Queen of Escalation is a title we gave her as a community. Taylor herself escalated out of necessity and by making the hard decisions when no one else wanted to.
Resolver - related to her actions in Gold Morning: specifically related to how she psychologically broke Scion through illusions of Eden that broke his will enough for her to finally be defeated. "Last Recourse" - her final conversation with Contessa where she was put out of her misery with two bullets to the brain. Also - Noble Phantasms are explicitly the "Crystallization of Myth/Story" - and take forms that are indicative of their story or represent them. Jeanne's final noble phantasm literally has her recreate her burning - she didn't need a pyre, did she?
Ananke - Representative of the Tinker Superweapon and Foil's attack that put him down after his will was broken. Taylor never hit the final strike - "I never pulled the trigger - but I made it happen."
Tactics of the Mastermind - represents her ability to turn useless things into powerful things. Her own power, as an example, she herself saw as useless until she mastered it. Pepper spray, her baton, and the few times she did use a gun. This is not representative of her tactics in combat, but a unique skill closer to Knight of Owner - but showing her ability to imbue the ordinary tools with the power of something greater. The skill you are thinking of is Tactician's Advice - and is not related to what the skill describes.
She Was There (She Was Forgotten) - related to how Dinah predicted Taylor to be instrumental in the End of the World as she was able to predict it. Wildbow himself stated that Dinah visited Taylor in hospital during her coma to confirm after she got her powers. She was Forgotten - she is never explicitly named in Ward, bar a few occasions in, but capes in general refuse to say her name. They refer to her as a nameless cape. Victoria's perspective, can't remember the exact chapter. Similar to Jack Slash, in that regard - the old monsters? People wanted to forget them.
Magna Carta - related to the lore I have for her post her ascension. I will not go into it here - but as a side note, Shirou Emiya is considered to have a decent set of 27 circuits that atrophied due to his prior training and is also considered middling at all magecraft except his specialties. EMIYA's canon magic stat is B. It represents one's magical capacity - not their capacity to command magic.
Defiance of Expectation - Related to her ability to survive impossible odds and specifically because it was noted in canon that she should never be told the odds. This is most strongly reflected in her conversation with Armsmaster and Dragon, after Tagg revealed her identity. Yes, other characters should have it - and they do. It's called a Luck Stat.
Lawful Neutral (True Neutral) - Chaotic Neutral implies an adherence to a personal moral philosophy that takes precedence over all other things and a chaotic element that leaves one as likely to do things of both lawful or chaotic alignment without prediction or cause, driven solely by want. Taylor does not start as against authority - and in fact is deeply taken by Armsmaster the first time she meets him. Her initial joining of the undersiders was a way of her proving herself to Armsmaster - and a way of her fulfilling her own self worth. Her distrust of authority is often overblown in fanon, which I assume is where you're getting all of this from - as she allies herself and works with various factions and structures all throughout the story. In fact, the willingness she shows to work with others in regards to an end-goal is enigmatic of the biggest problem that lead to her becoming Khepri in the first place: No one wanted to work together. She is also a highly structured person - and her own power is an absolute power of authority over lower lifeforms. Even her killing of Alexandria and Aster were circumstantial - one was an accident, and the other was a choice. Do with that information what you will.
"Being a modern person and intentionally forgotten by time (no lasting legacy or memory), should not be that powerful in general, even if her deeds were great" - this is often overlooked by people, but a Servant does not need to be known to be powerful. The weight of a legend is equal to the deeds in the myth. Akasha records you, or you create a contract with either Gaia or Alaya to become a part of the Counter Force. You get a boost from your notoriety, your notoriety is not your power. Age is a factor - not a decider. The reason why modern servants are considered weaker has nothing to do with age - it has everything to do with capability and their abilities in life. Mystery has been reduced over time - and technology is more abundant. Becoming a servant in the modern age does not mean you are weaker - it means you are less likely to be as strong as those closer to the age of myth.
If you need any more clarification, feel free to ask. Otherwise, if you don't like it? Don't read it. If you would like a recommendation- might I suggest Worm? It's an excellent read.
Ah - you were technically correct on one point: Akasha does not explicitly have a will, since it is source of all things. That is technically correct. Here's the fix: "Granted to her by the Root in honor of her incessant ability to orchestrate the death of That Which (Was Believed) To Not Be Killed." - "Represents her incessant ability to orchestrate the death of That Which Is Not Killable." Needed to update that spelling error, so thanks for that reminder!
