#twice pieceman

[daily-rayless]

And we conclude April with a Happy Birthday to Dr Twice Pieceman from Fate/Extra, who wants and deserves nothing.

[fatedtime]

What's up, everyone! I'm here with the results of my Pride Marathon Stream, where I filled requests from chat and drew characters in pride-themed outfits! I hope you enjoy, everyone, and that you had a good month of June.

[nero-draco]

[typemoonsmashorpass]

[nasuversekinkmeme]

the moon cell undergoes a system update.

suicide

[original prompt]

[fictional-birthdays]

Happy Birthday! (April 30th)

Twice H. Pieceman (Fate/Extra)

Shino Hazuki (Chaos;Head)

Eliza (Lapis Re:LiGHTs)

Angus (Animal Crossing)

Gato (Naruto)

Eikichi Nebuya (Kuroko no Basket)

Yoichi Tanaka (Ao Haru Ride)

Konoe A. Mercury (BlazBlue)

Kengo Miyazawa (Little Busters!)

Kuranosuke (Pop’n Music)

Shuichiro Oishi (Prince of Tennis)

Tatsuya Enomoto (K Project)

Tokiwa Anzai (Mewkledreamy)

Takuma Yuba (World Trigger)

Yuri Serizawa (Boyfriend Kari Kirameki Note)

[mastimio]

I am tired of the misconceptions around nasuverse magi.

The consensus around fate tumblr, reddit and other such places is that every single mage that isnt the protagonist would kick a puppy and eat a baby. Tbf, there are elements of truth in it. But its to the point where, people, if they see that the character in question is mildly related to the clock tower they will instantly dismiss them. Its simply too much of an exaggeration. I remember when people said that having some of the crypters in FGO being genuinely alright people a retcon, because they were supposed to be the evil magus that opposed our plucky protagonist.

There is just a blatant refusal to critically examine magi characters like Kayneth or Tokiomi even when the story talks about them positively. It gets very embarrassing at times

When Mash and Leonardo gave the crypters glowing, five star reviews to our self insert protagonist, there were people who would rather believe tamamovitch in that they were somehow jealous of your accomplishments.

There were people who claimed Goredolf being a good man deep down was a retcon, and Kirchstaria being a gigachad was false, despite the part 2 prologue and crypter interludes showing otherwise.

When a magus character is given character traits beyond being a power hungry megalomaniac, it is talked about as if they are the exception to a rule. It prevents any discussion about magi from going anywhere.

People than ask why is there so many magi villains then? Its pretty fuckin simple. Nasu and other writers needed a villain, and there was an easy pool of unnamed characters they could pull from.

The problem with making exceptions out of protagonist magi characters is that they don't hate magi society. Rin still desires to be a part of the clocktower and study there. Luvia is an amazingly fun character, and has a frankly adorable crush on Shirou. Even her family can be designated as generally cool people, given Luvias younger sister is marrying for love rather than genes.

Luvia still threatens to kill Waver if he reveals her family's magic to the clock tower. Waver, despite being fate tumblrs pet boy who cant do magic very well, despite their idea that, wow wanting magic in this world is the worst thing ever, still thinks that being a magus, and reaching for the root is an incredibly noble goal.

Why cant it be down to the culture that magi were raised in? Why is it that these people are the exception, and the rest of magi society should burn? Why are so called good Magi thought of as protagonist/good person first, and Magi second, and why are antagonist magi hit with the magi first, shitty person second? Hell, even Touko Aozaki bounces from role to role depending on what story you are reading. Shes the villain of Mahoyo, a wise mentor in Kara no Kyoukai, and just somebody having the time of her life in Case Files: Grace Note. Aoko was planning to kill Soujuuro for witnessing magic, only stopping when he helps her fight against toukos puppet.

Even the traits that people like to shit on magi for are just traits prevalent in all Nasu villains, magi or not. Arrogance? Gilgamesh, BB, tamamovitch and Kiara have it in spades.

Sociopathy? Lio and Ryuunosokeare serial killers, as well as Jackie and Reika from apocrypha. Kirei is literally just like that ™️

Not caring for human life? Shirou Amakusa, Twice Pieceman, Kiara, Goetia, The Lion King, all grand visionary villains.

You could do the reverse for magi villains as well. Manaka was connected to the root and fell in love with Arthur. Shinji is an asshole and he cant even do magic that well.

