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[unofficialgayfatesaddon]

Happy Thursday! We're following the Reina Restoration and Charlotte updates with the Yukimura Update, which doubles Yukimura's (written) romance options! Thank you to all the authors who contributed to this update!

We've gone over the existing supports with a fine-tooth comb to deliver over 170 supports edited for bugfixes, typos, and quality. And we've finally gotten rid of those pesky stray voicelines that were hiding in the walls (we hope).

Supports added this time include:

ROMANTIC: Anna x Azura, Anna x Izana, Anna x Silas, Azura x Effie, Shura x Azura S, Azama x Ryoma, Izana x Laslow, Xander x Fuga, Xander x Shura, Yukimura x Saizo, Yukimura x Keaton, Yukimura x Shura, Yukimura x Xander, Asugi x Ignatius S, Mitama x Ignatius, Forrest x Kiragi S, Forrest X Percy, Midori x Selkie, Kiragi x Ophelia S, Keaton x Silas, Benny x Leo, Saizo x Jakob, Soleil/KanaF, Shiro x Shigure

PLATONIC: Gunter/KanaF, Xander/KanaF, Xander/KanaM, Shura/Oboro, Fuga/Scarlet

PARENT/CHILD: Shura/Shigure PC, Yukimura/Asugi PC, Azama/Shiro PC, Kaden/Soleil PC, Anna/Sophie PC, Keaton/Sophie PC, Kaden/Sophie PC

SIBLING: Mitama/Shiro SIB

In addition to these new supports, a handful of existing supports have been edited and/or reworked:

*Elise/Charlotte has been reworked to omit some of the trauma-dumping that was (rightfully) commented upon as being a little too much. The premise is pretty much the same, but the tone has been shifted and Charlotte allowed a little more room to shine.

*Dwyer/Percy and Rhajat/Midori have had their S supports edited to be platonic.

*Flora/Peri has been reworked for clarity and condensed into a C-A. They are still S-support eligible, but no S support has been written at this time.

*Flora/Anna was reworked for brevity and better alignment with their characters.

*Kaze/Niles B-S has been rewritten to align more with their characters, reduce fanon, and bring the tone more in line with other Fates writing.

*Laslow/Keaton S has been rewritten to better align with the characters and their dynamic.

*Ryoma/Saizo S has been decluttered and edited for continuity.

Now to the bad news: in the process of editing and quality control, there were 34 supports that simply didn't make the cut. For various reasons, reworks were deemed insufficient, and it was decided that removing them and opening the support up for total rewrites was the best path forward. Flora was hit especially hard by this, since a majority of her supports were written before the current quality standards for UGF were put in place.

A list of the removed supports can be found here. If it is important to you to keep these supports, you can find their file names in the Support Authors and Support Bin Names document included with the update. Back them up however you wish. There should be no more removals after this; we've gone over every Original Gay Fates submission and many of the early UGF supports, and everything that remains has passed the quality check.

Since no changes were made to the GameData file, this update is safe to add in the middle of a Fates run.

As always, the update can be found on the gamebanana page here: https://gamebanana.com/mods/51420

[iguanzilla]

I just noticed that when Ultraman was fighting the Absolutian grunts, he literally scares one away

[ruru-cas]

Rare pair from hell. Inspired by the two episodes of the destined crossroads that involved Noa/Nexus.

He does not gaf about AT

[somereaderinblue]

Broke: Belial wanted Marie because he's always been an entitled, shallow scumbag.

Woke: Belial wanted Marie because the other option was letting Ken have her & he couldn't stand the thought of Ken's world revolving around someone other than him.

[klenda-v]

(Transferred thread from Twt: OG thread HERE, edited for clarity & the new format. Gonna eventually transfer several of my favorite threads here just in case Twt does die)

In Ultra Galaxy Fight: the Destined Crossroad, there’s a strange tagline: ARE YOU TOUGH ENOUGH?

Which begs the question: what does this mean? Who’s it talking to? Tough enough to do what? What does this have to do with a Crossroad, Destined or otherwise?

The obvious, easiest translation seems to be: are you, the viewer, tough enough? The implication being, I assume, to ask if we’re strong enough to stand with the Ultras against the Absolutians, fighting for the Land of Light.

