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Hereafter [Worm x Fate/Grand Order]

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rafuki22 said:
Did she defeat him?

I remember a post that said that was a mistranslation.
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She did, it was at her very introduction and more importantly, her doing it in life also made her capable of doing it in LB5 Atlantis. There, she was a Servant, yes, but Poseidon was at his near-full strength when the Servant Francis Drake approached him and took out one of his four main divine cores, driving him insane in vengeance and pain at the process. It could be said that if Francis Drake hadn't done that, defeating Atlantis wouldn't have been possible.
Moliblazer said:
Honestly, this Singularity is (more or less) supposed to be a boundless sea filled with famous sailors, so it makes more sense to keep the Viking than the guy who's famous for a land war against the people he's allied with in canon IMO. Maybe even add other sailors from Scandinavia and around the world, considering the author's already confirmed there'll be original Servants.
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It is always worth remembering that early FGO's writing was shit because there was basically no quality control involved. For most of the first two years, Nasu didn't even want to touch the garbage heap that was FGO, so it was only around Camelot that people actually started properly ensuring that the story made sense as opposed to, you know, was just made to sell new waifus and husbandos with the occasional canon immigrant from other Fate works.
 
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Alternate title:
Plucky Protagonists Pirate the Pirates of a Pirate Ship for Planning, Plot Progression, and Plunder.
 
As Moliblazer puts it, this is an excellent opportunity to add in some seafarers from across the world rather than just the golden age of pirates.
 
Orumon27 said:
As Moliblazer puts it, this is an excellent opportunity to add in some seafarers from across the world rather than just the golden age of pirates.
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Or actually commit to the pirates angle. Okeanos kind of waffles, because it brought Anne and Mary for the waifu and Blackbeard for his notoriety, and then Eric filled the role of obscure, "Hey, did you know he was technically a pirate?" We had to wait until Atlantis to get Bartholomew Roberts, and we still don't have Captain Morgan, who hits runner up on "most famous pirate ever" simply because he has a brand of rum named after him.

I did think about Barbarossa, but the cultural aspects were something I wasn't confident I could do any justice, so he had to get tabled.
 
James D. Fawkes said:
I did think about Barbarossa,
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First time i read it as Barbossa, and it got me thinking. If Servants can be fictional characters, can Captain Flint exist? Or Long John Silver - he is who made image of a pirate with peg leg and parrot popular - that's plenty for FGO standards. They even can be a composite character.
 
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James D. Fawkes said:
Or actually commit to the pirates angle. Okeanos kind of waffles, because it brought Anne and Mary for the waifu and Blackbeard for his notoriety, and then Eric filled the role of obscure, "Hey, did you know he was technically a pirate?" We had to wait until Atlantis to get Bartholomew Roberts, and we still don't have Captain Morgan, who hits runner up on "most famous pirate ever" simply because he has a brand of rum named after him.

I did think about Barbarossa, but the cultural aspects were something I wasn't confident I could do any justice, so he had to get tabled.
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Of course, if you're going that way, why not bring the whole republic of Nassau into the mix? Actually that does sound like fun. Of course, that bring up the need for a somewhat more serious Blackbeard since that was something he was willing to cross major lines in order to protect.
 
When I saw the roster for that Singularity, I was actually surprised they didn't take the chance to stick in one of the wokou.

I mean, it's not like they're too shy about introducing Japanese Servants almost nobody heard of outside of Japan.
Mmm, maybe because there aren't really any famous Japanese pirates, most of the notorious ones came from China, Korea and Philippines.
 
Spitballing some ideas for pirates to appear in the singularity.

William Kidd, Rider. His NP is the sunken ship full of treasure that he was rumored to have. He insists that it was a fabrication, that he never did any piracy, and that he was nothing but a trader. He insists upon insisting that, whenever it's brought up. It's kind of ridiculous.

Thomas Blood, Saber. A thoroughly unpleasant Irishman who worked as a privateer for the British Empire. Eventually, he betrayed them and tried to steal the crown jewels. His attempt was only unsuccessful because the custodian's son came back from his tour of duty in the Navy at exactly the right time. The story is pretty fishy when you research it, but since when does anybody in Nasuland care about that?
 
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If we're talking famous pirates, female servants, and the Irish I can think of one. Gráinne Mhaol (or Grace O'Malley) was an Irish pirate so infamous at her time that she met the Queen of England at the time and was allowed to leave without being arrested.

