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Fate: Souls and Singularities is a crossover fanfiction between Fate/Grand Order and Dark Souls (As well as every other FromSoftware franchise minus Elden Ring) written by Mundatorem. It can be read on Fanfiction.net here or on SpaceBattles.com here.


Fate: Souls and Singularities contains examples of:

  • Abhorrent Admirer: Nero is this to both the Fire Keeper and Olga Marie who are put off by her aggressive advances and unwanted nicknames for them.
  • Abusive Parents: Too many examples in the fic of this trope.
    • As in canon there’s Marisbury, whose excuse for parenting left his daughter a neurotic wreck constantly self-destroying herself in the eyes of others in her attempt to live up to those same others’ expectations.
    • There’s Gwynevere, who was so bad at parenting that her excuse for parenting was more brainwashing than it was helpful for Ash, leading to his obsession with duty.
    • Gwyn had no qualms subjecting his own daughter Gwynevere to Electric Torture for daring to support a human. He's where Gwynever got her ideas of parenting.
    • And for the worst one yet, there’s Seath, who straight up murders his daughter as soon as he regains his memory of who he is.
  • Adaptational Early Appearance: Caenis, who in canon doesn't appear until Part 2, is shown fighting alongside Jason during the Okeanos Singularity.
  • Alternate Timeline: As revealed by Ash's beast title, the Souls universe is actually a Lostbelt, or rather a Lostworld, with the Point of Divergence being (per Word of God) the creation of the planet, due to the First Flame asserting dominion of Earth in place of Gaia. The Flame ended up becoming the timeline's equivalent to a Fantasy Tree, so once Ash snuffed it out, nothing remained to sustain the world, and it was pruned.
  • Anger Born of Worry: Fujimaru and the others were not happy with Ash forcing a Holy Grail inside himself as a power boost which nearly kills him.
  • Armor-Piercing Question: Kalameet gives one to Torin when Torin calls his actions now being based on a worthless “higher” cause.
    "It is a cause. The cause of my people and for them, for the future they will one day see, I shall do whatever I can to ensure its survival! Even if it means sacrificing mankind, then I shall do just that for them! ...And they stand by me. If my goal is so shallow...then where are those who stand by you?"
  • Asshole Victim: Gwyn ends up subjecting his own daughter Gwynevere to a a brutal case of Electric Torture for assisting Fujimaru. Considering how Gwynevere's idea of raising her son Gawyne(aka Ash) turned him into a Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb and Beast, it comes off as more karmic than anything else.
  • Berserk Button: There are countless, but a few include:
    • Do not interrupt a battle that the Nameless King is fighting. Jeanne d'Arc Alter did that too many times before he turned on her.
    • Greed and self-serving actions are also this to Ash due to how many characters in Dark Souls ruined themselves and others by being consumed by greedy and selfish actions. When Francis Drake espouses her life philosophy of living for the sake of gold, wealth and indulgence he explodes and seems to a hairsbreadth away from attacking her. It happens again in London when he meets Mordred for the first time and actually makes an attempt to attack her for her role in ending Camelot and killing Artoria, which stops once he finds that his mother Gwynevere is there as well. Seeing all of the selfishness across the entirety of human history caused Ash to become the Beast of Mercy.
    • Causing harm or distress to the Fire Keeper is also this to Ash. Nero's advances towards her vexes him greatly, and when Olga tried to tell the Fire Keeper to use her eyes to discern the identity of an unknown Servant during Nerofest despite the pain it would cause her, Ash made it explicitly clear that he would not stand for it.
    • Mages and Dragons are this to Havel just like canon.
    • Romans are also this for Boudica as in canon When EMIYA asks her what she'd do if she was Summoned by a Roman Master, she was extremely mad and upon seeing Nero in Chaldea immediately shoots a Death Glare at her.
    • Being a huge Hero-Worshipper of the guy, Jason becomes enraged when the slightest criticism or doubt of Heracles’ ability or the possibility of him failing a task is ever brought up.
    • Torin when he sees Kalameet. Understandable, considering Kalameet committed genocide on his people and the Spirit they were protecting for no real reason other than jealousy and hatred.
