#irisaber

[saberiri-week]

Hello! I am announcing a new Saberiri week!

The week starts on April 2nd!

It will last two weeks, a prompt for every two days to give everyone time!

You get two prompts for each day, you can choose one of them or combine them for fun!

All ship art and writing will be reblogged on this page!

Make sure to tag this blog! And make sure to write ‘saberiri week 2025′ in your tags, and add which day!

[akilice]

Saberiri week day 1 is up!

Read it here!

@saberiri-week

[backflipstowardstheroot]

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[disjunkt]

Here's my Valentine's shrine for Femslash February: Vanishing Moon, a shrine and media gallery to Irisviel von Einzbern from Fate/Zero, with highlights of her moments with Saber! It's not a relationship shrine per se, so the highlights are in part natural due to the source material, and in part a personal accent. You can visit it at irisviel.oubliette.nu (intended to be viewed at a minimum resolution of 1280x720).

In contrast to my analysis-heavy sites, this one aims to be a comprehensive resource for media around Irisviel (and, to a lesser extent, suited Saber) as she appears in the light novel and anime adaptation. Aside from a ton of carefully sourced images, it notably includes information on the CD dramas and merchandise – and a sub-gallery to the the spin-off game Fate/Zero Next Encounter (there's no official gallery or database of the cards anywhere, so I had to make my own :|).

This is a revived project that I'd started in 2016. It's still missing two pages (an introduction to Fate and some character commentary) and mobile view needs some more tweaking, but now that all the essential content is up, I didn't want to miss plugging the site during Valentine's weekend. :D

If you ever wanted to see all the official art and bonus material around Irisviel and Irisviel and Saber, I hope you enjoy the site!

Bonus flavour text I couldn't resist:

[number1mongrel]

@saberiri-week Day 2: Haunting

There was a ghost haunting the walls of Chaldea.

rated G, 481 words

[lordelmelloi2]

Oh my god you guys. Fate tumblr, people who've seen fate, yuri fans, tragedy fans. Go get this fixed. SaberIri can not be at 16.3% right now this is pathetic. I can't believe it -- if Saber and Irisviel lose a maligned yuri bracket, I will cut my leg off.

YOU WANT MALIGNED YURI? I'VE GOT YOUR FUCKING MALIGNED YURI RIGHT HERE! FATE/ZERO IS WRITTEN BY GEN UROBUCHI! YOU WANT MALIGNED YURI???!!

(VERY LONG POST AHEAD)

For those who don't KNOW:

Irisviel is doomed to a fate that she can't avoid because she is a literal container for spirits and will die at the end of the war. Saber is literally her knight who takes her around the city and protects her and shows her the world she wasn't allowed to see outside of the castle she was raised in.

Saber is King Arthur (already a fucking mess, and definitely traumatized heavily from it too) summoned as a Servant to Kiritsugu, Irisviel's husband, ... who, by the way, is so shocked that King Arthur is a woman that he won't fucking talk to her. SO IRISVIEL HAS TO DO ALL INBETWEEN COMMUNICATION! KIRITSUGU WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE SABER!

Irisviel is literally so happy to be outside of the castle and exploring the world, but as the war-ritual goes on and she absorbs more spirits, her homunculus body begins to break down, and Saber becomes even more fiercely protective as Irisviel becomes weaker and weaker...

... to the point of chasing down and unleashing her deus ex machina attack (a Noble Phantasm) on two people she suspected of kidnapping Irisviel AFTER chasing after them on her (self-magically powered up) motorcycle (Butch)

Irisviel was literally brought up on Kiritsugu, her husband's, ideals, and although she knows that they're hurting him, she still supports him through the war they're fighting because she believes in his naive ideal of a world without evil...

...which, because the container she's created in the image is is CURSED! from the PREVIOUSLY HELD WAR-RITUAL! She turns essentially into a dark version of herself who is cursed with muck and also she turns into a cup to fulfill Kiritsugu's wish to create a world without evil.

Again: she turns into a cup.

