#u-olga marie

[inkypyon]

Madam presi?!

[getmoneyghoul]

sayonara lb7

[kaibutsushidousha]

Have you ever articulated your thoughts on Ms. president? Like in the way you did with Kiara?

It can't be the way I did with Kiara because Olga is still not a character with a complete narrative. I don't have a conclusion already to work backwards what she's about. That said, I think the latest reveal about her is something with a lot to comment about.

Olga Marie Quest 2 reveals the original Olga Marie was created as a control unit for CHALDEAS's system. That's a thing we speculated about before but now it's important to have it confirmed. It's really significant information when it comes to defining Olga.

As we can see her now, Olga is a machine who was never told she was a machine. She assumed she was a real girl, and because of that, she thought she needed approval from the creator she assumed to be her real father. She didn't get the approval that should come naturally to her apparent identity, so she began to hold herself to higher standards for it, which also comes with holding everyone else to higher standards, consequently making her a deeply unpleasant leader.

Her complexes blew up with Marisbury death, which pushed her to take command of Chaldea before she felt like she was ready for it, and made her contend with the fact that despite her incredible power, she was somehow unable to Rayshift and contract Servants (probably a more extreme case of Daybit inability to summon because he's not part of Earth's humanity). Olga Marie never felt more out of place in the identity she wrongly assumed to be hers.

In contrast, U-Olga is far more aware of what she was made for and a lot more in her element. She still holds everyone to very high standards, as it shows in her commentary about humanity's war and fuel problems, but her attitude about it is less that of an aggressive boss and more that of an attentive teacher and advisor.

But even then, U-Olga still proves herself too heavily affected by labels and the perceived responsibilities attached to it. In her reset state, she found dear companions in Fujimaru, Mash, and Marine 4, and she found her ideal in the deinos society that Wak Chan showed her, but at that point, she couldn't bring herself to act upon these desires that clearly originated from herself, because she was vaguely remembering her identity as an enemy of humanity. The only thing that ultimately made her break out of this role was accepting the other role Fujimaru said belonged to her, that of Chaldea's director.

One of the bigger mysteries in Fuyuki's story is how did Olga rayshift to Fuyuki when as far as everyone knew, she was incapable of rayshifting. The answer Lev gives is that Olga Marie's body was vaporized by being at the epicenter of the bomb, and without the restriction of the body, her mind and soul were naturally capable of rayshifting. Back when this was all it had, Olga being a ghost through her Fuyuki screentime feels like a really random twist that added nothing to plot. But now, Olga being unaware she was a ghost becomes part of a pattern of Olga being always incorrect about what she is.

Before Fuyuki, she assumed she was a human when she was actually a part of a Mystic Code. In Fuyuki, she assumed she still had a body when she didn't. From Olympus to Mictlan, she assumed she was an alien god who traveled to Earth to answer the SOS signal of a tortured peer (but in her Mictlan reset state, she changed her fake backstory to answering Earth's death cries) when she was unknowingly a Servant version of the Alien God CHALDEAS in the position of one of its Apostles. I don't have a conclusion to drop since the story isn't over, but I look forward to seeing how the 4 E-Olga Maries are also misinformed about their identity.

[dummy-dot-exe]

by ポテトルス

[writer-and-artist27]

Because reading section 2 of Lostbelt 7 had a lot of thoughts emerge.

It is well about time to process a real-life's worth of a year of emotional manipulation and abuse, anyway.

Inspired by real life and Chapter 30 of Fate/Grand Order From Lostbelt.

Content warning for discussion of abuse, as well as spoilers up to Section 2 of Lostbelt 7.

Tagging @partialdignity, @lunarimpact, @crescentialee, @magicallygrimmwiccan, and @withanina in particular, because you all helped with bringing this update so fast. Thankie, friends.

AO3 link here. OST Playlist here, with the new songs all included.

