#idk what you expected me to do as a li shuwen lover? not be excited about him??

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You were mad about Jalter being in fsr but you’re fine with everyone else?

Yep. Jalter was mostly just because I initially was thinking about the circumstances surrounding Jeanne as an Alter in specifics. I’m OK about her now since it looks like she’s actually gonna be written in way she was initially introduced instead of as the tsundere cashgrab that she became in FGO.

And to be perfectly clear: I am Biased as Hell. I’m the li shuwen person, I love this guy. He’s my favorite character and one of the first Servants I lvl. 100 /10/10/10’d in fate. His lancer self is 102 and I’m grinding to get him to 120 one day. I’m biased. I also adore Circe and to round it out, I’m not Jalter’s biggest fan.

But outside of my personal bias, this will be Circe’s FIRST appearance outside of GO on mobile but in a different way than Jalter. Yes this is also the case for Jalter but in terms of content appearance in GO? Jalter is a special summon, had two singularities where she was a prominent figure, multiple events where she’s a major player (summer, CBD, etc), and makes token appearances in other events along with getting a costume change and a Jancer Lily ver (technically they’re both Jalter). Circe has had one singularity and one event where she’s a prominent figure and only shown up with minor appearances in a handful of other events. Circe is not as popular as Jalter, that’s a fact.

Similarly to Circe, Li Shuwen is not as popular. While he has a stronger stake than Circe by virtue of having a younger form and thus having appearances both young and old in multiple fate instances, his popularity is not as high as Cu, Gil, Arjuna, and so on. To the point of the fact that there was a joke for a while in JP about li shuwen being called ShuWho? Since he has a trend of kinda just showing up and disappearing. He’s not as popular, that’s a fact. He’s gaining popularity because of Redline but ultimately he’s probably the least popular of the Redline bunch in FGO with Nobu and Okita taking the top spots ofc.

To see a less popular duo of characters (Circe and Li) appear alongside of major flagship characters like Cu and Jalter is PHENOMENAL to me.

Also, the situation around li shuwen is FUNNY as fuck and mirrors his redline/KA appearance in a way. In RL/KA, he shows up roughly ten ish years after he was killed, he’s KNOWN and recognized still. Here he’s 200 years in the PAST. It’s funny as fuck.

Also, Cu and Gil I expected to see, or at least, I expected to see a FSN/FZ rep, and Gil isn’t even a servant servant as of now, only Cu is and Arjuna is cool and i have no qualms about him.

Tamamo Baby ver, and the mystery Saber and Berserker idk much about so it’s fine. I expected to see some sort of Tamamo anyways.

TLDR:

I’m biased, and I was wary about the pandering surrounding Jalter. As of now though I’ve accepted it and moved on. Circe and Li being in fsr is just amazing to me though.