Your reasoning for these skills and NPs are hilariously thin and misunderstands what NPs are (crystallization of a legend), even if it doesn't need to be literal, it sure needs to be a major component of her legend. If it was something about her was fighting Leviathan, it'd make sense, because everyone witnessed it, while her final resolution was witnessed by no one other than Contessa, and so it would NEVER become a NP. No Servant in existence got a random spear awarded by the fucking root after becoming a Servant (fucking lol).
The point is that they reflect what they were known to do, not what they actually did, and certainly not with that degree of minutia especially for someone damnatio (if you have more than a few class skills and a couple NPs, you're doing it wrong, you're also doing it wrong if they're all ranked A+ and she's not either non-human or a past human), barring a direct contract with Alaya. Modern heroes are weak, Taylor, or her equipment has no inherent Mystery and was otherwise a normal modern human with a special ability, she's not even a brute. She would not have any mana, for obvious reasons (e.g. iirc Billy the Kid has no mana, she would not either). In Fate, modern humans are inherently massively inferior to AoH/AoG normal people, average capabilities are inversely proportional to numbers, so her starting point is far lower than a mere peasant in Artoria's rime. There's a reason why Archer, even under an extremely good master like Rin has garbage stats.
Like, I haven't seen a worse fitting servant sheet for Taylor, ever.
On Billy the Kid: https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Billy_the_Kid
"...The Noble Phantasm itself, but rather Billy's marksmanship with the revolver, making closer to being a Personal Skill, only requiring magical energy equal to a Rank E Noble Phantasm..."
Mana on the official page: E.
To the best of my knowledge, no Servant has a Magic rank of Null. If it is sealed? That is a different story.
On someone having to know what happened or have it be broadly shared to become a noble phantasm: This is just straight wrong. The easiest example would be EMIYA's Unlimited Blade Works. Unlimited Blade Works is ranked as a Noble Phantasm, but it's really a personal magecraft and bounded field that can be deployed. Voyager has Noble Phantasms - and it's a robot floating in space. Noble Phantasms are conceptual - not based on knowledge or renown. Excalibur was used against the White Titan, it is a Last Phantasm, and barely anyone in universe knows that. Alaya does. Gaia does. Akasha does.
Taylor's base stats are ranked as average. About the only thing she has higher than EMIYA is her strength and her agility - and that is only by a single rank for strength - and a singular plus modifier for agility. EMIYA is stated to have average and below average stats for a servant on multiple occasions - that doesn't make him a weak one.
https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/EMIYA_(Archer)
Also - servant stats are not completely representative of their human selves. It is stated, on multiple occasions, that servants are more powerful than their default human forms from which their Saint Graphs are based. Jeanne did not have her stats. Billy the Kid did not have his. Shakespeare did not have his. Stats are representational for the games - not representational of capability or capacity.
Yes - she's weaker compared to someone from the Age of Heroes. The Age of Heroes, however, was not dominated by people with extreme strength in abundance. Mystery hadn't settled yet - so greater possibility was allowed. Gilgamesh is the one that set the divide into motion - and magecraft was stronger then because less people used it. That's how magecraft works - the more people who know it? The less of a mystery it is. That's the canon reason why mages are so protective of their spells and knowledge.
If you dropped a modern human, into the age of gods? yes - their base stats are going to be weaker. Know what else would be different? Their magecraft. If a spell was developed later than the point they landed? They would be the only one's who know it.
And if you don't like it? I don't care. You're wrong on almost every point - correct in theoretical technicality on maybe two, with massive asterisks attached - and you're resorting to insults because you have the will to argue and none of the temperament of wit.
If you have an actual, factual claim with sources? Please, bring them forward. I do not mind being wrong - but I refuse to let you influence my story. You want one that suits your tastes?
Go and write one. Thank you for comments, your opinions, and for correcting me on the Alaya point- but please, and I say this kindly and with the utmost disrespect - take your eyes else were, and your words to the moon.
For anyone reading this - feel free to disagree with me. Feel free to even insult me creatively, if you want. If I get something wrong - feel free to point it out. But try to not be a dick.
There is a difference between criticism and flaming. If you have a question? Even better - feel free to ask. I'll answer them as best I can
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