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Hereafter [Worm x Fate/Grand Order]

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I originally found this fic on AO3, but I'm happy to follow it here.

It's also interesting, if depressing, to watch Olga Marie implode from the stress of the situation. I noticed she's not bothering to put up a strong face for Chaldea anymore.
Now, to be fair to her, Mash is a Demi-Servant, Taylor has literal years of experience in life or death fights involving superpowers, and the twins are too ignorant to appreciate the danger they're in. Olga on the other hand knows enough to know she understands nothing about the situation except that her team is completely outclassed and there is nothing she can do about that.
That said, her reputation with Chaldea's staff, who canonically hate her, is likely going to be irrecoverable if she somehow survives this mission.

I did find it notable that Olga Marie trusted Taylor to bring up the rear. It implies that Taylor is the most capable combatant among the Mages/Masters. And Olga's no slouch in that department. And a quick re-read/skim of chapter 1 confirms that Taylor was recruited by Olga Marie and Lev, which is big considering the rest of Team A (Mash included) was put together by Marisbury.
So... now I'm definitely wondering how and why Taylor got put on Team A. I mean, she hasn't exactly impressed with her magic so far. She uses it very well, but the magic itself is not impressive.
 
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buli-buli said:
So... now I'm definitely wondering how and why Taylor got put on Team A. I mean, she hasn't exactly impressed with her magic so far. She uses it very well, but the magic itself is not impressive.
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Likely for two reasons: Her actual Combat Training, and her INCREDIBLY HIGH capacity as a Master (Likely thanks to QA). Remember, she's considered to have the 3rd highest Master ratings out of Team A. And she's only 3rd because the two higher than her were practically bred across Root knows how many generations. I also wouldn't be surprised if Zelretch put in a few good words for her too.
 
buli-buli said:
It's also interesting, if depressing, to watch Olga Marie implode from the stress of the situation. I noticed she's not bothering to put up a strong face for Chaldea anymore.
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To be fair to Olga, it's hard to act professional and commanding when you're in such a stressful situation as an active warzone you're not prepared for, dealing with creatures/beings whose power you've only ever read about and standing next to a grim and grizzled war veteran like Taylor.

I mean the only way for Taylor to be more in her element would be for to have her bugs fight with.
And Taylor in her element is quite a hard act to follow.
Compared to that, no strong face she could put up would be particularly convincing.
 
I'm glad you guys are catching the subtext in Taylor's relationship with Olga Marie. There's an interlude later on that clarifies it a bit more, but that's for later.
 
James D. Fawkes said:
I decided to mix things up a little and fill out the Singularity by switching in Medusa and blackened Emiya instead of just generic shadow Servants.
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TwilightHakumei said:
You went with the Anime version of the First Order? how disapointing I wanted it to be the Game version. Anyway its still a nice chapter.
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The fact that Medusa shows up as LANCER rather than Rider means that they'll likely recognize Ana's scythe!

I wonder who would be in the Rider slot?

Also, I hope Setanta gets to return to Chaldea. To cut down on character bloat, maybe have him be able to switch to Lancer, after they summon Gae Bolg.
If nothing else, I could see him teaching Taylor Runes, which I think she'd be able to make more use of!
 
V01DRei said:
The fact that Medusa shows up as LANCER rather than Rider means that they'll likely recognize Ana's scythe!

I wonder who would be in the Rider slot?

Also, I hope Setanta gets to return to Chaldea. To cut down on character bloat, maybe have him be able to switch to Lancer, after they summon Gae Bolg.
If nothing else, I could see him teaching Taylor Runes, which I think she'd be able to make more use of!
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Cu's chemistry with Taylor is actually really fun to write. You guys will see more of it as we go, but I got a lot of enjoyment out of their interactions.
 
Honestly Cu's nickname for Taylor made me pause half of me is going What does he know?! The rational part of me is going What on God's green earth Makes Taylor a princess??? But they make a match made in firey destruction and idk it makes me giggle
 
James D. Fawkes said:
and all you have to show for it is a little bit of blood."
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Well, to be fair, there's quite a bit of nasty things a magus can do with just a bit of their enemy's blood. I can't remember the name for that branch of magic (other than the similarities with voodoo anyways)... But the one where you link a person's hair/blood with the person themselves. So really, there'd still be some interesting things they could throw at her.

Dawns_Lilly said:
Honestly Cu's nickname for Taylor made me pause half of me is going What does he know?! The rational part of me is going What on God's green earth Makes Taylor a princess??? But they make a match made in firey destruction and idk it makes me giggle
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Heh, honestly, he's probably just got a good read on her personality and knows the nickname will piss her off. On the off chance there is a deep meaning though? Well, she IS basically the adopted daughter (or possibly adopted sister) of a certain Eldritch Being who is also a Queen. :evil: The two of them got REALLY close there at the end of Golden Morning, both in the physical aspect of sharing a body/mind and in the metaphysical sense of their beings (soul) basically merging.

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xbox432 said:
Well, to be fair, there's quite a bit of nasty things a magus can do with just a bit of their enemy's blood. I can't remember the name for that branch of magic (other than the similarities with voodoo anyways)... But the one where you link a person's hair/blood with the person themselves. So really, there'd still be some interesting things they could throw at her.


