Edmond Dantes Event, thanks to Summary Anon

Fergus is basically Brock from Pokemon if her were merrily rapey instead of just horny.

>Dantes: [Talking to you] "Have you ever entrusted your body to your bestial lust and rampaged like an animal?"
>Fergus: [Barging in our of nowhere] "OF COURSE!!!"

>Fergus: "MAINLY, I LOVE WOMEN!"
>Protagonist: "Mainly?"

So Fergus is, ehem, "open minded"?

This one was actually kind of hilarious. Dantes just barges in your cell looking sulkily and tells you to get a move on, and his general mood is "shit, fuck it, let's get this over with."

He gets a bit of his groove back as he gives his usual Sin-themed speech, though this one's clearly more personal: about how self-interested rage is punished, but justified rage is extolled, and how people refuse to admit that is the purest emotion of all. Since he's 'allabouta dat sweet sweet retribution, this basically him jerking off to his favorite character trait.

...and then he starts throwing a tantrum because "The Ruler of the Fourth Gate" (Jeanne) refuses to act like that. He was expecting someone he could circlejerk about vengeance with, got the Bland Tofu Holy Maiden, and he's so disappointing that he's kicking around like a child.

This is literally the smiling cat comic.

>Dantes: "C'mon, be edgy, be angry you little shit, be edgy you fucking stupid shitty holy maiden shit!"
>Jeanne: [Smiles]
>Dantes: "FFFFFFFFFFFFF"

Someone asked me to repost all the notes I've been making throughout the event, so here I go:

1: Phantom.
Dantes is back for Tower of Edgy Shit 2: The Edgening. He's trapped you in another pseudo-Singularity to fuck with you and expose you to the ugliness of humankind or some shit of the sort, and he's gonna play a sort of Virgil role to your Dante by guiding you through it.

Fight through the 7 days of jealousy/despair/resentment-crazed Servants and he lets you go. Apparently he's still getting a leg-up from Solomon to do this.

2: Fergus
For those confused by the sudden setting change: You are still in Chaldea, but Dantes is pulling your mind constantly away to his magic Château d'If recreation. Time passes differently between the two places, so Mashu hasn't noticed anything yet and thinks you're just zoning off occasionally. You gotta beat the Judgement of the Seven Sins or else he'll leave your mind to rot in the prison. Also, you start at the original cell every time, but the roads lead to different places every time he guides you.

“Mercedes” (who we know is Nightingale) just happened to be lost there with no memorie for no adequately explained reason. Dantes gives her the name Mercedes and she kinda just sticks around as your cheerleader/caretaker.

As you probably realized, the seven doors will relate to the seven sins (We've got Envy and Lust done), so yeah, this is basically Dante's Inferno with Dantes as Virgil. Dantes' Inferno, if you will.

>アヴェンジャー:
>おまえが見てきた特異点に似ているだろうが、まあ、それとも違う。
>此処は狩り場だ。魔術の王によって作り出されたある種のな。

All [Dantes] says is that the prison is another Singularity-like thing "created by means of Solomon".

Interesting detail, when you point out that Fergus isn't acting normal, Dantes quotes The Vision of Tnugdalus and says that that's not the real Fergus at all. When you lapse back into Chaldea after both battles, the Servant you fought is there acting normally, but they both try to say something before Dantes drags you back. Phantom has "something he needed to say", and Fergus comments on your pale face to Mashu, and though he agrees to help carry you to the infirmary when she asks him, he tells her that, although the situation is foreboding, he’s sure there's no need to worry about medical issues before getting cut off.

3: Gilles.
Back on Chaldea, you’ve apparently gone catatonic long enough for Mashu and Roman to notice, and they’ve carried you to the infirmary. You’re apparently healthy and your eyes are open, but staring blankly into space. Roman confirms what I said last night: Fergus knows something (Phantom too probably), but for some reason he’s not answering his questions.

Back in Happy Fun Time Rape Castle, “Mercedes” is kind of looking after you while still angsting over not knowing who she is. Dantes strolls in, does his usual florid speech about “have you ever done [Sin of the day]” (Sloth this time) and then gleefully points out that the amount of time your mind remains in Chaldea is steadily shortening, so you should probably get a move on.

Holy shit is the girl’s art shitty. Yes, this merited a special mention. She looks fucking ridiculous emoting with her arms outstretched. This is fucking amateur hour.

