NRC student · 1y
Thinking about fairy gala IF recently since I believe it's coming up in eng servers and wondering if there's a deeper meaning into Ace being chosen other than his slight of hand tricks.
"Evolution" as a theme does feel a bit awkward so it might change into something like "transformation/transformative" to better align with the infiltration team (Ortho taking the reins of his gala design, Jack and his UM but also slowly expanding his friend circle and putting up less of a lone wolf act, and Silver (and perhaps Yuu) being future key players in improving human-fae relations).
Whenever I think of Ace's potential UM, it always lands at shapeshifting other people (think Camilo from Encanto) and since we know he imitates other students' voices in his voice lines, I think he will shapeshift as his UM, but his voice will remain the same and he has to rely on his skill and observation to completely fool someone into thinking that he's who he's walking around as. This would mirror Deuce's UM, I believe
Deuce's UM - him lasting enough hits and hit the enemy with a single hit, it's reliable and he's bound to have get good hit in before he gets knocked out.
Ace with this UM - a lot more finicky, it's over if he messes up, it drains his magic the longer he keeps the form up.
- Elta
I'm so sorry for the late response Elta!!! I hope I didn't make you wait too long...😭❤️
BUT THIS IS ALSO SO INTERESTING TO CONSIDER!! Ace has always been good at mimicry and lying. It's already stated in canon that those are one of his natural skills as a person! We learn that through various scenarios in his card stories, events, and main story! I also found it very odd when I noticed that the theme of Fairy Gala IF is evolution with characters like Jack, Ace, Silver, and Ortho! We don't know if Ortho is capable of developing his own UM, but I would like to think he can! But Ace is the character who has been with us for the longest time and we haven't seen him manifest his UM. But I feel like his UM can possibly click with the concept of "deception" or even perhaps "copying/duplication"!
The concept of his UM centering around deception has so much potential! Like, maybe his UM can be shape-shifting or illusions considering Ace can also do magic tricks which involves deception! I think shapeshifting would also be a very fun UM to use since we haven't found someone who could do that! We've seen Cater use his clones to pretend to be the Diasomnia students back in Book 2, but those were still Cater clones! If it's possible for Ace to shapeshift, it would definitely be fascinating! But I also think that Ace having the ability to replicate people's UM or even steal their UM would be INCREDIBLY OP!! If his UM functions that way, he and Deuce would be an UNSTOPPABLE DUO and I think it could also still make them mirror each other's UM!