  • Big Bad Ensemble: As of Singularity 4: XXVII, one seems to be forming, as in addition to Goetia, Gwyn comes back from the dead and after the fight with him, Haku is revealed to be Seath the Scaleless, upon which he attacks the remaining Servants before absconding with Gwyn and the Holy Grail maintaining the London Singularity, to pursue a currently unknown agenda.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Despite how strained their relationship has become, The Nameless King, Farahm still does care for his younger siblings. During the Nerofest battle, he immediately targets Artemis with extreme prejudice for subjecting Gwyndolyn to a brutal Humiliation Conga and Groin Attack in their earlier match.
  • Big Brother Mentor: Arash is this to Beatrice, helping her out with her poor self-esteem and trying to help her become more confident and sociable.
  • Bigotry Exception: Gunnhild's spirit is so much of a Clingy Jealous Girl that she won't tolerate her husband Erik speaking around another woman. However, he amiably chats with Alsanna because even an insane yandere of a ghost could see how deeply, hopelessly in love she still is with the Ivory King.
  • Birds of a Feather: Gwyndolyn develops an amiable relationship with Medusa. Both have a strong Animal Motif involving snakes, are the Black Sheep of their families for situations outside their control(Medusa for being mortal and growing into the appearance of an adult woman, Gwyndolyn for his affinity for the moon) yet still show to love said family and prefer to keep to themselves. Several characters take note of it, with some even pairing them together.
  • Blood Knight: Along with canon examples such as Cu Chulainn and Sasaki Kojiro, The Nameless King Farahm is also this and is thus disappointed at Jeanne Alter wasting his talents by mostly siccing him on undefended villages and becomes outright enraged at her forcing him away from fighting Chaldea when they prove to be a Worthy Opponent.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Several examples as a result of the characters in question being inhuman, from a different world, or both:
    • To Ash, actions and living in accordance to duty is preferable in comparison to living and acting on one's own want and desire. This comes from seeing how the selfish actions of many resulted in the world of Dark Souls becoming the Crapsack World it was, however he believes any action taken from desire and want are wrong even if they brought positive results(the author citing Nikola Tesla's studying into electricity for his own interest and pride as one such example) to the point of even seeing things like hobbies and entertainment as a waste of time. This chafes several characters, with Francis Drake's actions nearly resulting in the two coming to blows and risking their cooperation during the Okeanos Singularity. Some try explaining to him how there's more to life than duty, though he will have none of it.
    • Arkon invokes this trope when trying to vouch for Gwynevere, who unknown to the others has already arrived at Chaldea and the rest of Chaldea are wary of due to her treatment of Ash. Fujimaru and the others found her raising Ash as a Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb to jump headfirst into what would have been a Fate Worse than Death as absolutely appalling. Meanwhile Arkon would see being created for the sake of serving and dying for the Gods as a great honor, and that a god should not be subservient to human laws.
  • Breather Episode: After the sheer crapsack fest that the Scandinavian and Londonian Singularities were, Kalameet decides everybody could use some cheering and throws himself into the preparations for Christmas, with Artoria Alter taking Santa's role with gusto.
  • Butt-Monkey: Roman. Barely a chapter goes by without him being verbally raked over the coals by Olga or another Servant or part of Chaldea's staff having a joke at his expense.
  • Cain and Abel: One-sided, but Gwyndolin makes it clear that he sees Faraam as a traitor rather than a brother. He also hates Gwynevere, calling her a coward for running away from Anor Londo with her family. Farahm, meanwhile still expresses some fondness for his younger brother.
  • The Chain of Harm: Much of Gwynevere's poor treatment of her son, Ash, can be traced to how her own father, Gwyn, raised her. That being said, Gwynevere's treatment of her children is all over the place, whereas Gwyn treated all of his brood like crap.
  • Complete Immortality: The humans of Dark Souls actually had this, Having immortal bodies and souls until Gwyn and the Gods casted the Darksign, which forced a concept of mortality on them. The result being a paradox where despite having immortal souls, they're bodies age and rot and they're minds Hollowing due to being unable to cope.
  • Crazy Enough to Work: Ash forces a Holy Grail inside of himself to give him a power boost to fight Hercules in Okeanos. It works, but mostly puts him out of commission for the rest of his time in the Singularity.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: In multiple singularities.
    • In the Okeanos Singularity, Havel against Eric Bloodaxe and Rendal against Asterios. If it weren’t for the intervention of Chaldean Servants on the part of the latter, Euryale would have lost her protector early.
