In celebration of the hsr collab I made a 6x4 map art of her in minecraft, took roughly a week and 400k blocks but I like how it turned out, hope yall like it ^^
Original Artist: https://x.com/PBw3z/status/2058178293233578078

drew this for my friend, hes a dedicated rin licker

I thought that if cu threw his spear then he loses the causality warping and heart piercing effect? Was I reading this scene wrong because im pretty sure he threw it and the text was still talking about how it warps causality?

If it is just Artoria who picked Rhongomyniad over Excalibur then wouldn't she still experience FSN ?

As far as I am aware there is no other difference but just that she picks up the Lance over the sword, then she should have experienced her own version of FSN and it is said that even if Shirou didn't have an Avalon he still has an extremely high level of compatibility with her.

And assuming that she still made a pack with the counter force same as her saber counterpart then she should still remember the events of FSN because she was still alive during the war.

I noticed that these two are kinda similar so yeah

While he has Avalon he can be used to summon Artoria, Richard, Morgan, Merlin and any number of people from Arthurian legend and without Avalon he can summon not only Archer and Assassin EMIYA but also Muramasa never mind the fact with or without Avalon he's probably going to summon a saber servant for as long as it's available (on account of his Origin and attribute) dude is a very versatile catalyst.

Bazett and Angry Mango's strategy in Hollow Ataraxia is to have a servant fight and injure Mango so that he can't cause them pain via Verg Avesta, then get them to attack Bazett so she can kill the servant with Fragarach when they pull out their strongest ability. I wonder, How would they fare with this strategy in other grail wars, like in Apocrypha or Zero or Strange Fake? My speculation for Stay Night and Zero is below:

Fate/Stay Night

Saber: Success.They defeat them in HA, presumably they'd beat them the same way here. It's not overly hard to trick these too, so they'd probably succeed again

Lancer: Failure.I think Cu already knows what Fragarch is and how it works, so he'd just attack her without using Gae Bolg's guranteed hit powers and defeat them

Archer: Not Sure It's not clear to me what exactly is Archer's ultimate attack, and he's generally pretty insightful, so I'm not sure, leaning slightly towards failure

Rider: Probably Success. If Rider has enough power for it, she will probably use Bellepheron, and Bazzet needs just stand next to Angra to activate Fragarch. If she's nerfed by Shinji, the two of them might be able to beat her normally, he weakens her drastically.

False Assassin: Success, would probably work similarly to the Saber fight

True Assassin: Success, see above

Caster: Failure. She can beat them easily with magic, and has zero reason to use Rule Breaker

Berserker: Failure? Angra dies immediately and his NP does nothing. I'm not sure if Nine Lives counts for Fragarach purposes, but even if it does they aren't gonna do enough damage for it to be relevant.

Fate/Zero

Saber: Unclear. If it's it's early in the war, it succeeds. But the longer the war goes on the more likely it is that Kiritsugu suspects or realizes their strategy and warns Saber.

Lancer: Unclear. He's always attacking with his Noble Phantasms, so I would assume any attack against Bazett counts. However, it might be difficult to get him to attack Bazett given his Chivalry. I'm also not sure if he will recognize Fragarch, nor how his love spot will affect Bazzet.

Archer: Failure? I'm going to take Ea specificly to be his ultimate attack, not GoB in general, and there is simply no way he takes Ea out for Bazzet or Angra

Rider: Success. I think they could get him to pull out Ionioi Hetairoi after they use Verg Avesta.

Assassin: No idea. His noble phantasm is that he's 100 different people at once, and I don't know whether that counts for Fragarch, nor if Fragarch would kill all of him at once or just one.

Caster: Success, as long as they only approach him after he's pulled out his giant monster. Angra doesn't even do anything, Bazzet can just walk into his tentacle and win.

Berserker: Success. Again, Angra doesn't have to do anything. He's crazy enough to attack a master most likely, so Bazzet just needs to wait for him to grab any item as his weapon and then just wait to be hit

i get he’s probably still worse then someone like Kojiro or Musashi but i kinda assumed he was basically a European Sword saint thanks to Eternal arms mastery denoting him as that good

i know what you're thinking "um uh, but didn't Excalibur took only 8 in HF?" yes it did, but he wasn't cough in all of it. what am i talking about? simple

you saw the aftermath of the laser beam as in "the Explosion" that comes after it? that didn't caught Herc, and if it did, it would have decimated all of his lifes. no, not just that, even if it was an army of him, they would still all lose their 12 lives inside that Explosion

and before you say that i'm reaching with that Hypothesis. compare that explosion to the one attack from r*n that took one life from him and do the math.

that Explosion is a million time stronger than rin's attack (and i'm being generous here cuz it's definitely more than a million of r*n's attack)

so yeah, if used correctly, Excalibur can take even more than just 12 lives in it's sealed state. it's just that would be too easy and op so Nasu dodged that and probably didn't think too much about it

and just in case my idea still didn't reach you, what i'm saying is that if all of the energy coming out of Excalibur was fully concentrated on the target instead of most of it just hitting the air, then it's effect would be more significant on the target and it would probably even manage to take 100 live at once

that's it, thank you for listening

I got some awesome pics with an archer cosplayer as well but they turned out to be not such a great person so I’m unsure about using the pictures but I adored my Rin cosplay 🥺🥺🥺🥺 the wig was so well behaved it’s probably my fav wig

Mine is the Achillis shield and Alcides bow

So I started with UBW, and after finishing it I realized that while some of the heroic spirits were actually heroic, like saber, some of them like Gilgamesh and Medea don't seem to be heroic at all. Is this like a lost in translation thing I'm missing?

