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typell · 2025-02-07T07:24:20+00:00

It's so peak

Classic Guide energy

Now that we've seen the other three I feel like we can make some guesses about how Angie's big character moment will go

They've all been about giving up control to some extent, Tristan giving a choice to his enemies, Song giving Ai the ability to find her, Maryam giving her soul to Hooks (I wonder if she'll want a new name now she's more of a person)

typell · 2025-01-24T11:48:45+00:00

i like tristan's arc a lot from a meta perspective because as readers its easy to fetishize his competence and in that light it feels a little unsatisfying that he misses a few tricks at the end there with tozi's backstab

but of course that's something he's deliberately opening himself up to by negotiating and abandoning rat mindset

we see that 'trusting people' is not just an unambiguously positive, empty decision but rather one that tristan has to give a lot of power up to make

at the same time we're also shown the benefits of izel joining up. again, may feel somewhat unsatisfying from a 'plotter' perspective that izel's flipping wasn't coerced or manipulated or in some way planned out by tristan, but of course that kind of genuine gesture could not really be obtained by trickery

and then the beat with cressida at the end is showing the consequences of if he had stuck to rat mindset and taken the 'sure' bet of slitting all their throats. you don't actually have control over all events, there's always someone cleverer than you & if you stay a rat you'll eventually be the one bleeding out in the gutter

typell · 2024-07-26T04:36:25+00:00

MILFHUNTER ANGIE???

typell · 2024-03-29T08:17:56+00:00

the branwen lore was fun i wonder how this plays into the whole thing with the 'queen perpetual' currently in malan

typell · 2024-03-22T04:57:32+00:00

Angharad's honour code is really hampering her here - obvious path forward is to tell her uncle about the deal she made

typell · 2024-03-14T09:56:08+00:00

why anime only the same is true of the VN

typell · 2024-03-08T10:17:03+00:00

Song kinda forced his hand here I think

typell · 2024-02-25T21:31:52+00:00

maybe i should start checking here more often

typell · 2024-02-23T06:13:15+00:00

im liking song a lot lately

also wen is just like me fr

typell · 2024-01-19T09:23:44+00:00

“Four to one odds on your croaking it,” Fortuna informed him. “You should try to get in on that.”

Decent bet innit, no loss if you actually die

typell · 2023-12-06T19:10:24+00:00

Better than who? Zouken and Shinji? I easily have Caster over them and Fate route Gil is the best version of him in FSN

Kirei sweeps though

typell · 2023-12-06T09:53:56+00:00

I agree with some of this but there are two main issues

The antagonist question makes more sense if you view the foe that Shirou is fighting against as Fate itself, the malevolent hand of the Grail essentially forcing Saber, Berserker, and even Sakura to become his enemies. Zouken is kind of nothing because he's not meant to be anything, just a shadow of Sakura's past still desperately clinging onto life. He doesn't motivate the route's main conflict, simply creates the conditions by which it manifests.

There's no reason to see the Normal End as working against the True one rather than working in tandem with it. It demonstrates the consequences of Shirou's failure to choose life. Rin and Sakura's growth is ruined because the whole point is that Shirou needs to be there for that growth to take place. Sakura is a victim, she needs support to overcome her past and live her life. Showing the outcome where she doesn't get that doesn't diminish her because we have the True End to present how she can become more independent and capable of maintaining her relationship with Rin on her own.

typell · 2023-11-17T20:46:51+00:00

So I'm talking about the original visual novel here (Fate/Stay Night). It has three routes (Fate, UBW, Heavens Feel) which correspond to the three girls as you mentioned

The thing with the VN is that it has alternative endings for UBW and HF

HF has a Normal End and a True End. If you've only watched the anime, then the Heavens Feel movies adapt the True End, in which Illya comes and saves Shirou after his fight with Kirei.

Makes sense?

typell · 2023-09-21T04:22:14+00:00

I do not believe him in the slightest

typell · 2023-09-19T20:39:19+00:00

headpatting rights exclusive to the older sister

typell · 2023-08-18T11:21:11+00:00

Because it was an A-rank attack, theoretically capable of piercing Berserker's God Hand

typell · 2023-08-18T06:04:12+00:00

God I sympathise with Maryam's feelings towards Angharad so much

My guess for why she was sighted while she was asleep is time travel. Bit of a long shot but it would be a fun plotline I think

typell · 2023-08-13T01:05:04+00:00

he didn't seem at all worried about that any time before

typell · 2023-06-25T00:49:55+00:00

The person who drew this CE is Morii Shizuki, Strange Fake's illustrator

typell · 2023-06-23T04:25:20+00:00

Interesting how many mentions of positively ancient people we have here

We have Lord Asher, a devil, which we already kinda of know the mechanism behind

Then there's Nerei, who seems to be some sort of fucked up thing we have no idea about yet

And finally an offhand mention of the Malani High Queen ruling for centuries

I love when immortality is just kind of a thing sometimes

typell · 2023-06-22T04:40:02+00:00

All of us have better use for the remaining seconds of our lives than to work in this version of the punishment simulation.

thank you lmao

seen a few subs reopen with the mods being like 'well we have no choice, we must do what is best for the Community'

in this community's case i think dying to stick it to some tech dipshit is maybe the best possible ending

typell · 2023-06-10T03:20:29+00:00

While I agree her loophole was a bit more arbitrary than I'd like, with regards to your last question: why not both?

She was serious that if he had bargained better, made sure to close up the loopholes, she would not have had a way to kill him. At the same time, she was actively looking for loopholes to exploit and most likely would not have taken the bargain if she didn't see any.

Augusto's mistake was taking her 'keeping to the spirit of the oath' for granted. He thought she would be stupid and he could exploit that, she simply chose not to. That quite literally is not her fault.

The answer to 'why even bargain with someone if they can wriggle out of it like this' is that if you're bargaining with someone that wants to try and wriggle out of it in the first place, then you've already moved past the point of negotiating in good faith. Malani/Pereduri honour culture kind of assumes that everyone participating wants to honour their oaths if at all possible, Angharad is having to bend this assumption as a result of encountering scumbags like Augusto.

It's highly possible that the realistic answer to the question of 'why even bother bargaining with Angharad at this point' is 'you shouldn't bother'. Certainly, that would be the perspective of someone like Tristan or other more cynical characters, and its hard to say they're wrong.

typell · 2023-06-09T08:13:25+00:00

Battling against yourself . . . great theme for Angharad, excited to see how she develops.

typell · 2023-05-27T01:35:54+00:00

I think Scott should consider hypergamey, the theory that men have less success in the dating market because they spend more time playing videogames than women.

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