    • In the London Singularity, Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight against Chaldea for a long while, being so quick because of his Authority of Light and stats that he was nearly killing one Servant per second. Subverted in that it eventually becomes a more even fight.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Ash in his Beast of Mercy form gains multiple Noble Phantasms based upon literally blotting out any light from the sky and turning it pitch black, as well as summoning legions of Shadow Servants from dark mud similar to a certain false demon. Despite all this, his intentions remain for the best for humanity, even if his "best" is different from how most humans would see it.
  • Death from Above: In the Scandinavian Singularity, from Olga. She reverses the mana flow from Caster Cu and uses Anima Animusphere to quite literally send the stars falling down on the Archtree and the dragon army defending it. The fact that devastation follows is not a true surprise.
  • Deconstruction:
    • As the story goes on, it deconstructs the idea of summoning servants from alternate timelines, which happened in Grand Order as Chaldea started summoning servants from the Lostbelts. While the servants from the Lostbelts had some issues with Proper Human History, they were ultimately willing to work with Chaldea for the sake of saving mankind. By contrast, several servants from Dark Souls, especially Gwyn, fundamentally cannot get along with Chaldea, which has disastrous results in the London Singularity - Chaldea ends up having to face a Beast with no way to oppose it when Solomon causes Ash to become the Beast of Mercy, while Gwyn, the Top God of Dark Souls, outright tries to massacre Chaldea due to Fantastic Racism against humans.
    • Chaldea's nature of recruiting every servant it can, even those with motivations that conflict with one another, also gets taken apart. While most servants in canon are willing to grit their teeth and work with their enemies, with some even making peace, this doesn't happen when Ritsuka welcomes Ash back into the fold after the latter turned into the Beast of Mercy, in part because he turned on his allies, and to many servants, Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil. Ritsuka is the only reason they didn't execute Ash for his betrayal.
    • Ritsuka's status as the Last Master is shown to very much put a heavy strain on him. Certain chapters, particularly in London, have him lament over the idea that he, someone who lived a normal life up until the Incineration, must now save humanity. Made worse when he confesses to Velka that part of the reason he tries not to focus on a Servant's questionable past and actions is because he doesn't actually know what response he should even make, let alone how to even help solve their issues and struggles with the heavy responsibility Chaldea as a whole thrusted upon him.
  • Does Not Like Magic: Havel, who despises mages as well as dragons with a passion, which leads to trouble when he's summoned by Chaldea and has to deal with several other mages amongst the staff and other Servants.
  • Downer Ending:
    • To the Singularity 3.5 Arc.
      • Tarkus and Gordin get killed in horrific manners trying to defeat the Dragon Army and restore PHH.
      • Marie kills Lartoria Alter in revenge for murdering her friend Tarkus, who died protecting her, but it’s implied that doing so hasn’t truly resolved anything for her and has only led to the beginning of her becoming an Empty Shell from the trauma of people dying to protect her over and over.
      • Akal dies in front of her children, who charge at the Servants defending PHH in order to avenge their mother. Despite their best efforts and the Chaldean Servants’ own disgust at having to murder frankly innocent children, the children are all massacred despite their upgrades over the previous generation of New Camelot’s dragons, dooming the dragon race’s hope of coexistence with humanity in a new History or being the new humanity themselves.
      • To top it all off, despite Kalameet’s proclamation to fight to the very last breath for his people and their dream of having a home for themselves where they didn’t need to fear being killed or exiled for simply being different than humans, he gets Command Sealed to kill himself right in front of Olga as he’s preparing for his final charge. Worst of all, he was Sealed to kill himself not by the way he wanted to go out, dying by the hand of someone who had a dream like him and who had the will and hope to fight to the end, but by someone who was purely just disgusted at his dream itself. He dies broken and in despair, wondering if he ever had a chance to win.
      • In addition, the person who actually had the Holy Grail and Seals, who murdered Kalameet out of disgust for a dragon desiring agency and equality, Arleno, is implied to be serving Ash Alter, the Lord of Hollows in a quest to strengthen Olga to be a better Master. In fact, it turns out the entire Singularity was created just to act as a test for Olga to see if she had the will to fight for humanity no matter what, which she passed. While Arleno and his Lord are implied to be genuinely fighting for the restoration of PHH as well, Olga is understandably horrified that someone as genuinely heroic as Kalameet was used and tossed aside like nothing out of hatred.
