#van-fem

[zeruleanja]

my chud french son

[random-delights]

Van-Fem appreciation post

[bydname]

‘black & white demons (?)’

[kaibutsushidousha]

So how DID Shirou beat Van-Fem you think?

As Van-Fem himself explained, Shirou's brand of Projection leaves no room for proving whether the cards on his hand are real or fake. He can draw a Royal Straight Flush every time and call it luck, if he wants to be really dumb about it. Van-Fem can't call the cheat unless he goes check the deck, which would invalidate the whole game either way.

[call-me-noa]

El-Melloi Adventures volume 8 summary

As before, all of the work writing these was done by Comun (@kaibutsushidousha) on Beast’s Lair. I am simply gathering it all in one place. Each chapter has a link to Comun’s original post.

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The Adventures of Lord El-Melloi II Volume 8: Fem's Casa (Part 3)

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Epilogue

Afterword

[random-delights]

There he is 😭

[kaibutsushidousha]

Do we have an inkling as to why Van-Fem helps with Aylesbury despite his fondness of humanity or is that a "please wait warmly for Tsukihime 2"? My own (unfounded) guesses would be that, based on his friendship with Melastea and Ziz, he might just genuinely want to see old friends again; or that, as a gambler, Van-Fem sees Aylesbury as the ultimate gamble.

Not really a thing we can deduce without a clear answer to what is the intended outcome of the Aylesbury ritual. We know it's something desirable to the heavily anti-human Dead Apostles, but also desirable to the technically pro-human Harwey family. We also that Van-Fem's personal goal is to extend his own immortality by subverting the heat death of the universe. Aside from that, all possibilities are still open.

I don't remember anything about his friendship with Meluastea, though. Did you mean Messara or something?

[kaibutsushidousha]

Does Van-Fem meets your expectation as a character?

What might be difference between fate and tsuki verse version.

His demeanor is very different from what I expected, but in a very "I should have seen this coming" way. I knew he was a guy who liked Flat a lot, after all. As the vampire who loves human innovation, he always sounded like the "good guy" among Dead Apostle Ancestors, which he very much turned out to be, but I wasn't ready for the affable magician presentation. The extent to which he keeps up with the trends is also beyond my expectations. I would never have imagined this man to have played a Virtual Boy.

Van-Fem was always described as a highly accomplished businessman and as a Dead Apostle technically on Arcueid's side in the Crimson Moon successor conflict not by any personal merit of Arcueid but because he has personal beef with both Ortenrosse and Altrouge, so I imagined him with more of a cutthroat personality. His previous depictions showed him as a person with unbendable personal rules at the most arbitrary subjects, such as never sucking blood from engineers in Mr. Dawn's backstory or not allowing Jester to hold double standards in FsF, and that's kinda reflected in the lengths he goes to reward Shirou and to lesser extent in his refusal to step on dirt in his debut scene, but he never felt scary in Adventures the way he did before. That's probably the biggest difference between Fate and Tsuki for him. The Tsuki counterpart is gambling at a higher game.

But the overall answer to the question is that I like Van-Fem a lot better than I liked what I thought he'd be.