#Mad’s FGO

[madillhethen]

The thing I really love about Yu Mei-Ren is that no one expects her to be any foil/parallel to Archer/Shirou because it’s just not obvious. She’s not made to be the obvious foil like Gilgamesh to Emiya, or the half foil/parallel of Cu to Archer, or even the obvious reminiscence that Saber is to Archer. People think Yu Mei-Ren is just a True Ancestor so in love with her husband and that’s her motivation, and no one would connect that to Archer/Shirou because there’s no direct conflict to pit the other against another.

But this Chaldea’s Thriller Night lays it out pretty well that she does contain something you can relate to Archer/Shirou. Not only do both Emiya and her take a well-deserve center stage in this event but Emiya also shows up in her interlude. Before I thought it was a bit random of why any character he should show up in her interlude.

It got me thinking after she says this in the event.

In UBW, Shirou confronts is ideals/dream head on and despite the path it led Archer down, he decides he was going to go down it all the same. Stardust is a theme that is pretty much associated with Archer. He’s not the starlight that Saber is, the star that Shirou hopes to become, he’s the aftermath of what the ideal truly is, destroyed and broken—he’s stardust.

Yu Mei-Ren refers to herself as stardust because she is no longer how she used to be—an elemental spirit in love who lost her husband and wandered for thousands of years, wishing for death and lamenting. She’s only gotten back what she’s lost, and even as the stardust, she presses on which at the end of UBW Archer does too after having his Hope renewed.

The foil/parallel I see it as that she is an elemental spirit who wished nothing to do with humanity and Archer a man who wanted to save humanity, both fought for some survival of themselves and eventually lost the things they wanted to keep (his ideal; her husband). Both trapped in an endless cycle of pain, him constantly killing as a CG and her constantly being killed and hunted by humanity.

On a slightly different note, throughout the event despite numerous warnings, Yu Mei-Ren keeps dying which is more comical in the event, and because she’s immortal, it gets brushed off. In a similar light, Shirou is constantly wounded nearly mortally many times throughout each routes, but thanks to Saber’s sheath, he comes back as if nothing happens. During the Zombie Movie Segmant, Yu Mei-Ren risks her life to save the others and willingly let’s herself die (only to come back in a comedic way later) but her resolve reminded me of how Shirou fully accepts Archer’s Arm in Heaven’s Feel and decides to face Heracles (a mindless servant at that point like the zombies).

Towards the end of the event, Xu Fu wants to give Yu Mei-Ren death, what she wanted so long ago because that’s the way to end her suffering. But Yu Mei-Ren refuses, and accepts the fact her path may very well end up suffering again and she may go on, angry at her past self (sounds familiar? Archer is literally that.)

Regardless of it, Yu Mei-Ren decides the path she has now, the happiness she has found, is worth it. Like Shirou decided that his dream isn’t wrong, he would continue down that path.

Of course, there’s a segment where she is fighting her doppelgänger but gives up, and makes a reference to UBW of Archer’s own conflict to Shirou, which Archer is visibly pained by.

Even if her choices to not die will come to haunt her later, she accepts that her choice now and before (this event tries not to spoiler LB3 but you can connect the dots) to be reunited with her husband are not wrong.

Which I really loved this event for touching upon these subjects, and having Emiya being such a delight during it all. His story was already told but he gets to still be a guiding figure in an event that reminiscences his own arc.

#Mad’s Fate #fate grand order #fgo #emiya #archer emiya #heroic spirit emiya #Shirou emiya #yu mei ren #Chaldea’s thriller night #summer camp #i feel I could’ve worded this better #it just had me thinking #there’s also stuff you can relate to the dreams and illusions section with Kiara but i wanted to talk specifically about Yu #i swear I’ll just be writing ten different analyses of how different characters relate to Shirou/Archer #someone once said they would write a Bedivere/Shirou analysis and I’ve no idea if they did but I want to read it #one day I will compile a whole a essay on the Three Knights + Gil #i still need to do my Medusa one #I’m just relating everything back to Archer because he’s my favorite and y’all get to see what goes in my brain #mad’s fgo #but I swear I love this event so much it was really well done imo

[mako-neexu]

ok so another family member gets inserted probably to be killed again which is scathach. so now guda has her as an aunt living with them as their guardian.

they go back to the mirror and think about this fact- that someone sent a replacement to probably break guda again so of course guda wont let that happen. and then apparently this isnt monologue?? damn unreliable narrator considering theres the "anata/watashi" going on still. also guda does say 'shut up" to their own thoughts like.... theyre going crazy lol 😭 plus the bloodlust is insane. "I don't have time to talk to anybody." "I don't have time to sit around the table and play family." they need to kill the perpetrator and you can see how their head(?) is chanting KILL KILL KILL in the texts kjsbvkjsffjdbk

#guda #BRO IS GOING MAD!!!! #save them lol #fate grand order #fgo spoilers

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

indian servant art from fate/dream striker

#official art #arjuna #karna #rama #parvati #kama #ashwatthama #jinako carigiri #lakshmi bai #nemo #vritra #bhima #duryodhana #durga #arjuna alter #fgo #im not mad its one off from being able to be 3 in a row on all sides...nope... #why is durga just standing there lol #also f to jinako never getting her face drawn

