Fanfic / Fate Kaleid Prisma Taylor

FateKaleid Prisma Taylor by Rater202 is a Worm/Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA crossover fanfiction.

There are many facets of the Kaleidoscope. Lord Zelretch is curious as to why one seems to lack magecraft, and so sets a kaleidostick named Opal to the task. For good or for ill, that kaleidostick has chosen Taylor Hebert as her master. Spacebattles Link. Side Stories link.

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Tropes:

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: The Heberts have an ancestral Conceptual Weapon based on the Vorpal Blade.
• Accidental Murder:
  • Sophia accidentally hits an Empire 88 thug in the throat with a bladed bolt (to be fair, he turned after she fired) and covers it up by making it look like the ABB did it. Unfortunately for her, Opal comes by and records it, and it's more than enough to have her arrested after she attacked Taylor.
  • Taylor accidentally kills Hatchet Face with Gae Bolg when she was just trying to fend him off.
• Achievements in Ignorance: All this time, Mr. Saito thought his magecraft powers were a parahuman power, and ended up achieving projection magecraft the way Shirou Emiya does.
• Addictive Magic: Taylor really likes Installing the Berserker card, since the physiological and mental changes Mad Enhancement inflicts upon her combine to give her a sort of battle high and distract her from who she really is. Opal forces her to acknowledge it's a pretty toxic remedy for her situation and gives her strict limits on the use of the card.
• A God Am I: Taylor briefly claims to be a goddess when fighting Lung for the second time. To be fair, she is using her Caster Card, and Tamamo no Mae has a high divinity ranking due to being a partial incarnation of a goddess.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: In many Worm fanfics, it's pointed out with grudging admiration how tough Lung is by recalling he's one of the few who have managed to go toe to toe with an Endbringer. In-Universe, Mr. Saito despises him for this instead, pointing out that the monster likely would have contented itself with crippling the island's infrastructure without sinking it entirely, had it not been kept busy and in place by Lung.
• Alternate Self: Taylor summons her future canon self, Khepri, as a Berserker when held captive by Bonesaw. Khepri is from a different timeline since she has no memory of Taylor's magical adventures or Mr. Saito.
• Always a Bigger Fish: Scion apparently killed Bet's version of Type-Mercury in the '80s.
• And I Must Scream: Taylor is completely paralyzed by drugs as Bonesaw cuts her open and shocks her with electricity. She eventually fights off the drugs through willpower.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: Glory Girl says telepathy is impossible. Lisa says you'd think knowing Taylor would make people more open-minded.
• Arch-Enemy: Taylor considers Rune the closest thing she has to an arch-nemesis after Rune repeatedly picks fights with her.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When Leviathan's approach to the Bay sets off the Endbringer sirens, Opal is initially against Taylor participating because of how dangerous it is. When Taylor asks her what kind of magical girl she'd be if she didn't try to save as many people as she could, Opal's only reply is a "darn it", and she stops arguing.
• Atrocious Alias: Taylor doesn't like her "Princess" hero name very well. She's rather ticked when she learns that she could have gone with something like "Magical Opal" instead.
• Badass Boast: "You might… be a dragon… But… right now… I… am… a… Goddess!"
• Berserk Button: Khepri's response to Alexandria... existing is to explain to her exactly why she, Khepri, hates Alexandria so much. She also reacts poorly to being told what to do.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: What happens if you enter the bounded field around the Hebert residence with a weapon without permission from Taylor or Danny.
• Calling Your Attacks: Taylor calls out her attacks whenever she uses a noble phantasm.
• Centipede's Dilemma: Taylor is able to run when using the Berserker card, but only when she's not consciously thinking about how to run in heels.
• Clark Kenting: Averted. Taylor's magical girl Princess costume doesn't have a mask and she asks for one, but Opal refuses because to her, magical girls DO NOT wear masks. Though the public mostly doesn't know her, anybody who knows her as Taylor and gets a good look at her face can recognize her.
• Combined Energy Attack: After accidentally using Class Inheritance to become Saber-Fran during Leviathan's attack on Brockton Bay, Taylor uses Frankenstein's Monster's ability to absorb energy to replenish her mana and supercharge her attacks with the combined powers of every blaster and energy weapon user still in the fight.
