#darius iii fate

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Fate Grand Order Servant Comparisons

Darius III

Left - FGO

Right - Alexander Mosaic (c. 100 BC)

[nero-draco]

[thegoodthegrandandtheugly]

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[hasmashdoneanythingwrong]

Context:

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ON the Right we have the Viking King, Ragnar Lodbrok

ON the Left we have Darius III enemy of Iskander, and Ruler of the Persian empire

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Top 5 Fate blorbos NOT including Limbo.

this one made me laugh bc like, yeah limbo is my special little princess but also he is one of my many special little princesses, like i love limbo but im not The Limbo Guy, if that makes sense (i have many guys)

That said there are simply too many fate blorbos i have and no easy way to list them in a perfectly objective top 5, so I shall do something fun instead, listing them in tiers. As expected, the list expands as it goes on (not every servant listed obvs)

5. Characters who I am passively aware of. This is for characters who are somewhat relevant enough for me to like. think about

Gilles Saber, Caesar, Paris Hektor, Circe, Lu Bu, Spartacus, Eric Bloodaxe

4. Characters who I have a light inclination towards. Maybe they were useful for farming or I read their profiles and was satisfied

Jason, Billy The Kid, Oda Nobukatsu, , Tristan, William Tell, Medusa Lily, Janta Lily, Tawaru, Achilles, Wu Zetian, Cleopatra, Darius III, Kiyohime

3. Characters who I just like. I look at them and go "its the guy :)"

Senji Muramasa, Fergus, Robin Hood, Leonidas, Enkidu, Nezha, Anne-Bonny & Mary Read, Bartholomew Roberts, Red Hare, Scheherazade, Anastasia, Kyokutei Bakin, Charles-Henri Sanson, Assassin Emiya/Kerry, Ushiwakamaru, Gray, Huyan Zhuo, Penthesilea, Kijyo Koyo, Asterios

2. Characters who I love. This one is a substantial jump upwards in quality and they only have like 1-2 things missing (to me) that prevent them from being numero uno

Altera, Bedivere, Okita, Beni Enma, Sigurd, Saito Hajime, Artemis-Orion, Emiya, Atalante, Baobhan Sith, Cu Chulainn, Romulus (and Quirinus), Caenis, Vritra, Melusine, Boudica, Marie Antionette, Mandricardo, Habetrot, Dobrynya Nikitich, Hans Christian Andersen, Mata Hari, Charlotte Corday, Katou Danzo, Koyanskaya of the Light, Tezcatlipoca, Sen no Rikyu, Kriemhild, Koyanskaya of Darkness

My special little princesses. Play this song while reading

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[thelreads]

Since you are in....some trying times and since it's valentines day thought it would make you feel better if I sent you some obligatory chocolates from the Fate Verse.

You have your choice of...

King Arthur's (default) Crown. Fit for the Ruler of Britannia

A white cake made by Atilla the Hun, filled with love and strawberries.

A chocolate mug filled with bourbon Jelly, made by our own Sie Francis Drake.

A....uh...1-to-1 scale chocolate replica of Emperor Nero Claudius

And...an....anatomically correct heart from Jack the Ripper

[I assure you it's not someone's heart dipped in chocolate]

And if chocolate is not your preference we have other gifts such as

A scapegoat plushie. Knitted together and stuffed by Dracula. Yes. That count Dracula. Surprisingly good at absorbing curses

A 1-to-1 scale replica of Astolfo's hippogriff. [Also knitted and stuffed by Dracula]

A Persian War-elephant from Darius III's personal army.

A collection of photos taken by my space son, Voyager.

And lastly, from the Founder of Rome itself, Romulus, I present a deed which gives you ownership of the

ENTIRE.

CITY.

OF.

ROME.

Wait shit I forgot today was valentine's day crap fuck fuck fuck-

[grailfinders]

Fate and Phantasms’ Brute Grail Front Review #7: The Last One

congrats to all the masters who’ve survived up until this point! y’know, it’s super bowl sunday, so I bet we’ve got an easy fight this time ‘round, something we can blast through and get to that fooball!

right?

…why is there boss music?

Know Thy Enemy

ah. I see we’re going full Apocrypha this time around. what is this, a westmarch game? I'm not even going to try to go for a smart intro this time around.

Saber- Nero Bride: Strengths: Support, Social Archer- David: Strengths: Healing, Single-target damage Lancer- Romulus-Quirinus: Strengths: Mobility, Force attacks Rider- Rider of Resistance: Strengths: Burst damage, Tough Caster- Caster of Midrash: Strengths: Control, Social Assassin- Cleopatra: Strengths: Support, Social Berserker- Darius III: Strengths: Mobility, Summons, Defense Extra- Astraea: Strengths: Melee fights, Generalist

Who to Bring?

likewise, we also have a full 8 servants to bring this time around, so we're also doing a speed round here.

Saber- Gilles de Rais- we can afford dead weight this fight and we need to keep costs down Archer- Ishtar- Big blasts to destroy Darius' skeleton army Lancer- Musashibou Benkei- Survivability is a big plus in this fight Rider- Red Hare- We need big damage, and having it at a range doesn't hurt Caster- Charles Babbage- he can take hits and has a bunch of random stuff that might be useful as the fight drags on Assassin- Cursed Arm- He's mobile enough to keep up, and he deals great burst damage Berserker- Nightingale- healer. always tip your healers Extra- Mash- best girl, best tank

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The Albuquerque Holy Grail War

okay my sister and I’s had this extended Breaking Bad and Fate crossover idea that’s so stupid and silly i can’t help but share it. broad strokes of it is that it’s basically the plot of Breaking Bad but the cast have Servants, the fights and struggles over the meth and crime empires fits perfectly with the Servants covert fight for the holy grail.

Here’s what servants they’d have (probably)

Walter White: Caster Mephistopheles. Walt fancies himself a smart man so you would know he would go for a Caster class Servant, thinking it’s the right fit for someone like him, and his chemical expertise would pair well with a Caster’s Item Construction, along with Territory Creation (Meth Lab). Also bombs. Walt is also the guy who blames all of his problems on other people, rather than himself, and Mephistopheles, a literal devil, would be the perfect scapegoat at the end of that, and there’s nothing Mephistopheles would love more than watching a human throw himself into hell and then blame it all on the devil.

“Skylar, listen to me! It wasn’t me, I would never do this willingly, it was all Caster! You don’t get it, he’s a devil, he’s been manipulating me the whole time, he must have been using some sort of mind control or something! Please, Skylar, you have to believe me!”

Jesse Pinkman: Berserker. Now, I actually don’t have a specific Berserker Servant to pair with Jesse yet, but I was thinking something along the lines of the standard yell-y type (Zerkerlot, Darius III, Caligula, etc). Throughout the series, Jesse is used as a pawn by Walt, Gus, and others, and if he was paired with a volatile yet powerful Berserker class Servant, his usefulness as a pawn increases, especially with Walt often trying to keep Jesse from turning against him, because an off-the-chain Berserker could really fuck up everything Walt’s been working for. Jesse also has the potential to see himself within the Berserker, a himself being a ‘servant’ manipulated by a ‘master’. Pairs well with Jesse’s fraught emotional state throughout the series.

Mike Ehrmantraut: Assassin Yan Qing. The core theme behind this pairing is the loyalty one has to their boss/lord, and the search for a worthy one. Skill wise, these two would complement each other very well, with Mike’s own stealth and combat capabilities and Yan Qing’s face changing and martial arts. Imagine the shootout scene in Bolsa’s mansion, but Yan Qing’s also fucking cartel guys up with his punching. Yan Qing would also see similarities between himself and Mike, two men very loyal to their bosses, sometimes to their own detriment.

Gustavo Fring: Lancer Diarmuid. I actually changed my mind mid writing this one, originally I was going to have Gus with a more typical Assassin Servant, probably a Hassan, and while a Servant like that could still work for him, my sister suggested that Assassin Yan Qing is a better pairing for Mike, and that the Diarmuid I’d originally planned for Mike could work for Gus, even if someone like Gus would prefer an Assassin class Servant. In Diarmuid, you have a Servant who has been devoted to his lord to the point of his own detriment, in an attempt to make up for his past betrayal (Gawain could also work as Gus’ Servant). Lancer’s ideals of chivalry and honor would clash with Gus’ way of doing things, but Gus would not hesitate to use Command Seals or other forms of coercion to get Lancer to do what he wants. You can imagine the scene where Gus slits Victor, but he’s using a Command Seal to get Diarmuid to do it.

Saul Goodman: Archer Moriarty. Now this one was originally just a funny idea but then i actually realized it had a lot of merit. Despite Saul’s face being on billboards around Albuquerque, he’s a very behind the scenes guy when it comes to the drug trade, as well as his own past crimes. He also, importantly, as the guy helping everyone launder money, has his hands (potentially) on a lot of it, and Moriarty would be eager to take advantage of this. Not for Moriarty’s own benefit, he’d have no use for the money, but to see what Saul might do with it. Saul is already someone who has, at the start of BBad, put his old name and life behind him and continued to walk down the wicked path, something that Moriarty would be very keen to see the end result of. The conversations between the two would also be very fun.

The Salamancas: Rider Blackbeard (done seriously). The focus of the Salamanca Servant is less on the relationship between Servant and Master, and more on how the Master-ship is split between the Salamancas. Hector was the one who summoned the Servant and has the Command Seals, but gives control/usage of Blacbeard to Tuco, and later, the twins. When Tuco is killed, the other Masters think that the Rider Servant will have disappeared, only to be surprised later on when Teach is still around. This role of Hector’s in BBad, as someone who is often overlooked or looked down upon just because he’s old, wheelchair-bound, and can’t speak, can tie in well with the sort of front that Blackbeard puts up, both of them being overlooked by their foes, their actual capabilities ignored until it is too late.

I do know I’m missing a Saber-class Servant, and I’m not entirely sure who it’d be paired with. Could be Hank, the Servant gets killed either during the twins attack on Hank, or maybe the Saber dies saving Hank’s life during the stakeout. Either way, Walt and Jesse think Hank’s out of the War, with his Servant gone, but Hank still continues his investigation.

Or maybe the 7th Servant belongs to Kim! She’s not present (physically) in BBad but she still feels like a worthy Master candidate, and the non-appearance of a Saber during the main events of the Albuquerque Holy Grail War would have the rest of the Masters on edge and wary of a surprise attack, one that never comes.

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Furious Battles (3) - Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC)

In the annals of military history, there are battles that stand out as defining moments, where the fate of nations and empires hangs in the balance. One such battle is the Battle of Gaugamela, fought in 331 BC between the forces of Alexander the Great and the Persian King Darius III. This monumental clash marked a turning point in the ancient world, solidifying Alexander’s legacy as one of the…

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I think that, as a general rule in Fate, characters are either “elevated” to being a hero, or made out to be worse than they are if they opposed the hero. Obviously it does make sense as a writing choice, but it’s very frustrating when interesting characters are relegated to being jokes or hated just because they opposed a cooler hero at some point in their original tale.

Karna and Arjuna are a super obvious one - Arjuna is consistently denied any sort of characterization because he’s constantly portrayed as being angry at Karna and vengeful in the main story, which makes him not be that interesting despite him being so fascinating in the Mahabharata. That, when combined with the figurative and literal white-washing of Karna makes him come off as super unlikeable.

Medea and Jason are another relationship where it really takes two to tango - they’re both pretty awful people and instead of them being portrayed as such (which would’ve been so interesting to see - I love terrible, toxic relationships in fiction), Jason is made to be a joke character that exists to be mocked and insulted. While LB5.1 does serve to redeem him, he’s still not treated as good or noble outside of that. And in contrast (in fgo especially), Medea is typically portrayed as a nice quirky witch girl, with many of her worst attributes being due to being placed under mind control by Aphrodite and then loving Jason, because she’s meant to be likeable. While in Fate Stay Night she’s absolutely more of an anti-hero (and imo way more interesting as a result!) she ends up losing a lot of those aspects, which is a shame because I think she is great because of them, not in spite of.

Fionn and Diarmuid are another example where in order to make Diarmuid look like a good person, Fionn (who is a fascinating and powerful mythological character in his own right!!) is portrayed as an unreasonable asshole that constantly insults Diarmuid and is completely self-obsessed.

There’s also the case of Achilles, where while his opponents aren’t demonized, he’s still definitely made to look a lot better as a person than his mythological counterpart. His rage and anger, which defines Achilles is gone, and a lot of his worst personality aspects (like say, withdrawing from war and whining to his mom when his literal slave whose family he killed that he’s into is taken from him) are completely erased. This isn’t to say that I dislike Achilles as a mythological character because I do find him fascinating, but I feel like his portrayal leaves much to be desired.

Ishtar and Gilgamesh are a very frustrating set to me, because to make Gilgamesh and Enkidu look good/right, Ishtar is made to be a joke and the one in the wrong. This is especially unfortunate because Ishtar is so cool as a goddess - the duality of her being a goddess of sex and war, and the fact that the original myth has Gilgamesh basically slut shames her (despite the fact that he himself is kind of a rapist) make it super unpleasant to me that fgo uncritically just treats her as a nuisance and as a terrible person for killing Enkidu when there’s so much more to her, and when Enkidu and Gilgamesh aren’t perfect themselves (but those traits of theirs are kind of erased or minimized).

This isn’t even counting something like Iskandar and Darius because that entire rivalry is so poorly written and executed and Darius isn’t even portrayed as a person which is. Definitely not a portrayal I’m happy about, considering how fascinating the Persian empire and it’s history are.

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I think the funniest thing no one talks about is how both Arash & Darius are both Zoroastrians and how their devil equivalent, Angra Mainyu, is summonable. Imagine you tell them that he's a Servant currently in Chaldea & they start getting prepared to get rid if him since ya know, to them he's the embodiment of all evil.

But instead of seeing this being of pure evil & responsible for all the things wrong in the world; they just see its just some scrawny kid with a bunch of tattoos. Doesn't help that Arash has a soft spot for kids.