Hereafter [Worm x Fate/Grand Order]

The prosthetic is already indistinguishable from the "real" thing, because it's of the same quality as all of Touko's puppet bodies, which is to say, so perfect that even the World itself can't tell the difference. Any sense Taylor has that she can feel the port where it connects to her body is, as she has essentially admitted before, entirely psychological.

As for whether Touko made the arm or Da Vinci did — which might naturally follow my invoking Touko's name — that's fundamentally an unimportant question. Either of them could do work of this quality, and it just depends whether you want to think Da Vinci volunteered after she was summoned or Olga shelled out the cash to commission Touko herself.
But if the arm is made of bugs, she could control it better. Like double controlling your arm through QA would decrease reaction times.
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Frankly it's better than some of the other things Magi have done to their own children. Tokiomi gave away his daughter Sakura knowing that it might end up with the Tohsaka sisters fighting to death later on, and that's even assuming he didn't know about Zouken's methods. Zouken treating his own children as toys. The Einzberns' treatment of Ilya. Flat's family essentially turning their entire line into one big experiment, with Flat being the culmination of said experiment.

And so on and so forth. Frankly it's hard to think up of a traditional Magi family that isn't messed up to some degree, and the one that comes to mind took one extremely competent homunculus literally beating sense into everyone for it to happen. Memento mori Toole, also Goredolf is way too kind to be a magus.
Waver's family, admittedly it could be because of their youth, relative to other mages.

Actually is he an orphan, because he has the crest at a considerably younger age than expected. Edelfelts, but they're probably like cheaters. The Fraga maybe, Bazett does seem relatively untraumatised.
 
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Actually is he an orphan, because he has the crest at a considerably younger age than expected. Edelfelts, but they're probably like cheaters. The Fraga maybe, Bazett does seem relatively untraumatised.
The Fraga are an old mage family, but I'm not sure I'd describe them as traditional. They're not really even part of the Association, and just kind of live in Ireland doing their own thing.
 
Waver's family, admittedly it could be because of their youth, relative to other mages.

Actually is he an orphan, because he has the crest at a considerably younger age than expected. Edelfelts, but they're probably like cheaters. The Fraga maybe, Bazett does seem relatively untraumatised.
Waver's birth family didn't have enough prestige to be on anyone's radar, and the Fraga already had heirs.

The Edelfelts would work due to how their Crest works, but the two families have a bad relationship.
 
Yeah. For how rough a life the average combat cape lives, they have surprisingly few marks to show for it.

technically already answered but yeah, it pretty much comes down to the fact that the cape either has a regenerative power/healer on hand, is incredibly lucky, or doesn't survive the injury in the first place. for all that people say that a gun can kill most capes, you can also generally treat a gunshot wound if it's not immediately fatal. harder to walk off getting punched with the force of a pickup truck or being turned inside out by a biokinetic

all things considered it's surprising Taylor lived through most of her injuries. realistically that shoulder wound from Flechette should have killed her, considering there are several major blood vessels in that very compact space.


One thing that does always bother me though is that...these are the injuries everyone brings up, but nobody considers giving her other injuries.
which i mean, sure, it makes sense. these are the ones we know about, these are the wounds we can confirm she did suffer and the scars she would likely have...but they are also injuries from a very thin slice of her career. probably the most active to be sure, but we only see her active from April to July-ish of 2011, and for the week (give or take) of the S9K and Scion's rampage. there's an entire two years of her career that we know absolutely nothing about other than the fact she was still very much active (more active than most in the PRT would really like her to be), but that's almost never explored.

So...she could have plenty more, to be honest. maybe she got healing, maybe she didn't. maybe she just got that lucky, but i don't really buy that.
it's honestly up to the author to decide what scars she has and which ones she doesn't. speaking of which-

I'll be honest, I wanted no matter what to keep the one on her arm. Just as a matter of character design and having this sort of visual representation of the delineation between her past and present.

Also so the twins had something to gawk at the first time they saw it.

gotta give you props for this because even if it probably did get healed it never seems right in my mind's eye to picture her coming out of GM...missing the arm, but having no scar tissue to go with it. doesn't feel right. hell, it always feels like it should be in the shape of Lung's draconic hand to me; i know that's not accurate but i don't care, it's more aesthetic.

so...yeah. no complaints, all the applause. A+ design choice, glad you kept that in
 
Wait, isn't that the one where Shirou got force-isekai'd by Alaya (I think taking the form of Rin, IIRC) into the world of Sekirei, as a clone daughter of one of the single digits? And IIRC Shirou got designated as #109...
Yeah, I checked it out, stopped when it presented the events of Notes as in-universe history of all things. The events in Notes happened because the World died. Like, Notes is the events of several apocalypses happening in succession, and a few concurrently. There's no way that would be history that could result in a recognizable modern world.

considering there are several major blood vessels in that very compact space.
That would only be a problem if she was bleeding out, but if the arrow fused with the bone, she probably didn't, as the arrow itself sealed the wound it made. That's why you don't take knives out of stab injuries if you can help it, by keeping it there it helps keep the blood loss to a minimum.
 
