#Real Fai

[sualne]

something i wish i'd see more in trigun fanarts is people having vash speak their native/non-english languages completely unprompted, ive seen folks have him speak french, which he canonically knows, but i really do believe he's a polyglot. mostly because of that one time in the desert when he saw the samurai and wanted to greet him in japanese but struggled to remember how to even say hello.

my headcanon is that rem had them learn as many languages as possible but with the big fall and so many people dying, which i think is what led english to became No man's land main (or even only?) language, means that vash (and knives!) both got horribly out of practice and are various sort of rusty in every others languages.

what im saying if there's any pun or joke you've been dying to write but just doesn't work in english vash (and knives!!) are right there!

#trigun #i LOVE saying 'that one time in the desert' when the whole planet is a desert it's so unhelpful its funny. #i love vash speaking french because im french and it is just. the stupidest language. the speech patterns can be so funny when overly #familiar or even rude. jveux dire imagine vash parler avec l'accent d'ta région natale ou autre. vash avec l'accent provençale jamais j'm'e #remettrais. encore pire si j'le fais parler avec mon vocabulaire du désastre. les possiblités quoi!! its also incredibly funny to me that #knives could also speak in any other languages. like what if he gets mad and decides to talk to the gung ho guns in idk finnish instead #OR WHAT IF KNIVES SOMTIME USE VERLAN PUTAIN ce serait génial. ive been thinking about it since ive read the manga. theres so many #hilarious tings we could do. real untapped potential. everyone you have the possibility to do the funniest thing pls.

[dyingbuck]

who do you think taught him those pick-up lines ?

#fay draws #red dead redemption #rdr #jack marston #abigail marston #john marston #first redditor 😔 #i love my son but he need to respect women or ill hafta to kill him #for me either uncle taught him those lines or jack just vaguely remember micah from when he was 4 #cant believe those are real lines in rdr1 #like damn what happened for him to think any of that is appropriate to say #ig living in isolation all of your life dont give you good social skill. who would have thought

[completeoveranalysis]

[8]

Well that’s the Clone Soldiers confirmed. Absolutely wild that we technically saw a bunch of clones in Chapter 1 and just didn’t have the context to know who they were yet. We saw the Sakura clones with Evil Wolverine and now we know the army is made of clones as well. 

But WHO are they clones of? 

I suppose they could just be Miscellaneous people, but I kind of hope that they’d be failed Syaoran clones, just for the parallels of it all. Or maybe they just spare souls that he had no use for and so sloppily shoved them into -

OH

OH WAIT. 

When he says “Souls that I gathered” does he mean in xxxHolic?

When he was harvesting souls from random people?

IS THIS WHAT THEY WERE FOR? DID HE JUST TURN THEM INTO RANDOM BATTLE PAWNS?

If that’s it then, wow, what a weird set up and pay off. 

Wait, no, I’m a bit ahead of myself. He also says they’re failures. So he harvested people’s souls and once they FAILED he turned them into this instead. 

Which is recycling! Very environmentally friendly of him. 

Does this mean when he makes a clone he uses other people’s souls as, like, the base-material? Is he taking random peoples souls and trying to use them to clone Sakura, and then when they mostly fail he reuses them in other roles (like this) instead? 

I might just be thinking aloud here but do we think the Failed Sakura Clones he keeps lounging around his base are Also the soldiers? Are these all Sakura clones, perhaps? Or did he fail to clone Syaoran a bunch of times as well? Or do they become formless and identity-less when he reshapes them for soldier duty?

