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* BleachedUnderpants: Like the ''[[UpdatedRerelease Realta Nua]]'' port of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', ''Hollow Ataraxia's'' Vita port removes all the naughty and erotic bits from the original PC port and either replaces them with much tamer, non-sexual alternate scenes, or heavily tones them down. [[spoiler:Caren's rape at the hands of Avenger is replaced with a different scene that plays out similarly to Realta Nua's version of Sakura's love scenes from Heaven's Feel.]]



* HGame: Like ''Fate/stay night'', ''Fate/hollow ataraxia'' features numerous explicitly pornographic sex scenes between characters in its original release; also like ''Fate/stay night'', these scenes were [[BleachedUnderpants excised]] in later releases to ensure greater market appeal.

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* HGame: Like ''Fate/stay night'', ''Fate/hollow ataraxia'' features numerous explicitly pornographic sex scenes between characters in its original release; also like ''Fate/stay night'', these scenes were [[BleachedUnderpants [[SelfCensoredRelease excised]] in later releases to ensure greater market appeal.



* SelfCensoredRelease: Like the ''[[UpdatedRerelease Realta Nua]]'' port of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', ''Hollow Ataraxia's'' Vita port removes all the naughty and erotic bits from the original PC port and either replaces them with much tamer, non-sexual alternate scenes, or heavily tones them down. [[spoiler:Caren's rape at the hands of Avenger is replaced with a different scene that plays out similarly to Realta Nua's version of Sakura's love scenes from Heaven's Feel.]]



* UpdatedRerelease: The PS Vita port of the VN has fully voiced dialogue, a hilarious hanafuda game starring Shirou and Rin as the playable main characters, and BleachedUnderpants scenes that censor and completely remove the original game's sexual bits.

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* UpdatedRerelease: The PS Vita port of the VN has fully voiced dialogue, a hilarious hanafuda game starring Shirou and Rin as the playable main characters, and BleachedUnderpants scenes that censor and completely remove the original game's sexual bits.
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And that's not all there is to it. While Shirou and the Servants and Masters are leading their oddly domestic lives together, something darker is going on. Strange beasts are spotted and an unfamiliar magus appears to have restarted the Heavens Feel. That said, none of the Servants seem to actually care since they've settled into their new lives. Yet while this is going on, time seems to be looping in an odd manner, lasting four days before the world resets back to the first day with no apparent sign of any continuity between cycles.

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And that's not all there is to it. While Shirou and the Servants and Masters are leading their oddly domestic lives together, something darker is going on. Strange beasts are spotted and an unfamiliar magus appears to have restarted the Heavens Heaven's Feel. That said, none of the Servants seem to actually care since they've settled into their new lives. Yet while this is going on, time seems to be looping in an odd manner, lasting four days before the world resets back to the first day with no apparent sign of any continuity between cycles.
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** A OneHundredPercentCompletion run consists in reading whopping ''486,000''' words[[note]]this is calculated by running UsefulNotes/{{Unix}}'s standard word counter program (wc) on the scenes' English script after removing comments and instructions meant for the machine from the [=Kirikiri2=] code[[/note]]. For reference, the trilogy of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is around 455,000 words long.

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** A OneHundredPercentCompletion run consists in reading whopping ''486,000''' words[[note]]this is calculated by running UsefulNotes/{{Unix}}'s Platform/{{UNIX}}'s standard word counter program (wc) on the scenes' English script after removing comments and instructions meant for the machine from the [=Kirikiri2=] code[[/note]]. For reference, the trilogy of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is around 455,000 words long.

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* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Kirei cut off Bazett's arm during the Fifth Grail War. At the end of Ataraxia, Bazett replaces it with an artifical arm.]]

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* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Kirei cut off Bazett's arm during the Fifth Grail War. At the end of Ataraxia, Bazett replaces it with an artifical artificial arm.]]



* BagOfHolding: It's noted that mages have a technique called 'capacity distortion' for making luggage carry far more than they were meant to hold, with Shirou recalling that Kiritsugu often used it whenever he went on excursions. However, Rin did not use it for her trip to London because she wasn't sure whether the spell could be maintained by her on the way there or back, fearing that her suitcase would simply explode from no longer being able to carry everything (this fear handily conveyed by an ImagineSpot where even Saber was stuffed in there.)

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* BagOfHolding: It's noted that mages have a technique called 'capacity distortion' for making luggage carry far more than they were meant to hold, with Shirou recalling that Kiritsugu often used it whenever he went on excursions. However, Rin did not use it for her trip to London because she wasn't sure whether the spell could be maintained by her on the way there or back, fearing that her suitcase would simply explode from no longer being able to carry everything (this fear handily conveyed by an ImagineSpot where even Saber was stuffed in there.)there).



* BroadStrokes: Enough of the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' continuity is fleshed out that you realize that one single story couldn't possibly hold it at all.
* BucketBoobyTrap: Bazett sends Avenger to investigate a manor and her Servant gets splashed with a bucket of milk for that trouble, which she finds hilarious as Avenger gripes about the indignity. When Shirou and company go to clean up Rin's house, they find the bucket she set up to prank people who tried to come into her house while she's away had fallen some time ago to their amused confusion. [[spoiler:This is a hint that Bazett and Shirou have only narrowly avoided each other by operating at separate times in the day.]]

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* BroadStrokes: Enough of the ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' continuity is fleshed out that you realize that one single story couldn't possibly hold it at all.
* BucketBoobyTrap: Bazett sends Avenger to investigate a manor and her Servant gets splashed with a bucket of milk for that trouble, which she finds hilarious as Avenger gripes about the indignity. When Shirou and company go to clean up Rin's house, they find the bucket she set up to prank people who tried to come into her house while she's away had fallen some time ago to their amused confusion. [[spoiler:This is a hint that Bazett and Shirou have only narrowly avoided each other by operating at separate times in the day.]]



* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After running around school, town, and getting a good look into the complex web of Shirou's love life all to find out who Ayako is dating, Rin, Minori, and even Ayako herself points out that the girls could have simply ''asked'' Ayako. Possibly {{Subverted}} though, as Yukika points out that it's not the kind of story you just tell causal acquaintances, something Ayako doesn't deny.
* CuttingOffTheBranches: Ataraxia ignores the sometimes large contradictions between routes and throws almost all of it in.

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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After running around school, town, and getting a good look into the complex web of Shirou's love life all to find out who Ayako is dating, Rin, Minori, and even Ayako herself points out that the girls could have simply ''asked'' Ayako. Possibly {{Subverted}} though, as However, Yukika points out that it's not the kind of story you just tell causal casual acquaintances, something Ayako doesn't deny.
* CuttingOffTheBranches: Ataraxia ignores the sometimes large contradictions between routes and throws almost all of it everything in.



* DemotedToExtra: While some Servants and Masters get larger roles than they had previously such as Lancer, Kuzuki or Caster, others don't fare so well. Here's to you, Shinji, who broke the fourth wall to state it outright.
* DestructiveSavior: [[spoiler:Illya's main contribution to the final battle is to run around Shirou's house and start smashing the place up with Berserker while killing monsters, uncaring of the damage. Sakura even observes that she's not sure if Illya is even here to help. This is in spite of saving Sakura at the last minute from Avenger's Shades.]]

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* DemotedToExtra: While some Servants and Masters get larger roles than they had previously such as Lancer, Kuzuki or Caster, previously, others don't fare so well. Here's to you, Shinji, who broke the fourth wall to state it outright.
* DestructiveSavior: [[spoiler:Illya's main contribution to the final battle is to run around Shirou's house and start smashing the place up with Berserker while killing monsters, uncaring of not caring about the damage. Sakura even observes that she's not sure if Illya is even here to help. This is in spite of saving Sakura at the last minute from Avenger's Shades.]]



