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synergysilhouette · 6 months

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Remaking "Fire Emblem: 3 Houses"

(Spoilers ahead, obviously)

The time has come for another rewrite! I'm an amateur (re)writer, and I KNOW people are gonna be picky about this rewrite since many consider this entry the Holy Grail of the "Fire Emblem" series, but I hope you'll still be open to my changes, anyway! This is purely subjective and not something that reflects the fandom's opinion or me saying how to make the game objectively "better" (even though the term itself is subjective). I don't remember every single aspect of the game, so if I mention something that I wanted from the game that they actually DID do, be sure to mention it!

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DON'T RUSH US!--From the get-go, you're on a fixed schedule. Once you become a professor, you've got one day out of the week to explore the grounds, fight battles/do paralogues/xenologues, or another activity. Every Monday, you've gotta do instruction for your student, and the other days literally breeze by until you get to your next story arc. Letting us go at our own leisure would be awesome, particularly since it'd give us more time to get to know our characters via more missions and xenologues. Between school and war, it can get a bit monotonous.

2. Give us impactful dialogue options instead of the illusion of choices--I have the same issue with "Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon." Throughout the game, we're given dialogue options, but most of the time the choices are identical or offer no affect other than a character's approval/disapproval. It felt annoying to have the option to tell the Flame Emperor that you'd join them, only for them to say they could tell you were lying. It's annoying stuff like that that makes it feel like you don't really need dialogue options at all, just cutscenes with Byleth speaking for themselves.

3. Those Who Slither in the Dark being keeping us in the loop--It's wild to me that the people who did the most damage are the most underused in the game. Someone said that making their deeds more pronounced/known would ruin the point, but I disagree. In Crimson Flower, their role in the Tragedy of Duscur is revealed, but Edelgard defeats them offscreen before restoring peace. Dimitri never learns the full truth of this in Azure Moon, and if I recall, the organization does get more attention in Silver Snow (for like 2-3 chapters) and Verdant Wind, but I can't recall for certain. Either way, I feel like each route should feel complete, given that you're playing completely different stories, rather than it feeling like you're missing some information depending on the route you play. Not to mention, Kronya deserves better, even if I'm retconning her actions (more on that in a second)...

4. Don't make us forget about marriage--having to find a ring sucks. After Jeralt dies, you have a certain amount of time in order to find his marriage ring (which I completely forgot about in my first playthrough) that you NEED if you want to reach S-supports with anyone. I'd prefer if Jeralt just gave it to Byleth rather than us having to go to his office and find it.

5. Change the confusing Byleth bloodline--I'm fine with Sitri being either Rhea's daughter or (if you wanna romance Rhea and Sothis without ethical concerns) simply working at the church where she met Jeralt. The family tree above makes things a lot more confusing than what it needs to be.

6. Marriage to (mostly) whoever, whenever--In the game, you have to wait until after the war is over to be married, and out of them, you only have 5 romantic same-sex options for female Byleth--2 of which are route-exclusive--and 3 options for male Byleth--2 of which are either DLC or route-exclusive. I'd rather make it a free-for-all, save for Gilbert and Alois, who are married, and should've never prevented you from a romantic relationship with another character.

7. Keep Jeralt alive--I'm just...I'm just TIRED of the "dead parent/evil parent" storyline that "Awakening," "Fates," and "Engage" have done, along with "3 Houses." I'd enjoy having Jeralt kept alive, in this version. Nevermind, this is probably the longest a protagonist has gotten to keep their parent in one of the recent FE games. Having him stand by Byleth similar to "3 Hopes" would be awesome.

8. Let us have Child units--As someone who got into the series via "Fates" and "Awakening," it disappointed me greatly that child units were removed. While I prefer "Fates" using the Deeprealms, I think an "Awakening" approach fits best here. Perhaps Sothis' time manipulation is more powerful than she knows, having sent the child units from the future to avoid their dark fates. Since it's story-related, perhaps it's Byleth's child who comes from the future first, referencing Chrom's daughter Lucina coming to save him and Emmeryn in "Awakening," only the child comes to save Byleth and Jeralt. Personally I made a lsit of fanmade child units almost a year ago.

9. Recruit Jeritzia outside of Crimson Flower--"3 Hopes" allowed us to do so as long as we had Mercedes in one of our routes, and I'm confused on why that couldn't be done here. Recruiting Mercedes would be the wakeup call Jeritzia needs to join our side, rather than being the opposition.

10. Keep Byleth's hair color--This is a nitpick, but I'd like being able to change Byleth's hair color back to the way it was before becoming one with Sothis. I'm fine with keeping the hair color, though.

11. A 3 Houses United Route--I mentioned in another post about a route where Jeralt survived, TWSITD as the main antagonists. What'd make this route unique (since I'd want the other two changes to be changed in all routes) is that the almost-death of Jeralt would inspire Byleth to leave the church and become a mercenary again, only getting involved years later once they see how the war has affected their students, and they can still recruit others based on their stats, and since they're not tied to a particular "side" in this concflict, they could recruit the house leaders and their aides rather than having to kill them.

12. Fix Dimitri's turnaround (Azure Moon)--It's probably just me, but it felt like Dimitri's vengence and sudden change of heart following Rodrigue's death felt...too quick? I know this is a hot take, but I'd have thought Rodrigue's death would've fueled Dimitri's anger. Plus I didn't feel like Dimitri's redemption (so to speak) was earned. It was just kinda "sorry for being a jerk, guys" even though the whole team seemed to back him. I'd have enjoyed seeing more moments of his sanity and morality kick in amidst the chaos rather than being one-track-minded. I feel like a lot of poorly done villain arcs do this (even if he isn't the villain of this route, per se). Since in my rewrite we learn about TWSITD, it's quite possible that Dimitri's anger is focused elsewhere in any case. Maybe Rodrigue didn't even have to die...

13. Utilize 3 Hopes designs--This may not be a popular opinion, but I think some of the characters looked better halfway in 3 Hopes than in 3 Houses. It would be nice to have the option to switch their costumes to their 3 Hopes looks instead (even though I know they're older in the 3 Houses timeskip than they are in 3 Hopes).

14. NO IGNORANT BYLETH--Instead of other installments that use the amnesia subplots, Byleth is simply kept in the dark about their parents' pasts, the world, and the church (which is kinda the same thing). I'd alleviate this entirely so we can have a mature and well-learned protagonist rather than a teacher who's just learning how the world works and about the tension in the land.

Hope you're not too upset with my version of the game! Lemme know what you think and if you have any questions. The next FE rewrite I do (whenever I get around to it) will be "Engage," which is the last FE game I've played.

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twdmusicboxmystery · 1 year

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The Daryl Dixon Official Trailer - So Epic!

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@wdway:

Isn't it beautiful? Apparently we're supposed to have a long ten minute preview on AMC plus some time early tomorrow. I can't wait. Also the music in the preview link above is Clarie Lune which means moonlight.

@wdway

I've already watched this preview about four times and I foresee doing another four or five before I go to bed tonight. So beautiful and I'm so excited. Does anyone know what the big, good to see you, was? Was it as @twdmusicboxmyster predicted and simply seeing Daryl Dixon back?

@galadrieljones

Omg it’s so lovely, I love the Claire de Lune in the background. I need to watch it more!!

@wdway

Can't wait to see the long preview tomorrow. Or maybe tonight if someone bootlegs it from SDCC.

@galadrieljones

I’m going to rewatch, and maybe bring a little speculative analysis. Also, super excited about the 10min preview! If there’s a bootleg I may still wait, like if the quality is poor.

@wdway

Totally understand.

@galadrieljones

(Though who am I kidding LOL if it’s in front of my face I’m going to watch it )

I have watched it a bunch now, and it is so sweeping and atmospheric. I can already tell I’m going to really like Clemence Poesy and her performance. The little shot of her watching the train go by with the people screaming inside makes me think we will see her in flashback, and therefore, possibly Daryl as well. What he says about things happening to change you, and how she responds that they were both “broken until the world ended” conjures the past and how it has impacted them both.

It seems like we were somewhat on point, predicting that Daryl will end up at the Abbey where the nuns have taken Laurent into custody. He seems to be regarded as some sort of salvation for humanity.

One major twist will be, I suspect, the reason for why. Is he immune? We’ll know soon. I will say I love the idea of zombie-fighting nuns with their great big arsenal. Lol. They fight when they have to, to defend their flock. If anyone understands the nature and purpose of the Good Shepherd, it will be Trappist nuns.

It was very cute to me how Laurent was copying everything Daryl did. Daryl ran his hand through his hair, then Laurent did, too. Daryl took a sip of water, then Laurent did, too. I already want to adopt Laurent and save him lol.

The enemy faction, I am going to take a stab at it being related to the nationalist group that executed the French teams of scientists, re: the WB coda. If there IS a Davinci Code parallel here, then they would probably be aligned with Opus Dei, who are trying to eliminate proof that Christ’s bloodline lives on as a way of keeping control over the narrative they’ve worshipped for centuries.

My guess is that they want Laurent dead because Laurent may carry inside of him some form of the cure that was developed by the teams, which they executed. Laurent would be the holy grail. This is because if there is a cure, then they will lose control of the narrative, which is probably that the scientists caused the end of the world. Laurent, if he is the product of cure-based research, would prove that they could have saved the world, if they had not been executed.

The revelation that Laurent is immune would cause an uprising against those who killed the people who made him that way. My last bit of wild speculation is that the first season will revolve heavily around the plot with Laurent as a gateway into the research done by the French teams, which would then reveal that there are more people like him, all over the world.

We will also learn at some point soon that not all of the scientists on this project are dead. Of course, the Primrose Team was in the US when the end of the world happened. So was Dr. TB Ellis. Finding them would create more vectors toward the research that took place, which may have produced a cure. Of course, they will have to find these scientists, after they find that Paris is in ruins and that all the scientists in France have been executed. They will have to defeat the nationalist group and escape France back to America. As a plot, it is a bit of an inverse to Dead City.

Rather than rescue the boy from inside the evil organization, we are trying to deliver the boy into a cell that theoretically lies beyond the evil organization. Looking backward to Diverged. Perhaps Carol makes some sort of discovery pertaining to Team Primrose while Daryl is in France, and perhaps she goes after him to tell him what she found, because it’s just that important. That’s pure guesswork though.

I was also thinking, let’s have some more wild speculation on this glorious Friday, because it’s fun: What would make a bunch of nuns believe that a young boy is the savior of humanity? That he is their salvation? Catholics don’t take miracles lightly.

I thought, perhaps they witnessed him die and come back to life, not as a walker, but as the same person he was, only immune. This would have huge implications for TD. Because it could set up what happened with Beth very unexpectedly for Daryl.

Let’s say the nuns assure Daryl of what they saw. Maybe Daryl is skeptical, because it seems like he might be. We know he’s perhaps stopped believing in God at some point, according to what he said to Pope in season 11. And so Daryl is skeptical but he goes along with it because he trusts Isabelle and the nuns and he is taken with Laurent and he is chivalrous, so of course he will help them. But then say Daryl discovers that it’s not God, it’s science that cured Laurent and brought him back from the dead. Of course thematically that’s a whole theme: science vs. God, where is the line, etc.

He discovers the research at the laboratory, whcih lead to Laurent’s immunity, and he discovers that this research had been taking place in multiple sub-locations around the world, or even just in a couple of other places, one of them being Grady in Atlanta. Watching him put two and two together there would be extremely exciting and emotional. It would set things up nicely for season 2, which would revolve around escaping France and getting back to the USA to find these scientists and figure out what the hell is going on.

@wdway

Love this. I think your spot on very close to what we'll see. I have more thoughts, I will share those later tonight.

@galadrieljones

I’m going to add one more thing, which is that if this is anywhere near the truth, it could be possible that Beth was recaptured by the CRM after “dying.” Whether she’s still in their custody, I don’t know, but the Snow-White parallels suggest she could be. Just a thought.

I also wanted to share just that I’m also thinking that it is possible he stowed away on some sort of freight ship and that’s how he got marooned. In the trailer, he’s fighting a guy in front of a sign that says, “Muster Station,” which is defined as “the place on a ship where passengers should assemble in the event of an emergency.” There are also multiple freight containers in the background after he jumps ship. So, seems like maybe, yeah, he was chasing something else entirely. I wonder what it was. Perhaps to do with Rick, but this will be the digression that leads him to his happy ending.

Also in the shot where he’s jumping ship, it looks like there are contrails, or vapor trails in the sky, like the kind left behind by aircraft. That could ofc be an illusion idk.

@wdway

Okay I just popped in and you need to go over to the regular safe zone group page and see what Domenica posted about her SDCC workday. She got a selfie with Greg N. She also said something that sounded suspicious to me of course she gushed about being a Bethyler and he said something to the fact that, well then, you're going to love the Daryl Dixon's, (I'm paraphrasing) spin-off something to that effect. Very open to interpretation.

@galadrieljones

Love this insight! Greg said, “Well then you should like the cool stuff that happens in the Daryl series.” !!

Ofc could mean a lot lol. BUT. She said she was crossing her fingers for a dream sequence which means even she, who isn’t TD, thought this could mean a Beth appearance.

Also isn’t Greg the one who spilled the beans about Grady being exploded and them all being dead a long while back? I think it was. Hmmm.

@wdway

Yes, that was Greg.

@wdway

What I actually came on is to ask you if there was a Fear clip floating around?

@galadrieljones

I haven’t seen anything, but I’ve been super distracted by the Daryl trailer. I’ll check around.

The reactions to Troy coming back are priceless lol

Plenty of ppl claiming we saw him as a walker, which, no. Also who would have thought that fans of a show about people coming back from the dead would be this incredulous about characters coming back from the dead

Maybe a test run for Beth. But ofc everyone would be stoked about Beth’s return except Carylers who will rightly be crying.

Fear setting the groundwork for plenty more fun resurrections that for sure.

Also it looks like there is no trailer for Fear 8b. One will not be released until closer to October…? Did they make some last minute changes????

I can’t really see any other reason? Unless they just couldn’t be bothered but that seems unlikely. Maybe they filmed some new stuff and don’t have what they want for the trailer yet?

@twdmusicboxmystery:

So, if there wasn’t a Fear trailer, what are these in reaction to? Was an announcement made about Troy?

@twdmusicboxmystery

Okay, I'm caught up. Finished watching DC and have the Daryl trailer playing on repeat as I type this, lol. Love the trailer! It’s great. I have thoughts on...everything. But I'll probably forget half of them. I'll leave DC for now, since you haven't finished it. But I think it has some very interesting implications, especially for the New York symbolism. And I may have some thoughts on a template they're using. Including how some of the Rick/Negan symbolism we saw during AOW might end up being fulfilled. I know I’m stating the obvious here, but they're definitely setting things up with these spinoffs.

As for the Daryl trailer, just like both of you, I need to rewatch a hundred times to get all my thoughts straight. But just a few first observations. Did we all notice that in this trailer, the captions say, I want HIM to know that I tried. So, the captions were wrong on the ones posted on SM? Also, people were wrong about the recorder. Or at least this trailer makes it look like they are. When he speaks, it looks like he's broadcasting, and people can hear him. Of course, we have to consider that the trailers can be spliced together in deceptive ways. So, maybe that one is still a question mark.

A note on how he interacts with Isabel. We all knew there wouldn't be romance between her and Daryl, but this is still worth noting. To me, the trailer proves the lack of romance. He interacts with her much in the way he would with Aaron or Carol. It's genuine and congenial--I'm sure they'll end up being close friends--but there's nothing tender or remotely romantic betwen them from what we see here. One of my favorite moments in the trailer is when she says the thing about Laurent reviving humanity, and he just tilts his head to one side. He manages to emote SO much skepticism in the way only Daryl can, lol. It practically screams "faith ain't done shit for us."