#I might be a bit caught up in the details of all this #But OH KYLE RONDART I HAVE YOUR NUMBER NOW #Kurogane is right though Evil Wolverine should shut up again #Everything is better when he's not trying to speak at us #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 206 #Evil Wolverine #Kurogane #Fai #And The Many Question Mark Clones #Where did they come from where did they go #And where does he keep them in the meantime #Does he have to make a lot of these costumes #Or do the clones come in their own premade outfit #I suppose Watanuki spawned in clothes #Can Evil Wolverine choose the outfit?? #Finally the real questions

[faislittlewhiteraven]

Undertale/ISaT crossover thoughts 2

Been thinking more about this despite trying to vent out all my thoughts in this previous post and now I have something of a plot I figured I'd share (in case anyone else would like a stab at it/some ideas for their own Undertale/ISaT crossover fanworks).

Story opens with a time looping Chara in the void hitting their breaking point. The wish for freedom from generations of monsters + their own alternating wishes to free their family and hurt the humans who hurt them equals a loop that begins with their incredibly painful death to buttercup induced internal blistering, and ends whenever Asriel (post absorbing Chara's soul) is killed or they 'fail to punish' Chara's human family and well. Chara doesn't know the rules so the two have them have been looping so long that now when they reach the village of humans by Mt Ebott, instead of the friendliness they were shown in early loops (before getting murdered by the official authorities who 'already have orders on how to treat monsters') the villagers now attack them on sight in terror (sobbing monster thing? Sadness!), and they keep dying over and over and over-

Basically full 'Start Again a prologue' vibes, and so Chara in full please just make it stop mode wishes to the Universe...

For everything that hurt them and monsters to be forgotten like a bad dream! (cue The Island, Sif and Chara's homeland, as well as certain nasty individuals like Chara's human 'family' being erased from memory)

For someone kinder, stronger, and untainted by hate to 'be the angel' to free the monsters in their place.

To feed the golden flower seeds stuck in Azzy's fur with their corpse.

To atone in any way for all the pain they've caused.

(To one day be able to sit and stargaze on top of Mt Ebott together with those they love, just like they promised Asriel they'd be able to do)

Cue time skip to after the end of Undertale and Flowey's 'please don't reset and ruin their happy ending' speech, to show Chara's ghost flopping on top of their flowerbed grave wondering how long they'll be able to last before they give in and ruin Frisk's happy ending once more (with heavy implication that Chara is once more stuck in a time loop with no idea how to get out).

Then a cut to Toriel and Frisk making their way down Mt Ebott and spying a shooting star, Toriel remembering her religion (goodness, how could she have forgotten the Universe?) and praying/wishing to the Universe to 'have one of its stars watch over her fallen children, and give them the happiness she could not'. Cue Chara being shocked out of their non existent skin by a person with the head of a star crashing down right through them onto their grave out of seemingly nowhere.

(Aka, Plot line 1: Chara is trapped in time loop hell and Loop has been sent to help them and possibly Flowey? out of it. ... That's literally all I've got for them right now because I have NO idea how to actually have them interact XD)

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Next section of story cuts over to the northern coast line of Vauguard: Sif and family (including Nille) are on their way back to Bambooche after their most recent travels when basically the world explodes into colours, Sif suddenly remembers a LOT more than they used to and they can all now see the large landmass to the north.

Much eye boggling, confusion, wonder and tears are had before everyone kind of parties and passes out but next day, things are being taken much more seriously:

Why is Sif's forgotten homeland, the Isle of Chara, suddenly back? Why are colours? How is this going to effect all of Vauguard (the fashion industry alone..)? And... What happened to the people of the island? Are they ok or..? And how will the rest of the world react to them being the epicenter of so much very unexpected change?

Cue brief discussion on whether or not to go (mostly just double checking with Sif if he's actually up for it despite the many potential horrors they could find there that are sure to be extra traumatising to them in particular), the group checking in with the House in Bambooche to have word sent to the rest of Vauguard (and hopefully the world at large) that the Saviors of Vauguard are on the case, and well. They could catch a boat or they could try walking along that MASSIVE steel and concrete bridge with its weird black road stretching out over the ocean (which was apparently there the entire time and ok, now everyone is getting really freaked out because it seems there was a fair bit more forgotten than 'just' the Island and the Stars. What else did everyone have stolen from their heads?).