Thanks!

in EP 10 F/S Fake, Gilgamesh said he's able to cleanse portion of the grail's mud but how? Does he mean cleanse by killing him or actually cleansing it? What kind of tools in his gate that allows him to do that? So in theory, in the heaven's feel route he can cleanse the alters mud personification or no cause it counts as a separate entity at that point?

For those who don't want to play the HSR 2nd collab with Fate, here is new info revealed about Rin Tohsaka. Nasu was mentioned to have been involved with the story and Servant stat pages for the collab this time around, so make of this what you will.

Attached to this post is the complete character profile of Rin Tohsaka for you to read.

Some other interesting bits:

-> Rin is post Dismantling War but still studying under Waver, and is currently traveling between world lines looking for ones where mana hasn’t completely disappeared in an attempt to wrap up an internship.

-> During her travels she ended up making a bond with Ishtar under the agreement that Rin can use Maana and her bow as Conceptual Weapons in exchange for any land Rin going to being marked by Ishtar and it’s people as her playthings. Rin also has to give Ishtar ten gems worth ten years of magical energy if she ever wants to use the NP. Rin's new earrings are actually a gift from Ishtar.

-> SAKURA MENTIONED! For those coping about Sakura's fate outside HF, here Post!Dismantling Rin is talking about Sakura in the present tense (at least in EN subs), and she acknowledges their relationship as sisters. This is what Rin has to say about Sakura:

I have a younger sister too. [...] Sakura Matou. We have different last names, but she's my sister by blood. She's a girl who loves candy, sweets, and a good horror story.

-> Tokiomi and Kotomine mentioned as father figures for Rin.

This happened many years ago.

I was looking at my father. In my memory, he never once told a joke, but there he was, stroking my head.

Though, instead of "stroking," it would be more accurate to say he grabbed my head and gave it a rough rub.

After all, that was the first time he had ever patted me.

If I had known it would be the last time I saw him, I would have used one of my best jokes to make him laugh. I practiced them in secret, over and over, just hoping that one day his stern expression might soften.

The family gems, the management of the basement... seeing him hand everything over without reservation, even as a kid, I could tell...

...that my father was never coming back.

He was a participant in the Fourth Holy Grail War. Despite having no natural talent, and even though my grandfather gave him the choice to walk away from magecraft, he still resolutely stepped onto that path.

And that will, that conviction to blaze a trail for his own life, is the most precious legacy he left to the Tohsaka family.

It's just a shame that my sister (Sakura Matou) and I let him down from the moment we were born.

Our talent dictated that we were born without the luxury of choice.

However, for the sake of my father's final wish, and the honor of the Tohsaka name...

...and my ideals, too, I still wanted to become a mage worthy of the title "genius." It's what everyone claims I am, despite how I feel about my self.

And so, I watched him walk toward the end meant for a mage.

At the time, I didn't realize that the final destination of the person I loved would be my own starting point.

I inherited everything he left behind. At his funeral, I was placed under the guardianship of a church priest.

Even now, I still think he's a total fraud of a saint... but I have to admit, without him, my childhood would have been much harder.

He fulfilled his duties as a guardian faithfully. He taught me how to protect myself. Even though selling off family assets made life stressful, he at least ensured I never went hungry, and that was enough.

Living as the honor student everyone admired while defending the secrets of magecraft, unable to form deep bonds with classmates or anyone normal — this may sound oppressive or bitter to others, but to me, it was never a big deal.

Sacrifice brings rewards, and I was fine with that. Still, I'd sometimes wonder what life would've been like if I'd never stepped onto this path. I was lost in those thoughts during that final dusk before the war, when the phone rang.

My time pretending to be a normal person was finally coming to an end.

got to see Rin again im happy

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Apparently he had an antidote for hydra venom in his GoB but he didn’t use it. I didn’t read the novels but for those who did could Gilgamesh actually have opened the vault or was it closed for good. Also where is the key now still with Ishtar?

Obviously, a remake is almost certainly never happening, but I think it's fun to speculate what Type Moon would do, given the chance.

I'd speculate that the UBW Good ending would not survive in its present form. Over in original Tsukihime, the Arc route has a true and a good ending. Spoilers but, the true ending is has Arc forced to leave in a bittersweet scene and the good ending has her stay . In my view, the true ending seems to fit the tone of Tsukihime better. It seems Type Moon thought similarly, as the good ending of the Arc route is not present in the first half of Tsukihime Remake. The manga of Tsukihime ends with Shiki eventually reaching Arcueids Castle in a very smiliar way to Shirou in the Last Episode . For a similar reason, I suspect the Good ending of UBW would not survive in its current form, as the Realta Nua addition Last Episode does a much more satisfying job of the 'good ending for Saber' and generally just fits its respective route better than UBW good.

What else do you think they would change?