Which segues nicely into my next point. As you were saying above, Tarah, Laurent is clearly the Christ figure in this part of the story. Daryl's interaction with him (the hug) is far more tender than anything with Isabel. And obviously it's fatherly rather than romantic, but I can still see that Laurent and Beth will be parallels here, in the way that Daryl protects and cares for them.

It would be amazing if wherever he is taking Laurent, Beth is there, and that's how he first sees her. *sigh * cue a billion head canons* I agree with all you both said above. Looks so cute and epic and amazing. Love the music. Love the sweeping shots. Love the haunting little girl walker in the garden.

Love cemetery with crosses across the horizon. Everything looks freakin' amazing!

@wdway

I was wanting to show the tape recorder, it's incorrect this is Daryl talking about the Commonwealth, it's in America, not, It's an America, so sometimes these aren't perfect.

@twdmusicboxmystery, in this preview it does use the abbreviation 'em for them.

@twdmusicboxmystery

The one on Twitter says him. So they’re all different, I guess.

@wdway

That's why I say that we can't totally rely on what is written, that it could be a mistake by the person interpreting it. I will say what I watched was actually on AMC+. Right now they have all three previews available, the very short one with the overturned boat, the long 2 minute preview and the new one minute preview that was shown today. I will say I checked it out also in the longer preview when it first showed up on AMC+ and it also says, 'em.

Even in France we have X's. I thought this was a great shot too of the morning star he's carrying.

What I want to point out here is the hat. Remember the hat in Daryl's apartment an AZ. Hanging on the hook. We saw it when Carol went into Daryl's apartment with Dog in s10e21 Diverged.

I love the Beth floor. Black and white diamonds.

It's pretty bad when you’re truly hoping that the series live up to the promotional spots for it.

@wdway

Guys I loved everything that you wrote above describing this preview. Just a few thoughts about the previous in general. I'm really bummed that we didn't see one for fear. And I'm right there with you guys and saying how are people talking about the Fear preview when we can't view it. Maybe it was only for the people who attended SDCC.

Which doesn't make a lot of sense since you want to promote to a large audience and ny SDCC standards this year is very small because of all the strikes. If in fact Troy is in the preview and there's no reason why we should doubt it at this point that makes me even more excited about the teaser radios scene. Because what was the point of not clearly showing him when you announce hours later he was going to be in part 2. I feel more justified in my feeling that it was a tease for TD with that blonde hair.

@wdway

@galadrieljones

I love all your observations, @wdway. Especially the black and white floor. I can’t tell, but I thought maybe that Daryl had made a recording, then lost it, then it was found by the organization. To me, the thing they show looks more like tape player than a radio.

There also may be a theme beginning with recordings, imprints, etc. We know the French scientist watched a recording of Jenner before she was shot. We think that Daryl will discover something shocking via a recording as well. Computer hard drives, memory. Memory in general. I think and I hope this theme continues to vibrate under the surface of this story.

Yeah I saw the announcement about Troy via a secondary source. It’s a trustworthy account on twitter, but I don’t know where they got that info.

There really was very little information on Fear. Very odd if you ask me.

If they’re delaying the trailer until October, that would mean we’ll be well into Daryl’s spin-off by then. Maybe that’s why. Idk, maybe they made some sort of choice or change in terms of how the information in Daryl’s spin-off will impact Fear.

I do think Troy is returning, but I don’t understand what is with all the weird deflection and lack of information from tptb at this juncture. Why wouldn’t they make a formal announcement?

The rumor has been circulating for months, honestly. Just weird. Anyway.

@wdway

I believe it was in the article though that mentioned Laurent being 11.

@galadrieljones

That seems right! He seems like a cute lil 11yo

Still trying to figure out what the major surprises were supposed to be today though. If it wasn’t Troy, then what was it? What did we learn?? Maybe it’s just because we pay super close attention but other than the DD trailer which was amazing, there was nothing here we didn’t know, and even the DD trailer, while beautiful, was fairly expected. It didn’t contain any bombshells. I don’t even recall them mentioning Melissa McBride joining for season 2…?

@wdway

Them not mentioning MMB is going to be a real thorn in the carylers sides. They are so convinced that they're part of the fandom is going to be the difference between Daryl spinoff succeeding or being canceled. In their minds no one wants to see Daryl in France. The only way to save it is to let everyone know that Carol will be joining (The Carol&Daryl) show to save Daryl in s2.

@wdway

@galadrieljones

Well then LOL. I’m glad they didn’t mention Melissa. Again though…it’s weird! The information is out there. They must know.

@wdway

I left you a link, it's a very short article about what was discussed today in regard to part to a Fear. In this one it says that it was announced that it was Troy in the radio scene at the end of part 1. Then again there's some mistakes in this one also. They said that Fear Part 2 will begin the same night as Daryl's final episode on October the 22nd. Well apparently, these people cannot count 6 Sundays. Daryl's scheduled to end his the week before and then Fear Part 2 begins the 22nd.

@galadrieljones

Weird. Idk I think there’s got to be some confusion with what’s going on with Fear. The journalists are doing their best.

Or maybe it’s perfectly clear and just being poorly communicated idk.

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mistresstrevelyan · 2 years

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More GK blubbering bc OFC

So I went on Youtube again. Clicked on GK2, picked the first Twitch stream I could find and BOOM, another player picking up on the oh so very subtle gay “undertones” (They’re more blunt about it than ANY BioWare game was about a MLM pairing until ME3 in 2012. Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within came out in 1995.) between our hero and the much tormented but dazzling antagonist.

Frigging Sierra Online and blessed Jane Jensen told a story like this DECADES before it became “accepted” - bc there’s still quite a bit of pushback, sadly - only to then pull out at the LAST SECOND and do a No Homo swerve because this WAS 1995 and I have never been more INSULTED by an Epilogue cutscene in a game BEFORE or SINCE.

“I don’t want to be like that!” Gabriel says mournfully after waxing lyrical about the Baron to her (Which she won’t buy, but why did she ask about him then? GRRRRRRRR) while completely ignoring her doe eyes and cuddles (C’mon, Gracie, let the man grieve!)

And THEN they had to add insult to injury by not only having Gabriel regress to his sleazy, sometimes downright creepy towards women (Poor Madeline, voiced by a baby Jennifer Hale, that’s right, COMMANDER SHEPARD was in this!) but completely ignore how much this experience has rattled Gabriel’s deepest beliefs, principles and, dare I say it, his straightness. Would Tim Curry have refused to voice a bi/pan Gabriel? Given that he was in The Rocky Horror Picture show I somehow doubt it. The only GK2 reference I remember from him in GK3 is a dumb hairy knuckles joke. GK3 really is the darkest timeline, even though Jane Jensen using the Holy Grail/Jesus bloodline storylines before Dan Brown did sure was clever.

All that being said, I am DELIGHTED to see more people discover this GEM of a game. For all its FMV jankiness and a couple of strange puzzles, the storyline and Peter J. Lucas’ mesmerizing performance elevate it above...A LOT OF GAMES even today. It’s like less than ten bucks on GOG, get it, PLAY IT AND CRY WITH ME PLZ.

Anyway, bc I was a loud fangal in the early oughts, I’ll leave this here for you and esp. @poptart-cat-78 and @imperiius, it’s a lil’ video I made when I started writing my fix it fic. The editing is...what it is, but I’m still proud of it.

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#Persephone chatters #Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within #OTP: The Angel and the Wolf #Gabriel Knight #Baron Friedrich von Glower #I LOVE THIS SERIES SFM GDI

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Was I supposed to learn that the collective political opinion changes every time someone posts about it BEFORE my reality was completely demolished? Because I seriously could've used that knowledge about 2 months ago. Every time I see something political, a viewpoint I held at the time is deemed an application of fascist means to the ends of the left. I fear for the day when voting in local elections as opposed to more popular ones is deemed akin to shooting a baby in the eye without blinking. And it's not just me believing whatever I hear, I check the receipts. Baseless claims and unchangeable minds are not valid sources. The valid sources are the ones breaking into my FYP and throwing articles at my face to justify saying that my entire bloodline supports the monopoly. I can't even block tags anymore, avoiding politics is cult behavior

What I'm trying to say it, where do I find the list of objectively correct morals and reasonings? Almost everything I've ever known is wrong, and the sheer number of arguments held about what's right has gotten to a point where any source of morality made after the pandemic cannot be trusted. If anyone has a list of social issues and debate logs that can lead me to even a single objective truth about this world, or even a link to a website that might hold such a political Holy Grail, please send it my way. Please. If you need me to pay for such a service, I haven't figured out how to put money in the phone, but I am more than halfway decent at drawing things that don't have faces and probably a month or two away from doing rituals SHUT THE FUCK UP I AM MAKING THIS POST NOT YOU NOT SHERIFF NOT TILDA NOT ASMO NOT ROBO NOT THE COPS NOT ANYONE OTHER THAN ME, SMNIO, THE MAIN MOTHERFUCKER, THE ONE THAT DECIDED TO PUT ALL THEIR POINTS IN INTELLIGENCE INSTEAD OF WISDOM, GET OUT OF MY HEAD AND TAKE THE INSANITY WITH YOU BECAUSE I NEED TO BE CORRECT AND I NEED IT TO MAKE SENSE OR PEOPLE ARE GOING TO START GETTING MAD AT ME AGAIN YOU PSYCHO!

...can't even have someone else cut in with a "they've been trying to write this for an hour" anymore, it feels too scripted. Just make it make sense and we'll talk about reimbursement later, ok?

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gigslist · 1 year

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Salvator Mundi $450,000,000 Performance Art?

Is The Salvator Mundi ITSO Leonardo Da Vinci Performance Art?

I think the nay sayers know nothing about the art market at that level. “Art is in the eye of the beholder!” It’s a sport to billionaires, numbers are just a computer game.

They pay the same price for graffiti artists if the painting is famous. Or a bet on a race horse. They keep the artwork and the race horse if they like them, then put them back in the game. The team for this Salvator Mundi made the painting famous among academics first. A brilliant strategy!

Fine art market sports players do an amazing community service for artists. With massive amounts of money out of their own pockets they promote artists of all kinds. Past and present and future.

Art market sports players remind the world there is art. And that there is great art, even cover versions. And that great people of today’s world hang it on their walls. Art sports players also build amazing museums for art out of their own pockets. True art for art’s sake! Thank You Thank You Thank You!!! I can’t Thank You enough!!!

If the Salvator Muni in question is real or not, it’s famous and the scandal is a bonus. We’re still talking about it! Conceptually the whole finding-and-proving story is very interesting. And the restoration on restoration on restoration until no technical person can tell. A conceptual artist would do the same thing for a piece of paper. Great effort, I love the intricacy, well done!!!

I think the pro sayers know nothing of Leonardo Da Vinci and his beliefs. Nor his content strategies or his drawing. I studied classical drawing in London, Da Vinci style. One of my drawings gat exhibited at the Royal Academy. I’m a content art historian of 10 years. I specialized in symbolism and stories within stories. It’s Leonardo’s specialty and what he got given residencies and commissions for.

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Leonardo wasn’t the only artist to practice this form of story within story telling. Rubens, Botticelli, Crivelli and others had their slant on it. It’s why they were famous in the first place “for those who have eyes to see.” The real Da Vinci Code. So when I don’t see it I scratched my head. I’ve been studying this Salvator Mundi, off and on, for 5 years or so to find something. Some paintings take two years, but that’s at most.

While the crystal ball is a statement symbol, there is no displacement in the cloth behind it. Crystal balls don’t do that. Everybody into Da Vinci knows he’s a purist. Especially for a statement piece in the foreground.

Content wise his up pointing fingers should point to something in the background. The background behind this Salvator Mundi is blacked out. His code in the folds of the cloth is unclear or. nonexistent. Those would give the crystal ball some context and his other story. Is there anything underneath the blacked background? What were the fabric folds before restoration?

I made a small documentary/workshop on how Da Vinci codes his paintings and stories within stories. With his Annunciation for an example….

Summary Findings

What is this famous Salvator Mundi painting?

Scraps from around that era, glued and painted together?

An unfinished ITSO by one of Leonardo da Vinci's students?

An old forgery that got lost in translation?

A concept art performance?

My bet, from what I geek out, on is No 1. But it doesn’t diminish the $ value of the painting as art for art sake. If you were a billionaire and buying a painting for your grandmother’s 70th birthday gift, would you give her Da Vinci or Renoir?

Deborah

Coded History

My new book

OOPART Art And the Holy Grail Bloodline

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The Merovingian Bloodline

This page has been prepared to provide some type of table of contents to the various items which ‘will be included in this chapter "The Thirteenth Satanic Bloodline".

In my writings this bloodline has been interwoven into the text of many articles, but It hasn’t been singled out very much. Although a great deal has been mitten by this author on this final family, to pull out articles which concentrate on it solely is difficult. After assembling some pages on it, a few words of explanation were still needed.

Allow me to briefly explain those items which were selected:

An article on the top family that appeared in Feb. ‘95 newsletter on page 73.

An appendix to the Be Wise As Serpents book about the British Royalty. The British Royalty are tied in with the 13th Bloodline.

Many of the American political leaders have been related to the British Royalty incl. George Bush and Dan Quayle. A flier from a Christian conference is Included showing who the speakers are.

Finally, a little of the genealogical information I assembled on the Mormon leaden is given. This was included in the Be Wise As Serpents book to give people an idea of how the Mormon leadership ties back in with the leading occult bloodlines of the Merovingian dynasty. The chart for LDS President Albert Smith is only about 1/3 typed out. The remainder of Albert Smith’s (as well as other Mormon leaden) genealogical work is in a file in some unknown box at my house.

This bloodline is harder to track because it weaves in and out of the other 12 bloodlines. There are many surnames which are part of this bloodline (Including the Smith family), however I can give one very prominent one, the Sinclair family.

2nd Feature Article - THE 13TH ILLUMINATI BLOODLINE.

The 13th Illuminati Bloodline is where the Anti-Christ will come from. This bloodline believes that it has both the Holy Blood of Jesus and the blood (or seed) of Satan in its bloodline. In my Be Wise As Serpents book, I make reference to this bloodline but I never really took the time to explain it completely. In fact I don’t fully understand this bloodline myself. I encourage those who want to learn more about this bloodline to study the following books:

Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Lincoln, Leigh & Balgent

The Messianic Legacy

The Temple & the Lodge

Crusaders of the Grail by J.R. Church

The Anti-Christ King--Juan Carlos by Dr. Charles R. Taylor

This bloodline is so extensive in its many branches that its membership takes in many of the Presidents of the United States, including George Hush and George Washington. The reason that I gave the genealogies of the some of the Mormon Presidents to people back in 1991 in my Be Wise As Serpents book is that all of the Mormon Presidents in history, whether RLDS or LDS, trace their blood back to this 13th bloodline. Within the Illuminati rituals, the emphasis of the 13th bloodline is that they are the seed of Satan. As their secret story goes, they are the direct descendents of Jesus' spiritual brother Lucifer. Since the Freeman family and the Rothschild family have members who are also in the 13th bloodline, It is unclear to me how interwoven the "seed of Satan" is.

Some of the earliest attempts to trace the seed of Satan were some books which did extensive research on the Tribe of Dan and the descendents of Cain.

"The Curse of Canaan" is an interesting book along with its mate World Order by Eustice Mullins. One of the books which I looked with difficulty for before finding it, was Gerald Massey’s A Book of the Beginning (Secaucus, NJ: University Books, Inc., 1974.) The book goes in and shows in detail how the inhabitants of the British Isles came originally from Egypt. This is Important because (as this newsletter has always contended) the Druidism of the British Isles was simply a derivative from the Egyptian Satanic witchcraft/magic of Ancient Egypt. The Egyptian word Makhaut (clan or family) became the the Irish Maccu and the Maccu of the Donalds (clan of Donalds) now reflected in the name MacDonald. The sacred keepers of the Clan-Stone in Arran, were also known by the family name of Clan-Chattons. Another word for clan is Mack and the Clan-Chattons were also known as Mack-Intosh. Ptah-rekh the name of the Egyptian god Ptah was passed down to us by the Druids adopting the name Patrick, which sounded similar. St. Patricks day then is a Christianized form of a druidic holiday which originally had its origins in Egypt.

