It's Ursula's Kiss all over again.
Episode #9 The Castle of Eternity
Kevin can"t give up on Angie. He wants to win a duel and go up to the castle above the coliseum with Angie to find the "Eternal Thing". That desire of his also stems from his rivalry with Tommy. One day Kevin receives a letter saying that the castle will come down from the "Seekers of Armageddon". He forces Angie to go over to the "Forest of Duels." However, someone takes her away to the coliseum. Utena rushes there and rescues her, but outraged Kevin slashes at Utena. Then, Tommy appears out of nowhere, saving Utena. In the end, Utena discovers that the whole thing is Tommy"s plan.
As commonly mentioned, Culex is a "generic" Final Fantasy bonus boss in Mario RPG. The Remake even says he's from "Last Illusion."
There's other references, the elemental crystals he surrounds himself with, but I've discovered there's another thing.
In Final Fantasy 4, the villain Golbez was named after the Golubac Fly. Historically, it wasn't immediately named that though. Originally, it was the Culex lanio.
The original Japanese just calls him "Crystaller" so the NA branch of Square (Enix) were way bigger weebs on this.
Okay, this one I can actually explain!
It's because the Arcade Collab was written by Jin Haganeya; so I suspect he either wrote Draco or had a lot of input with whoever did.
Jin Haganeya also wrote Demobane which added plot bits from both Aleister Crowley and Cthulhu Mythos. He even wrote his own version of Nero who also had aspects of Crowley. Heck, one of the villains was named Master Therion
https://demonbane.fandom.com/wiki/Nero
(Spoilers in link)
Again, how is it Fate seems to regularly ignore incredibly simple aspects of a servants IRL version, yet will pull out actually kind of impressive references regarding them (in this case pulling out the name Babalon from Aleister Crowley for Queen Draco.)
found a lineart brush that made me fall in love so here's a dusa sketch
the earring is sakura's gift and the new ribbon is kohaku's gift. you couldn't see that happen? i don't care, they hang out in koha-ace shut up it's a rare pair i adore ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
Okay, I think I figured summonable Aesc out.
She's the Aesc from the original LB6. No, not Nasu's original story; but before PHH Morgan put her brainclone inside Aesc.
This is why she doesn't know who Mash is. Mash only visited the second timeline.
This is why she doesn't recognize Arthur's face as Uther. (He was just one of many Knights of Londinium to her)
She's Vivian, hence her first ascension resembling Ayaka.
I going to reserve seeing the Summer event to determine what is up with her third ascension though.
It means you answered one of the unskippable options correctly. LB6 was a world of lies, and you saw through one of them.
So you know, you can go back to the cutscenes via My Room and change what choices you made and it counts. Then you can either continue LB6 or check the My Room dialogue in 29-9+ to see what you could have said.
According to Narita, in any timeline that Flat did not meet Waver; he's killed either by the Mage's Association or the Counter Force itself.
"You don't need to feign ignorance. I heard you already had an apprentice on sight in America."
"I do?"
"Yes, one of the associate members who landed there yesterday said they saw your apprentice wandering around in the city- Lord...?"
"...."