• Dating Catwoman: Taylor is dating Brian, not knowing that he's Grue. Brian isn't aware Taylor is Princess at first, though Lisa, who set them up, is. Aisha finds it hilarious when she puts it together.
• Doesn't Like Guns: Opal dislikes guns, saying they are inelegant. However, she only says this in response to seeing Dragon's anti-endbringer mech and its missiles twice as long as Taylor is tall but makes no such comments about the handguns Taylor gets from the Assassin and Archer cards.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": Khepri gets pissed that Gilgamesh won't stop calling her Taylor instead of Khepri or Kelly.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: Apparently Khepri can only summon her Mastered parahumans from inside her reality marble in small bursts, or it's debilitating.
• The Dreaded: Apparently, Eramana von Einzbern has such a reputation as a researcher within Gesselschraft that Krieg says that he’d rather be at Bonesaw’s mercy than get on her bad side.
• Dream Sequence: Taylor has one after being outed and dealing with the Trio. It's vague and symbolic, going from an abused child Taylor wondering why daddy had to go away, to Taylor being spoken to by a pretty Lady, to Taylor at a school dance with a bunch of fictional cousins, ending with Taylor suddenly naked at the same dance with The Lady pouring a bucket of blood and flower petals on her. Opal suggests that it's Taylor's subconscious processing lingering feelings about Taylor's time being bullied at Winslow and her frustration at students trying to cozy up to her now that she's publicly known as a hero.
• Drives Like Crazy: As in canon, Iri drives like a maniac, with Taylor lampshading how there's no way that it's legal.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Danny uses a relic to check what Taylor's Origin is. He immediately goes and gets blind stinking drunk after seeing the result. It's not "sacrifice" but has some overlap, according to the author.
• Dumb Muscle: Eramana von Einzbern’s assistant Joffrey got cold feet halfway through having his "strength" Origin awakened, turning him into this.
• Eating the Eye Candy: The trope is name-dropped by Opal when she accuses Taylor of doing this to Mr. Saito during his fight.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Due to not knowing Opal is from an alternate universe, Armsmaster thinks that Taylor is a Tinker who was triggered by being bullied and that Opal is her creation. Due to Opal citing events that happened in the Nasuverse but not on Earth Bet (like Class Card Gilgamesh's rampage in Fuyuki City), and saying Taylor is only limited by her imagination, he thinks that Taylor is a delusional girl influenced by magical girl shows, and that she created the corrupted Class Cards with her imagination as challenges to overcome. It's even funnier in a Black Comedy sort of way when one realizes that is kind what Eidolon is; he wanted a challenge so he made an obstacle for him to overcome.
• Eye Scream: When Bonesaw has Taylor captive and wants to experiment with her magic circuits, while sticking her full of electrodes she takes Taylor's eyes out of their sockets briefly.
• Fastball Special: Taylor convinces Alexandria to throw her at Leviathan at extreme speeds so that Taylor can impale him with Fran's Skewered Plasma Blade.
• For Want Of A Nail: Opal meeting and contracting Taylor leads to a lot of changes in the canonical events of Worm.
• Friends with Benefits: It is heavily implied that Khepri is sleeping with Mr. Saito to replenish her mana.
• Full-Frontal Assault:
  • The corrupted Lancer/Scathach is naked except for blood and blue Body Paint. Much to Taylor's relief, when she tests her Scathach Install, she has Scathach's standard black bodysuit.
  • Gilgamesh and Khepri bathe together in a hot spring. When they eventually come to blows, Gilgamesh quickly dresses himself with Gate of Babylon, but Khepri doesn't bother getting her clothes and just attacks.
• Genre Blindness: When facing a horde of zombies, Glory Girl knows nothing about tactics for fighting them like destroying their heads, causing an annoyed Chloe to ask if she ever watched a horror movie in her life.
• Give Him a Normal Life: With The Magic Goes Away being in full effect on Bet, Danny kept Taylor in the dark about her magus heritage for this reason.
• Godzilla Threshold: Opal is able to achieve Zwei form by herself, but given how damaging it is to the user's body, she refuses to grant Taylor the ability unless there is an absolute emergency. Battling Leviathan isn't enough of an emergency for her.