The All-Seeing Eye can be found on ancient buildings in ancient Chaldea, in ancient Greece, and in ancient Egypt. The MI-seeing eye represents Osiris. Osiris had debauched revelries (saturualias) celebrated in his honor. The temples in Arabia clear back in the time that Moses had his black father-in-law Jethro used the all-seeing-eye to represent the false satanic trinity of Osiris, Isis and Horus of Egypt. This MI-Seeing Eye pops up everywhere the Illuminati has been. In the Winter Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia is that Illuminati all-seeing eye on top of a pyramid. You will also see it in the old Mexican Senate Building which is now a museum in Mexico City. You will find this on the back of our one dollar bill, and you will find the all-seeing eye was placed on Ethiopian stamps when they got a communist government in power.

The Illuminati is the continuation of the Mystery Religions of Babylon and Egypt. And the bloodlines of the Illuminati go back to people who at one time lived in Babylon and Egypt. Just how the House of David (the Satanic one) and the Holy Blood of the 13th family fit in with everything else in history I can’t say. I’m sure It would be a big story to tell If I knew. But I do feel that somehow the 13th Illuminati family does goes back to ancient times. Is this via the Tribe of Dan or via some Druidic bloodline or is it via the Merovingians or is it via all three’ And where do the Guelphs and Black Nobility fit Into this? Whatever the case, the 13th bloodline has amassed a great deal of power and wealth on this planet. The 13th bloodline lacks nothing to bring forth their Anti-Christ who will appear to have all the correct credentials. I would not even be surprised if their Anti-Christ in order to appear real will expose another Anti-Christ. The 13th bloodline has kept its genealogies very secret. I would welcome more Input from informed persons about this bloodline. The tribe of Dan was prophesied to be the black sheep of the nation of Israel which would bite the other tribes of Israel. The tribe of Dan had the snake and the eagle as its two logos. The tribe of Dan left its calling card all over Europe as it migrated west in the names of many places. The tribe of Dan ruled the Greeks, the Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian empire and many others which used the eagle as its logo.

Great Britain is the mother country of Satanism.1 Scotland has long been an occult center. The national symbol of Scotland is the dragon (the snake), and for years the chief of Scotland was called the dragon. The Gaelic language is an important language for Satanism, although English and French are also use extensively by the Illuminati. The planning sessions for world takeover that some ex-Satanists experienced were held in French. The British Royal Family have long been involved with the occult. For more information on this there is a detailed examination of the Royal family and the occult in the book The Prince and the Paranormal -the Psychic Bloodline of the Royal Family by John Dale (1987).2 They have also been actively involved with Freemasonry. (See the chart.) British MI6 has been a major vehicle for the Satanic hierarchy working behind the secret veil of Freemasonry to control world events.3 British MI6 is the most secret intelligence organization in the world.4 (It is properly known as British Secret Service not to be confused with the U.S. agency by that name but performing a different function entirely.)

The British Royalty have served as important figureheads to British Freemasonry lending credibility and respectability. British Freemasonry has managed to keep itself free of much of the criticism that the other national masonic groups have brought on themselves. However, much of the credibility of British Freemasonry is undeserved. True, British Freemasonry is what it portrays itself to the public for the lower levels. But., the lower level Masons by their dues and activities are unwittingly supporting an organization that is led by Satanists at the top. An example of the subterfuge constantly exercised on the public by Freemasonry is a book purportedly written by a non-Mason entitled The Unlocked Secret Freemasonry Examined. The book portrays itself as an unbiased and complete expose of Freemasonry. The book states unequivocally that the Masonic order called Societas Rosicrucian in Anglia (sic] is only open to Christians and is a "Christian Order." However, Edith Star Miller reprints copies of a number of letters from the chief of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia which show that the English Grand Masonic Lodge, the SRIA, the OTO, and the German illuminati are all working together.5 She briefly explains how she obtained the letters.

Notes

1. Interviews with numerous ex-witches and ex-satanists.

2. Copies available from Bury House Christian Books, Clows Top, Kidderminster, Wores, DY 149HX, England.

3. Confidential interviews.

4. Wise, David and Thomas B. Ross. The Espionage Establishment, p. 79.

5. Miller, Occult Theocracy, Appendix IV, pp. 8-35.

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[The Kid -- (FGO AU) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ?]

Not surprisingly, Ritsuka doesn’t have a lot of information on the building, but she’s got more than I expect, and some pretty solid-sounding educated guesses. Mostly, I’m just worried about my end. That we might not have enough firepower to push through a bunch of mages, especially if I can’t start getting more mana from her. If I fail, and go down in there, I’m getting resummoned to living hell, and she’s probably dead. That’s about the last thing I want, so I need a good plan before going in. Lucky for me, reckless but effective underdog plans are kind of my thing.

Snacking on her rice porridge, I try and work through that while absorbing information. …Figure the first thing I should do is see if there are other servants already summoned in there. I should be able to sense that, once I’m a little less dead. If there are, freeing them would add a lot to our fighting forces—wait, no, they’ll probably be about dead, and she can’t heal them because she doesn’t know how. And she can’t anchor more than one probably, since she’s doing it totally solo. So, they’d just die and vanish... Though, she did say…

“Hey,” I say, interrupting a breakdown of personnel she knows of in R&D. She’s actually really good at this planning stuff too—drawn me a little chart and everything. Her profiles might not be the most photo-realistic, but damn if they aren’t still effective in their own way at conveying what people look like—I’ve seen some of these mages, and I can pick them out from her little doodles on sight. “Sorry to interrupt, but there’s a few things I want to ask—one I meant to ask a while ago; they know you did this?”

Ritsuka looks surprised, then nods, chagrined. “Yeah. I mean, probably. I was able to cause a really good distraction, but there was no way to block the cameras, and I had to use my own card and get recognized to make it in the front at all, so, they do or they will really soon. That’s why I came here, instead of my apartment,” she adds, gesturing to the motel, “I tried to pick a list of hotels and motels I wouldn’t pick from usually, and then I chose one randomly from that list, and paid in cash. I hope that’s enough to make me harder to find.”

I don’t know if it will be myself, but I’m impressed she thought that far ahead. Maybe she has a knack for life on the lamb herself. Not a bad little escape plan.

“I’m kind of worried about Mom and Dad,” she adds quietly, glancing at her hands, “I haven’t talked to them at all, because I thought it would put them in danger, but what if it does anyway?”

Oh. I watch her, and the pain and fear there she’s trying to be brave about. She…isn’t just nice, and good, and a bleeding heart; she’s sacrificed a lot personally to help me.

“Won’t happen,” I promise firmly, “We’ll take care of things before that.”

“You sure?” she asks worriedly, trying to stop her eyes from getting misty.

I nod. “Promise. They won’t go there first. They’ll be lookin’ for me, and worried about me comin back right now. Then they’ll try to locate you. Family is more useful if they can just tap the phones and see if you contact—probably won’t even risk spooking them for a while. We got some time.”

That reassures her, and she looks a lot better. Returns my nod.

“…Wait, when you said ‘distraction’ a minute ago,” I say, that little detail clicking late.

“Oh,” she says, “Yeah. Well. I needed the power to go out in the building, and people to not be guarding you so I could get in. I couldn’t bypass doors or alarms, because I don’t know magic or tech stuff, so I had to make sure the whole building was on emergency protocol to make it easy for staff to evacuate to get in there at all. I couldn’t do that any fancy trick way, so, I looked up how to make a bomb and blew up a storage wing on the second floor I knew was empty.”

Holy shit.

“I-I checked the building schematics and asked several people you had to pay online to make sure it wasn’t a big part of the structural integrity!” she defends anxiously, misreading my response, “I made sure I wasn’t gonna knock down the building or kill somebody!”

“No—I’m impressed!” I say, lighting up, “That’s genius!”

“Really?” she asks.

“Hell yeah!!” I say, “Smart to not pick ground floor either. Means they know the threat came from inside the building—it’ll throw ‘em into a panic. And taking out the power? –You taught yourself how to make a bomb?”

“It actually wasn’t that hard,” she says, flushing, “…kind of scary how easy, actually. I had to get components from all different places, and pay in cash so my bank wouldn’t get suspicious, but. It was easier than I thought.”

Damn, she does have a knack. A strong one.

“You’d’ve made a damn fine outlaw,” I say.

For a second she seems to be unsure if that’s meant as a compliment or an insult, and then she hesitantly grins back. “Yeah? Huh. I’m not used to people thinking I’m good at stuff.”

From the far-away look on her face I don’t think she really meant to say that out loud, so I grin and answer before she has a chance to realize it. “Guess you never found something that interested you before.”

She glances at me and nods. “So, what else did you want to ask about?”

“Oh—your circuits. You said you possess a lot of mana?” I ask, “You find out any more about that while doing research there?”

“I did,” she says, passing me my eighth chocolate and unwrapping one for herself and munching on it, “Basically, they told me I’m super weird, and it’s like my body is tapped into a family lineage crest with more magic than it knows what to do with. But I don’t even have a mage crest!”

Not totally sure what that means, but I nod like I do because I get most of it from context.

“So, they say it’s like if I had a connection to a big like, whole lake full of mana. Waaaay more than even mages from good bloodlines have. But my circuits aren’t designed to access it all.”

“So you can’t get at it?” I ask.

“Well, this is gonna sound stupid, but it was the version that made the most sense to me,” she replies, “One of the assistants told me it was like if you had a whole lake of mana, but you could only get any of it out with a garden hose. It’s all there, but it’s just…not designed to be used all at once. They don’t think I could probably ever throw it all into one big spell attack, even with years of training. But, I’d have the most amazing mage stamina they ever saw. They said in a Holy Grail war I might be ridiculously weak at offering any combat support, but I could support all seven servants at the same time on my own if I tried, and then some!” She flashes me a big grin, very proud of that.

Interesting. “So. It’s not tirin you out?” I ask, “Our contract?”

She shakes her head. “I can barely tell. I can’t tell at all energy-wise. I just can feel there’s a connection there, kind of like an invisible thread.”

“Wow. You know most mages can barely support a servant outside a situation with extra support like the grail offers during a war, right?” I ask her.

She blinks at me. “For real?”

I nod. “I hear it’s exhausting.”

She stares at the far wall, then extends her arms and looks at them in wonder.

“You think you could support another?”

Ritsuka glances back from her hands. “Another servant—spirit?” she corrects. It’s cute—girl keeps refusing to call us that even though I do it so automatically. I nod. She nods back. “Yeah, easy.”

“How many you think you could do at once?” I ask.

“Uhm. …I don’t know. Twelve?” she guesses. Holy shit that’s a lot. “Probably more. But definitely at least that many if they all feel like this does. Why?”

I glance down at the little hand-drawn map sitting on the bed. “Because if they already got more servants in there, and we pick ‘em up as we go, a lot of our problems with this plan go away.”

“But, I can’t really support any of them,” she says worriedly, “I’m barely giving you enough to heal you slowly. None of you will be able to use much magic to fight.”

“True,” I reply, “But one of us can do a hell of a lot even without access to a noble phantasm. And more importantly, they won’t know how limited we are. That’s an edge.”

She thinks that over. “…Yeah. I. I guess it is…It’d throw them off, and make them feel overwhelmed and probably get them to panic.”

I nod. “Only problem is healing one of us enough we can get going.”

“Oh yeah,” she says, hopeful expression falling.

“I know you don’t know that kind of spell, but if there’s somewhere we could get stuff to do it for us—some mages use Mystic Codes or enchanted objects, right? I don’t guess you know of any—”

She’s shaking her head. “I’m sorry,” she says miserably, “I don’t even know where in Ur-shanabi something like that might be stored.”

Damn. I was really hoping. …

“I’m sorry I’m useless,” she says quietly, looking down at her hands and the seals there.

“You aren’t,” I reassure her, “I’m just as useless at magecraft as you—more. You’d have been better off with a caster. They’d actually know how to help. But we’ll figure somethin’ out.”

She’s still looking at her hand. Straightens up a little and turns it to inspect, then looks over at me. “Could I heal one of you with a command spell?”

“Yeah, I think,” I say, “But only twice, before being out of ‘em for good.” Mages all consider the last one one you don’t use, anyway. It’s the safeguard—the threat you keep so if your spirit turns on you, you can put us down. The loaded gun. I don’t bring that up though, because she probably knows, and as long as I’m up, she ain’t gonna need it, even if one of the others decides to cause her trouble.

“Right, and there might be more than two in there,” she says unhappily, lowering her hand.

I’m thinking back hard as I watch her, running over everything I’ve ever heard from a mage or a caster about how any of this works. I want to help. I want this to work, but I also want to repay what little I can. I wish Geronimo was here…

“…I know there’s supposed to be ways to fix the problem you’re havin’,” I offer after a second, wishing I knew more and had more to offer, “Someone who knows magic should be able to teach you to use it better, and that’d fix the problem, but I can’t do that. …What you need is someone who can. … You got any idea how to summon one of us? I could help you find a leyline, and-”

She’s shaking her head again. “I don’t know how at all. And it’s not something I can just look up. …I could try, but. I don’t have any artifacts, or practice, or knowledge, and it would probably just be dangerous and I’d draw attention to myself.”

I think hard. “We could try.”

“How? We don’t even have a source of power? You need a lot of mana at once to try and summon a heroic spirit without something like a grail present. I saw a little part of the summon circle at Ur-shanabi once and it was HUGE. I’ve never even felt so much magic in one place—”

“Wait, all you need is a big burst of mana?” I ask, suddenly excited.

“What? Uh—yeah, but I mean big. Way big! Big like I couldn’t do—”

“—But I could!” I insist.

She stares at me. “But…how? You can’t use a noble phantasm without disappearing, because I’m bad at supplying mana.”

“No, no other spirit could use their phantasm like this. Me? I can,” I say proudly, a slow smile starting.

“What?” says Ritsuka, “How? That’s impossible—what do you mean?”

“You know, I’m starting to think this whole thing bein’ you and me was for a reason,” I say instead of answering outright, snagging another little chocolate from the tray and giving her a smile as I do, “See, I don’t really have a noble phantasm, actually.”

“Wait, what??”

“Well, I do, but only kinda,” I explain, “It’s not an object or a chant, it’s the act of me firin’ my colt a specific way, so, it’s a noble phantasm technically, but it’s technically also just a skill, and it’s more technically a skill than a phantasm.” I am so god damn proud of myself right now—the look on her face is amazing. This feels great! “Not having a traditional one ain’t always the best thing, because it means mine is a real split-second kinda deal, but it’s damn powerful for that split second. And since my phantasm is more just a part of me than a specific act or item, it costs way less mana than any other noble phantasm I ever seen—or know of.”

“Wait for real?” she asks, gaping at me as her eyes light up.

I nod. “Sure is. I think with a little more rest, I could pull it off once without exhausting my core. If you can set up a circle, you can use the quick burst of mana from it to try and summon someone else. We’ll have to practice, because it’s a split second and you’ll have to call to the throne exactly when I use it, but I think we could do it.”

“Whoa.” She says. Her eyes are shining and I see the faint trace of a smile starting to form as she looks over and meets my gaze. “That…could work. I mean—I don’t know how to summon a spirit properly, but I know in theory how it works. Do you think that’s enough? You really think we could do it?”

“Well, I don’t see a reason not to try,” I say.

“But—how will I be sure I’ll get someone who can help?” she asks.

