spindizzy | Reaction Shot: Fate/Apocrypha 10 & 11, or I have forgotten A LOT I wanted to say (Reply)

Okay, I absolutely need to get this done and queued today (Monday) because Lex and I are going to watch the newest episode at some point today or tomorrow and I NEED TO BE READY. It's a lot harder to keep episodes separate in my head for Fate than it is for Princess Principal, because Princess Principal is discrete non-linear blocks, and Fate/Apocrypha is one mostly-linear narrative, but I'm doing my best. Even though Fate/Apocrypha is doing some things. *drags hands down face*

Episode Ten

SIEG STOP TRYING TO FIGHT MORDRED YOU ARE NOT A HIGH ENOUGH LEVEL TO STEP TO HER, YOU'VE NEVER EVEN WIELDED A SWORD BEFORE, SHE'S STEPPED TO ASTOLFO SO YOU ARE DEFINITELY NOT GETTING OUT OF THERE OKAY.

SIEG, NO.

... Astolfo doesn't know that he has a name. Oh. Oh no.

MORDRED STOP IT, LEAVE HIM ALONE

FRANKENSTEIN NO, DON'T, DON'T GET INTO THAT FIGHT, YOU'RE NOT GONNA SURVIVE IT.

Sieg: *gets one lucky hit in*
Me: ... Oh, oh this is gonna go badly for you.

And of course Mordred stabs the living fuck out of him, because what is proportional response.

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT LIGHTNING ALL OVER SIEG, I'M SURE THAT WON'T BE RELEVANT AT ALL LATER. NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

Huh, she's not actually got blood vessels or things inside. Interesting.

Necrodad: Did you make sure that Berserker was dead?
Saber: ?
Frankenstein: *LEAPS ONTO SABER'S BACK*

FRANKENSTEIN JUST CASUALLY RIPPING HER OWN ARM LOOSE SO THAT SHE CAN CHOKE SABER WITH IT WHILE SHE REVS UP HER OWN NOBLE PHANTASM

The brother backing Frankenstein 100% even though he knows it'll kill her and remove him from the Grail War, because this is the course Frankenstein's committed to. ;_;

*quickly googles what the significance of Blasted Tree is because I am terrible at this*

THAT is a really cool visual effect.

... WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT DIDN'T WORK.

IT CRACKED HER ARMOUR AND DIDN'T KILL HER, AND FRANKENSTEIN IS JUST GONE?!

FUCKERS.

And the brother realising that Frankenstein wanted him to be happy and it's all for naught because NECRODAD HAS COMMAND SEALS TOO augh everything is terrible, this is the worst.

It looks like I am 100% wrong on the brother getting dead and being revived by Frankenstein's lightning, but I was correct that someone was getting rezzed by it. Half marks.

... Necrodad, did you seriously just drop Saber off at the battle and drive off to park somewhere safe and watch like you dropped her at a football match.

... Oh no, Jack the Ripper's here in her murder loli outfit. ._. Turns out: homunculi are delicious and nutritious! ._.

Please just don't let her find the homunculi that are escaping, that's all I ask.

... Or is she going to infiltrate the castle? Because I feel like that's going to go badly for EVERY MASTER in there.

Jack the Ripper picking up phone calls from her mum like she's a normal kid is REALLY WEIRD and know that's the entire point, but it's EFFECTIVELY weird.

Sieg, there's a dragon behind you.

Sieg

Sieg, there's a DRAGON

I like how NO ONE understands how Siegfried lived his life, not even the people he's explained it to.

Sieg just wants to help people ;_;

Astolfo and Jeanne are going to be GUTTED.

Metaphorically, I mean.

WAIT WHAT

SIEG HOW IN THE FUCK ARE YOU SIEGFRIED IS THAT HOW MAGIC WORKS? I'M NOT SURE THAT'S HOW MAGIC WORKS.

TIME TO BREAK OUT THE CHART AGAIN:
Lancer (Black): Vlad the Impaler. Lancer (Red): Karna
~~Saber (Black): Siegfried.~~ Saber (Red): Mordred.
Archer (Black): Chiron. Archer (Red): Atalanta.
~~Berserker (Black): Frankenstein.~~ Berserker (Red): Spartacus.
Caster (Black): Avicebron. Caster (Red): Shakespeare.
Rider (Black): Astolfo. Rider (Red): Achilles.
Assassin (Black): Jack the Ripper. Assassin (Red): Semiramis
Ruler: Jeanne D'Arc

Episode Eleven

I can't get over Semiramis having those spike things on her palms. They seem impractical at best.

I SWEAR THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A DRAGON HERE AT SOME POINT, I SWEAR.

ATALANTA NO, DON'T DO IT, DON'T LEAVE JEANNE WITH SPARTACUS, THAT'S A GODAWFUL PLAN, DON'T DO IT

Okay, this fight between Lancers is cool. Karna can straight up blast his way out, but Vlad the Impaler can produce "We will fight in the shade" levels of spikes. INTERESTING. Bad for everyone involved, but interesting.

... Did he seriously just say that his powers weren't the spikes themselves, they were the concept of being impaled on a spike. WHAT.

Did Sieg manage to straight up crack through Saber's armour?!

The mark on his chest flickering before the transformation wears off like it's a video game and your last seconds of just-rezzed invulnerability wears WAIT A SECOND

SUDDENLY: SPARTACUS

So Spartacus' Noble Phantasm is that he gets stronger/overheals the more damage he's taken, until a predefined limit, at which point he just explodes like a fucking nuke. SURE. WHY.

And Saber just tried to cut him in half. SABER. SABER GET OUTTA THERE.

Sieg trying to tell the others to get out of there because he's too injured to move, and neither of them having it.

JEANNE BE CAREFUL.

... Jeanne, holy shit, as if you managed to deflect that.

Jeanne with her banner, making speeches and protecting people: REALLY COOL THOUGH.

Like, Spartacus just took out half of the countryside fucking hell Spartacus.

... Did the Hanging Gardens just hoover up the Holy Grail. Did that just. Was that. What.

... OH.

Oh, Vlad the Impaler's powers don't work as well as soon as he's not on Romanian soil. That's what the speech was about. OH.

Like, you can SEE him struggling, and that his spikes are forming, but it's visibly slower!

Guys, guys, did Vlad the Impaler just say that his wish on the grail would be removing the myth of him being a vampire from existence.

Vlad the Impaler: I would rather die than use my Noble Phantasm. Never force me to use it.
Me: Darnic is absolutely going to force him to use it.
Darnic: *forces Vlad the Impaler to use his Noble Phantasm*

WELL.
Lancer (Black): Vlad the Impaler. Lancer (Red): Karna
~~Saber (Black): Siegfried.~~ (Again) Saber (Red): Mordred.
Archer (Black): Chiron. Archer (Red): Atalanta.
Berserker (Black): Frankenstein. Berserker (Red): Spartacus.
Caster (Black): Avicebron. Caster (Red): Shakespeare.
Rider (Black): Astolfo. Rider (Red): Achilles.
Assassin (Black): Jack the Ripper. Assassin (Red): Semiramis
Ruler: Jeanne D'Arc