IlliterateOne

little bro is starting to turn this into a cultivation novel.

You're just plain wrong. As far as I remember, this fic never went into explicit detail explaining the mate bond. You're just filling the blanks with your own headcanon. Also, he was a not magical being before getting transported to twilight, and it was only after he became a shapeshifter that he encountered this problem. a.k.a his newfound magical nature is influencing him into taking actions he otherwise wouldn't have taken. Kinda like how jacob fought the family of a newborn child because of some non-existent perceived threat to her. No rational person capable of self-control would do that. You can't classify that as just "changing" by any metric of the word.

fnf

Wasn't he supposed to be able to gain points by training? Did he just not train at all in the supposed 3 days they had to rest?

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And I said that the grail is what literally facilitates the existence of the noble phantasms in the first place. NO grail NO noble phantasm it's as simple as that. They don't exist regardless of the grail. The weapon that the noble phantasm was based on maybe existed but not the noble phantasm itself. These two things aren't one and the same. Is it really that hard to understand?

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No they didn't/don't, Noble Phantasm are the servants legend in a "physical" form. Most of them were in fact gained after they became servants. All of that facilitated by the holy grail. Those that weren't are either weapons that predated the servant itself that they then inherited; or an actual ability that they had in life that then became a NP due to becoming a part of their legend and then enhanced or weakened. An example of this is Heracles who didn't have his most powerful NP God Hand when he was alive as it's the embodiment of him completing his twelve labours. There's also Sasaki Kojirou who didn't even exist until the holy made him into a real boy NP and all. All of that and more is fully reliant on the existence of the holy grail. When you summon a servants weapons or even the servants themselves to a degree you're not bringing the actual one that existed but the idea of them, that why another name for NP's are crystallized mysteries. That's also the reason why there are also servants who are way stronger or even weaker than they were in life.To summarize: No legend, No Grail, No Noble Phantasm. If people didn't know that they had a certain ability in life or a feat of theirs then they wouldn't possess the Noble Phantasm tied to it.

I'm still thinking about it. Although I slightly lean more towards a single parter as it's less messy for the plot and easier to write I'm not fully opposed to a harem. Maybe I'll challenge myself and see if I can make it into a slightly believable one. Though if I do so I'll probably set a predetermined number of partners and wont go over it no matter what.

This could only be a schizo moment if it were any situation outside of a fanfic. The viewer of any series regardless of medium already has omniscient perspective when it comes to the hidden plot and history of a franchise. We always without fail know everything unless outright being told we're wrong by the creator. So the mc thinking that his head cannon amounts to anything more than a delusion especially when it makes cero sense is beyond insane.Like, bro, humans were so weak the biblical God that created humanity in the first place who wasn't even as strong as Ophis had to create a separate system of power that didn't previously exist in the world just to empower them. All this because even with magic they were still getting clapped by the other races. The sacred gear system that only chooses a select rare few to possess said gears wouldn't have served even as a mediocre plot to weaken humanity if they were supposedly that strong. This dude reached avarege 4-chaner levels of conspiracy theories with this rant. But we all know where this is heading as this certified nutjob is the protagonist of this fic.It's just that it would've made more sense if he just went "if a human works out enough in an anime and they break through their limits they become OP... or at least that's the cliche One Punch Man makes fun off" and it would've made more sense.