#Takechi Zuizan (FGO)

[yee-art]

YMCA in SAITAMA

[nero-draco]

I think letting a ghost possess you on purpose so you can kill it together along with yourself by performing harakiri is pretty metal.

[devowostation]

GG8 Theories!

With Gudaguda 8 coming within the week, I thought I'd post some of my theories as to who may be summonable! I'll only be using characters we KNOW exist in Fate currently because there ain't no way I'm predicting bitches that aren't even mentioned yet.

SABER, TOYOTOMI HIDEYOSHI (Monkey has been mentioned pretty consistently throughout the Gudaguda Events; Hell, last Gudaguda had his misdeeds as Regent as one of the main driving forces of the story even *happening.* He's the Second of the Three Unifiers, and already has a kit in lore. All that remains is actually adding him.)

AVENGER, YODO-DONO (The Adult Form of Chacha! She's also been hyped up since Chacha's introduction, and had a near-appearance in GG7. We have an idea of her personality thinks to Chacha's Materials, and know that she's dangerous enough to drive Chacha to actively try to AVOID becoming her.)

PRETENDER, IEYASU TOKUGAWA (The Third of the Three Unifiers; He has no CANON class, but since his ability in Koha-Ace was hotswapping between all 7 Main Classes, Pretender seems like the most realistic option. He's not AS likely as the first two, but it's a pretty safe assumption that all 3 Unifiers are gonna get in the game eventually.)

BERSERKER, SHIBATA KATSUIE (please.)

ARCHER/CASTER, MITSUHIDE AKECHI (He's been in NPC Jail since year 1; I may not be his biggest fan, but like...how are they gonna keep dragging it out?)

ASSASSIN, TAKECHI ZUIZAN (He, like Izo, made a HUGE splash in the fanbase. I admittedly don't know him as well as I know the Sengoku characters...The less NPCs, the better, no?)

[thegoodthegrandandtheugly]

[animegirlsakurablr]

Shenanigans in the Grand Order, part 610

She wasn't kidding with that.

Hold on, need to check something.

Oh, so it is tuberculosis.

:'(

;_;

...

Say it with me: the gacha game is going to make me cry!

LOOK AT THEM!!!

Ama-no-Sakagami: I have a new body, and I'll continue to live!

Takechi: Think again, bitch. *proceeds to commit seppuku*

He is going to have a time finding out that in several series he's gender-bended.

[kiwikipedia]

Personally think Zuizan is goofy

[300iqprower]

(2023's FGO Famitsu polls, final)

>Most wanted 5* Servants: 1. Scathach-Skadi (Ruler) 2. Tezcatlipoca 3. Sodom's Beast/Draco 4. Oberon 5. Archetype: Earth 6. Morgan 7. Ashiya Douman 8. Durga 9. Melusine 10. Muramasa

>Most requested male swimsuit Servants: 1. Oberon 2. Muramasa 3. Cu Chulainn (Lancer) 4. Saitou Hajime 5. Taigong Wang 6. Charlemagne 7. Enkidu 8 (tied). Nemo 8 (tied). Arthur (Prototype) 10. Tezcatlipoca

>Most requested female swimsuit Servants: 1. Morgan 2. Ereshkigal 3. Artoria Caster 4. Van Gogh 5. Melusine 6. Baobhan Sith 7. Kriemhild 8. Archetype: Earth 9. Barghest 10. Yang Guifei

>Favorite NPCs: 1. Camazotz 2. Agravain 3. Goredolf Musik 4. Romani Archaman 5. Takechi Zuizan

Every single one of these lists except the last one is like looking at an aisle of wonderbread.

[am-euno]

head is spinning thinking about boys but like, fgo men kinda... 

main: https://twitter.com/am_euno

[koorinohebi]

I'm looking at my muses here, and there really is a theme on this blog. And that theme is betrayal. Which is really funny because I didn't even realize this up until last year when I added Hanpeita in my roster.

Betrayed her adoptive father when Lev Lainur offered her to work for him in trying to sabotage Chaldea.

Betrayed Lev because Chaldea was more interesting than his plans.

In her home verse which is Naruto, she betrays Orochimaru after becoming Jiraiya's pupil. But she also betrayed Konoha when she heard Orochimaru died... and went back to serving Kabuto while she does some soul searching.

Betrayed Nobunaga Oda.

Betrayed Kicho the moment he planned Nobunaga's downfall.

Zuizan used Okada Izo as an assassin for the Tosa Kinnoutou, but crossed his name out from the list of its members.

Left the aforementioned in Kyoto when he returned to Tosa.

Literally said in a letter that Izo was better off dead. Historically speaking, Takechi's pretty much an asshole when it comes to the Izo dynamic, but I can pretty much bend all that betrayal to benefit Izo.