(Aka, Plot line 2: The Saviors of Vauguard heading for The Island, hoping for the best and preparing for the worst, and also the plot line I've done by far the most work on, to the point that it probably needs it's own post)

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And last section, Frisk leads their monster friends down Mt Ebott back to 'the village of the humans' they came from and the monsters are stunned by the sight of... Well, wailing and sobbing adults who barely give the monsters a second glance, curious and 'just as silent as Frisk' children who smile and wave, and an old man Frisk introduces as 'Elder' who despite being very wobbly and also in tears, does his best to greet the monsters, thanks them for returning Frisk and very politely asks if Asgore is their king and here to kill them all as the stars foretold.

Cue a bit of awkward 'Um. Yes and no?' with a request to open talks with the 'leaders of humankind' only for the old man to laugh and cry as he explains that he's the closest thing this settlement's had to a leader for years now by virtue of being one of the few adults here with enough presence of mind to actually function through The Forgetting (he thanks his younger years of being an avid traveller) and that since the monsters breaking the Barrier seems to have made The Forgetting stop and they seem to have some form of government then honestly, they're the ones in charge now since stars know there's probably not much left of the Island's government still remaining all this time, and it's doubtful the people of other countries even remember they exist.

Cue everyone other than Frisk who knew all this being very surprised (Frisk's follow up 'explainations' don't really help a lot since The Forgetting is all they've ever known, and Toriel is so messed up when she realises Frisk and a good number of other kids literally can't talk or read without 'Communication Craft' due to the memory wipe effects they suffered under while growing up) and well. Monster kind move out of Mt Ebott at a breakneck pace while Toriel, Asgore, Alphys and everyone frantically try to get everyone settled, help all the very damaged Islanders into as much stability as they can (some recover better than others but there's a lot of grief over lost family, missing people, etc going around and monsters end up stopping more than a few suicides), and get things organised enough they know everyone will be fine before they can move onto working out WTF happened here. Also in the process of all this they end up working out that some things (like who was in charge before The Forgetting) are still being 'auto deleted' from memory (though the effect is fading as time goes on) and also the Island's capital is a space warped nightmare filled with Sadnesses right now and probably everyone should avoid it.

Lots and lots of world building regarding what Monsters vs Sadnesses are, my headcanons for the Universe religion (going with the Monsters also traditionally being Universe worshippers and much talk is had on the differences between 'the old ways' Toriel and Asgore remember vs the traditions and beliefs of the Islanders), and... yeah.

(That's Plot line 3: Frisk leads the monsters to the one semi stable human adult they know of and the monsters realise that not only are they free to live on the Surface now but the local humans both see them as saviors and desperately need their help after going through something that arguably makes the Underground look wonderful in comparison.)

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Eventually I'm going to have to tie all three of these ideas together and I think I've got some ideas for Plot lines 2 and 3 such as:

Sif's family and/or Undyne bumping into each other catching all the trains to search for survivors across the Island

Mirabelle and to a lesser extent the whole party finding themselves the official Vauguardian ambassadors to the newly formed human/monster Island/Isle of Chara alliance who are very much in need of aid and more info about the rest of the world.

Papyrus and Frisk also being ambassadors, making all the friendships.

Sif realising 'the Elder' is their grandfather on their mother's side and trying to wrap their head around having any family around at all (and also trying not to think to hard about all the family still missing).

Isabeau and Odile uncovering just how much stuff countries outside the Island forgot (airports, train stations, cars, all that juicey science stuff).

