History Recap / FateGrandOrderEvent79LilimHarlot

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Draco needs the Protagonist alive because she forced a contract onto them to survive; if they die, she dies. Meanwhile, the Protagonist needs Draco alive because she's their best defense against the Shadow Servants and knows the most about the Testament World, and resolving it will be an easier task with the Beast on ''their'' side rather than not. The truth, though, is that Draco subconsciously wants to die and so she needs to get all the Incarnadines so she can regain her strength as a Beast and break the contract with them, thus freeing them from her and leaving her ready to die.

** Confused about how a Beast managed to force on contract onto the Protagonist? You're right to be. Indeed, only Masters can forge a contract with a Servant, not the other way around; the Demon Beast Incarnadines only thought they did. The actual contract came from ''Hakuno Kishinami'', a former Master of Nero, who had in fact facilitated the whole thing. Existing Servant contracts can still be ''transferred'' to other Masters, which was seen as early as the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', and Hakuno has just enough of their connection to Nero left to spoof the process for Draco and the Protagonist.

* SpottingTheThread: A side-event featuring Tiamat and Lady Avalon has them saving Sita from a bunch of [[Recap/FateGrandOrderS1E7TheAbsoluteFrontlineInTheWar Babylonia]] cameos seemingly aimed at getting rid of Tiamat specifically. Sita was given no context for being summoned other than the vague objective of "kill Beast VI/S", and Tiamat isn't even a Beast anymore and shouldn't be targeted -- both blunders the Counter Force wouldn't make, meaning these Servants have a Master. Tiamat quickly pieces together that something is pulling the Testament World's strings. It turns out in the end that Draco herself summoned a bunch of incomplete Servants expressly to hunt herself down, and the ones harassing Tiamat are implied to have been directed by Locusta; the only real Servants she brought into the Singularity were the Floor Guardians.

* ChekhovsGun: During the escape from London, the Protagonist empowers Draco with a Command Seal to ''very quickly'' call her to their side, something a normal Servant wouldn't be able to do and would likely kill themselves trying; Draco's Independent Manifestation enables her to do things ordinary Servants can't. This comes into play in the finale when the Protagonist Commands Draco to live in spite of her fate to die before the thrice setting sun, as one of those things Beasts can ignore is "YouCantFightFate", suddenly transforming Draco into an impossible adult Nero that [[ScrewDestiny survived the history recorded on the Throne of Heroes]].

** The Protagonist uses a Command Seal to call Draco to them from several hundred feet away nigh-instantly, something Draco herself notes would be impossible and even suicidal for an ordinary Servant. This calls to mind a similar event from the "Fate" route of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' where Shirou issued a similar Command to Altria, who herself is an abnormal Servant.

* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: The Protagonist invokes a Command Seal to quickly summon Draco to their side -- as in suddenly empower her to make a several-hundred foot leap from a heavy-gravity zone into a flying elevator. Draco herself notes that an ordinary Servant, even empowered with a Command Seal, wouldn't be able to perform this physics- and death-defying stunt. Draco being a Beast with Independent Manifestation means she doesn't subscribe to the same rules as ordinary Servants, something that comes in handy later.

...Unfortunately, she fails, and Fujimaru is abducted via forced Rayshift.

Deposited at the bottom of the Testament World, Lilim Harlot, Fujimaru is all alone and face-to-face with its owner: Beast VI/S, Queen Draco. For reasons unknown, this realm persists despite Draco's Holy Grail no longer having power -- but the far more pressing issue is Draco's actions. Reduced to a larval form and clinging to life by a thread, unwilling to die alone, she has performed what she believes to be the biggest disgrace possible for a Beast: she has forcibly contracted with a human. ''Fujimaru is now the master of a Beast!''

As long as this maligned contract persists, Fujimaru is now considered an enemy of Humanity, and they serve as a tether with which Draco can potentially return if she is killed. But so long as Draco needs Fujimaru to live, she is forced to protect them, and she's not strong enough to rescind the contract until she's regained her full power. Only the Beast can prove the Master's innocence, but to do so requires blooming into a Beast once more... whether Fujimaru wants her to or not, especially since she plans to devour them afterward.

