Yeah, that's been a pretty prevalent theory ever since Taylor's 'failure' of a first summoning. Made even more likely by how she was affected by the 'Servant parameters are weakened' aspect of the recent sidestory updates, too.
Aife has had her feature. She's not going away completely, and I do have "Resolution of the Final Regret" slated for...soonish, shall we say, but Septem was her debut and her shining moment. I won't commit to saying "she's just going to be in the background from here on out," but I am committed to letting the native Servants in each Singularity get the focus in each one.
I found it a lot more charming to write her the way I did than to try and follow her script from canon Septem. I'm still not a huge fan of her, but this version grew on me a little.
Honestly I still can't wait for the moment Aife leaves the spotlight. She's such a Mary Sue that she managed to outshine Nero, another famous Mary Sue, in her own arc. And if Aife gets this much, then god forbid Scathach once she comes along.
Can normal human even use it, for practical purposes?
Yeah, what I'm hearing here is that Taylor's first summon failed because she summoned herself, and she got QA back (or at least her powers) in the process. I wonder if anyone will notice now that they know it's possible?
Meh, despite everything Aife is probably stronger than Scathach.
I mean does anyone other than Olga knows that Taylor qualify to be a Heroic Spirit?
Probably not. Conventional Magus wisdom says that modern-day humans can't become Heroic Spirits (which is complete bullshit BTW, like, there's no way you can convince me that people like Hitler, Elvis, Chuck Norris, Stalin, Trump, Neil Armstrong, Putin, Michael Jackson, Elon Musk, etc aren't Heroic Spirits) so the possibility probably doesn't even occur to people. Plus it's not as if Taylor is famous in their timeline.
Elon Musk's a fraud, but that's not the point.
Just like anything else in Fate, that statement is bullshit -- I mean, the Voyager Probe is 'the most recent' heroic spirit but we already have EMIYA, who is literally from the future and thus after Voyager. Even if you try to argue that he doesn't count, there have been hundreds of statements in the same vein in Fate and all of them were true all the way up until they weren't.
That shows what I know.
FTFY poor Arash.
"Yes, we were wondering about your resume Taylor..."
Fuckin called it!
Emiya got in through the back door as a Counter Guardian, not through fame or leaving a legend.
Apropos of Aife, there's actually more to her in the legends than we originally thought. Granted, the other bits we have are super obscure — so obscure that you have to hunt pretty hard for them — but one of them is a poem that some redditors theorize is what Nasu used for the idea of, "Yeah, Sca can mass produce Gae Bolg." That one happens to also buff Aife the same way.
i think it might be in the 'natural heroic spirit' sense, emiya made a contract to become one, where as voyager somehow managed to embody the hopes of humanity and was a turning point in human history. but yeah, rules are true until they aren't, that's basically a rule by itself in fate.
Last time i checked, Rika is cool, but not rightful ruler of Roman Empire cool.
EMIYA Alter exist, in parallel with Red Archer so at least one of them is Heroic Spirit.
Well.. As someone said once.
Missing my point. Aife is "stronger than Scathach" but Scathach is so BS that she was derided as a plot device the first time she came in the game. She was so BS that she started the Class Change shenanigans in events by establishing that a Skill (Primordial Rune) could be so strong that it could change the classes of other Servants. Before that, it took stuff like Holy Grails and the Moon Cell to mess with Servants. In essence, Scathach was the memetic trigger for most of modern FGO's Servant shenanigans.
Meh, it's mythology. There's no such thing as a 'true' or 'real' version, just the one the author decides to use.
Yeah, that's how it begins, every rule has dosens of 'exceptions' that Nasubabble their way through, until you realise there's more exceptions than cases that follow the rule and realise the rule itself was bullshit. Even the writers eventually realise this and stop making up excuses for the 'exceptions'.
I think there's a decent possibility Taylor has guessed or will guess in fairly short order that she is one. She brings up (and then dismisses) the possibility that EMIYA is from the future, and from there it isn't much of a leap to think that an individual who ensured humanity's survival in a large segment of the multiverse would be on the Throne.
I was honestly expecting Connla to join Alfie back at Chaldea.
