#frankenstein(fate)

[fateservantsirl]

Frankenstein by the power plant ruins by Chinda Falls in Bungo-ōno, Ōita from the Heroic Spirit Travel Journal Craft Essence series.

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Artist: Okazaki Takeshi

[ritsukakyrielight]

Uuh, uuh… Trans… ! 🏳️‍⚧️

[intrepid-fictioneer-7]

In a mood to make more niche Fate headcanon.

In FGO's London Singularity (still not good even after re-reading it years later), it is explained that, in this timeline, the grandchild of Victor Frankenstein (also called "Victor") was in London in 1888 and had kept Fran in a coffin. Which of course doesn't make much sense with how Victor dies at the end of the novel childless.

But you know which Frankenstein survived the events of the novel? Ernest Frankenstein, Victor's other little brother besides William, who is only scarcely mentioned throughout the novel. Last time we hear of him, he is 16 and wants to join the foreign service (i.e. become a Swiss mercenary).

From it I think you can recreate the same situation without completely retconing the original story. Say Ernest became a mercenary as he wished, probably during the entire length of the French Revolutionary Wars/Napoleonic Wars, let's say on the British side. During his service or perhaps after when the wars cease in 1815, something like around 20 years after the events of the novel (Frankenstein's chronology is extremely inconsistent, all we can say is that it was probably in the 1790s), he coincidentally meets Captain Robert Walton and befriend him, and Walton, realizing who he is, decides that he can't in good conscience not tell him what actually happened to his family and tell him.

Ernest then spends the first half of the 19th century joining the various Northwest Passage expeditions in hopes of finding the corpse of the Creature and he eventually succeeds. It doesn't matter if he only gets one part of her, Blasted Tree, and more broadly galvanism, ensures that it "is possible [...] to give birth to a second Frankenstein's Monster". In any case, Ernest takes whatever remains with him back to London where he settles down and gets married, keeping the "family legacy" in a coffin. Then eventually his grandson, named Victor in honor of his brother, also becomes a scientist and manage to recreate the Creature and even revive her, only to keep her asleep in that coffin.

No idea where he got Mephistopheles though.

(Why would Ernest retrieve Fran? Good question. If he wanted revenge, the killer of his family already killed herself. Maybe it's more complicated than that? He wanted to honor the memory of the brilliant scientist his brother was and also, because he got to hear both sides from Walton, in some weird fashion he decided to give Victor's "daughter" a proper burial.)

[grailfigure]

Frankenstein (Saber) // Fate/Grand Order

1/7 Scale by Max Factory

[lapithae]

listen,

[solarzilla]

[loutratton]

Is there any reason for me to draw fate apocrypha stuff that isnt either a shitpost or an absolute astolfo-loving-hours post? (all shitposts inspired by @enigma-boi )

[300iqprower]

Hypothetical Rank Up No. 15-17: Frankenstein (Rework)

This is a semi-full blown rework, everything about Fran’s kit being affected but galvanism. While they aren’t actually getting their base effects changed, they are getting a unique ability that completely changes how they’d be used, and introduces two new servant traits. So:

Overload C -> Overload C++

Increase own NP Strength (1 time, 3 turns)^ [20%/30% -> 30%/50%]. Inflict Burn on self (5 turns, 300 damage per turn) unless a [Machinist] servant is alive on the team (Includes Backline).^ [Demerit] + Apply Buff [Spark of Life] to self (5 turns).

Wail of the Living Dead C -> “Rise of the Living Dead…!”

60% Chance to inflict Stun on a single enemy (1 turn, Activates first). Decrease DEF for a single enemy (1 turn). + Decrease Stun Resist for a single enemy (1 turn, 25%-65%). Increase Arts effectiveness and Quick effectiveness of allies with [Spark of Life] status by 15% (3 turns).

Blasted Tree D~B+ -> Blasted Tree D~EX-

Deal considerable damage to all enemies. Inflict Stun to yourself (1 turn)^ unless a [Machinist] servant is alive on the team (Includes Backline).^ [Demerit] + If user possesses [Spark of Life], all allies gain [Spark of Life] (3 turns).