* DysfunctionJunction: This has actually been glossed over to a large extent. For example, Illya has ''mostly'' relaxed, Shinji has stopped being quite so horrible and Sakura has grown a lot bolder, meaning while all the bad stuff is noted as still having occurred, [[CharacterDevelopment people have mostly moved on]].

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* DysfunctionJunction: This has actually been glossed over to a large extent. For example, Downplayed from the original story. Illya has ''mostly'' relaxed, Shinji has stopped being quite so horrible and Sakura has grown a lot bolder, meaning that while all the bad stuff is noted as still having occurred, [[CharacterDevelopment people have mostly moved on]].



* {{Filler}}: A large amount of scenes have little to do with the main plot. For example, scenes with Rider flirting with Shirou, developing the track girls from the school or slice of life with Sakura. The story takes awhile to kick into gear on the Shirou side of the story with the actual plot events being tracked ingame. This is mostly because the game is a fandisc mainly devoted to harem antics with Shirou and many a FandomNod.

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* {{Filler}}: A large amount of scenes have little to do with the main plot. For example, scenes with Rider flirting with Shirou, developing the track girls from the school or slice of life with Sakura. The story takes awhile a while to kick into gear on the Shirou side of the story story, with the actual plot events being tracked ingame. This is mostly because the game is a fandisc mainly devoted to harem antics with Shirou and many a FandomNod.



* FoodPorn: Ooh yes. When three of the main characters are on the rank of SupremeChef, this is inevitable.

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* FoodPorn: Ooh yes. When three of the main characters are on the rank of SupremeChef, this is inevitable.



** While Avenger waits for Bazett to wake up on the first night, he spends most of his time playing with a simple sliding piece puzzle to occupy his time. Bazett wonders why Avenger is so fixated on it since he could have simply solved it ages ago if he was playing with it for so long. [[spoiler:The puzzle represents the central conflict at the heart of the story as the various arrangements from sliding tiles around are all the possibilities that can be observed in Fuyuki. Leave it alone and nothing ever changes, like Bazett's eventual wish in the third act so she won't die. Keep playing with it, as Avenger does, and see everything that could happen in these four days. Or finish it and complete the picture, like how Avenger must return to the Holy Grail to bring everything to an end. Avenger is idly playing around in daytime and extends the War by doing so like how he plays with the puzzle night after night. He leaves behind the completed puzzle at the very end as a symbolic gift to Bazett.]]

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** While Avenger waits for Bazett to wake up on the first night, he spends most of his time playing with a simple sliding piece puzzle to occupy his time. Bazett wonders why Avenger is so fixated on it since he could have simply solved it ages ago if he was playing with it for so long. [[spoiler:The puzzle represents the central conflict at the heart of the story as the various arrangements from sliding tiles around are all the possibilities that can be observed in Fuyuki. Leave it alone and nothing ever changes, like Bazett's eventual wish in the third act so she won't die. Keep playing with it, as Avenger does, and see everything that could happen in these four days. Or finish it and complete the picture, like how Avenger must return to the Holy Grail to bring everything to an end. Avenger is idly playing around in daytime and extends the War by doing so so, like how he plays with the puzzle night after night. He leaves behind the completed puzzle at the very end as a symbolic gift to Bazett.]]



* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Unlike the others, there are several different ways to {{unlock|ableContent}} Rider's Eclipse scene. First, you need to have already seen Sakura's Eclipse scene. After that, you can either unlock first a series of SliceOfLife scenes until reaching the one where she and Shirou have a date at the shopping mall, or find and read each scene exploring her past and her nature as a monster. [[FridgeBrilliance This makes a lot of sense]] when you read the extended version of the scene "Monster" titled simply "Not" and realize that the point the novel was trying to make is that the ''two'' of them are Rider's true natures existing right next to the other: the socially awkward yet caring protector, and the homicidal monster that takes delight in its killing.
* {{Gotterdammerung}}: This game gives us the first true taste of "Modern Magecraft vs. [[OlderIsBetter the Age of Gods]]". Though Caster notes that the likes of Sakura and Rin have some absolutely amazing potential and in her age it seems there were no True Magics like what Zeltretch can do.

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* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Unlike the others, there are several different ways to {{unlock|ableContent}} Rider's Eclipse scene. First, you need to have already seen Sakura's Eclipse scene. After that, you can either unlock first a series of SliceOfLife scenes until reaching the one where she and Shirou have a date at the shopping mall, or find and read each scene exploring her past and her nature as a monster. [[FridgeBrilliance This makes a lot of sense]] when you read the extended version of the scene "Monster" titled simply "Not" and realize that the point the novel was trying to make is that the ''two'' of them are Rider's true natures existing right next to the other: the socially awkward yet caring protector, and the homicidal monster that takes delight in its killing.
* {{Gotterdammerung}}: This game gives us the first true taste of "Modern Magecraft vs. [[OlderIsBetter the Age of Gods]]". Though Caster notes that the likes of Sakura and Rin have some absolutely amazing potential potential, and in her age it seems there were no True Magics like what Zeltretch Zelretch can do.



* GroundhogDayLoop: Surprisingly, apart from the gameplay functions of the four days continuously looping for Shirou's half of narration Avenger admits outright after the first time he and Bazett are killed that the four days will keep looping even if they're killed.
* HandWave: There's a scene aptly named "Memories" where Illya tells Shirou about Saber, Kiritsugu and Irisviel about halfway through the game that devotes itself to tying up the canon neatly and prepare the way for the yet-to-be-published ''Literature/FateZero''. Particularly the parts that made no sense such as Saber and Kiritsugu never talking, Saber not recognizing Illya despite having met her and Irisviel not only going unmentioned in the original game but also the implication that she wasn't even in town then. Some of the explanations are better than others. These inconsistencies may be why it was [[WordOfGod clarified]] that ''Zero'' is not ''the'' version of events preceding ''stay night'', but an AlternateTimeline.

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* GroundhogDayLoop: Surprisingly, apart from the gameplay functions of the four days continuously looping for Shirou's half of narration narration, Avenger admits outright after the first time he and Bazett are killed that the four days will keep looping even if they're killed.
* HandWave: There's a scene aptly named "Memories" where Illya tells Shirou about Saber, Kiritsugu and Irisviel about halfway through the game that devotes itself to tying up the canon neatly and prepare the way for the yet-to-be-published ''Literature/FateZero''. Particularly the parts that made no sense sense, such as Saber and Kiritsugu never talking, Saber not recognizing Illya despite having met her and Irisviel not only going unmentioned in the original game but also the implication that she wasn't even in town then. Some of the explanations are better than others. These inconsistencies may be why it was [[WordOfGod clarified]] that ''Zero'' is not ''the'' version of events preceding ''stay night'', but an AlternateTimeline.



* HereWeGoAgain: After Shirou and Rin finally escape Zelretch's trunk and trouble with Magical Ruby, Rin throws Shirou back in after asking if she's peed yet. [[spoiler:Luvia is somehow also inside the box, seemingly on the cusp of making a deal with Ruby.]] Shirou laments that his issues with the box and Ruby have yet to end.

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* HereWeGoAgain: After Shirou and Rin finally escape Zelretch's trunk and trouble with Magical Ruby, Rin throws Shirou back in after asking he asks if she's peed yet. [[spoiler:Luvia is somehow also inside the box, seemingly on the cusp of making a deal with Ruby.]] Shirou laments that his issues with the box and Ruby have yet to end.



** Servants can have their Noble Phantasm coming out of thin air. {{Justified|Trope}} by the Holy Grail War system. Lancer pulls out Gae Bolg at one point to show to Ayako. And also chop flowers for a get well bouquet.
** Gilgamesh, who can literally pull thousands of original Noble Phantasms out of thin air thanks to his Gate of Babylon, takes this one step further. While he technically owns every legendary weapon, this is one of his few genuine Noble Phantasms and is the key to his treasury, allowing him to remove weapons, wealth, wine and divinity sealing chains.

