#iori miyamoto

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

Like I’m just saying I wouldn’t complain if they put this outfit in the game

[gintama]

people liked my oberon ones so here's my samurai remnant memes so far

[gilgil-machine]

I really like how those two look like partners in crime😆

[careyfell59]

Iori drip

[arqodeon]

Inktober 13-16

[qjj46]

[saeraas]

iori trying to box with top-tier, godlike, and reality breaking servants like junao or kuku but draws the line at the queen of white women

[r2tmit]

A Difference of Swords (Fate/Samurai spoilers ramble)

Spoilers for Fate/Samurai Remnant, and probably Fate/stay night but that's been out longer, but short spoiler free version, Iori Miyamoto, and Shirou Emiya, should never, NEVER, meet each other

For those unaware let us start in release order, Shirou Emiya.

Shirou 'is', a sword. In universe, his very being, due to several complex and unimportant factor, is made of swords, to the point that a bad ending in Fate includes his body erupting in blades, killing him. However this is not what I mean. I mean, Shirou is a sword, in that at the start, he is a tool. He wants to be of use to others, while having no idea of his own wants. A sword does not choose how it is used, simply that it is. At most, he would want to be a sword, used to save others. He wants to, due to his personal survivor's guilt and mental damage, to save every person before him, asking to be saved. This causes no amount of trouble for himself, including a copy of a future, bitter, traumatized version of himself wanting to kill him to prevent the harm these ideals had caused. But, at his core, that is what Shirou wants. To be of use to others, and to save them. For he is a sword, a tool to be used.

This, however, is not the Way of the Sword. This, Iori would argue, is not a sword's purpose.

Iori Miyamoto, the protagonist of Fate/Samurai Remnant, is the adopted son and student of Musashi Miyamoto, the famed swordsman and philosopher. In this series, Iori is the surviving orphan, of a town attacked and purged by bandits, and the bandits in turn, purged by a wandering swordsman. We do not learn who this 'sword saint' was, all we know is that a young boy was saved, and became obsessed, with surpassing the sword he saw that night. And in the bad ending, which is only unlockable after beating the game at least once, we learn that Iori is not a well boy. He, as he puts it, looks kind and warm, but he is not kind. He can project kind, he can present functional, and when with his fellow adopted sibling, Kaya, he can even go with the flow of being, 'normal'. But he is not a normal man. He is a student of the Way of the Sword. And the way of the sword, is not a path of protecting. A sword is only ever made, to kill. A sword can be used to protect, a sword can be used, and the user can choose not to kill. But when a sword is made, for the purpose to be used as a sword, that purpose, is to end lives around them. That is the path Iori wishes to walk, and most days fights to keep in check. Iori is a man who wants to perfect his skills, in order to kill more perfectly. Iori, as Musashi put it when alive, was born in the wrong age. If he had been born decades before, this would make him a hero. When born in a stagnant age of peace, as the beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate generally was, it simply makes him a sword demon, waiting.

Shirou, and Iori, should never meet each other. They should never be left in a room together, never left to talk about their experiences with their Sabers, never study each other's fighting styles. They will, eventually, learn each other's nature. They will, eventually, come to conflict with each other. They will, try to kill each other, and it will destroy each other. It will end, most times than not, with both of their deaths, be it in the exchange of blows, or one killed for striking down the other. ... But that's just me, I might be reading too much into things.

[felinus-fenix]

Iori & FSR Saber

[ra-horakhty-art]

A gift for my dear friend 💕

[puyama13]

175センチ65キロ！大好き！！！！！

[gintama]

you're my moe kyun, heart goes boom

kissy kissy smooch! (love you)

come to a never-ending dream, won't let you escape

i'll give you all my love

kill, kill you! (want you)

[derekscorner]

Fated Rantings: Miyamoto Iori & Seiba

Where to even begin here...Iori is a rather interesting protagonist compared to the others I've watched so far. Sure, Shirou or Seig are decent but very honest and straight forward.

Iori isn't as simplistic in his world view. If anything he's deceiving himself and accidentally misleading others. However, he is not a villain either.

