SilverShadows
Under autumn skies
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Ah yes, that moment...
Are you a bad enough dude to write the fabled Taylor vs Marie rap battle James D. Fawkes?!
But seriously you're already writing Orleans stuff?!
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Are you a bad enough dude to write the fabled Taylor vs Marie rap battle James D. Fawkes?!
But seriously you're already writing Orleans stuff?!
I don't get the logic of this complement
@James D. Fawkes please dissect and translate this for me, it fell completely flat.
James D. Fawkes
Court Scribe
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- Avalon (Isle of Mists)
It's not a compliment. Cu's saying, "If all the men of the modern era do is talk about other women they've loved, I can see why you don't want anything to do with them."
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- He/Him
Nice, those sorts of descriptors do well in Nasuverse stories. It's not enough to just give a basic eyewitness view of such, you need to get across the aura, the atmosphere.
Overall, a very fun chapter.
Sakuya's Butler
A refined Butler to a knife wielding Mistress.
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- ↓, ↘, → + Punch
Beryl Gut is actually even more crazy than Jack.
Jack Slash, didn't quite fully understand that Scion was a multi-dimensional being capable of wiping out trillions of lives in a matter of seconds. That and Jack canonically is a coward, whom has run from fights where he's only barely been outnumbered.
Slash is a psychopathic megalomaniac manchild, but still inherently a coward. He just wants to bring death on his terms only, and would run from a true fight where the odds were even, or against him, rather than attempt to push through.
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Beryl Gut however, KNOWS, flat out, that to oppose Chaldea is to risk his entire existence, and to pit the (Type Moon) multiverse against him. He still would rather have everyone revert back to a primitive 'kill, or be killed' mentality, damn the consequences. He knew full well that murdering Wodime would cause a disaster, and did it anyways for fun & to better the chances of his own worldview becoming dominant. That and Gut wouldn't run. He might withdraw, briefly, to rethink and then come at you from a different direction, but he'd never truly run unless something else forced him (and would hate whatever 'that' was utterly). Even from fights he didn't need to get into. If nobody started a fight, he'd generally ignore you, if mockingly so, but the instant you tripped his mental trigger into believing 'X is fighting me', he'd never stop until it ended in your death. (He would have slaughtered Crawler, Mannequin, Hatchet Face, and Burnscar, likely within hours of meeting them, or die trying). He just shows contempt for anyone too weak to actually fight him, and only respects those who can/do (until you're dead that is).
Beryl is a psychopathic megalomaniac blood knight, who both revels in a death AND the thrill of the battle, and wants the universe to experience that as well - unending wars, murders, and chaos/anarchy. The harder the fight, the more enjoyable it is to him/more blood to be spilled.
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
Great chapter, loved the fight. It felt a bit short narratively, but that's just how actual fights go down. They're short, dirty, brutal affairs. Kind of hope more important fights feel a bit longer, though once we get to actual Grand Battles I imagine I'll be satisfied. If I remember correctly the first of those is in Septem though so it'll be a bit. Thought occurred to me the other day, but I imagine the Twins are going to expect Taylor to go all REGEND in Orleans once they get there, particularly after hearing the little anecdote of Taylor's fights with Lung, I'm just curious if she'll be able to do that. After all she won't have her old powers and it's not like Gandr would work on a Phantasmal Creature like a Wyvern let alone a Dragon.
Not entirely sure why you posted this again, it's the exact same thing you posted earlier in this thread, on the same page even.
Not entirely sure why you posted this again, it's the exact same thing you posted earlier in this thread, on the same page even.
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so you are saying he is a khorne cultist?
Sakuya's Butler
A refined Butler to a knife wielding Mistress.
- Location
- ↓, ↘, → + Punch
Quirk of the forum's BBCode. If you were writing a post, then changed your mind and copy-pasted it into an older post as a reply, the draft is still there in the text entry box. WEEKS later in some cases (I've come back into a thread I haven't posted in, for months, only to find a half written reply I'd worked on, waiting). So he might have just hit reply again.