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** Servants can have their Noble Phantasm coming Phantasms come out of thin air. {{Justified|Trope}} by the Holy Grail War system. Lancer pulls out Gae Bolg at one point to show to Ayako. And also chop flowers for a get well bouquet.
** Gilgamesh, who can literally pull thousands of original Noble Phantasms out of thin air thanks to his Gate of Babylon, takes this one step further. While he technically owns every legendary weapon, this is one of his few genuine Noble Phantasms and is the key to his treasury, allowing him to remove weapons, wealth, wine and divinity sealing divinity-sealing chains.



* InfractionDistraction: An accidental example. When Rin searches through Shirou's room looking for his PornStash -- see TheBet above -- she and Saber find a risque magazine that turns out to be Shinji's. [[spoiler:In the aftermath, Shirou silently thanks the heavens and Shinji because it's only thanks to the magazine that the girls stopped looking before finding his ''actual'' PornStash.]]
* InnocentInaccurate: Shirou remembers seeing Kiritsugu off at Fuyuki's harbor due to his frequent travels overseas. He never thought much of it until recently when he connected the dots and figured out that his father was most likely illegally leaving and entering the country by sea on a regular basis. Given that his old man took down an airliner inbound to New York with a surface-to-air guided missile in ''Literature/FateZero'', it isn't really too surprising for him to be extra careful of airport security.

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* InfractionDistraction: An accidental example. When Rin searches through Shirou's room looking for his PornStash -- see TheBet above -- she and Saber find a risque magazine that turns out to be Shinji's. [[spoiler:In the aftermath, Shirou silently thanks the heavens and Shinji because it's only thanks to the magazine that the girls stopped looking before finding his ''actual'' PornStash.]]
* InnocentInaccurate: Shirou remembers seeing Kiritsugu off at Fuyuki's harbor due to his frequent travels overseas. He never thought much of it until recently when he connected the dots and figured out that his father was most likely illegally leaving and entering the country by sea on a regular basis. Given that his old man took down an airliner inbound to New York with a surface-to-air guided missile in ''Literature/FateZero'', it isn't really too surprising for him to he'd be extra careful of airport security.



* KungFuWizard: Tohsaka beating up Caster in hand to hand combat is mentioned and then averted for Caster herself, who does not have super strength. Though she's probably still fairly strong considering all the stuff she was carrying.

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* KungFuWizard: Tohsaka beating up Caster in hand to hand hand-to-hand combat is mentioned and then mentioned. The trope is averted for Caster herself, who does not have super strength. Though she's probably still fairly strong considering all the stuff she was carrying.strength.



* MiniGame: There are two as UnlockableContent. [[spoiler:The Hanafuda card game and the "Operation: Illya's Castle."]]

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* MiniGame: There are two as UnlockableContent. [[spoiler:The Hanafuda card game and the "Operation: Illya's Castle."]]



** Lancer picking flowers and showing off for girls with Gae Bolg, an ImagineSpot of Rider petrifying policeman who are after her, Saber unleashing the Barrier of the Wind King when Shirou teases her about her stuffed lion and more.

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** Lancer picking flowers and showing off for girls with Gae Bolg, an ImagineSpot of Rider petrifying policeman policemen who are after her, Saber unleashing the Barrier of the Wind King when Shirou teases her about her stuffed lion and more.



* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Trapped inside a pocket dimension, Rin and Shirou try phoning for help- and end up talking to alternate versions of people they know, including [[spoiler:Rin's future self, who is madly, hopelessly in love with Shirou. Present Shirou wonders what he could have done to make her so lovey-dovey, while Present Rin is seemingly astounded that anyone would fall for him in the first place]]. Overlaps with OtherMeAnnoysMe, although hilariously [[spoiler:Rin doesn't recognise her own voice and assumes her future self is just "some strange woman" Shirou is going to meet.]]

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* MyFutureSelfAndMe: Trapped inside a pocket dimension, Rin and Shirou try phoning for help- and end up talking to alternate versions of people they know, including [[spoiler:Rin's future self, who is madly, hopelessly in love with Shirou. Present Shirou wonders what he could have done to make her so lovey-dovey, while Present Rin is seemingly astounded that anyone would fall for him in the first place]]. Overlaps with OtherMeAnnoysMe, although hilariously [[spoiler:Rin doesn't recognise her own voice and assumes her future self is just "some strange woman" Shirou is going to meet.]]



** The scene where Shirou and Rin get trapped in Zelretch's chest and try to call for help by phone provides several when they end up contacting people from parallel worlds. Like whatever Shirou's AlternateSelf did to become a SickeninglySweethearts with his version of Rin, or how another ended up working with Luvia, or whatever happened to make that version of her and Rin jump off the Tower of London together while on the run from the Clock Tower.
** In a rare not-totally-hostile moment, Archer advices Shirou to avoid sightseeing with "you-know-who" in bridges "that might have songs written about them" and that "it's be to [Shirou's] benefit to train [himself] into a really good swimmer". The implication is that something happened in Archer's past that could still happen in Shirou's future involving Rin, London Bridge and having to swim in the cold waters of the River Thames in winter. If "Tower of London" and "London Bridge" means "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge Tower Bridge]]" in this context, it's possible that this NoodleIncident is the same than the one above with Luvia and Rin.
** Shirou's part-time work boss, Neko, and his teacher/legal guardian, Taiga turn out to be friends but only discovered they were mutually acquainted with Shirou one year ago prior to this game when Taiga asked Shirou to fetch some sake. He went to his workplace since he figured they would look the other way at selling liquor to an employee not of legal drinking age. What went down that day when the two met through Shirou was apparently quite nasty and would have been even worse had Shirou not intervened.
* NoOntologicalInertia: All the Servants being able to stick around is odd, but has some precedent with the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' good end and ''Heavens Feel'' true end, but Shirou wonders why Lancer is still around after the death of Kotomine.

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** The scene where Shirou and Rin get trapped in Zelretch's chest and try to call for help by phone provides several when they end up contacting people from parallel worlds. Like whatever Shirou's AlternateSelf did to become a SickeninglySweethearts with his version of Rin, or how another ended up working with Luvia, or whatever happened to make that version of her and Rin jump off the Tower of London together while on the run from the Clock Tower.
** In a rare not-totally-hostile moment, Archer advices advises Shirou to avoid sightseeing with "you-know-who" in bridges "that might have songs written about them" and that "it's be to [Shirou's] benefit to train [himself] into a really good swimmer". The implication is that something happened in Archer's past that could still happen in Shirou's future involving Rin, London Bridge and having to swim in the cold waters of the River Thames in winter. If "Tower of London" and "London Bridge" means "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge Tower Bridge]]" in this context, it's possible that this NoodleIncident is the same than the one above with Luvia and Rin.
** Shirou's part-time work boss, Neko, and his teacher/legal guardian, Taiga turn out to be are friends but only discovered they were mutually acquainted with Shirou one year ago prior to this game when Taiga asked Shirou to fetch some sake. He went to his workplace since he figured they would look the other way at selling liquor to an employee not of legal drinking age. What went down that day when the two met through Shirou was apparently quite nasty and would have been even worse had Shirou not intervened.
* NoOntologicalInertia: All the Servants being able to stick around is odd, but has some precedent with the ''Unlimited Blade Works'' good end and ''Heavens Feel'' true end, but Shirou wonders why Lancer is still around after the surviving Kotomine's death of Kotomine.especially.



* NotHimself: Many of the characters are nothing like they were in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', which [[spoiler:is actually an early clue that something's wrong with this reality besides the whole GroundhogDayLoop thing.]]

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* NotHimself: Many of the characters are nothing like they were in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', which [[spoiler:is actually [[spoiler:is an early clue that something's wrong with this reality something besides the whole GroundhogDayLoop thing.is wrong with this reality.]]



