I cannot find it right now, but IIRC there is a small omake of the last battle of a Grail War where Gilgamesh and the SBer fight.
It goes something like this:
SBer is running on fumes with but one last shot of his NP.
Gilgamesh is the Thing to destroy.
Shinji is One.
Sure was. Someone took the "SB as a servant" idea and ran with it too- IIRC they used that exact profile, slotted it into a Fate/Stay scenario, and made a quest . One Bad-End was hucking poor Shinji at Gil At Suffecient Velocity and obliterating the city as a result. SBer included.
I'm having trouble finding it, but it was before Threadmarks were a thing. Back when post links were saved onto a Table of Contents post near the beginning.
d really like it if the frightening and Intimidating Davy Jones turned out to be an ally all along, it would just kind of fit with Taylor's history i think.
Yes, Taylor's history, the most mysterious abc terrifying thing on this whole team. Here on a quest over the open seas, she might fondly recall that one time she kinda sort of, just a bit, was allied with Leviathan. Or the time she stabbed it in the butt with a vorpal halberd. But hopefully she can call upon the time she got to play the most dangerous game of Pokemon ever.
Expanding on my earlier comment, assuming that Davy Jones isn't just zooming across Okeanos killing pirates all the time and thus constrained to physically sailing and identifying his targets and that this is happening concurrently within the last 2-4 chapters (the same way prior interludes were going on at the same time as the chapters proper), he should still be in the same general area as where we saw him last scoping out Drake and Chaldea. Thus, I think that Kidd had picked up Drake's Holy Grail on his magic radar, and his two groups of potential "allies" were...well, not them. Blackbeard and his crew still had the Okeanos Grail at this point in canon, and would until Hector stole it for Jason and Medea Lily, so they shouldn't be showing up as the Grail target.
Another thing to keep in mind is that, having gone back and looked at the chapter, Kidd and Burke had encountered another group of 'belligerents'. So in total, Kidd and Burke were aware of four different groups by the end there. Well, five once you count Davy Jones.
Using meta knowledge, we have the Golden Hind with Drake, Chaldea, and Eurayale's entourage, Queen Ann's Revenge with Blackbeard + Anne and Mary with possibly Hector, and Team Argo consisting of Jason, Medea Lily, Heracles, all from canon. With Davy Jones, that's four. But with the inclusion of multiple other Servants, there's no way to tell how many other groups there are or where they could be, let alone what group lines up best where. Blackbeard and the belligerents can reasonable be assumed to not be any of the three groups Kidd divined.
If Kidd's plan was to steal the Grail, not knowing there were two, and was just focusing on getting the closest Grail, assuming there would be only one within the region, his Allies to steal the Grail could have been the crew of the Argo, seeing as that's part of their goal to...something something, sacrifice Euryale for nebulous evil and selfish reasons? Or maybe they could be the allies of desperation since they want the Grail for their own purpose and he'd have to desperate to work with them only to conflict with them over ownership of the Grail.
...In the end, I feel confidant saying that most likely Chaldea were the ones picked up on the Grail scan and were just spared an attack by a minor enemy trying to steal Drake's Holy Grail.
I cannot find it right now, but IIRC there is a small omake of the last battle of a Grail War where Gilgamesh and the SBer fight.
It goes something like this:
SBer is running on fumes with but one last shot of his NP.
Gilgamesh is the Thing to destroy.
Shinji is One.
Chancing a look first left then right up the corridor where she was waiting, Jeanne Alter cast her senses out further into the calm, placid ether where Servants dwelled when not physically incarnated.
Nobody around to stop me. Good.
The same tactical mind that had made her the bane of the perfidous English still dwelt within her, though quicker to suggest violent actions and atrocities to make the Heavenly Host weep. Taking a moment to track the arc of the security camera at the end of the hall, Jeanne slipped into her spirit form and fell backwards through the wall.
Resolidifying within a fraction of a second, it turned the fall into a backwards stumble that had her grinning maliciously.
"Let's see what makes my master tick..."
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Swearing sulfurously, Jeanne stormed out of the room and paid no attention to the security camera that she had only minutes before been so adamant about avoiding.
"Just...BOOKS! Nothing interesting at all! And that tea...ugh! The only thing worse than those vile English is their tea!"
Marching away from the room marked 'Taylor Hebert', Jeanne Alter made her way towards the room of the other female master.
This time she didn't bother with artifice or stealth. This time Jeanne simply dematerialized and phased through the wall in to the room. And into what she could only describe as chaos.
On every surface there were books, but no books like she could recall from France or even from the previous room. Books filled with pictures both lurid and heroic, battles both horrific and gentle.
"What the..."
Picking up the first one that caught her eye, Jeanne scrutinised the backwards book. Her education had been lacking but every instinct in her shouted that the book was meant to be read the other way, from left to right.
But clearly the book had been designed to be read the other way.
Leaning back against the wall, Jeanne used an armored thumb to open the book.
And dropped it in disgust.
Men more flowery than the women of Versailles and women wearing clothes even a street-walker in Lyon would find indecent!
"What's this tripe called...Sailor Moon? What the hell?!"
Tossing it on to the cluttered desk, Jeanne set about hunting down a book that appealed to her more.
"Hellsing...Ultimate? Well, the title sounds good at least..." Jeanne murmured and opened the book again, this time with the cautious one approaches a loaded catapult with.
And from the first page filled with blood and violence, she was hooked.
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"She's back again?"