The Saviors of Vauguard and various Undertale folks investigating the capital together (learning some of the less pleasant aspects of the Island's politics and culture while there including stuff about Sif's dad's side of the family and why the name Chara matter so much). But well. So far have NO CLUE how to get Chara, Loop and Flowey involved with the rest of the cast since well, they're reluctant to leave and no one else knows they're there. So. Yeah. That's what I have planned out mostly. Will list a bunch of stuff I've thought of regarding Sif's group going through the Island and their hometown (totally gonna bring up the 'Euphrasie Islander and possibly Sif's mom' theory in story but not actually confirm or deny it since well, Euphrasie is out of focus and most likely going through a major 'my memories have returned, how could I have forgotten-' breakdown her beloved Claude is going to have to help her through <3) but that's for another post and er. Yeah. Please feel free to share any feedback, ideas or thoughts you might have on this, and to take a stab writing/scribbling up some of this yourself as well as I think it cold be a lot of fun and I'd LOVE the help XD

#undertale #in stars and time #fais fanfic rambles #isat #isat act 6 spoilers #undertale spoilers #isat spoilers #ut #cw suicide mention #undertale isat fusion fic #post game #fanfiction #Chara and Loop have so much trauma to rant furiously together about but IDK how to even start #Flowey I think remembers SOME stuff looping with Chara during their fusion but they only got those memories back post Undertale #heavy focus on the forgotten island #and all the stuff that may have been forgotten all over the world (in both settings) along with it #...Now wondering if I could play up Dr Gaster vanishing as being partly due to the Forgetting as well #(I feel real guilty making Chara 'responsible' for causing so much damage they'll no doubt will feel horrific guilt over) #(hopefully ensuring the 'win condition' for the story's end requires them getting a happy resolution makes up for that a little) #no clue how to start it but yes frisk and Sif looper friendship is mandatory and I WILL make it happen. Somehow

[sonego]

i've had an idea for a fic series for a bit and i wanna do it so bad but 1. i can't bring myself to write lately 2. i don't know if anyone would even care about it beside like 2 or 3 people and i'd mostly write it for myself which IS fine and great but then lately i've also felt an (even greater lol) need for validation so i'm scared i'd get sad if it flopped

#not that my fics do numbers in general but #it's a jannik ship that's not sincaraz fkcmdvmv #like the idea is: a sinnettini fic (not long. idk how short i don't plan this stuff 😭) for each song off nei letti degli altri #BC I'M LIKE. insanely obsessed w this album rn i've been listening to it over and over for what more than a month? #and it keeps making me think of Them. jean knows i think i've sent her like every song off nlda at one point or another going “that's them” #the brainrot's real. #idk maybe i'll try writing something and see if it goes anywhere ... #post filed under: NICO PERCHÉ TI FAI MILLE PAREEEEEE #nico.txt

[kamuishiro]

Syaoran: I relate to Belle because she loves books and likes people for who they are.

Fai: I relate to Tinkerbell because she needs attention or she dies.

#clamp #tsubasa reservoir chronicle #trc #syaoran li #fai d fluorite #mokona also relates to tinkerbell #but we all know kamui is clamp's real disney princess

[pls-just-let-me-marry-yeung]

Everyone else :

My own goddamn boyfriend :

#are *you* here for Fay???? #keep that up and I'm starting dating Andy #for real tho they keep flirting after hitting 6 hearts and they are all so sweet in their own way??? #meanwhile lee yeung keeps mentioning another girl #lee yau is emotionally constipated but at least he shows he cares about our wellbeing and DOESN'T MENTION THEIR GODDAMN CRUSH #I'm so done with this guy. Why love hurts so much? #harvest town #lee yeung #harvest town lee yeung #harvest town yeung #andy reed #harvest town andy reed #harvest town lee yau #lee yau #harvest town yau #harvest town andy #chris ford #harvest town chris ford #harvest town chris #harvest town bill hawks #bill hawks #harvest town bill #duke evans #harvest town duke #harvest town duke evans

