#ren's oberon simping episode

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Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Ngl I know Castoria is Guda’s foil but I didn’t think that Oberon is too, that’s a very good point! The line about the Valentine CE makes even more sense now with this, regarding how despite the contents, the beautiful box at least will remain. I think this is evidence on Guda’s mindset compared to Oberon’s. Oberon sees the ugly in in the beautiful, just like how he sees the beauty in the ugly. Guda does too, but Guda chose to see the beauty regardless of everything. I wanted to believe this is why Oberon was even willing to be summoned by Guda, despite Chaldea and PHH being the very things that stood as the antithesis to his hopes and dreams. Guda may be uprooting fantasies (trees) but Guda carried the stories of those fantasies with them. And Oberon definitely knows this.

This is why I love Oberon and Guda’s relationship so much. Like you said, most of the other Servants propped Guda up on a pedestal and view them as the glorious Master supreme, but not Oberon. Oberon saw them for what they are, and it’s mutual, Guda too, saw Oberon for who he is. Guda can be who they are because Oberon views them as the person they are beyond the title of Master. The way Guda has this sass and can fire back the mischievousness at Oberon also felt like how friends tease each other. With some other Servants it felt like there’s this wall between them and Guda, and with the fanservice thing idk it just felt... hollow? For me in some areas. Like Guda how are you landing all these bitches and sonnuvaguns left and right teach me. It doesn’t always apply to anyone but the way at times everyone just swoons over to Guda is a bit uncomfortable for me sometimes because like I said, it felt like there’s this wall between the Servants and Guda for me, it’s like fangirling over a nonexistent 2D character SOB SOB WAIL BAWL OBEROOONNNN MY LOVE

I’m not trying to talk shit about guys liking the fanservice or waifus throwing themselves onto Guda’s lap, because hey, I’m a girl and I have needs too (evidenced by all of my self-indulgent Oberon feedings) so I understand that. But the way Oberon is his own person despite being on a completely different realm of existence is what made me fell in love with him. And with him, Guda felt like a person that I want to actually sit down and have a drink with. Not just some self-insert. Something about Guda and Oberon’s relationship felt almost akin to like how me and my bestie act around each other. We know each other’s bullshit already so there’s no point in hiding anything, we just be ourselves. Guda and Oberon knew each other’s bs. Their uglies. Their beauties. So what’s the point of lying if both parties know the truth already? It’s sad irony. Because for me, it’s these two “pretenders” that have the most “real” relationship.

Oberon’s present is so thoughtful. Not nice as giving you delicious food in hopes to get under the Master’s mystic code, or an useful item, or a pretty one (even if the box really is), but because it shows how Oberon is the Servant who knows what Guda is like (with Arturia Caster too, the trio know each other so well). There’s no idealization here, no delusion of romanticism that props Guda up as some pristine hero that sweeps people off their feet, as a salvation for anyone as so many Servants imagine Guda is, pushing their feelings to them which are all half-heartened accepted to humor them. Summer Sei’s scene calls out this habit seemly.

That gift, Oberon Vortigern claims, befits both him and Guda. A precious, everlasting glorious wrapping which hides soot, salty substance of contents that long expired. Oberon the Liar is honest of their nature there, and knowing of Guda’s true nature underneath the “glorious” role of “Master of Humanity” which humanizes and fleshes out Guda more than the other Valentine scenes that presents only gives the “package.” That’s why there’s unusually chatty dialogue, of two people intimately interacting as they know each other so well, roasting each other if they have to. Guda even calls out Oberon of being “Merlin” to Arturia Caster to his dismay.

Avalon Le Fae put Arturia Caster as foil to Guda, or what was left of Guda after Olympus, and all the previous Lostbelts. A chosen one (or so it seems, like Oberon, Arturia role was to deceive everyone, both are liars). But also put Oberon to foil Guda too. That’s why in Garden of Lost Will, the “Guda of the Mirror” takes Oberon’s form. Perhaps just like Arturia watched Guda, secretly hoping that one would choose to run away from their role, in a moment of weakness. Guda did the same with both, Oberon and Arturia Caster, but neither did. Whether there was a choice or not involved, both ran toward their inevitable roles and fate.

I feel that unlike the other scenes, Guda never gave and receive the present as “Master of Chaldea” but as Guda. Because they cannot hide from Oberon behind that role or projecting the expectations everyone sets on them, and Oberon doesn’t hide from them in that dream. There’s acknowledgement is there, as always, and would remain, but it’s not the heart of the matter. Because is like that present: a beautiful wrapping that contains something insidious and exhausted.

(and that’s fine, the ending in both Oberon scenes imply Oberon would indeed answer to Guda’s call, ominously, if no one is there. Can we talk about the implications in the forest date scene? The 君 - the pronoun associated to Titania and Master occasionally- paired with his line he would make this story unfinished if Guda so much asks if the ending is a bad one, and “giving Guda happy memories” as if Oberon knows the time is running out for them, as once sought to give Arturia Caster).

IMO, this scene wasn’t locked behind LB6 only for Oberon (otherwise every single LB6 character would have spoilers. Obviously Oberon Vortigern is a spoiler, and all the contextual talk in the forest wouldn’t be understood without reading LB6, but how would be Morgan’s scene understood about loving her kingdom without you reading? That’s also a spoiler about LB6 yet Nasu didn’t care to lock it), but for Guda’s characterisation too. How Guda behaves and is like cannot be understood in those rare moments that stops being just a self insert if you don’t play LB6.

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OctOberon month day 17 - Fatui style

Also heads up for everyone, I won't be posting on the ex-bird app from now on until they change or undo all the crap they're pulling there. I will be more active here or bsky until the rat is off the steering wheel

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Student council president? More like delinquent leader

Either way, would suck him

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"F**k parenting." -- Oberon 2xxx

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Percy who artoria please give me your uncle

Okay but Artoria’s uncle isn’t just sus but his Howl-looking ass is also very dare I say breedable

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Quick Oberon doodle because I gots to draw him

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Oberon V. Graves

Happy Halloween everyone!

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King of Gamblers Oberon

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Back to your regularly scheduled Obeposting, Bridgerton themed this time

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I've been super drained from real life stuff last week but this is all worth it Definitely don't have a more impure version of this, nnnno sir

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Heartfelt congratulations to Muryan for being playable!

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Her "Spring" Memory

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The grip this man has on me that it compels me to finish this in a day

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Maid day 2024

I know I look like I haven't drawn him for a long time but trust me... I still have mountains of wips of him just sitting there, menacingly, not even a certain gambler can kick him out of first place in my heart

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Diner Le Fae part 2

Going back to my roots for a bit (also drawing food is so fun holy sh—)