History Fanfic / SomethingLostSomethingFound

* ForbiddenFruit: [[spoiler:All the extra strength the Abyss God's brand offers will make the bearer MONSTROUSLY powerful should they choose to accept it, ''especially'' if they fully unseal the brand, with Morgan getting to use ''Rhongomyniad Magecraft''. Of course, the fact that it lets him turn the bearer into a Foreigner and twist their mind to serve him means it's really not worth it.]]

* Chapter 13 has [[spoiler:Morgan steadily breaking more and more of the seals on her MarkOfTheBeast in an effort to stop Apep's summoning, eventually fully unsealing the mark to get the power to win, despite the mountingly severe [[SanitySlippage drawbacks]].

* DwindlingParty: The Shinjuku team steadily loses members as they mount their final assault on the Followers Cult's stronghold. First, all their flyers have to stay behind to hold off the dragons, demons and cultists outside the barrier around the cult's base, then [[spoiler:Apep gains enough of a foothold on Earth to begin imprisoning them behind shields and ForcedSleep. Soon enough, it's just Morgan and Fujimaru left to breach Apep's inner sanctum and stop the summoning.]]]

** [[spoiler: After Apep [[EvilAllAlong shows her true colours]] and prepares to forcible subjugate and brainwash her into a slave, Morgan continues fighting and struggling against her right to the end despite knowing how outmatched she is.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Apep's general demeanor, always going on long-winded speeches filled with sugary sweetness even as she tries to MindRape and brainwash Morgan. It's only when she's confronted by the Evil God of the Abyss that her true hateful self shows up.]]

* GracefulLoser: Cu Alter takes his defeat well when he's finally slain, acknowledging that it's only natural for the conquered to bow to their conquerors.

* TheCorrupter: Two of them so far, [[spoiler:both Outer Gods.]]
** [[spoiler:Apep attempts to sweet talk Morgan into help her TakeOverTheWorld under the pretence of being an outcast and refugee simply looking for a new home, playing on her desire to be special and lingering grief from the loss of Fae Britain, while already having tricked [[TheCorruptible Gilles De Rais]] into forming a cult based around HumanSacrifice by playing on his hatred of God and grief over Jeanne D'Arc's death to soften him up enough that she can flat out brainwash him. By the time he's encountered, his firmly [[BrainwashedAndCrazy under her thrall]] and doesn't even truly realize it.]]
** [[spoiler:The God Of The Abyss, on the other hand, is far more direct, simply forcing Morgan to [[TouchedByVorlons connect herself]] to him via a [[MarkOfTheBeast runic mark]] and then giving her ATasteOfPower, knowing full well she'll inevitably be tempted to start using more of it.]]

** The God Of The Abyss, on the other hand, is far more direct, simply forcing Morgan to [[TouchedByVorlons connect herself]] to him via a [[MarkOfTheBeast runic mark]] and then giving her ATasteOfPower, knowing full well she'll inevitably be tempted to start using more of it.]]

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Ritsuka's about as universally popular among the Chaldean Servants here as he is in the game proper, with Morgan and Baobhan Sith repeatedly expression confusion at this, if not even more so considering that [[spoiler:he's managed to attract the seemingly-genuine affections of '''[[ItsAllAboutMe Kiara]]''' this time around.]]
** This gets used by Morgan to try and dissuade Baobhan Sith from [[CuteAndPsycho acting]] and [[ColdBloodedTorture doing]] as she typically would towards Ritsuka (as she was planning on "making him her toy"), pointing out that he's protected by about a half dozen Servants at bare minimum, with many more willing to follow him just about anywhere and do whatever he says, none of whom would take kindly to Baobhan's attempt to 'play' with him.
** This gets quite darkly [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in Chapter 6 with [[spoiler:Kiara's take on the matter. She points out that Ritsuka's ability to gather the loyalty and (in some cases) affections of so many Heroic Spirits makes him rather terrifying to outsiders given the level of power he wields by proxy. The fact that some of the Servants' UndyingLoyalty borders on fanatacism makes him seem (to Kiara at least) like a sort of cult leader...and it doesn't quite help that ''Kiara herself'' has started thinking like this about him, which creeps out everyone around her.]]