Anyhow, Gilles is ranting about wanting to pollute all that’s bright and blah blah blah, you beat him, he recovers his senses (well, in so far as Caster Gilles can do that) and tells you to not give up because you’ll surely find a way out. Also, he apologizes for the fact that his “fragment” has caused you trouble, which goes in line with my guess that Servants you encounter are twisted projections drawn from the ones at Chaldea, so they know what’s going on.

4: Caligula
Nightingale wakes you up again and says Avenger has gone up ahead to scout. Apparently, he’s not the one who summons the apparitions, so he does this every day to see who you’ll fight. She says that despite how he talks, he doesn’t actually look down on you and is in fact doing this out of kindness for your safety.

You see Caligula in your room in Chaldea talking to someone. He is coherent, since he says that the eyes of Artemis “cannot reach him at the bottom of hell” so he’s free from the curse of madness. Initially he just keeps longing after Nero because he says she’s the living image of his beloved Agrippina, but then he suddenly catches himself mid-rant and apologizes embarrassed for going off like that in front of you.

>“(It’s okay, I get it.)”
>Caligula: “Umu, umu.”

Caligula Part 2.

Fou is there and his presence kind of gets Caligula to focus. He’s the one to the deliver the florid Sin speech this time, about knowing endless hunger (in the boundless desire/ambition/greed sort of way) and all that. He takes responsibility for his life, saying that even though Artemis might have cursed him, the endless gluttony was born from him. But then he says that despite this, he was recorded as a Hero rather than Anti-Hero for one reason.

You are still walking through the corridors with Avenger while this is going on. Caligula was apparently talking to your unconscious body while your mind was in the Chateau, but you can sort of hear him since your mind is still tied to your body.

You eventually reach the room proper and see the Caligula fragment, who's just batshit crazy as usual, so Dantes cuts the chat and you just jump and fight him. After the fight, you're back in your room at Chaldea (still unconscious) and Caligula keeps talking. The gist is that despite his sins, the reason he was summoned as a Heroic Spirit rather than an Anti-hero is that he still held love in his heart, which still shone through the madness. Meaning that so long as you do the same, you will not fall and have hope of breaking through. He tells you to believe and keep walking, and then leaves you to sleep.

Working slowly through this one, just halfway through the first scene:

Black screen opens with ??? narrating what is obviously the end of Montecristo: how Dantes recovered his humanity and mercy and went out to live happily abroad.

Mashu is looking after your unconscious body, chatting with Fou about how they have to remain strong for your sake.

Back in your cell, Nightingale has gone missing, but Dantes doesn’t really give much of a shit and tells you to get a move on. Along the way, he mentions how lucky you are to be in a fake Château d'If rather than the real one, since you’re spared the daily torture of hearing the groans of the dying and the stench of corpses.

You reach the Area of Judgment, and Dantes talks about a foolish man who knew no evil and so fell into a trap and was imprisoned under false charges. He endured for fourteen years, discarded his humanity, blah blah blah, demon of revenge, you can guess how that goes, then starts talking about how he tortured everyone who wronged him one by one.

5: Amakusa Shirou

Something I forgot to mention before: when you beat Jeanne last time, she dematerialized, not vanished. Dantes knew that, but still cackled about how there was no use in her hiding and all that. Anyhow, that’s why she’s here.

Dantes opens talking about greed, and a guy who’s “greed” was so vast it encompassed the entire world, and manifested in him wanting to “save the world.” Dantes is kind of going by the definition of Greed that Greed (the character) uses in FMA: even good ambitious are desires by definition. Dantes actually respects “him” for it.

>Dantes: ”That recklessness, that purity, that greed! It is certainly worthy of ovation!”

Interestingly, he then gets a little hesitant because he says the enemy this time is formidable. He actually seems worried about you and your chances.

Anyhow, Jeanne has come out of hiding and teamed up with Amakusa (who is “that man” in case you have the reading comprehension of a first grader.) Dantes is still butthurt about her refusing to rage, she tries to “save his soul" again and he gets so fucking angry that he turns into his shadow fart form.

>Dantes:”DO NOT TALK TO ME ABOUT LOVE AND HATE, WOMAN! My black flame asks for no salvation! My malice shall spare none of those who dwell above ground! ‘Oh tyger, burning bright, go beyond love and hate!’ I am The King of the Cave - Monte Cristo! The shadow of the demon carved in human history! The eternal avenger!”

Scene immediately cuts back to Chaldea where the real Jeanne is going through another cliffnotes narration of Dantes’ story, finally saying his name out loud.

Cut back to the Chateau where Amakusa finally speaks up and tell Jeanne that it’s hopeless to try and reach Dantes with just words, but does point out himself that a guy who has known hell must also know the value of nobility, and then Dantes is like “No, shut up, I’m totally pure malice, stop poking holes in my chuuni delusions!”