But that seems incomplete; if that was the intent, I feel like there’d be something more specific they’re asking the viewers to do, a specific call to action (eg SUBSCRIBE TO FIGHT THE ABSOLUTIANS or VISIT OUR WEBSITE AND DO THIS THING TO ETC ETC). There’s the Narak Tower game but since they don’t tie that in as strongly in mainstream advertising, I don’t think that’s the intended meaning of the tagline.

I also assume it’s not saying “are you, the viewer, tough enough to sit through a movie-length series of ideas that Klenda will eventually do an overly long thoughts-thread about.” So I think it’s safe to assume it means someone within the story.

Because of the UGF format, there’s no one true “main character,” or even a main cast. It’s “everyone is here Except Agul” which means it’s hard to tell what characters are considered central. But let’s go over the possibilities. Who in The Destined Crossroad needs to be Tough Enough?

Grigio is the first character we meet who can be called a main-character. And like…in a sense she needs to be tough? They start a really interesting direction with her and Gina, and Grigio deciding throughout that she wants to be stronger—hence, “tougher.” Even Mebius mentions that her strength and powers could be the key to ending the Absolutian threat.

So is it talking to Grigio? I’m inclined to say no; Grigio starts that arc of growth and strength, yes, but we never really see her go anywhere with it. Her last scene ends with her saying “I need to get stronger!” And then we just. Never see her again. She vanishes an hour into the movie, and never again becomes relevant to the story.

So not Grigio. Maybe Zero?

He seems like a likely candidate; his arc in this is about getting back to his roots—on multiple levels. He circles back to his origins as a character and in his legacy, both as a leader and a student, and he has to use that in a new, tough way.

So does Zero need to be Tough Enough?

There’s a better argument for him than Grigio, but I’d argue no. His power and new ability is relevant to the finale in a way Grigio’s isn’t (read: he’s THERE AT ALL, thanks Tsuburaya), but is it Zero’s story? I don’t think he’s the one the story’s truly about. And I don’t think he’s the one the tagline applies to the most.

Ribut’s another main(ish) character, but he doesn’t do enough for me to really think it’s asking him to be tough. That and it feels contrary to his role in the story, as his “toughness” is in his stubborn belief in his friends and his faith in his ideals.

The only other likely candidate seems to be Regulos, the new kid on the block. The story establishes him as incredibly powerful, and master of THE strongest space-martial-art that we know of in the Ultra universe. Not to mention he has a personal grudge against the Absolutians, so it seems like it’s him who needs to be Tough Enough.

I’d like to posit that none of these people are the one the question is addressed to. Because it isn’t their story. They’re all part of that story, yes, but they’re not the reason the story’s happening.

None of the Ultras are so consistently pushing the story forward, so constantly active rather than reactive, so desperate to achieve their ends that they’ll burn down worlds to get it.

No one in The Destined Crossroad needs to be tougher than Absolute Tartarus.

Tartarus is, in the technical sense of the word, the protagonist of UGF3. He’s the one moving the story forward, connecting all the threads of the story, his role is active and reactive. This is his story; a story about his downfall.

UGF3 itself lets us watch in real-time as Tartarus slowly deteriorates under the pressure of his mission. He started UGF2 as a polished villain, never losing his cool, cold and calculated, who will carry out his task whatever the cost. And by the end…he’s desperate, screaming, self-destructive.

And in the end, he wasn’t tough enough.

Rather, he was tough in the wrong ways; he wasn’t tough as in resilient, but tough as in closed-off. He sacrificed everything for his ends: any sense of honor, morality, his own life, and even the lives of those entrusted to his care. The lives that, supposedly, he’d been fighting to save.

So TL;DR: the Ultras were Tough Enough, in the sense that they stayed strong in the way all true Ultras do. They held fast to their hope and their bonds, and persevered in compassion and empathy.

And Tartarus acted as a foil and antithesis to those ideals.

….so is that what Tsuburaya meant by that line? "Are You Tough Enough?"

Almost definitely not! But that’s where my brain went so there you go—

[fedorasaurus]

Redraw of Ultraman Victory from Ultra Galaxy Fight. I know nothing about Ultraman except that the characters are adorable giant aliens, but watching this webseries I’m already loving all of the characters and their wholesome (if a little cheesy) interactions.

Victory’s design really stands out to me with that glowy head crest of his!

[kusuma-feng]

mc will make sol stop being artemis' pet and turn him to the rebellious side it's what they deserve

[hades-x-thoughts]

Alguien que me diga cómo me quito estos sentimientos de mierda

@madness5j28