There's some deviations to this one, but when Izo was captured, he was afraid that he would squeal and give into torture. So there are accounts where it's said that he devised a plan for the Kinnoutou to poison Izo. Which we have inklings in Izo's "Dislike" dialogue. (So you know, Fate lore wise, it's safe to assume the members of Tosa Kinnoutou tried to kill Izo by poisoning his vegetables. Which is why he hates strong smelling veggies.) Other accounts mentioned that he stopped the Kinnoutou from going through with that plan.

Literally working both fields at the moment.

Wanted to Nobunaga, thinking he can do that with his "Berserker Musashi". Let me laugh in your face, Magatsu.

Defected to Lu Bu after the whole Lu Boshe incident with Cao Cao. Would I consider this betrayal when the reason was Cao Cao's actions to start with?

Additionally:

I wouldn't say Serizawa did the betraying (but I could be wrong, I dont have enough info on him at the moment), when it's more of a... he was the one that got betrayed.

Well, there are theories of that at least... but one central theme to the theories of his assassination is due to him being rather violent and short tempered. He caused a lot of problems while leading the Mibu Roushigumi (Shinsengumi)...so you know, they just had to take him out.

BUT CAN I JUST SAY 🤝 TO THESE TWO FOR THEIR SHARED FEELINGS AND CONVICTIONS ABOUT SONNOU JOUI. THEY ARE GOING TO GET ALONG. THEY WILL. ONCE THEY START TALKING ABOUT BEING PRO-JAPAN. And they can also do art together. Takechi is really good at painting. Serizawa is really good at drawing. They are both called "sensei" by the people who respect them. Plus, I feel like they are both pretty good with kids as well.

[teatitty]

I found out who two of the new NPC’s are in FGO: the redhead is Takasugi Shinsaku, samurai of the Choshu domain, and I believe the guy in the suit is Takechi Zuizan aka Takechi Hanpeita, samurai of the Tosa han during the Bakamatsu period

There’s also another guy who is either Tanaka Shinbei or one of the other Hitokiri Shinbei who worked under/for Takechi Hanpeita. If the other NPC is Tanaka then irl Tanaka was known as the “captain of assassins” and killed the most people out of all the Hitokiri, including politicians such as Shimada Sakon, Ukyo Omokuni and Homma Seiichiro

[animegirlsakurablr]

Shenanigans in the Grand Order, part 609

I think he means in like planning than looks. 😅

Awwww! Izo!

Honey, half of what I go through wouldn't really qualify as "fun".

Old habits really do die hard, huh.

Anyway, good luck Ryouma!

Empathy, my man.

Fair enough.

Yeah, I really don't like that.

From years of backstabbing others to being backstapped. Welp, no one will mourn.

Shouldn't we have learned by now that, like, 4 or so LB Kings tried that and their places were far from ideal?

Either Takasugi is off his rocker, or he's the maddest lad ever.

Maybe some combination of both.

[animegirlsakurablr]

Shenanigans in the Grand Order, part 608

Wait, that's something that Izo prides himself on?

Nobunaga has become a candle (for no real reason).

Specifically evil mastermind.

Chacha has entered MAMA BEAR MODE!

Well.

... Was said husk from overseas?

Humans creating their own god?

Oh... Oh no...

Hasn't stop them before!

Yup! The very same one!

Mash should let loose more often. As a treat.

[animegirlsakurablr]

Shenanigans in the Grand Order, part 606

"Ray gun" my ass!

She didn't expect sympathy (and easily getting freedom).

Is it really that wild, though?

You're seriously not helping with calling yourself an evil mastermind.

Well, he's shown to be self aware and perhaps even considerate, like in the end of the fourth GudaGuda event, his Valentine's scene, and his Bond CE, so I'm not surprised by this.

Awwww, he does have a heart!

If you say so.

He's going to launch Mori (and Chacha) via fireworks.

("Fireworks" starts playing in the background)

[animegirlsakurablr]

Shenanigans in the Grand Order, part 607

I feel like this is some slight foreshadowing.

Oh. That explains why you said that monster can't change.

Called it!

Ohhhhhh...

That... happened.

And now he's possessed by the same thing that Chacha was!

Oh, you are just an asshole.

With how much you were calling yourself evil, I'm not surprised about this. But still.

Nooooooooo!

😭

[animegirlsakurablr]

Shenanigans in the Grand Order, part 605

That was a test?!

The audacity this man has!

Ohhhhhhhh... So this is why Izo hasn't been happy around Ryouma...

Because you wouldn't let him go? Maybe?

Once a Mori, always a Mori.

Wrong manslayer! Did you already forget what Izo looks like? 😭

That box has Nobu's head, doesn't it?

And the two Ryouma's finally meet.

Ohhhhh, that's not good!

This really isn't good!

We need to have her meet Asterios.

[koorinohebi]

A Desire for Devotion

Sometimes, I find it amusing that some servants on this blog would berate Kiomi for being so steadfast and loyal when it comes to Izo. It’s not like they’re doing it to make her feel bad either. Sure enough, people like Mitsuhide Akechi, Takechi Zuizan, and even Serizawa Kamo do not think much of the manslayer so they often wonder what he had that elicited that kind of commitment from their master…

…because they want that. Not his qualities, but the devotion of the master that’s constantly pining for him.

