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03/05/2012

Firstly, yes the title was intentional. I do what fulsome means and its connotations ;). Currently I still haven't finished Fate/ Extra. I've finished Rin route with Nero and currently doing Rani Route with Caster. This is the second time I've completed a route with Nero though, but back then I didn't understand since I played it in Japanese. This will be my final Fate/ into fic. I don't think I could deal with Apocrypha that well considering it's probably never going to see the light of day other than that Jack story which was really good. So enjoy the rest of these stories and review please. As for formatting I've decided to use 's and not Word even if the page seems long.

04/28/2012

Considering the difference in dates I have actually done quite a bit. Just look at the profile updates, etc. But I have been pondering the question: What is Fate? What is Fate as a franchise, and I have have realized that Fate is as Nasu puts it "conquering oneself." Also the premise of having magus summoning Heroic Spirits which fight with each other. But if that interpretation of Fate is true... what is my Fate? So in the end I have to conclude that my Fate is mistaken. My Fate does not have magi, it does not Heroic Spirits, neither does it have a Holy Grail. It is only an archive, perhaps each story being on of the books that each Heroic Spirit reads about themselves while on the eternal prison known as the Throne of Heroes. So rather than being a story about "Fate," I now believe that this is more of a story about "into."

05/14/2012
into Fulsomeness is a story of introspection rather than action. Of course, introspection comes when one is acting, but that is not always the case. At this point of time I am nearly finished. I was going to have a special chapter at the end of into Fulsomeness like the others and that would be called "into Monster," but the story of Ryougi Shiki is one which is complete and I would have nothing more to add to it. Like Shirou says about reinforcement: "The thing I'm attempting is like adding something to an already complete work of art." So I'm going to leave Ryougi Shiki alone. But I will have a special. It'll be something I wrote as a Christmas present for someone in 2011. It's rather short, for some odd reason I made a glossary for it, and it really, really, really almost breaks canon which disgusts me. However, the more I think about it, the more it fits with the whole theme of "fulsome."

06/07/2012
Finally finished the Caster part of Extra. Enlightening. Well this means I only have Archer left to play through and I'll probably be done with this before I finish Archer's path. I have noticed that my stories are getting increasingly shorter and shorter and more introspective. It irks me a bit, especially while writing into Saber, that my style and prose would turn into something like that. So I've resolved myself to end on a good note. Yes, Fulsomeness is almost complete. Thank you for reading it. Still haven't got any reviews but no news is good news in a way. As for putting images accompanying your fics, I doubt I will do that, so all my fics will have the number four on them. Why have such an idea like that in the first place?

06/12/2012
Today is the day that I finished all my fics. The holidays have been a great deal of help for that; however, I will not completely release them in one go. into Saver will be released on it's own. It's incredibly long. As for thoughts about now, well I am reaching the end of my into series. It's been a long time, starting last year and ending well now. I will have one more fic to write and that should be about it. As for Extra? I've been really lagging behind on finishing Archer's route in Extra. I should do that before CCC comes out.

06/15/2012
Final update. For all the people who have supported me. Thank you. It takes two to tell a story after all.

into Archer:
I didn't want a Robin Hood who had a band of merry men. The Archer in Fate/Extra seems the type to work alone, never relying on someone, never trusting anyone, and I went with that. As for the French Marian well, that's thanks for someone else. Rien is French for 'nothing' and I felt it was fitting to call her that. Could this story be considered a Mary Sue? Most probably. This one is quite literally a Cinderella story with the cruel step-mother and the stupid step-sisters. Yet this is also a Girl Meets Boy story, but most importantly I want to prove Archer wrong. In Fate/Extra he's so cynical, in his profile it talks about the villagers who he protected but blamed him for everything and made him a convenient existence. That's probably true. I'm not denying that and incorporated that. But Rien is the anti-thesis of that. She's someone who grew up because of Archer. In the Moon Cell Archer indulges himself with self-pity. He complains about his life and that his goals were not met. That pissed me off. Maybe he had a hard life, his name was mud, nobody liked him, and everyone was his enemy. But Archer had people that loved him. But he saved people and that's why he's a hero. If Archer could just see how brave Rien was because of him… maybe he would have accepted his death. As for the gratuitous French… it's French, Google translate it if you really want to know. Most of them are just Tsukihime lines anyway.

