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Underage at 19. The legacy of the Puritans still remains.

Originally Posted by Imperial

*Left wing

The dude's a flat-out Marxist in some depictions and has been a staunch liberal in just about everything but Arrow, ironically.

Completely agreed on Canary. The Birds of Prey seem to jude new applicants on how much ass they can kick and how good they look doing it. All of DC's hottest girls wind up doing a stint with the Birds.

Have you read Gail Simone's run on Birds with Ed Benes doing the artwork? It is fantastic.

Not to mention the fight between Cheshire and Dinah is pretty awesome.

There's a new Black Canary solo book coming out where she's the lead of a band and . . . I'm sort of tilting my head at this and wondering what the fuck is up with the new DCU.

I love Arrow. Green Arrow benefits from being Batman without being Batman. He's not totally saddled by his inevitable Rogues Gallery like Batman would be, and isn't as absurdly independent either. He has a good team that he works with and doesn't fuss too much about it, has killed a lot and is trying to make amends but will still do what needs to be done to protect what he cares about and doesn't come off quite as insane as a man who decided to run around in a bat costume just because his parents were killed. What he does isn't healthy, and that's mentioned several times, but he was basically forced into his new life by being stranded on Hell Island and having to alter his mindset to survive.

Seriously, I'll take Green Arrow over Batman any day. Another benefit is that because he isn't DC's Golden Boy you don't get absurdly wanked shit happening in favour of him nearly as much as you would with a Batman movie/tv show.

Sad to say, Laurel stays the worst. Gotta just ride her out, man. Thea has improved over time as her story arc has evolved in seasons 2 and 3, but she's still not what I'd call great, just tolerable.

Felicity still best girl.

Flash is a good fun show. I got major smallville vibes from the first episode and was very concerned, but by the second/third episode it finds itself and becomes quite enjoyable. The cast isn't as irritating as some of the Arrow girls, at the very least, and Captain Cold is a beauty to behold.

Originally Posted by Elf

Green Arrow is sort of like a knock off super Right Wing version of Batman. Except not as gritty and banging the hottest chick in the DCU.

*Left wing

The dude's a flat-out Marxist in some depictions and has been a staunch liberal in just about everything but Arrow, ironically.

Completely agreed on Canary. The Birds of Prey seem to jude new applicants on how much ass they can kick and how good they look doing it. All of DC's hottest girls wind up doing a stint with the Birds.

Green Arrow has been the poor man's Batman ever since Smallville.

Green Arrow is sort of like a knock off super Right Wing version of Batman. Except not as gritty and banging the hottest chick in the DCU.

Originally Posted by Vagrant

As for Darnic and Faldeus, eh. They're better suited as master manipulators than actual Masters and with it not being explicitly stated it's easy to change things up. If the changing point is summoning Ruler instead of Avenger then any of the Masters are potentially different as long as Ruler/Avenger is summoned before they summoN their Servants.

That's how I've started looking at anything that doesn't came straight out of Stay Night/Zero or source books.

It might even work out for me, though. Darnic intrigues me, and I'm not really losing anything if I drop Wirn, the least developed Master concept, down to supporting character status so I can use Darnic.

Time will tell. I'd like to finish The Magnificence and go through a few fan fiction contests to work out the worst kinks in my writing before I tackle something like this. I figure the story deserves than my usual brand of bottom of the barrel.

Eh, Acht is head of thr Einzberns. Just waffle it that any Einzbern Servant is thus "his" Servant. I just can't see the guy getting down and dirty in the streets with Avenger. Maybe the whole Avenger container cheat was his idea, so he thinks of Avengerin terms of "his Avenger". Plenty of leeway with the head of a family.

As for Darnic and Faldeus, eh. They're better suited as master manipulators than actual Masters and with it not being explicitly stated it's easy to change things up. If the changing point is summoning Ruler instead of Avenger then any of the Masters are potentially different as long as Ruler/Avenger is summoned before they summoN their Servants.

Originally Posted by You

For Apocrypha Nasu said the only difference was the reserve system and the fact ruler was summoned instead of Avenger. The history, grail war wise, should still be the same.


Same with strange fake since that's just "the fake route of FSN." Doesn't say anything about the past grail wars being altered so far.

Your Reference Source Fu is strong, but this is food for thought.