[Spark of Life] buff effects:

Increase overcharge by 2 (1 time). + Unit gains the [Human] attribute. + If unit would be affected by Instant Kill, remove [Spark of Life instead]. + If Guts is activated, remove [Spark of Life]. [Demerit]

Known [Artificial Being] servants include: Frankenstein, Frankenstein (Summer), Mash Kyrielight, Sieg, Mordred, Mordred (Summer), Hyde, Mephistopheles, Charles Babbage, Katou Danzo, Xiang Yu, Valkyrie, Enkidu, Nezha, Irisviel, Illya von Eizenbern, Illya von Eizenbern (Archer), Sitonai, Chloe von Eizenbern, Henry Jekyll, Galatea, Kingprotea, Passionlip, BB, BB (Summer), Meltryllis, Mysterious Alter Ego Lambda, Okita Alter, Okita J Souji, Voyager, Gray, Lu Bu, Mecha Eli-chan, Mecha Eli-chan MkII

Known [Machinist] servants include: Charles Babbage, Archer of Shinjuku, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Avicebro, Mephistopheles, Da Vinci, Da Vinci Lily, Da Vinci (Summer), Qin Shi Huang, Koyanskaya of the Light, Sima Yi, Mysterious Heroine X, Mysterious Heroine XX, Emiya Alter, William Tell, Hektor, Nemo, Hassan of the Hundred Personas, Sherlock Holmes, Henry Jekyll, Xiang Yu, Nero (Summer), Helena Blavatsky, Helena Blavatsky (Summer) , Zhuge-Liang (Waver), Robin Hood, Paracelsus, Semiramis, Morgan

….SO THEN YEAH THIS ONE TOOK A WHILE. The influence if it wasn’t clear is Fran’s Apocrypha incarnation and the transmutation of Sieg. With this new kit Fran becomes very team oriented whereas before they contributed little to others while requiring educated support. In exchange for not one but two kinds if limitations on effective teammates, Fran now has several utilities to bring to the table. The first is the very very minor but potentially niche changing of attributes to Human (cause ya know…ITS ALIVE!). There’s also the 1 time immunity to instant kill, but whether it is removed when targeted of only if it would succeed is a matter of balancing. The big one of course is upon receiving Spark of Life, a servant’s next NP use will gain 2 levels of overcharge, and if you can pull off a dedicated team for getting it spread twice, this would allow an oc5 np on up to to two allies, and if all NPs used in the same turn even Fran herself with them (however this would likely require something incredibly specialized given who can receive Spark of Life). Lastly as I'll go into in a moment, Fran can buff all allies with spark further via skills.

Overload of course applies the spark, and in exchange it now has a 1 time 3 turn duration instead of 1 turn to allow more flexibility with spark activation. It doesn’t necessarily mean much however because the trade off for the variety of effects spark provides is that it can ONLY be spread via Blasted Tree (which has its base stun lowered by 1 and like Overload’s burn can be avoided outright if the right servant is on the team), and while Fran’s galvanism is great she still has a gorilla deck meaning building NP isn’t exactly easy for her.

The big one though is her second skill’s (hypothetical) second rank up, which I was originally gonna have the stun scale scale on but instead decided to further devote Fran to teamwork, especially since a 100% base stun chance at 5 turns is better than even some modern 5 star stuns like Amakusa’s rank up. What i mean by teamwork though is how the skill now lowers stun resistance for the rest of the turn, but only AFTER the 60% stun proc. This effectively means if you have someone else with a stun and Fran’s fails, you can use someone else’s with an increased chance if you were really banking on it. The scaling is important to, because the max 65% is the threshold for even the worst stun in the game, Jekyll’s, to still land if Jekyll’s Panicky Voice skill is also at 10. (10% chance + increased stun chance of 25% + Reduced stun resistance by 65% = 100% before factoring in debuff resist buffs/passives). Lastly in the style of Blessing of Kur, all allies with Spark of Life get an offensive buff. The result of having their physical agility and mana circuits supercharged is a non-scaling 3-turn 15% to Arts and Quick is for each lower than a dedicated support for either (Paracelsus has a max 20% for arts. Casgil has a 30% and am additional effect. Etc.) but it fills a niche as the only servant as of right now with the same buff is Odysseus’s first skill which has higher values at max scaling and an additional very incredibly useful utility. What’s more given Fran's deck and who can get SoL it should be clear it’s about buffing others more than herself; that said her quick np means it isn’t pointless to use it just for herself.

So in summary: Fran goes from a burst berserker with a mismatched deck and mandated hard support, to an AoE burst/utility support hybrid whose accessibility in the pool and unique teamplay comes at the cost of very limited team compositions to get full use out of her.