[picaroroboto]

within the first few weeks of her term, U-Olga Marie, the first female President of Earth, has already passed sweeping reforms establishing universal income and healthcare for all humans, as well as criminalizing all forms of discrimination and providing tens of billions of dollars worth of funding for health and science research. In addition she has dissolved all militaries, pledging that if any threat to Earth arises she will handle it personally with her pseudo-black holes.

oddly enough the one military branch she has not dissolved is the US Marines, but we're pretty sure that's just a misunderstanding.

[lastencoregraphics]

FATE/GRAND ORDER ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK VI ALBUM COVER

[cynthiaandsamus]

Beast VII: The Beast of Chunibyo, U-Olga Marie

[animegirlsakurablr]

Shenanigans in the Grand Order, part 821

You're my least favorite of the Sakura Five, so no.

I feel like it's been a long time since a character called me a bitch. Fine, I'll give you a point.

Why the fuck are we re-enacting the last boss fight in Atlantis?!

Okay, so we were telling the Deinos about Atlantis, but was the re-enactment that necessary? We tell them about the Chinese Lostbelt later on, but don't have to go through a fight from there.

1) who's going to tell her she's describing a different Archer, and 2) let's not tell her.

Oh hey, we're seeing U-Olga's perspective for the next fragment. That's neat, I guess.

Little does she know, we know.

Sort of neutral on U-Olga leaving, but hooray, we finally got rid of the priest!

Isn't that inconvenient.

Daybit is just built different, got it.

[typemoonconfessions]

[zmeyel]

Translations seem to be going with “Sovereign” for U-Olga Marie’s title now compared to the “President” that fan-translations originally used. While I initially thought sovereign sounded cooler/more imposing and fit the supposed Beast VII, post LB7 and how it portrays amnesiac U-Olga I think using “President” actually could have been a very interesting exploration of who should be making decisions about the future and a further discussion about the series-wide idea of imposing your ideals on others.

Across the franchise we’ve been presented different stances about imposing your own ideals on the world regardless of the wishes of others. In Fate/Zero, Iskander and Gilgamesh endorse such imposition as the markings of a hero and what it means to be a king. The fate and ubw routes of the original novel, to different degrees, present Shirou pursuing his ideals as at least something admirable even if they clash against common sense and structure of the rest of the world.

Conversely, multiple fgo events have antagonists whose goals and motivations Chaldea find sympathetic/positive but still reject the antagonist’s decision to force their idea of a better world on everyone else. But at the same time many of our main allies are people who did exactly that in life even if some feel a bit bad about it now.

But a “president” is someone whose authority to act comes from ostensibly being chosen by the masses. It could have been interesting to have U-Olga argue her actions are more justifiable than Chaldea’s since as President of Earth she represents the masses (maybe have Alaya side with her for awhile and Gaia sides with Chaldea or something).

Recent revelations about the Foreign World seem to go against any of what I just said but it was fun to think about at least.

[elementbrigade]

Caster class pseudo-servant Ochaco Uraraka, with the servant of the Alien World, U-Olga Marie. Still waiting to see when U-Olga will become a servant given what I saw in Lostbelt Seven XD. Last will be the Rider class servant...only problem is choosing which MHA character and the servant to go with them.

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

happy pride

[kaibutsushidousha]

On the topic of Olga Marie, I still find it interesting her class is listed as Unknown in gameplay, granted it could just be that they didn't want to reveal a semi-playable Beast before Draco, but I wonder if the whole thing about U-Olga being Beast 7 is a red herring (I could be wrong about that). Makes me wonder if she'll end up as a Saver/Savior class servant or something.

Her being Beast VII in Olympus is verified by Mash, a character who would never lie. The only question is whether she remained Beast VII after her Mictlan reset.

[empty-dream]

Me:

[kiwikipedia]

I think about the fact that all the Beasts loved humanity to the point of destroying it a lot.

There’s just something there deep down that I’m sure has been said so much more eloquently before about it. About how these beings who might not appear to be on the side of humanity at all only became such beings because they, in whatever twisted way they saw it, loved humanity so much.

They loved it so much that they could not bear the thought of the path it was taking and so they sought to make a better path for humanity. So they loved and loved and loved and destroyed because to make something new the old must be destroyed and to them, who loved humanity, they loved and destroyed in order to save.