“Well, any numbers help, and any spirit’s gonna be pretty interested in this not happening to them, so I think anybody you summon would help us. It’s more complicated than that, though. Being summoned….it works multiple ways. Most of the time, you got no choice, except if you go willingly or unwillingly—you go either way. But occasionally they’re set up so the mage and the spirit both have to agree. I’ve never been on the mage end of a summons, but on our side you can usually sense the intent of a call. Occasionally we even get to choose if we want to answer. Since you and I ain’t gonna have anything close to the power to drag a spirit from the throne, it’ll be one of those, which is great, because it means if anybody shows up, they’ll have come because they heard you and wanted to come help. Just be honest and specific in what you need, and who you are. I think you’ll get lucky. I’m pretty sure if I heard someone like you asking for help plain and simple and I could do it, I’d take the pact.”

“Really?” she asks like it means something big to her.

“Yeah,” I say, and I mean it.

She smiles at me. “Okay. Great! I guess we have nothing to lose. I’ll try to set something up, and you just focus on feeling better and getting that energy back.”

“Will do,” I agree with a smile, watching her hop up and snag all her notes and diagrams and start trying to organize them. “You’ve done a lot too, though,” I add, “Make sure to get yourself some rest as well.”

The gal glances over and returns my smile. “I will. Thanks. But I’m okay—I took an accidental power nap on the floor, so I’ve got like eight more hours in me.” She proudly makes a muscle. “You want some tea before going back to sleep?”

“Sure,” I say, bemused as she vanishes back down the little hall.

This has all gone some kind of way, but, I’m surprisingly…Hopeful.

I remember the coin then, and that feeling bottoms out. Please don’t have been summoned yet, I pray, feeling a little sick.

I want so bad to think he’s not here yet, but I got a bad feeling. Did I sense him, when I was in Ur-shanabi, and I just can’t remember because I was so weak, or am I just paranoid and afraid? I don’t know. God, I hope at least he hasn’t been there anything close to as long as me. I hope he hasn’t been summoned at all. I should be trying to guess at the others, but there’s just way too many of us could be most of them. Clay pot means older ages spirit, letter means…well, recent enough for paper to survive, and shuriken means one from the east, but the earring could be anybody, and I can’t focus on it anyway. Why did it have to be somebody I know? And like? I’m trying to remember for sure how he died.

…I’m…I’m pretty sure he was bled to death slowly by a nun that was supposed to help him.

Why did we all have to die so terribly? I don’t like to think of him like that, but in my head it’s all I can see now. That terrible workshop, with its cold metal and saturated mana in the air that makes you sick with the taste of every breath, people walking by all the time to look at you like an animal in a cage. …Bolted down to the floor and cut up everywhere, half-awake in a massive puddle of his own blood. I don’t want to see that; I don’t want it to happen; I don’t want it to happen to him. He’s been through enough shit—he’s my friend.

But I got a bad feeling.

Please don’t be here, Robin. Please, God, don’t let them have picked him to summon yet.

A really bad feeling…

#fate go AU #fate series #fate go #fate grand order #fanfic #fate fic #fgo #fate AU #fate Billy the Kid #Ritsuka Fujimaru #billy the kid #writing #The Kid #The Kid (fic)#I love that Billy’s phantasm is ranked higher in damage than an A+ Phantasm but because it’s so tied to his skill instead of deeds it costs #only about the mana of an E rank phantasm short king is right

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Easter Eggs linking Anastasia, National Treasures, Da Vinci Codes, Indiana Jones: Following the Bread Crumbs or Ball of Thread out of the Labyrinth and into the Crypt of Aaliyah and DMX

Sunday May 23rd 5.23.21 222 days remaining 3 Days until Full Moon Lunar Eclipse

Protectors of Treasured Secrets, Guardians of Truths are entrusted with keeping sacred valuables. Well what do we hold sacred? Do we have any secrets to hide? Do we have treasured artifacts anymore? Are they someone else's galleries, museums, stock rooms?

Something passed down from generation to generation. Our DNA, genetic coded messages. In our cells nuclei. Family. Is more precious than we know. Melanin unlocked with the golden keys of the dark universe. Stars, constellations revealing above what is below and within our smallest parts of our selves.

These are our stories...really and truly they are.

Out of all of these movies, they highlighted one highly melinated person in each movie for National Treasure. Eventhough the premise is about Black People. In National Treasure (NT), The little boy decodes the Silence DoGood Letters with the cipher by counting the letters. Gematria is a key. He reveals the location of the LIberty Bell. One guy have him ONE DOLLAR BILLS and the other gave him a BENJAMIN. Is it really about "Benjamin Franklin," really? or the Tribe of Benjamin. This boy is the key. Now why do you think that is?

BEN is the son or the STONE. YAMIN.

NT2 shows a drawing of Estaban, the slave that cured the Native AMericans who showed him the Sought after City of Gold, Cibola. Also can be transliterated as SIBYLA. Come on now, Huh. As Dick Gregory highlighted the points. HUH. They say that to find the Treasure of the AGes, the "SECRET LIES WITH CHARLOTTE." In the first NT movie it was a ship frozen in the ARtic Circle carrying the pipe with coded message about the map on the Declaration of Independence, in some gun powder, Black like Melanin. OKay. But in the Book of Secrets, CHarlotte was a freed slave that had George Washington's blue prints of the undergrown passages of Mount Vernon. This passage with the Indian Arrow head that when angled correctly opened the doors of knowledge of the Book and the pages of Presidential illumination location. Secret of 47. perhaps the 47th president of US. or the degrees of the Compass on the Freemason logo. Let's not knowingly leave out that the hidden CIty of Gold was in the "BLACK" Hills.

Doctor Nichols is seen initially as a supporter of the GATES family accomplishments, but spins towards the Confederate descendant, Wilkerson for what seems to be money and fear for his life.

It's not hard to see how marginalized that keep black people out of these stories, despite the fact that it is really the central piece. Templar Treasure in DaVinci Code and National Treasure is found in Solomon's Temple and the Crusades (WAR) on the Muslim/Moors to gain the valuables from EGYPT and the Bloodline of JESUS. As described in the BIBLE to be Brass colored with Wooly Hair. We are talking about a brown man with an AFRO. His blood line with Mary Magdelene leads them to France, along with the Royal Romanov Blood line with Anastasia. This word is in the BiBLE New TESTAMENT with regards to JESUS resurrection. EASTER. Don't forget that AALIYAH was ANASTASIA in the music video for Journey to the Past. She also had a big part on special features for the DVD where she goes to FRANCE and goes to the Rose Line. Look it up. She does a mini documentary on Russian/French landmarks in France.

Why is this important to secret treasure. IN her Music Video More Than a Woman she speaks of "Secret Treasure, keeps on getting better", and puts her finger over her lips. Even see the same star seen in Da Vinci as sacred feminine. In the movie, Teabing, speaks of the Priory of Sion revealing the truth about the lineage of Jesus Descendant in 2000. That's when Aaliyah was in ROMEO MUST DIE. A coded movie about DMX death by a getting shot (vaccine or OD) and her death reported on 8/26. This has more loaded messages since Kapernick took the knee on this day in 2016 like the Templar Knights and main characters, Nicholas Cage and Tom Hanks, did to honor this treasure of DIvine Feminine, as Holy Grail knights.

Da Vinci Code has one scene when they escape to the streets of Paris, with the drug addicts, prostitutes in a park and MS. Neveu, Jesus and Mary M's heir stop a heroine addict from using, perhaps even avoiding an overdose and they play DMX sounding rapper. If anybody can recognize the song, please let me know. In National Treasure they go to Mount Vernon, Virginia which is supposedly George Washington's residence, but there is a Mount Vernon just south of Yonkers, New York where DMX was raised and resided. Just to add to the other connections to him with the opening scene of the Movie taking place on April 9th, the same day he died and even on Good Friday. Also in DVC, Teabing mention the Gospel of Philip the Apostle relating to Jesus being married to Mary M. Remember Prince Philip died on the same day as DMX.

Almost forgot to mention, that a coded message in the Louvre Museum to find the Fleur de lie key, was DARK IS the Con of MAN. They rearranged the letter to mean Madonna on the Rocks. But if you know what DMX stands for is Dark Man X. You'll clearly see it in this code.

The Kicker is this. IN Da Vinci Code, they show a picture of the Last Supper showing Mary M, sitting next to Jesus with Holy Grail, V, between them. They say his descendant was said to have died in a car crash, but in reality the Priory of Sion kept her and raised her. Now think about this too. Anastasia, was thought to have died, but was raised in an Orphanage for 10 years. Remember Aaliyah was Anastasia, if you look at the Journey from the past video as well as her having the same graphic star as Anastasia wore on her locket and Trish/Aaliyah had the same design in her apartment in Romeo Must Die.

Just Imagine if there is a secret being told right in front of our eyes. Listen to the sounds, keys, notes. The Holy Grail. Temple Treasure. Indiana Jones and National Treasure show Coronado. Can't help but see Corona. In the Temple of Doom opening scene about China and Wuhan, chicken flu, Bats, coded into Corona. Crusades, Holy Wars for Holy GRAIL. Sacred land of Israel is being fought over again. They term for their right to return is....Aaliyah and now look at this last 11 days war in Palestine/Holy Land ending days 50 days from Easter and Passover. Before the 2021 Lunar and Solar Eclipse.

The power of ritual with the blood of the dark people.

Blood Money-Sang Real

Misra, Isra-el, Egypt

Exodus-Exile

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Legato Bluesummers

Source: Trigun

Trauma-Rama: Childhood sexual abuse, sexual slavery, murder, body modification

Adulthood in twenty words or less: Emotionless killer bent on destroying human life, especially the good twin, blows shit up with his mind

Why they’re deplorable: Legato is cool as hell. He survived a horrible, horrible childhood because Vash the Stampede’s evil twin, Millions Knives, blew up the town he lived in and Legato started following him around because he had no one else. Now, he’s a psychic killer, using his mind to ruin everyone’s day. He hates Vash for...reasons. He just hates the guy because the evil twin hates him, and he wants to corrupt him and force Vash to admit that he’s just as bad as everyone else...he’s a turbo pessimist with the powers to back up his drive to be the ultimate Debbie Downer. He’s not the main big bad, but he’s one of the better villains Vash fights during the series.

Crowning moment of evil: You’ll have to head to my blog to find out

Ryo (Satan)

Source: Devilman (and it’s many, many incarnations)

Trauma-Rama: Literally being Satan, dead father (before he remembers that he is literally Satan)

Adulthood/Adolescence in twenty words or less: (As Satan) You can’t friendzone the devil/(As Ryo) In love with his stupid best friend, big guns, and killing demons

Why they’re deplorable: Ryo is almost cheating. He isn’t the antagonist until the end of the series, and it’s not a stab in the back like the next entry on this list because he’s so creepy the whole damn show! His hoe/foe-yay with Akira is actually canon, and the yaoi fan-critter in me rejoiced. So, at the start, you think he’s a strange guy who’s discovered the true threat of demons and needs his pure-hearted best friend Akira to become Devilman to help him stop them. And then, he gradually realizes that he is the literal devil. Honestly, Devilman is so bonkers and batshit that I can’t help but love it, and Ryo.

Crowning moment of evil: Visit the blog for video evidence

Griffith

Source: Berserk

Trauma-Rama: Loss of parents, war, engaging in sex work for war funds

Adulthood in twenty words or less: Asshole bird-man with a god complex who did everything wrong

Why they’re deplorable: Griffith is...you fall in love with this stupid bird bastard in the beginning of Berserk, and then he goes and betrays Guts and ruins everything for everyone and becomes Femto, member of the Godhand, and then he becomes Griffith again, commander of a monster army, and I want to kick him in the dick until he pees blood. I cannot stress this enough. Even knowing that Griffith turning evil, raping Casca and torturing Guts was coming, I still fell in love with Griffith and I was dreading the Eclipse with every fiber of my being. He makes you empathize with him before he betrays the audience. I can’t imagine reading or watching Berserk when it was first coming out, because that would have devastated fans. I have so much I could say about Griffith, so I should shut up and let you continue reading.

Crowning moment of evil: you probably know already, but you should still visit the blog anyway

Gilgamesh/Archer

Source: Fate Zero, Fate Stay Night, Fate Grand Order

Trauma-Rama: Losing his best and only-est friend

Adulthood in twenty words or less: I’m the King, bitches, and everyone who disagrees is getting hit in the head with my fanciest shit

Why they’re deplorable: Gilgamesh is an amoral demigod summoned as a “heroic spirit” to fight in Holy Grail wars. But he doesn’t want the grail for it’s awesome wish-granting powers. He wants it because it’s shiny and he likes treasure. That’s really it, at first. Then he wants to take over the world, which is also in character, because the world is also shiny. He’s just so self-assured of his own greatness that you both a) love watching his arrogant ass prance all over the screen and b) can’t wait for him to get his comeuppance. He’s such a bastard. The golden, crowning standard that all bastards strive to be.

Crowning moment of evil: How can you pick just one--check out the blog to find out which one made the top

DIO

Source: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure

Trauma-Rama: Child abuse, death of parents

Adulthood in twenty words or less: Turbo-bisexual vampire with an irrational hatred of shirts and other clothes that make sense

Why they’re deplorable: I truly saved the best (worst?) for last. DIO (and yes, you can only write it in caps lock) is the most meme-able anime villain of all time. He’s so bat-shit evil, and has such a good time doing it, that you just can’t help but watch. He manipulates everyone into hating his foster brother, kills his dog, assaults his girlfriend, and then acts like a whiny bitch when JoJo whoops his ass. And that’s just the first two episodes! DIO becomes a vampire and then turns his evil up to eleven, killing people, making zombies, kidnapping children...and then tops it off by stealing Jonathan’s body in front of his foster brother’s new wife. On his honeymoon. Despicable. He returns for part three as a vampire cult-leader with an army of trained stand users bent on destroying the Joestar bloodline. And he refuses to wear a shirt. I think he comes back in part six, but I haven’t read it yet so I don’t know what he does in it. He doesn’t give a shit about anyone but himself, and revels in how selfish and evil he is. DIO is an incredible adversary, and there’s never a dull moment with DIO around.

Crowning moment of evil: You get a bonus: it was his whole life. But still, check out the blog here: https://elkascott.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/top-five-anime-villains/

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Should Fate Ever Part Us

Kiane Week Day Seven: AU

Note: Yes, this is the Fate AU the world was waiting for. Seven Sins, seven Servants - I can’t believe no one realized the potential of this concept before I did. Then again, Fate is complicated. I tried my best to make everything understandable, but I can’t guarantee I succeeded. Side note: All the Japanese is taken from James Clavell’s Shõgun. I apologize for any mistakes.

He is back home. The leaves dance in the air. Her laugh echoes through the forest, a tune like a sweet windchime. The warm rays of sunlight through the canopy bathe the skin of her bare arms in gold and emerald as she twirls with the leaves, her face obscured by locks like the bark of the hickory tree. With another spin, her bare feet bring her towards him. She extends her hands. Inches separate their fingertips…

“Wakarimasu ka, Harlequin-sama?”

The scents and scenery of the forest disappeared to leave the Heroic Spirit Harlequin alone on the barren rooftop of one of Fuyuki’s plentiful skyscrapers. Thousands of electric lights pierced the sky and blackened the stars with their cold presence. And although Harlequin was not a physical part of this world and hadn’t been since his death eleven hundred years ago, the wind bit into his skin.

“Nan desu ka?”

For a moment, Harlequin failed to make sense of the strange words the disembodied voice of his Master whispered to him. Then the images of the forest left him entirely, and his mind pieced the Japanese expressions together into a coherent picture. Gilthunder had asked him what was the matter – maybe more than once judging by the distress of his voice.

“Gomen nasai, Master,” Harlequin said. An honest apology. He had let his mind wander astray from his assigned duty for too long already. In Japanese he continued, “Could you please repeat your instructions?”

Like all Servants, Harlequin had access to the entirety of human knowledge collected until this point in time, and this included the ability to speak any language with the same ease as his own. But the complex expressions found in Japanese never felt comfortable on his tongue.

