into Author

"Ahhh – Well done, you old rapscallion."

Finished reading all eight parts, I close the book with heavy feelings in my heart and raise my face to the sky before letting out a sincere word of thanks.

Too cruel.

Too heavy.

No one reaches salvation at all.

But despite these sacrifices, there are still some sparks of light remaining in our hearts.

Creation and destruction are a pair of twins. Everything was swallowed up in crimson flames and all disappeared with the wind. Yet in the end, a new life budded forth from a desolate battlefield that should only have been left with infinite sorrow.

This light was infinitely small compared to all that had been lost, but it was incomparably nobler as a result. We who can only watch can only feel touched by that light.

SURE, I WISH MY POSTFACE WAS THAT -.-

So here you've reached the end of my story, it's not a happy story, it's not a sad story either, it's a story with an ending that's all. If I have to call it something, I'd call it my Fate. My Fate differs from Nasu's and Gen's undoubtedly it is not a good as either of them, but even if it is sour like an unripe fruit, and even if I may have poured everything that is and will be genuine out of my soul before it has time to mature, I do not regret making that choice. An author who I no longer remember once wrote that when a work is finished, it is never finished rather it feels like as if something essential is missing, a gap it seems which is why writers always purse writing more and more, to fill a gap that cannot be filled by writing, by writing. Well I don't think of myself as writer so I can't exactly empathize but I cannot accept that person's words. She calls this melancholy, but less so than absolute self-flattery. Really? Melancholy, writing yet knowing you cannot be filled by writing is almost like the paradox created by an orange haired boy, right? And what were his words for it? Beautiful. He believed his ideal was beautiful. So I guess I'll believe the same, but that's a gigantic tangent. I know my Fate is not great or stunning, but I feel it a story that should be told; nothing more, nothing less. This isn't a story of the next Holy Grail War nor is it the story of a Parallel Holy Grail War, this is a Fate about motivations and most importantly this is a Fate of how. How one scene, one stage, dropped a hero into darkness and how even among that darkness they found a hint of light, how each of these heroes achieved their Noble Phantasms and at what cost. Now much of what I write is confusing so the rest of this serves as an explanation. After all this is a Fate fanfic so I put Fate cannon above historical cannon.
Abrupt End!

into Caster:

My magnum opus starts with Caster because out of all the Servants I love her story. It's filled with so much emotion and well it's Medea after all. Although not in my story Shoichiro is the best Fate character, I mean no one can DISLIKE Shiochiro, but back to topic. The image I started with was red because the girl sitting in front of me in maths class that day was wearing a red hoodie, simple enough. This is a story of how Caster obtained the Rule Breaker never mentioned in the legends. I used the "knife that Medea used to kill her brother," as the model, but that in itself isn't Rule Breaker because you can't actually kill with Rule Breaker, so I expanded it to the sins erased by Circe onto the knife making the Noble Phantasm because Medea is known as a betrayer. As for the rocking the ship, well it comes from the expression "to rock the boat" so hmm. The Caster I tried to portray was one that was trying to love Jason, but… she didn't really love him, but the arrow from Eros made her feel as if she did. Which is why I would say this Caster is a bit Yandere maybe… but she's not a lunatic, and it's not her fault. Her fate has been controlled by the gods since she the day she was born, her becoming a Servant is due to that helpless hate. Heracles in this is just after 9th Labour Heracles so this takes place before "into Beserker" about 4 months maybe? Yes I do know that Heracles leaves the Argonauts like just after setting off but in UBW Tohsaka says HMMM maybe Berserker knows Caster's weak points since they sailed together. NO THEY DID NOT. So yea I kept with the F/SN canon. I included Orpheus just for kicks though and I wanted to milk the Argo of all the characters who would seem sympathetic towards a lonely girl like Medea. With the story of Crete Medea is a sheltered princess, but she's married so… she's kinda innocent I guess? For the Jason is not a warrior part look up Jason's name. I am not going to find the character set Fate uses for Medea's high speed divine casting so I used Greek like most other fanfic writers. I'm not sure you can gather mana from the wood of the Argo but considering the tree it was made from... So in conclusion I would say this is the most me of all my stories. Although it's not my style as I tried to imitate the style of the one who posted this, however I probably failed. Still this story is the one that speaks the most to me. Medea's insane angst is just terrifying and I believe that's what most people would do in her situation. It's really just the outpouring of a girl that wishes to return to happier days.

