#its 3am so this is probably a rambling clusterfuck

[300iqprower]

“Galahad is literally such a petty bitch he ruined Mash’s character arc” is technically a factual statement.

I love the potato girl as much as every other sane person but there’s a reason i never even leveled her until lostbelt 1: she’s a VERY hollow character for almost all of part 1, I’d say until halfway through camelot at best and not truly until her talks with Leonidas in Babylonia. Anf in hindsight it’s obvious why she felt so…”just there,” for so long. In addition to “early in a gacha game’s lifetime so we didn’t actually think we needed to treat these like real characters” syndrome (see also Carmilla, Geronimo, Erik, Boudica, Mephistopheles, Babbage, Hektor, Lev, Olga, Georgios, d’Eon, Artemis, Fucking David and Lalter, and no doubt several others) for a long time Mash’s only thing was “exist to give cute obvious canon waifubait must protecc sidekick/paradoxically and intentionally ironically be the one acting as the reason YOU dont die at any given moment as the obvious weak link” aka a character who wasnt even a plot device just a plot hole filler, is because for a long time her character arc wasnt even about her, but about Chaldea’s history, her between chapter bits being an insight in Romani’s motivations rather than her own. This would be fine if not for the other thing that makes her character about chaldea rather than herself: the big mystery of whose spirit origin she was tied to, IE Galahad.

But we didn’t get that solved until the SIXTH singularity and SEVENTH chapter in a NINE chapter story (technically ten since Dantes’ event is main-canon but fck that if they wont make it free content i refuse to acknowledge it as important) so for the vast majority of part 1 Mash’s personal arc COULDNT advance since they were too focused on keeping both her backstory as a homunculus vague to draw out Romani’s arc and her ongoing story as a demi servant completely halted because they didnt want to in any way give away Galahad i guess. Even though Galahad ended up fucking POINTLESS in every sense, doing nothing in Camelot asode from allow a few Dadcelot gags, let alone any other part where he didnt have remotely as strong a reason to do something. And then there’s the post part 1 dickery that leads to ortinax yadda yadda and HEY WADDYA KNOW SUDDENLY IN PART 2 MASH IS A FULL BLOWN CHARACTER NOW!…at the cost of a really shitty mandatory new skillset that the devs continuously try to force on you and even nerfed her stats in the sixth anniversary update to try and force it further because fuck you for trying to actually play how you want and not in accordance with Nasu’s half baked vision.

So in conclusion, Fuck Galahad. A little shit who even tried to (and for a while succeeded) ruin our beloved Kouhai’s character arc and proved she’s way more interesting without him.