• Groin Attack: In a side-story where Taylor summons Tamano when being held captive by Bonesaw, she quickly proceeds to target Jack's groin.
• Halloween Special: A noncanon one has Taylor fighting zombies that over-run the town. It turns out that some Servants, including Jack and Nursery Rhyme, were trying to use black magic to create a perfect Halloween party.
• Healing Factor: A.V.A.L.O.N. gives this ability to Saito/Shirou.
• Heroic BSoD: Chloe has a brief one when she sees Taylor use her Assassin Install and his Chronos Rose Noble Phantasm, recognizing Assassin as her father.
• Heroic RRoD: Taylor strains her circuits a bit fighting Lung with the Saber card. She does it again when she fights Leviathan.
• Hero of Another Story: The events of the Prisma Illya series have happened and Illya, Miyu, and Chloe are now teens. They occasionally get mentioned because Opal can communicate with her sisters Ruby and Sapphire.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Danny turns out to be from a Magus lineage, and aware of it.
  • Rune is apparently enough of a student of the occult to distinguish between the different types of runes Taylor's Scathach Install uses.
  • Mr. Saito turns out to be the Bet version of Shirou, complete with Projection Magecraft and a Healing Factor induced by a piece of Tinker-Tech produced by Bet's version of Kiritsugu called A.V.A.L.O.N.
• Hope Spot: Taylor uses Frankenstein's Skewered Plasma Blade to pretty much slice Leviathan in half and he stops moving. Just as everybody starts congratulating her, Leviathan revives.
• Horrifying the Horror: Jack Slash of all people becomes terrified when Taylor summons Khepri.
• How Is That Even Possible?: Opal is shocked when she witnesses Myrddin's dimensional powers, given how rare it is in the Nasuverse.
• Hypocritical Humor: When Gilgamesh points out that Khepri doesn't have the right complexion to be an Egyptian deity, she points out after he reveals his True Name that he is rather pale for a Mesopotamian king.
• I Meant to Do That: Taylor vows to tell everyone this about Armsmaster's loaned halberd falling onto Lung and injecting him with tranquilizers. Considering how Knight of Owner works, it might even be true on an unconscious level.
• Incompatible Orientation: Invoked by Lisa, who immediately claims to be straight upon seeing Chloe, her power presumably informing her of the other girl's habits.
• Internal Reveal: Taylor discovers Lisa is Tattletale during the Leviathan fight.
• It Can Think: Lancer/Scathach shows surprising levels of tactical skill for a corrupted Class Card, like hiding out with Assassin/EMIYA to apparently use it as a decoy, and using a wounded Victoria as a hostage. Taylor lampshades this, with Opal explaining it as a result of Scathath's extreme amount of battle experience.
• Kryptonite Factor: Lung, having draconic traits, is weak against Saber's Arondight.
• Language Barrier: Taylor gets sent to the Fate world and meets Chloe, Illya, and Miyu. Taylor does not know Japanese or German, but the other three fortunately know English.
• The Loins Sleep Tonight: A bounded field Taylor puts around Brian's apartment has many negative effects to potential intruders, including making them impotent for a month.
• Love Triangle: A temporary one, but Armsmaster finds himself targeted by Tamamo-no-Mae, and when Armsmaster decides to do some research on her, Dragon gets a little testy.
• Magical Eye: After being tortured by Bonesaw, Taylor seems to have developed an unknown type of Mystic Eyes.
• The Magic Comes Back: Mana starts making a resurgence on Earth-Bet after declining to the point of effectively being unusable for decades, with Ahnenerbe reopening.
• The Magic Goes Away: Magecraft on Bet had been in decline for centuries beforehand, Danny even saying that the last he heard, the Mage Association was just a few guys getting together to talk about the Glory Days over drinks, but a few years before capes showed up, it pretty much stopped working entirely. There's still plenty of mana, but no one can apparently use it. Before Opal finds Taylor, she'd been searching for years but had found no one with decent circuits.
• Man of Kryptonite: Khepri claims that because she killed Alexandria in her own timeline, it's become a solid-enough part of her legend that she can hurt the Nigh-Invulnerable woman. Lisa's powers let her know that the actual mechanisms are more complicated than that though.