into Assassin

After the insane trip I did in "into Caster," I wanted to write a more light-novel-esqe story. The most light-novely you can get is… BOY-MEETS-GIRL which is exactly what "into Assassin is." The beginning is obviously taken off the prologue from Tsukihime. Don't judge me for doing that it's just the scene fit my scene perfectly. So how did I come up with this story? Well I didn't want to tell a story about Saskai Kojiro because his not Assassin. Assassin is a wraith that is able to use Tsubame Gaeshi that is all. So what does this wraith have? What is the most important thing to this wraith that cannot remember anything? His one skill that takes on God Itself. So logically if he knows how to use that skill he has to remember where and how he learnt it, and that's this story. Now I thought that the story about trying to kill a swallow was stupid -.- seriously, can you seriously get that bored? So this was my take on that, with a girl called Tsubame who was a psychic and a super strong psychic at that, so I made her too overpowered, shame on me. And then the move Tsubame was something I thought of when thinking why the sword strike is named Tsubame Gaeshi. I associated Assassin with Ryudoji with the Fate Tiger Coliseum drinking sake with friends ending scene. I felt that was appropriate and a valid reason why he was summoned when Ryudoji was used as a catalyst. Finally I must confess the ending to this story is much like Katanagatari, for the reason, that ending seemed to fit so well with this ending. This was Assassin's only memory there is no before, there is no after, therefore it should end like the reader wants it to end. If they want Assassin's story to be a tragedy then so be it. If they want a happy ending so be it. This memory of his is his everything, it's the only proof he had of ever existing so obviously there shouldn't be an afterwards for a before.

into Saber:

An unsure Saber that decides to be proud of her life.

A pure and unsullied Saber.

Both these Sabers have been written about, to write another one using these two Sabers would be redundant. So instead I chose a hopeful yet weary Saber, one that is about the break from all the battles she has fought, but finds the hope to go on. The battle I found that most appropriate is the 12th of the 12 great battles she fought, The Battle of Badon Hill. Also I guess the historic and mythological background intrigued me. Bearing a holy cross? Killing about 900 people single-handedly? How does that fit? I made the Holy Cross into Excalibur and Galentine because I was reminded about Exaclibur being "a line of light" so - + | = + AHA! Then the problem was that she had to "bear" the cross. So I was like -.- she…bore…the deaths… that the cross…brought on? Not a very good explanation but hey. As for setting, this actually has a setting, it's set after the Last Episode, I guess when Shirou and Saber are recounting their stories to each other, or something like that. The tone of this story is set probably by the Fate anime ending song, Anata Ita ga Mori, I love the way how that song starts, a wistful fey tone that turns more and more powerful. That's the tone I tried to convey. A weary Saber who starts to doubt herself only to find the power to keep on going in her ideal utopia may not be, well normal but it it's what I had.

into Lancer:

When people think of Lancer it's always:

"His guy that I want to be my bro."

"If I'm in a fight, I want him to have my back."

