Originally Posted by RoydGolden
It shows how weird JoJo character names can be that I seriously wondered for a moment if the fourth sentence was a reference too. Hey, you can't tell me "Mozzarella" or "Pomodaro" wouldn't fit in as characters in part 5...
"Here's a bangin lil' tune about takin' on The Man!"
(Check out my Super Special Awesome Servant Compendium here)
Beat me to it.
It IS a reference tho, specifically to Diamond is Unbreakable when Okuyasu sperged out about how UMAAAAAAAAAAI mozzarella cheese is together with tomato.It shows how weird JoJo character names can be that I seriously wondered for a moment if the fourth sentence was a reference too. Hey, you can't tell me "Mozzarella" or "Pomodaro" wouldn't fit in as characters in part 5...
Tch. Should've known. It actually did occur to me that the line might've been a reference to Tonio's dish, but I thought it seemed like a bit of a stretch. Guess I underestimated Blackbeard's otaku credentials!
In one of my classes, we read an article and had a lecture about how the Taj Mahal's true purpose was to be a replica of the Throne of God on Earth, taking cues from Neo-Pythagorean-ism and astronomy, especially the works of Ibn Arabi and his ideas about how to reach Heaven. I felt this would fit the Nasuverse quite well, especially if it were incorporated in the framework of magi trying to reach the Root. It would be cool if TM made Shah Jahan and the other Mughals magi of some sort like the Romanovs who attempted to reach the root through ideas of cosmic kingship and a cosmology of astronomy and Hermetic and Neo-Pythagorean ideas.
so Heisei era ended in Japan, and welcome Reiwa era (kanji is very similar to Reiju/CS).
still no Remake...
to the next tennou years
かん汗ぎゅう牛じゅう充とう棟
Expresses the exceeding size of one's library.
Books are extremely many, loaded on an oxcart the ox will sweat.
At home piled to the ridgepole of the house, from this meaning.
Read out as 「Ushi ni ase shi, munagi ni mitsu.」
Source: 柳宗元「其為書，處則充棟宇，出則汗牛馬。」— Tang Dynasty
Spoiler:
Let's just say he's both distraught and inspired by it.
Only that the death of one inspired a lot of characters to either do the same or go down to deeper depths.
It's receding though, as he wanted the ending of Rebellion to be a happy one until Shinbou said "anticlimax scene first before the true ending, don't you just love it?"
Not dealing with it...
Why even try?
This is golden...
If Zouken is so obsessed with being inmortal why he can't turn himself in a Dead Apostle? Nrvnqsr seems doing it fine.
That's the last thing I expected to inspire him.
Spoiler:
Because that had the weakness of requiring blood to survive and is no better than his current situation as a lich using worms as his phylactery & body (which requires people to be eaten anyways).
Also Zouken has pride and still wants to sort of stay human. Dead Apostles aren't human.
Last edited by warellis; May 4th, 2019 at 02:03 PM.
Plus, it's less about being immortal and more about giving meaning to Justizia's (Justeaze?) existence and death, only he lost sight of the original goal because of his obsession.
He's already called a vampire at one point in Heaven's Feel, so, hmm, well gee, I'unno.
My Fanfics. Read 'em. Or not.McJon01: We all know that the real reason Archer would lose to Rider is because the events of his own Holy Grail War left him with a particular weakness toward "older sister" types.
This is just a passing thought but maybe vampires who turned themselves with magecraft aren't qualified as such just for the bloodsucking but taking in the genetic information of others through their personalised methods to reconstruct their bodies. It could be through blood, the traditional method, or by eating people like Nrvnqsr or more pertinently Zouken. In other words it's not strictly some je ne sais quoi of vampiredom (perhaps the perversion/mutation of the soul of the victim of a vampire's bite) that makes what's labeled a vampire/Dead Apostlebl but the predatory reconstructive method of immortality they practice.
original joke about satsuki subsisting on semen goes here
Wasn't Zouken called a 吸血虫 instead of a 吸血鬼?
In HF Kotomine made that distinction when Shirou asked him if Zouken was a vampire.
Zouken was classified as one in the sense like Akiha or Rider are vampiric themselves, correct?
Not a Dead Apostle, obviously no, but still subsists on flesh regardless so, eh, Church wouldn't really care.
- - - Updated - - -
Because this was already done in Tsukihime and Nasu didn't wanna double dip.
My Fanfics. Read 'em. Or not.McJon01: We all know that the real reason Archer would lose to Rider is because the events of his own Holy Grail War left him with a particular weakness toward "older sister" types.
I feel like bloodsuckers are the church's "it's been a slow year" targets
Though abandoned, forgotten, and scorned as out-of-date dolls, they continue to carry out their mission, unchanged from the time they were designed.
Machines do not lose their worth when a newer model appears.
Their worth (life) ends when humans can no longer bear that purity.
Doesn't he get, like, blown to bits by Kirei's Power of Christ business?
- - - Updated - - -
Probably was actually quite good for him. At his age, it's important to maintain your health with regular exorcise
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