• Meaningful Rename: Taylor doesn't like to call her future self Khepri, so she renames her Kelly. Her future self accepts the name.
• Mercy Kill: Knowing what happens if she's still running around, and that there's no way to help her, Khepri uses her Mastered parahumans to incinerate Noelle in what she views as this trope.
• Molotov Cocktail: Taylor fights some Empire thugs using these... who only manage to set their legs on fire.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When Hatchet Face starts strangling Taylor, in desperation, she summons the spear Gae Bolg and tries to fend him off, but she ends up impaling and killing him. She ends up horrified that she did that.
• Mythology Gag: In the side-stories, after realizing that Miyu's feelings for her were romantic, Illya attempted to recreate the circumstances of their first Accidental Kiss as children as a way of sequencing into discussing it.
• Never My Fault: Sophia attacks Taylor in a rage in her shadow state after finding out that she's Princess and having her refuse to fight her twice, outing them both in the middle of Winslow, but seems to assign blame to Taylor when she realizes what she did.
• No Kill like Overkill: After using a team of blasters led by Lung to reduce Noelle to ash, Khepri, wanting to make absolute certain that the monstrous parahuman is dead, has Vista warp space so Miss Militia can shoot them with a Davy Crocket.
• No-Sell: Taylor is immune to Hatchet Face's power nullification abilities.
• No Sparks: Illya goes on a date with a guy in a side story... only for them to find that while they do find each other attractive, they have no real common interests or romantic tension at all.
• Not Quite Dead: Leviathan, after being impaled by Skewered Plasma Blade and caught in the following explosion of electrical plasma, seems dead but gets back up just as soon as people start celebrating.
• Oblivious to Love: When Chloe says that Nanoha and Fate are probably dating by now, Illya says that she didn't get that impression from them. Chloe counters by pointing out that it took her five to six years to realize Miyu's feelings for her even after Miyu said that she'd be willing to date the other girl to her face.
• Official Couple: Illya and Miyu eventually became this in the side-stories, building from Miyu's canonical crush on Illya. It stems in part from the incident under no-sparks and in part from Illya finally realizing that Miyu's feelings for her were romantic (even calling herself an idiot when she remembers that Miyu explicitly said that she was willing to have that kind of relationship with Illya after their Accidental Kiss as children.)
• Oh, Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us!: Taylor is disturbed to find slashfics of her and Victoria or Amy, especially since they reveal her secret identity. When she finds out Amy was writing them, she yells at her for potentially endangering her and her family.
• One-Steve Limit: Taylor summons herself as Khepri as a Berserker Servant, so there's naturally some confusion about names.
• Papa Wolf: An omake has Kiritsugu threaten the Mage Association after someone from there apparently tried to kill Chloe for her Class Card, saying that he'd go to London and kill every mage he finds until he gets to the ringleader(s) if he has to. The author has stated that he interprets Kiritsugu as being the "I have ten acres and a shovel" kind of dad.
• Parental Favoritism: In Chapter 35, in response to her sister's condescending attitude towards the predicament she and Taylor are in, Opal claims that between the two of them, Zelretch likes Opal more.
• Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Taylor doesn't take it well when she finds out that Lisa is a criminal.
• Poor Communication Kills:
  • Opal tries to tell Taylor about what she saw with Sophia/Shadow Stalker, but Taylor didn't want to spare them a thought, so she gets caught off guard when Sophia uses her powers to attack her.
  • Later, after finding out that Lisa was an Undersider, Taylor starts screening her calls. This allows Bonesaw to capture her, because Lisa was trying to warn her and couldn't get through in time.
• Possession Equals Mastery: Taylor with Saber due to Knight of Owner.
• Psychological Projection: Taylor can't help but project some of her feelings regarding Emma onto Lisa, after learning that Lisa is a criminal.
• Rabbit Season Duck Season: Lisa uses this to trick Taylor into letting Lisa pay for a new outfit for Taylor. Taylor later refers to it as having been "duck-seasoned".
• Revolvers Are Just Better: Billy the Kid is Taylor's Archer, so this trope is obviously in full effect.
• Running Gag:
  • Opal scolding Taylor and others for bad language.
