James_D_Fawkes
patreon
[Hereafter] Interlude JtR: Collective Will
🕑 Added 2025-04-19 12:35:38 +0000 UTCJackie...was both a pleasure and a pain to write for, just because she's a kid and it was a bit difficult to try and think like an eight-year-old again, how much simpler the world seems through their eyes, while at the same time trying to account for how jaded and cynical she is.
I hope you guys enjoy this chapter regardless. There was a lot of stuff that went on here, and some hints about other things, as well as blatant, neon signs. Try and figure out which is which.
EDIT: Moving down all the way. 5/31/2025
Comments
ballisticEclipse
Oof, that last paragraph. Jackie definitely knows how close they came to that alternate version of a certain chapter.
Caractacus
There *is* an answer. But I'm not sure if it will ever show up in-story.
KD
Due to her actions, she earned a seat on the Throne, and due to the atemporal nature of the Throne, the 'her' that is on the Throne is who she will be when she dies. Basically, Throne 'her' is future 'her'.
Geoffrey Sullivan
True, but it's also been at least *implied* that *recently*-deceased Heroic Spirits (like our favourite holy maiden) suffer impediments from being TOO new . . .
Geoffrey Sullivan
Very heartwarming - thank you for sharing! :) . . . Though I have to ask - does Jackie get a Rank Up on something now, since she's gone through an Interlude . . .? :D
Gifted-Monster
Got a temporal question. We were told by Contessa that Taylor was already famous/ infamous enough to be a Servant. And since the Throne is atemporal, she is technically already there. But does that mean that by continuing the Grand Order, she is changing herself in the Throne? Or is her presence in the Throne contingent upon stopping the GO?
KD
Yeah, I thought so. The only way that Gold Morning could have been kept a secret in canon is if Contessa was in the background. But in this case, Gold Morning should not be kept a secret for the purpose of fame-boosting HS Khepri, maybe even giving her a measure of Divinity. A significant factor of Hercules' strength came from how famous his myth was. Imagine how much of a stat boost HS Khepri could get by having literal trillions know of her existence, not as a myth like Hercules, but as a fact of recent history.
HeroOfTime4298
Aster should come to Chaldea, to have a chance to live.
Hector Gregorio
The passengers are outside of that timeline...curious...I wonder if the fact that QA is with Taylor affected the rest within the singularity.
