Talk:Halloween 2016 Event/@comment-49.150.16.104-20161025050755/@comment-91.44.95.181-20161025171211

Well, I could play the history teacher card, but I admit that makes me no expert anyway. I just have a thing for classic antiquity and especially Rome. Why the battle of Pharsalus was on my mind so much was however due to a (absolutely excellent) docutainment show I watched years ago, which despite limited budget managed to get across the essence of that battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgDf5_pgBo

It also had with Michael Sheen the best Nero I have ever seen and I would wish that this genderbent moron here would come anywhere close to his complexity.

Anyway, never heard of Caesar being linked to the spear of Longinus though. I know, Fate sometimes uses really obscure tangents, but then why would Saber Caesar know he can be a Lancer when his NP is something he never owned in the first place? For that matter, wouldn't Longinus himself qualify far more then? His summoning would be kinda hilarious: "I'm just some grunt who accidentally stabbed some guy hanging on a cross and people kept bothering me about it. Guess that now makes me a Saint or a Heroic Spirit or whatever. What a bother... and why does my spear look like an oversized fork now? Stupid Orientals..."

Going back to Caesar, before I knew how Grand Order would treat him, I actually thought about implementing him as a Servant in my Sixth Grail War Fic. His NP would have been similar to Iskandar's, summoning his legions to fight once more at his side, simply because I really wanted him and Iskandar to duke it out, considering how much Caesar hero-worshipped Alexander and his ambition was to stem from comparing himself to his idol. I thought that would be really awesome, even though it has little to do with spears.