Gilthunder’s teeth clacked against one another. A clear sign of his unease. “Am I not providing you with sufficient amounts of magic? Is that why you are drifting off sometimes?”

“Iyé.” – No. “I was lost in thought. I promise I won’t fail you again, Master.”

Gilthunder said nothing for a while. For his age, he was a talented member of the Clock Tower Mages, but he always harbored doubts about his potential. Not an hour since Harlequin’s summoning had passed without Gilthunder second-guessing the connection he has forged to his Servant. His doubts were not unfounded – in the Holy Grail War, the strength of the bond between Master and Servant could tip the scale between loss and victory, life and death.

“Are you sure you have recovered from your battle with Archer?” Gilthunder asked. “We can’t afford any mistakes, not this time. Not against Hendrickson. I know his methods, he will stop at nothing to win the Grail.”

“Won’t you do the same?”

“I don’t want the Grail. I want Hendrickson and Dreyfus to pay for what they did.” Gilthunder paused. At the foot of Harlequin’s vantage point, cars and motorcycles rushed by with roaring engines. This world was too loud, no matter the time of day. Here, a leaf sailed to the ground unheard.

When Gilthunder continued, his voice sounded distant. He too reminisced about the time before the Holy Grail War. “Have you ever lost yourself in battle? To the point of regret? Of course, I have heard your tale, the stories they exhibit in the Clock Tower library… but how did it feel? Do you think you could have chosen another path if you had wanted?”

Harlequin held his palm out in front of him. The scars were the same as back then. And when he concentrated, the blood of the criminals still ran from his fingers. They deserved to die. He had repeated this phrase until his final breath, and whenever he remembered the torture she had suffered at their hands, the phrase sprouted another root to anchor a sense of rightfulness in his mind.

He closed his fist. “Perhaps. But my story has been told already. You can still influence yours. Whichever path you chose, I will follow you. It is my duty as your Servant.”

“You would be the first Servant to lose the Holy Grail War because your Master lacked commitment. Don’t you have a wish you want to ask the Grail to fulfill?”

Harlequin nodded, even though Gilthunder could not see him. “Hai. But only one can obtain the Grail. We first have to overcome the remaining five Servants opposing us. Luckily for us, Rider is off the board already.”

“Would you have been able to defeat him?”

“In a fair fight? No. Although it is difficult to say for sure without knowing the potential of his Master. But from what I have gathered, Rider possessed the highest reserves of magic out of all of us. Caster outsmarted him. Otherwise, he would have lasted far longer. He might have even won.”

Gilthunder snorted. “Then I owe Caster my thanks. Her and Arthur Pendragon.”

The Pendragons held the honor of one of the longest-running Mage bloodlines. They and the Liones family had participated in all previous renditions of the Holy Grail War, and more often than not, the Grail had wandered into either of their hands. And although the appointed Master of the Liones family had yet to show herself, Arthur Pendragon had made clear that he fought to win the war. With his victory against Rider – in his previous life known as the chosen hero of the sun, Escanor – Arthur had certainly proven to possess the wit and the strength to succeed.

Harlequin let his eyes trail across the skyline. There, past the red beams of Fuyuki bridge, at the harbor, Gilthunder supposed to find the hideout of one of his enemies.

“The port holds little to no magic,” Harlequin said. “If Hendrickson stays there, then as an invitation to fight.”

“What strategy do you suggest?”

“Unless either Dreyfus or Hendrickson have summoned the Saber-Class Servant, we have a good chance of winning this round. Even if we don’t defeat the Servant waiting there tonight, discovering their identity would help us decide on our next steps. I suggest we accept the invitation before another party joins the fray.”

“Wakatta.” – Understood. “I will track down Hendrickson. Once you have engaged his Servant, he will have to divert part of his attention to your battle. Then I can take him down. My father will be avenged.”

Although he empathized with Gilthunder’s motives, Harlequin could not help but doubt. The Grail chose Masters in need of its aid, those with a wish the Grail could grant. Sometime before the Holy Grail War, the selected seven Mages would find three Command Seals on the back of their hand, the symbol of their participation and the link to their Servant. But Gilthunder had only one goal in this war: revenge against the two heads of the Clock Tower. A short-lived wish that shone brightly for a while. But before his hands would touch the Grail, the wish would be burnt out.

Harlequin knew these hungry flames, its heat had guided his hands as well.

But it was not his duty to question his Master. His duty was to serve.

And maybe reach the end of the Holy Grail War to have his own wish granted.

With five steps Harlequin reached the edge of the roof and jumped. The wind rushed in his ears, and the light from countless windows blurred to lines of red and white. And then he dissolved. His physical shell vanished to leave him blind and deaf for a heartbeat.

When the teleportation had completed, the crimson glow of Fuyuki bridge ignited the darkness behind him, and the concrete of the harbor pressed against his boots. Hard and unforgiving, a far cry from the mossy grounds of the forest he had called home. Mountains of containers surrounded him, and every stack might hide an ambush. At least one Servant was close.

Who would he face? Assassin? Or had he risked too much and would meet his end at the hands of Saber?

Twenty yards ahead, Gilthunder waited in the cold light of a streetlamp. He signaled Harlequin with clipped military gestures to secure the area to the left while he himself would zero in on Hendrickson. Then he slipped into the shadows between two tanks labeled as motor oil.

With a mere thought, Harlequin called forth his Noble Phantasm, the Spirit Spear Chastifol. The leather-wrapped staff hugged his palm, but the unease remained. As a Servant of the Lancer class, he sought the open confrontation with his opponents. The tiptoeing and trickery of Assassin and Caster had their merits, but the thought of applying such dishonorable strategies himself created a salty taste on his tongue.

If only the other Servant would show themselves.

Harlequin searched the surrounding containers with his eyes. “Master?”

“I have visual contact on Hendrickson,” Gilthunder replied between gritted teeth. “He is preparing for a spell. I can’t get a good read on the alchemist circle he’s drawing – wait, it can’t be… they told us never to use such magic. The Mage’s Association forbids its use. With these spell spheres he could drain the people of the entire district of their energy…”

“I’m on my way.”

“No, wait, I know what Servant he has.” The horror spoke from Gilthunder’s voice. “Berserker! He has Berserker!”

And one heartbeat after the information passed from Harlequin’s eyes to his brain, the three stacked containers to his right exploded. Razor-sharp shards of metal cut the air, a storm of deadly leaves. He evaded the attack with a jump, defected the last projectile with Chastifol. A roar thundered through the night, pained, furious, beyond reason. The concrete under Harlequin’s feet quaked, and past the dust of pulverized harbor pieces, a ten-foot figure emerged. A wild mess of brown locks danced around their head, and their dark eyes stared at Harlequin. All they saw was the enemy.

No, no, no, no, what were the odds? History had thousands of Heroic Spirits to choose from, why would it pick her? Why would she return to him as Berserker, a creature who only listened to the voice of its Master and the call for destruction?

Because she had lost her mind during the torture. Because he hadn’t arrived in time to save her from the suffering or the madness. He had seen how the pain had mangled her, even back then.

Harlequin, a hero of ancient times who had won the heart of a Forest Spirit, Lancer in the Fifth Holy Grail War, looked into the eyes of Diane, the same Forest Spirit who had died a horrific death and who had been reborn as Berserker.

A flash of lighting split the night to her left. The product of Gilthunder’s magic painted over her features and emphasized the protruding bones. Like this she had looked when Harlequin had held her in his arms for the last time with the blood of her captors on his hands and the taste of tears on his lips. Broken body, broken spirit.

Diane roared, and the magic radiating from her hit Harlequin with the force of an asteroid. The war hammer in her hands split the earth where he had stood a second ago. Debris rained onto the harbor, and the glass of the nearest lanterns shattered under the shock waves. Harlequin spun out the way, always dodging, never retaliating while his mind screamed to find a solution, a way out. Diane tore through containers as though they were twigs under her feet. Senseless hatred burned in her eyes as she pursued her opponent.

Harlequin leaped onto a crane, but the metal shrieked and bent under the barrage of Diane’s hammer. “Master, I won’t be able to defeat her. I beg you, let us retreat.”

“No. This is the best chance I have.” Another storm of lightningbolts struck the port and the water of the Mion river quivered. Hendrickson answered with an explosion of dark magic. “I will use a Command Seal.”

“No, please! You only have three, and when you use the last one, I will disappear, and you lose the Holy Grail War. Please, Master, consider caution. I- I cannot fight her.”

Gilthunder growled. “Hendrickson murdered my father for the Holy Relics in his possession. Without the work my father dedicated his life to, he would have never been able to summon Berserker. And if I have to sacrifice all my Command Seals, I will take away what he stole from my father.

“Lancer! As your Master, I order you to use all your strength and the power of your Noble Phantasm to destroy Berserker!”

The shackles of the Command Seal wrapped themselves around Harlequin in an instance. He fought their pull, tightened the grip around his spear until his fingers went numb, but he could not escape the voice of his Master.

His duty was to serve.

Even if it meant watching his beloved die a second time.

Diane’s next blow shattered the support beams of the crane. Harlequin vaulted her and flipped midair, the tip of Chastifol aimed for her neck. The bronze head of her hammer crashed into him beforehand. Blood filled his mouth. But with the surplus of strength the Command Seal had imposed on him, he hardly registered the sprained ribs.

He landed on his feet and cut the container she threw at him in half. Then he charged.

The ground shook whenever spear and hammer clashed, sparks flew as they pushed the metal to its limits. Harlequin danced through the barrage of her hits, spinning, skipping, leaping forward. Blood sprayed as he gazed her legs, her arms, her cheek. And still she refused to step down. Still she did not recognize him.

The magic of the Command Seal tore at Harlequin’s muscles, blind to the tears in the corners of his eyes, deaf to the pleas of his heart. One last time, he pushed against the order. But all he could do was to grant her a quick death.

When her next swing broke a crater into the concrete, Harlequin soared above the wave of destruction. He infused Chastifol with all the magic he had to offer and all the energy the link to his Master provided him with. And then he revealed the true nature of his Noble Phantasm.

“CHASTIFOL INCREASE!”

The Spirit Spear fragmented under blinding light, scattered into a hundred and more pieces, and all of these transformed into knifes shaped like the leaves of the willow. Harlequin held the storm in place for a heartbeat. Inside he apologized. Then the knives swooshed forward, a deadly rain of iron shards no living creature could escape. Diane roared and met the onslaught with her war hammer. But she could not prevail. For each blade she deflected, a new one appeared and sunk into her flesh.

The strength of her magic presence depleted. Either Hendrickson could not or did not want to save her with a Command Seal.

The blades had ripped her legs to shreds, but the brute determination of the Berserker class pushed her further. On her stomach, she crawled forward to escape the tornado of knives, but she was fast approaching her limits.

And then she had passed the breaking point. Her arms stopped moving. The presence of Berserker flicked one last time and died.

Harlequin stumbled towards her, and as he felt the influence of the Command Seal fleeting, he kneeled down to take her hand in his, the way he had eleven hundred years ago. Her body was already dissipating into golden light; The Holy Grail called her back from the plain of mortals.

“I’m sorry,” Harlequin whispered. Tears ran down his cheeks. “I’m so sorry you had to suffer the same fate again. But this’ll be the last time, I promise. The Holy Grail is in my reach. Only four other Servants stand in my way. And then I’ll wish for death to set you free. You will never have to suffer again. We will go back to our forest, to the birches and the pond covered by snow-white water lilies. I will win the Holy Grail for you. I promise.”

Maybe the part of Diane untouched by madness heard his words and turned her head towards him to listen. Maybe she never grasped the love he gardened for her. But before Harlequin had the chance to place a kiss on her fingers, her hand dissipated.

Golden lights danced through the night, dozens of memory candles to mourn his loss. Then they too vanished.

A great exhaustion weighed on Harlequin, born from a shortness of magic. He would most likely be unable to maintain his physical form for the next day. But his resolve had never burned brighter. Archer, Caster, Assassin, and even Saber were mere stepping stones on his way. With Gilthunder’s help, he would defeat them. And once he held the Holy Grail in his hands, he would wish to return home with Diane. No matter what trials waited for him, he would face his fate and triumph.

For her.

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I love your Master Fugo hcs //////// is it possible to request a similar version of it, but this time with 4taro as the master?

hnng yes (listen i love coming up with stuff like these okay, i just feel like it gives me good juju for gacha but also i love coming up with ideas for what kinda Servant would pair well with the jojo characters ansdlknsa im rambling ;;; ill stop now) HERE IS THE GOOD GOOD ANON IM SORRY IT TOOK ME A WHILE I have a hard time writing joot ;;; bUT DAMN IF I WONT TRY

content warning: suicide

Jotaro Kujo as your Master in a Holy Grail War

You are a Pseudo-Servant fused with Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea. As beings like gods and goddesses, cannot be summoned as Servants. The human known as _____ was chosen as an appropriate vessel and that was how Jotaro came to summon you as his Servant for this Holy Grail War.

In mythology, Nereus was known to be gentle, trustworthy, honest. Heroes would come in order to receive guidance from the god but only under one condition. Heroes who seek Nereus’ assistance must win in a wrestling match.

“Rider, Nereus. I’ve heard your summons. It is nice to meet you, Master.”

Giving Jotaro a curt bow, you returned his gaze solemn as you took note of the sea shell that had been used as a catalyst for your summoning. Considering the stoic man before you once more, you took a moment before you assumed a battle stance.

“I assume you are already aware of my conditions for assisting you.”

Jotaro returned your steely gaze with his own searching look, as if to better ascertain your intentions before he finally nodded.

You gave him a small smile in response before you began your onslaught of attacks, “very good, Master.”

You are not truly cruel, as you are taking on a mere mortal and not a demigod, you limit yourself to hand to hand combat and no shapeshifting.

With Jotaro’s strange time manipulation ability, he was able to gain the upper hand on you more than a few times. Though no mortal can fully overpower a god, Jotaro was certainly intent on trying. Nereus seemed to be pleased enough with his tenacity and allowed him to pin you.

“Well done, Master,” you said sincerely, a small smile drawn on your lovely face. “You’ve performed admirably. As per our agreement, I will assist you in this war. Use me as you see fit.”

You and Jotaro are the team to beat in the Holy Grail War. But you come to learn very quickly that regardless, Jotaro is the favorite to win the war.

He had come from the illustrious Joestar bloodline, inherited insanely powerful magic circuits, and was backed by the Mage’s Association. Suffice it to say that Jotaro Kujo was perfect in almost every aspect.

There was only one problem.

Jotaro takes you back to his condo to plan. It is sparse, plain, with stark white wallpapers. A perfect reflection of him. Your gaze lingers on two faded photographs, one taken in his youth and another a more intimate family portrait.

Gifted with prophecy, the moment you brush your hands against he photographs, you already know the tale.

The tragedy of Sadao Kujo, a man obsessed with trying to live up to the impossible Joestar name he had married into and in the end he had perished trying to prove himself in a Holy Grail War. This was was Jotaro’s shot at redemption.

Through the course of the Holy Grail War, you find yourself growing unnecessarily attached to Jotaro. There was something about this stoic man that had intrigued you. There was warmth to his coldness. Beneath his icy exterior was a truly kind man.

While Nereus simply admires such a man, _____ falls in love with such a man.

You are devoted to Jotaro, you would do anything to help him reach his wish. Yes, you would do absolutely anything. Even...

“Rider,” Jotaro says, solemnly, “by my Command Seal, I order you...”

“No need, Master.” You had told him, gentle, smiling even as you faced your end. “I told you before didn’t I? That I would assist you in any way.”

Nereus is gifted with prophecy. You’ve already known since the very beginning what would happen. To reach the Root, the Grail must have 7 Heroic Spirits.

As you lay dying, Jotaro holds you in his arms. His face inscrutable even now, you find yourself laughing as you reach out to caress his face.

“Do you hate me for doing such a thing to you, Rider?”

