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?

Yes, spreading democracy throughout the galaxy is a righteous and all never ending task. Keep spreading the good word soldier and remember Super Earth High Command thanks you for your service and eventual sacrifice for the cause.

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.

Lucifer gives off main protagonist vibes way more than the actual mc. lol

This is feeling more like DXD rather than DC.

he already published a manga under his actual name

There is literally no point on a pen name. If any magus really wants to investigate who who wrote the manga then a pen name wouldn't be able to serve even as a small roadblock. If anything publishing a fate manga in fate would ultimately be a sure death sentence to not only the author but also the publisher and anyone working there. Also, Tokiomi would never agree to allow the MC to publish that story. Even if it were altered/censored to a degree the Mage Association has a strict zero tolerance secrecy policy. If they found out he consented to have that manga published and didn't do anything to stop it or report it to the Clock Tower it would be his neck on the line. This entire plotline is not only dumb but also would literally never happen especially on a "realistic" in universe context. Someone in a previous paragraph had hinted that maybe the story was in line for a jojo-esque tragedy where the main protagonist doesn't win in the end. I wasn't on the same boat at first. Now, I am but for all the wrong reasons. In jojo you're rooting for the main protagonist to win and have a happy ending but through good writing you come to accept that in certain situations even if you do everything right sometimes you just lose and that's just the world for ya. Here the main protagonist takes so many brain dead a course of action that the only logical outcome is for Darwin to take this poor oblivious fool into his loving embrace.

Okay at this point it's practically confirmed to the point where I'm starting to consider whether the MC is mentally impaired or not.

imouto instinct

Oh, did the MC tell this to you in person? Because if he did then I apologize. The rest of the readers and I can only go by what's written in the paragraph/chapter. I'm currently at the eight step of unlocking my ability to view into other realities to be able to properly fact check the novels that I read. I'm still not able to tell how accurate the novel adaptation is to what happened in real life.😃

Everyone knows the good guys only kill the men that are trying to kill them.

One of the most basic abilities given by force sensitivity is danger sense and minor precognition. The force quite literally leads them towards the best case scenario to themselves in a fight whether they are aware of it or not. If someone took two regular untrained people to a shooting range and one of them is force sensitive the one able to use the force will always outperform someone who isn't sensitive because the force will literally lead them to the target. Finn being able to somewhat stand his ground isn't that surprising as he was also trained as a trooper on top of being a force sensitive.

If regular pieces weren't enough she wouldn't have moved on to just try to use the pawns for him because mutation pieces exist. If the person being reincarnated is talented/powerful enough regular pieces mutate and become stronger than a regular evil piece. Something devils in general find extremely desirable. A bishop mutated evil piece would've always been more desirable for a mage than something like a pawn so Rias would've never done that logic wise. Unless she was already somehow planning to use a pawn piece for a mage which would've been dumb and she wouldn't have had that little internal monologue in the first place. People always find the dumbest and low effort ways to kill of Issei in their in their novels.

True, if your close friends are in mortal peril you should just abandon them.

Wait... how would he transfer his consciousness back to his own body when a vampire's body inherently doesn't possess any magic to do the spell with?