Administrative lock. "Patreon" is apparently verboten on AO3, and I thought I took care of all of the problems, but I can't even have a "thanks to all of you who supported me through this project" at the end of Essence, it seems. As I understand it, they'll review them again in a week and the lock will get lifted if I fixed everything.
You burnt the cinnamon roll, you monster.
Because it's a giant site and they're probably not getting paid (paying themselves?) enough to keep watch on every single story that closely?
Hello again! You did! And again, 'shit' as a word is a common, if vulgar, substitute for 'vague general filth/mess' in english. It doesn't have to be literal.
Taylor got stuffed in there and it has had long, far-reaching consequences for her mentally. I think she's entitled to swear a bit there, to put a point on your point.
i get that the term 'shit' can be used in other ways, just the way it was phrased made it seem, to me at least, like it wasn't used like that, and was more literal. good to know tho it's just her swearing
You just created a plot hole for yourself, because that doesn't apply to the majority of Heroic Spirits they'll meet and recruit. After all, Chaldea didn't summon them and the time period of the singularities is before modern culture.
That's addressed in the beginning g of France. Da Vinci explains there's a translator, but you have to fight people for a second since it takes a moment to boot up and Mash was speaking English, so they thought she was on the English side.
This contradiction extends to FGO itself. Like a Caesar summoned during Nero's time has no business wearing a tie, yet there he's still in his modernized incarnation as an enemy. It's one of those premises that could just become drowned in minutiae if taken truly seriously, so you gotta learn to just shrug.
This is just a time travel problem... Why are heroic spirits crystalised as the image people of the 21st century have of them rather than of the specific time period?
I mean, arguably there's an apocalypse right now in the story so you could say that the Throne only has access to the cultural mores from right before the Incineration. You'd be lying, of course, but it's a lie that helps justify things.
Wouldn't that suggest that the correct history is that Chaldea fails to restore history and the world ends?
Not that it's the correct history, but more just the only one it can find, which matches neatly with Chaldeas turning red. Though of course if that was actually the case the one year(?) period between parts one and two should have had Servants governed by different rules but that doesn't really seem like it was the case.
My point was more that there's a writing problem that happens when you try to plaster over a plothole but fail and in the process draw attention to the problem.
The math doesn't bear out. The current population of Earth is only 1/15 of the total population of humans that ever lived.
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