Recall watching review on Fate series watch order—guy half hour with clichéd mad detective board explained sequence—like this out 2010 but first story part, that 2006 second. And I watched only first part, very beginning. Between—Visual novel events, and that future parallel reality guy summoned as Servant here. As they say, can't without half liter, and recall watched only one anime from series, long ago. And maybe wrong.
And mercury mage recalled 'cause he became MC in Harry Potter fanfic, partial backstory there—start good, then meh, didn't finish. Hmmmm, there he partially summoned Contract Servant spirit. Sure fanfic whatever, but insane thought born—devour Servant soul, get part powers/Magic! And candidate appeared—witch from next war—maybe mixing events, hope not.
Mmm, elf? Fate surprisingly many elves even cat-girls—I get it's conditional anime from hentai seeming, but tagging historical figures extra details or gender swap... overkill. Like reading Caesar—all cool etc. Pumped, summon as Servant—loli with tail pops. Sit and melt trying figure what went wrong. Considering history books say dude, no hint beast-folk/elves in world history!
Back to elf-bitch, if I right judged that battle clip flashbacks—she killed her Master, ditched to forest, battle between weakened her. Guy found her—seems Teacher and half-killer. Romantic crap there—key weakened unowned MAG class Servant. But as always two issues—when/where? Nah, forest obvious—but forest stretchy. And seems raining. Awesome landmark, don't even know date.
But there's always a backup plan, luckily! I clearly remember that Servants can switch between Masters. And that squid recently on TV... his Master was some Maniac guy who wasn't even a Mage at all! Or didn't know he was a Mage. But he didn't use any Magic whatsoever. Hmm, it seems like the Grail gives a Servant to someone with a strong heartfelt wish? Sounds like bullshit—more like it just shoved a Servant in there to make seven. If there were only six Mages in the whole city, did they give the seventh Servant to a random? This thought made me doubt the entire Grail War even more—it comes off as not all that serious, especially considering something about a demon and twisted fulfillment of wishes.
Mmm, I don't even know—even without getting into details, it all looks tempting, but once you start looking closely... not so much. From what I remember of the anime, everyone died like flies and there wasn't even a winner in... um... how many were there? Let's say three wars with no winner, and the next one won't have one either. Servants again—sounds awesome and all, until you look at their behavior and motives. I get that pompous pre-battle dialogues might just be an anime convention, but if not... fuck. That's if we ignore the weird desire to let the enemy go, operating on some code of honor and other bullshit.
The possibility of betraying the Master and going to another one. If you generalize, there's no worse enemy than a Fucking idiot teammate—and I didn't see any normal Servants in terms of discipline and obedience. For all of them, this isn't a battle to the death, the most important moment of their lives; it's more like a casual Dota party where you mess around and have fun, where victory isn't the goal but a nice bonus to the process.
And if you add up everything I've said so far—no desire to participate in this fuckery, even though getting a Servant and their power is tempting, it's not worth it. Magic exists in this world, and there's no point diving into the Grail War when even if you win, the best case is NOTHING, and the worst is your wish gets fulfilled—with what I remember about twisted fulfillment and some demon, better not to have it fulfilled at all. I've seen plenty of examples of how wish fulfillment can backfire, in old Aladdin tales with the genie, and even in The Witcher book with the air genie episode, then in the game part 3 there was a quest to cancel that wish.
Maybe it's stupid—getting isekai'd into an anime and avoiding its plot—but I'm four years old right now! The next war is in ten years, when I'll be fourteen! And that's clearly not the age for epic battles with demigods. And I definitely remember the ten years because it was mentioned everywhere that the Grail was destroyed, no wish was made, so it came much earlier. Normally it's got a hundred-year cooldown, which adds to the pile of reasons not to get involved—the Grail ritual is clearly glitching hard, since I doubt its creators planned for that kind of force majeure.
So we grow up, try to master Magic, don't make waves, and pray everything goes canon without an apocalypse! And I need to check where this Fuyuki is—to get as far away as possible, because regular people and background characters died there on an industrial scale. And yeah, I need to grab a notebook and write down everything I remember—maybe more about this world will surface. Yeah, that's what I'll do! With those thoughts, I fell asleep.
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