They are rescued from Lilim Harlot's depths by Nero's loyal assassin Locusta, accompanied by an unwitting Sétanta, chased by an overprotective Tiamat, and observed by an aloof Lady Avalon. Fujimaru and Draco must now traverse the layers of the Testament World to reclaim the lost fragments of Beast VI/S's power, the Demon Beast Incarnadines, and solve the mystery of the realm's continued existence. But not all is as it seems in the crumbling Testament World. As they see the truths of Draco's existence laid bare, it will be up to the Master whether this is the Beast's cataclysmic comeback, her redemption song, or her funeral march.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: When facing Scáthach, Sétanta correctly points out to her that killing Fujimaru just for being a Beast's Master is dooming their home timeline. Scáthach's response is... that she doesn't care. She was summoned to kill Draco and that's it, nothing else matters. Sétanta quickly realizes that something is ''seriously'' wrong with his teacher.

* BookEnds: Sétanta begins and ends his leg of the journey through Lilim Harlot the same way: clinging to the bottom of a Twilight Ladder chasing after Fujimaru.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Draco needs Fujimaru alive because she forced a contract onto them to survive; if they die, she dies. Meanwhile, Fujimaru needs Draco alive because she's their best defense against the Shadow Servants and knows the most about the Testament World, and resolving it will be an easier task with the Beast on ''their'' side rather than not. The truth, though, is that Draco subconsciously wants to die and so she needs to get all the Incarnadines so she can regain her strength as a Beast and break the contract with them, thus freeing them from her and leaving her ready to die.

* ChainedHeat: Replace the handcuffs with a Servant contract, and this is Draco and Fujimaru's situation in a nutshell.
* ChekhovsGun: During the escape from London, Fujimaru empowers Draco with a Command Seal to ''very quickly'' call her to their side, something a normal Servant wouldn't be able to do and would likely kill themselves trying; Draco's Independent Manifestation enables her to do things ordinary Servants can't. This comes into play in the finale when Fujimaru Commands Draco to live in spite of her fate to die before the thrice setting sun, as one of those things Beasts can ignore is "YouCantFightFate", suddenly transforming Draco into an impossible adult Nero that [[ScrewDestiny survived the history recorded on the Throne of Heroes]].

** Confused about how a Beast managed to force on contract onto Fujimaru? You're right to be. Indeed, only Masters can forge a contract with a Servant, not the other way around; the Demon Beast Incarnadines only thought they did. The actual contract came from ''Hakuno Kishinami'', Draco/Nero's former Master, who had in fact facilitated the whole thing. Existing Servant contracts can still be ''transferred'' to other Masters, which was seen as early as the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', and Hakuno has just enough of their connection to Nero left to spoof the process for Fujimaru.

* GuiltByAssociation: Fujimaru's problem. Even if it isn't willing, their status as a Beast's Master means Draco can theoretically be revived as long as they're alive, and the Counter Force comes at them just as hard as Draco.
* HappyEndingOverride: Or would that be a DeusExMachina from Draco's perspective? The alternate Fujimaru and Chaldea defeated Draco and left her to vanish along with Testament World, which should've been the end -- but something else has taken control of the Singularity, giving Draco a slim chance at survival. She used this chance to abduct the main timeline's Fujimaru, kickstarting the plot. Or, rather, that's the case from the outside. In truth, Draco was trying to die, so she modified the Testament World in order to get hunted until she died. The Incarnadines were against this, and without her knowledge abducted Fujimaru in an attempt to survive.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: The silhouette of the ''Arcade'' timeline's Fujimaru will be the opposite gender of the player. Hakuno, however, has their gender picked in an in-game choice.
* HiddenVillain: Though Draco happily proclaims her goal is to ascend to Beasthood again, she is not the main villain of the event. This is evidenced by Lilim Harlot not having faded away despite Draco's own Holy Grail being depowered, suggesting a new foe has hijacked the Testament World for their own ends. But in a twist, the villain isn't so hidden: Draco subconsciously forced this situation on herself so she could die, and the Incarnadines were the ones who summoned Fujimaru in order to save themselves from her suicide, so the actual villains are the Main/{{MacGuffin}}s themselves.
* IronicEcho: Upon the reveal that Fujimaru is contracted to Queen Draco she drops an inversion of the classic line:

