I know okay, I get it. Everything went wrong at the end of fate zero because Angra Mainyu was summoned in the previous grail war and corrupted the grail and bla bla bla.
But hear me out!
Fate zero as a whole works better thematically if the reason for all of it going so wrong was because Diarmuid cursed the grail and everyone involved on his way out, because it would technically be Kiritsugu’s fault. Kiritsugu spent the entire war doing horrible things to take out the competition. Saber calls him out on this after all of team lancer is killed and that pushes the story of Kiritsugu realizing how he gave up all of his humanity to achieve his goals and sacrificed everyone he loved to get there when the goal wasn’t even achievable to begin with.
Plus Diarmuid isn’t entirely human and if you know anything about Fae and Irish gods, you DO NOT want to be cursed by one cause it will seriously mess you up. The ending of the grail war going wrong being because Diarmuid cursed it makes the most sense when you watch fate zero because they never once mention the grail already being corrupted in the show.
And like, I know NOW that it’s because of avenger being summoned in the previous war, but how would someone who has never played fate stay night or watched the heavens feel movies know that? Just let Diarmuid take credit. It makes Kiritsugu’s story more tragic and brings the overall theme of characters in fate zero leading themselves head first into their fates and deaths full circle.
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How funny would it be if in a fate story a mage tracked down a relic for a specific hero summon just to find out once they do the ritual and get the wrong person that the relic had been misidentified by archaeologists.
I can just picture Kiritsugu giving Iri a ten minute lecture about how he got the scabbard of Excalibur and how they can use it to summon king Arthur who will easily win the grail war for them and also legend says that it has healing abilities that can help her with her whole turning into a cup problem, and “don’t worry I have this whole thing planned out”, and then he does the ritual and some big buff male knight shows up so he is like “hello king Arthur” and the knight looks at him with a funny face and laughs
“King Arthur? My name is Gawain. Oh cool! You guys found my scabbard!”
Iri is like “so does this mean I’m not getting any help about the whole turning into a cup thing?
And Kiritsugu is plotting out 500 ways to murder the mage family relic dealer who tracked down “king Arthur’s” scabbard that he built his entire grail war plan around.
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Kiritsugu is so babygirl, I can't forget his birthday
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