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Well, if you're going by what's actually in the game, then Bond level 5 is more likely, with his name being given in his My Room dialogue. Bond level 10 would more likely be him reflecting on his life in the CE description.
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Alma gets sent to time-out because he can't say no to any of the children and all the children keep crowding the kitchen because Alma is the Candy Man and the kitchen gets too crowded
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GalaxianExplosion wrote:
Well, if you're going by what's actually in the game, then Bond level 5 is more likely, with his name being given in his My Room dialogue. Bond level 10 would more likely be him reflecting on his life in the CE description.
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Oh okay, then bond level 5
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Echo wrote:
Alma gets sent to time-out because he can't say no to any of the children and all the children keep crowding the kitchen because Alma is the Candy Man and the kitchen gets too crowded
I just realized because of his hands being stone, he would probably dull them down to play guitar. I think that would be an interesting sound. I mean, he could keep them sharp but he would run the risk of breaking the strings. So he could also just be playing Christmas songs on guitar off to the side
Also the image of Echo repeatedly running up to him every once in a while to stick ribbons in his hair so at the end of the event, Alma's whole head is covered in ribbons ajncjskfkd
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Nsndmamcmslkfkwkckskc Echo compares her and Alma's hands and she gets all excited and is like "Look! Look! Color gradients!" and Alma is smiling but on the inside he is crying because Angst
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Bwnxmamcs Fate G/O HDK with a fake Santa beard on his mask whfbsnnc
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Oh btw, an F/GO tip.
In Fate, Heroic Spirits are comprised of people's opinions on them, not just how they were.
So unless it was made extremely public why Alma became the monster he now appears to be, then he likely still retains aspects to his murderous days--ruthless, cruel, unable to tell the differences between people. Because that's how people understood him to be. Unless, of course, his story has major emphasis on his motives, but seeing as he killed innocents (and seeing how the public rarely agrees on something entirely, and in this case I don't even think they should), I would doubt that.
I might be looking too far into it, but it does look like you had a hint of that in his design, with him being somewhat human and somewhat monstrous (so I would think that the public either deduced or randomly guessed something like his actual motives, or maybe had some emphasis on the duality of his nature). However, to my knowledge and reasoning/perceptions, there is absolutely no way he can be the way he was right before his death, where his better aspects manifested. If he was mostly known for his murdering of the innocent as well as his murdering for revenge, then both actions will be reflected on his current self.
All of this doesn't mean that his better traits won't manifest, of course--I mean, even Moriarty, the Lord of Crime, can act like a grandpa--but I mean that he won't just be wholesome due to his backstory. And he will be that way not just from his own influences but also from how the public viewed him.
(As an example, even if a serial killer who became one because of traumatic childhood developments were to become a Servant, the emphasis would be on the fact that they killed people, not any angsty childhood trauma that might have taken place that led them to become a serial killer. It would be there for players to sympathize with them, but certainly not in the bulk of how they conduct themselves.)
As a note, I might not be completely accurate, but the general claim I'm making should be.
Some examples:
Jack the Ripper--(spoiler tagged because it has spoilers from Fate Apocrypha, but honestly it's just readable anyways)
Antonio Salieri--perhaps a little different due to his class being an Avenger, but still illustrates the example. His normal traits are almost entirely overrode by the people's opinion, that he was the one who murdered his friend, the genius/prodigy Amadeus Mozart. So his current form is a man whose sole purpose is to kill Mozart. He doesn't even have a true name--the true Salieri wasn't how he was at all. But as a Servant of the Avenger class, he is molded by how people perceived him to be--a murderer of his dear friend.Their story is that they killed women because they were the amalgamation of aborted fetuses in Britain. They killed prostitutes because they viewed those women as their "mother," and they wanted to "return to their mother's womb." Now, in this case, all that the public knew was that they were a serial killer. And also, in this case, this Jack might not even be the legitimate one--there might've been multiple individuals who committed the crime, and there are various theories on their identity. They are merely a result of a theory. But as can be seen, their class is Assassin, and their personality is actually quite disturbing. They dismember anyone without having doubts (because Jack the Ripper was seen to be a ruthless killer) even though they're a child. Which leads us to the fact that the majority of the public probably did not think of the truth of their existence, which is what manifested in Chaldea. That's to say that public perception isn't the only factor that factors into how a Servant acts like or looks like. But in this case, it does prove the point. They look like "how they were," and their backstory tells the truth of "why they were," but their personality still would fit with how the public perceived them after what they did.