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You know where the pool is, right? Not that too many people use it, since we're in the Antarctic and all…"

I nodded. "I know. I'll get her started on it tomorrow, while the twins are busy with their lessons."
....Beach episode?
And failing that, I was sure Da Vinci could make one for her without too much trouble. Now, whether it would be at all appropriate for a learning environment instead of relaxing at a beach, that was a different question entirely.
Da-vinci is a cultured individual. Plus as an artist/inventor its only Natural that Mash will have a swimsuit that'll have people drop their jaws.
"Mash —"

Only whatever I'd been about to say died on my tongue, because Marie, dressed in a dark, frilly one-piece decorated with an artistic rendering of the celestial spheres, already stood there with her.
CUTE!
 
Would be unbelievably hilarious if they saw the Archer card as they rolled...

...okay, so it doesn't quite work out the way i pictured it in my head (because they're specifically trying to resummon EMIYA, who's connected to Rika, so Taylor wouldn't have anything to do with it) but honestly? If she showed up i would legitimately sit down with a bottle of schnapps for the week leading up to the next chapter because she and Taylor would either get along swimmingly or they would absolutely fucking despise one another and i have no idea which it would be
 
Only whatever I'd been about to say died on my tongue, because Marie, dressed in a dark, frilly one-piece decorated with an artistic rendering of the celestial spheres, already stood there with her. When they heard my voice, they both turned to me.

Man, if I had bitcoin money, I'd commission someone to do fanart of this.
 
Dog paddle is the most basic and easiest swimming method, even very young children can do it; just make sure to get them floaters first. It is not fast and wont let you rescue anyone but it will keep you alive in the water.

That is why it is usually the first style they teach young children.

Also it is the less tiresome method, it wll keep you alive longer that any other. Of course again, it won't let you rescue anyone else and it doesn't look cool.

But it can literally be learned in a day and it saves the swimmer life so I hope that Taylor teaches that one first.
 
Dog paddle is the most basic and easiest swimming method, even very young children can do it; just make sure to get them floaters first. It is not fast and wont let you rescue anyone but it will keep you alive in the water.

That is why it is usually the first style they teach young children.

Also it is the less tiresome method, it wll keep you alive longer that any other. Of course again, it won't let you rescue anyone else and it doesn't look cool.

But it can literally be learned in a day and it saves the swimmer life so I hope that Taylor teaches that one first.
That's what I was going to say!
Yes, it's kind of the instinctual swimming flailing that even drowning people know.
Only if the Grail War Ritual is still in play, in Apocrypha (where it isn't) the Tohsakas and Edelfets are in better relationship and thus Tokyomi is able to contact his Finnish relatives and send Sakura to them.
Yes, and Shirou also gets a Luvia Rin harem comedy. Lucky bastard.

After they give up the Grail War, apparently they go into wrestling.
 
Yes, and Shirou also gets a Luvia Rin harem comedy. Lucky bastard.

After they give up the Grail War, apparently they go into wrestling.
Correction: The Tohaska(s) return to their roots of 'seeking Akasha through mastery of Breathing and Walking martial arts'.

The Edelfelt(s) (at least Luvia plus Sakura in an Apocrypha world-line) already adhered to pro-wrestling Lancastershire-style combat.
 
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I'll be honest though, I prefer El-Melloi II Adventures where Rin and Luvia found a pirate organization and a PMC respectively
Technically that's still canon to the main timeline.
Do we know if the Rin and Luvia psuedo servants(Ishtar/Eresh, and Luvia) are from the FGO timeline or the main one?
 
Can't believe i didn't think of this sooner but if Mash happens to bring up her embarrassment over not knowing how to swim before going into Okeanos around the others, Sam might well tell her not to worry too much about it because even most sailors up through the Age of Sail didn't know how to swim. Especially the enlisted men.
basically, they were there to work the ship. if they went overboard their goal was mostly to stay afloat long enough to grab onto something or for everyone else to get them back in the ship. And if the ship went down in the middle of the ocean being able to swim wasn't practically speaking going to save you.

that, and it was considered advantageous by the officers, since if a conscripted sailor didn't want to be there they still had to perform their duty until they were tied up at port, rather than abandon ship as soon as shore was in sight.

A sailor's job was on the ship or in its boats. swimming was not a requirement, so most common sailors were not taught how to do so. This didn't really change until the modern era, where navies globalized, professionalized, and modernized. And considering Mash would have been in the place of what was essentially a marine, her not knowing would not have been out of place. Dangerous, sure, but not unusual

just something that might get brought up. have a good one, everybody
 
Just a quick question, because of all the swimming stuff.

Can Olga even swim in her new body? As close a it is to the original it's not the same and it hasn't even been that long since she came back, is she even finished her physical therapy stuff ?

And I would have thought that pool time would have been part of her physical therapy course to help get her back up and moving.
 
Just a quick question, because of all the swimming stuff.

Can Olga even swim in her new body? As close a it is to the original it's not the same and it hasn't even been that long since she came back, is she even finished her physical therapy stuff ?

And I would have thought that pool time would have been part of her physical therapy course to help get her back up and moving.
Good point, Magi probably have a spell for water breathing though.
 
Mages keep saying or implying that, but then everyone and their mother has Gandr and uses some combination of runes, puppets, and homonculi.
Gandr and runes are both basic stuff, and homunculi are a useful product that multiple groups have had reason to put effort into figuring out the basics. So, to some degree, all of your examples would figuratively be "public."

Yes there are higher tier rune usages and homunculi, but that's the stuff that would be "private"
 
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