[ehlnofay]

wip wsunday

thanks kindly to @jiubilant and @wispstalk for the tag! since I'm travelling at the moment my writing schedule is a bit spottier than normal and I'm not that confident in what I am putting down, but rereading and cleaning up the piece I posted a few days ago made me want to revisit some ideas I had re: pax with-and-as sheogorath, so here's an excerpt from the half of a first draft I wrote this evening. its quality remains unknown, and will at least until I finish the draft, but I really like the concept :)

tagging back @everybodyknows-everybodydies @ghoulsbeard @ervona , no pressure :)

#its real fucking late but maybe I'll talk about the idea about this piece tomorrow. or not #hell maybe I'll decide it's good snd post it once it's done #for now i am sleepy and sunburned. bring hats+ sunscreen when you go mountain climbing folks. even if the sun there is normally weak as hel #goofnight!!! #oc tag #pax #sheogorathposting #fay writes #also if you see my little typo... no you don't shut up

[anitalianfrie]

Decendo malissimo per i tuoi post taggati bezzcore è così vero 💀

(Sono davvero uguali a rivoluzione romantica rippone)

- @carlosheinz

Hai presente quei foglietti con le frasi motivazionali che marc ha attaccato allo specchio? Bez invece ha questi qui.

#Fai una one night stand a casa sua vai in bagno e trovi sullo specchio “capisci i sentimenti quando te li fanno a pezzi” #True and real to me #C'è posta per me #carlosheinz

[xtruss]

Mohamed al-Fayed, Tycoon Whose Son Died With Diana, Is Dead At 94

An Egyptian businessman, he built an empire of trophy properties in London, Paris and elsewhere, but it was all overshadowed by a fatal car crash that stunned the world.

— By Robert D. McFadden | September 1, 2023

Mohamed al-Fayed in 2003 outside the Court of Session in Edinburgh, where a judge was asked to consider whether the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and his son Dodi, was caused deliberately. Credit...David Cheskin/Press Association, via Associated Press

Mohamed al-Fayed, the Egyptian business tycoon whose empire of trophy properties and influence in Europe and the Middle East was overshadowed by the 1997 Paris car crash that killed his eldest son, Dodi, and Diana, the Princess of Wales, died on Wednesday. He was 94.

His death was confirmed on Friday in a statement by the Fulham Football Club in Britain, of which Mr. Fayed was a former owner. It did not say where he died.

The patriarch of a family that rose from humble origins to fabled riches, Mr. Fayed controlled far-flung enterprises in oil, shipping, banking and real estate, including the palatial Ritz Hotel in Paris and, for 25 years, the storied London retail emporium Harrods. Forbes estimated his net worth at $2 billion this year, ranking his wealth as 1,516th in the world.

In a sense, Mr. Fayed was a citizen of the world. He had homes in London, Paris, New York, Geneva, St. Tropez and other locales; a fleet of 40 ships based in Genoa, Italy, and in Cairo; and businesses that reached from the Persian Gulf to North Africa, Europe and the Americas. He held Egyptian citizenship but rarely if ever returned to his native land.

Mr. Fayed lived and worked mostly in Britain, where for a half-century he was a quintessential outsider, scorned by the establishment in a society still embedded with old-boy networks. He clashed repeatedly with the government and business rivals over his property acquisitions and attempts to influence members of Parliament. He campaigned noisily for British citizenship, but his applications were repeatedly denied.

“It’s the colonial, imperial fantasy,” Mr. Fayed told The New York Times in 1995. “Anyone who comes from a colony, as Egypt was before, they think he’s nothing. So you prove you’re better than they are. You do things that are the talk of the town. And they think, ‘How can he? He’s only an Egyptian.’”

Mr. Fayed at a party at the venerable London department store Harrods in 1989. His takeover of the store in 1985 struck many Britons as akin to buying Big Ben. Credit...Fairchild Archive/WWD, via Penske Media, via Getty Images

He reveled in the trappings of a British aristocrat. He bought a castle in Scotland and sometimes wore a kilt; snapped up a popular British football club; cultivated Conservative prime ministers and members of Parliament; sponsored the Royal Horse Show at Windsor; and tried unsuccessfully to salvage Punch, the moribund satirical magazine that had lampooned the British establishment for 150 years.