* OlderThanTheyLook: Saber, who is said to look a couple of years younger than Shirou, but is actually around seven years his senior due to the age-stopping effect of Avalon when possessed by its rightful owner. Gilgamesh also appears in child form and Illya is a homunculus and thus has what has been called 'unusual growth patterns' and thus looks around ten.

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* OlderThanTheyLook: Saber, who is said to look a couple of years younger than Shirou, but is actually around seven years his senior due to the age-stopping effect of Avalon when possessed by its rightful owner. Gilgamesh also appears in child form form, and Illya is a homunculus and thus has what has been called with 'unusual growth patterns' and thus looks that make her look around ten.



* PornStash: Rin and Saber wager on whether Shirou has one or not (see TheBet above). It's implied they're actually more curious about the kind of stuff he's into given the token resistance Saber puts against Rin's attempts to find said PornStash, how attentively Rin leaves through the one adult magazine they do find and only becomes upset with the contents after learning it was actually Shinji's, and how bothered Saber was when Rin pointed out there weren't any blondes in there prior to that.

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* PornStash: Rin and Saber wager on whether Shirou has one or not (see TheBet above). It's implied they're actually more curious about the kind of stuff he's into into, given the token resistance Saber puts against Rin's attempts to find said PornStash, how attentively Rin leaves leafs through the one adult magazine they do find and only becomes upset with the contents after learning it was actually Shinji's, and how bothered Saber was when Rin pointed out there weren't any blondes in there prior to that.it.



** As in the ''Heaven's Feel'' route, Rider uses her Breaker Gorgon to give Shirou an EroticDream. This time, one about Sakura specifically intended to [[spoiler:motivate him to be less restrained in bed so Sakura will feel less self-conscious of her overdeveloped libido resulted from her messed-up "upbringing" as the Matou heir]]. Think of it as an IntimatePsychotherapy scenario intended to {{Invoke|dTrope}} ''another'' IntimatePsychotherapy scenario. [[spoiler:This ends up [[HoistByHerOwnPetard backfiring spectacularly on Rider]] when Shirou counters her Noble Phantasm with a projection of the same, making her lose [[DreamWeaver control of the dream]] to her subconscious that soon enough spills the beans about the frankly ''huge'' crush she's got on the guy and that she had managed to keep secret from him until then.]]

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** As in the ''Heaven's Feel'' route, Rider uses her Breaker Gorgon to give Shirou an EroticDream. This time, one about Sakura specifically intended to [[spoiler:motivate him to be less restrained in bed so Sakura will feel less self-conscious of her overdeveloped libido resulted from her messed-up "upbringing" as the Matou heir]].libido]]. Think of it as an IntimatePsychotherapy scenario intended to {{Invoke|dTrope}} ''another'' IntimatePsychotherapy scenario. [[spoiler:This ends up [[HoistByHerOwnPetard backfiring spectacularly on Rider]] when Shirou counters her Noble Phantasm with a projection of the same, making her lose [[DreamWeaver control of the dream]] to her subconscious that soon enough subconscious, which spills the beans about the frankly ''huge'' crush she's got on the guy and that she had managed to keep secret from him until then.]]



* SadisticChoice: Avenger and Bazett created a combo using the former's Noble Phantasm and the latter's Fragarach to put the enemy into a tricky situation; If they attack Avenger with a normal attack, he will just reflect the damage done to him back to them. If they choose to use their Noble Phantasm to kill Avenger before he can activate his own Noble Phantasm, that will just trigger Fragarach and kill them instead. While it isn't an unbeatable combo as the two can and do die in certain situations, the two are able to kill every participant of the 5th Holy Grail War at least once thanks to it.
* SadlyMythtaken: ''Fate'' in general takes a fairly BroadStrokes approach to mythology (which should be obvious as soon as it's revealed that King Arthur was a woman in this story) but there's at least one outright mistake:

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* SadisticChoice: Avenger and Bazett created a combo using the former's Noble Phantasm and the latter's Fragarach to put the enemy into a tricky situation; If if they attack Avenger with a normal attack, he will just reflect the damage done to him back to them. If they choose to use their Noble Phantasm to kill Avenger before he can activate his own Noble Phantasm, that will just trigger Fragarach and kill them instead. While it isn't an unbeatable combo as the two can and do die in certain situations, the two are able to kill every participant of the 5th Holy Grail War at least once thanks to it.
* SadlyMythtaken: ''Fate'' in general takes a fairly BroadStrokes approach to mythology (which should be obvious as soon as it's revealed that King Arthur was a woman in this story) mythology, but there's at least one outright mistake:



** In the scene where Shirou gets AmusingInjuries after being used as the rope in a non-romantic LoverTugOfWar between Neko and Taiga (long story), the latter says:

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* SickEpisode: Shirou can end up having to take care of Tohsaka at her place while she's under-the-weather in an optional scene.

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* SickEpisode: In an optional scene, Shirou can end up having to take takes care of Tohsaka at her place while she's under-the-weather in an optional scene.under-the-weather.



* SpoilerOpening: The PS Vita port's second opening animated by Creator/{{ufotable}} pretty much gives away [[spoiler: the true nature behind Avenger's connection with Shirou]], a twist that isn't revealed until very late in the story.
* TransformationSequence: Rin's MagicalGirl transformation

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* SpoilerOpening: The PS Vita port's second opening animated by Creator/{{ufotable}} pretty much gives away [[spoiler: the true nature behind Avenger's connection with Shirou]], a twist that isn't revealed until very late in the story.
* TransformationSequence: Rin's MagicalGirl transformationtransformation.



* UnlockableContent: Plenty. Completing certain scenes unlocks wallpapers, figuring out what the "cursed item" found in the Ryuudou Temple is for unlocks [[spoiler:the Hanafuda card]] MiniGame, going on dates with the main heroines unlocks an OptionalSexualEncounter for each of them in the original PC version, reading scenes increases the "funds" for the [[DevelopersRoom "Tohsaka Shrine"]], and even much of the main gameplay consists in finding and triggering the right flags to unlock more of them and advance in the main storyline.

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* UnlockableContent: Plenty. Completing certain scenes unlocks wallpapers, figuring out what the "cursed item" found in the Ryuudou Temple is for unlocks [[spoiler:the Hanafuda card]] MiniGame, going on dates with the main heroines unlocks an OptionalSexualEncounter for each of them in the original PC version, reading scenes increases the "funds" for the [[DevelopersRoom "Tohsaka Shrine"]], and even much of the main gameplay consists in of finding and triggering the right flags to unlock more of them content and advance in the main storyline.



* UnwantedHarem: The story does not have Shirou paired off with any one character. Instead, he now has Tohsaka, Saber and Sakura plus the addition of Rider and Illya while Ayako and the three track girls also seem attracted to him to varying extents. [[spoiler:A particularly entertaining scene opens up in Eclipse after you get OneHundredPercentCompletion, where Bazett and Caren both also try to move into the Emiya household, and each of the heroines vigorously protests.]]
** Averted with: [[spoiler:Bazett, even if the heroines protest about her moving in for a week, it's clear she's in love with Lancer. Caren, on the other hand, seems mildly taken with Shirou's resemblance to Avenger. This IS still an aversion, since it's mostly Avenger.]]

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* UnwantedHarem: The story does not have Shirou paired off with any one character. Instead, he now has Tohsaka, Saber and Sakura Sakura, plus the addition of Rider and Illya while Ayako and the three track girls also seem attracted to him to varying extents. [[spoiler:A particularly entertaining scene opens up in Eclipse after you get OneHundredPercentCompletion, where Bazett and Caren both also try to move into the Emiya household, and each of the heroines vigorously protests.]]
** Averted with: [[spoiler:Bazett, with [[spoiler:Bazett; even if the heroines protest about her moving in for a week, it's clear she's in love with Lancer. Caren, on the other hand, seems mildly taken with Shirou's resemblance to Avenger. This IS still an aversion, since it's mostly Avenger.]]



