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Originally Posted by TresserT

Originally Posted by tipoima

You're joking, but watch Nasu come in with "Only Masters with 7+ Servants can qualify, and we didn't have any, so we just said it's not a thing". They'd could easily have Independent Manifestation from all the Rayshifting too, so summoning themselves isn't out of the question either.

Oh god.

>Destroys humanity out of a love for humanity (see: trying to save PHH and in doing so is essentially Marisbury's henchman- even if Marisbury winds up being truly dead)

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Originally Posted by fumei

Originally Posted by Reign

I think we've gone over this before but what's the difference between a Spirit Origin and Saint Graph again? Until recently I thought they were the same thing and Saint Graph was just the ruby text.

The short implication as I see it is that every spiritual/magical being has a 霊基 (NA: "Spirit Origin", lit. "Spiritual Foundation"), while "Saint Graph" is a Servant term. Perhaps even the writing might conflate the two, just as it does Servant and Heroic

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Originally Posted by Kirishima

I just checked and indeed when you get to the purple bar and go back to the map, the sound effect is the exact same as before Shiki does the last hit of his Arc Drive., or first hit of his Last Arc. Actually clapping IRL right now.

Added the videos, first one at 42:20 if this thing doesn't work.

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Originally Posted by Lily Emilio

Originally Posted by Castellan

I'm reminded of some of the constructivist literature I've read in my psych classes, but that's more generally applicable to stories and the sort of...imagined possibility space of them in general and so it just tends to go really well with stories that are metatextual.

Might need to break out the textbooks again.

It does seem that way but a lot more literal when both Nasu and Honkai use, as in treating worlds as "stories".

In Honkai they refer to the human

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Originally Posted by TresserT

Someone explained this very thoroughly a couple of weeks ago.

In typemoon there are two views of the universe. The Actual Universe and the Observable Universe.

The AU is like a giant stone tablet with everything that ever has or will happen etched into it. There's no past or future, everything just is and is layed out clearly all at once. Likewise, events don't "unfold"- every "possibility" is actually just another etching. These etchings take the shape

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