** All throughout the game, Fujimaru has been contracting Servants to fight against the Beasts. Now they've been forcibly contracted to a ''Beast'' in order to fight ''Servants''. The ends up letting Fujimaru experience the conflict from the opposite side. ''It's not fun''.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Draco describes the events of her original ascension as an 'arcade' she modeled off of Mobile Chaldea's Goetia storyline, and states she will devour Fujimaru whole out of 'respect for the source material'.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Discussed. Tiamat is adamant that they kill the larval Draco and be done with it, and while Fujimaru doesn't disagree, they refute that killing her ''now'' would do nothing but shove the problem under the rug. Draco's Independent Manifestation and her contract with Fujimaru would just cause her to revive later, the Counter Force would ''still'' target Fujimaru for being the Master of a Beast, killing her wouldn't resolve the Singularity, and most importantly it's a chance to see a Beast's past [[HistoryRepeats so humanity doesn't repeat the evils that made Draco in the first place]]. That last point actually gets Tiamat to back off, but she doesn't bend on her opinion until the very end.

* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: Fujimaru invokes a Command Seal to quickly summon Draco to their side -- as in suddenly empower her to make a several-hundred foot leap from a heavy-gravity zone into a flying elevator. Draco herself notes that an ordinary Servant, even empowered with a Command Seal, wouldn't be able to perform this physics- and death-defying stunt. Draco being a Beast with Independent Manifestation means she doesn't subscribe to the same rules as ordinary Servants, something that comes in handy later.

** Hakuno could jokingly introduce themselves as "Francis Xavier" in ''Fate/EXTRA''. They almost do so again here before realizing that Fujimaru, who is surrounded by Servants on a daily basis, might actually believe it.

* OutOfFocus: Due to Fujimaru being abducted, the rest of Chaldea has no screentime except for the prologue and the epilogue, forcing Fujimaru to make their own judgment calls for the event.
* PerspectiveFlip: Fujimaru has to experience the equivalent of Chaldea throwing every single Servant at an enemy because of the contract with Draco. It's ''exhausting'' for them.

** It wasn't Draco who abducted Fujimaru, but her Demon Beast Incarnadines acting on their own. Draco only ''thought'' she subconsciously willed them to do so, when in fact they're performing a ZerothLawRebellion in the name of survival.
** Draco wasn't really trying to ascend to Beast VI/S again, nor is she going to devour Fujimaru at the end of it. Draco is trying to ''die'', and the only reason she needs to re-ascend at all is so she can use her full Independent Manifestation to annul Fujimaru's contract with her. Fujimaru was never supposed to be involved at all, and Draco has actually been trying to save them the entire time.

** The missing 5% that even Draco wasn't aware of, only revealed in the finale: Fujimaru's contract to Draco and the Incarnadines was not caused by them. It was caused by '''Kishinami Hakuno''', who did so in a bid for Fujimaru to save their former Servant from herself. Despite the sleight-of-hand, [[AllLovingHero Fujimaru didn't need any convincing]].
* ScrewDestiny: Sétanta has all of the memories of his future self Cú Chulainn. Despite this, he is determined that the him standing here now can cut his own path, and proves it by taking down ''Scáthach''. This inspiration becomes important in the finale when Fujimaru saves Draco, who as a Beast ''actually'' has the power to defy her original fate as Nero, evolving into a completely different being from the original Beast VI/S that survived the thrice-setting sun.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Despite the numerous death flags and the obvious hypocrisy of Chaldea helping a Beast, EverybodyLives, even Draco! Fujimaru not only saves Draco in the end with her full status as Beast VI/S restored, but Draco pulls a HeelFaceTurn with a burning passion to prove that the Evils of Humanity can still walk alongside humanity towards the future. It's implied that this miracle is what resulted in the summonable Draco, as if the World is testing the waters of this new possibility. Draco herself even survives to live on her own since fully-manifested Beasts don't require mana or a Servant contract to maintain their existence, making her the second truly autonomous Servant in the entire franchise after Abigail.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Draco considers resorting to contracting with Fujimaru disgraceful for a Beast, and they don't disagree. Fujimaru thinks the mess Draco is in is her getting what she deserves, and she doesn't disagree either. Both only continue together for their individual survival.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Draco states she will devour Fujimaru the moment she finishes re-blossoming into a full Beast. She's lying. She was never planning to kill Fujimaru.

