Hereafter [Worm x Fate/Grand Order]
- Thread starter James D. Fawkes
- Start date
- Crossover
Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Hold it. Spirit form or no, Hektor's no Assassin. Both Emiya and Arash have Clairvoyance, how did neither of them see him coming?
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
- Location
- At Home
Maybe the giant magical storm they were sailing right on the edge of was causing interference somehow? Making it so there was so much prana in the environment that Hektor's spirit form couldn't stand out? I'm entirely speculating, I don't know that much about how Clairvoyance works.
Kai Merah
Hound Hearted Hedonist
- Location
- Somewhere in the corners of my imagination
Taylor is amazingly genre savvy. Yup, cost Taylor on a personal level, but did seem to accomplish getting the Hind away from the Revenge.
MWKillKenny84
Lurking from the Trauma Switch.
- Location
- Vado Ligure
Inside Blackbeard's head: All according to keikaku. (Subtitle: Translator's note: Keikaku means plan)
Uh... Taylor? The way he said his 'description' of you makes me think that he heard more than one details of your life personally, so either Blackbeard met a Servant version of you during another Summon (and the encounter was so memorable that Blackbeard remembered it) or he met a Servant from Earth-Bet History in the Singularity. And I do not know what option is the worse one.
... so even with the changed timeline Blackbeard's Otaku Hobby appears. Does it mean that it has literally infected his greater Heroic Spirit self?
Does the Apocryphal/Fictional female one count?
Nitpick, but the Harem thing is an overinflation by the fandom, the biggest thing Shirou Emiya ever had in life were threesomes (and Hollow Ataraxia can be considered Avenger/Angra Mainyu's own threesome with Caren and Bazette instead of anything of Shirou's).
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
- Location
- At Home
I actually think it'd be more interesting if it's Blackbeard and co. that winds up hauling her out of the ocean. It would place all of the cast in a tense situation, since the twins are suddenly thrust into a situation where they have to apply everything they've learned in their training without their Sempai to give any oversight or correct mistakes, with a lot of their heavy hitters potentially compromised due to a third of their contracted Masters being a hostage, and Taylor having to go for social manipulation and espionage, with the avenues for solving her problems via open conflict cut off from her temporarily.
Heck, maybe it would let Last Resort also have a chance to truly shine, instead of the current role of 'give it to Arash before every fight so he's not using an arrowhead in melee'.
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Isiri Pudireach
Predictive text can go duck itself
Third option considering who specifically knocked her overboard: The Argonauts.
Hmm, getting picked up by the Argonauts would make sense, but then that would take Jason not wanting to kill her and Hektor communicating with Jason before infiltrating The Golden Hind
I'm not too sure about that, I mean, here's what Blackbeard said about Taylor:
So to recap, he describes Taylor as:
-the leader (not something he could've found out from previous experience, but a showcase of his insight)
-mysterious/cool headed (because duh)
-Has a past she wants to let lie (not really a stretch, considering her demeanor and appearance, especially if, for exemple, he can tell her arm's artificial)
-Compartmentalises a lot to keep on task (again, something someone as insightful as him could've found out by observing her)
-Sexy and intimidating (...not gonna comment)
So yeah, nothing here that couldn't be explained by Blackbeard's m4d observation skills lol.
...Now for speculation!
Hmm... Prince of Pirates...
AFAIK, there's a historical pirate that was called the 'Pirate Prince' -- "Black Sam" Bellamy aka the Robin Hood of the Sea.
Going by the context, could this be the identity of the captain of the second sea at the end of the chapter?
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
- Location
- At Home
Sure, they're an option too. But I think the Queen Anne's Revenge would still be more fitting, since that was the ship actually pursuing them. For Taylor to miss both the Flying Dutchman and QAR and not drown long enough in a stormy sea to be encountered by them would feel a bit contrived, in my opinion.
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Isiri Pudireach
Predictive text can go duck itself
Pretty easy reason not to kill her: they wanna convince her they are on her side to get an easy in with the rest of the Chaldea crew. Shortly before their sudden but inevitable betrayal. Pretty sure it's a gambit that's been done multiple times in canon FGO.
Alternatively: Free hostage.
- Location
- Some City
A good choice
if I were going to put money on this I'd guess Bartholomew Roberts, aka "Black Bart", since he was actually the most successful pirate of the Golden Age...
buut i could very well be wrong
(Hell, I'm also in camp 'Taylor gets picked up by a giant crustacean')
(And seriously, the Phantasmals have to have significance SOMEWHERE. Taylor has found massice colonies of them on both major islands they've visited. why would they show up so much and be made so prominent if there wasn't a point??)
Do they even know if she is important though?
Evil Atlas
Inspector of Details
- Location
- Denial
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Well that was fun! And happy story anniversary!