“Silly Master,” you say, wiping away a stray tear that runs down the side of his face. “Do not underestimate my gift of prophecy.”

“Then why?”

You chuckle as you begin to run out of mana, with the last of your strength, you lean forward to press your forehead against Jotaro’s.

“I think that goes without saying. You know, I was... happy to stand by your side, Master. It truly was... an honor.”

In your last moments, you feel sympathy for this poor man, too strong, far too strong, but still weak, too weak to protect the ones he held dear.

Does he think that the Root will give him the strength he wants?

Only he knows the answer.

#fate au #jotaro kujo #jotaro kujo x reader #diamond is unbreakable #Anonymous

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cantillat-moved · 4 years

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Some hcs about El-Melloi

His main focus are alchemy and chaos magic, but because of his ability to learn very quickly and easily, he also knows a lot about mineralogy, summoning, kabbalah and so on. While his magic circuits are crap and he can’t rely on his magic crest, anything with reagents and artifacts is doable for the most part.

When under a false identity, he’ll identify himself as John Mackenzie, after the couple who hosted him during the 4th Holy Grail War

He still have the game console that Iskandar bought, it is one of his most cherished items. El-Melloi still keeps a functional SNES on his office and tends to play handhelds: mostly the GBA, DS and Switch.

Speaking of games, his favorites are Strategy games like Civilization, Anno 1404 and Europa Universalis. He also plays Tactical RPGs on occasion. But thanks to his analytical abilities, he soon figures out how the AI behaves and exploits the hell out of it and sometimes plays self-imposed challenges

El-Melloi greatly dislikes having to investigate crime scenes, but he rather doing this than dealing with politics with other magi

He is aware that Reines is using him -- the debt was made by his predecessor and it would endure regardless if Kayneth had won the war. Nonetheless, it is still his burden

The events of the Castle of Separation and the Sun and Silver Princesses are canon and follow as it happens in the novels (except for the prologue). After that, the events of the anime take place.

While he knows that he needs to find a wife and produce an heir to continue his rather fledgling bloodline, El-Melloi is painfully aware that it is very likely that Reines and the others in the Archibald family might use it against him and force him to marry someone as part of the “compensation”.

#x El Melloi II #x el melloi II : headcanon

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courage-a-word-of-justice · 5 years

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Waver 1 - 13 (FINAL) | Prisma Illya 1 - 10 (FINAL) | Prisma Illya 2wei! 1 - 3

Another (and to be honest, the last) batch of impressions from the Fate/ project.

Waver 1

Well, this’ll be interesting. I’ve been hyping this show up for a while for myself, so let’s see how it goes.

Geez, this intro is like a dang movie! I’d love to see a proper Troyca movie! (<-Says the fan of Troyca.)

Wait, if it’s Kayneth Archibald, then is Archibald relatd to Archisorte? Or am I just making thing up here…? Also note Reines refers to Kayneth as “Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald”, possibly meaning Archibald is the middle name, since El-Melloi is a shared surname (or is that a title…?). That probably means Archibald =/= Archisorte and both are similar-sounding middle names. The fact Reines is Kayneth’s niece also explains things quite a bit.

Why is Waver upside down…? Won’t the blood rush to his head soon? (Sure, it allows me to ogle his hair more, but…logic rules more than my stupid whims, y’know?)

Interesting. You can see that although Waver grew out his hair, there’s two layers to it – the longer one in the front and the shorter one in the back. (I’m just curious because I like the hime cut – which is pretty similar - and long hair on dudes in general, in part because both are fairly rare.)

Okay, that explained my gripe with upside-down Waver. Thanks, Reines. (<-genuine)

Aw, Waver buddy, even at this stage, you’re plenty cute. Don’t ever change! (<- As you can see, I am an easily pleased person in most cases.)

Melvin who now???

Troyca’s comic animation rules! It’s too bad Idolish7 Second Beat is using chibis instead of this…

Professor Kayneth. I forgot he had a formal title. I wonder, does Waver - I mean, El-Melloi II – have that title as well?

I guess I should’ve known Saber had the capability to look scary, but…I never knew Saber could look so scary…

*cut to eyecatch* - *points at eyecatch* Okay, someone tried to save budget here, didn’t they???

Aw, friendship between fiction boys is cute…until it involves the puking up on blood on one end.

Waver is the OG underdog here…don’tcha think?

“…with several demands.” – Uh-oh…this is gonna be bad, isn’t it?

You need a Tuner for Magic Crests? (…Like a tuning fork, but a person?) *brow raised in suspicion*

…is it appropriate for me to say “Oh, good lord!” now? (Okay, I did that rather deliberately, but normally in these notes I’d self-censor it to be “oh, goodness” or something like that.)

Seriously, the black-haired dude in the Ionian Hetairoi is my favourite, even if only because he looks like Waver (and he’s really easy to spot, to boot).

Why is this in first person??? I’ve dropped entire shows based on their usage of 1st person cam! Room Mate and Makura no Danshi basically scarred me for life on that front…and both of those are TV shorts!

Hey, wait a second. This “use a quote on the titlecard” thing is clearly an Ei Aoki sort of thing to do. I mean, it’s in ID: Invaded as well…

Waver 2

*new blonde girl appears* - So this is the rumoured Animusphere girl (Mary), huh?

Bounded field, huh? I’m glad I chose to watch F/Z before this, then. Now I actually understand the (rough) mechanics of how that works.

There’s assassins and then there’s Assassins…*thinks about the Holy Grail War*

As it turns out, astromancy is basically astrology.

The one thing that bugs me about “Modern Magecraft” (there’s a similar concept of New Magic in Mairimashita! Iruma-kun) is…how is the magic “modern”…? Especially in a work like this, where the magic is based in arcane rituals and bloodlines…you really need to establish how the “modern” bit works.

Gray is facing away from the Animusphere girl (Mary), I noticed.

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” – Sherlock Holmes – Basically, the fact I’ve memorised this quote is one of the lingering impacts of my time in the Detective Conan fandom, as it can be used on things like quizzes, not just mysteries.

Can we please use proper English, Waver??? (Says me to a character whose name I still find nonsensical enough to not be proper English.) As I said previously, “whydunit” is modus operandi or motive…the new bit is “howdunit”, which would be the method.

I do believe the geocentric model was overthrown by people like Kepler.

Gray kind of looks like Saber with that hairstyle, come to think of it.

With the way Gray hides herself under that hood, it’s no mystery as to why guys love her…at least, I know ThatRandomEditor does. Of course, I’m heavily neutral on the whole affair because I don’t swing that way, but…you know…

LEMPC seems to stand for “Lord El-Melloi Production Committee”, if I’m guessing right.

I seem to remember there was a quote somewhere that said the only constant in this world was change…hmm.

Waver 3

They seem to keep calling Japan “the Far East” (or at least, Japan is part of the Far East). That’s a pretty antiquated term for a supposedly “modern” magic anime. I get vaguely peeved by the term “the Far East” because it causes people to take an oriental viewpoint on things and thus it’s kind of like people from the Anglosphere looking down on Asians. (I also get vaguely peeved by the term “Westerners” for much the same reason and “Caucasians” because it implies all people of the Anglosphere come from the Caucasus, which is false…then again, these niggles are specific to international studies, so I have a vested interest in explaining them.)

…Wow, that star-eyepatch girl is…really something, to be thirsty specifically for Waver’s Iron Claw. (Then again, with my weird tastes in things, who am I to critique her?)

Flitz von Erich. I was surprised to learn this guy actually exists…on Wikipedia, at the very least.

“Any lady should know about wrestling.” – I disagree, Luvia.

Blue furry electrical creature…I dunno how the zoology in this show works, but the fantasy series I’m reading as of the time I was typing this comment has a blue creature called a Raiju (literally “thunder beast” in Japanese, so it would suit the “Thunder” in the episode title). If it’s anything like that, I’d laugh myself silly.

This girl on the poster seems to be called Flan Noir (or something similar).

“…yellow, round, fluffy-smelling…” – What? Svin, you have no right to call a girl those words!

When is this series set if people don’t have phones as a standard? *Googles* Okay, if F/SN is set in 2004, then F/Z is 1994. That would make sense, actually. The internet as we know it was first used in 1995 and didn’t become widespread for home use until a few years later, as I remember having computers in 2004 (albeit the blocky ones with the dial-up).

I was looking at images for the source material and I think I know why I like Waver (aside from the fact he has long hair). Normally I like the boys whose appearances are hard to get right, such as En…Waver in the novels and manga for this series sometimes looks grumpy, sometimes he looks constipated and worst of all, sometimes he looks like Snape with a hook nose.

Okay, so I googled Caules to figure out who his sister was…and I got Apocrypha spoilers. See, his sister is Fiore, who is apparently in that series.

The videos got encoded funny again…

There seems to be a mystery around why Svin and Gray can’t be together…well, one deeper than just “Svin is gaga for Gray [for reasons we don’t know at this point in time]”.

Ha, the El-Melloi Class is basically just the Misfit Class from Mairimashita! Iruma-kun.

“Only the flesh was bitten off.”

This Jupiter gibberish, I assume, is drawing upon the mythology of Jupiter – that is, Zeus – as the god of thunder and king of the gods (thus presiding over living beings).

The English is good on the bill, bar a space between “Mystics of magecraft”.

Norwich is apparently a “faculty” which the Modern Magecraft Theories guys – i.e. Waver – rule over.

Can you imagine Waver swearing? Since I had the volume off, I basically made him say “…if Sir Gueldoa had resorted to brute force, we would’ve been f***ed” in my head…and that was hilarious.

Aw, thanks 7Mononoke. “A cowardly thief sneaks away in the night. If you stride away, bursting with song, you are a conquering king.” That’s a quote from Rider himself.

So the Association has set positions for Masters in the War? Geesh…that must be hard on Waver to find out they’re closed, considering how much Waver pines for Rider.

Waver 4

I finally got the chance to listen to the ED last ep and now it’s the OP I can hear properly. This OP isn’t particularly impressive, considering it’s an instrumental (instrumentals always seem to have less impact for me unless I’m looking for something to chill to), but it does capture the London-esque spirit of the setting very well.

What’s up with this metal (?) maid off to the side, anyway?

“Good thinking to leave the door open…” – For some reason, even though it’s a completely different and much more benign context, this made me think of KyoAni and my heart sunk.

Atrum Galliasta…I hate that man. He may look hot, but he was nothing but a b*stard to Medea.

Bolo ties…nrgh…Basically, ever since Arima wore a bolo tie, I’ve become fairly bugged by them. That’s why Bram’s bugs me.

Aw, Waver, buddy, plase don’t sacrifice yourself again. I read on the wiki you become a Servant’s vessel (specifically for Zhu Ge Liang), so keep your hopes up.

I’m seriously feeling ID: Invaded vibes from this episode, what with the lightning.

I suspect a locked room murder is going to happen soon, knowing the genre. Either that or some other crime.

Considering Fate/ was an eroge-based thing initially, these sex jokes…there’s probably plenty of them out there.

Well, it seems this series only makes sense in that non-Detective Conan way, i.e. you want to know how it all comes together and can’t necessarily figure it out for yourself until you know how the magic works. I’m randomly going to guess this is more Jupiter-based stuff and call it a day on that front.

Seriously, I never got what was up with nightgowns (or just pyjamas in general) having hats. You don’t need protection for your head at night…that’s what pillows are for, yeah? (The only reason I see a hat-like thing working with nightwear is a onesie and that’s meant to be part of the inherent appeal of the thing.)

Waver 5

I feel like Adashino is meant to be an Irene Adler-type figure…

“Peaceful Fairys” (sic)

Where did Kairi’s scar come from…?

The Black Dog was in Mahoutsukai no Yome as well, but this one looks a lot less inviting, huh?

It seems, like the name Rail Zeppelin implies (as “Demon Eyes Collection Train”), most of the people involved in this case have Magic Eyes (or whatever they’re actually called). I wouldn’t be surprised if Kairi had them as well, considering he’s wearing dark glasses in the middle of a thunderstorm.

“King Arthur is a dude, right?” - *laughs madly* They finally managed to parody their own bulls***! (Well, I’m not counting Carnival Phantasm or whatever else because this is the first time they threw a meta joke in there in the whole of this project, as far as I can remember.)

Trimmau seems to be the maid’s name…huh. They never mentioned that earlier, I don’t think.

So what’s the difference between Fairy Eyes and Mystic Eyes?

Wait, does that even work…? The entire house is the murder weapon? That’s basically breaking the “secret passageway” thing on a larger scale.

So what’s Trevor’s motive…?

The dogs running towards the Workshop reminded me of the Hunger Games for some reason…must be the climax.

That fairy isn’t emoting much…

Oh cra-Wills is going to sacrifice himself, like Adashino was going to do! That’s the second time I’ve seen that in 2 days (the first was in the Hypnosis Mic manga about the Dirty Dawg).

Uh…Waver’s not particularly fit or fast, is he…?

Can you be paid for your case if your client is essentially dead…?

Adra? I read around and Adra seems to be a way to spell the location (or whatever it is) in the first case…which got adapted into a stage play, but not an anime. That’s probably what he’s (Waver) referring to.

Notably, the title is translated to “lance” but yari means spear…

Waver 6

I seriously wanna slap that pink-haired girl…Update: Her name is Yvette.

This is basically Gray fanservice…

If Gray = Saber and Saber =King Arthur…hmm…does it count as a girl’s party?

Homeland? Since Britain is Saber’s (aka Gray’s) home country, I think they meant “hometown”…I’d hav to listen to the Japanese to make sure, though.

I still think Waver is a stupid, or at the very least false, name for a boy, especially if he did come from Britain. That’s basically my one limitation on him as a husbando.

The red bit of the eyecatch was shapd like an eye…it did catch eyes in a sense, after all.

So Trimmau is sustained by magic.

Locked-room…or rather, bounded field…mystery time!

Luvia did mention wrestling in another episode…

I had to google that, but the Separation Castle is from the Adra case mentioned in episode 5. No wonder I don’t remember it…

“Are you suggesting there were faults…” (from Luvia) - Ooh, I was thinking the perpetrator was caught inside their own bounded field or maybe it was an outsider, but that works too, Reines.

Add calld Luvia out for her extravagance, LOL.

Catch-as-catch-can appears to be “no-holds-barred fighting”, particularly wrestling.

That case was both informative and possibly solveable by the audience. Both good qualities for a mystery.

If you summon the spirit again, is it the same Rider with the same memories? Or can you summon a different version of the same Rider with amnesia, much like Rin did with Archer? Update: Oh yeah, I did read this on the wiki at one point but then forgot about it. The next episode (7) confirms that Rider wouldn’t remember Waver if he were summoned again.

Waver 7

…C’mon, admit it, show. The glasses are not only there for plot reasons but to up Waver’s status as megane boy for the rest of this case. Not that I mind – I actually really like megane boys, but I’m nowhere near the love of Meganebu – but in the case of plausibility, I wanna poke holes into it.

Auction for which Mystic Eyes now…?

There’s a guy…with an elephant head…I know I shouldn’t be bugged by it, but I need the MST3K mantra right now.

This is gonna be a Murder on the Orient Express thing, isn’t it? All cases set on trains seem to take cues or make homage to it. (I may not be that proficient on Christie in comparison to Holmes, since Holmes was Conan’s inspiration, but Murder on the Orient Express I have read and I did secure an anthology of 4 Christie novels at one point specifically so that I could improve in this area.)

The main series never explained the bad blood between the Church and the Tower, did they…?

*sweatdrop* Let me guess…when Yvette mentions “multiplay”, she means a threesome, right?

How do anime people see out of those blindfold thing, anyway??? (Or is it that Leandra has Mystic Eyes that were sold off or otherwise tampered with?)

I believe the word is “palate”, Kairi (or subbers).

Anime characters being bagworms with their blankets is always appealing, no matter the gender. It’s funny and/or relatable, after all.