into Caster:
Yes this is a misnomer. I concentrated on Alice not Nursery Rhyme simply because I believed the Alice for Extra was so interesting. When she describes her death I could only picture a German bombing unloading their bombs onto London and one of them accidently hitting poor little Alice. I'll admit my Alice is a bit OCC. However remember that Extra's Alice spent a long time alone is a white room. I mean the London Blitz is a such a brilliant time period to write in. A world covered with madness, a perfect place to set a Wonderland. I'm surprised Nasu hasn't touched on it. I mean what happened to the Clock Tower when London was at war, where were the magi? And that became my vision. As for the rat, I'm sure many of you would recognize that as Merem Solomon's rat. I don't know why it was there. It wasn't leading Alice on. Rather it was an impetus for her entrance into the Holy Grail War. As for the hair ornaments they are substitutes for mystic eyes for female magi. They usually contain a single action spell that is a last resort. So that's the significance of Alice giving her ribbon to the Duchess and also Dragon Skillet. Oh Dragon Skillet. What engrish. XD

into Berserker:
Yes, Sparks Linear High. "It's an overdrive that leads towards death." One of the most beautiful lines in Stay Night, so I merely tried to reproduce it. My own spin on the Battle of Hulao Gate. Lu Bu taking on a a person with inhuman blood. I would think that the protagonist had the same powers as SHIKI. The fact that this boy was able to even land a blow like that on a man who would later become a Heroic Spirit is astounding. If SHIKI and this boy fought... this boy would probably win, it's really who gets to eat the first limb and regenerate, but since this guy can actually "read" his blood, he has a bit more experience. His ability though is weaker than SHIKI's as he could not survive his Inversion Impulse. And yes, the first "paragraph," is a decoy protagonist much like in Fate/Extra. I'm sorry I used that if you find that offensive.

into Rider:
I was stuck. I did not want to write about a male Sir Francis Drake... he kind of seemed like Alexander, of all people. Which is why I was very pleased to find people discussing the possibility of Sir Francis Drake pretending to be Elizabeth somewhere on the internet. If that is true then the reverse should also be true, correct? Well no matter how outlandish this seems, I went with it. But when I was in the middle of it I just noticed that I was writing Elizabeth like a guilt ridden teenager. While I was going for an uncomfortable Elizabeth from the beginning of her reign... I found out that she was older than Sir Francis Drake which was disheartening. And that is why I decided to to something horrible to poor Elizabeth and decided to stunt her emotional growth. I'm not that please with how this story turned out though. I guess I enjoy writing about mythological people rather than real people because this story was entirely about introspection and finding the confidence about throwing off the guilt which comes with king/queenship. Liberal use of "that" rather than "who" is intentional.

into Saber:
While teaching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, my english teacher told the class that most stories about insanity are about the change from sanity to insanity and that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was the other way around, but that is digression. Gawain's story is undoubtedly one of corruption and that is all I wrote. Of course, I'm sure neither the classical nor the TYPE-Moon version of Gawain have that "honeyed voice," I was so fond of. Yet, it seemed fitting for the story of Gawain. As you can probably tell I am incredibly fond of the story of Gawain and the Ugly Damsel, in fact, I was going to basically re-tell that; however, there is not much plot at all, and not much character development. Now Fate/Extra contradicts itself on the matter of Gawain's death. Rani says that he was killed by Lancelot, yet his matrix says that he was killed during the Battle of Camlann when he re-opened a wound that Lancelot gave him. For the purpose of extending the story, I chose to follow the matrix, no matter how much I like Rani.