  • People grabbing Taylor's tail when she's using her Caster Install.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Several ABB goons run when Taylor turns into Caster and shows that she can use magic.
• Secret Legacy: Danny is from a line of mages. He's not sure about Annette's heritage - the only strange thing he knows about her is that she was homeschooled until she was seven.
• Secret-Keeper: Opal's learned that Danny is technically a mage. They share the discovery that Taylor is an Average One, though later, he discovers her Origin. The reader's not privy to his findings, though Opal is. Whatever Taylor is, she isn't an Average One despite an affinity with all five elements, and Opal considers the knowledge dangerous enough to immediately swear to keep the secret.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Khepri is determined to fix things so that Taylor will never be traumatized enough to grow up to be her. She warns Taylor not to let go of her friendships, finally motivating Taylor to apologize to Lisa.
• Share the Male Pain: When Taylor reveals that one of her wards on her house will rot the crotch off of any male who approaches with intent to harm her or her dad, both he and Armsmaster are horrified, and the latter seems a bit green.
• Sharpened to a Single Atom: Saito has a sword that functions like this which he uses to defeat Lung.
• Shout-Out:
  • When trying to get Taylor to fly, Opal's dialog includes a few lines from Seussical's song Alone in the Universe, up to and including Opal using the title of the song to describe how she felt before she found Taylor. This was admitted to have been sentimentality on the author's part.
  • When confronting the Trio in the principal's office following Sophia's rampage, Taylor tells Opal to "Do the thing" to signal that now was the time to play the recorded evidence implicating the Trio in making Taylor's life hell and establishing Sophia as the sole aggressor in that day's incident.
  • Throughout the story,Taylor admits that she mostly does the hero thing for fun. She even using the line "I'm just a girl who's a hero for fun" when fighting Lung.
  • In Chapter 21, Opal briefly mentions spells that turn people into newts that you can't get better from, before clarifying that she's not sure where the idea that turning into a newt is something you "can get better" from comes from. Taylor's narration quotes a monologue from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, before clarifying that AM wouldn't be able to comprehend how angry she was, after Lung's men seemingly killed Mister Saito in cold blood right in front of her.
  • The description of Saito's strongest sword and the finished product that Muramasa never finished invoke the description of Death's scythe and sword from Disc World.
  • Myrddin mentions that he once lived right next to a man who sounds suspiciously like Harry Dresden.
  • Leet takes out Shatterbird with the Falcon Punch.
  • Bonesaw is singing It's a B-Movie to herself while vivisecting Taylor
  • In an omake, one possibility for the Servant Taylor summoned when held captive by Bonesaw is Old Man Henderson while another is Mr. Stake.
  • In a sidestory chapter Dragon created Holodecks for the PRT after binging Star Trek episodes.
  • The Hebert family has a Conceptual Weapon based on The Vorpal Blade, with the activation and deactivation phrases being phrases from the poem.
• Shipper on Deck: Lisa to Brian and Taylor.
• Sibling Rivalry: A side story that takes place between chapters 22 and 23 indicates that Opal and Ruby don't get along. Ruby ascribes it to jealousy on Opal's part, though Sapphire implies that it's largely because Ruby is condescending to her younger sister. When we finally see them interact in Chapter 35, the latter is confirmed, with Ruby being very haughty about the predicament Taylor and company are in, with a fight breaking out when Opal snaps and claims that Ruby's jealous that Zelretch likes her better.
• Slash Fic: Someone has been writing these about Taylor and Victoria In-Universe. They're disturbing, especially since they've included Amy in at least one of them, and knows details that they shouldn't, like Taylor's name before she was outed. It turns out its Panacea, despite early assumptions otherwise.
• Stripperific: Taylor's Rider Install leaves her in Mordred's skimpy red bikini.
• Superpower Lottery:
  • In addition to the magic Opal allows Taylor to use, and her Magic Circuits (which are high in number and quality, to the point that Opal briefly wonders if she's a homunculus like Illya), she has seven class cards she can use. There's Saber Lancelot, Lancer Scathach, Archer Billy The Kid, Rider Mordred, Caster Tamano-no-Mae, Assassin EMIYA, and Berserker Frankenstein.