Amakusa and Jeanne agree to team up to bully the chuuni nerd-I mean, try to save Dantes’ soul, commenting about how it feels weird to be on the same team for once. Meanwhile Edglordius Maximus is still going at it.

>Dantes: “The me from the paste was not granted The Lord’s salvation! Today, the personifications of The Lord’s salvation will be killed by my hands! ”

After the battle, the saint duo give their parting words. Amakusa says that Dantes’ “black flame” will consume him one day if he does not reconsider, Dantes replies that he is the eternal avenger, and Jeanne says that nothing is eternal, “especially evil.”

Anyway, Dantes tells them to piss off, albeit he pays them some slight amount of respect, saying that though he laughs at their God, he does not laugh at them (in the end, he respects the fact that neither succumbed to their assigned sin.) They both say they’ll pray for him and vanish. Dantes says you should go back to the cells since he’s tired for once, and the whole thing ends.


Aaaand that's it. I also have some interesting observations back from the main plot regarding some comments Roman and Leonardo made. Let me see if I can find the script to remember how that went.


>Dantes: “MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THE LONG-DESIRED REVENGE! THE HEIGHT OF JUSTIFIED RETRIBUTION!”
>Protagonist: “Those are your memories, Avenger.”
>Dantes: [Chilling down] “Pff. Don’t be impatient. Listen quietly while your elders are talking.”

Then goes on to the part where he regained his humanity and went off to live with his beloved mistress.

>Protagonist: “That story, where did I…?”
>Dantes: “Right? Due to the work of an ill-natured author, the story spread far and wide. The man’s life became a story, or possibly the story crossed paths with the man…. At any rate, the story was widely acclaimed, aroused the imagination of countless people, and the man rose to become a legend of revenge.”

Basically, due to the fame of the story, the man ended up recorded in the Throne as the twisted version of himself, sorta like Vlad.

Nightingale shows up. She still doesn’t have her own memories, but understands who and what Avenger is, and says that he is something that should not exist in the world. She says she has no power, but that there are those willing to lend their strength to her. A bunch of shadows appear, which are apparently innocent, benign fragments of longing spirits, and they offer her their strength.

Avenger is pretty amused by “the woman who is loved even by the souls of the dead” and declares that her will is probably even greater than that of the Holy Woman (Jeanne probably.)

>Dantes: [Evil Shadow Fart Mode] “…but a spirit without malice is as nothing but a light breeze!”

Then the battle starts.

One more chunk left:

Nightingale enters your room at Chaldea (yes, Chaldea) and says that she was originally the Seventh Ruler of Judgement (this is the name given to each Sin-representative, don’t start wanking anything about the Ruler Class.) For some reason she lost that role, along with her memories.

Back in the Chateau, Dantes is gloating over winning, and Nightingale says that she will pray for his road to be graced by light, then says his real name before vanishing.
Dantes then starts losing his shit.

>Dantes: “That was a pathetic man imprisoned over a blameless crime! He moved beyond his hatred hate through a love that might be called a miracle! That is the name of a man who was saved! I am not that man! I am Avenger, the eternal seeker of vengeance!

Then he cools down and says that his role, and that of the chateau, is over, but that only one person will be allowed to escape from the Chateau.

>Protagonist: “I imagined it’d be something like this.”
>Dantes: “Prepare yourself, my temporary Master. Obviously, I have no intention to rot in this place after I finally managed to return to this world. You shall be as a second Abbé Faria, and I will live once again. Your story is over, it is as simple as that. But…!”
>Evil Fart Mode Dantes: “…If you would still clamour to continue your struggle! If you have not yet lost all hope! KILL ME! The one worthy to rule over revenge as its God! The Incarnation of Pride! The Ruler of the Seventh Judgement! For the sake of saving the world, come at me without restraint!”

Dantes is pretty cheery about having lost and congratulates you all around. He explains that Solomon didn’t let you go when he met you in London, but rather cursed you simply by looking at you, and that this was the result of that curse.

>Dantes: “But… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! The result is as you see it, too bad King of Magic!”

In short, he was just fulfilling the role Solomon gave him, but he’s pretty fucking happy it didn’t work and calls Solomon a moron for having chosen him for it. He tells you to escape the prison, and that one day you will save the world. You ask him if he will disappear forever, and he says that if you wish to meet him again, then…

>Dantes: “Wait and hope.”

You wake up in Chaldea and Mashu and Roman are happy you’re okay.

That’s all folks.