This seems like an excellent twist for the purposes of this story. I think it's been said that for now, we're still mostly following the canon course, and this provides a perfect way to break that up: Rika and Ritsuka can continue handling that path, while our viewpoint character is somewhere else entirely!
Simultaneously, it lets Taylor take the full protagonist spotlight for a bit. While I'm not going to claim she can win any relevant fights on her own, she has plenty of other capabilities to explore here. Let that cleverness and weirdly effective diplomacy shine. (After all, she's dealing with pirates. If anyone is going to know how to handle their showy methods of intimidation and negotiation, it's the veteran supervillain.)
As for the rest of the chapter, I really like how you wrote Blackbeard here. It might be Taylor's viewpoint and our preexisting expectations, but you really get that sense that there's a lot more insight and intelligence behind the surface perversion.
EDIT: As an aside, I couldn't help but imagine that every time they looked back at the incoming Revenge, Pirates of the Caribbean music started up, and then it went away again the instant it was "offscreen". Laughter was had.
As a second aside, I half expect that the next time the Twins see Taylor, she'll be rolling up at the head of a commandeered pirate vessel, and possibly a small fleet. Too much, given Servant involvement? Probably. But with her, you never know...
This seems like an excellent twist for the purposes of this story. I think it's been said that for now, we're still mostly following the canon course, and this provides a perfect way to break that up: Rika and Ritsuka can continue handling that path, while our viewpoint character is somewhere else entirely!
Simultaneously, it lets Taylor take the full protagonist spotlight for a bit. While I'm not going to claim she can win any relevant fights on her own, she has plenty of other capabilities to explore here. Let that cleverness and weirdly effective diplomacy shine. (After all, she's dealing with pirates. If anyone is going to know how to handle their showy methods of intimidation and negotiation, it's the veteran supervillain.)
As for the rest of the chapter, I really like how you wrote Blackbeard here. It might be Taylor's viewpoint and our preexisting expectations, but you really get that sense that there's a lot more insight and intelligence behind the surface perversion.
EDIT: As an aside, I couldn't help but imagine that every time they looked back at the incoming Revenge, Pirates of the Caribbean music started up, and then it went away again the instant it was "offscreen". Laughter was had.
As a second aside, I half expect that the next time the Twins see Taylor, she'll be rolling up at the head of a commandeered pirate vessel, and possibly a small fleet. Too much, given Servant involvement? Probably. But with her, you never know...
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Isiri Pudireach
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The point is because they were there in canon. Gameplay wise it's an enemy variety thing so we got fights against things that aren't generic pirates.
They have a version of Medea that is directly subordinate to the big bad. They know.
floppy_seal99
D-O-G-A-R-S DOGARS!
- Location
- snooping as usual
You know, Taylor, Blackbeard is right on the money. About your legs, anyway.
Stahor
BookWorm
- Location
- Russia, Moscow
Imagine waking up one day and realizing that historical figures from hundreds of years ago have a better grasp of pop culture than you do. Poor Olga Marie's brains must have been dribbling out onto the carpet listening to Blackbeard.
At this rate, Marie is going to have to arrange a Popular Culture 101 class, taught by Professor Waver and Assistant Professor Rika.
At this rate, Marie is going to have to arrange a Popular Culture 101 class, taught by Professor Waver and Assistant Professor Rika.
Isiri Pudireach
Predictive text can go duck itself
You got that backwards. Rika is the Professor here, Waver only has passable knowledge.
They have different fields of expertise, Rika is very much movies and TV, Waver is more video games
Stahor
BookWorm
- Location
- Russia, Moscow
Imagine Taylor talking about Bet version of SW prequel trilogy (allegedly by Michael Bay).
generally it shouldn't work, cause even in spirit form, a servants presence should be kinda highlighted by command seals and sensable to any nearby servants, unless there's a skill to help hiding, like robin hood's cloak or any assassin with presence concealment, i can only assume that something was saturating the area with enough mana for him to blend in, or a skill he had helped hide him. and it's also risky, cause a spirit form servant can still be hurt by a normal servant, infact probably even easier, since there's no fleshy bits or defense NP's protecting the spirit origin (aka the organ that you need to destroy to kill a servant)
to be fair to taylor, earth bet's japan got leviathan'd into a 3rd world country, all the pop culture stuff that he's referencing just straight up doesn't exist where she came from, and also like, she came from 2011 before anime got really mainstream even when japan isn't 3rd world, and only really spent 2 years at chaldea where she was probably more focused figuring out the past and not the present
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- Location
- United States
It probably helped that Teach used his NP on them before they fled to the storm. So they were both distracted and winded.
What I find interesting is that he pushed her. He was in the perfect position to stab her and like you said, he was taking a big risk being there. He didn't even try.