His takeover of the venerable Harrods in 1985 struck many Britons as shameless brass, something akin to buying Big Ben. A year later, as if securing a jewel in the crown of British heritage, Mr. Fayed signed a 50-year lease on the 19th-century villa in Paris that had been the home of the former King Edward VIII of Britain and Wallis Warfield Simpson, the divorced American woman for whom he abdicated his throne in 1936.

But Mr. Fayed’s triumph as an Anglophile was the made-for-tabloids romance between his eldest son, Emad, known as Dodi, and the Princess of Wales, who had recently been divorced from Prince Charles (now King Charles III) and alienated from the royal family. It began in the summer of 1997, when Mr. Fayed invited Diana and her sons to spend some time at his home on the French Riviera and on one of his yachts. Dodi was there too.

The Egyptian-born nephew of the Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, Dodi was a notorious playboy who gave lavish parties, financed films, dated beautiful women and was once briefly married. He and Diana had been acquainted, but by many accounts they fell in love on the Mediterranean sojourn. As their romance bloomed, the British press pounced. Paparazzi hounded the couple everywhere they went.

A cameraman filmed the site of the car accident in Paris that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and Mr. Fayed’s eldest son, Dodi al-Fayed, in 1997. Mr. Fayed declared that they had been murdered by “people who did not want Diana and Dodi to be together.”Credit...Jacques Demarthon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

In the early hours of Aug. 31, 1997, a Mercedes-Benz carrying Diana and Dodi and driven by Henri Paul, a Fayed security agent who was drunk and traveling at a high speed trying to elude carloads of pursuing paparazzi, slammed head-on into a concrete pillar in a tunnel in Paris. All three were killed.

Controversy exploded over the cause of the crash and the implications of the affair. Some tabloids suggested that an immigrant had been an unfit suitor for a princess. But friends said that the couple had planned to marry, and that the Fayed family had offered Diana and her sons a warmth that contrasted with the way Britain’s royal family had shunned her after the divorce.

As rumors and conspiracy theories swirled, Mr. Fayed declared that the two had been murdered by “people who did not want Diana and Dodi to be together.” He said they had been engaged to marry and maintained that they had called him an hour before the crash to tell him that she was pregnant. Buckingham Palace and the princess’s family denounced his remarks as malicious fantasy.

The deaths inspired waves of books, articles and investigations of conspiracy theories, as well as a period of soul-searching among Britons, who resented the royal family’s standoffish behavior and were caught up in displays of mass grief. In 2006, the British police ruled the crash an accident.

And in 2008, a British coroner’s jury rejected all conspiracy theories involving the royal family, British intelligence services and others. It attributed the deaths to “gross negligence” by the driver and the pursuing paparazzi. It also said a French pathologist had found that Diana was not pregnant.

Mr. Fayed called the verdict biased, but he and his lawyers did not pursue the matter further. “I’ve had enough,” he told Britain’s ITV News. “I’m leaving this to God to get my revenge.”

Mr Al Fayed, with his wife Heini, at the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997. Diana, Princess of Wales, 36, Dies in a Crash in Paris. August 31, 1997.

Mohamed al-Fayed was born Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed in Alexandria, Egypt, on Jan. 27, 1929, one of five children of a primary-school teacher, Aly Aly Fayed. Details about his early life are murky.

His accounts of growing up in a prosperous merchant family were discounted by British investigators. He sold sewing machines and joined his two younger brothers, Ali and Salah, in a shipping business. In the early 1950s, Adnan Khashoggi set the brothers up in a venture that exported Egyptian furniture to Saudi Arabia. It flourished.

In 1954, Mr. Fayed married Mr. Khashoggi’s sister, Samira. Dodi was their only child. They were divorced in 1956. In 1985, he married Heini Wathén, a Finn. They had four children, all born in Britain: Jasmine, Karim, Camilla and Omar.