* ChekovsGun: During the escape from London, Fujimaru empowers Draco with a Command Seal to ''very quickly'' call her to their side, something a normal Servant wouldn't be able to do and would likely kill themselves trying; Draco's Independent Manifestation enables her to do things ordinary Servants can't. This comes into play in the finale when Fujimaru Commands Draco to live in spite of her fate to die before the thrice setting sun, as one of those things Beasts can ignore is "YouCantFightFate", suddenly transforming Draco into an impossible adult Nero that [[ScrewDestiny survived the history recorded on the Throne of Heroes]].

* AndThenWhat: Lady Avalon asks Tiamat how she intends to walk among humanity after attacking and being defeated by them, to which she (uncertainly) replies that she'll protect humanity from other Beasts. It seems simple enough at first, but it comes back to haunt Tiamat after she hears Draco's true plans for the Singularity; Draco wanted to die because she's been struggling with the same question and couldn't think of an answer. [[JerkassRealization Tiamat painfully realizes what Lady Avalon was getting at]] and finally joins the effort to help Draco.

** Draco wasn't trying to ascend to Beast VI/S again, nor is she going to devour Fujimaru at the end of it. Draco is trying to ''die'', and the only reason she needs to re-ascend at all is so she can use her full Independent Manifestation to annul Fujimaru's contract with her. Fujimaru was never supposed to be involved at all, and Draco has actually been trying to save them the entire time.

* SpottingTheThread: A side-event featuring Tiamat and Lady Avalon has them saving Sita from a bunch of [[Recap/FateGrandOrderS1E7TheAbsoluteFrontlineInTheWar Babylonia]] cameos seemingly aimed at getting rid of Tiamat specifically. Sita was given no context for being summoned other than the vague objective of "kill Beast VI/S", and Tiamat isn't even a Beast anymore and shouldn't be targeted -- both blunders the Counter Force wouldn't make, meaning these Servants have a Master. Tiamat quickly pieces together that something is pulling the Testament World's strings. It turns out in the end that Draco herself summoned a bunch of incomplete Servants expressly to hunt herself down; the only real Servants she brought into the Singularity were the Floor Guardians.

** Kadoc notes that Tiamat as an Alter Ego is not absurdly strong as recorded by Chaldea when she appeared in the seventh Singularity.
** Sétanta points out Scáthach is a Divine Spirit who shouldn't normally be summonable, yet she's here anyway. This and her oddly single-minded desire to kill Draco clues the group in that something is wrong.

** Confused about how a Beast managed to force on contract onto Fujimaru? You're right to be. Indeed, only Masters can forge a contract with a Servant, not the other way around; the Demon Beast Incarnadines only thought they did. The actual contract came from ''Hakuno Kishinami'', Draco/Nero's former Master, with amazingly coincidental timing. Existing Servant contracts can still be ''transferred'' to other Masters, which was seen as early as the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', and Hakuno has just enough of their connection to Nero left to spoof the process for Fujimaru.

** Tiamat and Draco, two Beasts who nearly drowned the world in a flood, note the irony that all of Okeanos is literally about to crash down on London from above without their involvement.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Discussed. Tiamat is adamant that they kill the larval Draco and be done with it, and while Fujimaru doesn't disagree, they refute that killing her ''now'' would do nothing but shove the problem under the rug. Draco's Independent Manifestation and her contract with Fujimaru would just cause her to revive later, the Counter Force would STILL target Fujimaru for being the Master of a Beast, killing her wouldn't resolve the Singularity, and most importantly it's a chance to see a Beast's past [[HistoryRepeats so humanity doesn't repeat the evils that made Draco in the first place]]. That last point actually gets Tiamat to back off, but she doesn't bend on her opinion until the very end.

* OutOfFocus: Due to Fujimaru being abducted, the rest of Chaldea has no screentime except for the prologue and the epilogue.

** It wasn't Draco who abducted Fujimaru, but her Demon Beast Incardines acting on their own. Draco only ''thought'' she subconsciously willed them to do so, when in fact they're performing a ZerothLawRebellion in the name of survival. Fujimaru was never supposed to be involved at all, and Draco feels guilty that it happened.
** Draco wasn't trying to ascend to Beast VI/S again, nor is she going to devour Fujimaru at the end of it. Draco is trying to ''die'', and the only reason she needs to re-ascend at all is so she can use her full Independent Manifestation to annul Fujimaru's contract with her. She's actually been trying to save Fujimaru the entire time.

