Current team is:
Ningguang
Fischl,
Columbina,
Linnea.

And it's my only Abyss-capable team at 50K DPS. Columbina is dealing 20% of team damage, so around 10K DPS but she's also boosting lunar reaction damage so overall her contribution would be even more.

Does anyone know if I could still have Abyss-capable DPS in this alternative team?
Ningguang
Xingqiu,
Illuga,
Linnea.

I'd really like to be able to take Bina out so I can run her in a separate team.

If so, then I will finally build my Illuga. 😂

Thanks in advance.

I'm trying to envision alternate scenarios for a fanfic.

Come to think of it, are there even any Grail Wars where a legitimate Counter Guardian had to be summoned?

Since we're in the mood of asking unhinged questions today...

Tbh I didn't come up with this idea out of nowhere, I've seen multiple fanfics mention or imply something like this about Accelerator's past.

And it is slightly suspicious that he makes sexually-charged insults and threats quite often despite not having a sex drive.

In order for a Death Battle match to be worthwhile, you have to be able to present the fighters' abilities succintly but with enough accuracy to be faithful and with enough depth that the even an audience who has never seen the characters before can mostly follow along and make sense of the interactions between each fighter's abilities during the battle.

If you don't explain a character's abilities well enough, then most of the audience will just feel it's an asspull and won't even be entertained by the fight, much less be inspired to look into the characters/series being featured.

Accelerator's Wings present a major risk for this happening.

Because how do you explain why the fuck Mr. Science Man The Particle Accelerator has angel wings, without touching on how:

A. The "Science Side" is founded on a massive lie and ESPers are actually Thelemic Mages, which then requires an explanation of

B. How Magic works in the Toaruverse, Idol Theory, what the fuck Angels are, what the fuck Phases are, what the fuck World Trees are, and how that influenced the fictional Aleister Crowley to found Thelema in order to destroy all previous forms of magic and bring about the Aeon of Horus using Academy City as his instrument, which also cannot be understood without explaining

C. The real life Aleister Crowley and Thelema Religion and The Book of The Law and the concept of Aeons and the union of Hadit and Nuit into Horus and the realization of Individual Will as Divinity, and Kazuma Kamachi's intepretation of it in the context of the Toaru series

D. Which then finally ties back into Accelerator having wings because his status as "the one who wields the power of god" means he is something like a living Idol Theory ritual for manifesting the Thelemic Deity Hadit, who is the "winged globe at the heart of Nuit" (which is embodied by the MISAKA Network) and how the very origin of his power comes from Hadit governing the Motion of all things in the universe and how every single one of his plotlines has been about shaping him into the image of Hadit.

Let's not get into the details of why or how Accel would end up in a NT9 scenario with a magic god or similarly powerful opponent for now, and simply engage with the scenario as presented.

Suppose you were trying to make Accelerator succumb to the ultimate despair, maybe you are trying to make him give up control of the Clonoth or something.

What custom-tailored infinite hell experience would you put him through?

How do you make his life more of a living hell than it already is?

How do you torture his psyche more than he already tortures himself?

New TCGs that follow "modern graphic design prinicples" are objectively polished looking, but aesthetically lacking. They convey all the information on the card clearly, but all that clean design means the "fantasy" of the game is no longer integrated into the card layout like it was with the OGs:

MTG cards look like illustration pages cut out of a fantasy novel.

Yugioh cards look like carved stone tablets.

Pokemon… is probably where the "modern card frames" got their inspiration, but the minimalist look does resemble the video game UI, which is fitting for the context of the Pokemon TCG specifically.

Meanwhile, the cards of modern TCGs look like they could easily come from a brochure or advertisement for some product at a department store.

And the cards of all these new games tend to be instinguishable from each other unless you actually recognize a specific artwork, but a magic card or yugioh card can be recognized from 30+ feet away when you can't even make out the card art.

I was having suspicions the whole time while doing the quest, and but even after completing the whole world quest, I never got an answer. I was rushing through the quest somewhat so maybe I missed something.

Anyway, I'm interested to hear your opinions on whether or not there is a hidden layer to Zeitlind (and Raumhilda's) identity.

Theory 1: Zeitlind and Raumhilda are the same person.

There were never twin sisters, there was only one girl.

Raumhilda completed her journey in the Temple of Space, lost her memories, and Zeitlind is the new identity she assumed after returning to the mortal plane.

Evidence for this includes the weirdness when you asked for her name at the graveyard and the briefcase she carries that seems to contain her entire identity (which could have been prepared by pre-memory loss Raumhilda for her future self).

Theory 2: Zeitlind and Raumhilda were never real people and are just Istaroth in disguise.

Zeitlind and Raumhilda are literally named after "time" and "space". That's a pretty big coincidence given the whole point of the quest is for us to learn something about the relationship between Asmoday and Istaroth.

Unless, it's not a coincidence at all, and the whole affair was actually a play put on by Istaroth, to communicate something to us that she could not tell us directly.

Zeitlind and Raumhilda are either Istaroth herself in disguise, or some kind of puppet being controlled by her.

Theory 3: Only Zeitlind is Istaroth. Raumhilda was a real person but she was not originally "Raumhilda".

Playing on the idea of Zeitlind being "time" and thus representing Istaroth.

There was originally a girl, who underwent a journey similar to the Raumhilda that we learn about but she did not have a sister, and Istaroth took advantage of these events to set up the event of the world quest.

Via editing the timeline, Istaroth made some changes to the original events, such changing her name to mean "space" and adding the idea of Raumhilda having a sister named Zeitlind.

Then Istaroth took the place of Zeitlind as in Theory 2 and the events of the world quest followed.