Fate/complete material III: World material.

[Tobias]

Melty Blood volume 1 Nasu comments

"At this point, "MELTY BLOOD" caused a major contradiction.
Since this was a fighting game, the position of the protagonist, Tohno Shiki, a character that could participate in combat only by means of trump cards, was reversed, and he became involved in the story as a protagonist that can "fight normally".

"....Right. The characteristics of the characters in "MELTY BLOOD" had either been exaggerated or restrained from what they had been in Tsukihime."

"Using cards as an example, Shiki of Tsukihime would be a 3 of Hearts. But the Shiki of "MELTY BLOOD" would be able to fight normally as a Jack of Spades."

From Comptiq 8 (only a summary of the actual interview so I'll pick it up later to confirm it)

being the pertinent quote, I dunno if this is evidence someone can have multiple trump cards or just mushroom head speaking metaphorically.

[eddyak]

MEoDP and Nanaya mode/assassination techniques?

[Tobias]

something like that. at any rate, up until now I would have identified actually manifesting archer's reality marble as his trump card, but, I am just rethinking things in light of him having a specifically identified one via CM3 in broken phantasms. so I guess it boils down to whether or not somebody can only have a single trump card or as many as they have managed to acquire.

as an example, would barrier of the wind king (attack version) qualify for saber.

[food]

being the pertinent quote, I dunno if this is evidence someone can have multiple trump cards or just mushroom head speaking metaphorically.

Japanese does not distinguish singular or plural explicitly. I think the translator might have put "trump cards" just to be safe.

[Tobias]

oh really? did not know that, lets ignore that part then if there is no way to tell, thanks.

[deadfish]

Food. You want access to the wiki? Cuz. I'm too lazy to add stuff.

[food]

You can PM me the login info.

I will probably add the stuff as a bulk when I get all the Servant info done (which might take a while).

[Mazyrian]

Fragarch works against Death Thorns Gae Bolg, so that it's a trump card.
However, if everyone could only have a single one, it would mean that Fragarch wouldn't work against Flying Death version, which I find somewhat silly.

[food]

Does anyone have a burning desire to see the entry of any particular Servant or ability?

I can work on those first instead of doing it by random order.

[meevanhelot]

Gilgamesh.

[Tobias]

On the off chance there is something new about her eyes, I am going for rider.

[Hyarion]

Caster might have something interesting in there.

[food]

Ok, I will work on Gilgamesh first and move from there.

[Mike1984]

Is there anything in there involving Sakura, at all?

[food]

A little bit. I will get to it after I am done with Gilgamesh.

[Mcjon01]

Is there anything in there involving Sakura, at all?

Well, in one of the interview questions Nasu expressed interest in eventually releasing a re-write of F/SN that cuts out Sakura entirely, gives Shinji his own route and makes him a magus with Rider as his actual Servant, and uses Makidera as the replacement "everyday life heroine" in place of Sakura.

j/k lol

[TypeWannabe]

...yeah, Gilgamesh for me too. Speaking of, does it have F/zero characters too or just F/sn? Even if it did, my vote's still Gilgamesh.

[Mcjon01]

F/SN only. I guess they figured the one guidebook for Zero was enough.

And Gilgamesh is boring, I say do Medea or something.

[eddyak]

If there's not much new/unconfirmed/unknown stuff for Gil, go for Medea.

[terraablaze]

As I have stated again and again I want Nasu's breakdown on what Divinity is supposed to do besides screw you over when Gilgamesh wraps you up in Enikuda. So Gilgamesh would work, Heracles and Cuchulain would also be nice. Other than that I want to see what he says about True Assassin probably the most since we see so little of him in the novel itself.