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Yeah, it makes sense but can I just. Keep him the way he is? I mean, it's an AU, so, you know. I kinda really like him the way he is jwjfjsjjfs, ya know?
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@Specter - Please tell them that F/GO is an AU.
In more seriousness, @Echo, you can do whatever you want. Just know that that decision would mean that you would be missing out on a major part of the lore from the series, and so Alma's character would better described as someone who was pulled into the series rather than constructed for it.
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I mean, he was kinda created for my own amusement so technically he really was just pulled in
Coolio, then
Okay but HDK with a decorative, Christmas-themed plague mask ebbdnjsfj
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What if I drew my OCs genderbent but for Genesis I drew xyr bang flipped to the other side, Alois and Silence's bangs disappear, and Solaris's hair goes straight down instead of fwipping out since all of them are under the nonbinary umbrella
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Kinda changing Fate G/O Alma's backstory to kinda try to go with the lore better?
Maybe after he killed Nivia's kidnappers and went through the whole remorse thing, instead of instantly committing suicide, he went on for each child he had killed, he would save/help two people (since Nivia had sacrificed herself to save two people). So maybe he was known as three different people to the public: "Alma Amor" (popular due to his ability to "make miracles happen) "The Rose Petal Demon" (due to being an unidentified serial killer) and "The Unknown Saint" (due to running away before anyone could catch him/identity him) (I'm crap at names wjfhsjkfs if you can't tell)
Maybe his servant version is a mashup of all three of these public versions of him
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I could make him a Beserker to match more of the serial killer part of him, hmm, but idk because of his personality being very "gentle"/parental
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Any opinions on my addition to Fate G/O Alma is needed
I'm thinking about after the mall thread, I could start a sort of "short band tour" thread/arc of just Diabolic Divinity doing concerts. Thing is, that's a perfect opportunity for something bad to happen and my little gremlin brain is like "OWO" but the side of me that wants fluff and that is it is like "NO, ONLY NICE THINGS"
Reason for it is that Alma needs to go to the hospital and was involved in the mall shooting, and eventually since he's a "celebrity" (micro celebrity?) news would get out about that. And since HDK is canonly well-known enough to be in the news, there would be extra fear as well, so maybe the band does concerts and stuff to try to lighten the mood of what is happening and as well to show that Alma's okay
Also it's me wanting to do band interactions sndmamcmslkfkwkckskc, if it's a thread then maybe there can be interactions while the performance is happening, ect
I think my definition/how I imagine the band doing performances is different than everyone else so I need to explain the different ways they would do "concerts". I think I have before somewhere on here but I would need to go through this planning thread to find it wjfjsmkfd
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Okay, idk why, but Alois X Genesis has been on my mind for a while and idk why, I think they would be a funny couple. Enemies to Lovers trope without being enemies, just aggressive friends to lovers. Sass X Sarcasm
They would make fun of children together /j
Idk, cute ship, at least I think so
Their form of bonding is witty/passive aggressive remarks but in a romantic bromance way, they just Understand each other XD
Curse warning for the image
They have this vibe, ya know?
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This is also a vibe they would give
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Echo wrote:
Okay, idk why, but Alois X Genesis has been on my mind for a while and idk why, I think they would be a funny couple. Enemies to Lovers trope without being enemies, just aggressive friends to lovers. Sass X Sarcasm
They would make fun of children together /j
Idk, cute ship, at least I think so
Their form of bonding is witty/passive aggressive remarks but in a romantic bromance way, they just Understand each other XD
Curse warning for the imageThey have this vibe, ya know?