  • As a Servant, Khepri can summon duplicates of anyone she ever Mastered, with their personalities and powers intact.
• Supreme Chef: According to Chloe, Miyu is "like a god in the kitchen", not that Miyu herself is a fan of that description.
• Take That!: A gentle one. When Opal witnesses Saito's use of Magecraft and identifies him as Earth Bet's version of Shirou, she makes several questions, including partly quoting Unlimited Blade Works' aria. Saito comments it sounds like someone with English as a second language would write if they wanted to sound cool.
• Takes One to Kill One: When Khepri is set upon the Slaughterhouse Nine, she brutally kills everyone except Bonesaw, leaving her for her own projection of Bonesaw, specifically to disable all dead man's switches and traps left behind. The projected Bonesaw, disturbingly, is delighted with the chance to vivisect herself.
• Taking You with Me: Leet, distraught after Uber's death, purposefully detonates one of his old inventions in such a way that it takes out both him and Shatterbird. Actually surviving because of one of his inventions wasn't something that he had expected.
• That Man Is Dead: Lisa recognizes Khepri as Taylor's future self, but Khepri says she does not deserve to be called Taylor, she is only Khepri.
• That Was Not a Dream: After Leet takes out Shatterbird, he wakes up and assumes he dreamed that, only to see the wreckage of his hideout and her corpse.
• There Are No Therapists: Averted, Amy starts getting some after Brandish learns about her Slash Fic writing, and apparently starts getting some herself.
• This Is Reality: When Opal argues that magical girls do not wear masks, Vista points out Sailor V wore a mask. Opal screams that's because Sailor V isn't real.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Taylor believes a true hero does not kill and resolves to defeat enemies non lethally, though she compromises that the corrupted Class Cards will be purified and go back into their cards when defeated, so it's not really killing them. This causes some friction with Opal as Opal believes it is okay to kill evil beings.
• Time Skip: The scenes that take place on Illya's Earth are apparently a few years after the end of the Prisma Illya series.
• Trapped in Another World: Chapter 34 ends when an interaction between Scrub's powers and a barrier of Taylor's sends her to a parallel Earth in front of Chloe.
• Traumatic Haircut: When Taylor is kidnapped by the Slaughterhouse 9, she wakes up to find Bonesaw had shaved her head. She laments losing the hair that resembled her mother. Even after being healed and with a full month of recovery it's still not back to its original length.
• Troll: Opal is similar to her sister Ruby in this regard. For example, she embarrasses Taylor because her Transformation Sequence leaves her naked for half a minute, but later reveals she can change Taylor's clothes instantly and didn't tell her because it was more fun that way.
• Wham Episode:
  • Chapter 21. Taylor's friend Saito turns out to be Earth Bet's version of Shirou Emiya. He has a nanotech Healing Factor code-named A.V.A.L.O.N. and the ability to use Tracing magecraft.
  • Chapter 30 ends with Taylor being captured by the Slaughterhouse 9.
  • Chapter 31: Taylor is so desperate to escape and help her friends against the Slaughterhouse 9 that she inadvertently summons a Servant, apparently interrupting a Trigger Event in the process.
  • Interlude the Eigth: The Servant Taylor summoned is her future self, Khepri, as a Berserker.
  • Chapter 34: Taylor and Opal accidentally activate the Kaleidoscope and warp to another world.
• Wham Line: In Chapter 26, Myrddin reveals that he met Zelretch.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Taylor develops this opinion regarding her Rider Card. She never uses it after getting until the one time she thinks a surfboard/shield that turns into a boat might be useful, and immediately changes her mind when she sees how skimpy her Install's outfit is. That said, she uses it to great effect against Leviathan, especially since Prydwen's hydrokinesis trumps the monster's.
• What Year Is This?: Taylor is forced to ask the question when Chloe informs her she's in Fuyuki, which sank with the rest of Kyushu in Earth Bet.
• You Are Not Alone: When Opal tries to teach Taylor how to fly, Taylor is too depressed because of being bullied to do so. Opal tells her that she is not alone because Opal will always be with her and believes in her. This cheers Taylor up enough to let her fly.
• You Killed My Father: Saito wants to kill Leviathan for killing his family.

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