--> Queen Draco: "I answer you. You are this Beast's Master."

* WholePlotReference: The event story is seemingly structured like ''Anime/FateExtraLastEncore''. A simulation of endless conflict from a story that had started long ago repeats until a Master is suddenly brought to the bottom of the place designated as purgatory to make a contract with Nero or a Servant related to her. The two are then tasked with ending the current status quo as they ascend upwards through seven floors via elevator, encountering twisted versions of the seven story arcs from the original source material along the way.

** Confused about how a Beast managed to force on contract onto Fujimaru? You're right to be. Indeed, only Masters can forge a contract with a Servant, not the other way around; the Demon Beast Incarnadines only thought they did. The actual contract came from ''Kishinami Hakuno'', Draco/Nero's former Master, with amazingly coincidental timing. Existing Servant contracts can still be ''transferred'' to other Masters, which was seen as early as the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', and Hakuno has just enough of their connection to Nero left to spoof the process for Fujimaru.

* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: Kishinami Hakuno, on account of being the [[HelloInsertNameHere renamable]] protagonist of ''VideoGame/FateExtra'', has their name listed this way.

* OutOfFocus: Due to Fujimaru being abducted, the rest of Chaldea makes no appearance except for the prologue and the epilogue.

** It wasn't Draco who abducted Fujimaru, but her Demon Beast Incardines acting on their own. Draco only ''thought'' she subconsciously willed them to do so, when in fact they're performing a ZerothLawRebellion in the name of survival. Fujimaru was never supposed to be involved to begin with.
** Draco wasn't trying to ascend to Beast VI/S again, nor is she going to devour Fujimaru at the end of it. Draco is trying to ''die'', and the only reason she needs to re-ascend at all is so she can use her full Independent Manifestation to annul Fujimaru's contract with her.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: EverybodyLives, even Draco! Despite the obvious hypocrisy of Chaldea helping a Beast, Fujimaru not only saves Draco in the end with her full status as Beast VI/S restored, but Draco pulls a HeelFaceTurn with a burning passion to prove that the Evils of Humanity can still walk alongside humanity towards the future. It's implied that this miracle is what resulted in the summonable Draco, as if the World is testing the waters of this new possibility. Draco herself even survives to live on her own since fully-manifested Beasts don't require mana or a Servant contract to maintain their existence, making her the second truly autonomous Servant in the entire franchise after Abigail.

** The missing 5% that even Draco wasn't aware of, only revealed in the finale: Fujimaru's contract to Draco and the Incarnadines was not caused by them. It was caused by '''Kishinami Hakuno''', who did so in a bid for Fujimaru to save their former Servant from herself. Despite the sleight, [[AllLovingHero Fujimaru didn't need any convincing]].

As long as this maligned contract persists, Fujimaru is now considered an enemy of Humanity, and they serve as a tether with which Draco can potentially return if she is killed. But so long as Draco needs Fujimaru to live, she is forced to protect them, and she's not strong enough to rescind the contract until she's regained her full power. Only the Beast can prove the Master's innocence, but to do so requires blooming into a Beast once more... whether Fujimaru wants her to or not.

They are rescued from Lilim Harlot's depths by Nero's loyal assassin Locusta, accompanied by an unwitting Sétanta, chased by an overprotective Tiamat, and observed by an aloof Lady Avalon. Fujimaru and Draco must now traverse the layers of the Testament World to reclaim the lost fragments of Beast VI/S's power, the Demon Beast Incarnadines, and solve the mystery of the realm's continued existence. As they see the truths of Draco's existence laid bare, it will be up to the Master whether this is the Beast's cataclysmic comeback, her redemption song, or her funeral march.

** And at the very end, it’s implied that Draco and the Nero from Last Encore are one and the same person.

* StealthSequel: There are hints scattered throughout the event that this Draco is an offshoot Red Saber from the [[Anime/FateExtraLastEncore Last Encore Timeline]], who did not protect her Hakuno.

* StealthSequel: There are hints scattered throughout the event that this Draco is an offshoot Red Saber from the {{Anime/FateExtraLastEncore Last Encore Timeline}}, who did not protect her Hakuno.

