Delta Green Friendly said:
lask said:
I've actually been playing around with an idea for a Heroic Spirit Ilya route, though in it she ends up being something of a villain, Ó la Archer. It ends up with Shirou and Gilgamesh doing a teamup to stop her.
I just need to flesh out the body before I start...
Which of course mean's it will never happen.
Wait, Heroic Spirit Ilya is so broken that Shirou and GILGAMESH teaming up are required to stop her? Grail tainted Gilgamesh?
Wow. Things have got to be utterly wrecked for Shirou and Gilgamesh to team up. I mean, they hate each other on principle.
Gilgamesh is mostly in it for a rematch. They had a fight earlier, and both of them jobbed it. Ilya came from a 'it went worse' version of the Heaven's Feel, and didn't really get how scary Gilgamesh was.
Gilgamesh, on the other hand, didn't really get that, in the end, Ilya was the one who managed to united the different factions of the supernatural when Geia's death cry called the Aristoteles down on the humanity that unleashed Angra Mainyu upon it. And with her death, managed to prove they could be killed.
It was an epic fight... to everyone else. Ilya was probably rather embarrassed about her showing, and the fact that her enemy walked away, but she has better things to worry about. Gilgamesh, on the other hand, has something to prove.
Ilya would really like to think of herself as Mind Of Steel Ilya, but it isn't really true. She has... issues. She doesn't care about achieving the Root, or getting a wish. She wants to simply destroy the whole grail system so that there is no way for her future to come to pass. For that, she want's to both destroy the Greater Grail, kill her past self, and kill Sakura. Also, Zouken showed that a sufficiently gifted mage could be turned into a Grail, with what he did to Sakura, and the Tohsaka might have tied themselves to the grail somehow over the course of the different Heaven's Feels, and anyways, they probably have figured out some of the secrets of it's systems over all that time, and might be able to try and build a new one. So she should kill Rin, just to make sure. Oh, and there's Caster. She probably isn't going to just fade away like a proper Servant, she'll find way's to keep herself around, and she might do any number of things with the leftover's of the destroyed grail. Best to kill her and her master to be safe. And...
Yeah, like that.
But it remains, she ISN'T mind of steel. She has a brother who she only knew a short time, who ended up cannibalizing his own soul in some way she never quite figured out, to 'fix' her. He didn't even ask her first, he slipped her a micky, and when she woke up in pain (she was used to pain. Dying is painful, but it was a different pain), he was gone. He had all these ideals about saving the world and being a hero, and instead he died to save her, and left her to the dying world.
So, logically, she would simply blow up Fuyuki. She could do it, to, but that would kill Shirou, and she isn't going to kill him. Over the course of the route, she tries to kill others several times (no alliance happens with Rin during this period), but Shirou keeps stopping her with command seals. In fact, he runs out of command seals with how he keeps stopping her, and she has such absurd levels of prana that she's able to almost fake Independent Action but using her own prana to shove the very laws of the world away from her.
During this period, she actually kills one of her targets. I've never decided on who. Sakura is the most obvious, but that makes me not want to kill her. AnywayÆs, Ilya realizes that she's never going to kill them all with her remaining amounts of prana. She still has a stupid amount, but the world is just eating away at her a an incredible rate. She still isn't willing to just blow up the town, so instead she creates a 'fake' Reality Marble, using Wish Granting to create a 'cancerous' world that consumes Fuyuki, removes it from the world, turns it into a Labyrinth, and beings spiraling into oblivion.
She then heads off to save Shirou and get him out of town before her spell kills him along with the people she wants to kill.
Shirou, on the other hand, is trying to save everyone he can find while this is going on. Gilgamesh has figured out that 'Saber' is obsessed with Shirou, so he goes to find him, since he knows she'll go looking for Shirou in the midst of all the chaos, and Shirou manages to blackmail him (by threatening his own life), into promising to help him save everyone in the town.
While all of this is going on, the Counter Force begins to act. Not the nice, friendly version of the Counter Force that humanity calls upon to destroy threats to it's existence. The bigger, meaner, version Geia calls on when some upstart rips out a big chunk of her 'flesh' and starts destroying it rather then let it reattach itself. The agents of the Counter Force began breaking through into the Labyrinth in multiple places. Unfortunately, IlyaÆs spell, her summoning of oblivion, has created a æsubstanceÆ of nothingness that Angra Mainyu can use to build itÆs own agents out of, and they begin escaping through the rents the Counter Force creates into the outer world. This gets Alaya involved, and it starts sending in counter-guardians to destroy the threat to humanities existence (and everything else within the barrier).
Eventually, Ilya find Shirou with Gilgamesh in tow. ThereÆs an epic fightà
And thatÆs the end of my outline.
h43r: ). Sakura gets a new, advanced homunclulous body, that lacks worms, and can handle stress better. Zouken and Shinji either got smushed or ran away, but unless someone else comes up with something awesome that requires them, they have no place in the story, even after its over.
