Until he needs money!
My point there're certain elements which can't exist in a vacuum. Even HA while providing some follow-up, never really committed to one ending or another (although I think if Nasu was forced to pick one, he'd go with Fate). Some things like Iliya',the Grail' or even Shirou's status are dependant heavily on what route are we going with. Unless, of course, Nasu come up with some manufactured ending, completely estranged from the original novel, just for these purposes.
Yeah there's the chance of pulling a Melty Blood on us with some unknown route happening.
Still I doubt we'll ever see Shirou at least show up again, beyond more obligitory EMIYA/Mumei stuff in spin offs without major significance.
As far as Sanda choosing a route for Adventures to follow, I don't see it happening even if Rin shows up in Adventures. Unless the story deals directly with the fallout of the war then there wouldn't be a need for Rin to specify what happened beyond "there was a Grail War, it's over, now I'm in London."
It seems easy to be vague enough to skirt around the issue. "X, Y, and Z are away currently." "That house is currently vacant." Avoid talking directly about certain characters, the usual "that person" kind of dialogue.
Dodging around the topic would make it annoyingly obvious how contrived it is that significant details like that just get glossed over, though. There’d be no reason to having a post-HGW story told in the first place.
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Originally Posted by successor of the Matou family
I've always been interested in the dismantling because it sounds like a major mage conflict without any servants, plus how the fuck is Waver going to manage the politics when he is basically against the rest of the clocktower who are trying to retrieve the grail for themselves
I’m a simple person. I just want the dismantling for more Flat
Oh a Dismantling story would definitely need to say which route it's after, yeah. It'd be too tied to the war to ignore that. Though I don't think it can even be after HF at all, considering the Grail's gone after that.
But for the upcoming Case Files sequel, I don't see the need to specify unless that series is going to be dealing directly with the fallout of the war, which seems unlikely to me.
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Speaking of the dismantling, was it said somewhere that Waver made use of the bombs that Kiritsugu planted on the leylines in Zero, or am I making that up?
Originally Posted by FSF 5, Chapter 14: Gold and Lions IThough 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.
Originally Posted by FSF 5, Chapter 14: Gold and Lions IThough 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.
I actually saw people in demonition arguing about that, given that the words used in World Material are vague enough you can understand it as the Clock Tower rebuilding the Great Grail. And there is also the timeline in Case Files Material talking about rumours of the 5th Holy Grail War having the Third Magic being used.
I think they are playing it so safe that not even HF is out.
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