By being dead I guess
By being dead I guess
That was quick
To expand on Mcjon's answer:
2015-2016: They're dead.
2017: They're probably freaking out over the missing year (and Salem's disappearing act), and Kirei might have actually been their representative to the investigation of Chaldea or might have been completely lying in regards to that matter. It really doesn't matter, though, because...
2018 onwards: They're dead.
Generally speaking, the answer to "what did Y think about [FGO event]" is going to be "they're dead, Jim". It kind of comes as a package deal when the schtick of your cast is "last surviving hope of humanity".
S'fine tho. There's three or four saints working on the problem.
Why does Astolfo dress as a girl? Why is the character's gender "a secret"?
Even Karl was mad about that.
The first time he crossdressed was as a joke to cheer up Roland after he got rejected. I guess after that he just grew to like it.
Astolfo just likes cute things
Not someone who plays FGO, but I remember seeing something around here implying (most likely joking) that Merlin is Artoria's real father?
If you make a (magic) designer baby, is the scientist (wizard) who modifies the kid the real dad.
when your wife's boyfriend genetically engineer your son
So is Karl der Große canonically his "original" name, or is it used more out of convenience?
I still don't really understand the whole Karl/charlie thing
Karl is the historical Charlemagne and Charlie is the fictional one, though he may have been real in an alternate timeline. It's one of those "we're being vague on purpose" things like with Holmes. Normally when you summon Charlemagne you'd get Karl with some aspects of Charlie like how most Servants are a mix of fiction and reality, but in Extella Link they're divided completely from each other.
For however much it's worth Extella Link's flashback of Karl finding the Velber ruins shows him with Charlemagne's design so he really did look like that when he was young.
Charlemagne is a well-documented historical figure. He is also prominently featured in the Matter of France and has a whole bunch of fanciful legends attributed to him and his paladins. The problem is that the two don't mix well. King Arthur or Heracles don't have any "historical" version to contrast with, but in the case of Charlemagne it's pretty obvious that we've got a "real" version, the historical figure with all his surviving documentation, and a "fake" version consisting of all the made-up stuff.
Generally speaking, if someone wrote a biography about your life (Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni) then it's going to be somewhat demystified.
Realizing this, the writers decided to just run with that whole idea and make the entire plot about the "fake" fighting the "real" version.