Fate Extra: Grand Glorious Games
is a Fate/EXTRA fanfic by SeerKing. A version of Hakuno with both Saber and Caster as her Servants finds herself in a new war.
Kishinami Hakuno, awakes after the events of both Fate/Extra and Fate/Extra: CCC to find that the Moon Cell isn't quite done with her yet. War is on the horizon, and it will engulf a moon...Has absolutely nothing to do with GaoGaiGar. Hakuno x Nero x Tamamo. Last updated Feb 14, 2018, making this a Dead Fic.
Tropes:
- All Abusers Are Male: Downplayed, but when Hakuno lampshades how, except for Archer, who they deliberately chose, all of her newly summoned Servants were female, the idea is proposed that since the majority of those helpful and/or kind to her were female, and the majority of the people who hurt her male, she's subconsciously associated men with pain.
- Alternate Self: Hakuno's Caster is an alternate version of her that was infected by a failsafe virus after defeating Saver and made a Heroic Sacrifice to save her Saber and Caster.
- Amazon Brigade: All of Hakuno's Servants, save Archer, are female.
- Animal Motifs: The first foe of the group, a Caster, has a spider theme that leads them to suspect that she's Arachne.
- Badass Crew: In addition to the main Servant tied to their city called a Sovereign Servant, like Nero and Tamano for Hakuno, each Master starts with one normal Servant of each of the seven main classes. Hakuno starts with Tamano Cat, Mushashi, Lancer!Medusa, Robin Hood, Drake, Kato Danzo, and a Servant version of herself as Caster.
- Battle Harem: It's hinted that Hakuno's Servants will eventually evolve into this since she's already in a relationship with two of them and is apparently attracting her female ones.
- Body Double: One of Caster's abilities allows her to appear to be Hakuno (at least when she's not obviously using one of her powers that's beyond what a Master can do).
- Cannon Fodder: The Attack Programs are on the "quantity" end of Quantity vs. Quality, being more for tying up enemy Attack Programs and distracting enemy Servants.
- Chick Magnet: Hakuno lampshades how, in addition to Nero and Tamano, she seems to attract female attention, and seems to be attracting her female Servants.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Several of Hakuno's Servants, especially Nero and Tamano, though the emperor and Kitsune have largely accepted each other, and can put aside their squabbles because they care about Hakuno more. Hakuno lampshades this when she learns of her jealousy to the other Tamano Nine members.
- Contrived Coincidence: Archer was chosen specifically, but other than that, all of Hakuno's summons are female, which is actually lampshaded as something not likely to be a coincidence, given how the Moon Cell works (Drake was chosen as well, but the point is still valid). See above for a possible explanation as to why
- Damned by Faint Praise: When Kirei compliments Hakuno's choice of starting location, he does it in a way that implies that he's surprised she made such a good choice, which she lampshades.
- The Dividual: This version of Hakuno has a skill, called [Twin Empresses], that allows her to summon both Nero and Tamano as her Servants at the same time, but they are bound together in such a way that one falling in battle would result in the other following suit, similar to Anne and Mary.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap:
- Hakuno's skill allows her to have both Nero and Tamano as her Servants, but at the cost of one falling when the other does.
- Sovereign Servants are similarly connected to their Master's country, and it will fall if they do.
- Imperial Command Seals are much more powerful than normal ones, being capable of doing things like causing a change in the environment around the Servant, up to and including parting waves, making cities float, and causing forests to appear and disappear, in addition to the normal usage of Command Seals, being at least half again as powerful as a normal Seal there, but can only be used once a day with a 24 hour cooldown period, can only be used on Sovereign Servants, cannot be used on the same Servant twice in a row, and they are limited, three per Sovereign Servant, plus another for each conquered city.
- Almost all of Hakuno's non-Sovereign Servants save Caster start things with most of their traits reduced to E ranking and Noble Phantasms sealed and have to unlock them again through defeating Attack Programs and using the drops.
- Played for laughs once or twice when Hakuno wonders if the Moon Cell is deliberately handicapping her because of her previous victories.
- Failsafe Failure: As Caster notes, the enemy Caster didn't set up any alarms in the Bounded Fields protecting her city, and set up almost all of them save the ones around her palace so that Caster could take them all down at once.
- Fisher King: In addition to a full set of Servants from the main seven classes, the Masters each have a Sovereign Servant tied to the city/country itself, and if the Sovereign Servant falls, the country will crumble. Hakuno even lampshades it.
- For Want Of A Nail: The main divergence between Caster!Hakuno and the main Hakuno is that the former's Twice had a failsafe in case anyone beat him.
- Genre Savvy: Hakuno is quick to suspect a catch to the prize of the conflict, since the SE.RA.PH. wouldn't give up a prize like the Regalia without good reason, extrapolates correct information about the DP system, and chooses to start taking over a smaller continent while the other Masters are duking it out on the larger continents, as well as choosing a coastal location for a naval advantage, the location having an EX ranking for Special Characteristics.
- Genre Shift: In-Universe, the nature of the war shifts into an actual war with the Masters and their Servants trying to conquer a moon.
- Heel–Face Turn: Two of Hakuno's Servants, Rider and Archer, used to belong to her enemies, but have her as a Master now.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Caster!Hakuno, dying from Twice's failsafe virus, walked into the SE.RA.PH. after using a Command Seal to keep her Saber and Caster from following and used it to send them to Earth in the right time and with the right knowledge to save the original Hakuno before being deleted, which was apparently enough to qualify her for Heroic Spirit status.
- The Lost Lenore: Caster!Hakuno still misses her Saber and Caster, and seeing Hakuno with her versions of them doesn't help.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Kirei is actually visually flabbergasted by the summoning of Caster!Hakuno.
- Place of Power: The cities that the Masters control, which provide a certain amount of a resource (Data Points, AKA DP), some of which is automatically drawn to empower the Servants. The richer and more defensible the area, the more DP gained per day.
- Polyamory: In addition to being in a relationship with Nero and Tamano, Nero suggests that Hakuno add Rin as a concubine if they encounter her as a Master during the War and manage to take her alive, and some of Hakuno's new Servants have expressed an attraction towards her.
- Sneeze Cut: Alternate versions of Shirou and Archer do this when Hakuno thinks that no one else has to deal with Servant versions of themselves.
- Staff of Authority: All the Masters in the war have one, which is needed to use Imperial Command Seals. While it cannot be stolen, giving it to another Master renders them that Master's subordinate.
- Take Over the World: What the goal of the war is.
- Taking You with Me: Caster's version of Twice had a virus designed to kill whoever beat him.
- Tsundere: Nero calls Rin this by name.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Nero and Tamano seem to have evolved into this, or closer to it. They may argue, but they deeply care about Hakuno, and at least tolerate each other most of the time.
