#matou zouken

[backflipstowardstheroot]

Young zouken spaghetti

[typemoonsmashorpass]

[jshinmoe18]

[kryquy]

no kariya he was obviously implying that you’d be doing something different from usual

[eggslamwich]

People who label Mahito as the most despicable character in anime are weak and will not survive the winter none of you have sat through the trenches like I did with these guys

[v-keiphantom]

Talking about this scene made me realize something

[kikaruuni]

Matō Shinji CE :

False Attendant's Writings Medusa CE :

GUDAGUDA Poster Girl Matō Zōken CE:

500 Years Dedication

[empty-dream]

May God have mercy of this soul.

[lastencoregraphics]

@giftober 2023: DAY 27 - OLD

There's no salvation in the human world, and if we can't cut evil out as long as we are human... If utopia is in a location where humans cannot ever reach... We seek something that surpasses humans... A new shape of humanity. In order to exclude all evil of this world, we shall risk our lives for this wish.

[call-me-noa]

The years were not kind to this man.

[wormpit]

glory be to the house of worm

(the people of the matou house in the second holy grail war)

[monstersqueen]

anyway neither in miyuverse nor in prillyaverse did sakura and rin get to grow up as sisters

where IS the parallel world where they did ??????

[dingostrash]

HELLO KARIYA KAMA NATION(Me) HOW ARE WE FEELING

[birchybarcc]

hey kid you like ,,,incredibly long and convoluted historically fictitious backstory about Zouken... Zolgen...Zolkin???? Makiri before he lost all his morals (and hair?)

(Circa 1600s!)

[kryquy]

I want to know more about the relationship between Zolgen and Justeaze

[iloveyoutotype-moonandback]

The way Nasu handles magic and Mage society generally is fascinating to me. Mage families basically being aristocrats whose members almost seem to view everything in the abstract and cause immense suffering through all of their experiments and attempts to gain more power or to extend their lives. Viewing their children as pawns to continue the family lineage or even experiment with. The way we see the consequences of this "mage culture" through the characters of Rin, Sakura, and Illya. Rin attempting to maintain this cold and calculating mindset because that's what's expected of her and her father left behind this weighty legacy that she feels she must uphold. Sakura suffering abuse from Zouken who views her as merely a vessel for the grail and from her extremely jealous brother. The fact that Sakura was only adopted by the Matous because of their father, who was thinking mostly of lineages and family alliances, and either didn't realize or simply didn't care about the hell he was sending his little daughter into. The fact that this act drove a giant wedge in the relationship between Rin and Sakura, one which they were only able to mend at the end of Heaven's Feel. Meanwhile you have Illya being experimented with and turned into a vessel for the grail much like Sakura was. And she, as a homunculus, is basically just set up to have ultra powerful magic circuits to help them win the war but ultimately Illya herself probably wouldn't have lived very long even if she had survived the war since homunculi have short life spans. Not to mention she was basically groomed to hate her own family.

Fate/Zero did some interesting stuff with this concept too. Like we see more of Tokiomi and the shit the Einzburns got up to in the previous war. Kariya especially was always interesting to me, because you have this guy who hated mages and wanted to leave it behind. And he did for a time, but joined the war anyway for the sake of Sakura and Rin; two children who aren't even his own, but he at least has an idea of what awaits Sakura if he doesn't do something. Admittedly there's some weird friendzone shit he has with Tokiomi's wife, but I do think his desire to save this child from Zouken was genuine. And even for people outside these families, Waver Velvet has to deal with classism since he's not part of an established family.

There's just this interesting element of like, class, elitism and patriarchy. Mages are really similar to the old nobility in many ways, except even more exaggerated in their vanity and lack of empathy. It's like Nasu added a twist to the classic fantasy image of a wizard in his tower. The mages are in an ivory tower and don't understand the suffering caused by their little magic experiments, or if they do understand, they simply don't care. Just a complete disconnect.