#this is incoherent and incomplete cause it ties in with some other of FGOs issues which i don't have the energy to get into now.

[cyborg-squid]

Okay first of all everyone I am extremely sorry for exposing you to shitty FGO reddit sprite comics, but I saw these two and it pissed me off so much that I had to rant about it, and how it ties into one of FGOs (and Extella some too) biggest flaws.

Not to sound like some fucking preacher yelling about monogamy or the uptight nerd yelling “She’s taken!” but like. Guda/the FGO protagonist. is not The Master (which in this context can also mean love interest) for Tamamo or Nero or Rin or Saber or Jeanne or most other characters I’ve sine this cringe Marvel move meme quote about, they already have their own Masters in Hakuno or Shirou or Sieg or whoever, in characters who they have a much stronger emotional bond with due to the fact that either A) their pairing is the one fleshed out over the course of a linear narrative or B) they have entire visual novel routes dedicated to them during which that bond is formed and explored. 

And while I do love Guda and their compatibility with all sorts of Servants, this kind of exposes the flaws in FGO’s visual novel nature, in it’s lack of ‘routes’ and true definition of Guda’s character prior to Arc 2. While there are many Servants whom you could say that Guda is The Master of (Mash, Musashi, Ereshkigal (not Rin), and Bedivere, for example) and whom they have a very strong and FGO-unique bond with, because of how large FGO is in terms of cast and limited it is in it’s VNness, many of these Servants connections and relations with Guda aren’t as fully explored as they ought to be. It lacks that intimate one-on-one connection that Masters such as Shirou, Hakuno, Sieg, Ayaka, Waver, etc... have with their Servants, due in large part to the fact that FGO really doesn’t give Guda an internal monologue, which leaves a lot of the relationship up to player interpretation and definition, but unlike the VNs which feature actual like. route definition and choices, these FGO choices are purely gameplay around who to summon, level, and bond with, etc... 

I’m competely fine with people shipping their Gudas/Mastersonas/themselves with whatever Servants they want, but it’s just fucking. something about shit like this, this... it just feels like entitlement to me, to these characters who have much stronger connections (romantic or platonic) with their Own Masters*, just because they’re in FGO, which has this unfortunate need to put pretty much everyone from previous games in it and accessible (via the summon pool) to the player.  *The married-in-life Servants are a different matter to me cause I can make this poly, I’ll fuck Yoshinaka/Caesar/Sigurd/Xiang Yu/whoever too.

What I feel like I’m trying to is. like. Guda will never be Nero or Tamamo’s Hakuno, they won’t be Karna’s Jinako, they wont be Saber or Rin or Sakura’s Shirou, they won’t be Jeanne or Astolfo’s Sieg, these connections between Guda and these Servants can and should be made but the love story? Has already been (or is being) told much better in other entries.

Or maybe the FGO reddit just fucking sucks and is filled with delusional weebs whose brains have already succumbed to Late Stage Waifuism and that’s all there is too it.

Or maybe it’s both. Probably both.