** Confused about how a Beast managed to force on contract onto Fujimaru? You're right to be. Indeed, only Masters can forge a contract with a Servant, not the other way around; the Demon Beast Incarnadines only thought they did. The actual contract came from ''Hakuno Kishinami'', Draco/Nero's former Master, with amazingly coincidental timing. Existing Servant contracts can still be ''transferred'' to other Masters, which was seen as early as the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', and Hakuno has just enough of their connection to Nero left to spoof the process for Fujimaru.
* {{Crossover}}: Between ''Fate/Grand Order'' and ''Fate/Grand Order: Arcade'', with pinches of the ''VideoGame/FateExtra'' series thrown in to supply Draco's lore. At the end it turns out it's more than "pinches" when Hakuno Kishinami makes an honest-to-goodness appearance, making it an actual three-way crossover.

* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: Hakuno Kishinami, on account of being the [[HelloInsertNameHere renamable]] protagonist of ''VideoGame/FateExtra'', has their name listed this way.

** The missing 5% that even Draco wasn't aware of, only revealed in the finale: Fujimaru's contract to Draco and the Incarnadines was not caused by them. It was caused by '''Hakuno Kishinami''', who did so in a bid for Fujimaru to save their former Servant from herself. Despite the sleight, [[AllLovingHero Fujimaru didn't need any convincing]].

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Draco needs Fujimaru alive because she forced a contract onto them to survive; if they die, she dies. Meanwhile, Fujimaru needs Draco alive because she's their best defense against the Shadow Servants and knows the most about the Testament World, and resolving it will be an easier task with the Beast on ''their'' side rather than not. [[spoiler:The truth, though, is that Draco subconsciously wants to die and so she needs to get all the Incarnadines so she can regain her strength as a Beast and break the contract with them, thus freeing them from her and leaving her ready to die.]]

** Confused about how a Beast managed to force on contract onto Fujimaru? [[spoiler:You're right to be. Indeed, only Masters can forge a contract with a Servant, not the other way around; the Demon Beast Incarnadines only thought they did. The actual contract came from ''Hakuno Kishinami'', Draco/Nero's former Master, with amazingly coincidental timing -- existing Servant contracts can still be ''transferred'' to other Masters, which was seen as early as the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'']].
* {{Crossover}}: Between ''Fate/Grand Order'' and ''Fate/Grand Order: Arcade'', with pinches of the ''VideoGame/FateExtra'' series thrown in to supply Draco's lore. [[spoiler:At the end it turns out it's more than "pinches" when Hakuno Kishinami makes an honest-to-goodness appearance, making it an actual three-way crossover.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: Or would that be a DeusExMachina from Draco's perspective? The alternate Fujimaru and Chaldea defeated Draco and left her to vanish along with Testament World, which should've been the end -- but something else has taken control of the Singularity, giving Draco a slim chance at survival. She used this chance to abduct the main timeline's Fujimaru, kickstarting the plot. [[spoiler:Or, rather, that's the case from the outside. In truth, Draco was trying to die, so she modified the Testament World in order to get hunted until she died. The Incarnadines were against this, and without her knowledge abducted Fujimaru in an attempt to survive.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:The silhouette of the ''Arcade'' timeline's Fujimaru will be the opposite gender of the player. Hakuno, however, has their gender picked in an in-game choice.]]
* HiddenVillain: Though Draco happily proclaims her goal is to ascend to Beasthood again, she is not the main villain of the event. This is evidenced by Lilim Harlot not having faded away despite Draco's own Holy Grail being depowered, suggesting a new foe has hijacked the Testament World for their own ends. But in a twist, the villain isn't so hidden: [[spoiler:Draco subconsciously forced this situation on herself so she could die, and the Incarnadines were the ones who summoned Fujimaru in order to save themselves from her suicide, so the actual villains are the Main/{{MacGuffin}}s themselves.]]

* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: [[spoiler:Hakuno Kishinami, on account of being the [[HelloInsertNameHere renamable]] protagonist of ''VideoGame/FateExtra'', has their name listed this way.]]

** [[spoiler:And at the very end, it’s implied that Draco and the Nero from Last Encore are one and the same person.]]
** [[spoiler:Hakuno could jokingly introduce themselves as "Francis Xavier" in ''Fate/EXTRA''. They almost do so again before realizing Fujimaru, who is surrounded by Servants on a daily basis, might actually believe it.]]