It’s not that they want love either. They can do without that, but they want loyalty; the kind that was denied of them when the only thing they did was do their job for the sake of their lords or for the land in general.

Coz see, in Akechi’s case, he felt like all his achievements were thrown aside when Hideyoshi came along. It felt like a slap in the face to him that as a senior general he had to back up some upstart hick. Nobunaga also berated him in public constantly, Nobunaga actually got his mother killed (some sources do say it was his aunt, but for this blog’s lore, I go with his mother), etc. So for someone who had dedicated his life and career to the Oda, all of this felt like an affront. Take note though that he could have taken all of this, if only the warlord didn’t show too much favoritism for the monkey.

Takechi who started out as a Goshi, well… those times were tough. Back in Tosa, even if you were the most loyal person to your domain lord, if you were Goshi, you’re treated very differently-- and this is still putting it lightly, you were treated like some kind of animal, insect, livestock-- you just weren’t human in the eyes of the higher ranking samurai known as the Joshi. Takechi who eventually rose up to the latter rank thanks to his accomplishments, still couldn’t escape the stigma of being a former lower ranking samurai. With his extremist ways, instead of getting the favor of Yamauchi Yodo, he incurred his ire and slow-burned planned his demise. And Takechi was the type of person who was so loyal that he’d take matters into his own hands (like the assassination of Toyou Yoshida), believing that that’s what’s going to be good for the domain and for Japan in general.

Now, I have very little on Serizawa so I’m just going to go by what I’ve seen from FGO and some snippets of history. So because of his character… which was negatively intense in a lot of levels (drinks too much, is super violent even in public, extorts people, etc), he was trying to usher in an age that would have been beneficial to Japan…to the point where he doesn’t mind playing the bad guy in order to do it. As someone who will do anything for his goals, he went with the more drastic approach which of course, garnered the attention either in the form of “he’s too dangerous to be kept alive” or “everything will fall apart if Serizawa continues to act the way he does”. So he just had to go. Of course, he’s painted as a villain, but if you’ll listen to Okita, Serizawa is not always like that. Even at the end of the first Yamatai event where he literally pushed Yamanami to where the rest of the Shinsengumi were and saying that he, Serizawa, alone had to be swallowed by the darkness-- reasoning with them his principles and why he didn’t need a Shinsengumi who was more akin to Kondou’s style of leadership. He’s a bad person, sure. But he’s accepted that-- and in that sentiment has accepted that the others chose Kondou over him.

So in this blog (and of course all of this is just my interpretation, you’re free to have your own, I just play them this way based on my analysis of what they could possibly want) they have lingering thoughts of “what if”. What if Nobunaga-sama chose me? What if Yodo-dono acknowledged me for more than just my previous status? What if I could have led the Shinsengumi to the potential that they truly deserve? These are just some of the things that go hand in hand with the question, “What if someone was loyal enough to me that they understood my cause? See where I’m coming from.”

And these three men right here actually had someone like this in their lives. Whether it be their wives, a concubine, their apprentices, their own retainers… maybe if those people were in position, or had a say in certain things, something could have changed for them. But of course, the past is in the past. Hoping for that was like a pipe dream, because these people got betrayed by the ones who they believed in the most.

So seeing a master like Kiomi who is rather indulgent, who doesn’t give a crap about whether they were traitors in the past or have a track record that would send them straight to hell is like watching something so fleeting within their grasp. And they want to monopolize it for themselves. Because while the past cannot be changed, the present which leads to the future can be. They are still holding onto something, and everyone, even servants still have things they want to fight for. These people wouldn’t have tried to change things upon being summoned as servants if their convictions werent hauntingly persistent. Which is why seeing their master’s devotion wasted on someone who didn’t seem to have any ambition feels like a huge stab to their egos.

Kiomi saying things like, “My life belongs to you”, “I will give you everything that I have”, is something that Kiomi tells her most trusted servants. It’s not just Izo (although it does mean different when it’s applied to him. You frequenters of my blog already know this). For example, the entire Guda Guda Oda Shogunate has her by the heart. She is literally going to die for them if she has to. Specially where @nobuverse is concerned, Kiomi doesn’t give a crap about the trauma or the phobia. She’s going to go to Nobunaga's aid even if she has to craw through burning coal just to do it.

Mitsuhide, Takechi, and Serizawa wants in on that.

They want this reckless abandon for reason, they want this obsessive need to be their support. They want her life, her convictions to revolve around them. To have something tangible that believes in them; that they’re right, that their struggle was worth something, that someone believes their goals, their strife had some value; that they didn’t die in vain. Of course, they will never say it; so of course they will have to get it by any means necessary. Not in the way where they bend to her, but in a way where she bends to them whether she wants to or not.