Information on survivors was not immediately available.

The Fayed shipping interests profited handsomely from an oil boom in the Persian Gulf in the 1960s. Acting as middlemen for British construction companies and gulf rulers, they helped develop the port of Dubai, the Dubai Trade Center and other properties in what is now the United Arab Emirates.

Mohammed Al Fayed stands in front of the east stand of Craven Cottage, home of Fulham. Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters

Mr. Fayed at the Craven Cottage stadium in London in 2012 before an English Premier League soccer match between Fulham and Sunderland. Mr. Fayed was Fulham’s owner and club chairman. Credit...Alastair Grant/Associated Press

Mr. Fayed, who made all his family’s major investment and financial decisions, moved to London in the mid-1960s. He added “al-” to his surname, implying aristocratic origins. After buying the Scottish castle, he expanded its estate to 65,000 acres; after acquiring the Fulham Football Club, he built it into a top team in a nation infatuated with the sport. (He sold the team in 2013 to a Pakistani American businessman.) A heavy contributor to the Conservative Party, he nurtured relationships with members of Parliament and Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

In 1979, the Fayed brothers bought the fading Ritz Hotel in Paris for under $30 million and, with a 10-year, $250 million renovation, turned it into one of the world’s most luxurious hotels. Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed dined in the Imperial Suite before their fatal crash.

In 1984-85, in their greatest commercial coup in Britain, the Fayeds paid $840 million for the House of Fraser, the parent company of Harrods and scores of other stores, and invested $300 million more to refurbish the chain’s flagship, in London’s exclusive Knightsbridge section.

After the sale of Harrods to Qatar in 2010 Mr Al Fayed stayed on as honorary chairman for six months

Mohamed Al Fayed in the Harrods food halls. Photograph: Mark Richards/Daily Mail/Shutterstock

Prodded by a business rival, the government investigated the Harrods deal and in 1990 concluded that the Fayed brothers had “dishonestly misrepresented” themselves as descendants of an old landowning and shipbuilding family. The government report said the money for Harrods had probably come from the Sultan of Brunei. The sultan denied it, and Mr. Fayed, who was not accused of wrongdoing, called the report a smear.

In investigative reports by the press and the police, Mr. Fayed was accused by many women of unwanted sexual advances, job-related sexual harassment of female employees at Harrods, and even sexual assault involving teenage girls. He denied the allegations and, although he was questioned by the authorities in Britain, he was never prosecuted on such charges.

Mr. Fayed was bitter about being stymied in his quest for British citizenship, although all his children by his second wife held that status. As he noted, he had lived in Britain for decades, paid millions in taxes, employed thousands of people and, through his enterprises, contributed mightily to the economy.

Mohamed Al Fayed leaves the High Court in London, after giving evidence at the inquest into the death of his son, Dodi, and Diana, Princess of Wales. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

“They could not accept that an Egyptian could own Harrods, so they threw mud at me,” he told reporters. He sold Harrods in 2010 to Qatar Holding, the sovereign wealth fund of the Emirate of Qatar, for more than $2 billion, and announced his retirement.

— Robert D. McFadden is a Senior Writer on the Obituaries Desk and the Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting. He joined The New York Times in May 1961 and is also the Co-Author of Two Books.

#Mohamed al-Fayed #Tycoon #Egyptian Businessman #Robert D. McFadden #Dodi Al-Fayed | Diana The Princess of Wales #1997 Paris Car Crash 💥 #Fulham Football Club | Britain 🇬🇧 #Oil | Shipping | Banking | Real Estate #Paris Ritz Hotel #London Retail Emporium Harrods #Forbes | $2 Billion #Mr. Fayed | World’s Citizen #Homes | London | Paris | New York | Geneva | St. Tropez #40 Ships | Genova | Italy Cairo #Business | ​Persian Gulf | North Africa | Europe | The Americas

[tsubasaclones]

random ms paint doodle i did because my internet was out for most of the day and i was bored

#i don't know what the point of this drawing is but it was fun teehee #tsubasa reservoir chronicle #kurofai #kurogane #fai d flourite #my art #digital art #doodles #gay people...real...