into Berserker:
I'll admit that this can be considered both an origin story and also a copy and past job. I'll even admit that this has nothing to do with Fate at all. Conceptually I struggled the most on this story. I mean Arcuied's story is completely cemented, a testament to her popularity. The gaps that need to be filled would be the Einnashe battle with Ren's original master, or the battle in which Altrouge stole her hair. I am sure there are others, but those are the main holes in Arc's story. Let's just say that I'm not confident enough to fill in those blanks. But I truly loved Alliance of the Illusionary Eyes and the whole idea of Fake Shiki. Yes, that makes me fond of Mobius Strip as well, but the whole genius of Alliance of the Illusionary Eyes astounded me; one wishes to believe that Fake Shiki is Shiki, yet feel like he cannot be the narrator. Also the philosophy was nice as well. So yes, I used Arc as an excuse to write about Fake Shiki and how he went crazy because Arc's way of living bored him while Shiki's excited him. Yes, I understand that this story can only exist in Arc Good End, Satsuki Normal End, or Ciel Good End.

into Saber:
Child's narrative voice made it somewhat like Caster. I don't think Nero ever actually fought, so I had no idea what I could do for this one except for a romance, but I don't think I can write tsundere. So I guess in the end I did a sort of "fall from grace," fiction about a boy whose admiration with Nero is dashed. I wrote this while playing Assassin's Creed Brotherhood so I went a bit crazy with the flowery language. I'm surprised that this turned out to be as long as it did. This is nothing special and I a bit disappointed with it. I really don't know what to write for Nero so I just spat something out. But I did try to make Nero as Nasu-protagonist-like as possible.

into Lancer:
TATARI. What can I say. I wrote this before I actually wrote into Caster and it is short but and does not have much paragraphing so it's hard to navigate, but what I loved about Melty Blood, was how Wallachia was the first place in which TATARI went to. So I went with that. A slush of rumors that getting less and less exaggerated, leading towards the originator of the rumors, the innocent monster known as Vlad Tepes III cut in with intermissions by a kind of idealistic Zepia I guess. But the intent was a story which traced the rumors which would lead to the manifestation of the thirteenth Dead Apostle Ancestor.

into Caster:
First, I would like to apologize to my editor, and then to Caster. I definitely did not do Caster justice in this fiction. This isn't one of those "I did horribly now praise me things." I was actually going to re-write this but decided against it since into Saver was being written and I linked the two somehow. Caster isn't a story about Tamamo-no-mae, sorry guys. It's about the girl before she became the adorable Caster that we all love. It is the story about Mizukume's death and what transpired afterwards. For that, yes it's a very short story. I'm not happy with it, but both Caster's and Saber's stories are done so well by the game that... I really had nothing to work with, not like I'm using that as an excuse.

into Assassin:
My leap back into fiery, shonen fueled writing. A bit longer than I expected. My Li Shuwen is older than the one in the game, but younger than the one who uses a spear. This is indeed a origin fic, my nameless OC (I love nameless OC's) was based of Ryougi SHIKI. Funny, I had one OC based off Tohno SHIKI as well. All in all, this was me trying to get back to the roots I had with my other into Assassin with the nameless samurai.

into Saver:
Used the engrish Saver instead of Savior. There really isn't a Vairocana story, since he's the celestial buddha, so I went this Twice. My Twice is definitely more shounen then Twice, but that should be okay. This is a Caster story as much as a Twice story, not much Saver. The whole Mordred thing... well I was going through possible Heroic Spirits and the best choice seemed to be Mordred due to his curse. As for Mordred's master, well, I had the whole bastard idea planned but I needed a name. I was going to go with the fourteen year old antagonist from Mobius Strip, but that's too... well I didn't like it. So my OC turns out to the son of Akiha's finance, lol. Thought that was a nice easter-egg.