Heh, honestly, he's probably just got a good read on her personality and knows the nickname will piss her off. On the off chance there is a deep meaning though? Well, she IS basically the adopted daughter (or possibly adopted sister) of a certain Eldritch Being who is also a Queen. :evil: The two of them got REALLY close there at the end of Golden Morning, both in the physical aspect of sharing a body/mind and in the metaphysical sense of their beings (soul) basically merging.

*edit* Ninja'd by arromdee :ninja:
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In all honesty, QA is more like Taylor's daughter.
 
xbox432 said:
Well, to be fair, there's quite a bit of nasty things a magus can do with just a bit of their enemy's blood. I can't remember the name for that branch of magic (other than the similarities with voodoo anyways)... But the one where you link a person's hair/blood with the person themselves. So really, there'd still be some interesting things they could throw at her.
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i think what you are looking for is sympathetic magic, and with a servant without a master, i believe that could be used to enforce a contract, even if only to command suicide.
 
Now that I think about it, a failed summon might be because the servant's already there, in that case, Cu might be her best bet, or EMIYA.
 
Qro said:
Well, they're lucky to get Cu with them. Especially if we remove the plot armour (let's be honest - nothing is stopping Emiya from just nuking them from afar. Even if Mash survives - others won't).
Thanks for the chapter! It was a pleasure to read!
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The way her shield works, she might legit be able to protect everyone from an emiya nuke just by blocking it, it's some conceptual shielding stuff to do with how much she is determined to protect and such, can't remember the exact details, but mash without using lord camelot can block attacks from goetia, so an emiya shot would probably be possible to block entirely for her at this point. In theory anyway, she's got the potential to do it, but if she's got the skill, experience and reflexes to do it, who knows.
 
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The way her shield works, she might legit be able to protect everyone from an emiya nuke just by blocking it, it's some conceptual shielding stuff to do with how much she is determined to protect and such, can't remember the exact details, but mash without using lord camelot can block attacks from goetia, so an emiya shot would probably be possible to block entirely for her at this point. In theory anyway, she's got the potential to do it, but if she's got the skill, experience and reflexes to do it, who knows.
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Mash could block an EMIYA nuke if she had access to her kludged together Noble Phantasm, Lord Chaldeas. However she doesn't at the moment. She doesn't know how to activate it, nor does she know who her powers come from to access her true Noble Phantasm (Lord Camelot). She learns the first later in this Singularity and the second in the Sixth Singularity, Camelot.

The only things she can do right now is fight with an enhanced body that is on par with a Knight Class Servant (but she has absolutely no experience doing so, at least not yet), and the ability to use her Shield as a catalyst to summon Heroic Spirits through Chaldea so her Master(s) can utilize Servant Specters. If I remember correctly she doesn't even understand why it's necessary to use her shield at the moment, it's another thing she learns during Camelot.
 
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Just found this looks interesting
James D. Fawkes said:
He was a Caster. When half the rest of the classes had some measure of resistance to your attacks, you had to get sneaky and creative about getting around those.
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The Sage's Disciple flashbacks intensifys
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Ok but in seriousness though Caster (and to a lesser degree rider) Servants both get fucked over by gameplay / story segregation I mean look at Avicebro
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James D. Fawkes said:
Seriously? DW, Nasu, whichever of you came up with it, you went with the completely unimaginative "Land of Shadows Arms Mastery?" Come on, you can be more inventive than that.
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Hush, not so loud, if Nasu hears otherwise he might consider that a challenge and create a Genderbent pacifist puritan Cù with a rack that is a rider and with her NP that is an army of Ents

Deviox said:
I also wouldn't be surprised if Zelretch put in a few good words for her too.
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I don't think so, if i recall correctly FGO-timeline Zelrech is comatose since his fight with Crimson Moon
 
Tzardok said:
I'm pretty sure that there is only a single Zelretch in all the timelines.
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I don't think so? The Kaleidoscope full name is Operation of parallel worlds, and honestly, a single Zelrech across infinite universes is really underwhelming as a reward for reaching the ROOT and returning.
I imagine it is more like being a Geth.
A lot of Zelrech, that are thier own, but at the same time are connected to each other and form a sort of collective mind they can use to pull their power/knowledge/etc....
 
Axel said:
I don't think so? The Kaleidoscope full name is Operation of parallel worlds, and honestly, a single Zelrech across infinite universes is really underwhelming as a reward for reaching the ROOT and returning.
I imagine it is more like being a Geth.
A lot of Zelrech, that are thier own, but at the same time are connected to each other and form a sort of collective mind they can use to pull their power/knowledge/etc....
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Operation of Parallel Worlds means more than you think. Zelretch does not just travel timelines, he decides which timelines are "real" (meaning, which one overtakes its alternatives) simply by observing them closely enough. That works like in quantum physics: particles can have many different states, but by observing one the wave form collapses and the particle is forced into one specific state. That's also the reason why Zelretch doesn't involve himself often in fucked up timelines; he does not want to grant them more legitimacy.
All of that necessicates that there is at most one Zelretch per Tree of Time. And I'm pretty sure there's WoG that there is only one.

Also, there aren't infinite parallel worlds. If it worked that way, there wouldn't be a reason to prune timelines.
 
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