Yea, that's true, but in looking at this legend I couldn't help feel that there was an exaggeration of his machoism and that sort of made me perplexed. He did a lot of sad things in his life, he killed his best friend, he killed his son, but he was satisfied with his life and only chased the Holy Grail because he wanted greater fights. So I can only say that there was something supporting him throughout his life, more like something. Meh, I really can't see Lancer as a romantic guy after Ataraxia, but he does work at a flower-shop so he MUST KNOW SOMETHING. The main problem with this is the timeline. In Ataraxia, Lancer kills his best friend then kills his own son. In the epics he kills his own son then kills his best friend. So again I went with the Fate version of events. And yea, I made Lancer's "son" a daughter. Why? Inno I always saw Lancer's son, Connla, as a daughter. A son that is in the shadow of his father may do all that he did, however it seems more likely that a daughter is more fitting. Lancer wanted a son, so this daughter would try to do everything to become that son. Well that's what I think; after all she was also under that gigantic shadow. So yea. As for my rune system -.- Whatever, I don't know Type-moon's rune system well enough from just one spell from Kara and a drawing in the UBW movie, so basically English to Gaelic dictionary and a website about runes. However knowing those runes and what they mean and those words as well is central to the fight. Finally why I did Lugh's story. I guess I wanted to juxtaposition, Lancer's life compared to Lugh's life and how they are different. Yea decided Lugh would have Mystic Eyes of Death Perception because of a conversation with my brother, who knows nothing about Type-moon, about how David killed Goliath. I guess a giant killing Noble Phantasm would have worked but so would Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. Since Lugh was Baldor's grandson he probably would have had the Perception kind not the Death kind considering how close Lugh got to death. So Lancer being Lugh's son would have the potential as well. Baldor's daughter probably was born with Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, the very reason he locked her up in a tower which makes sense as Touko said if you want to stop Shiki lock her up in a box of concrete, not in a sealed off dimension. So hmmm.

into Berserker

If "into Caster" was the most me, this story is definitely my favorite and the hardest write. In even I am unsure who the protagonist is, the princess of the Gods or Heracules hmmmm. Well that's up to you. As for the Princess of the Gods, I will leave that to the reader's interpretation, it's not that hard to work out if you know your Heracles. When I was writing this I was reading Faulker, so his style seeped into this story about a mad warrior. The italics represent A NEW SPEAKER, nothing more, it's up to the reader to determine who the speaker is though. In this story I really wanted to bypass the image he has in history, the super buff awesome womanizer that doesn't care about anyone except himself. I guess I think of him more as a family man from his portrayal in Fate. I used Synochronizers in this well because how else did Heracles not kill his family early. I made Megara like Hisui, I don't know why I did so, maybe because Kohaku as Heracles wife would be like -.- wtf. Finally I'll address the most serious issue I had with this story, THE BLANTANT RIP OFF KARA NO KYOUKAI, yea, but again I felt it was so relevant to what I had in mind, the Princess of Gods is a god that has flown and floated all her life that she doesn't understand that people have the option of falling. Something that is eternal cannot understand something that is limited and vice-versa, but in the end she does to some degree understand what "limited life" really means. While I'm confessing my references, I would also say Kratos standing over a cliff about to jump really inspire the setting. But the insanity of this story really portrays turbulent state of mine, in my opinion anyway.

into True Assassin:

Umineko, yea in writing a story about brothers and reaching a goal, I instantly thought of the "ten nights to get to the golden capital" idea that Rosa gave out. Interweaving memories a mix of past and present is really confusing so I made a timeline.

It may not show up on this site but I did make one.

Other than that there is nothing much I need to explain maybe except for the Counter- Guardian thing. So Hassan's brother is a living Counter-Guardian, like when Shirou in between making a deal with the world and dying. Anyway Hassan's brother's mission is to destroy the inherent reality marble because it threatens the "world," however Hassan's brother's feelings go in the way, etc and eventually Hassan kills a Counter Guardian but his own fate is unknown and that's the way I want to keep it.