In a few routes Iori fights to maintain the peace of the era. Seemingly for his sister, Kaya's, sake. He never makes that overtly known but a few lines show this. At one point he ponders the wars end and dismisses his thoughts because he views Kaya as happy and adaptable.

But, every now and then, things will seem to pause. Characters will stop to take note of oddities in Iori's words vs his actions. Iori himself will state multiple times that he is not kind.

He's a ronin in the loosest sense as he only reached adulthood after the warring period was done. He serves no master and makes a living serving his community instead.

People see him as an upstanding young man, Yui Shouetsu even begins to fall in love with him because she sees her ideals reflected in Iori.

But this is a facade. One that Iori himself does not really make intentionally but one he doesn't elaborate on either. The only people that see through this facade immediately is the female Musashi and Chiemon.

Female Musashi is understandable. The Musashi of Iori's timeline was male but the female one lived a similar life. She raised her own Iori and she notices rather quickly.

Chiemon on the other hand sees through it quickly because he is similar. All of his rants in story are not wrong save for the difference. He may see them both as similar but in actuality Iori is scarier. Chiemon is a traumatized child, scared and burned but Iori is a demon waiting to let loose.

You won't see this Iori until you get the "Entreat the Darkness" route.

Of course, the question some of you will ask after reading that is "does that make Iori a villain?" to which I will once again say "no".

Iori, by his own admission, isn't kind. He does what he does because the age of war is over. Even if he did cut loose it would go nowhere in an era of peace.

He also helps others, even times when it's not wise too, because he seeks to understand them. Iori views nearly everyone he meets as possible opponents and thus tries to understand them in the hypothetical outcome he can kill them.

What he is seeking, the desire that made him a master in the ritual, was the desire for carnage. He's a sword demon and his life's goal is to surpass the swordsman ship he saw the night Musashi saved his life.

The reason he dismisses magecraft despite his talent, the reason he lives as a ronin, is his true desire to be the best swordsman possible.

However Iori is not without emotions. I would argue that the list of people he truly cares for is small while the rest fit into "allies for now" and "possible opponents later" categories.

The reason he seeks the peaceful end in other routes is due to his genuine care for his sister. He has a genuine bond with his master Musashi even if that bond is the shared desire for him to cut her down vs her desire to have a worthy opponent.

He even comes to be close with Saber. Whether I would call them friends or not is difficult however.

Yamato Takeru

As the story progresses it does this beautiful thing of showing traditional art moments of Iori and Sabers life. This is an example of masters and servants seeing the lives of the other through dreams.

It's shown in several Fate works. You'll likely be most familiar with Shirou seeing Artoria's life as King Arthur from Fate Stay Night.

It was only in retrospect of the 'Entreat the Darkness' ending that I saw how beautiful this was because it highlights Saber reflecting Iori's own habit onto him.

Iori helps to understand, to see weaknesses, and Saber uses that to stop him in the Dark Ending by using Iori's own move to kill him. You even see Saber taking it into practice early in the story in the segments where Saber will imitate Iori's sword training.

At first this is portrayed as Saber having fun. To some extent they probably are but that's just an aspect of what he is doing. You see, Saber realizes that Iori isn't quite right mid way. He realizes the dreams and desires he saw were Iori's.

He came to understand that Iori's actual desire vs his actions do not match. This pains him. Saber is a little gremlin at first and dismisses Iori for his weakness.

They grow closer as Iori indulges Saber in their love of food, sight seeing, and so on. By the middle point you'll get the idea that Saber's wish is for this kind of life or perhaps he just wanted a friend.

It is in that dark ending that you realize Saber was understanding Iori as Iori was trying to understand Saber. The dreams, the sword practice, they were deciphering each other.

This makes the dark ending painful to be sure. Iori is happy to have died this way, in a battle but Saber is sad to have to kill another person they cared for. Perhaps the only friend Saber has ever had.

Saber's true name is Yamato Takeru. A prince of ancient Japan, direct descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, and a figure that died alone with only a trail of blood in his wake.