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
Gotcha, though I really should've thought that myself. Oh well.
Sakuya's Butler
A refined Butler to a knife wielding Mistress.
- Location
- ↓, ↘, → + Punch
Pretty much.
Back, prior to the Crypters, the only ones who could have taken him out with ease would have been Wodime, da Vinci, Lev, bestest vampiric bookworm Yu Mei Ren, and Romani. He knew about the first two, heavily suspected the third & fourth, but had no clue about Romani. Had mocking contempt for everyone else. Even Marisbury. None of these known or suspected threats even tried to be antagonistic towards him, but instead were willing to give him power instead ('....the fools', was probably his thoughts), hence his DGAF attitude back at them. It was the equivalent of a herd of sheep, and a few sharks, giving a stalking wolf access to power tools. He wasn't going to be stupid and say no. Because then he could hunt/kill even nastier stuff.
But as we know about him from later, once provoked; he's utterly relentless, merciless, will alternate being 'playing with' his kills (his taunts once a fight starts are more to knock you off your A-game, than actual 'evil monologue') or just getting it over with, and then marches on without a care in the world.
Nope, he's human. Just that he's a psychopath.
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Pretty sure he did. Pretty sure he had simulated adventures with Ritsuka and maybe even the other Master teams too, and Ritsuka is in the same boat as Taylor so I see no reason why she would be excluded.
Beryl: "Eh, I can take her. Maybe... Probably... That freaky furball is wary of her though. In the off chance I can't... Yeah, I'm just gonna play it safe. I'm probably only gonna get one shot at it, but if there's a good opportunity."
I'm pretty sure Fou fits in there somewhere. The fluffy murder beast is kind of a subtle Big Deal before the end of Part 1.
Sakuya's Butler
A refined Butler to a knife wielding Mistress.
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- ↓, ↘, → + Punch
Nobody, and I mean nobody, saw it coming as to whatever Fou was. With the sole exceptions of da Vinci and Yu Mei Ren.
da Vinci, being the genius she is, knew something was up with Fou, even prior to the various divine spirits having an 'Oh Fuck Me...' reaction upon seeing him (which isn't until muuuuuch later on). But couldn't prove it without potentially risking Chaldea, so kept her mouth shut. Afterwards, once the Grand Order started, she had even greater reasons NOT to reveal things (says something that even Holmes has kept his big mouth shut), as Fou, potentially, would have been just as massive of a threat - and had access to the INTERIOR of Chaldea - as Goetia. Fou is, after all, the ultimate predator of Man. However, she has never managed to confirm her hunches.
Yu Mei Ren, OTOH, does know what Fou is from the very start, but doesn't care. They're two sides of the same coin after all, and she never was human to begin with, so doesn't fall under his jurisdiction (technically, but then again, she's concealing herself as a human, which gives him an 'in'). Neither had an interest in bothering the other, so they simply....didn't interact. He wasn't going to interfere in her attempts to summon her beloved, and as long as he wasn't going to, she had no reason to even remotely bother him as to whatever he was doing/planning.
Beyond that, Fou's true status is utterly unknown to everyone else in Chaldea. Which is hilarious in hindsight, as Beryl should have been reacting like crazy to Fou, yet wasn't. Fou is that good of an ambush predator.
As it stands, the only ones on the Shadow Border who know the truth to Fou: are the Divine Servants - whom Fou gave death glares to - which promptly STFU'd them on the spot; King Hassan, Super Orion, and Romulus-Quirinus - who know because they are meant to defend against Fou/others like Fou - yet have very good reasons not to piss off/awaken the floof; Kiara, B.B., and Mara - because of what they were, and possibly Holmes or Dantes. Holmes, because he really is a genius, while Dantes is nearly as good, and has ways to 'cheat' in learning something's background. Everyone else, Mash and Chaldea's master included, don't know. Part of that is Fou being generally sneaky in nature, the other is that Fou deliberately wiped the truth of how Mash survived, from the memory of Chaldea's master.
