Craft Essence: Star of Altria by Akira Ishida
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Tropes:
- Alternate Self: This event introduces the Servant Universe where alternative versions of servants in the game live. X is one for Altria and she mentions that there are versions of Telsa, Babbage, Nero and Altera living there too.
- Becoming the Mask: Mysterious Heroine X admits that Z was right, she did look down on Saber Lily and only trained Lily due thinking Lily was no threat to her at all. But she grew to actually care for Lily and regrets her previous attitude.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Nero and Tamamo break the fourth wall as Nero tries to get Tamamo to get more involved in the story by asking if she'll once again play a minor role like in London.
- A Day in the Limelight: The event intentionally plays up the fact that Saber Lily is the only Servant in the game so far to not be able to upgrade her Noble Phantasm besides Mash, with the story mainly devoted to Mysterious Heroine X training her to do so.
- Debut Queue: For Mysterious Heroine X and Saber Lily's full-fledged debut for anyone who missed out on the initial launch period to get her.
- Dreadful Musician: Nero like always, X even states that the Servant Universe version of Nero had a concert that destroyed Rome planet to the point even Altera escaped.
- Final Boss: Ultra Heroine Z shows up in an attempt to finish the job that Mysterious Heroine X started and attacks Saber Lily, Z reveals she was the one that caused X's crash as well.
- Foreshadowing: Tamamo takes her time to talk about some of the Tamamo Nine. Her explanation of Tamamo Vitch becomes important as she's one of the secondary villains in Cosmos in the Lostbelts.
- Hypocrite: Z complains it's unfair that the heroes outnumber her but as Nero points out Z attacked X in a sneak attack.
- I Hate Past Me: A completely Played for Laughs example Z is X from the future and she hates X because she's also a Saber. She also admits she's not happy with how X has gotten friendly with both Lily and Nero
- Insistent Terminology: X keeps saying she's a Saber despite her class being Assassin.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: When Nero sees X's spaceship she plans on talking to the aliens despite Tamamo and Emiya's reservations, thinking that if their science has advanced so much they must be civil. Cue X screaming her head off about attacking Nero.
- Shout-Out: A big one to Star Wars, though it's mostly just the name and some token nods.
- Undying Loyalty: Lily gets one for X as no matter what X's intent was, she still helped Lily.
- Uniqueness Decay: Apparently the reason X came to the past was because in her time there were too many Sabers that lead to the entire class losing its importance which somehow lead to the economy going into a recession.
