I'd guess 2005 or so, but SAO takes place in 2022. So either all of the birth dates of the SAO characters were dragged back so they aren't all children/infants at this point, or the grail war and FSN characters were pushed forwards.
Has it been said at any point? Or should I just pick one of the options at random.
Mattman324
you expected some anime, non-IRL giant robot, eh?
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You have never spent time interacting with teenagers and likely have buried the memories of what you were like when you were one, I can tell.
Also he's like 16 or 17 by either of those events, but your point still holds.
Prince Charon
Just zis guy, you know?
Especially as people mature at different rates, so even if we were able to put numbers on levels of emotional maturity and behavior, any given sixteen-year-old could well have half the maturity level of one fourteen-year-old, and twice the level of another.
This is four years late, but "Matou" is, as usual, a kanji pun. While the specific characters he picked don't, to my knowledge, have much meaning, matou spelled a different way as 纏う means "to tie, to bind, to clothe, to wrap".
In particular, the ending of the summoning chant goes:
"Oh, ye seven divinities each clad in three divine words"
Nanji, sandaikotodama o matou nanaten
"Come forth from the Ring of Restraint, ye Guardians of the Balance!"
Yokushi no wa yori kitare, tenpin no mamorite yo!
... Not coincidentally, the Makiri were the ones who provided the design of the Command Seals for the Grail War. It's why Zouken can just hand out Books of the False Attendant like they're candy.