Now I'm sure I seem like I'm rambling aimlessly but I'm not. I want to drive home the sorrow of this dynamic. Even if you get the good endings the game will end on the note of "his blade remains unsatisfied" or so on. (hinting to Iori's nature)

Iori is the closest thing Saber has had to a friend and Iori himself seems to treat Saber as one. On some level I'm sure he's thinking of ways to battle Saber but I do not think Iori's bond with Saber was a lie.

But to call them real friends is something I am still left pondering. Through Saber I am left wondering how genuine any of Iori's relationships were aside for the ones with Musashi and his sister Kaya.

You will even see fans say that the other endings are the best ones for others but only the dark ending is the one Iori truly finds fulfilling. He's not a villain of the story save for that one route but is he one in general?

It left me wondering much of what Iori said. Was his peaceful life fully without value in his mind? Is Iori a better person in the other routes for denying his darker desires?

Why is Iori's best ending the saddest? Better yet, why is his best ending the worst one for everyone else?

Questions I doubt I'll have answered but also ones that I'm not sure need answering. I wouldn't think so much about his story or this game if I had them.

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The original post got kind of long so I split it in two. Part 1 is here: https://derekscorner.tumblr.com/post/736119692207570944/fated-rantings

My other experiences with Fate can be found here: https://derekscorner.tumblr.com/tagged/fated-rantings

[tsunderful]

Iori: Boy I sure do love being a samurai I hope nothing bad happens to me today.

Jalter:

[avalonkyuden]

is Ritsuka Fujimaru a descendant of Miyamoto Iori?!

The other day I was looking the promo video of Fate/Samurai Remnant with my friend, and immediately saw the following

I asked "Isn't just me or does that look like Guda's command code!?" and for my surprise she was thinking the same. She inmedialy suggested that this was Ritsuka ancestor, and that probably is Miyamoto Iori, because his reaction when a mysterious woman (That is totally not Musashi Miyamoto) appeared, was knowing her sword style. On that moment I noticed that this little phrase actually made sense and actually fills up a lot of holes in Ritsuka's story.

I always wondered why Ritsuka being a newby was so able to deal with everything that had happened on FGO story, it's like their circuits are really strong or something. So that same day I learned that Samurais have the capacity to have a good connection with the root because on the way they are trained. So this is like one of the important points on why are them a descendant.

Something that goes really well with the statement of before is the way some servants see Ritsuka: Sasaki Kojirou says: (...)You don't have the specific pride of a Mage, and I like that. and Lion King says: knows good but commits evil, and allows evil while it is good. if you think harder about it, it's like Ritsuka follows 'The Book of Five Rings' of Musashi Miyamoto. This point is not that valuable like the one before, because it could just be that they read the book or it's just related to the religion they could posible follow (Budism?) . It's important to remember that Ritsuka is from japan outside of all the self insert behavior by the nature of FGO as a gacha game.

A little important note is that in this trial quest Ritsuka doesn't act like not knowing who is this heroic spirit, it's more like an attitude of Aren't you Musashi Miyamoto from my world? I mean they are already used to male-female swap servants wwww Usually Ritsuka is helped by Mash to know who are this people, or having the options to ask about it, but in this specific trial quest the options are formal or meme towards already knowing Musashi.

Other important thing is they way the relationship between Ritsuka and Musashi evolve, in her trial quest we can notice how she even not having memories is really kind to the Master Of Chaldea, having as well a sad farewell until they meet in Shimosa again. It's like each time they meet they really work up in that relationship since she was alive until she became an Heroic spirit (After Shimosa). At first I thought, maybe Musashi knows Ritsuka is a descendant, but their first meeting confirms she doesn't know them (Or it's just hiding that fact from them). It's important to point that Musashi didn't have her own Iori on her world, because she never reached the age of the historical Musashi or the moment of her life were she would adopt Iori. This made me think, what if Ritsuka it's no necesarly Iori's descendant but it's the Iori for this Musashi.

And that's it for the theory, we need to wait until they release more info about Fate/ Samurai Remnant, we still don't know who is the servant the protagonist of that game summons...

"But where is Merlin!?, this is my local Merlinposting blog!" I actually decided to break this theory in two, one to build up everything about Ritsuka as Iori, and the following theories have to do with Merlin (And Purin) in japan! follow up for more in the following posts~

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