Does Gray get motion sickness…? Update: Seems I spoke about a minute too soon. She does.

Waver 8

How does Waver know that Adashino got the documents about the train? Is it because she was in all those places at all those times and he connected the dots?

This lady has heterochromia. Specifically, one is brown and the other is blue or green.

Hmm? I thought the character design was familiar for this. As it turns out, Jun Nakai (who did the character design for this) also did Gate’s, which explains it.

Dionysus is the Greek god of wine, IIRC. Hephaestion is, as (s)he explained, the confidante of Alexander the Great (had to google this one).

It’s hard to see before the brightly-lit scene where Olga reappears, but as shown, Waver seems to have cut off part of his forelocks on the left side.

What’s an Odo???...ooh, fanservice…*ogles*

The summoning of Hephaestion and Trisha’s murder may or may not be related…we just don’t know how, yet.

I think a Detective Conan Murder on the Orient Express-style mystery would be a good video ga-*googles* There’s at least one of them out there already (albeit only in Japan)...namely, this one. Spoke too soon.

Oh yeah…this is Olga’s new room, isn’t it? I almost forgot about that.

Update: I think this look at the Adra Separation Castle case is interesting. It’s similar to posts I would write, but done by a professional – namely Richard Eisenbeis of Kotaku and Anime News Network.

Waver 9

So if there’s a Servant…you have to find the Master.

Olga reminds me of Reines…kind of.

LOL, whoever thought of a zombie cooking show…?

This series really goes all-in on the zombies and the fake-outs thereof, huh? Dangit, Melvin, don’t scare us.

Melvin has a really odd relationship with Waver, huh? If you’re really insisting you’re “the only person to ever be able to hurt Waver”, I don’t quite see how you guys can be friends in the normal sense of the word.

Why would someone have a violin at a time like this…?

Interestingly, they don’t bother to do any fanservice of Caules. That scene with Gray and Yvette was fanservice for those who like them, but the only guy who’s getting to do any fanservice in this series is Waver himself…(what with him being naked and knocked out right now.)

“Sibyl” seems to be a synonym for “virgin”…(*whispers “Awkward…”*)

Update: After reading some of Marth’s posts on this series, I’m inclined to call this “Murders on a Train (with an Exploding Helicopter for Good Measure)”.

Waver 10

For some reason, there’s episode 0 – 9, then 11 – 13 on the service I’m using. Where’s 10?

I think Waver’s relationship with Rider is interesting because of the way I think of relationships myself. Waver has made it clear that he wants to see Rider again so he can basically prostrate at his feet all over again (and maybe win a wish and/or see Oceanus while they’re at it), but – hey, hear this! - I used to believe, when I was still an impressionable kid, all relationships, whether they be between friends, family or even lovers, lasted roughly in the same state basically forever (as in, friends stay friends forever, they’ll never be so far apart that they can’t kep their relationship alive etc. etc.)…Obviously, I was wrong and arguably, this change in thinking, plus the related changes in technology, are where my ability to fleetingly but passionate love both 2D boys and the series they come from comes from.

Wait, so the Child of Einasshe (sp?) is the forest, yeah? I don’t think I got that 100% straight.

I never thought the shield form of a Mystic Code could be used for snowboarding down a mountain/hill…whatever Gray just went down. I didn’t even know Add had a shield form, for that matter.

“[U]sual individual” – LOL. What a way to refer to Waver.

“Wait a minute!” – I’m just imagining Phoenix Wright all of a sudden. A Waver legal mystery series would be boring as all get out – I’m far less interested in the courtroom versions of mysteries and more interested in how the pieces fit together. (Update: Then again, I am a person who likes the action genre and courtroom mysteries don’t have much of that, which might also explain my choice.)

“…lacking the element of motive to begin with.” – Well, Waver’s not wrong…

I’m observing this apple and noticing someone skimped on the detail around the stem. Does anyone still remember Art Academy for the DS? After looking at some promo material for it, I basically learnt how to draw a proper apple (and nothing else, really). If an apple is just drawn as a circle, it doesn’t quite look like an apple up close. (Two of the main things I screw up on when drawing are perception and the colour of highlights, both of which are covered in something like an apple stem and the related indent.)

Oh goodness…I was hoping Karabo would keep his vision (or actual eyeballs)…but that’s gruesome.

I’m guessing, based on the wheelchair, that Waver’s still paralysed or otherwise not able to move around like normal. Update: Spoke too soon.

Someone encoded the video funny again…

Waver 11

What was that crossword thing…? A warding spell of some sort?

Is that an owl in the back?!

Stealth fighter…Rider wanted on, didn’t he?

Every time he appears on screen now, I basically curse Melvin. He’s entertaining to watch, sure, but he’s annoyingly prodigal (= wasteful). He’s basically Dice from HypMic at this stage (aka he’s the sort of person who’d bet away his own clothes, given the chance and incentive).

Look at the way Waver’s hair drags behind him as he walks…it’s gorgeous…

“Residual Image” (as translated in the title) is literally “the left-over image” (zanzou). Not surprising, but I find the exact combo of characters used interesting since it could be short for “nokoru eizou” (where the nokoru’s character is read as zan in the combo, as you can guess).

Waver 12

Wow…this series really pulled something out of its butt this time, huh? “The guy without a heart”…no viewer would’ve known that actually referred to a character called Dr Heartless unless they knew of his existence somehow (the closest they would’ve been was having an inkling that this pointed to a name of the culprit).

There is an owl in the back of the auction room!

Ay? So what the heck is Pandemonium in this case?

“dotard” – Turns out this means “an old person, especially one who has become physically weak or whose mental faculties have declined.” You can’t say I don’t enrich my vocbulary through watching anime, huh?

I’m still wondering…why adapt case 7 of this series (Rail Zeppelin)? Why not case 1 (Adra)? Update: I don’t know where I pulled the number 7 from, since this is volume 4 – 5 of the series. Apparently some of the cases were anime-original though.

Waver 13 (FINAL)

Oh, Flat, you stupid…

Waver’s exasperated faces are great. No wonder Reines likes to toy with him…

I can assume Rail Zeppelin is a Ghost Liner, yes?

Can I guess that Adashino ~likes~ Waver…? Update: Turns out that’s not quite the case.

Ooh, Waver without his shirt is se-okay, I’m getting distracted. Seriously though, Waver never showed his Crest in F/Z. I never even knew what it looked like until now! The fact it’s such a simple design in comparison to his Command Seals is…kinda underwhelming, really.

I think there’s a bit of a pattern between Jakurai (from HypMic) and Waver…namely, they suck when it comes to drinking. (Also, of course, the long hair. Don’t forget it, never forget it.)

Shut up, Add!

For some reason, I felt like a lot of that last part, while getting closure for Waver, it almost had connotations of “I’ll meet you on the other side, Rider”…so it felt kind of sad, to be honest. That talk between Reines and Olga I don’t think I’d understand without Apocrypha and Grand Order, but I guess that’s to be expected in such a huge franchise. Anyways, moving right along!

Illya 1

I’ve been a bit worried about what I’ll have to subject myself to for the sake of Magical Girls…

Was that…Taiga?

Who’s Liz…?

Okusama, huh? (Okusama = someone’s wife, although it seems to be used in the plural here since I don’t think Kiritsugu and/or Iri are dead in this timeline.)

The subs I’ve got say Shiro is adopted here too (when it’s not in the Japanese), although I wonder exactly how much of UBW is going to be true in this anime…

Hmm…a bit of digging reveals Luvia’s not a Master. So throwing out Lancer is really just a joke on how Lancer gets roasted early on in Grail Wars, right?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh…squick, much…(Thank goodness the source I was using edited out the loli fanservice, so I can tolerate this series a lot more…but still, suggesting you have a romance with your step-brother, even if it’s known you’re not related from the beginning, is…you already know my feelings on that, based on my reaction. Shiro is, what, 15? About twice Illya’s age!) Update: Okay, so he has no confirmed age in Prisma Illya, but he’s 17 in F/SN so I’d assum the same or similar, seeing as he attends the same school. It’s fine if it’s platonic, but this is clearly an Onii-chan, daisuki! thing the likes of which Oreimo throws down! Thank you for calling it out though, Ruby.

Oh my gosh, this looks like the Rhongomynaid (Detective Waver) and Excalibur (or whatever Saber’s Noble Phantasm is called) summoning beam! LOL!

Ruby, you lech! Don’t go praising the angles! *shakes fist* (Seriously, what if magical girl mascots were paedophiles…? *blank face* Welp, considering what’s out there on the internet, I wouldn’t be surprised if a hentai or something had such a concept.)

Hmm? Turns out the word for Servant means something like “celestial hero”. Makes sense.

Nice callback to Saber and Shiro!

Illya 2

I thought Illya would say that her parents are dead…turns out the show’s not that grimdark (to the point where it wouldn’t set the show after Kiritsugu and Iri’s deaths), huh?

Do the sticks have a gender? The subs said “she” for Ruby…

LOL, it’s Rider. I thought Lancer was gonna get his butt kicked all over again (thinking more along the lines of CCS).

It’s Gay Bul-I mean, Gae Bolg! (I’ve been reading TV Tropes again…can you tell?)

This episode was pretty pedestrian. I like it more than the first one.

What’s up with the CGI…?

Oh! Bunbun, who does Yuki Yuna! Update: They only did the illustrations for some of the series. They also did SAO illustrations, although that’s of less significance to me.

Illya 3

The sticks do have genders!!! That’s like claiming Jesus for kakera with Mudae! (Yes, that’s possible. I got him in one server.)

The power of fujoshi…is amazing! How did it get to a girl who’s so young?!

These angles are a bit disturbing…

“Casao”, LOL.

Magical girl nakama, huh?

Illya 4

MST3K mantra!

Whose quote is that again…? “Don’t think, imagine”? Update: It turns out to not be anyone’s quote at all, if Google results are to be believed.

Uh-oh! Saber Alter!

Illya 5

Padding the episode already…?

The mist is a quality of a Berserker, right?

Geez the angles piss me off…

These sticks have brains???

Can you call it teamwork if they’re always complaining about each other?

Illya 6

More padding…

Illya’s UBW!

Geesh, that last-minute shot of Rin and Luvia popping out of the ground scared me for a bit…

Illya 7

*sigh* It’s the sick episode…

I recognise the vacuum cleaner. I have the same one at home.

*sigh* Random fanservice of elementary school girls. This is what gives anime a bad name.

*Sapphire pulls out a USB port* - Ohhkay, is that stick fanservice, in a sense…? Because that’s awkward too.

Maids went out of fashion years ago…

“Lyrical Radical Genocide” - I think this Lyrical Radical things is parodying Nanoha.

Based on the cloak, it’s an Assassin.

“Listen, if you aren’t careful, you’ll die!” – Yep, because people die when they are killed. I almost missed that meme for a bit.

Illya 8

Illya’s still reeling from Miyu’s talk, huh?

I noticed it said tomoda(chi) in the background at one point.

Does Miyu exist in any of the alternate universes?

Ah, there’s yuujou (friendship) in the background as calligraphy.

I think the video got encoded funny again…

Geez, complaining about boobs? The series got worse…oh, I forgot Shiro was around in this series.

…who’s left? There’s been Saber, Archer, Lancer, Assassin, Rider, Caster and…who? Berserker, that’s who.

Illya 9

Ohhhhhhhh brother, not more bath scenes…

Iri looks almost exactly like she does in the Eiznbern Consultation Rooms! (I found those around and watched them today.)

Thank goodness the fanservice is censored…

I never realised Berseker had heterochromia until now…

One thing that I assume makes Saber’s outfit look nice to thos that like girls is the window in the top…but it goes to waste on Miyu, LOL.

I find it interesting Illya has all these concerns – the ones (or similar ones) Iri harbourd in F/Z.

Hey, the bridge! This is the bridge where Rider dies inn F/Z, yeah?

The ED looks different this time…

Illya 10 (FINAL)

E-Eep…loli fanservice…

Now Miyu is basically what Waver is to Rider, no doubt about it.

Bulls***! Speak of the devil! I was wondering what Waver looked like in the Illya style, because I read on the wiki he makes a cameo in season 2, and…here he is. Didn’t expect him in season 1, though.

Another new ED animation. I find it interesting they’ve never once had to recast any VAs throughout the entire existence of Fate/ anime…not that I know of, anyway.

Hiroyama Hiroshi is the original Illya creator.

Okay, that’s the end of one season. I feel kind of fatigued since I finished the Eiznbern Consultation Rooms today as well, so I’m going to take a break from watching more Illya until it’s necessary to watch again in a few posts’ time.

Now that they’ve collected the cards, I’m wondering what the series intends to do next…

Illya s2 Pt 1 Ep 1

They clearly skimped on the budget when Shiro was leaving the house…

I keep forgetting Illya is meant to be German…

That bad English…is actually there in the ep. title…

Oh great…schoolgirls talking about erotic swimsuits…

This s*** is what you call “Class-S”! I have no interest in it, because I don’t swing that way! (Sorry, yuri fans…)

The problem with series that aren’t 100% made with you in mind is that your favourite characters might look ugly…that’s especially the case with En, Jakurai and Waver.

Ryudou Temple, eh? Let’s hope Assassin still looks good.

I don’t think I’ve seen that before…namely, being able to hear what’s going on outside the transformation while it’s happening.

Now this 2 Illyas thing…this is new, alright.

Illya s2 Pt 1 Ep 2

LOL, what a horoscope.

Truck-kun! I don’t think Illya would make a good isekai protag, come to think of it.

Who is this nurse? I feel like she’s from some other part of the Nasuverse… Update: My guess was right. That’s Caren Hortensia, protagonist of Fate/hollow ataraxia and Kirei’s…uh, daughter. I know he had a wife. We never met said wife, but seeing the daughter really drove that fact home.

Uhhhhhhhh…okay, now the lesbian loli scene just made things go off a cliff for me. I’m not against lesbians or yuri – to each their own – but that scene was clearly meant to be pleasing to a certain audience.

How does anyone kill anything gently…?

Ohhhhhhkay, strike 2 for loli fanservice.

I seem to remember…that’s right, Alice from the [something] no Kuni no Alice series was evaluated on her coffee-making skills (by Julius, I think it was). That’s why I’m thinking of Alice when I see Luvia praising Miyu on something similar.

Wa-hey! It’s Rin’s Azoth dagger!

Well, the mechanics of the transformation are also something you have to think about. I’ll give the show kudos for that.

Illya s2 Pt 1 Ep 3

Can we not with the whole “Onii-chan, daisuki!” thing?! That’s it! That’s the last straw! I’m finishing this episode and aborting early so that I can preserve my dignity…and get some proper sleep for once.

The fact Miyu thinks Shiro resembles her brother must not be a coincidence…(I’ve become far too Fate/ savvy, haven’t I?) Update: It seems I was right. Apparently, Miyu was taken in by Kiritsugu in a certain universe, but apparently this is a bunch of spoilers.

Genki na aisatsu was in the back.

This is just getting worse and worse…

So now Kuro’s name is Kuroe (Chloe), huh? Anyways, good riddance, loli fanservice! So long! I won’t miss you one bit!

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Language of Symbols and Symbolism

I am an art historian and my specialty is symbols and symbolism. What great artists have used throughout their work. By tracking old masters and what inspired them, you can find new things to inspire you. Here are snippets of a new book I’m working on to get you started

The allegory and symbolism of the Grail bloodline go back to pagan times and lore. Chretien de Troyes’ wounded king dinner cabaret. When read as symbolism is a graphic fertility ritual. The beautiful girl represents sexual desire. The chalice represents the womb, because of its shape. The sword represents a penis pursuing desire and a womb for the penis to place his seed.

Desire leading both the womb and the penis to come together. Medieval pornographic innuendo, popular before freedom of speech. At the same time the story is also talking about a bloodline. A special bloodline worthy of a mystical dinner cabaret and centuries of folklore.

