Nasuverse All Casters

[firestorm]

Personally, I think having all the servants back to their past selves is more interesting. Besides, Archers have high Independent Action, so give the Pyrrhic Victory EMIYA Independent Action A (full independent action, no need for master) and call it a day.

He's being summoned as a Caster, though.

D'oh.

How WOULD Bazett summon EMIYA? Rin, Sakura, and Ilya would be essentially using their own bodies and souls as catalysts, which I think would be pretty damn strong pulls on TOHSAKA, MATOU, and EINZBERN respectively. Same goes for Shirou summoning himself as EMIYA.

Hmm...maybe 1 EMIYA from Pyrrhic Victory and 1 EMIYA from Mind of Steel who still retains his beliefs in being a Hero of Justice, Pyrrhic Victory EMIYA going to Shirou and Mind of Steel EMIYA going to...who?

4 Servant/Master pairs are accounted for, I think it's safe to assume Medea is summoned then goes to the teacher (can't remember his name) as normal, making 5. Canonic masters for Saber, Archer, Rider, and Berserker are done, leaving Bazett and Medea.

Interesting idea...Medea summoning Mind of Steel Shirou accidentally, after a fight leaves some hair from Shirou on her cloak, which falls onto her summoning circle right before she begins the ceremony? She didn't use a catalyst IIRC, so that would do it...

That just leaves Bazett...how do we get around the fact that IIRC she had something specific for Cu Chulainn?

 

[Aranfan]

Does Cu Chulainn qualify as a caster? He has been seen using magic.

 

[Amodelsino]

How could Medea possibly summon a Counter Guardian? She only managed to summon 'Kojiro' because he was actually just a local wraith.

 

[firestorm]

Iunno...maybe that's where Pyrrhic Victory EMIYA died, linking him to that place?

 

[The Sandman]

Okay, so here we have the following:

Bazett summons Cu Chulainn (given the Rune thing he can probably hack it). If you want to make things really nutty here, have Kotomine then steal him as per the original plotline, only for Bazett to pact with Avenger immediately afterwards and somehow force him into the Caster class. She then is actually awake and fighting during the war.

Shirou summons some future variant of Rin, Kaleido-Ruby or otherwise.

Rin still summons EMIYA, although maybe one with an even more messed up back-story; for example, that part of the price he paid to contract with Gaia was that he would be unable to save anyone who mattered to him personally, and he had to watch everyone in his life die one-by-one and horribly as a result.

Instead of summoning herself, Ilya summons Kiritsugu.

Sakura summons future Ilya, with the connection being their shared nature.

Medea also goes off as she did originally, ending up with Kuzuki after she kills her original summoner.

The tricky bit is figuring out who the seventh summoner is. If you're willing to be extra ridiculous, maybe have Ayako, Taiga and Issei's combined feelings of irrelevance to the plot allow them to accidentally summon Servant SAKURA (who definitely can relate to the "world doesn't care about me" thing, especially if her past was some version of HF).

Also, perhaps Gil gets stuffed into the Caster role as well. Which would be highly amusing.