* VerbalBackspace: When Shirou goes to the pool with all the main female characters, he's surprised to find Kid Gilgamesh in there and complain that even the owner of the resort shouldn't crash other people's party like that. Shirou then does a hilarious 180-turn in utter gratitude when Gil says he kept Archer and Lancer from trespassing the premises.

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* VerbalBackspace: When Shirou goes to the pool with all the main female characters, he's surprised to find Kid Gilgamesh in there and complain complains that even the owner of the resort shouldn't crash other people's party parties like that. Shirou then does a hilarious 180-turn in utter gratitude when Gil says he kept Archer and Lancer from trespassing on the premises.



* WackyMarriageProposal: When her head maid kept complaining about Illya planning to have a day at the pool with Shirou due to the impropriety of it, she nonchalantly declares him her "future consort" and says that should make it okay for him to escort her. Sella's opposition is driven to a corner and [[RedEyesTakeWarning her eyes literally go red]] and glares at Shirou in barely restrained impotent fury.
* WhamShot: When Shirou and Caren finally meet at the grounds outside Ryuudou Temple, they then fight the mysterious monsters and Shirou takes out his swords to fight the horde. [[spoiler:They're not Kanshou and Bakuya, the signature weapons associated with him by way of Archer. They're the same swords Avenger wields when fighting with Bazett. Shirou and Avenger have not met at all, so this is the first blatant indication that something strange is going on behind the scenes between the two]].
* WillNotTellALie: Shirou says that he's learned that Servants generally never lie outright as a matter of pride. If you look back at ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' you'll see the evidence supports this conclusion. Even Archer, who says he has no pride at all, does not seem to care for lying so much as being misleading. Of course, while they won't lie, there are [[ExactWords other]] [[YouDidntAsk ways]] [[FigureItOutYourself of keeping secrets]].

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* WackyMarriageProposal: When her Illya's head maid kept complaining complains about Illya the impropriety of her planning to have a day at the pool with Shirou due to the impropriety of it, Shirou, she nonchalantly declares him her "future consort" and says that should make it okay for him to escort her. Sella's opposition is driven to a corner and [[RedEyesTakeWarning her eyes literally go red]] and glares at Shirou in barely restrained barely-restrained impotent fury.
* WhamShot: When Shirou and Caren finally meet at the grounds outside Ryuudou Temple, they then fight the mysterious monsters and Shirou takes taking out his swords to fight the horde.monsters at Ryuudou Temple. [[spoiler:They're not Kanshou and Bakuya, the signature weapons associated with him by way of Archer. They're the same swords Avenger wields when fighting with Bazett. Shirou and Avenger have not met at all, so this is the first blatant indication that something strange is going on behind the scenes between the two]].
* WillNotTellALie: Shirou says that he's learned that Servants generally never lie outright as a matter of pride. If you look back at ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' you'll see the evidence supports this conclusion. Even Archer, who says he has no pride at all, does not seem to doesn't care for lying so much as being misleading. Of course, while they won't lie, there are [[ExactWords other]] [[YouDidntAsk ways]] [[FigureItOutYourself of keeping secrets]].



* YearOutsideHourInside: The trunk in Rin's house was made with Zelretch's True Magic and warps space and time for its many strange properties, one of which being an hour inside the box corresponds to exactly one day outside of it. Shirou and Rin end up spending all four days of one loop inside it, with only three hours and a half passing for them.

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* YearOutsideHourInside: The trunk in Rin's house was made with Zelretch's True Magic and warps space and time for its many strange properties, one of which being that an hour inside the box corresponds to exactly one day outside of it. Shirou and Rin end up spending all four days of one loop inside it, with only three hours and a half passing for them.



* YourHeadASplode: In the re-creation of the 3rd Holy Grail War, it is revealed that the Assassin of the said war was a midget Hassan-i-Sabbah who can turn a person's brain into gunpowder and blow up their upper torso.

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* YourHeadASplode: In the re-creation of the 3rd Holy Grail War, it is revealed that the Assassin of the said war was a midget Hassan-i-Sabbah Hassan-i-Sabbah, who can could turn a person's brain into gunpowder and blow up their upper torso.
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* HandWave: There's a scene aptly named "Memories" where Illya tells Shirou about Saber, Kiritsugu and Irisviel about halfway through the game that devotes itself to tying up the canon neatly and prepare the way for the yet-to-be-published ''Literature/FateZero''. Particularly the parts that made no sense such as Saber and Kiritsugu never talking, Saber not recognizing Illya despite having met her and Irisviel not only going unmentioned in the original game but also the implication that she wasn't even in town then. Some of the explanations are better than others. These inconsistencies may be why it was [[WordOfGod eventually clarified]] that ''Zero'' is not ''the'' version of events preceding ''stay night'', but an AlternateTimeline.

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* HandWave: There's a scene aptly named "Memories" where Illya tells Shirou about Saber, Kiritsugu and Irisviel about halfway through the game that devotes itself to tying up the canon neatly and prepare the way for the yet-to-be-published ''Literature/FateZero''. Particularly the parts that made no sense such as Saber and Kiritsugu never talking, Saber not recognizing Illya despite having met her and Irisviel not only going unmentioned in the original game but also the implication that she wasn't even in town then. Some of the explanations are better than others. These inconsistencies may be why it was [[WordOfGod eventually clarified]] that ''Zero'' is not ''the'' version of events preceding ''stay night'', but an AlternateTimeline.
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* HandWave: There's a scene aptly named "Memories" where Illya tells Shirou about Saber, Kiritsugu and Irisviel about halfway through the game that devotes itself to tying up the canon neatly and prepare the way for the yet-to-be-published ''Literature/FateZero''. Particularly the parts that made no sense such as Saber and Kiritsugu never talking, Saber not recognizing Illya despite having met her and Irisviel not only going unmentioned in the original game but also the implication that she wasn't even in town then. Some of the explanations are better than others.

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* HandWave: There's a scene aptly named "Memories" where Illya tells Shirou about Saber, Kiritsugu and Irisviel about halfway through the game that devotes itself to tying up the canon neatly and prepare the way for the yet-to-be-published ''Literature/FateZero''. Particularly the parts that made no sense such as Saber and Kiritsugu never talking, Saber not recognizing Illya despite having met her and Irisviel not only going unmentioned in the original game but also the implication that she wasn't even in town then. Some of the explanations are better than others. These inconsistencies may be why it was [[WordOfGod eventually clarified]] that ''Zero'' is not ''the'' version of events preceding ''stay night'', but an AlternateTimeline.
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* IdealizedSex: Shirou and Rin's adorable ''"cat-pajamas"'' love-scene. It is for all intents and purposes a complete reversal of their awkward sexual encounter from ''stay night''; just about everything that went wrong back then, goes right here.

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* IdealizedSex: Shirou and Rin's adorable ''"cat-pajamas"'' love-scene. It is for all intents and purposes a complete reversal of their very awkward sexual encounter from ''stay night''; just about everything that went wrong back then, goes right here.here, and it ends up being a throughly enjoyable experience for both parties.
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->Rider catches the ends of Tohsaka's hair between her fingers. ...The secret-flower-garden-o-meter just went off the scale. I wouldn't be so foolish as to say so out loud, but this kind of situation could really lead one to imagine certain things.

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* HandWave: There's a scene aptly named "Memories" where Illya tells Shirou about Saber, Kiritsugu and Irisviel about halfway through the game that devotes itself to tying up the canon neatly and prepare the way for the yet-to-be-published ''LightNovel/FateZero''. Particularly the parts that made no sense such as Saber and Kiritsugu never talking, Saber not recognizing Illya despite having met her and Irisviel not only going unmentioned in the original game but also the implication that she wasn't even in town then. Some of the explanations are better than others.

