This is an idea that came to my mind, but since I'm too busy I'm giving it up. Here's the basic outline:
What if, due to some reality ripple of undetermined origin (blame magic, planetary alignment or random Act of ORT, if you want), Masters and Servants in the 5th Grail War suddenly switched places, causing the Servants to regain their mortal bodies and the Masters to take on the class and empowerment their former Servants had?
The net result would be:
-Master: Medusa / Servant: Rider Matou Sakura (Shinji rots and dies the moment Medusa is free from restrictions, so nyah)
-Master: Arturia / Servant: Saber Emiya Shirou
-Master: EMIYA / Servant: Archer Tohsaka Rin
-Master: Sasaki Koujirou - Servant: Caster Medea - Irregular Servant: False Assassin Kuzuki Souichirou
-Master: Heracles - Servant: Berserker Ilyasviel von Einzbern
-Master: Cu Chulainn - Servant: Lancer Bazett Fraga McRemitz (again, I imagine soon as Cu Chulainn breaks free, Kotomine dies a horrible, miserable death)
Zouken crawled off and died somewhere after True Assassin Commanded him to stab himself to death and then went chill in Saudi Arabia or something >_>
Needless to say, the situation becomes... more than a little chaotic as a result. And some of the newly-minted Servants may not even be especially adept at the Servant role they found themselves stuck in!
What follows is up for anyone to imagine, but I am pretty sure it'll be a royal mess. And with no way to know whether things will go back to 'normal' (and with some Servants-turned-Masters being just fine with the current situation, I might add), acting rashly may not be the best idea...
So, feel free to mess around with the idea. Yes, it's probably not doable by Nasuverse rules. Watch me give all of two rat droppings about it, I've grown tired of having to obey the overly strict rules it has. -_-
What if, due to some reality ripple of undetermined origin (blame magic, planetary alignment or random Act of ORT, if you want), Masters and Servants in the 5th Grail War suddenly switched places, causing the Servants to regain their mortal bodies and the Masters to take on the class and empowerment their former Servants had?
The net result would be:
-Master: Medusa / Servant: Rider Matou Sakura (Shinji rots and dies the moment Medusa is free from restrictions, so nyah)
-Master: Arturia / Servant: Saber Emiya Shirou
-Master: EMIYA / Servant: Archer Tohsaka Rin
-Master: Sasaki Koujirou - Servant: Caster Medea - Irregular Servant: False Assassin Kuzuki Souichirou
-Master: Heracles - Servant: Berserker Ilyasviel von Einzbern
-Master: Cu Chulainn - Servant: Lancer Bazett Fraga McRemitz (again, I imagine soon as Cu Chulainn breaks free, Kotomine dies a horrible, miserable death)
Zouken crawled off and died somewhere after True Assassin Commanded him to stab himself to death and then went chill in Saudi Arabia or something >_>
Needless to say, the situation becomes... more than a little chaotic as a result. And some of the newly-minted Servants may not even be especially adept at the Servant role they found themselves stuck in!
What follows is up for anyone to imagine, but I am pretty sure it'll be a royal mess. And with no way to know whether things will go back to 'normal' (and with some Servants-turned-Masters being just fine with the current situation, I might add), acting rashly may not be the best idea...
So, feel free to mess around with the idea. Yes, it's probably not doable by Nasuverse rules. Watch me give all of two rat droppings about it, I've grown tired of having to obey the overly strict rules it has. -_-