== Two great quotes about the Fate-verse There is all sorts of gold in [[this somethingawful forum thread on the Fate-verse http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3439217&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=106#post419082808]] ([[via @monoids https://twitter.com/monoids/status/375041285964316673]]). I particularly like the directly linked entry (which made me break out in helpless laughter): > The Fate franchise is like Paris. It seems pretty and fun, and then > you dig a little and the whole thing is built on a giant sprawling > maze of dead people. Then [[another golden quote http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3439217&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=106#post419082862]]: > [Fate] Mages might not all be psychopaths but I can say without > reservation that they are *all* assholes. > > Except for Waver, but then again he's living in the house of two old > people he brainwashed into thinking they're his grandparents. [[I think Waver gets better over *Fate/Zero* FZWaverMorals]] but [[yes, this FateZeroCharacters]]. It is not a coincidence that the Fate-verse related works that I like best are the ones that have the least to do with the main story and the serious characters. (The Fate-verse is the usual term for the setting of *Fate/Stay Night*, *Fate/Zero*, sort of *Kara no Kyoukai* and *Tsukihime*, and various other works that haven't been animated yet. *Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya* makes light-hearted references to it, which is really the best way; you get [[the cool awesome bits https://twitter.com/cks_anime/status/369478335371309056]] without having to think about the pools of blood.)