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* HandWave: There's a scene aptly named "Memories" where Illya tells Shirou about Saber, Kiritsugu and Irisviel about halfway through the game that devotes itself to tying up the canon neatly and prepare the way for the yet-to-be-published ''LightNovel/FateZero''.''Literature/FateZero''. Particularly the parts that made no sense such as Saber and Kiritsugu never talking, Saber not recognizing Illya despite having met her and Irisviel not only going unmentioned in the original game but also the implication that she wasn't even in town then. Some of the explanations are better than others.



* InnocentInaccurate: Shirou remembers seeing Kiritsugu off at Fuyuki's harbor due to his frequent travels overseas. He never thought much of it until recently when he connected the dots and figured out that his father was most likely illegally leaving and entering the country by sea on a regular basis. Given that his old man took down an airliner inbound to New York with a surface-to-air guided missile in ''LightNovel/FateZero'', it isn't really too surprising for him to be extra careful of airport security.

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* InnocentInaccurate: Shirou remembers seeing Kiritsugu off at Fuyuki's harbor due to his frequent travels overseas. He never thought much of it until recently when he connected the dots and figured out that his father was most likely illegally leaving and entering the country by sea on a regular basis. Given that his old man took down an airliner inbound to New York with a surface-to-air guided missile in ''LightNovel/FateZero'', ''Literature/FateZero'', it isn't really too surprising for him to be extra careful of airport security.



** Saber likes takoyaki. Or at least she does until she finds out they're made of octopi [[LightNovel/FateZero due to tentacle-related reasons]].

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** Saber likes takoyaki. Or at least she does until she finds out they're made of octopi [[LightNovel/FateZero [[Literature/FateZero due to tentacle-related reasons]].



** Rin resorts to the same gravity-dampening spell she used to jump off a rooftop and over the security fence in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' (and [[ContinuityNod her father before her]] used to gently descend to his battle with Berserker's Master in ''LightNovel/FateZero'') during her OptionalSexualEncounter with Shirou. Her motive to cast it on herself is surprisingly un-perverted and pragmatic[[labelnote:if you want details…]]In a {{Subversion}} of IdealizedSex, due to her inexperience Rin simply couldn't spare the concentration to not put too much weight on her elbow and Shirou's stomach while blowing him in a sixty-nine position.[[/labelnote]].

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** Rin resorts to the same gravity-dampening spell she used to jump off a rooftop and over the security fence in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' (and [[ContinuityNod her father before her]] used to gently descend to his battle with Berserker's Master in ''LightNovel/FateZero'') ''Literature/FateZero'') during her OptionalSexualEncounter with Shirou. Her motive to cast it on herself is surprisingly un-perverted and pragmatic[[labelnote:if you want details…]]In a {{Subversion}} of IdealizedSex, due to her inexperience Rin simply couldn't spare the concentration to not put too much weight on her elbow and Shirou's stomach while blowing him in a sixty-nine position.[[/labelnote]].



* ProductionForeshadowing: ''Fate/Hollow Ataraxia'' was released more than a year prior to the publishing of the first issue of ''LightNovel/FateZero'', making any apparent ShoutOut to the latter an example of this trope instead. For specific examples:

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* ProductionForeshadowing: ''Fate/Hollow Ataraxia'' was released more than a year prior to the publishing of the first issue of ''LightNovel/FateZero'', ''Literature/FateZero'', making any apparent ShoutOut to the latter an example of this trope instead. For specific examples:
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* WhamShot: When Shirou and Caren finally meet at the grounds outside Ryuudou Temple, they then fight the mysterious monsters and Shirou takes out his swords to fight the horde. [[spoiler:They're not Kanshou and Bakuya, the signature weapons associated with him by way of Archer. They're the same swords Avenger wields when fighting with Bazett. Shirou and Avenger have not met at all, so this is the first blatant indication that something strange is going on behind the scenes between the two]].
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* HomoeroticSubtext: This actually catches an overt lampshade when Rider is teasing Rin.
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* FlowerMotifs: A white Hydrangea thematically connects the trio of new characters as a recurring motif. Caren's last name is derived from a different name for the same flower, Avenger plays with a sliding tile puzzle that depicts the flower when put together, and Bazett is depicted standing in her own field of hydrangeas. Both original and ufotable openings depict the hydrangea as a recurring visual element. [[spoiler:It indicates Caren's importance to the two as Bazett's rescuer and Avenger's love interest.]]
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** {{Discussed|Trope}}. When Shirou and Sakura discuss swimming styles at the pool, she mentions that she's not good at the backstroke. He was a brief ImagineSpot about how it would be like for someone as busty as Sakura to swim like that with the small bikini she was wearing at the time and almost gives himself a {{Nosebleed}}.
** PlayedStraight during the rehearsal of the SchoolPlay the Archery Club intended to perform for the [[SchoolFestival Cultural Festival]]. Sakura gets a part as the "rabbit", which involves a small sing and dance number with lots of hopping, something Makidera loudly complains about due to this trope.
--->'''Kaede:''' Are you happy swaying like that!? Is this reverse sexual harassment!?\\
'''Sakura:''' N-No, it's not "swaying," it's "hopping", [[VerbalTic byoing]].
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* BucketBoobyTrap: Bazett sends Avenger to investigate a manor and her Servant gets splashed with a bucket of milk for that trouble, which she finds hilarious as Avenger gripes about the indignity. When Shirou and company go to clean up Rin's house, they find the bucket she set up to prank people who tried to come into her house while she's away had fallen some time ago to their amused confusion. [[spoiler:This is a hint that Bazett and Shirou have only narrowly avoided each other by operating at separate times in the day.]]
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* OneHundredPercentCompletion: There's an actual meter for it.
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it. [[spoiler:Getting every single scene in the game unlocks an epilogue that explains what Bazett's been doing after coming back to life.]]
* AllJustADream: It's explained that from the perspective of [[spoiler:everyone who isn't Bazett, these four days will be rendered as some distant hazy dream in the back of their mind once the cycle is stopped.]]

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* FinaleTitleDrop: At the very end in the closing message. [[spoiler:"The endless four days have ended, once and for all. From now on, this story is yours to create. ----Thanks. And let us part this, hollow ataraxia."]]



** Shirou's part-time work boss, Neko, and his teacher/legal guardian, Taiga turn out to be friends but only discovered they were mutually acquainted with Shirou one year ago prior to this game when Taiga asked Shirou to fetch some sake and he went to his workplace since he figured they would look the other way at selling liquor to an employee not of legal drinking age. What went down when the two met through Shirou was apparently quite nasty and would have been even worse had Shirou not intervened.

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** Shirou's part-time work boss, Neko, and his teacher/legal guardian, Taiga turn out to be friends but only discovered they were mutually acquainted with Shirou one year ago prior to this game when Taiga asked Shirou to fetch some sake and he sake. He went to his workplace since he figured they would look the other way at selling liquor to an employee not of legal drinking age. What went down that day when the two met through Shirou was apparently quite nasty and would have been even worse had Shirou not intervened.

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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Shirou and Rin's adorable ''"cat-pajamas"'' love-scene. It is for all intents and purposes a complete reversal of their awkward sexual encounter from ''stay night''; just about everything that went wrong back then, goes right here.


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* DestructiveSavior: [[spoiler:Illya's main contribution to the final battle is to run around Shirou's house and start smashing the place up with Berserker while killing monsters, uncaring of the damage. Sakura even observes that she's not sure if Illya is even here to help. This is in spite of saving Sakura at the last minute from Avenger's Shades.]]

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*** Saegusa's stories are about a woman's ghost on the second floor of a western mansion and a string-like thing hanging in the sky over Shinto. Rin dismisses the first as slander about her house, but it becomes a plot thread where Shirou finds out the house is real and investigates it. [[spoiler:It's the house where Bazett is operating out of. As a BrickJoke in the ending, Bazett thinks she'll play a prank on Rin and pretend to be a ghost.]] The second story is [[spoiler:about the stairs Avenger must ascend in order to reach the Holy Grail.]]