into Rider

The most how story in my opinion. I always felt weird about why the Blood Fortress was called Andromeda, and I wondered about Andromeda's life before she became Persus' wife. So here is my take on that. I have decided to not elaborate on Medusa's crime, in Fate she displeased Athena, in mythology she got raped in Athena's temple, all we should really know is that she commit some sort of "crime" that she felt was not a crime. The rest is self-explanatory maybe except for the end. After Andromedea returned Medusa sent a message in a bottle after each stage of evolution as a Gorgon. So when the 87th message reached Medusa, probably took about a year at the earliest to even get to where Andromeda lived. And since the oceans are that wide it was probably one in like a billion, no a trillion that the message would have even made it to that place. But you know… So I guess the thing that doesn't make sense in this story is how Andromeda gets married to Persus. I guess it's out of duty more than anything. That's really all I can say. So I'm not sure if this ending can be treated as happy… but it's an ending with fulfillment.

into Archer:

The final story and it's the final one because I didn't really have any ideas for this one till I was writing "into Rider." Well the main difference between this and all the other into's is there is no fighting, obviously and it's the most confusing of them all. This is my take on how Shirou became Archer. I am sure my version is not the cannon version but… it fits. So we know that Shirou asked the World to save people after a natural disaster. We also know that Kiritsugu put explosives in Mt Enzo hoping to destroy the Holy Grail War. LINK THEM TOGETHER. I mean seriously I sure Shirou would ask the world to save those that lived in Fuyuki. The largest flaw in my logic is how Kiritsugu said it'd explode in forty years so that means thirty years after Fate. Welp I was like hmm Archer is about 25-29, Shirou is like 17 so give him so time I guess he made a pledge to the world at age 20? So that's what I went with. As for the whole despair over Ilya dying I did a "pilgrimage to England" atonement thing so yea. The second largest flaw in the prana fountain thing, I give credit to first season of Shakugan for that, Fountain of Power of Existence, Fountain of Prana, hmmm. The main problem is that prana is colorless unless there is a container so I assumed that ley lines are basically magic circuits, but for earth. And the only example of magic circuits that Type-moon gives are Shirou's and they are green, therefore the green colour in this story is due to this. The hardest thing about writing this is well Archer's past is the future of Fate, and that always brings so much debate about how and what, so I didn't really like writing this one, too much stress and trying to make things coherent and everything like that. Finally the Avalon thing at the end is really a link to the Last Episode which doesn't make sense. All I'm trying to say is that UBW is part of Shirou, Avalon is a part of Shirou as well. THEREFORE if one can cross the infinite wasteland (which is really impossible) then can reach Avalon where Saber is waiting (metaphorically), so doing so I try to explain the "waiting forever" and "pursing forever" stuff in the Last Episode. IT'S ALL SYMBOLIC.

into Another:

My own story, based of Alliance. Type-moon is really formulaic. MOTHERSHIP-FANDISC-MINISTORY-FIGHTING GAME. I noticed that Fate does not have that mini story that is known as "Alliance of the Illusionary Eyes." But more importantly this story is the prequel to the next story I am going to write. This story is set a month of two after HF epilogue and it's a love story in essence between Issei and Rider. WHAT AN INSANE PAIRING. Well they both have glasses for one so I was like HMMMMM and even in Ataraxia which says Rider likes Shirou, Shirou does not have feelings for Rider. SO THERE. Again I seemed to have made Issei way overpowered but the inspiration for his Mystic Eyes comes from I think it's Shirou saying that the Emiya Boundary Field is more "human" than the Tohsaka one. So that got me thinking WHAT IF A BOUNDARY FIELD IS SO HUMAN that it affects those born and living inside it. Especially if their eyes are . No spoilers. But I will let on that Issei's Mystic Eyes are green. So what's that classification on the Mystic Eye colour thing? The chameleon vampire thing will also be kinda significant maybe. O yea "Dead Bodies Found In Shinto," that was seriously hard to fit in that paragraph.

Well that about covers everything, if you want further explanations just ask, I'll try to answer them as much as possible. As for the WHERE'S GILGAMESH question; Fate/into Darkness is about the servants summoned in the 5th Holy Grail War and Gilgamesh was summoned in the 4th.

So thanks for reading