... which Kiritsugu, realizing the holy grail (that's the cup) is cursed, orders Saber to destroy it.

which is so funny also because Saber's literally demands to be given the Grail earlier and is canonically going mad because of all the blood she's lost from previous battles + the Grail grants the winner a wish, and Saber desires to undo her mistakes as a King

^ pictured: Saber going insane and Irisviel within the cursed Grail

PLUS: canon or non-canon so much of the promo art for Fate/Zero literally looks like it's out of a lesbian pulp novel cover where a girl steals a man's wife, and more or less that's what Fate/Zero really would've gotten towards if Irisviel hadn't DIED and Saber didn't ALSO GET BRUTALLY BETRAYED BY HER MASTER AND THEN DISAPPEAR!

TL;DR IF YOU DONT VOTE IRISABER I WILL KILL YOU

(ALSO THAT LIL NAS X VIDEO HE POSTED TO HIS TWITTER OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME SET TO THOSE ANIME GIRLS DRIVING/CRASHING THEIR CAR? THAT WAS IRISABER!) (IN BELOW POST)

MALIGNED YURI BRACKET: Round two

How is Irisviel von Einzbern/Artoria Pendragon (Fate/Zero) maligned?

"In-universe, they suffered tragedy on par with what you'd expect for being in Fate/Zero; Iri's body slowly degrades over the course of the novel, and she has to be killed to release the Holy Grail. Iri is okay with this. Saber is not. Out of universe, they're maligned on account of Iri being married to a dude named Kiritsugu, and on account of Saber being more frequently shipped with either Shirou or Rin from the VN that Fate/Zero is a prequel to."

How is The Boss/Strangelove (Metal Gear Solid) maligned?

"we don't dr strangelove's actual name, thats a nickname she was given because she's a canonical lesbian who was in love with the Boss, also no actual name" "They're both ded 😔 they deserved so much more........................." "strangelove refused to accept the boss sacrificing herself so she made an ai that was a perfect copy in a nuke gundam body that sacrificed itself again to not nuke tf out of america" "...theyre in metal gear solid- which is somewhat dominated by male characters- MLM ships are most popular...it makes the WLW ships a lot more hidden- and far far less content (🥹)- also a large chunk of the fandom is cishet gamer men so- they hate strangelove and her openly lesbian identity along with her being an avid mAN-HATER..." "the boss is a bisexual icon and is not only with Strangelove, but also The Sorrow. and everyone forgets about Strangelove to instead talk about The Sorrow and The Boss" "Strangelove yearns for the Boss and even canonically wishes the kid she has with someone else could've been the Boss'..."

Read the submitter(s)'s unabridged explanations here!

[chadtoria]

Kiritsugu took the biggest L ever like not only did Saber fuck his wife but also his son.

[lordelmelloi2]

[espadagalaxia]

knight king & her princess

[clairvoyant-crow]

has this been done yet?

[givemeallthesaintquartz]

Hello there everyone. This is me promoting my own fanfiction. It's a Fate/Zero au where Arturia snaps at the end of the Grail War and loses it. Using the power of the Grail she wishes upon it for the chance to build her kingdom anew- along with those she has come to care for and love (Diarmuid & Irisviel). In the end she ends up creating a Psuedo-Singularity, which is noticed by Chaldea so, naturally, Ritsuka & co. are sent to go and fix the timeline. Much drama and angst.

@akampana gets all the credit (and my appreciation) for the design of Diarmuid Alter. Thank you so much for allowing me to borrow it for this fanfic.

Psuedo-Singularity 5: The Final Empire

[saberiri-week]

Reminder that there is a Saberiri server you can join! https://discord.gg/yaFGNRY

[akilice]

...Surprise?

[loutratton]

Shitpost i thought of bc ive been watching fate zero w my boo @enigma-boi

[xviicprc]

Im still in the Fate Zero event brainroot

[number1mongrel]

It is champion skater Artoria Pendragon's first competition back on the rink after the falling out with her coach. However, she's not alone, as her coach's ex-wife is there to support her.

@saberiri-week Day 6: AU

rated G, 675 words