I wouldn't even have to remove any of my Masters yet. I could just demote Aranasviel and Wirn to Acht and Darnic's subordinates.

It also throws open the door to an idea I had a while back to give Saint George to Darnic, though that idea was a pure Apocrypha prequel that featured a lot of theological jousting between George and Ruler. It even had the goofy title For the Love of God as it follows Ruler and Rider's progression from forced allies to genuine friends and Ruler overcoming the worst of his bitter cynicism in the face of a true saint.

For Apocrypha Nasu said the only difference was the reserve system and the fact ruler was summoned instead of Avenger. The history, grail war wise, should still be the same.

Originally Posted by vol 2

At that time, he coincidently learned about the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City. He involved Nazi Germany, who were interested in the occult, obtained the power of their army, and participated in the war as a Master.

Same with strange fake since that's just "the fake route of FSN." Doesn't say anything about the past grail wars being altered so far.

Originally Posted by You

The lineup for masters in the Third War is pretty stacked these days
Faldeus from Strange Fake was related in some way, maybe a master. But knowing the Fate franchise, yeah he'll be a former Master.
Darnic was for sure a Master and working for the Nazis.
Acht was the Einzbern master.

Where you can go Master-wise for the 3rd War is pretty limited.

Faldeus is set in what is explicably an alternate universe now. And I hadn't read Strange Fake yet? Or maybe I just forgot.

Darnic was for sure a Master? The phrasing I've seen most everywhere for him was that he "worked" with the Nazis to steal the Grail. The simplest solution is that he was a Master, but he seems like the type of guy to keep his hands clean when he can. Once Apocrypha was released, I had considered making Wirn a secret Yggdramillennia. That he lost his Crest dovetails so nicely with the Yggdra MO.

But, yeah, lol Apocrypha. It's even more overtly alternate universe than SF.

As for Acht, well holy shit on a shit sandwich. How did I miss that? I read the Zero novels years before I finally sat down to see the show (even blogged about it), and I usually scan anything for Third War hints. That's a massive oversight on my end.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I will file this for future reference.

The lineup for masters in the Third War is pretty stacked these days
Faldeus from Strange Fake was related in some way, maybe a master. But knowing the Fate franchise, yeah he'll be a former Master.
Darnic was for sure a Master and working for the Nazis.
Acht was the Einzbern master.

Originally Posted by vol 3 zero

During the previous Heaven’s Feel, not only did Grandfather Acht lose his Servant, the precious ‘vessel’ of the Grail was also broken during to the war. In the Third Heaven’s Feel, since the ‘vessel’ was damaged before the victor was decided, the war was meaningless. That’s when Grandfather began to reflect and decided to cover the ‘vessel’ this time inside a humanoid shape that has a consciousness and can self-manage.”

Where you can go Master-wise for the 3rd War is pretty limited.

I guess I can see that. There's a lot lacking or useless here. Shirou K is overdone. Alter doesn't need to be there. Rin is there mostly to be a foil and rival to Misaya. Sakura is half-baked at best. Misaya and Achilles's fling has no substance and mostly would have been a cheap excuse to ratchet up the sad points when she dies.

I ditched it for being lopsided, but some of the better ideas stand a chance of being recycled.

Originally Posted by Imperial

I thought you would approve of your Apocyphabro getting laid.

Not even that, the amount of Misaya porn is just incredibly lacking

You're not wrong. The Alter thing really only serves to befuddle Archer and make Kerry's camp even more grimderp.

Originally Posted by Christemo

Also please.

Please.

I thought you would approve of your Apocyphabro getting laid.

They wind up fucking like rabbits.

Also please.

Please.

Minus the random-ass Altering (which is really a Shadow only thing, and I don't see why people try to work it in, Saber can easily be an antagonistic figure without it), There's some promise in some of this.

Originally Posted by mAc Chaos

If she's a friend of a friend, she could have learned about it through them.

Which means you need new friends who won't leak personal info.

If she's a friend of a friend, she could have learned about it through them.

R.I.P

I've somehow managed to the past few days without running into this person, which means

1. I am lucky.
2. She got embarrassed and quit.
3. She doesn't actually work there but has figured out I do even though I have posted it on zero social networking sites and have made no other mention of it online.

Anything but 3, please