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*** Saegusa's stories are about a woman's ghost on the second floor of a western mansion and a string-like thing hanging in the sky over Shinto. Rin dismisses the first as slander about her house, but it becomes a plot thread where Shirou finds out the house is real and investigates it. [[spoiler:It's the house where Bazett is operating out of. As a BrickJoke in the ending, Bazett thinks she'll play a prank on Rin and pretend to be a ghost.]] The second story is [[spoiler:about the stairs Avenger must ascend in order to reach the Holy Grail.]]



*** Issei's story is [[spoiler:not a direct plot point, but thematically relevant to the ending.]] His story ends with the moral that "only the living can revive the dead", with the dead working towards the same only creates more of its own kind and cannot bring others back to life. [[spoiler:As a Servant, Angra Mainyu does not have the power to bring Bazett back to life and could only keep her in suspended animation before the brink of actually dying. It requires Caren, a living human, to come by and nurse her back to life. Avenger's efforts to keep her alive in the closed loop results in endless monstrous dead versions of himself being spawned. He directly reminds Bazett of this at the very end before revealing Caren has kept her alive.]]
** While Avenger waits for Bazett to wake up on the first night, he spends most of his time playing with a simple sliding piece puzzle to occupy his time. Bazett wonders why Avenger is so fixated on it since he could have simply solved it ages ago if he was playing with it for so long. [[spoiler:The puzzle represents the central conflict at the heart of the story as the various arrangements from sliding tiles around are all the possibilities that can be observed in Fuyuki. Leave it alone and nothing ever changes, like Bazett's eventual wish in the third act so she won't die. Keep playing with it, as Avenger does, and see everything that could happen in these four days. Or finish it and complete the picture, like how Avenger must return to the Holy Grail to bring everything to an end. Avenger is idly playing around in daytime and extend the War by doing so like how he plays with the puzzle night after night. He leaves behind the completed puzzle at the very end as a symbolic gift to Bazett.]]

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*** Issei's story is [[spoiler:not a direct plot point, but thematically relevant to the ending.]] His story ends with the moral that "only the living can revive the dead", with as the dead working towards the same only creates more of its own kind and cannot bring others back to life. [[spoiler:As a Servant, Angra Mainyu does not have the power to bring Bazett back to life and could only keep her in suspended animation before the brink of actually dying. It requires Caren, a living human, to come by and nurse her back to life. Avenger's efforts to keep her alive in the closed loop results in endless monstrous dead versions of himself being spawned.spawned with each cycle. He directly reminds Bazett of this at the very end before revealing Caren has kept her alive.]]
** While Avenger waits for Bazett to wake up on the first night, he spends most of his time playing with a simple sliding piece puzzle to occupy his time. Bazett wonders why Avenger is so fixated on it since he could have simply solved it ages ago if he was playing with it for so long. [[spoiler:The puzzle represents the central conflict at the heart of the story as the various arrangements from sliding tiles around are all the possibilities that can be observed in Fuyuki. Leave it alone and nothing ever changes, like Bazett's eventual wish in the third act so she won't die. Keep playing with it, as Avenger does, and see everything that could happen in these four days. Or finish it and complete the picture, like how Avenger must return to the Holy Grail to bring everything to an end. Avenger is idly playing around in daytime and extend extends the War by doing so like how he plays with the puzzle night after night. He leaves behind the completed puzzle at the very end as a symbolic gift to Bazett.]]



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* UndeadTaxExemption: {{Averted|Trope}}. As summoned individuals, Servants have no legal identity nor employment history. Rider and Lancer get around this by holding part-time jobs, Archer simply Projects whatever he needs and remains in Spirit Form the rest of the time, Gilgamesh is just so filthy rich that can throw money at any problem he may have, and Assassin and Berserker are unable to interact with regular people in the first place. Caster is a special case who actually had to buy a forged identity from the "supervising young lady", while pointing out that it didn't come cheap, so she and Kuzuki could get married. Saber… well, Saber basically embraced her PrettyFreeloader-ness and a scene has Rider and Caster shooting potshots at her for it.

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As summoned individuals, Servants have no legal identity nor employment history. Rider and Lancer get around this by holding part-time jobs, Archer simply Projects whatever he needs and remains in Spirit Form the rest of the time, Gilgamesh is just so filthy rich that can throw money at any problem he may have, and Assassin and Berserker are unable to interact with regular people in the first place. Caster is a special case who actually had to buy a forged identity from the "supervising young lady", while pointing out that it didn't come cheap, so she and Kuzuki could get married. Saber… well, Saber basically embraced her PrettyFreeloader-ness and a scene has Rider and Caster shooting potshots at her for it.it.
** [[spoiler:Most of Bazett's ending and epilogue content discusses the fact that she's considered legally dead by the Association and wants to figure out a way to secure employment in normal society. The others point out that she doesn't ''actually'' need to bother when she has literal suitcases full of cash lying around from her old job to provide a cushion for her, but dammit, it's the principle of the thing!]]
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* YouCanSeeMe: Avenger appears as [[spoiler:a tattooed Shirou]] to three people. They are Bazett, Caren, and [[spoiler:Rider]]. The first two are explained from having emotional connections to Avenger as his Master and his love interest, but [[spoiler:he's surprised the third can actually see him as someone besides a shadowy silhouette. He chalks it up to their similar natures at that moment.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: While Avenger waits for Bazett to wake up on the first night, he spends most of his time playing with a simple sliding piece puzzle to occupy his time. Bazett wonders why Avenger is so fixated on it since he could have simply solved it ages ago if he was playing with it for so long. [[spoiler:The puzzle represents the central conflict at the heart of the story as the various arrangements from sliding tiles around are all the possibilities that can be observed in Fuyuki. Leave it alone and nothing ever changes, like Bazett's eventual wish in the third act so she won't die. Keep playing with it, as Avenger does, and see everything that could happen in these four days. Or finish it and complete the picture, like how Avenger must return to the Holy Grail to bring everything to an end. Avenger is idly playing around in daytime and extend the War by doing so like how he plays with the puzzle night after night. He leaves behind the completed puzzle at the very end as a symbolic gift to Bazett.]]