      • Finally, after it being revealed to Kalameet that he was a puppet all along, and Olga being horrified by what the Singularity had been used for, Kerry and Romani start screaming about how the Saint Graph quantity is heavily increasing in London, implying that the Counter Force just started spamming Servants into the London Singularity, which is horrific news considering the CF is normally able to get by with one or two additional help for Chaldea even during the Incineration to restore PHH successfully. In addition, a Noble Phantasm is activated which destroys the stability of the London Singularity, and starts more space-time quakes like the ones during the Incineration.
      • Worst of all, a parting remark from Arleno implies that a Beast of Humanity has just been woken up by the calamities occurring.
    • Also for the Singularity 4 Arc.
  • Evil All Along: The Nameless (no, not the Archer or Lancer) Caster. He saved Ritsuka’s life near the beginning of the London Singularity by entering his body to strengthen him enough to prevent him from falling prey to the Mystery-enhanced cold of the Reality Marble encasing London, took care of Frankenstein’s Monster even after her creator died, counseled Ritsuka to not trust Gwynevere (a very wise decision), and nearly one shot a dragon using Ritsuka’s body and then sincerely apologized later for accidentally nearly frying Ritsuka’s circuits with the amount of mana he’d funneled to shoot at the enemy Phantasmal. He also happens to be the amnesiac form of Seath the Scaleless, and as soon as he regains his memories near the end of the Singularity as well as acquiring enough mana to empower himself to the point that he could construct a new body instead of possessing Ritsuka, takes direct control of ALL of Ritsuka’s body, and kills his own daughter as well as Mordred. Then he leaves Ritsuka’s body as a physical wreck and forms his own body, which he then possesses before absconding from the Singularity with Gwyn.
  • Face–Heel Turn: When Solomon shows him the entire history of humanity, with all its sins and selfish desires overriding virtues like duty, peace, and self-love nearly all of time, Ash is horrified, and promptly betrays Chaldea to provide what he sees as his own "true" version of "Mercy", and awakens as a Beast of Humanity.
  • Fantastic Racism: Havel despises mages and dragons with a passion. Needless to say, this causes problems when he's summoned to Chaldea which is full of mages and has a few Dragon trait Servants(Kiyohime and Elizabeth). Fujimaru just barely manages to get him to cooperate when he proves to be completely different from the usual mages of the Nasuverse and Dark Souls.
    • Unsurprisingly due to her upbringing as a traditional Magus, Olga Marie at times tends to see the Servants as tools rather than people resulting in incidents where she tried to make the Fire Keeper use her eyes to discern the identity of an unknown Servant despite the fact it would cause her pain until Ash puts his foot down.
  • Fast Ball Special: Orion reaches the Golden Hind via Havel using his Dragon Tooth Club as a baseball bat to send him all the way there.
    • Artemis later performs one using Orion against Gwyndokyn, delivering a vicious Groin Attack on the latter.
  • Fish out of Temporal Water: Unlike the proper Nasuverse Servants, the Servants summoned from Dark Souls are not given information on the world's history or the modern world from the Throne of Heroes. It also doesn't give them any info on their own world's history either, limiting their knowledge of their own homes and events to what they themselves personally experienced or learned about.
  • Heal It With Fire: Ash has access to the Warmth pyromancy. Olga notes how odd it is to see a flame-based spell to heal.
  • Heroic RRoD: Ash goes through this after forcing a Holy Grail inside himself to gain a power boost to fight against Herakles.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Several examples.
    • In the Okeanos Singularity, Oscar and Asterios do this by doing a final charge at the Argo to keep it from following the Chaldean crew. Asterios manages to turn the entire ship into a Labyrinth and divide the Argonauts so they can fight them for longer, which is especially needed because Caenis got summoned in this Singularity by an unknown antagonist. Thanks to Oscar’s Noble Phantasm being a death-based one, Mash also gains some extra power for the rest of the Singularity afterwards.
    • In the Scandinavian Singularity, Tarkus does this... twice for Marie. First he jumps in front of Rhongomyniad after knocking Marie away from the weapon and gets stabbed through the heart, and later he finally dies in Marie’s arms after Lartoria Alter uses Rhongomyniad’s full power as a Noble Phantasm to destroy his own and tear off half his remaining body. He kept protecting Marie by hugging her to shield her with his body the entire time.. even while his body was being ripped to pieces by Lartoria Alter’s Noble Phantasm.
