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SABER - FATE/EXTRA LAST ENCORE 

UMU

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Fate/extra last encore

Two episodes into this series now.  I started it hoping to find another Fate/zero, but it’s starting to look like it’s going to be another Apocrypha.  I love the show’s visual style, it reminds me of Gankutsuo, but I feel like they’re wasting Extra’s strong suits.

Extra had a complicated back story, but on a chapter-to-chapter level it was one of the most straightforward Holy Grail Wars:  128 people are fighting, you get your opponent’s name on day 1, on day 5 you fight to the death, the winner advances to the next level. The anime adaption is... convolution for its own sake. 

 I was hoping it’d be another series I could use to introduce outsiders to the franchise, but at least it’ll be fun for established fans.  Grand Order servants are given cameos, and there’s something oddly endearing about Hakuno’s over-abundance of chill.

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Fate Counterfeit: the concept

The first post, and the last post I’ll be making today, is this, an introduction to my light novel project.  I’m already about 25,000 words into it, and have been uploading the completed chapters here:

FF.net:  https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12790034/1/FateCounterfeit

I’ll also be reposting the chapters here, one per week, due in part to a copying error I made in chapter one, which resulted in the date stamps I provided between scenes being incorrect.  FF.net has been... less than cooperative with my attempts to fix the issue.

Fate Counterfeit tells the story of the anti-grail war, an event in the distant past of the Fate/Extra universe, which resulted in the eradication of all magic from the world, and thus set the stage for the setting of the proper series.

At the behest of a strange invitation, seven strangers gather.  Each of these seven souls carries a wish so strong that they would be willing to kill and die for even the faintest chance of seeing that wish become reality.

The story is largely character-driven, and I know that it’s here that I’m probably hampering my ability to draw an audience.  With two exceptions, one of whom doesn’t appear until a decent way through the work, the entire cast is original, with only the lore, the universe, and the holy grail war itself tying them to the franchise.  As such, I can’t fault anyone who passes on it due to it simply not being what they’re looking for in a fanfiction.

Having said that, though, this story is probably my opus, and is assuredly a passion project of mine, so I feel compelled to complete it, and have a decent amount of confidence in the concept, even if my skill with prose is lacking, to say the least.

So, I welcome any who would wish to read it!  If you’re unfamiliar with the Fate franchise, I tried to write it in such a way as to make it accessible for an outsider.  “Tried” is definitely the operative word there, though.  The lore of the franchise is so complex that it can take seeing it in practice to understand how it goes together, and even with as much exposition as I felt comfortable cramming into each scene it may prove a little confusing to a newcomer.

As always, thank you for your time, and if you happen to read it, let me know what you think!

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セイバー系さん | しのあき

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ぴてこ

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At least we now know no one from Siliconera played the first Fate/Extra.