* TheReveal: A trip into [[spoiler:Draco's Secret Garden]] unravels 95% of the event's plot. It's quite a doozy, because Draco was keeping quite a few secrets:
** [[spoiler:It wasn't Draco who abducted Fujimaru, but her Demon Beast Incardines acting on their own. Draco only ''thought'' she subconsciously willed them to do so, when in fact they're performing a ZerothLawRebellion in the name of survival. Fujimaru was never supposed to be involved to begin with.]]
** [[spoiler:Draco wasn't trying to ascend to Beast VI/S again, nor is she going to devour Fujimaru at the end of it. Draco is trying to ''die'', and the only reason she needs to re-ascend at all is so she can use her full Independent Manifestation to annul Fujimaru's contract with her.]]
** [[spoiler:Draco was only half-lying when she said her Holy Grail was depowered and no longer maintaining the Singularity. She actually used it just before the Incarnadines went rogue, to summon a bunch of Servants to finish her off. This was foreshadowed by the Singularity's Servants not being summoned by the Counter Force.]]
** The missing 5% that even Draco wasn't aware of, only revealed in the finale: [[spoiler:Fujimaru's contract to Draco and the Incarnadines was not caused by them. It was caused by '''Hakuno Kishinami''', who did so in a bid for Fujimaru to save their former Servant from herself. Despite the sleight, [[AllLovingHero Fujimaru didn't need any convincing]].]]
* ScrewDestiny: Sétanta has all of the memories of his future self Cú Chulainn. Despite this, he is determined that the him standing here now can cut his own path, and proves it by taking down ''Scáthach''. [[spoiler:This inspiration becomes important in the finale when Fujimaru saves Draco, who as a Beast ''actually'' has the power to defy her original fate as Nero, evolving into a completely different being from the original Beast VI/S that survived the thrice-setting sun.]]
* SpottingTheThread: A side-event featuring Tiamat and Lady Avalon has them saving Sita from a bunch of [[Recap/FateGrandOrderS1E7TheAbsoluteFrontlineInTheWar Babylonia]] cameos seemingly aimed at getting rid of Tiamat specifically. Sita was given no context for being summoned other than the vague objective of "kill Beast VI/S", and Tiamat isn't even a Beast anymore and shouldn't be targeted -- both blunders the Counter Force wouldn't make, meaning these Servants have a Master. Tiamat quickly pieces together that something worse than Draco is pulling the Testament World's strings.
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:EverybodyLives, even Draco! Despite the obvious hypocrisy of Chaldea helping a Beast, Fujimaru not only saves Draco in the end with her full status as Beast VI/S restored, but Draco pulls a HeelFaceTurn with a burning passion to prove that the Evils of Humanity can still walk alongside humanity towards the future. It's implied that this miracle is what resulted in the summonable Draco, as if the World is testing the waters of this new possibility. Draco herself even survives to live on her own since fully-manifested Beasts don't require mana or a Servant contract to maintain their existence, making her the second truly autonomous Servant in the entire franchise after Abigail.]]

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Draco states she will devour Fujimaru the moment she finishes re-blossoming into a full Beast. [[spoiler:She's lying. She was never planning to kill Fujimaru.]]
* ZerothLawRebellion: [[spoiler:The Demon Beast Incarnadines gained their own will after Draco was defeated in ''Arcade''. Since Draco was an existence that tried to defy Nero's original fate of dying before the thrice-setting sun, the Incarnadines violently rebel when she resigns herself to her fate.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[spoiler:The silhouette of the ''Arcade'' timeline's Fujimaru will be the opposite gender of the player. Conversely, Hakuno will be the ''same'' gender as the player.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: Or would that be a DeusExMachina from Draco's perspective? The alternate Fujimaru and Chaldea defeated Draco and left her to vanish along with Testament World, which should've been the end -- but something else has taken control of the Singularity, giving Draco a slim chance at survival. She used this chance to abduct the main timeline's Fujimaru, kickstarting the plot. [[spoiler:Or, rather, that's the case from the outside. In truth, Draco was trying to die, so she modified the Testament World in order to get hunted until she died. The Incarnadines were against this, and without her knowledge abducted Ritsuka in an attempt to survive.]]
* HiddenVillain: Though Draco happily proclaims her goal is to ascend to Beasthood again, she is not the main villain of the event. This is evidenced by Lilim Harlot not having faded away despite Draco's own Holy Grail being depowered, suggesting a new foe has hijacked the Testament World for their own ends. But in a twist, the villain isn't so hidden: [[spoiler:Draco subconsciously forced this situation on herself so she could die, and the Incarnadines were the ones who summoned Ritsuka in order to save themselves from her suicide, so the actual villains are the Main/{{MacGuffin}}s themselves.]]

