...you know, the Butlerian Jihad people never said anything about building a likeness of a cat's mind.

~Chara

I agree, Medusa of Sarpedon. We're all pretty fond of Matou Sakura around the Pnictogen Wing. 👍

There are thoughts in my head about how Matou Sakura has functioned as an emotional anchor for an entire franchise but they're too complicated to express right now.

~Chara

Heaven knows if I'll ever feel like writing Fate/ fanfic is an appropriate activity. I've wanted to, but the necessity of getting all our thoughts sorted out about Fate/ first always got in the way, and then our life got altogether too entangled with Fate/, and blah blah blah nothing happened. I wrote one joke story and nothing else.

I'll spare you my various brain farts about possible story ideas in order to talk about a specific aspect of the Fate/stay night affair that has caught and held my interest: the fact that Tohsaka Rin (and other mages I think? I'm not up on the lore) needed to clean up after Emiya Shirou and Illyasviel von Einzbern put a merciful end to the Fuyuki Grail thing. When grand magical works go bad...they have a tendency to go quite thoroughly bad. There are lingering aftereffects. And Rin, it would seem, did the necessary work.

Well...what sort of work was it? I can't imagine it's that exciting but any use of magic interests me. There's a glimpse of what might be regarded as magical bureaucracy, though it's far more complex and fluid a thing than the sort of magic bureaucracy found in (cough) the Harry Potter franchise.

~Chara

I feel compelled to confess: after decades of cynicism and doubt, it's been strange to have a person of faith round the Pnictogen Wing. I refer to Hassan of Serenity, whose faith in Allah has been something new for us pasty wh!te-ish folks to grasp. We're so used to the sour cynicism of Western society that a truly faithful person is somewhat intimidating. ~Chara