#not Toshizo obv

[kelsonius]

What is up with people that smoke acting like it's just a personal choice? You're literally inhaling addictive and harmful fumes? And also bothering the people around you who don't want to inhale harmful stinky stuff?

If you insist it's a choice I'm going to judge you for that, but I would prefer to see it as an involuntary addiction because that way I can at least empathise & hate on the tobacco industry with you

(Petition to replace all cigarettes that are supposed to look "cool" with lollipops, that includes you Hijikata)

[zeravmeta]

Top 5 Fate blorbos NOT including Limbo.

this one made me laugh bc like, yeah limbo is my special little princess but also he is one of my many special little princesses, like i love limbo but im not The Limbo Guy, if that makes sense (i have many guys)

That said there are simply too many fate blorbos i have and no easy way to list them in a perfectly objective top 5, so I shall do something fun instead, listing them in tiers. As expected, the list expands as it goes on (not every servant listed obvs)

5. Characters who I am passively aware of. This is for characters who are somewhat relevant enough for me to like. think about

Gilles Saber, Caesar, Paris Hektor, Circe, Lu Bu, Spartacus, Eric Bloodaxe

4. Characters who I have a light inclination towards. Maybe they were useful for farming or I read their profiles and was satisfied

Jason, Billy The Kid, Oda Nobukatsu, , Tristan, William Tell, Medusa Lily, Janta Lily, Tawaru, Achilles, Wu Zetian, Cleopatra, Darius III, Kiyohime

3. Characters who I just like. I look at them and go "its the guy :)"

Senji Muramasa, Fergus, Robin Hood, Leonidas, Enkidu, Nezha, Anne-Bonny & Mary Read, Bartholomew Roberts, Red Hare, Scheherazade, Anastasia, Kyokutei Bakin, Charles-Henri Sanson, Assassin Emiya/Kerry, Ushiwakamaru, Gray, Huyan Zhuo, Penthesilea, Kijyo Koyo, Asterios

2. Characters who I love. This one is a substantial jump upwards in quality and they only have like 1-2 things missing (to me) that prevent them from being numero uno

Altera, Bedivere, Okita, Beni Enma, Sigurd, Saito Hajime, Artemis-Orion, Emiya, Atalante, Baobhan Sith, Cu Chulainn, Romulus (and Quirinus), Caenis, Vritra, Melusine, Boudica, Marie Antionette, Mandricardo, Habetrot, Dobrynya Nikitich, Hans Christian Andersen, Mata Hari, Charlotte Corday, Katou Danzo, Koyanskaya of the Light, Tezcatlipoca, Sen no Rikyu, Kriemhild, Koyanskaya of Darkness

My special little princesses. Play this song while reading

Mash Kyrielight number one forever, saber classes artoria pendragon nero claudius siegfried void shiki miyamoto musashi ibuki douji barghest archer classes david arjuna oda nobunaga artoria pendragon archer swimsuit james moriarty tomoe gozen calamity jane nightingale santa sei shounagon zenobia lancer class scathach artoria pendragon lancer artoria pendragon lancer alter brynhildr tamamo no mae lancer minamoto no raikou lancer swimsuit ereshikigal elizabeth bathory rider class medusa francis drake artoria pendragon santa alter astolfo sakata kintoki rider quetzalcoatl artoria pendragon rider alter swimsuit leonardo da vinci rider murasaki shikubu rider swimsuit caster class mephistopheles cu chulainn caster tamamo no mae nursery rhyme helena blavatsky xuanzang sazang nero claudius swimsuit nitocris leonardo da vinci shuten douji caster ascelpius chen gong artoria caster assassin class phantom of the opera jack the ripper mysterious heroine x ryougi shiki assassin shuten douji scathach assassin first hassan nitocris assassin osakabehime okada izo yu mei-ren kama berserker class sakata kintoki vlad III caligula tamamo cat nightingale cu chulainn alter minamoto no raikou mysterious heroine x alter hijikata toshizo atalante alter jeanne d'arc alter berserker swimsuit xiang yu arjuna alter mori nagayoshi salome miyamoto musashi swimsuit brynhildr swimsuit morgan sei shounagon swimsuit ibuki douji swimsuit ruler class jeanne d'arc saint martha swimsuit sherlock holmes qin shi huang quetzalcoatl samba santa artoria pendragon swimsuit ruler himiko leonardo da vinci swimsuit james moriarty lily iyo avenger class edmond dantes jeanne d'arc alter angra mainyu gorgon antonio salieri demon king oda nobunaga space ishtar kama avenger swimsuit nitocris alter alter ego class meltryllis passionlip sessyoin kiara okita souji alter ashiya douman xu fu larva tiamat mooncancer class bb bb summer sessyoin kiara swimsuit archetype earth foreigner class abigail williams katsushika hokusai mysterious heroine xx voyager van gogh mysterious idol x alter kukulkan pretender class oberon beast class draco nero

[anglerfishnabe]

Also, is your character's series more character driven or story driven (and if story driven, how much does the history behind it drive the plot)?

ok i have literally no idea about tropes sorry im just going to answer this only sorry fkgkgk 

But uh it starts very character driven and it still is but the plot is going pretty strong especially after Abashiri arc it’s definitely starting to shift gears a lot. 

But uh there are plenty of characters that are based on not only on actual people but also to other fictional ones - they’re not copies or anything though but like yeah. Characters can even be mixed of two different people, I recall Sugimoto for instance was based on the authors own grandfather and… I forget who else sorry but also Keiichirou Sakamoto and O-gin the Viper are also based on actual criminals with same names but ALSO put together as Bonnie and Clyde. . Shiraishi’s model was Shiratori Yoshie who actually also escaped from prison many times laughs.  Also Edogai is based on both Ed Gein and Norman Bates - so yeah fictional and real people mixed too

Also Toshizo Hijikata did exist but although they don’t know where he was buried, he was dead at the time. Nagakura Shinpachi on other hand was actually alive during the time the series happened but obv wasn’t involved to anything like this lol. Arisaka the creator of the rifles also appears but wasn’t involved in any coup d’etats like Tsurumi is planning as far as I know. Hokuchin unit did also exist and most of the 7th division have models there but I’d say they’re only lightly based on them lol I mean yeah 7th division is pretty wild in gk lol.

 Noda does lots of mixing up with popular culture and history with characters and therefore also mixes history up a little though big events likely remain the same, there are loads of real people appearing AND mentioned.

And uh since we have ainu as the deuteragonist..... Culturally speaking though we have LOTS of info on ainus - their food, religion, culture, language and we have people working with ainus that have been assisting Noda on the information and so on plus the series has Ainu Association’s endorsement. 

Hopefully that answers the question?? Did you mean actual history even I’m laughing fkgjgk but yeah 

tl;dr version: starts character driven but the plot is sort of always present there since the setting is fairly straightforward by itself (treasure hunt, Asirpa’s father). It’s not about actual historical events but mentions many of them but also mixes in both western and japanese popular culture in pretty smoothly.