[completeoveranalysis]

[6]

OH

OH THAT BLACK SWIRL

OF COURSE!

HAS THE ORIGINAL SEVEN YEAR OLD SAKURA JUST BEEN TRAPPED IN TIME HERE THE WHOLE TIME?

Is… IS TH

IS THIS THE SAME SAKURA AS THE SECOND TIMELINE SAKURA WE HAVE IN CHAPTER ONE, OR ARE THEY TWO SEPARATE PEOPLE NOW?

DID THE RESETTING TIMELINE JUST SPAWN AN ENTIRELY NEW SET OF PEOPLE AND KEEP THIS SAKURA TRAPPED HERE THE WHOLE TIME?

OR WAS OUR ORIGINAL ORIGINAL SAKURA ALSO A TIME TRAVEL REPLICA?

CHARTS WERE NOT ENOUGH I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS

#WHERE IS THE OTHER CLOW KINGDOM #DO THEY BOTH EXIST #ARE THEY BOTH FULL OF REAL PEOPLE #I NEED A FULL GLOSSARY OF EXPLANATIONS #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 204 #Lava Lamp Guy #Kurogane #Fai #Mokona #Sakura #Which Sakura? #A Sakura #Not Sakura #THE Sakura or THE THE Sakura? #ACTUALLY #If time travel creates a duplicate person #What DID happen with the Shura time travel? #Did they accidentally create replicas when they went back? #Have those replicas already vanished from existence?

[silverraes]

I promised a friend I'd join in for some helldivers today but this episode is really making me want to gif shit, the woes of man

#listen i NEED to gif that kiss scene at the end #and fai taking one look at them and going “oh there's something happening here” she was so real for that #guess i'll just embarass myself later today when all these scenes have been giffed to death already jaskdhasds #just rambling #we are the series

[moamidzyism]

girlhood is making a playlist of every song ryujin has used in an instagram post

#fay thinks 💭 #brainrot too real #being a midzy is not enough we must be in love with each other

[randomnameless]

French Enbarr !

They will even organise some historical reconstitution next month, Enbarrites vs Barbarians in the arena!

(without big kitties to eat barbarians though)

#real life #ça va faire 3 fois que je me déplace à nîmes en moins de 30 jours pour le boulot #évidemment ça ne tombera pas pendant les fêtes romaines #mais bon #dans certaines villes on gueule Jeanne au secours #et ici il y a des artistes qui vont faire des reconstitutions et qui venderont des bibelots #Rome en septembre dernier Nîmes ce printemps et peut-être pompei en juin je fais mon tour de Romanité pour 5 ans lol

[feedthemadness-sweetie]

monthly check in bc it’s september 🤭🤭

how have you been!!!! i hope fall has been treating you gently so far!!! and you’re doing so so well!!! i miss you and love you always 🩷💗🩷💗🩷💗🫂🫂🫂🫂

Fay my angel !!! I've been holding onto this because I wanted to do it justice and give you some good news but i fucked up (like always) and waited too long and also didn't really find anything to say. I'm okay? I think? Ive been blessed with great friends who've held onto me (like you) when i probably didn't deserve them and I'm grateful for them every day.

I love you so so so much you have no idea and every time you're on my dash I light up and I miss you so so so much too I promise I'll stop being an idiot soon im so sorry !! 💕💕💕💕

#one day I'll strangle the voices in my head #and finally become a real person #im so sorry fay #you're my fairy godmother and i love you #and also im a colossal ass and you should ditch me immediately because im not worthy of your love T_T #ive been in my head a lot its driving me nuts #madness is an idiot #I swear im going to try to be normal #im so sorry #madness answers