[figurecollection]

Avenger (Nitocris Alter) Garage Kit by Mad Hands, from Fate/Grand Order

#avenger #nitocris #nitocris alter #garage kit #mad hands #fate/grand order #fate #fgo #2023 #action #anime figure #anime figures #anime #figure #figures #figurine #figurines

[dailyfatefigures]

Koyanskaya - 1/12 Scale by Mad Hands

#mad hands #1/12 scale #koyanskaya #koyanskaya of light #anime figure #figure collecting #fate #fate series #fate grand order #fgo #fate go #garage kit

[vennyriz22]

Get Plushied Idiot

#for the record She’s BIG MAD #fate grand order #fgo #venny's art #gudako #ritsuka fujimaru #delinquent gudako au #female ritsuka fujimaru #fate series

[meerability]

Hahah what do you mean kama is a pseudoservant hhahhah that’s so funny you’re such a joker teehee!!!!! (sobbing)

#I love him dearly #He’s so eepy #I actually just found out recently that he has kids #He’s so awesome #kama #kamadeva #kama fgo #fgo #fgo fanart #fate fanart #fate #don’t attack me for his skin because frankly I will be mad and a little bit sad #let a girl (non-binary teenager) dream #my art

[zeravmeta]

love how kama is the one whose always calling out fate jargon bullshit. "no actually it doesn't make sense just because you stretched 'it's magic' into several paragraphs of exposition for people to pick apart and connect to 4 other spinoffs as canon". she never got over ooku huh

#zerav meme #fgo #fate grand order #i love kama. also love to see her get mad and be a little hater

[picaroroboto]

I hear the JP summer event is just ServaFes...2! but with LB6 characters this time

#fgo #fate/grand order #gudako #oberon vortigern #digital #doodle #hoping the event will play with the Themes of Oberon (guy who is mad about stories) #now getting to interact with fandom culture (people who are all kinds of weird about stories)

[catgirlhell]

honkai impact knights company Grand order hey have you played this game this new game with cool writing and characters it's so good it's soooooooo good it's a slot machine with snow-pale anime girl jpegs look this one's name is Cahokia Ashanti and she's a himejoshi gay rep good

#honkai impact #genshin impact #arknights #limbus company #fgo #fuck it I'm mad pvp enabled

[madillhethen]

Sigurd and Emiya have really taken center stage in this event, and it’s so great. Emiya really is like the perfect big brother/guardian figure, and Yu Mei-Ren’s constant comments of ‘you really can do anything, huh?’ Is just a representation of all us fans.

But Tomoe has been an amazing character in this event too. The constant references to video games is delightful, maybe because I have watched/played my fair share of horror games, and seeing her being so excited is really cute.

Sigurd is great since LB2 didn’t explore a lot of him beyond being Surtr’s puppet until the ending so it’s nice to see him even in a comical light. He’s a joy because he doubles as both that father figure and the reasonable guidance during the events but also because he’s the horny teenage couple in the horror movies who keeps trying to find any way to spend time with his wife 😂.

#fate grand order #fgo #emiya #archer emiya #heroic spirit emiya #tomoe gozen #Sigurd #that said I am truly loving this event #there are times where it’s not all that great but the character interactions have carried it #summer camp #Chaldea’s thriller night #i recommend if anyone has skipped to farm easier for items to go back and read the entire event #Emiya gets a shorter paragraph here because y’all will see me fan over him in my posts lol #Mad’s FGO

[mako-neexu]

"this man is at fault"

the guy in question:

#fgo #fate grand order #romani archaman #i am so mad today ahaha

[littlefoxwarrior]

Drew some FGO Berserker fan art!!! For getting him to bond 11

#fgo fanart #heracles fate #i like how it came out so i decided to turn it unti s fake ce lol #i dunno fun a gag effect for it #like ummm special damage against madness enchanted enemies lol

[starconch-e]

Junao doodle bc yee

#my art #fanart #conches art #conche’s scrunkles #arjuna alter #fgo arjuna #fgo art #just pretend that his chest and waist ortiments are fully rendered… #they were drivin me a smidge mad #I love him anyways #he’s also the servant that I’ve drawn the most of #even more than kidu which is a huge shocker on my part

[dailyfatefigures]

Caenis - 1/12 Scale by Mad Hands

#caenis #mad hands #1/12 scale #anime figure #figure collecting #fate #fate series #fate grand order #fgo #fate go #garage kit

[lanymme]

bro i just remembered the most amazing fgo blackbeard fic, the kind that raise your like, neuron activation about a character by two full tiers because whoever wrote it is clearly an Understander.

It had this absolutely top-tier banter and this really unique and compelling image of his worldview and then I woke up and realized IT WAS A FUCKING DREAM and my like, review of it was ALSO a dream. and I forgot its contents immediately.

IM SO PISSED

#fic recs #yeah ao3 is pretty good but what about the stories written in the ever-shifting sand of my dreamscape #not particularly good archival material #im mad as fuck because i want to read that fic!! but it literally does not exist externally that's so fucking sad #fgo #blackbeard