Fou's reveal, was almost literally THE best kept secret in the entire game, bar none, up to that point. There were hints as to him being something slightly more, and were vague enough to never really tell you anything, but nothing hinted towards him being.....THAT. There's a reason the JPN servers, 2chan, reddit, and various other gaming sites, went absolutely 105% apeshit crazy the day you could reach the Season 1 epilogue happened, and it wasn't the Goetia fight, nor the Solomon reveal.
It was the floofball.
I imagine Taylor, if she ever finds out that is, will be having panic attacks for ages afterwards. For Good Reason.
"I touched Fou. I petted Fou. Oh my god, I fed Fou."
]Shaking & Shivering Intensifies[
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TimeDiver
Herald of Dis Lev
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- In-between the parallel worlds...
Nope; the only ones Wodime had his own Wacky (Simulated) Singularity Adventures with were Team A (i.e. those who were caught up in Lev's bombing and stuck in their Rayshift coffins on the verge of death).
The Foreign/Alien God used Ritsuka's own records (as done so by Chaldea) to provide the simulation data, but that's all. Ritsuka him/herself played no other role in those simulations, with Wodime being the SI.
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Ah so he's in that third category with the Good Doctor. Super stealthy Big T threat.
Didn't Fou lose his Beast nature, power, intelligence, and ego after Part 1? Why would he death glare any of them to keep his secret after it, no actually how could he? He's pretty much just a fluffy mascot animal now (and wasn't that a kicker, "Welcome to the Foundation for Human Preservation, Chaldea. Our mascot is the Ultimate Predator of Mankind that could and would kill the entire species if provoked, or even just on a whim depending on what it sees.").
It's not like he can do anything to stop any of the people in the know from casually dropping that Mash is currently scratching the ear of the former Beast IV.
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TimeDiver
Herald of Dis Lev
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- In-between the parallel worlds...
Fou has rather (very) rapidly been regaining his former abilities, least of all his intelligence, as demonstrated in Ereshkigal's Valentine scene, outright mocking her for trying too hard (in complete sentences, conveyed via Special Translation notes).
Once Astoreth is recruited, Fou is capable of setting up time loops, because Ritsuka messed up and mid-scheduled (a later) Valentine's Day dates with both of Astoreth's 2 forms (and got Novum Chaldea literally atomized when one or another was pissed off... save for when he settled on their third, combined form).
Once Astoreth is recruited, Fou is capable of setting up time loops, because Ritsuka messed up and mid-scheduled (a later) Valentine's Day dates with both of Astoreth's 2 forms (and got Novum Chaldea literally atomized when one or another was pissed off... save for when he settled on their third, combined form).
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Huh. Well that kinda strips all the gravitas off of his big Mash-saving sacrifice and "Congrats on defeating Beast IV without a single blow" spiel. Hey, Typemoon, people die when they are killed! A death of personality still counts. Otherwise you better give us back Shiki's other half (third? Does it count if she doesn't know she's actually three instead of two?).
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- Germany
That's more what you'd call a "guideline" than an actual rule.
Windborne
Devourer of Stories
- Location
- Oregon
That's more what you'd call a "guideline" than an actual rule.
And really, were you expecting him not to cheat in some way? He's associated way too long with Merlin for him not to be as wily and cunning a bastard as the Magus of Flowers.
Sakuya's Butler
A refined Butler to a knife wielding Mistress.
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That, and the rule of thumb for Type Moon is that Characters HAVE to follow all the rules, but each one is allowed one specific 'cheat/exception' to that.
Gilgamesh is known for his exception being 'I am except from all the rules' (and Nasu even commented on that out of the blue one time which freaked the fandom as obviously he was LISTENING in secret).