Aife rolled her eyes as she ducked her head through the wall, confirming that Jalter was indeed once more in Rika's room, munching on a few biscuits she had "stolen" from a rather conveniently placed plate in the room.
"She's been in there for the past six hours and only left to try and make us think she was elsewhere" Aife responded to her companion who snorted in amusement.
Shaking his head, Siegfriend sighed. "Well, so long as she's behaving herself and not being a menace."
"Oh, she's far from that. She's tidied up the room, alphabetized all of Rika's reading material and straightened the desk."
Shaking his head, he noticed the spark in Aife's eyes. "You're not going to forget this, are you?"
"What, Jalter being such a good girl? You'd have more luck convincing Fafnir to be a pet!"
One of the Patrons wrote this out, and he's fine with me sharing it, so here.
To my understanding, Hellsing Ultimate was the animated adaptation of the Hellsing manga that actually remained true to the original, instead of diverting like the original anime did. So this really ought to be just 'Hellsing'.
Honestly, given her peasant background, that doesn't shock me either.
Clutter around a farm or pretty much any working place is more a sign of danger and stupidity than wealth - trip over something while trying to work with a cow or ox and it may kick your brains out just as an example.
Edit: She wouldn't be terribly familiar with personal rooms either. And then spending some of her life with the military... Yeah.
"Hellsing...Ultimate? Well, the title sounds good at least..." Jeanne murmured and opened the book again, this time with the cautious one approaches a loaded catapult with.
Honestly, given her peasant background, that doesn't shock me either.
Clutter around a farm or pretty much any working place is more a sign of danger and stupidity than wealth - trip over something while trying to work with a cow or ox and it may kick your brains out just as an example.
Also, messiness as a peasant created opportunities for vermin to make homes or look for food. Even for the lowliest serfs, cleaning the house/rooms was done on the regular. Same for maintenance of their homes; contrary to popular depictions, peasant houses and possessions tended to be lovingly cared for, because they had to last generations. Jalter/Jeanne grew up on a farm: nothing would have gone to waste or been left lying around if they could help it.
Well, Jalter liking Manga and tidying things up is already FGO canon so her discovering that while trying to sneakily find out more about her Masters fits.
Grasses? Is this some Fate meme I'm too novice to understand? And yeah that was a really fun look at Jalter. It was nice seeing them not be ultra violent in this fic. They will also most certainly get a kick out of Berserk as well, I think.
Also me: remembers chapter 364
Also, also me: looks up chapter 364
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Grasses? Is this some Fate meme I'm too novice to understand? And yeah that was a really fun look at Jalter. It was nice seeing them not be ultra violent in this fic. They will also most certainly get a kick out of Berserk as well, I think.
Also me: remembers chapter 364
Also, also me: looks up chapter 364
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You know, every time I'm finding a new contradiction in Nasuverse canon, it's like… a Tuesday. Or Friday, as the case might be.
So, you remember how Merlin can't be actually summoned from Avalon since it's outside the reach of Alaya and the Throne of Heroes? You don't? Take my word for it then, Merlin you get from the gacha is basically him making a fursona of himself and inhabiting it to fuck around, not unlike a Divine Spirit.
Artoria still gets summoned without any problems, explicitly after she died and got her body transported there, since there's a lot of references to FSN directly implying the FGO incarnation lived through at least one possible version of it.
Ah, whatever.
I'm typing all this because all those pocket dimensions on the Reverse Side shouldn't be accessible, but since they are, by author fiat if nothing else, I wonder if Chaldea can summon actual freaking Morgan. Not whatever Lostbelt version of her they get in canon, the actual, Proper Human History article.
For bonus points, Artoria herself never gets summoned because everyone in Chaldea has shit gacha luck and everyone has to contend with Morgan being the heaviest hitter they have. With no checks against her because she's fucking Morgana La Fey, she's basically a living goddess.
I have the weirdest ideas when I'm sleep-deprived.
I'm typing all this because all those pocket dimensions on the Reverse Side shouldn't be accessible, but since they are, by author fiat if nothing else, I wonder if Chaldea can summon actual freaking Morgan. Not whatever Lostbelt version of her they get in canon, the actual, Proper Human History article.
Sorry if it came up before and I just didn't read/remember it, but:
Taylor has her power back in only the Singularities (at least I assume, since there are no bugs to check in Chaldea). Can one of the reasons be for it be (besides summoning herself in a demi/semi/whatever HS capacity), that while she's in the Singularity, she's in a type of Schrodinger's cat situation in the capsule? Like QA decided, that since she CAN'T feel a BROKEN connection, and best host is best host, it's not against the rules to connect again?
Sorry if it came up before and I just didn't read/remember it, but:
Taylor has her power back in only the Singularities (at least I assume, since there are no bugs to check in Chaldea). Can one of the reasons be for it be (besides summoning herself in a demi/semi/whatever HS capacity), that while she's in the Singularity, she's in a type of Schrodinger's cat situation in the capsule? Like QA decided, that since she CAN'T feel a BROKEN connection, and best host is best host, it's not against the rules to connect again?
Taylor does not show her abilities outside the singularity, only because outside the singularities Chaldea is in Antarctica — there are not so many insects there.
However, in the Chaldea simulator, she can control insects, even though they are just a simulation.
On the Merlin bit that's atleast partially a matter of being more or less cursed to remain there or something along those lines because he screwed up but he is still a Bullshit mage Artoria has a fair few less issues in that regard