  • Humiliation Conga: Gwyndolin's entry at the Nerofest battle ended with him being subjected to an embarrassingly one-sided beatdown from Artemis and Orion before being sent to his knees in pain upon receiving a deadly Groin Attack that sent every male member of the audience wincing in sympathy.
  • Identical Stranger: Several characters from the Round Table remark that Ash looks remarkably similar to Sir Gawain.
    • The Fire Keeper is also a Saberface in this story.
    • The Chosen Undead, Bedric, also looks remarkably similar to Lucius.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: As soon as Fujimaru wakes up, Arkon immediately goes to him and asks that he not hold Gwynevere's actions against her should she be summoned despite her crimes against Ash. While his utterly dismissive attitude of Ash's circumstances due to his biased faith in the gods and his his status as an Unkindled is rather cruel, he does raise a good point that it'd be utterly unfair and hypocritical for them to hold Gwynevere's crimes against her while being willing to forgive Ash for nearly killing them all and welcoming other Servants at Chaldea have also committed rather heinous crimes in their lives as well such as Sulyvahn and Leonidas.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Olga as per canon, but it is shown much further here. While she is outwardly very, very prideful and rude, which antagonizes many, in reality she is holding herself to very high standards because of her traumatic upbringing and still dealing with the pain of her only friend’s betrayal. She still tries to do good, going so far as to argue with a SERVANT to find a method to get more people to safety in the Scandinavian Singularity even though their deaths would be overwritten once PHH was restored.
  • The Juggernaut:
    • In the Scandinavian Singularity, Lartoria Alter is this. She takes on four Servants at once multiple times and emerges victorious with barely any damage, in fact being completely immune to Marie’s attacks and almost so with Nero’s.
    • Gwyn looks at the previous example and laughs. He completely steamrolls around a dozen Servants without even slowing down, with even top-tier Servants like Arash, Berserker Lancelot, and Scathach being swatted aside with ease, and it takes the combined assault of Ash, Mordred, Percival, Nobunaga, and Scathach to give him even a moderate amount of trouble, and in the end, it requires the use of an EX-rank, Anti-World & Anti-Divine Noble Phantasm to stop him, and even then he's still not dead.
  • Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: When someone compared the Firekeeper to being Ash's mother, she protests, seeing her as doing nothing more than making him into one of these, focused entirely on his duty to Link the Fire against all else. His actual mother Gwynevere also deliberately raised him as one to link the flames.
  • Light Is Not Good: Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight has an Authority over the concept of Light, the Sun, and Heat themselves. Does this make him a good person? Considering his first action upon awakening was to devour countless innocent human souls and use them to construct himself a new body, and start massacring Chaldea's forces, hell no.
  • Mama's Boy: Several characters teasingly interpret Ash's relationship with the Fire Keeper as this. While somewhat flattered, the Firekeeper herself is against this, as she sees her actions as molding him into a Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb which she knows is the opposite of being a a good mother.
  • Mean Boss: Olga is shown to be this at times as her lack of experience, short temper, and Inferiority Superiority Complex has resulted in her lashing out at certain points to several character's frustrations to show how she was considered The Friend Nobody Likes in canon.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Ash has this reaction upon learning that The Nameless King was the founder of his Covenant, the Warriors of Sunlight and that he had thus unknowingly slew his own Patron Saint.
  • Named by the Adaptation: The Ashen One is named Ash by Ritsuka. The Nameless King is given the name Farahm.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Velka uses her powers to awaken the Souls within Ash to keep him from continuing his fight against Chaldea until they can reason with him. Unfortunately, all of them get drowned out by the most powerful Soul within Ash, Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight, meaning Chaldea now has to contend with a literal God.
  • Oh, Crap!: Artemis has this reaction upon seeing Altera.
  • Our Gods Are Different: The Gods of the Dark Souls World like Gwyn heavily oppressed humans and tied their lives to them in various ways to extend the Age of Gods, while those of Proper Human History mostly accepted the end of the Age of Gods and the beginning of the Age of Man, having pride in humanity. This leads to culture clashes.