Fou likely enough gets a 'I use up all my powers to be nice, and I don't devolve permanently like everyone else would' as his personal cheat code.
Again, will freak Taylor if she first believes he's devolved into being a mere animal, onlu for him to stare at her sometime later and go 'Sup Bitch' (aka: "Fou fouuu.") while glowing a little. Also, I imagine Taylor will wake up screaming from a nightmare in which Bitch/Hellhound/Rachel....meets Fou. Of course, to be fair, I'd wake up screaming in terror from that too.
And no, Fou was/is forever Beast IV. Just that giving up his powers basically de-leveled him back to a starting point similiar to that of being an infant again. His act of resurrecting Mash is likely about as huge a gift to humanity as anything else that is a Big Event(tm) in the FGO timeline, as it, briefly, reset him from potentially being a world-ending threat. After all, he could kill everyone who is related to primates, with a single act/action. Everyone else out there actually had to put in serious effort and planning to pull off mass death on a planetary scale.
Fou can do it as simple as breathing, as he has [Absolute Authority] on that.
Mash gives him scritches.
Those must be the best goddamn scritches ever given.
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Completely false. He isn't exempt from the rules... because he is the rules.
AionVal
(Verified Figment)
- Location
- Beyond The Veil
Olga: What is that sound? Is making me very uncomfortable.
Rika: Boss music.
Taylor: Is that so... Caster?
Caster: Yeah, princess?
Taylor: Sick'er boy!
Caster: Now that's what I'm talking about!!
... You know that Saber would just kick Caster's ass if she did that, right? The only reason he was able to beat her in the movie was because she had first been engaged with Mash and was vulnerable.
James D. Fawkes
Court Scribe
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- Avalon (Isle of Mists)
Me, watching the Ridervinci banner slowly tick down:
I did a calc a while back about how much energy (in joules) the Fuyuki Grail has, and it turned out to be...not as much as I expected. IIRC, I took the line about how the Fuyuki Grail had enough magical energy to fuel an entire department at the Clocktower for a year and went, "Well, how much energy does CERN use up in a year?" It was less than I expected.
But yes. Like you said, CasCu on his own is fucked if he tries to take on Salter.
Salter can kill Herk. Granted, she does it by shouting "EXCALIBUR!" until all of his lives are gone, but she can kill Herk. This one is powered not just by Fuyuki's Grail, but also by the Grail Lev gave her. She has enough magical energy to say "fuck you" to basically everything.
I did a calc a while back about how much energy (in joules) the Fuyuki Grail has, and it turned out to be...not as much as I expected. IIRC, I took the line about how the Fuyuki Grail had enough magical energy to fuel an entire department at the Clocktower for a year and went, "Well, how much energy does CERN use up in a year?" It was less than I expected.
But yes. Like you said, CasCu on his own is fucked if he tries to take on Salter.
I'm not sure whether I want them to eventually get along or not. On the one hand, having Taylor and Fou at odds reduces Taylor's Sue meter at least a little (because any character at the end of their original story is going to ping parts of the Sue meter by their very nature when they're the protagonist at the start of a completely different narrative), but on the other, it might be meaningful to have them eventually get over their misgivings for the sake of Chaldea, the twins, and the mission to save humanity.
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Yeah, Saber that can go crazy with Mana Burst is scary. The movies weren't exactly accurate in the fights to the source material but Nasu himself confirmed such showings were believable: every strike is akin to a Noble Phantasm.
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Mana Burst put to offense can amplify the attacks from Invisible Air up to a max of Rank A, and with the mana of two different Grails, Saber can just unload it basically without limit. That's disgusting enough on it's own, not to mention what she could do with Mana Burst to just amplify her own mobility and durability.
Excalibur with that much mana doesn't really need Mana Burst amplification, because she can fire it off much more quickly and often compared to her normal.
Excalibur with that much mana doesn't really need Mana Burst amplification, because she can fire it off much more quickly and often compared to her normal.