Same reason you can't app someone like Caesar, because there's a canon incarnation.

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But what about these two?
This has been bothering me for a while now.

We still have some basis for that clash. There's a semi-canon incarnation of Musashi with information that's questionable at best. Same reason you can't app someone like Caesar, because there's a canon incarnation.

Besides that, I don't think you'd like the edits that would need to be made, given, the fact that one skill's basically a weaker Knight of Honor which has no business being a skill, another is very vague and feels like a metagame justification more related to a fanfiction plot than an RP, the combat stats are so much better than Not!Kojiro's that it's not even funny, and the weapon is referred to as an "NP".

Since he's not a proper feature in Koha-Ace, I'll allow it, but you'll still need some heavy changes.

Also also, it says right in the ban-list that the ban on Eastern heroes has been lifted.

It's also not "obvious" to me why the Koha-Ace servants are banned, let alone someone with no existing stats or skills in the first place. Doubly so if I didn't base this app on the non-canon background character we know nothing about.

Servants that are functionally just clones of canon Servants: Originality.

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By the way, everyone, according to KOHA-ACE, the cult's identity is a very interesting one.

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Okay.

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You're going to have to be more specific on those changes. Also I'm keeping Book of Water. I wouldn't be doing Musashi justice if I didn't have this skill.

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But what about these two?
This has been bothering me for a while now.

hat said, non canon variants of a canon servant would be accepted, right? I mean things like Archer Heracles, or Saber Diarmuid would have they been game, 'cause I feel it's a fair point

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Yes. You can app Iskander, but if you app an Iskander clone then that's dumb.

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I don't know if "Book of Water" is referring to "Book of Five Rings" or "Like Water".

If it's the former, you can keep it so long as it's properly codified. If the latter, you'll have to remove it or change it heavily if you want to be approved.

Parameters need heavy nerfing. I'm talking C for STR/END at best, based on not!Kojiro. The weapons section shouldn't call his weapons NPs when they're not.

So to clarify, playing a character that's literally a carbon copy of a servant is allowed, but playing a character that is figuratively a carbon copy is not?

And on the other skill, Book of Five Rings is a skill that lets him hold his own against NPs provided he has prep time.
It ties into his real-life historical habit of exploiting weaknesses in enemy techniques and weapons, and also he wrote a book of how if he caught you doing this he'd kick your ass.

His combat stats being higher than Kojiro's makes sense because, historically, he beat Kojiro in two hits with a stick.
The high strength especially makes sense. Katanas are heavy swords, and Musashi used his one-handed to develop his dual-wielding style. Moreover, he's historically described as being physically very large. I recall his height being listed as something like six feet, which was tall for a Westerner, let alone a Japanese.

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Actually it refers to "Like Water". I don't get why it wouldn't be allowed, since it's essentially a weaker version of Knight of Honor, with a title that suits Musashi.

So to clarify, playing a character that's literally a carbon copy of a servant is allowed, but playing a character that is figuratively a carbon copy is not?

If I may offer my thoughts on the matter.

Dracula has been depicted differently in certain materials even when summoned as the same class (see: Extra Drac as opposed to Apocrypha Drac), so variants of Servants seem to be within the realm of possibility.

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That's because Romania summon vs non-Romania summon. Vlad's explicitly stated to be special like that.