Symbols are a universal language, invented before recorded history began. Like Egyptian hieroglyphs. Symbols give a lot of information in a small amount of imagery. How some art historians can read the symbol language is they track origins. An image or saying and the people and cultures around it.

Symbols can solve world mysteries. Though they can be a lot to track, not a few centuries, but 5 or more millennia. It requires years and sometimes several lifetimes of compulsive obsessive history geeks.

There are similar symbols of the same primordial gods found all over the world. For example images and figurines of a goddess with her hands up. Found from California, USA, to Bronze age Crete in the Mediterranean Sea. From Egypt in Africa to remote Outback Australia.

The solar cross was once thought of as a Nazi symbol. It is an ancient symbol of happiness and represents the Sun. The solar cross is all over the world and dates back to the Bronze Age in recorded history.

To me as an art historian, this says all these people at one time shared cultures and beliefs. At some time in history, they were communicating with each other. Trading and living with each other. The same as we live and trade with different cultures today.

In the modern Wiccan and New Age religions the five pointed star has all kinds of meanings. In mythology the five pointed star represents Venus. The primordial goddess of love and fertility. Diana in Rome, Isis in Egypt, Artemis in Greece, Inana in Sumeria, Ashera by the Hebrews, Anu by the Druids and Hindus. Her other symbols include the moon and sea shells. Venus also has a very interesting story, told by her symbols.

Modern Grail Bloodline Symbols

Not all records and ID tags have words and photos. Heraldry is a symbol system that tells us who a royal person is. Their family, social rank, occupation and military rank.

Heraldry can identify where a royal person comes from and what family they married into. Sometimes heraldry will tell us if they ride a horse in battle or fight on the ground. Privacy isn’t a choice for royals.

Heraldry in the 21st century has a lot more symbols and needs an expert to translate. 2000 years ago heraldry was simple Egyptian cartouches.

3,500 years ago a whole bloodline was one person and their god, one avatar, one symbol for the bloodline. The other symbols were for the protection god avatars of their children.

Some royal bloodline symbols still represent the same royal bloodlines 3500 years later. Often appearing in the decorations surrounding a modern heraldry shield as minor details. It is these minor details that can tell us the ancient origins of a royal family.

A pearl, a lily, a chrysanthemum leaf, a spiral, a ram’s horn. Each can recall ancient histories of heroic queens and wise kings. Rather than the world wide web and words for search terms. The symbol language uses the human brain. Your brain is the computer and database, and pictures are search keywords. It makes apparent that using written words has dumbed down our brains.

How Symbols Identify Somebody’s Employer

Old art is a non-digital selfie and photo book. People dress up and play out scenes of history and artists make pictures of it. We idolize celebrities as gods and act out their lives in selfies. Ancients idolized monarchies and acted out their lives in selfies.

They ancients weren’t into fiction, because a true story is more inspiring. Kings, queens, princes and princesses, heroines and heroes. Each with their own symbol or combination of symbols. How we identify who they are in art is with their symbols. A simple jar on a shelf in the background. A hand resting on a shoulder with a finger directed to a tower. A saint that hangs out with a pig. Each piece of art is a whole book or library of information.

Self Portrait With Sunflower by Sir Anthony van Dyck, 1663. Gold chain is a gift from his patron, the English monarch Charles I. A gold chain denotes duty. The artist is pointing to a sunflower and holds a chain over his shoulder pointing to himself. The sunflower represents a King and the chain, chained to duty. On the surface the painting is saying that a King is the artist's employer.

Sir Anthony van Dyck was a court painter for the monarchies of Spain, Flanders and England. At court he learned many stories of Grail history and symbols to include in his court paintings.

Further study of Van Dyck’s Sunflower painting can tell a great many other things. In the background are clouds shaped like a face. Clouds and royals can reference the Olympian gods who lived in the clouds. In modern speak they were ancient peoples who lived in high mountains. The gods are a pre to early Bronze Age tribe who are the ancestors of all civilizations and real royals.

The Van Dyck’s other hand is pointing up is a Johnnite symbol, part of the Holy Grail bloodline story. It can also be pointing to something in the original picture frame. Picture frames and surrounds are also part of the artwork and coded with symbols. When a picture is cut from its frame by an art thief for example. Or cut from wall by museum archeologists. Whole chapters and contexts are sliced from the story and its history.

How Symbols Solve a World Mystery

A real-life identifier of Moses from the Bible and the Exodus is the timing of the mega volcano Thera near Crete. It sent tsunamis as far as Egypt and was the main cause of the Bronze age collapse. 15th to 16th century BC.

The other identifier is Moses’s horns. Moses was the adopted son of an Egyptian pharaoh. Each Pharaoh has their own god avatar or protection god. One of the Egyptian horned gods was the ram god Amun. The other the goat god Khnum.

Moses was an adopted son and by tradition took the name of his adopted family. There is a Pharaoh with Mose in his name and a horned protection God. He lived around the time of the Thera eruption, and his name was Pharaoh Ahmose. But theres a big twist to the story that is not in the Bible, which you can find for yourself. Or wait till this book is published where it has more context and source references.

Rewriting History

One of the most surprising discoveries from tracking Holy Grail and Bible symbols is that none of them are Jewish. They are pre Bronze Age pagan, Greek, Egyptian and Roman. Human remains found near the symbol artifacts were caucasian, not semite. Once you can wrap your head around it, history and the Bible start rewriting themselves.

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Preacher: The Most Shocking Moments From the Comics

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There are plenty of differences between the Preacher TV series and the comics, but the commitment to shock value remains the same.

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This article contains major spoilers for the Preacher comics and probably the TV series, too. It's also completely unsuitable for younger or more sensitive readers.

In the world of Preacher, horror is the eleventh commandment.

TV fans are now in on what countless DC Comics and Vertigo fans have known for years, that when it comes to shocking moments, no comic on the planet can hold a candle to Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher. When Preacher began in 1995, from the very first page, it was clear that this was a comic that knew no boundaries, a comic that pushed the envelope on good taste and social taboos while testing the limits of the comic book medium. But make no mistake, underneath those gorgeous Glenn Fabry covers beat a huge heart, because as offensive and nasty as Preacher usually got, the comic book epic also delivered a very human and often moving story of love, hope, and friendship.

But we’re not here to talk about that sappy stuff. We’re here to talk about the exit wounds, flayings, contusions, atrocities, sexual deviancy, depraved rednecks, incest, murders, mayhem, chaos, compound fractures, buggerings, cranial trauma, mass killings, food sex, regular sex, animal sex, fish sex, sheep sex, S&M, and decapitations that Preacher delivered on a regular basis.

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An entire church burns to death, and that's just the start.

Ennis and Dillon’s Preacher opens with a church full of parishioners horribly burning to death. In the opening pages, before fans met Cassidy, Tulip, Arseface, the Saint of Killers, Herr Starr, or any of the major players of Vertigo’s magnum opus, they bore witness to Jesse Custer becoming possessed by Genesis, a metaphysical entity with the powers of God. Genesis gives Jesse the power to compel people with his voice (think a way more dashing and less creepy version of Jessica Jones’ Killgrave). And when the powerful entity possesses Custer, the joining kills everyone currently listening to a sermon in Custer’s church.

This moment of horrific blasphemous atrocity set the tone for Preacher, and it was seared into the minds of Vertigo’s faithful.

TC Buggers a Live Chicken

TC and his pal Jody were Jesse Custer’s childhood tormentors. They worked for Jesse’s evil Grandma Custer and kept order on her sprawling estate. TC was a clearly inbred redneck whose sexual proclivities were just as disturbing as his ghoul like face. TC and Jody made young Jesse’s life miserable as they enforced grandma’s rule with iron handed efficiency, administering beatings to Jesse on the regular.

read more: Why Sandman Was the Essential Horror Comic of the '90s

Things took an even more twisted turn when, one day, TC decided he was going to fuck a live chicken. Yes, Preacher went there. Sadly, Jesse’s best friend witnessed TC choking his chicken and was killed by the enraged poultry violator. This childhood trauma was one of the main reasons Jesse walked his path of righteousness and when Custer ran into Jody and the chicken-violating TC years later, all hell was coming for the animal buggerer and his evil pal.

There’s a Kid Whose Face Looks Like a Puckered Ass

Ah, poor Arseface. Ennis and Dillon introduced a hapless soul who botched a suicide attempt and ended up blowing off most of his face. But he lived, and the results aren't pretty.

read more: How They Create Arseface on TV

Preacher fans will never forget the reveal of the abused boy who would come to be known as Arseface. Dillon really went to town rendering the ruined visage of this poor soul, but despite the most horrific wounds, somehow, the boy’s eyes still shined with a total innocence. The always cheeky Cassidy the vampire dubbed the boy Arseface and the character was mostly played for laughs as the series progressed. Ennis had a blast telling Aresface’s side story as Preacher rolled on. Most of this tale was slide splitting as the poor earnest butt face tried to survive and thrive in a world that would collectively puke at the sight of his poor ruined face. But it was the first reveal of Arseface that balances that perfect blend of horror and humor fans came to expect from Preacher.

Face Off

Early in Preacher’s run, fans were introduced to Si Coltrane, an old pal of Cassidy’s. Cassidy met Coltrane at Woodstock and the two became fast friends. Coltrane became an investigative reporter who, when readers first met him, was on the trail of a serial killer known as the Reaver-Cleaver.

read more: Complete Guide to Preacher Season 4

When Ennis and Dillon first introduced the Reaver-Cleaver, the killer was hard at work on one of his victims. The moment was an instance of absolute terror as readers were forced to witness the Reaver slowly slice off a man’s face and then nail the removed skin mask upside down to the still living victim. It was a masterful splatterpunk moment of pure body atrocity as Preacher proved to fans that it would not pull punches when it comes to a liberal application of gore and violence.

Jesus DeSade

The character of Jesus DeSade probably epitomizes the Preacher experience. DeSade is an unforgettable character who leads a cult called the Gomorrah People, a group famous for throwing legendary sex parties where nothing is taboo. What starts out as a humorous romp through fetishism and strange eroticism soon takes a truly dark turn.

After Cassidy’s girlfriend overdoses on heroin, the vampire, Custer, and Tulip try to find out who sold the poor girl the drug. Their investigation takes them to one of DeSade’s famed parties and what the trio finds would make the Overlook Hotel blush. The whole building now, not just the weird Nazi bartender and the guy in the teddy bear costume. Every room in DeSade’s crib was brimming with titillation and depravity, from guys buggering sheep, to whippings, floggings, and BDSM of every shape and size.

read more: 30 TV Shows to Watch Now That Game of Thrones is Over

Anyway, everything was erotic and a little strange (well, really strange if you’re the sheep), but nothing horrific. Until Jesse stumbles into a room where De Sade is filming...well, we're not going to spoil it here. But this is where the mastery of Ennis and Dillon comes into play. Just a few panels before this reveal, the book was a laugh a minute parody of eroticism, but in an eye blink, Ennis and Dillon took readers to the darkest of places. What has been a very funny scene got very real, very quickly. It's terrifying stuff.

"Wub"

Poor Herr Starr. Starr is Preacher’s main antagonist, the leader of the Holy Order of the Grail, an ancient religious society meant to keep the blood of Jesus Christ pure (more on that in a bit). Starr is a master strategist and needs Jesse Custer to complete the Order’s domination of the world. Starr pursues Custer all over the US and what begins as a classic tale of good versus evil, ends up an X-Rated Road Runner cartoon for poor, poor Starr.

At one point, Starr is horribly injured and left for dead in a desert. Fortunately for Starr, he is rescued by the Chunt Brothers. Unfortunately for Starr, the Chunt Brothers are a family of inbred cannibals. By the way, inbred villains are kind of a motif in Preacher. The Chunts plan to nurse Starr back to health in order to fry him real nice and have themselves a Herr Starr banquet.

The youngest Chunt, Cyrus, has issues (see what happens after generations of inbreeding?) and keeps uttering “Wub” whenever he sees Starr. One day, Cyrus comes to Starr alone holding a gun and a roll of toilet paper. It turns out “Wub” means “Wipe,” because no one has wubbed Cyrus in a long time. So Starr has to get in there and clean Cyrus’ neglected Sarlaac Pit in order to distract the dirty bottomed young man so Custer’s arch nemesis could grab the gun and free himself.

Now, let’s dissect this. Cyrus is a cannibal with a butt that hasn’t been wubbed in perhaps months. So basically, Starr is forced to wub little bits of human remains from Cyrus’ nether regions. Have fun with this one AMC! wub.

The Descendant of Jesus Christ

Guys, I’m going to try and explain this one without offending anyone, but it’s going to be hard. As I said, the Order of the Grail’s aim was to keep Christ’s bloodline pure, so they inbred the descendants of Jesus so as not to taint the blood of the savior. Well, science tells us what happens when people keep it in the family, and all that happened as the modern day descendant of the son of God liked to pee on things (a lot) while saying things like “Suffer the little children! humperdumper-doo."

There Was a Villain that Fucked Meat

Smack dab in the middle of Ennis and Dillon’s Preacher run, Jesse Custer ran afoul of a corrupt meat packing industrialist named Odin Quincannon. During Custer’s quest to find God, the upright preacher loses faith and ends up in the small down of Salvation, Texas. Salvation is, in Ennis’ words, “the kind of place you ain't left by the time you're twenty-five, you're stuck."

It was in this atmosphere of hopelessness that gave rise to Odin Quincannon, a cruel, corrupt, hateful billionaire that ran Salvation with an iron fist. Odin was a creepy little man that allowed his meat packers to run rampant on Salvation, raping, pillaging and murdering whenever they felt the urge. Jesse took up the badge and became sheriff of Salvation and opposed Odin. Odin tried to kill Custer by sending the KKK after Custer, but our preacher stood tall and a titanic struggle for the soul of Salvation began.

Now, all that is riveting, but where does the disturbing come in? Well, I’m about to tell you and if you had plans to go to a steak house or deli today, you might want to start considering some vegetarian alternatives.

Odin would frequently go into his shed to relax. From there, readers would hear Odin saying things like “Spread the cheese” and other disturbing utterances. When all Hell came a callin’ for Odin, Custer found the man in his shed making love to a woman...made of meat. She had big turkey breasts, and a giant ham head, and sausage fingers and yeah, Odin Quincannon was screwing a meat woman.

The image was Steve Dillon’s most twisted visual in his entire run on Preacher. The page is haunting as a drooling, pathetic Odin Quincannon finds one last moment of solace by inserting his pecker into a woman made of meat. Pot roast pounding, veal-sturbation, turkey tumbling, ground beef insertion, sausage fondling, steak humping, pork porking...

The Saint of Killers

OK, imagine Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood and WWE’s Undertaker coalesced into a Voltron-like murder machine and you have the Saint of Killers. The Saint was once a frontiersman and former soldier who happily lived off the land with his family. When his beloved kin were felled by a fever, the future Saint went to get them the medicine they needed to survive. The soldier’s quest was fraught with peril and he was delayed. When he returned home, he found that it wasn’t the fever that killed his family; it was a group of roaming bandits. Swearing vengeance, the soldier gunned down all the bandits save the leader. The lead owlhoot grabbed a young girl as a hostage and the future Saint, so filled with vengeance, shot her through the head. His gun jammed and the bandit killed the soldier, leaving his vengeance incomplete.

The soldier may have died that day, but the Saint of Killers was born. He went down to Hell, but the killing didn’t stop. He gunned down every demon and devil he saw. The Saint was sent to heaven, but the killing still didn’t stop, he gunned down every angel he saw. The afterlife sent him to Earth and made the soldier the Patron Saint of All Killers. And the killing didn’t stop.

This brings the Saint into Jesse Custer’s story. The Saint is charged with tracking Custer and...well. It leads to a moment that is the essence of the sheer blasphemous gall of Preacher, a series where not even the Almighty is safe from a vengeance driven cowboy.

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