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** All the horror stories told at the Ryuudou training camp come up in the plot.
*** Saegusa's stories are about a woman's ghost on the second floor of a western mansion and a string-like thing hanging in the sky over Shinto. Rin dismisses the first as slander about her house, but it becomes a plot thread where Shirou finds out the house is real and investigates it. [[spoiler:It's the house where Bazett is operating out of. As a BrickJoke in the ending, Bazett thinks she'll play a prank on Rin and pretend to be a ghost.]] The second story is [[spoiler:about the stairs Avenger must ascend in order to reach the Holy Grail.]]
*** Rin and Mitsuzuri both talk about some figure on the Center Building roof of Shinto, with the former thinking of a shadow and the latter thinking of a red person. [[spoiler:The shadow is Avenger trying to end the Holy Grail War and the red person is Archer sniping Shirou whenever he tries to cross the bridge.]]
*** Himuro refers to a mirage in the Shinto sky. [[spoiler:It's the Holy Grail that appears on the fourth night that Avenger/Shirou must figure out how to reach.]]
*** Issei's story is [[spoiler:not a direct plot point, but thematically relevant to the ending.]] His story ends with the moral that "only the living can revive the dead", with the dead working towards the same only creates more of its own kind and cannot bring others back to life. [[spoiler:As a Servant, Angra Mainyu does not have the power to bring Bazett back to life and could only keep her in suspended animation before the brink of actually dying. It requires Caren, a living human, to come by and nurse her back to life. Avenger's efforts to keep her alive in the closed loop results in endless monstrous dead versions of himself being spawned. He directly reminds Bazett of this at the very end before revealing Caren has kept her alive.]]
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While Avenger waits for Bazett to wake up on the first night, he spends most of his time playing with a simple sliding piece puzzle to occupy his time. Bazett wonders why Avenger is so fixated on it since he could have simply solved it ages ago if he was playing with it for so long. [[spoiler:The puzzle represents the central conflict at the heart of the story as the various arrangements from sliding tiles around are all the possibilities that can be observed in Fuyuki. Leave it alone and nothing ever changes, like Bazett's eventual wish in the third act so she won't die. Keep playing with it, as Avenger does, and see everything that could happen in these four days. Or finish it and complete the picture, like how Avenger must return to the Holy Grail to bring everything to an end. Avenger is idly playing around in daytime and extend the War by doing so like how he plays with the puzzle night after night. He leaves behind the completed puzzle at the very end as a symbolic gift to Bazett.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: While Avenger waits for Bazett to wake up on the first night, he spends most of his time playing with a simple sliding piece puzzle to occupy his time. Bazett wonders why Avenger is so fixated on it since he could have simply solved it ages ago if he was playing with it for so long. [[spoiler:The puzzle represents the central conflict at the heart of the story as the various arrangements from sliding tiles around are all the possibilities that can be observed in Fuyuki. Leave it alone and nothing changes, like Bazett's eventual wish in the third act so she won't die. Keep playing with it, as Avenger does, and see everything that could happen in these four days. Or finish it and complete the picture, like how Avenger must return to the Holy Grail to bring everything to an end. Avenger is idly occupying his time in daytime to play around and extend the loop by doing so like how he plays with the puzzle night after night. He leaves behind the completed puzzle at the very end as a symbolic gift to Bazett.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: While Avenger waits for Bazett to wake up on the first night, he spends most of his time playing with a simple sliding piece puzzle to occupy his time. Bazett wonders why Avenger is so fixated on it since he could have simply solved it ages ago if he was playing with it for so long. [[spoiler:The puzzle represents the central conflict at the heart of the story as the various arrangements from sliding tiles around are all the possibilities that can be observed in Fuyuki. Leave it alone and nothing ever changes, like Bazett's eventual wish in the third act so she won't die. Keep playing with it, as Avenger does, and see everything that could happen in these four days. Or finish it and complete the picture, like how Avenger must return to the Holy Grail to bring everything to an end. Avenger is idly occupying his time playing around in daytime to play around and extend the loop War by doing so like how he plays with the puzzle night after night. He leaves behind the completed puzzle at the very end as a symbolic gift to Bazett.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: While Avenger waits for Bazett to wake up on the first night, he spends most of his time playing with a simple sliding piece puzzle to occupy his time. Bazett wonders why Avenger is so fixated on it since he could have simply solved it ages ago if he was playing with it for so long. [[spoiler:The puzzle represents the central conflict at the heart of the story as the various arrangements from sliding tiles around are all the possibilities that can be observed in Fuyuki. Leave it alone and nothing changes, like Bazett's eventual wish in the third act so she won't die. Keep playing with it, as Avenger does, and see everything that could happen in these four days. Or finish it and complete the picture, like how Avenger must return to the Holy Grail to bring everything to an end. Avenger is idly occupying his time in daytime to play around and extend the loop by doing so like how he plays with the puzzle night after night. He leaves behind the completed puzzle at the very end as a symbolic gift to Bazett.]]

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* HereWeGoAgain: After Shirou and Rin finally escape Zelretch's trunk and trouble with Magical Ruby, she throws him back in after asking she's peed yet. [[spoiler:Luvia is somehow also inside the box, seemingly on the cusp of making a deal with Ruby.]] Shirou laments that his issues with the box and Ruby have yet to end.

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* HereWeGoAgain: After Shirou and Rin finally escape Zelretch's trunk and trouble with Magical Ruby, she Rin throws him Shirou back in after asking if she's peed yet. [[spoiler:Luvia is somehow also inside the box, seemingly on the cusp of making a deal with Ruby.]] Shirou laments that his issues with the box and Ruby have yet to end.


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* LookBehindYou: Shirou proclaims that there's a giant cake outside the school while being chased around by Sella and Leysritt so he can get them out of his hair. Sella ''immediately'' falls for it, rambling about what kind of traits it should have before going into a tangent about an alleged cake monster that attacked Athens in ancient times. It takes Leysritt to point out that this was a lie.

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* HourInsideYearOutside: The trunk in Rin's house was made with Zelretch's True Magic and warps space and time for its many strange properties, one of which being an hour inside the box corresponds to exactly one day outside of it. Shirou and Rin end up spending all four days of one loop inside it, with only three hours and a half passing for them.



* YouRemindMeOfX: Rider is really embarrassed that she got killed by Perseus in her original life. She describes him as a loser and a spoiled brat and that he's like a "successful [[{{Jerkass}} Shinji Matou]]". In hindsight, this means her getting bossed around by Shinji in the original Fate/Stay Night must have been harsh.

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* YearOutsideHourInside: The trunk in Rin's house was made with Zelretch's True Magic and warps space and time for its many strange properties, one of which being an hour inside the box corresponds to exactly one day outside of it. Shirou and Rin end up spending all four days of one loop inside it, with only three hours and a half passing for them.
* YouRemindMeOfX: Rider is really embarrassed that she got killed by Perseus in her original life. She describes him as a loser and a spoiled brat and that he's like a "successful [[{{Jerkass}} Shinji Matou]]". In hindsight, this means her getting bossed around by Shinji in the original Fate/Stay Night ''Fate/stay Night'' must have been harsh.

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* HereWeGoAgain: After Shirou and Rin finally escape Zelretch's trunk and trouble with Magical Ruby, she throws him back in after asking she's peed yet. [[spoiler:Luvia is somehow also inside the box, seemingly on the cusp of making a deal with Ruby.]] Shirou laments that his issues with the box and Ruby have yet to end.
* HourInsideYearOutside: The trunk in Rin's house was made with Zelretch's True Magic and warps space and time for its many strange properties, one of which being an hour inside the box corresponds to exactly one day outside of it. Shirou and Rin end up spending all four days of one loop inside it, with only three hours and a half passing for them.



* VerbalBackspace: When Shirou goes to the pool with all the main female characters, he's surprised to find Kid!Gilgamesh in there and complain that even the owner of the resort shouldn't crash other people's party like that. Shirou then does a hilarious 180-turn in utter gratitude when Gil says he kept Archer and Lancer from trespassing the premises.

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* VerbalBackspace: When Shirou goes to the pool with all the main female characters, he's surprised to find Kid!Gilgamesh Kid Gilgamesh in there and complain that even the owner of the resort shouldn't crash other people's party like that. Shirou then does a hilarious 180-turn in utter gratitude when Gil says he kept Archer and Lancer from trespassing the premises.

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** Luvia mentions during the alternate world phone call that her and Rin's nicknames in that timeline are respectively [[Film/MaryPoppins "Mary of July" and "Poppins of July"]].



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%%* TwoTeacherSchool* TwoTeacherSchool: At Emiya's high school, Kuzuki and Taiga are the only on-screen teachers and ones to interact with their students for the entire game.
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* BagOfHolding: It's noted that mages have a technique called 'capacity distortion' for making luggage carry far more than they were meant to hold, with Shirou recalling that Kiritsugu often used it whenever he went on excursions. However, Rin did not use it for her trip to London because she wasn't sure whether the spell could be maintained by her on the way there or back, fearing that her suitcase would simply explode from no longer being able to carry everything (this fear handily conveyed by an ImagineSpot where even Saber was stuffed in there.)
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** Shirou's part-time work boss, Neko, and his teacher/legal guardian, Taiga turn out to be friends but only discovered they were mutually acquainted with Shirou one year ago prior to this game when Taiga asked Shirou to fetch some sake and he went to his workplace since he figured they would look the other way at selling liquor to an employee not of legal drinking age. What went down when the two met through Shirou was apparently quite nasty and would have been even worse had Shirou not intervened.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: In addition to most of the original visual novel's cast returning, several new characters make their debut.

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