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Hereafter [Worm x Fate/Grand Order]

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Ohhh boy. We have all been looking forward to this. No more delays. No more oblique references. It's time for them to be properly introduced to the nightmare that Taylor came from.

The temporal fluctuation is intriguing. Does that mean that they'll be intermittently swapping between eras? Is this practically two singularities in one, or are the villains of the two eras cooperating? I suppose there's only one way to find out.
 
James D. Fawkes said:
7:38 glared back at me in pale, moonlight blue. It was only about half an hour before I would normally get up anyway.
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As someone who normally wakes up at 6:00 (yes, even on weekends), it shocks me to see someone as driven as Taylor regularly sleeping in so late.
James D. Fawkes said:
"H-hold on a second, Director Animusphere! You can't possibly be suggesting…!"
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"Taylor is actually a Kamen Rider!?"

Or
"Yes, I expect you to get me my fucking Mcflurry."
 
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Pinklestia said:
Why not just tell the two Masters and the Servants? Why tell EVERYONE? That makes no sense.
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While the staffing situation isn't as bad as the lostbelts, it's still bad. Pretty much all of the staff is still going to be doing monitoring duties and the like. They're going to see a decent chunk of whatever mess Brockton Bay has made of things, and knowing part of something can sometimes be more dangerous than just getting the rundown.
 
Isiri Pudireach said:
As someone who normally wakes up at 6:00 (yes, even on weekends), it shocks me to see someone as driven as Taylor regularly sleeping in so late.
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That did stand out to me. In case it's relevant, it's noted in Insinuation 2.1 that her routine is to get up at 6:30 am and go for a run, and I think she kept to that schedule as best possible throughout Worm. It's possible what we see in this chapter is just her having shifted her schedule to better align with the rest of the team, since there's no real day/night cycle in Chaldeas anyway, but it does seem odd.
 
RoboRenee said:
While the staffing situation isn't as bad as the lostbelts, it's still bad. Pretty much all of the staff is still going to be doing monitoring duties and the like. They're going to see a decent chunk of whatever mess Brockton Bay has made of things, and knowing part of something can sometimes be more dangerous than just getting the rundown.
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This. The staff rotates in such a way that all or almost all of them take a turn at the monitors, because they're stretched that thin. One way or another, they're all going to get a front row seat to what's going on inside the Singularity, and more than that, they might not know when to start sounding the alarm on something if they don't know what they're looking at.

It's not really covered, but I guarantee you that Da Vinci has a way of detecting capes on the sensors now.
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That did stand out to me. In case it's relevant, it's noted in Insinuation 2.1 that her routine is to get up at 6:30 am and go for a run, and I think she kept to that schedule as best possible throughout Worm. It's possible what we see in this chapter is just her having shifted her schedule to better align with the rest of the team, since there's no real day/night cycle in Chaldeas anyway, but it does seem odd.
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Largely this, yes. The fact that the technicians are in staggered shifts to account for the smaller staff size makes it less obvious, but Taylor's schedule change from her cape career has more to do with Chaldea's schedule than anything else. One of the big contributors is the cafeteria's "official" breakfast hours.
 
Oh my god.

Cape cod bay. Boston.
2011 Brockton.
Something destructive enough to change how Golden Morning went.

I'm calling it now, Leviathan didn't hit Brockton in this singularity. It hit 1783 Boston.

Edit: Speaking of, what cape do we know of who works with trans-dimensional tech? One crazy enough to shunt Levi into the canon American singularity during the endbringer fight? Because I'm willing to bet a certain Professor H might show up if that's the case, and I'm not talking about Taylor's mom…
 
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Yeah, Taylor, I also regularly wake up with phantom sensations of having my skull split open and neck broken and think it's just a particularly bad dream.



The technobabble in this chapter honestly leaves me dissatisfied, but it strafes closely with Nasuverse lore, so that tracks.

For starters, Scion and Zeltrech being quantum observers, while Chaldean personnel are somehow not. That's seriously not how quantum physics works, which is good, since it's probably an analogy somewhat similar to quantum physics, and what Da Vinci is saying is that Nasuverse is a house of cards built on top of a rickety table standing on quicksand, every single rule of reality is a collective human delusion that extends only as far as human observation does, and some beings to boot are treated as more real than the rest of us normies. So Scion would collapse a Singularity by sitting on it too hard.

