Reaction Shot: Fate/Apocrypha episode 17 (or, how many fake dates to summon a murder loli?)

[spindizzy]

• Jeanne: *runs straight to Sieg, disregarding literally
  everyone to apologise for being late to their date*


• Jeanne. Honey. YOU are telling someone to relax. You, a teenage girl
  with army-leading levels of no chill.


• The visual distinction between Jeanne and Leticia seems to be that
  Jeanne keeps her hair tied back and Laeticia lets it do whatever. SURE IS
  CONVENIENT THAT THEY ARE BOTH IDENTICAL although I assume that the
  Watsonian explanation is that her form in the flashbacks just matches
  whatever she has in the present?


• "If no Servants are nearby" says one of the most powerful Servants in
  this fight – oh, okay, she's going to try to pass herself off as a human,
  GOT IT.


• Sieg, who got told last episode to NOT USE HIS MAGIC POWERS: And then
  I use my magic powers that are slowly killing me!


• "Are the two of you going to be alright?"
  "The two of us...?"
  SHE LOOKS SO HAPPY TO REALISE THAT SIEG IS WORRIED ABOUT LAETICIA, DESPITE
  THE FACT THAT HE HAS NEVER EVEN MET LAETICIA. ... Girl, you are even more
  oblivious than I am.


• I am glad that Laeticia does explicitly get a vote on Jeanne's
  actions, because I was WORRIED.


• WHY DO THE MASTERS NEVER LEARN THAT ATTEMPTING HUMAN SACRIFICE DURING
  A HOLY GRAIL WAR JUST GETS YOU MURDERED?!


• Sieg. Sieg, some people are just happy with murder.


• Reika and Jack look very happy as a family, so yeah, sorry Sieg, some
  people are just happy with murder! Source: That blood splatter up the wall
  over there.


• (I did look up Traumerei, and it's specifically a movement from a
  piece named for children's tales, which means it's even more appropriate
  than I realised! Wow, it's like the people who wrote the show chose it
  for a reason.)
  
• Sieg, who has been conscious for maybe a week and constantly fighting
  for his life: I have no idea what I'm doing.


• "I couldn't think of anything you might enjoy," she says of someone
  who LITERALLY HASN'T BEEN ALIVE LONG ENOUGH TO HAVE HOBBIES.


• Sieg: I don't understand what having fun has to do with being bait.
  Jeanne: *IMMEDIATELY bullshits the tactical advantages of having fun*


• I think the issue might not be that there are too many people for
  Sieg, I think it's just that there are more than twelve faces between
  them.


• Sieg, in what universe do you not have access to emotions, because you
  have had a LOT of feelings in this week.


• Ah, okay, they're specifically highlighting the joy of the children
  because when Jack shows up, it's going to be the exact inverse of that.


• (Poor Sieg, I think this is the first time that he's ever seen humans
  that are HAPPY and not in danger of sudden traumatic death. It's not gonna
  last.)


• Jeanne: I was an ordinary child!
  Sieg: ... So those girls could become Holy Maidens when they grow up?
  Humans are amazing.


• Awww, he got a flower from the bouquet too!


• "It's amazing how much you've matured since I first met you," she
  says, having met him LITERALLY ON HIS FIRST DAY OF EXISTING OUTSIDE A
  TANK.


• THE TEENAGE MARTYR DOESN'T GET TO BITCH ABOUT PEOPLE NOT HAVING ENOUGH
  REGARD FOR THEIR OWN LIVES.


• Oh good, she has enough self-awareness that she knows she's being a
  hypocrite.


• (I know I keep highlighting that Sieg's only been around for like a
  week, but I'm pretty sure he can identify evil. What Yggdmillenia was doing
  to the homunculi: evil. What Jack was doing to the homunculi: evil.
  SOMETIMES YOU CAN IDENTIFY THINGS.)


• Sieg has such blind faith in her, bless him, even though she's
  explicitly telling him that she's stopped caring about being "good" at that
  point.


• My reaction to people telling me "You're doing your best" is the same
  as Jeanne's, right down to the YES I DO NEED TO THANK YOU FOR THIS.


• My god, Achilles is actually making plans and thinking about whether
  it's safe to question Shiro if Atalanta is around. WHO ARE YOU AND WHEN DID
  YOU GET SMART.


• So he doesn't hate humanity, he hates humanity's acceptance of
  history, of the narrative where the strong advance by stepping on the weak.
  COOL MOTIVE, STILL MURDER.


• Okay, no, I was being unfair about Achilles. His whole thing is
  questioning the actions of his commanding officers, of course he's stepping
  to Shiro.


