Fridge / Fate/type Redline

Fridge Brilliance

• From the chapters released so far, it is noticeable how the abilities the Servants are able to bring to bear are quite above the levels seen in the original Fate/stay night. Oda Nobunaga, in particular, seems to be bearing firepower comparable even to Gilgamesh (to the point of wrecking an entire American air squad). This is understandable if you remember that—as established in previous entries (stay night and Fate/Apocrypha, for example)—Servants tend to garner more power when they are in their country of origin. With five Servants being native to Japan, we can expect them to be even stronger than what we're seeing so far.
  • It may be more accurate to say that they are being given chances to actually show off their full potential due to the differing nature of the setting. Gilgamesh aside, it's noted that Saber can easily destroy half the city with a single swing of Excalibur if she doesn't take care to aim it upwards. It's less that the Servants in Redline are more powerful, they're mostly just less careful.

• At first, Okita's Adaptational Personality Change might be completely contradictory to what we've seen of her in Fate/Grand Order. However, players who use Okita will note that her battle lines are usually much more reserved and cold compared to her usual bubbly demeanour, as her Battle Start and Attack lines will demonstrate. So Grand Order Okita is often very friendly but keeps her serious attitude for battle. From what we can see of this Okita, who is thrown right into battle from the get-go, she's the opposite. She is a cold, Empty Shell of a swordsman, ruthlessly cutting down anyone in her path, and is far more threatening as a servant. However, as her dorky moments and constant worry for her master show, she still has some of her softer, goofier side. Essentially, they both share the same personality, but which side the scale is tipped can depend. In the context of their summons, it makes sense. In Grand Order, she's summoned in the safety of Chaldea, with lots of free time to kill and can comfortably talk with the protagonist and other servants without fear. Contrast this with Redline, where they are in a full blown Holy Grail War with constant life-threatening battles, immediately gaining the attention of a powerful and bloodthirsty servant, and are smack in the conflict of World War II. With that, let's not forget that, lore-wise, Okita is not that powerful a servant, especially compared to what we've seen in other works. Really, it's not hard to see why she's so much more serious than her Grand Order counterpart.

• Oda Nobunaga choosing Kaname Asama to be her master, while one of the kinder acts they perform in the story, might seem strange at first to someone expected to be such a Blood Knight to spare someone seemingly weaker and meek, let alone make them her master... until you remember that Oda Nobunaga famously was once known as "the Fool of Owari" who was repeatedly looked down upon for their weird, childish antics during their youth that was antithetical to the cultural views at the time, so much so that becoming the infamous warlord that Nobunaga would become would have been unthinkable. By that prospect alone, Nobunaga clearly sized up Kaname and saw enough both in her and within her circumstances that reminded Nobunaga of her own youth and thus saw the potential in Kaname to achieve as much as Nobunaga did in life.