Why hello there

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I'm Riva, your newest of newbies, bringing you the next character from that series of light novels of unadulterated badassery, Fate/Zero!

Meet Servant Saber, the stoic little girl with shiny armour, an invisible sword, and a permanent poker face. She's a bit of a drywall, if a painfully polite and formal one.

Oh, and she's King Arthur in her reality.

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If you really want to read my entire herds of tl;dr, they can all be found on my journal along with various other links to better attempts at explaining the Fate-verse, as well as my permissions post, app (Warning: my History section is terrifying) and OOC contact post. You can poke me there or on AIM: lolwarshade.

I'll be posting my intro post once I've gotten some sleep.

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Welcome to the game, Riva! I know quite a few players who have been really excited about this app coming in. I'm pleased to finally get to see a Saber in action.

I'm Farrah! I play Ootori Kyouya of Ouran High School Host Club (hostclubmommy), Hiwatari Satoshi of DNAngel (incommand), d3!Simm!Master of Doctor Who (savagestime), Sebastian Flyte of Brideshead Revisited (fruitbrandy), and Irving Braxiatel, who actually became the Master to our game's Caster to save her life (trechier) so he'll be very interested to meet Arturia.

It's great to have you here!

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I noticed tsunderes pimping out the game, and I could no longer endure a Rider-less existence. (The Gilgamesh-player in a non-LJ game I'm in has been trying to get an Iksander for ages)

I'm excited to be here!

[semantics]

Now that I've gotten to play with Rider, I can understand how this would leave a giant hole in one's life.

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YES. I am hoping for a Feast of Kings 2.0 (though for Rider, it'd be 1.0) sometime in the foreseeable future.

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...oh wow that would be so awesome...!! I would watch happily from the sidelines.

(In lieu of any actual Fate icons, I'll go for the Merlin jokes.)

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Hopefully there won't be any cup-destroying or Assassin interruptions this time.

Hopefully Gil won't be a complete creeper, either :\

[semantics]

Can we have awesome summoning of armies anyway? I didn't think he could stop himself from doing that.

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I'd fund that. I swear, I hate having Servant's abilities crippled when they're as awesome as they are.

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The Fate series seems to be the ultimate realization of AWESOME!!!!!!! The Caster at the game recently summoned a Hydra to battle Daleks and I went, "...this is AMAZING" for days.

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It's not even so much the power behind it as "ohgawd that looks so cool" or "omg I read about this in my mythology class!" It's like the condensation of nerdgasm. At least for me. :x

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When I started reading the LP (because Rassilon forbid I play a game for myself) I spent FOREVER trying to figure out who from mythology Archer was meant to be until Christy told me who he actually was.

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LOL same. And I didn't find out about Counter Guardians until much later.

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Ooh, I don't know what those are yet.

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They're kind of like the other side of the coin as Heroic Spirits and act as a balancing counter-force of humanity itself whenever there's a factor for the extinction of mankind.

Instead of being the spirits of those who became legendary though great feats and become elemental spirits of humanity, counter guardians are unknowns who achieved a single great feat through some outside force. What they typically do is make a contract directly with the World in exchange for a miracle during their lifetime.

Supposedly after Saber returns to her own time and dies, she would become a Counter Guardian just as Archer did, since she made a similar contract. OTOH, she's...well, pretty famous for her reign outside of that, so it looks like she could go either way.

[semantics]

...Oh, huh. I would have thought that King Arthur's general fame would counter it, yes, but okay! Cool.

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That's my personal opinion on it, but when it comes to the Nasuverse, you never know. :|

Plus, it may be that after the Holy Grail War ritual is dismantled after the 5th War, summoning Heroic Spirits by magi is made impossible but the planet summoning Counter Guardians isn't, so it might be that no one wants to give up the GAR.

[semantics]

I guess that would make sense. I am told that Nasuverse has an explanation for almost any eventuality...

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I sure hope so. Working the end of Zero into game is haaaaaaaard.