Just a note: during my silly Iskandar edit I had the gigachad song meme but youtube didn't like that I used it so I switched/am currently switching it out with a song they're chill with cause I didn't wanna lose the Iskandar fancam. I apologize for the awkward edit!
It's worth noting with Vlad, that he impaled his enemies on spikes as an intimidation tactic to scare would-be invaders away from trying to invade and steal his territory for themselves. His country was smaller and weaker than it's larger and more aggressive neighbors, so he resorted to that brutal intimidation tactic to protect his country and people. He did it to spare his people from the bloodshed and horrors of war. And most historical records tend to indicate that while Vlad was a strict and harsh ruler, he was still a fair and reasonable ruler who was well-loved by his subjects. And as long as you didn't say or do something to _really_ piss him off or that could be perceived as a threat to him or his people, he would be fair and reasonable in his dealings with you. But screw with him, and you wouldn't live to regret it.
*pushes up nerdy glasses* Akchually, the video for Mash's NP showed the version called Lord Chaldeas, the one before the Galahad reveal. She only gets Lord Camelot in...the Camelot singularity, who would've thought. Great video as usual, love these quizzes and especially the variety in the question format.
Really gives you more appreciation for the designs when you put someone up to that kind of quizz and they find little details and visual hints that you never noticed before. Thanks for the vid
42:00 Fun fact: in 1994 during Fate Zero Waver was already 19 years old. The long haired "daddy" is him 10 years later (so 29). He somehow managed to grow 29 cm as an adult (Fate is wired about this Shirou went from from 167 cm at age 17 to 187 cm as EMIYA (Archer), Waver from 157 cm at 19 to 186 cm at 29. Kirei from 185cm at 28 to 193cm at 38. (OK, might have been the Grail Mud ...) Ptolemaios (Soter) from 182 cm & 78 kg at age ca. 40 to 210 cm & 142 kg at age ca. 80)
I just learned about and started playing Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth the other day. It's funny how sometimes someone mentions something that you've just been exposed to.
Here's another idea: Perhaps as an even more obscure one, have him guess which Servant is the (or one of the) protagonist(s) of a given Fate anime. For instance, Stay Night could show Emiya, Shinji, & Illya, and he'd have to guess which of them was the primary protagonist for Stay Night. Or for Apocrypha, maybe have him guess who the "main heroine" of the story is and show, say, Mordred, Jeanne, & Fran? And then of course there's the reverse where you could also have him try to figure out who the main villain of a given Fate anime was as well. Maybe even a question asking him to guess which characters of the options are _not_ allies/friends, such as by showing Emiya, Shinji, & Rin.
Using that ascension art of Kukulkan is evil lol but oh well her third one is pretty obvious first one too but to a much lesser extend with the snake on her jacket
36:45 Hokusai did in fact not do a deal with Cthulh. Cthulh wanted to use him to re awaken but the chad Hokusai said "nah" Cthulh got big mad tormented him until his death. And even after death Cthulh was still pissed so it changes him in to a tiny lil octobus. His daughter Ōi is there because she finnished some of his works after his death and became somewhat famouse artist herself
In Sei's battle animations, she just....throws things at people half the time...i guess she's an archer because she didn't want to be the same class as Murasaki?
9:23 there are some servants with the capacity to change classes usually of the berserker nature but only Hyde to my memory becomes a separate being with his NP. The ones worth mentioning is atalante who can change into a berserker in mentality by infusing herself with the cursed Caledonian boar pelt she has, kotaro fumma who can tap into his oni bloodline to roid rage into an berserker oni like form of himself, and vlad and Gorgon/Medusa who have NPs that allow them to become true forms of their monstrous selfs (Dracula for vlad and the true Gorgon for Medusa) but both individuals would sooner die then perform these NPs out of principle and personal spite.
Note: Waver wants to participate in the war because he is a 1st generation mage (or low generation mage) IE his family crest (the passed down knowledge made by his family) is either brand new or has very little impact. he wants to participate in the war so he can gain fame and stop being bullied and mistreated by those like his teacher who have hundreds of years of history and prevent new families from forming easily. Crests BTW are why Rin Tosaka is a LOT weaker than she should have been as her father dies in fate 0 before he can pass it to her and you cant pass crests from corpses her family used to be an absolutely major family but is now much smaller and weaker due to hundreds of years of magic being lost (especially when they had a competitor in that magic space they practiced gem magic and there is another major family that dose the same) Funny thing about waver and spoilers: He has his own show the lord el meloy case files. in said show he gets to call out a Faker, a fake noble spirit trying to impersonate Iskandar his old friend, whom he considers to be his king he also probably REALLY hates Gilgamesh cause he killed his servant. His look shown here is also the look he has when he shows up in any media OUTSIDE of fate 0 as a teacher of the clocktower he shows up in alot of these sereies even Apocrypha witch is a different world than the mainline. He is also a magic detective and the go to when it comes to said aspect of investigating magic crimes
Waver is actually a good mage, his family just doesn't have much history so his magic circuits are week, He is very smart but is inexperienced in zero, he suffers because of Classism in mages and wants to prove himself
28:19 to be specific form of vlad has no relation to Dracula. This vlad represents his life as the general who fought to take back his kingdom. This is reflective in his skills that represent his religious beliefs, his military tactics, and his reputation of being a devil in human flesh long before he died and had Dracula stamped onto his legacy.
My favourite description of Sei Shonagon that I've seen is that she is basically the Heian-era equivalent of a Twitter Blogger. Which fits pretty well with her FGO depiction as a social-media-obsessed Zoomer/Gyaru.
36:30 Just as an aside, Cuthulu is a Great Old One and not an outer god, he is however leader of the Great Old Ones (though maybe only in a religious context) and is their high priest. The Great Old Ones themselves basically Worship the Outer Gods. Basically he leads the lesser gods, who themselves worship the greater gods. Also didn’t know Zhuge Liang’s courtesy name was Kongming and was 100% expecting it to be someone else when I looked him up.
19:30 Sei Shonagon's most Archer like attack is her using a Kemari ball (Kemari is a Japanese ball game similar to hacky sack that was popular in her time).
Kinda late to the party but the reason Sei is an archer is because she being originally a Caster Class like Murasaki Shikibu thought it was too damn boring so she changed her own class to Archer. The way she fights as an archer is she throws bullshit at you (toys she has in her pockets) and her NP is her literally reciting poetry and throwing stuff to the air and it lands on the enemy.
Me and my bud been having fun with these videos and while def want suggest servants I enjoy who yet to see like Xuanzang I thought of possibly something both funny and meme Giving the guesser the name of a skill and guessing which servant that skill belongs to. And not like say Charisma A- or stuff like that. I'm talking about Funny Vamp EX and see who he thinks owns that skill (the more unique ones basically) I feel be p funny and get to see into the mind of the guesser :p
9:18 not true. Vlad, Atalanta noble phantasm also allows them to turn into berserkers. Though with Atalanta there's the option for her to be a berserker right of the bat.
True in their lore, but I meant in a gameplay sense. I should have clarified as far as gameplay goes Jekyll/Hyde is the only one that can switch classes (so far), I'll do my best to remember for the future :)
48:08 Wrong NP of Mashu. What you showed there is Lord Chaldeas, not Lord Camelot (so the version she has to use before she learns that Galahad is the Heroic Spirit she is hooked up to).