She could likely just be using shit in the general sense, rather than meaning literal excrement. I can't be certain how familiar you are with English, but the word's commonly used to refer vaguely to a mess or filth of any kind.
I'm so happy my idea back in Orleans ended up being correct. Didnt think of a magic motor but Da Vinci will always go above and beyond.
That's very unlikely; closest Nasu equivalent would be like saying that if Emiya saw Gáe Bolg he would see the entire life of the Curruid, and then perhaps somehow saw the Earth's by proxy. It would be more likely that he would see the death of the Beast and the subsequent crafting of it followed by Cu's use of it perhaps, but not much else.
Where the heck did you get that she required bugs to use the multitasking? I am legitimately curious as this is the first I remember ever seeing that.
The way he stared at her when he said that…
Yeah that's a lot more reasonable; although I do disagree with the statement of her having a Noble Phantasm (even if an artificial one) with a story attached means she is bound for the Throne. At least in the capacity of "If we didn't know that Khepri (aka the final stage of Talyor's Parahuman life) is a Heroic Spirit", because the Knife isn't at all a guarantee of that. Hell it doesn't even have to be this Taylor, seeing as a Heroic Spirit could arise from countless other permutations of the same individual. But that still doesn't mean that 'you' (aka Taylor) that exists now in Chaldea is bound to the Throne as a result.
The multitasking secondary power only applies to controlling and sensing through the swarm. Even then, it's imperfect: She explicitly has trouble parsing multiple conversations at once through her bugs during Cell, since she has to think about each with her human brain to figure out what was said.
Not...really? I mean, maybe, over a long enough time. That was Doctor Heartless' plan, after all. Worship from a single individual over the course of eons would be enough for a Heroic Spirit to be born — Ryuugi talks about this in his Gold thread. So family lore over the course of enough generations might be enough to create a "Noble Phantasm." On the other hand, canonically, any artifact old enough will gather significant mystery on its own, up until it breaks. That's some really old lore, though, because it's from KnK.
There was the anti-dragon properties along with the mystery increase(although I think James is overestimating how powerful mystery is in and of itself). That being said given that this is a fate crossover I will be disappointed if by the end it can't shoot off a sword beam.
In both Fate and Parahumans there are acknowledged alternate version of characters; one interlude in Ward does this from the POV of one Character; and the former has it as the concept of the Tree of Time which contains all variants of Human History; disregarding those that are culled due to the Timelocks. So yes, there are alternate versions of characters; including things like all the bad endings in Fate Stay/Night, or even multiple Servants are, and all the times Chaldea could be defeated (before Solomon) are indeed real somewhere. They are all valid possibilities and Heroic Spirits are explicitly every possible version of themselves, whereas a Servant is a very limited expression of that greater Record of X.
Nasu stated it. His logic, iirc, It that guns made it much easier for your average person to do things that would previously have been considered extraordinary or impossible (i.e., felling many combatants on one's own).
In or out of universe? Because while it could be that he is just misinformed about things, unless you count machine guns or artillery if anything the opposite is the case with cavalry being capable of killing many more people far more easily than someone with a gun can.
If by Out Of Universe you mean what Nasu said as the author and not as a character in the story, then out of universe. To quote the answer that Nasu gave specifically in a material book:
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I could also see the slaughter house nine being anti-hero heroric spirit candidates. I can also see the Undersiders being possible heroic spirits but like finding an actual catalyst to summon some of them might be impossible.....