Okay, the give the vibe of those teenage boys that go "No homo" and do something very very much considered romantic and then one day both realize "OH WAIT, LOTS OF HOMO, ACTUALLY"
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I just remembered that Genesis is an anthropologist, kinda (xe have a degree in anthropology, anyway)
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So basically Alois X Genesis is one of my current comfort ships and it makes me angry because it seems so random but like ajcjjskvkskv idk man, sjnfnsmfm It's so hard to explain because it's just hshxjsjcjd
Although it would be so funny to watch Genesis try to flirt with Alois and be so obvious and Alois would be so hecking clueless because that's just how Alois is when people flirt with him
They would kinda be slow burn because of Alois' hesitancy in the romance area added onto his obliviousness
Also I could see Alois ranting to Alma about having a crush on Genesis and being like "But I don't think she really likes me like that, or that much really" and Alma Stares at him for a long time in pain
What if Alois fell in love first, tho. Because Genesis isn't that oblivious to flirting. Buuuut, Alois would have to accept that he's in love and figure out how he wants to handle those feelings before attempting to flirt with Genesis. So. As well as he would be hesitant because Genesis is his friend and he doesn't want to ruin that relationship with those romantic feelings, and he doesn't want to make things be awkward if Genesis doesn't feel the same
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I put way too much thought into that
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I keep forgetting that Alma also has some kind of psychology PhD
I need to find my post with that stuff
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Gods the temptation to draw Alma instead of doing HW
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The temptation to draw ships instead of sleeping
Idk why but qhfhjwkfke I have shipping brainrot atm, specifically Alois X Gen
I feel like their ship name would be "Siren" as sorta a play-on of Genesis being a mermaid and Alois being a demon, whhdnsmdksm
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Sorta a Favian/Faust- Echo/Francis song (:
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Okay so I have this sorta HC that familiar demons are infertile but if they feel like a particular person is a "child figure" to them, and said person feels like the familiar demon is a "parental figure" (so they have mutual parent-child feelings), the child figure will gain some traits of the familiar demon, which could be a physical or magical trait
That being said, Alma possibly could have inherited some kind of abilities from Solaris since to Alma, Solaris is one of his parental units, and Solaris viewed Alma as one of their children
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My mind is focusing back onto HPA Malaika again so jqjdjskff I still need to write out personalities and mannerisms of her alters, as well as how many she has and which ones might co conscious/co host the body, and as well I need to figure out how noticeable her switching is with specific alters and what could happen if Malaika was doing something and an accidental switch happened
I feel like her main alters would be apologetic if they didn't know Malaika was in the middle of something like prayer/spiritual rituals or tests
I know atm that Malaika is able to communicate with a few of the alters, but not all of them. Usually just the Main Three and sometimes the Little
One of the main three is named Leaf atm, and I came up with a male alter that has no name atm, and the final main alter is a female who also has no name
Leaf, so far, will not hesitate to make fun of someone in defense of Malaika, like they would take One Look at you and immediately know your biggest insecurity and Point It Out with no remorse. This specific alter doesn't front that much by themself, but rather they usually co-host with the other two to help Malaika process what is happening and to help Malaika not enter a bad breakdown or dissociation period. Leaf would probably only front if forced to or on accident
I'm thinking the name "Bluebell", "Lovelyn", or "Anabel" for the main female alter
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Okay but I imagined Babey Alma asking Alois if Alois knew how to play any instruments and Alois is like "I guess I know how to play violin..." and Alma is like " Momma! We need to get him a violin! He knows how to play violin!" And a few days later Violeta gives Alois a nice violin and Alois just starts crying because it had been so many years and lives since he has held a violin and abbdnakckksmcs
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And Alois is like, "Such an expensive gift??? For me????" And Violeta is like, "Oh, don't worry about expenses. Why don't you play something?" And Alois is just standing there, kinda still in shock and crying because "For me??? For ME???" and I just ajdjwnfnmd and everyone waits for Alois to collect himself and then Alois plays something and at the end Alma is all excited and stuff because he thinks Alois is just the coolest ever and I abhejdmmdf
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Echo wrote:
Kinda changing Fate G/O Alma's backstory to kinda try to go with the lore better?
Maybe after he killed Nivia's kidnappers and went through the whole remorse thing, instead of instantly committing suicide, he went on for each child he had killed, he would save/help two people (since Nivia had sacrificed herself to save two people). So maybe he was known as three different people to the public: "Alma Amor" (popular due to his ability to "make miracles happen) "The Rose Petal Demon" (due to being an unidentified serial killer) and "The Unknown Saint" (due to running away before anyone could catch him/identity him) (I'm crap at names wjfhsjkfs if you can't tell)
Maybe his servant version is a mashup of all three of these public versions of him
Maybe I'll make Fate G/O Alma a Beserker, but also have him be partially mute? I feel like he would hum a lot, but not actually talk. He would also probably make a lot of expressions with his face and body language
Lmao he gets scolded by Germaine and HDK and he just makes the sad cat face wjjfjskfjs
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Germaine and HDK: *scolds Alma for giving the children a bunch of candy before dinner*
Alma: