#even corday got debate from guda

[thessaliah]

what were your theories of olga?

Hmmmmm. The first one is the Priestess is Olgamarie, but after Olympus, it was my opinion that U-Olga was always Director Olgamarie (while Specimen E was her original body), while the priestess is the ghost young Olga that appears first in Melty Blood Backalley Nightmare crossover manga (which is getting reprinted and serialized again!) and recently in From Lostbelt. Either a Chaldeas vs Reality Olga deal or like a BB/Nurse Sakura deal that U Olga's memories got transferred to the Priestess, or that the priestess may have been the original Olga or a component of her (since her middle name is missing), and she's been truly death since Chaldeas got turned on in 2004 (matches her physical age). I've seen another story about mind/soul/body around which is also likely, but I feel BB-Sakura case is closer in my head.

After Traum with Holmes revealing that the God's proposal is good (or better than we got), and the indication Bleaching could be saving the planet does not made me think she was a villain (also Kirschtaria never blamed the God, but humanity for what happened: he mistrust Gods to be the ones deciding what humans should do and prefers if humans themselves look for solutions), just a temporal antagonist, but the whole execution is what failed to me with U-Olga everything: from being a Beast (or maybe not), to be an ally (with the cringest possible writing). And design. And everyone's reactions to her. I've always felt Mash's and Guda's attachment to Olga as completely unrealistic and boring, it makes for poor drama, not because it exists, but because the juiciest part of attachment is conflict. They just decide without any sort of internal conflict of feeling of betrayal, we'll help her, it's a waste of time, it feels like Nasu-dictated feelings than actual human emotion. Look, for example, Rin's and Shirou's internal debate about Sakura in HF, despite how she's far more important to them than Olga could be to Mash and Guda.