Speaking of the root, there are very few magi villains who do anything to get to the root. Zouken, before he went bug man dementia guy, wanted to reach the root so he could help humanity. He lost touch with his goal and simply wanted immortality. And he is the example most people point to for evil magi stomping on anybody to get to the root. His treatment of Sakura was because he wanted to get back at their ancestor which he knew.

The Einzbern are barely even human anymore, just Homunculi following the directives of their long dead creators. Im not kidding, even irisviels father is another homunculus. There are no living magi in the Einzbern family.

Roa fell in love with Arcueid, which is what drives him in tsukihime. Cornelius Alba was a fucking incel who fell in love with touko, but was also jealous of her, which made him want to kill her. Zepia wanted to help humanity and save the world, but went insane when he couldn't figure out how. He decided to become an antagonistic phenomenon, in the hopes that might change the fate of the world. Dust of Osiris wanted to save humanity's future (and her girlfriend) by preserving it as a record, frozen in time in the philosophers stone.

What magic weed do they smoke, that most Magi villains want to save the world?

Touko is a villain in Mahoyo, she wants to kill her sister out of jealousy. Atrum Galliasta doesnt care about anything except the benefits magic can bring him. The american magi from Strange Fake and the japanese magi from Type Redline want to use their magic for nationalistic purposes.

The only magi who fit the popular image that I can think of are Souren Araya, Darnic Yggdmillenia, Nigel Saward, and some of the antagonists of Case Files, specifically from volume 1 to volume 3, including the original villains of the anime.

Even with Araya, he wants to destroy the root and find the happiest moment in human history to preserve it. Just like Goetia, Dust Of Osiris, and The Lion King.

Darnic wants to reach the root so he can gain enough power to make his mega family/faction secede from the Mages Association. The other guys are doing their thing so they can do their experiments in peace. They are escaping sealing designations, which are only leveled on the people who may expose the magic world by experimenting on random non magic people.

So, that talks about a general fandom perspective on average magi. But what of the Mages Association? The organization that will gladly turn a blind eye to the extermination of innocents, as long as you dont get caught?

Or they would. If it wasn't against their fucking laws that crime by magic or involving innocents were incredibly punishable. Its more a problem with the western fandom having a lack of official translations, but there are unofficial ones.

This may not be out of the goodness of their heart, as these are in place so as to not expose their existence to the rest of the world.

But, they still take care of these problems. They handled Jack the Ripper, and took care of mages like Heinrich Zepter whos experiments affected many civilians. Why dont they do anything in japan? They dont have much surveillance there. Its a whole plot point in garden of sinners.

Even in fate/stay night, the reason the grail war takes place in fuyuki is because it is so far from the watchful eye of the association.

[lunarlagomorph]

Twice pieceman was kind of a lame finale to fate extra. Honestly leo made more sense as the final boss. I do really like saying the name twice pieceman outloud though. Has a crispness. Twice pieceman.

[kimikatherine]

Twice H Pieceman would love the Revue Starlight Movie

[madillhethen]

You and I Sakura are on the same wavelength.

This is the first time an NPC actually refers to fighting a main master but I guess it’s because there’re only 8 masters left.

Wha--I think surviving 4 weeks of this hell game should qualify me as a real one.

Actually...she’s an NPC by the Moon Cell, right? Is this a hint to something? I’ve been thinking about Twice. We only saw his cyber ghost or whatever and Rin mentioned his name, but I was thinking what if it’s like Yunalesca from FFX where winning is not really winning. What if Twice was the previous Grail War’s participate but he won but now he’s trapped into the Moon Cell or something? Maybe his servant gets sacrificed or abandoned (like how the Guardian becomes Sin). I don’t know I’m thinking either this or that he’s created by the Moon Cell.

You fall further and further from my liking, Rin.

[brave-symphonia]

Wow, fuck you.

[sleepywormapocalypse]

“Oh? You’re approaching me?”

“I can’t win the holy grail war without coming closer.”

[nero-draco]

"Beloved blade" even Twice knows HakuNero is a thing.

Makes sense since he watched their journey overcoming the hardships.

[tamadoodle]

yesterday was twice's birthday

everyone is celebrating

[pollyxart]

more palette work (thank you twitter for letting me be self-indulgent)