  • Point of Divergence: Word of God and in-story information places two major ones where the Soulsborne multiverse diverged from Proper Human History - the formation of the planet (due to the First Flame and Dark Soul existing) is the first one, with both having the potential to act as Phantasy Trees for these timelines. The second point is the arrival of Velber - while it still landed on Earth, it immediately started attacking instead of waiting to gather strength. This left it unprepared when they counterattacked and managed to kill it, then trap its soul in the Rings of the Evil Eye.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Alsanna gives one to a rampaging Kalameet at the Scandinavia Singularity, and it's so effective that it stops his rampage and sends him off.
  • Right for the Wrong Reasons: The revelation that the world of Dark Souls is/was a Lostbelt unintentionally validates Gwyn's belief that keeping the First Flame going was needed to protect the world, as once it was snuffed out, the Counter Force pruned that timeline. However, this is also implied to be a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, as his choice to create the Darksign corrupted the Dark Soul, which might have otherwise been able to sustain the world.
  • Running Gag: Kiyohime tends to have the habit of giving some love-related things Skill Rankings: she claims Mata Hari has a B+ Rank in homewrecking while she herself has an A+++ Rank in cleaning. This naturally causes confusion amongst the protagonists.
  • Screw Yourself: Discussed, as Nero's regular advances on the Firekeeper, who in this story is a fellow Saberface, and referring to her as one of the finest beauties in the land results in some wondering if this is in play.
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Gywn's beliefs regarding the First Flame turn out to be this - the world of Dark Souls was actually a Lostbelt in the Fate timeline, with the First Flame being it's Fantasy Tree equivalent. The Dark Soul also had the potential to sustain the world/timeline until Gwyn created the Darksign. So allowing the First Flame to die did end the world, but only because Gwyn corrupted the one other thing that could sustain it.
  • Share the Male Pain: When Artemis delivers a brutal Groin Attack with her Noble Phantasm to Gwyndolyn during Nerofest, every male in the audience winces in sympathy at the sight of the impact which sent the Lordkin kneeling in agony.
  • Shrinking Violet: Beatrice is shown to be this.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: Olga survives on account of Ash saving her soul before she dies.
  • Spiders Are Scary: Just as much so as in Dark Souls, and it is a sentiment shared amongst both Ash and Ritsuka. In the Septem Singularity, Ash is dropping F-bombs while charging Pyromancies to set fire to a house where some large spiders were residing in. Ritsuka lets out a very high-pitched scream when he encounters them, and faints when first-meeting Quelaag.
  • Supreme Chef: Along with the canon examples of EMIYA and Boudica, Siegward also proves to be this as well despite lacking a sense of taste as an Undead. Several characters are drawn to his Estus Soup, which is described to have no taste but induces a comfortable warm feeling to those who consume it.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Olga gives a scathing if VERY well-deserved one to Velka for her role in what happened in the tail-end of the London Singularity, from letting Ritsuka be a vessel for Seath to bringing Gwyn back from the dead to breaking Ash with her Noble Phantasm, then having the audacity to summon herself to Chaldea to help Ritsuka.
    Olga: This is far and advanced beyond the realms of unfortunate! Fujimaru was just-just-molested into killing with his own two hands! I have a Servant two floors down who refuses to see anyone and is apparently suffering from another form of mental abuse and now there is a God wandering the world and it's all your fault! Unfortunate doesn't even begin to cover the sheer scale of idiocy that you have just spewn in my direction! You concoct this savage plan of yours to attack my staff and then you have the audacity to come before me and say that things are 'unfortunate' when the attack doesn't go according to plan!? How dare you even think you can show your face to me! How dare you even step foot inside this room to even think of providing help for Fujimaru after what your plan did to him! Every single casualty - all those dead Servants - their blood is on your hands! What was the goal!? What was the plan!? Did you even string enough brain cells together to even comprehend the depths of this hairbrained scheme of yours!? And what was your original plan? You were going to mentally abuse one of my subordinates to the point where he would go insane!? This is what you claim your goal was and then you go waltzing through the halls of Chaldea with some self assured cocky attitude!? Even without the damage your actions have done to Chaldea, you willingly attacked human history and outed yourself as an accomplice of Solomon! And now you come strolling in here and talking about how you're throwing yourself to our judgement? Acting as though you're doing us some sort of favour, as though you showing up to admit your crimes is somehow going to earn you a modicum of respect!? The only thing you have done is shorten the length of time we have to spend searching for you! So right now, I am demanding that you give me a single reason why I should let you continue living after the next ten seconds, let alone why I should even entertain the idea that you can continue walking through the halls of Chaldea! Your presence in this facility spits in the face of everything we're trying to accomplish! Trying to undo the incineration of humanity and then you proceed to sabotage our efforts, nevermind the fact your plan failed! The succession of your plan relied on the resurrection of a God!
  • Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Scathach (and quite a few other Servants such as Sulyvahn) are in favor of having Ash killed after he attacks Chaldea after his Face–Heel Turn, believing it a fitting punishment for an oathbreaker.
  • Unequal Rites: The Dark Souls characters have limited though powerful forms of the Second and Third Magics, which intensely annoys Olga, particularly with how widespread they are.
  • Wake-Up Call Boss: Gwyn serves as this in the London Singularity. Whereas most of the previous enemies could be handled in a straight fight by Servants, with even the Demon Pillars capable of being defeated by a group of normal Servants without too much issue, Gwyn is shown to be night-unbeatable by normal Servants, effortlessly plowing through Servants and Noble Phantasms capable of repelling even the strongest prior opponents, with the fight being more akin to the battles against the Beasts of Calamity or Lostbelt Kings. It's best exemplified when Mash brings out Lord Chaldeas, which had been able to protect them against the likes of Saber Alter's strongest attack, Excalibur Morgan, it's completely shattered by a single attack from Gwyn, which required pretty much no effort on his part.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: There are three large ones:
    • Kalameet is this in the Scandinavian Singularity. At first he desires to create a world free of inequality, unfairness, and disparity by sending dragons across the land to kill anyone “weaker” than them judging the survivors his equals. Later when he realizes this won’t work, he seeks to create a New Camelot for only dragonkind by driving out or killing every human within Scandinavia.
    • SULYVAHN of all people turns out to be this. In this particular interpretation of him, Sulyvahn betrayed Gwyndolin, tortured the people of Irithyll, and led Aldrich to consume Gwyndolin, all because he hated the stagnation of history’s progress that was happening because the Gods would not let the flame go out, resulting in the Age of Fire never ending and the world always staying the same, with no real change or growth.
    • Ash, in that he chose to let the flame die. He saw his duty when he was raised from the dead as being to end others’ suffering, and in the end of his task he saw a world under the flame being one that would only prolong others’ suffering, even if ending the prolongation means ending the lives of many. Realizing that suffering due to selfishness still exists in Proper Human History caused him to become the Beast of Mercy.
  • Wham Episode: Singularity 4: XXII - Goetia shows Ash the entirety of human history via magecraft. After seeing all of the suffering across human history, all caused by the vices of man, and mankind's tendency to idolize selfishness, Ash breaks his contract with Ritsuka and becomes the Beast of Mercy.
  • Worf Effect: Quite a few servants are on the receving end of this courtesy of Gwyn, with Jeanne, Berserker Lancelot, Cu Chulainn, and Scathach being among the most notable, with each of them either being subject to a One-Hit Kill, or easily swatted aside without doing anything. The most striking example is Mash's Lord Chaldeas, which after having been shown to be capable of withstanding the full force of a grail empowered Saber Alter's Excalibur Morgan, is shattered like a pane of glass from a single one of Gwyn's lightning bolts.
  • Worthy Opponent: The Nameless King sees the members of Chaldea as this. Being unable to fight them due to Jeanne Alter's incompetent and needlessly spiteful orders vexes him greatly.
  • Wrecked Weapon: Sasaki's Monohoshizao is broken while fighting against the Nameless King during the Orleans Singularity. Thankfully, Chaldea manages to summon Andre who is willing to forge a suitable replacement for him.
  • Your Soul Is Mine!: In a sense; from the Fate side, only the Third Magic is able to manipulate souls, but it is more or less a standard ability on the Dark Souls side, to the point that after Ash confronts Lev at the end of Fuyuki, he successfully prevents Olga from being tossed into CHALDEAS, and at the end, when returning to the base, he discovers he has successfully claimed Olga's soul, allowing Da Vinci to restore her.
  • Younger Than They Look: Hard to tell with how time works in Dark Souls but Ash believes his adventures throughout the events of Dark Souls 3 would have only taken about a month or so after being resurrected. This makes him technically a month old despite having the appearance of a young adult, which numerous characters tease him over.

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