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:EverybodyLives, even Draco! Despite the obvious hypocrisy of Chaldea helping a Beast, Fujimaru not only saves Draco in the end with her full status as Beast VI/S restored, but Draco pulls a HeelFaceTurn with a burning passion to prove that the Evils of Humanity can still walk alongside humanity towards the future. It's implied that this miracle is what resulted in the summonable Draco, as if the World is testing the waters of this new possibility. Draco herself even survives to live on her own since fully-manifested Beasts don't require mana or a Servant contract to maintain their existence.]]

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Despite the obvious hypocrisy of Chaldea helping a Beast, Fujimaru not only saves Draco in the end with her full status as Beast VI/S restored, but Draco comes out of it with a burning passion to prove that the Evils of Humanity can still walk alongside humanity towards the future. It's implied that this miracle is what resulted in the summonable Draco, as if the World is testing the waters of this new possibility. Draco herself even survives to live on her own since fully-manifested Beasts don't require mana or a Servant contract to maintain their existence.]]

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Despite the obvious hypocrisy of Chaldea helping a Beast, Fujimaru not only saves Draco in the end with her full status as Beast VI/S restored, but Draco comes out of it with a burning passion to prove that the Evils of Humanity can still walk alongside humanity towards the future. She even survives to live on her own since fully-manifested Beasts don't require mana or a Servant contract to maintain their existence.]]

* [[spoiler:It wasn't Draco who abducted Fujimaru, but her Demon Beast Incardines acting on their own. Draco only ''thought'' she subconsciously willed them to do so, when in fact they're performing a ZerothLawRebellion in the name of survival. Fujimaru was never supposed to be involved to begin with.]]
* [[spoiler:Draco wasn't trying to ascend to Beast VI/S again, nor is she going to devour Fujimaru at the end of it. Draco is trying to ''die'', and the only reason she needs to re-ascend at all is so she can use her full Independent Manifestation to annul Fujimaru's contract with her.]]
* [[[spoiler:Draco was only half-lying when she said her Holy Grail was depowered and no longer maintaining the Singularity. She actually used it just before the Incarnadines went rogue, to summon a bunch of Servants to finish her off. This was foreshadowed by the Singularity's Servants not being summoned by the Counter Force.]]
* The missing 5% that even Draco wasn't aware of, only revealed in the finale: [[spoiler:Fujimaru's contract to Draco and the Incarnadines was not caused by them. It was caused by '''Hakuno Kishinami''', who did so in a bid for Fujimaru to save their former Servant from herself. Despite the sleight, [[AllLovingHero Fujimaru didn't need any convincing]].]]
* ScrewDestiny: Sétanta has all of the memories of his future self Cú Chulainn. Despite this, he is determined that the him standing here now can cut his own path, and proves it by taking down Scáthach. [[spoiler:This inspiration becomes important in the finale when Fujimaru saves Draco, who as a Beast ''actually'' has the power to defy her original fate as Nero.]]

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Discussed. Tiamat is adamant that they kill the larval Draco and be done with it, and while Fujimaru doesn't disagree, they refute that killing her ''now'' would do nothing but shove the problem under the rug. Draco's Independent Manifestation and her contract with Fujimaru would just cause her to revive later, the Counter Force would STILL target Fujimaru for being the Master of a Beast, killing her wouldn't resolve the Singularity, and most importantly it's a chance to see a Beast's past [[HistoryRepeats so humanity doesn't repeat the evils that made Draco in the first place]]. That last point actually gets Tiamat to back off.

** Confused about how a Beast managed to force on contract onto Fujimaru? [[spoiler:Indeed, only Masters can forge a contract; the Demon Beast Incarnadines only thought they did. The actual contract came from ''Hakuno Kishinami'', Draco/Nero's former Master, with amazingly coincidental timing -- existing Servant contracts can still be ''transferred'' to other Masters, which was seen as early as the original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'']].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Draco states she will devour Fujimaru the moment she finishes re-blossoming into a full Beast.