More generous interpretation requires some next level mumbo jumbo. A Singularity in FGO could be said to be an impossible timeline introduced into the universe by a displaced Holy Grail. Scion and Zeltrech have theoretical opportunity to observe all timelines, so for them there's no Singularity, just different branches of Human History. So by looking at it they instantly "resolve" it with all possible outcomes, from Chaldea successfully retrieving the Grail to them failing or never intervening in the first place.

Considering Human Order right now is held together by duct tape and about thirty people, any resolution other than "the Grail is no longer here, let's pretend most of it never happened" would destroy it either way.

Yeah, Kaleidoscope is probably the reason, because canonically FGO is being watched by a fuckton of people/gods/demons/yandere supercomputers who all think it's the best ( read: only ) reality TV show in existence, and that's the only thing I can come up with that Zeltrech and Scion could share.

Wonder if we get any clues about how G-man planned to deal with Scion himself. Not sure how we could get anything about that from a Singularity which, again, couldn't be safely created until Scion died and certainly couldn't be used against him as a weapon, but that's not the most contrived thing that ever happened in FGO, so I have hope.
 
All I read this story for culminate in this singularity. For me it will made or kill this story. Now I dont particulary like Taylor in this story (she is kind of mary sue-ish to me in here) but I love the world of worm especially the characters (heroes and villains) so I want to see how that play out.

"I was glad that I wasn't, if only because I had a buffer between me and the more boisterous personalities, like Nero." This phrase particulary is one of the reasons why I think this Taylor is and edgelord mary sue. Even if its supose to be funny it bothers me that its looks like she almost just tolerates peoples existence but she dosent particulary likes anyone.

PD: No idea how to quote for that phrasebin the story so i just copy paste.

PD2: the focal point for me its that timeline taylor dies agains Lung (that is the dream tsylord had) and that derails the timelime.
 
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Perrou said:
PD: No idea how to quote for that phrasebin the story so i just copy paste.
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Highlight what you want to quote and then click the button that says "+ quote" or the one with an arrow pointing left that says "Reply"

It usually appears directly under the section you highlighted, but if it doesn't, you can also find them at the bottom right of the post you are trying to quote.
 
Roaming_Guardian said:
Without Taylor Hebert, the odds of humanity surviving the Entities plummets.

Noone else could have beaten Scion, at the least not in the way she did.
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I don't think the point of divergence will be something like preventing the solution to Gold Morning. Changing it, maybe, but the date's all wrong for that.

At a glance, the most pertinent phenomenon specific to Brockton Bay circa 2011 were Labyrinth, Bakuda, Panacea, and Echidna.

Labyrinth is sort of in a weird spot here; it's more that she could facilitate other civilization-ending threats than be one herself. Just ending Earth Bet probably wouldn't be a Singularity except insofar as the Warrior would still be around, which wouldn't be a victory for their enemy. So it's got to either derail history for every other world, or somehow have Brockton Bay problems show up in 1780. In the first case Labyrinth is the most obvious suspect.

Bakuda, as a natural trigger, is a case of "couldn't destroy the multiverse under normal circumstances but might manage to do something funky with the right power interaction and access to a Holy Grail and/or heroic spirit shenanigans."

Panacea is a similar case. Plagues aside I think she could merge all humans into a horrible flesh tree. Sort of an early End-State Cycle. Bonesaw would be green with envy. And chlorophyll.

All bets are off regarding the Echidna Event. Zero effort was put into making her power safe for distribution in the Cycle, and she ends up cloning Eidolon who is even worse. Could they blow up the multiverse? I dunno. I certainly think if Ignis Fatuus learned how to vampire other people's Shards to refuel his own powers back to Eidolon's maximum there's not a whole lot most people would be able to do about it. He went down to Miss Militia's Neutral Special in canon though so who knows. Echidna could also clone Labyrinth or Panacea so, that would be fun.

And of course any of this nonsense could show up in early America and no-diff the Founding Fathers, the good-for-nothings. But so could most of the stuff on Earth Bet, so Brockton Bay isn't special there.
 
Perrou said:
"I was glad that I wasn't, if only because I had a buffer between me and the more boisterous personalities, like Nero." This phrase particulary is one of the reasons why I think this Taylor is and edgelord mary sue. Even if its supose to be funny it bothers me that its looks like she almost just tolerates peoples existence but she dosent particulary likes anyone.
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Finding Nero annoying doesn't mean she doesn't particularly like anyone. She seems to like Mash, Olga, and Jackie. And Arash.
 
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