#which i mean....is fair. the fgo version did exist before redline.

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( I was finally able to play through Okita's interlude and I have - mixed feelings about it? )

Because on one hand I really loved her interactions with the kids. The conclusion of finding her 'makoto' was really solid. I adored the way she still kept trying to train even though she could barely swing her sword properly

But, not going to lie, I feel like romanticizing and overall making the death scene so soft was not the right direction to take.

Now, I understand that in literature we tend to overlook certain things for the sake of making a good story - we all do it. But there's no way on earth you're going to convince me that a person who died of tuberculous ( or so the legend goes, a lot of debate on that in some places ) lived the last few bits of their life happily in the warm sunlight.

It just...didn't portray her as a fighter very well, I think? The way I always visualized Okita's death was tragic with the records I read, as the legend of the original tell of him growing delirious and crying out to know what became of Kondou, with everyone telling him he was fine ( a lie, he'd already been executed ).

So they way they just have her smile and collapse when she's been told she looks really health that day - I'm not a fan.

Death by TB is not quiet and calm - it's spent gasping for air, your entire body having crumbled away bit by bit as time as gone bad. It's a devastating, hideous disease - specifically when we didnt have the treatments for it.

I think not portraying Okita as fighting against it to desperately try and get back on the battlefield was such a missed opportunity.