There's also Zheng Yi Sao, a Chinese pirate who lead the largest pirate fleet every assembled. She married a pirate, Zheng Yi, and took control of his pirate confederation after he died, married his adopted son, and lead a fleet of 40 ships, including in conflicts with the East India Company, the Portuguese, and China.
 
Fuck it.

Bring in the Davy Jones' Locker as a totally-not-a-Foreigner tsundere Servant Berserker who's really confused as to why people keep tossing her their damaged ships every once in a while.

It hurts ya know!
 
Sorry to burst your headcannon everybody but Drake really doesn't have a good excuse for being a woman. Our records of Sir Francis Drake are just too thorough. He wasnt just some pirate the British paid to sack the Spanish. He was an officer in charge of several official royal expiditions and military campaigns. He served in parliment three seperate times! I just feel like this historical character is way too recent and too much of a public figure for any of Nasu's usual genderbending handwaving bullshit to account for.

As always, Drake is a woman only for the waifu points and Nasu's explanations for it are even more half assed than usual here.
 
What's interesting is that Fate/EXTRA flat out says that Francis Drake was historically a guy in Fate too. So, not only is it contradicting real world history, it's contradicting other works in the same verse.
 
I thought that Fate Extra implied that Francis Drake was actually Queen Elizabeth I, taking the fight to the Spanish personally, but due to reasons, Francis Drake was penned down as a man. Personally I like that interpretation of the character a lot, but ever since it's been retconed as "she was so masculine acting her men only saw her as a man". Which is a weak excuse.
 
So, does this chapter count as the obligatory mug skitter scene, or has that already happened in this fic? I don't quite remember off the the top of my head.
 
Zedman7054 said:
I thought that Fate Extra implied that Francis Drake was actually Queen Elizabeth I, taking the fight to the Spanish personally, but due to reasons, Francis Drake was penned down as a man. Personally I like that interpretation of the character a lot, but ever since it's been retconed as "she was so masculine acting her men only saw her as a man". Which is a weak excuse.
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I don't care how maculine she acts, she's got two big things so blatantly feminine going on that a blind man couldn't miss 'em. And yet somehow history said, "But he was a dude." Complete no doubt with portraits and personal testimony from those that knew 'him.' It's not like it happened in modern times with our modern gender sensibilities. The only thing at this point that I can think of to justify it is an intentional coverup by the English because the only thing worse than the rumors of 'him' and Queen Elizabeth would've been rumors of her and Queen Elizabeth.
We just gotta accept that nasuland's gonna R63 whoever it wants whenever it wants for whatever it wants. Sense be damned. Usually, in order; a man, during a revenue slump, and because waifu sells.
 
Another famous pirate who might be interesting is Olivier Levasseur, who might even have a fame boost nowadays even if his name itself is not super well known due to inspiring one piece.
 
James D. Fawkes said:
Or actually commit to the pirates angle. Okeanos kind of waffles, because it brought Anne and Mary for the waifu and Blackbeard for his notoriety, and then Eric filled the role of obscure, "Hey, did you know he was technically a pirate?" We had to wait until Atlantis to get Bartholomew Roberts, and we still don't have Captain Morgan, who hits runner up on "most famous pirate ever" simply because he has a brand of rum named after him.

I did think about Barbarossa, but the cultural aspects were something I wasn't confident I could do any justice, so he had to get tabled.
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Don't forget Captain Kidd, who was the originator of the whole "Pirate's Buried Treasure" trope. He's another one that has been completely glossed over.

Edit - @Bugs beat me to it haha
 
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So I understand that it's almost certainly not going to happen but given the circumstances (working on the ocean and in need of a ship), Taylor (and her history)... and the timeframe (that's surprising) i actually have a thought on who Taylor could end up summoning

they are almost certainly still going to end up with Drake, granted, but does anyone else think that Admiral Yi would be a good fit for Taylor?
 
Ah, that guy.

Yeah, I can easily imagine Yi taking a liking to hardcore strategy games and gaming the shit out of them.
Or sinking all his time into optimizing meme runs in Europa Universalis, fifty fifty.

What do you mean, you can't conquer the world as Ulm? What kinda amateur hour is this?
 
I imagine taylor frantically trying to remember everything she learned about the sea and sailors from being a dockmasters daughter. Faking it as hard as she can, and accidentally becoming the most pirate pirate to ever pirate. And, her being the "badass sempai" and the sailors being more than a little scared, everyone just buys it wholesale.
 
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