** In both her hallucinatory flashbacks and thinking back on her reign, it's brought up several times just how much of her old self Morgan threw away to get to where she is, going from the [[PluckyGirl warm-hearted]], [[WideEyedIdealist idealistic]], [[HundredPercentAdorationRating beloved]] [[AllLovingHero All-Loving]] FolkHero Tonelico, who promised and fought for freedom for both humans and Faeries alike, to the [[TheStoic cold]], [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen cruel]], [[TyrantTakesTheHelm tyrannical]] Winter Queen Morgan who kept both humans and Faeries under her heel and was [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating hated]] by almost everyone. Though she's very ashamed to think it, Morgan admits to herself that she's secretly glad that all of her old adventuring companions and friends either died before she took power or were unaware of the [[UsedToBeASweetKid connection]] between Morgan and Tonelico, not wanting to face their horror and disappointment at what their friend became and what she did.

* WhamEpisode: The "Test Run" Arc, spanning throughout chapter 8 to 11 (except 10), has [[spoiler:Morgan encountering '''two''' [[EldritchAbomination Outer Gods]] - Apep and the other initially unnamed - after being knocked out by Oberon-Vortigern's [[ForcedSleep End of a Dream]]. Chapter 11 then reveals that the cultists are preparing for not just a possession like Abigail Williams' case, but '''''a full-blown manifestation''''' of Apep, while the true identity of the other Outer God is none other than Hokusai's patron, the Evil God of the Abyss, who makes good on his promise and forces Morgan to officially link herself to it, making her his second Foreigner.]]

--> [[spoiler:'''God Of The Abyss''': "THIS PREY IS ''MINE''. DO NOT INTERFERE."]]

* DramaticIrony: Morgan regrets not saving Ector from Tintagel when she had the chance and wished she'd sent Woodwose and the Fang Clan to go get him...unaware that Ector died rescuing Artoria Caster ''from'' the Fang Clan exterminators as they destroyed the village.

** Chapter 12 has old man Hokusai freaking out during Chaldea's assembly of reinforcements, trying to warn away other Servants from the Rayshift platform. [[spoiler:Turns out that his link with the God of the Abyss means he already knows that his patron doesn't want Chaldea interfering in 'his' [[ItsPersonal hunt for Apep]].]]

* TooGoodToBeTrue: [[spoiler:The realisation that Morgan eventually comes to during Chapter 9, where she's getting basically everything she's been working toward and then some in rapid succession. She's right, it's all [[LotusEaterMachine an Outer God's doing]].

!'''As the work primarily features [[Characters/FateGrandOrderMorgan Morgan]] who is a WalkingSpoiler for the ''[[Recap/FateGrandOrderS3E8FairyRealmOfTheRoundTableAvalonLeFae Avalon le Fae]]'' section, this page will contain spoilers for ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' up to the sixth lostbelt, some of which may be unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.'''

* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:After a very hard-fought battle against Panhuman Vortigern, which takes out Tristan, Gareth and Mordred, the Round Table finally manage to bypass his shadow-based DeflectorShield and have Lancelot strike him down with ''Arondight Overload''. Everyone relaxes and sighs with relief...until Saber asks Lancelot if he made sure Vortigern was actually dead. [[NotQuiteDead He isn't.]] By the time the Round Table realize their mistake, he's managed to invoke his dragon transformation Noble Phantasm and completely flip the battle in his favour all over again.]]

** Chapter 12 has old man Hokusai freaking out during Chaldea's assembly of reinforcements, trying to warn away other Servants from the Rayshift platform. [[spoiler:Turns out that his link with the God of the Abyss means he already knows that his patron doesn't want Chaldea interfering in 'his' [[ItsPersonal hunt for Apep]].

** Chapter 11 has this line, revealed to the audience who it is that just sabotaged Chaldea's attempt at sending reinforcements to Shinjuku:

* NamesTheSame: Morgan is especially put out to learn that Saber Alter's Noble Phantasm, a weapon that can only destroy, is named after her, and demands she change it. Saber Alter refuses and simply tells Morgan to get over it.

* TheArchmage: Naturally, Morgan herself is one, carrying over from her portrayal in ''Avalon Le Fae'' as are many other Servants in Chaldea. Merlin gets to display his skills during the Connacht Singularity when Saber seemingly gets ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Cu Alter, only for him to reveal that it was a body double made of his flowers. Morgan herself later whips up a whole new Dragon Core [[spoiler:using a piece of Vortigern's preserved heart]] and implants it into herself for an extra Mana source.

*** Even though [[KillEmAll they all perished]] in the Lostbelt's destruction, thinking about the Fae tends to set Morgan off and get her angry.