• I DO NOT THINK YOU ARE SAVING THEM SHIRO, I THINK THIS IS A PUNISHMENT
  IN THE GUISE OF MAKING THEM BETTER.


• I am so annoyed at this jpop fuckboi and how casual he is about
  *gestures vaguely at the entire Hanging Gardens* but also I love him and
  how few fucks he has to give about Semiramis being ready to murder him?


• WHY ARE ALL THE MAGES ELVES.


• On the one hand, why does every woman who is icily competent and full
  of hatred have to be squishy over ONE FUCKING DUDE, but on the other hand
  I'm actually really weak for that trope.


• Sieg just going "Shiro is obviously wrong about what he's doing,
  because if he wasn't you'd be on his side" because he has SUCH FAITH in
  her.


• Okay, her logic for why the ~salvation of humanity~ is a bad thing
  kinda makes sense, because her attitude is very much "We are not part of
  humanity, so we have no right to be leading them," which I think
  makes sense considering that Heroic Spirits are intended as a transitory
  thing.


• "Everyone asks me that," HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU EVEN KNOW,
  JEANNE?!


• So both of the Rulers have good, solid reasons to hate humanity, but
  Jeanne doesn't – and from the sound of it never did, which is baffling but
  SURE, martyr, just gonna roll with it – whereas Shirou DID and might still
  do, for all that he denies it.


• "You granted me my freedom, and that alone is reason for me to keep on
  living!" Bless his heart. SHE DOESN'T WANT YOU TO LIVE FOR HER, SHE'S JUST
  HAPPY THAT YOU'RE ALIVE.


• "I want to use my body to show you my gratitude!" *spits drink*


• The men in the background just side-eying their table give me
  life.


• Sieg: *has been alive for a week and doesn't know that innuendo is a
  thing*


• OH GREAT, FOG'S ROLLING IN, GUESS IT'S TIME FOR EVERYONE TO GO HOME
  AND NOT GET MURDERED BY ASSASSIN.


• Rider grumbling in the sky is very them.


• ... Well, that's sure an entire town of people about to die of poison
  clouds. Whoops. I guess advantage goes to the side that cares least about
  collateral damage!


• No one even QUESTIONS Jeanne telling them what to do, that truly is
  magic.


• YOU ARE TERRIBLE AT BEING BAIT, LOOK AT THE GLOWING ARMOUR.


• HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THAT THE SCREAM IS A TRAP, OH MY GOD. HAVE YOU
  CONSIDERED THAT THE POINT OF SUMMONING A PEA-SOUPER IS THAT IT MAKES IT
  VERY HARD TO FOLLOW SOMEONE?!


• Mad Max voice: That's bait.


• Sieg: I'll find your child for you!
  Reika, smiling: I believe in you. *shoots him three times in the chest*


• (She thinks he's a mage! That's interesting, I wonder what she knows
  about what's going on?)


• Reika is so placid about everything, it's almost impressive.


• Oh, Reika hasn't used any command seals! I know she's helping the
  murder loli, but also she's doing being a Master in a Grail War right.


• "It will be hell from here. We will be the flame, the rain, the
  strength." ... I actually quite like that. It has the same ring as the
  Unlimited Bladeworks chant.


• Wait, did Jack just yell "Maria the ripper"?


• Jack is SO OFFENDED that Jeanne didn't instantly die.


• "My tolerance for curses is quite high." I love Jeanne.


• "Jack the Ripper, you have gone too far!"
  "Oh, have we?"


• Listen, the points where Jack is basically a shadow with glowing eyes
  look REALLY COOL.


• WHERE DID YOU EVEN PULL THAT SMALL CHILD FROM?!


• Archer: *takes out a leg from miles away*


• They're convincingly sweet, considering how many murders they've
  committed, but of COURSE Reika sacrifices herself to save Assassin, and OF
  COURSE it's Atalanta, the one who cares most about children, who struck the
  blow.


• Let's be real, I am mainly impressed that Reika saw Atalanta coming in
  a car mirror from that far away.


• Can you really order someone by command seal to be fine?! Really?!


• OF COURSE Atalanta is the one who actually shoots Jack.


• WHY DOES THEIR NECK GO 180 DEGREES, WTF!


• Okay Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore.


• Oh look, it's a murder moppet! I'M SURE THIS IS FINE.



• 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 (Red): Shakespeare / Avicebron.
  Rider (Black): Astolfo. Rider (Red): Achilles.
  Assassin (Black): Jack the Ripper. Assassin (Red): Semiramis
  Ruler: Jeanne D'Arc / Amakusa Shiro Tokisada