The Type-Moon Miscellaneous Thoughts Thread

[Mattias]

Huh. Why hasn't there been a Guy Fawkes servant yet? Feels ripe for a 2*.

[Skull]

^ I guess V For Vendetta wasn't very popular over in Japan.

[Deathhappens]

It'd be a stretch, but it could be workable if you took into account how from the 1800's onwards, retellings of Robin Hood tended to have Robin join Richard the Lionheart in the Third Crusade* and so you could have Robin get tangled up with the Hasans.

*This is also the source of why a lot of modern movies through in a random Muslim Merry Man like the ones played by Morgan Freeman or Jamie Foxx - which was parodied in the Mel Brooks movie with Isaac Hayes as Asneeze and Dave Chapelle as his son Ahchoo.

Gotta blame Ivanhoe ​for that.

[asterism42]

Something about using your son as your personal blood boy is giving magus.

The whole point of magi is preserving a legacy. That's why magic crests exist. So sacrificing your children to preserve your own existence would theoretically be taboo, because you're killing the chance of your family being preserved (not so say that some mages will do it zouken/darius/the dude who summoned gil in SF)

It's the casual sociopathicness that defines mages, but when they do horrible experiments on their children, it's for a reason.

In Case Files, the Iselma sisters want to seek asylum because they decide their father's magical experiments on them are risking the preservation of their magecraft.

[asterism42]

Also, it's more of a Bathory thing to do

[tsugumi]

Is there a reason why doing whatever you want with any spares set to inherit nothing would be a problem?

[Dullahan]

A spare is a spare is because you never know what might befall the heir. If you'd prefer to have no spare, to get the spare out of your hair, you may despair when your heir is suddenly no longer there.

[tsugumi]

Sola's family being like "oh, that's a shame" wrt Kayneth dying while being like "literally whomst?" wrt to Sola dying lives in my head rent free (because it's funny)

[BladeOfEden]

I like how the movie at least tried to highlight this by showing her reading ghost stories in the park by herself and going to the pet store to look at fish alone like a big loser.

#relatable

This. This is why she is best girl.

[tsugumi]

Do you think magi blaspheme verbally? Like, you know, "oh my god", "Jesus Christ", etc etc. Or would that be kind of... idk, I can imagine reasons why they wouldn't. Or do you think that aspect of normal people culture of the countries they live in is so dominant that it slips into their language anyway?

All this only applies to magi that use languages where people blaspheme, obviously.

[TomPen94]

Do you think magi blaspheme verbally? Like, you know, "oh my god", "Jesus Christ", etc etc. Or would that be kind of... idk, I can imagine reasons why they wouldn't. Or do you think that aspect of normal people culture of the countries they live in is so dominant that it slips into their language anyway?

All this only applies to magi that use languages where people blaspheme, obviously.

We should ask Nasu in terms he would undoubtedly understand.
"How much do english-speaking magi talk like Joseph Joestar?"

[Ratman]

We know that Zelretch doesn't, which is why the japanese will never forgive him.

[Comun]

A realization inspired by the debates in FsF: Lemina Eltfromm is a hot female Kayneth.
- Mage trying to add brains to a lineage with a big history of solving problems by brute force.
- Moe loser in an arc about entering a Holy Grail War naively thinking they are prepared.
- Third wheel in their two teammates' romance.
- Waver is the only mage who seriously believes in their chances of victory.

[Rafflesiac]

Do you think magi blaspheme verbally? Like, you know, "oh my god", "Jesus Christ", etc etc. Or would that be kind of... idk, I can imagine reasons why they wouldn't. Or do you think that aspect of normal people culture of the countries they live in is so dominant that it slips into their language anyway?

All this only applies to magi that use languages where people blaspheme, obviously.

Only the zoomers.

[OnesFleetingGlory]

A realization inspired by the debates in FsF: Lemina Eltfromm is a hot female Kayneth.
- Waver is the only mage who seriously believes in their chances of victory.

I thought only Yggdmillenia survivors were mentioned and appeared there, but Waver also makes appearance in Lost Einherjar? And even knows Lemina?

[Comun]

Depends on your definition of appearing. Waver doesn't show his face or is namedropped, but whenever the novel shows the Grail War stream chat, one of the participants is very unsubtly Waver (has Military Tactics as his username, corrects other commenters on the magical minutia of what's onscreen, is the only person seeing the potential in Lemina's strategies, etc).

[tsugumi]

A realization inspired by the debates in FsF: Lemina Eltfromm is a hot female Kayneth.
- Mage trying to add brains to a lineage with a big history of solving problems by brute force.
- Moe loser in an arc about entering a Holy Grail War naively thinking they are prepared.
- Third wheel in their two teammates' romance.
- Waver is the only mage who seriously believes in their chances of victory.

Wow, you said the magic words to make me care about F:LE and now I'm all in. Goddamn I love this specific breed of moe loser. It could only be better if she was in love. I adore characters in love.

Only the zoomers.

I've honestly considered it.

[Formless Creature]

What's it like to be a zoomer mage.

[tsugumi]

What's it like to be a zoomer mage.

The definition of a zoomer keeps expanding so we're going to know sooner rather than later

[Reign]

What's it like to be a zoomer mage.

Let's ask Guda