human order: you stopped summoning extra classes, right
ritsuka fujimaru, pulling an actual Beast from the circle: hey mash check this out. hey mash look.
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God it's so fucking sexy of Guda to have spent so much time in time loops and time travels and straight-up outside of time that no one is able to tell how old they are, least of all themself.
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Microscopic spoilers and/or speculation for FGO (I'm probably super heckin late to this conversation) but I read a while back that the Lostbelts were 1. part of Marisbury's plan and 2. supposed to be destroyed.
Some things that occurred to me, learning this- there were Seven Lostbelts.
Now, can we think of any other rituals, where Seven entities are summoned, fight to the death, and are sacrificed to empower a ritual?
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Mephistopheles got a command code for the Valentine’s event in JP and I’m so excited because this means that he’s in the event.
And I’ve been reading it as it comes out, and there’s been a lot of allusion to Mephistopheles in it, and he relates super heavily to what the core themes are and I cannot stop thinking about this event and theorizing about how it’s gonna turn out.
It’s all very weird, and almost there, and dream-like just wading at the edge of reading as the proper reality. Johanna is absolutely a person that Mephistopheles would sympathize with, and want to help in some way because she’s an entirely fictional person. And Mephistopheles cares about creations. He loves narrative servants and those created to fill a specific role. He’s friends with Nursery Rhyme and Moriarty. He helped Enkidu find their identity in their interlude. He killed Frankenstein in London and left Fran alive so she could go have an adventure with the Master. I’m sure he’d care for Johanna too.
I think the event is a dream that Mephistopheles has made for Johanna because she wants to be a real girl, a real person, and she made a deal with the devil to grant this wish. It’s about what it means to be human, and what things are core to being real as a person, which absolutely parallels with Meph who is a homunculus who was made too human. He would know what it means to be human and want to be a real human being, since he’s an artificial being who was denied by his own creator.
Not to mention that Mephistopheles controls dreams, has made micro-singularities in the past (which this event is) for other servant’s interludes, and is someone who challenges characters’ core values and morals. And everything feels just kind of off in the event, alluding to it not being how it seems.
Johanna is just established to be there - no fan-fare, nothing, like it’s perfectly normal and reasonable that she’s in Chaldea providing Valentine’s blessings, even though that goes against her role in Traum. Goredolf is fully confident, he doesn’t seem to care about any holiday shenanigans, and everyone is really easily and casually ushered into what everyone thinks is going to be a very simple chill micro-singularity.
Mash is in the event, but Mash isn’t really...getting as much of the spotlight as she usually gets. She’s only on screen for two or three dialogue boxes at most, she’s almost exclusively nudging you onto the path of the story, and she’s not getting her usual long Mash getting to say her opinion on things. Which, is how Mash acted in Mephistopheles’ interlude, where Mephistopheles made a fake Mash to keep the Master on track in his dream, and the Master didn’t notice. Which is something that is REALLY HARD to do and Mephistopheles has shown he CAN do, in the past.
Another thing - Nursery Rhyme is there! Only four servants were compatible to Rayshift: Rama, Jalter Santa Lily, Nursery Rhyme, and Johanna. Nursery Rhyme has been unphased by every weird thing to far. She’s just rolled with it a little too well, which would make sense, because Mephistopheles would need a storybook to help him write a story for Johanna.
And, there’s been a lot of Alice in Wonderland comparisons and references. And music specifically from Jeanne’s Casino in Las Vegas Summer, a place that Mephistopheles helped run, Nursery Rhyme took part in plays, and it was a casino run by a Saint who was having her time as a real girl.
The whole event is also in the perspective of a narrative, like a book, being recounted to you by Johanna with little narrative cut-ins from her at key intervals of her experiences. While there are dialogue options to choose, nothing is from their perspective. Any time we get narration, it’s from Johanna’s point of view.
Johanna also acts strangely. She knows things without evidence, and immediately pegs the grail in the basement of the Singularity’s church as evil, stops a mysterious sorcerer from wishing on it, and has her own wish prioritized over the initial wish that was going to be bad for the Human Order. A wish that Johanna claims she doesn’t even have, because she’s a Ruler and a Saint.
Then that wish caused a giant statue of her to be erected in the middle of the tiny peaceful town and now she’s beloved as Love Love Johanna-Sama!
Everyone has a little fun laugh as Johanna is in agony and embarrassment over this idea of being beloved and worshipped in such a loud and larger than life way, but I think she’s actually kind of flattered by it. She’s just grappling with this idea of only wanting what a Saint would, rather then what she actually wants. Because I think that Johanna wished to be a real girl, and to be a real girl she has to be known, and she has to be loved, and she has to accept that love.
Love is what defines the weight of her life, and she has to accept and carry that love with her (in a little bag of luggage she’s given) in order to actually be real.
Which is what Mephistopheles is giving her, I think. He’s giving Johanna her wish of being a real girl for Valentine’s day.
TLDR: I’m pretty sure Mephistopheles has crafted an elaborate dream to grant Johanna’s wish to be a real person. Which means she has to learn what it means to be human. Love defines if you matter and are real, not the classification of reality of fiction.
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one of the funnier parts of current fgo spoilers is that we actually do have a pretty good answer to the "could shiki kill a servant" question, complete with a near-exact demonstration that proves he could, written by Nasu himself....
but there's a catch: you have to accept dinosaur-based evidence
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Okay, given FGO's global server has started the advanced quests with material gathering CEs as rewards, here's what the resulting CE count is after two years with all the advanced quests done:
(Try to finish them all too, it's tied to next year's (FGO EN's 2025) anniversary SQ reward)
Out of all of them, only dust, bone, and fang material CEs will be limit broken by then. Fair, given just how much they're used.
Mind: A limit broken material CE is a 25% drop rate up for the given material. Not limit broken only provides a 5% drop rate up.
Just to give perspective on how slowly this will roll out.
I'll take advanced quests any day over slowly farming sand on the bleached earth just to fluff Lasengle's engagement numbers (I'll never forgive them for that daily capsule limit!)
Meanwhile, in one of the new bleached earth quests:
No one escapes the whims of the Greek gods. No one.
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