Fate/strange fake (Free-Range Spoilers)

[jennajayfeather]

Whenever people say "connected to the Root" and then start making comparisons to Void Shiki, I think they are missing on what Void Shiki is.

It's close enough to get the point across; it doesn't have to be a direct comparison imo.

Anyway I have my own theory with Flat that has to do w/ the Root through the concept of "Chaos"

[Arashi_Leonhart]

A personality moving around in a unique, Sakamoto-voiced terminal doesn't really have anything to do with Cast Fireball.

[Mcjon01]

Whenever people say "connected to the Root" and then start making comparisons to Void Shiki, I think they are missing on what Void Shiki is.

Yeah a better example would be Manaka
Flat is just a genderflipped Manaka

[fire_mountain_30]

I'm really curious about this too. I hear people thinking Flat has a connection to the Root--

Meanwhile people also think Ayaka has a connection to the Root--

But then here I'm looking at that one scene in the manga where Flat recognizes Ayaka as アヤカ and wondering what's up with that (as in does he know both "real" and "fake" Ayakas)

All I know about Fate School Life is that Flat told Ayaka about the Voynich Manuscript secrets.

when the cheery boy starts talking about how souls are the key to "leaving this world", it is bound to raise a few eyebrows

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Whenever people say "connected to the Root" and then start making comparisons to Void Shiki, I think they are missing on what Void Shiki is.

mind elaborating on this?

[Ronove]

Yeah a better example would be Manaka
Flat is just a genderflipped Manaka

Flat is pure and cute. Manaka isn't.

[Rafflesiac]

Manaka is in fact extremely pure.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

mind elaborating on this?

If I say that I am connected to Japan because I work for a Japanese company, it does not make me like Emperor Akihito.

[You]

More like Helena is than Manaka is

[All fictions]

To start this post, I personally think FSF takes place in 2007, 2008, or 2009, based on Flat's and Gray's ages.

Flat:

Matching Flat's age, the boy at the top of the staircase was about fifteen.

"...actually, Lady Reines, I'm one month older than he is." Seeing his discontent, I couldn't help but laugh at Svin as he spoke.

He walked down a long corridor, humphing in a manner unbefitting a man nearly 20 years of age.

Gray:

But, from the side of the room, one of the students spoke up. She was a young woman perhaps twenty years old.

“The master is always like this when it comes to Mr. Escardos.”

“Huh? Ah, I see...”

“I’ll see him to the infirmary. Excuse us.”

With that, the woman politely nodded at Rangul and his student before hoisting her Lord and mentor over her shoulder.

Taking into account the vague adverbs "nearly", "perhaps", and "about" to suppose Flat was 15 either in 2003 or 2004 is why I put it between 2007 and 2009, but personally, I favor 2008 because 1) it's the year of the original April's Fools, and 2) supposing the Third HGW did take place in 1938, it fits nicely with Snowfield being created 70 years ago.

Anyway, the reason why I bring this up is because it makes this line:

Cashura used orthodox domination and projection magecraft to wreak all kinds of havoc on Wall Street

interesting IMO, even if it's about a dude who showed up for all of two seconds. If the year is 2008, wouldn't it imply that Cashura had a hand in the 2007/8 financial crisis? And how would Projection of all things contribute to it? Though Reines seems to imply in Case Files magecraft and the financial world makes for a complex relationship:

I certainly wouldn't say everything, but at least seventy percent of the world is decided by budget. That fact is no different in the world of magecraft. As sad as it is, the concept of the value of the world being calculated into a number and dollar value was approaching the realm of Mystery itself, so it wasn't something that could really be fought. The constantly continuing process of inflation all over the world was in itself an illusion produced by the collective unconscious of mankind.

Actually, magecraft that tied into currency directly has similar demands wherever it developed in the world, but that's enough thinking like my brother for now.

But I might be overthinking it. Anyway, thnx for coming to my TED talk.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

That was fascinating, and way better thought out than my headcanon of 2011. I don't know WHY I thought that. In all honesty, it makes sense.

[BHP]

No Baccano or Strange Fake in December https://dengekibunko.jp/product/newr...ko.html#future

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

Shucks. Well, we knew we'd have to wait, so...

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Narita is busy promoting his Manga

[Nisaba]

I would just like to thank those who contributed to translating the previous light novels for SF, it's been wonderful reading through them so far and I really appreciate all the hard work and effort it took to put it all together! ^^ (especially towards Nakulas, OtherSideofSky, and others who helped!)

I eagerly await the next novel Narita will release (whenever he gets to it)! I think all the servant/master pairings have been interesting so far though I do hope it won't be too overwhelming for Narita to balance the developments for all of these characters.

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

Welcome to the forum, first of all, and second of all, I totally agree with you.

[Nisaba]

Thank you! I've been lurking for quite a bit tbh just reading through all the content/discussions here, it's been fun learning more about everything in the various Type-Moon stories. I hope I can keep up lol

Anyway, I love the way some of the servants are depicted in SF, especially Jack the Ripper (who I vastly prefer to the Apo variant). I'm also hoping to see more Gil/Enkidu dynamics, I find their friendship interesting and I want to see how it's handled here. Babylonia sort of gave me that a little....but Kingu wasn't truly Enkidu so.

I think my favorite Master so far has been Tiné just because I find her motivations quite different compared to the typical magus ones and her dynamic with Gil is nice.

[mami-kouga]

Strange/fake ironically killed most of by interest in the Gil-Enkidu dynamic. I wouldn't have shipped it regardless, but that it also monoplises the tag on both Tumblr and pixiv made me exhausted with it

[Iceblade44]

Honestly I found that to be more Babylonias fault then SF. Even when it first comes from SF

[Lily Emilio]

I don't care about their dynamic in the first place so I'm safe. I found the other dynamics in SF to be more interesting.

[Tenzen12]

Well as far as I am concerned FSF was first work that made interested in anything Gil related altogether. That include his dynamics with other characters.