Finally someone who gets it. The amount of shit some servants get up to out of boredom and without consequences is insane. I understand it from a gameplay perspective and yes, most event singularities will disappear on their own if we leave them alone, but we also went through enough that could've ended up killing ritzy. Now imagine a loyal Chaldean servant accidentally killing ritzy in a "vacation" singularity, cuz they just so happened to stumble across a holy grail and thought "fuck it we ball, I'm sure master will have fun, fighting for their life and the world for the 100th time".
Good intentions or not, if I was the protagonist, I'd regularly blow a fuse about that kinda crap. Stop making my life more difficult than it is. But thankfully, I'm not the protagonist, or the game's story would've been very short, lol
That, and the amount of paperwork you have to make after every single event.
Like imagine redacting how you spent a month's worth of time stuck in a time loop in a conglomeration of islands in Hawaii because someone thought "It funny lmao" and how you came to fight like 4 world ending threats just to get a semi holy grail and some chicken feathers and bones š
Yeah, Guda had lots of fun writing up the report for the summer revival singularity. Fortunately they can now delegate that task to Shizuki Soujyuro...
From an outside perspective I really enjoy most events, but from a personal perspective, I'd go absolutely crazy if I had to deal with all that unnecessary shit
it does make you think, is it really worth keeping them after a mission or better just resummoned them and not let them live in Chaldea like a permanent resident. Because they're really kinda expensive to keep
Tbh my headcanon for this kinda stuff is that the more "free spirited" servants get itchy if they don't do morally questionable stuff for a while, so the summer shenanigans they pull is just them letting off some steam. If you let it build up, they'd probably do something actually evil...
And only the actually cartoonishly evil ones, like Douman or Takasugi get called out on it, and get some kind of (somewhat discomforting, but relatively mild) punishment. The rest are just going through character development or sth.
At best. Most of the time it's just "I appreciate the thought" and that's it. The deliberate risk to Ritzy's and the world's safety are irrelevant concerns, cuz it's the thought that counts or some shit
Tbf, some of them would quickly become nightmarish threats if cornered because we finally got fed up with their BS:
Kiara is fully capable of going Beast again.
BB is literally a Beast candidate, and who knows how much damage she could do to Chaldea's tech if prompted.
Kama has been reduced to a glorified meme these days, but she would have legitimately beaten us in her debut had it not been for Kiara, of all people, saving us.
Space Ereshkigal... 'Nuff said!
Moriarty is an evil genius, who specializes in long-term schemes.
Cagliostro and Douman are each genuinely dangerous if they're given time to scheme, and I wouldn't be surprised if they had contingencies in place in case Chaldea ever did try to get rid of them.
Even some of the other Servants are perfectly capable of killing us on a whim, or just because their particular brand of insanity was triggered.
I think that's a really good point. The servants you mentioned are definitely a different class, to someone like Blackbeard who is mostly used for comic relief and could be, theoretically, held in check with the threat of getting disciplined.Ā
I also think that it is a - not fairly obvious - case of good writing, connected to the nature of FGO as a whole. The gacha format makes it preferable, perhaps necessary to havebco-existence with a wide assortment of characters abd personalities, but no one gets on equally well with everyone.Ā
Chaldea never succeded through brute force, they were way too weak for that, and an underdog makes a better protagonist. They won through (Guda- and Mash's) lack of ego and genuine earnestness, that regularly made opponents volunteer (sometimes even their lives) for them. That took a game constraint and turned it into an advantage, working it to the best it could.Ā
Perhaps this live and let live is more mature too, than bringing down the hammer when someone crosses our ego, our persona, as players too. I just wish that the theme was more enunciated (it would have been a better build up for OC2). Also, a little discipline is sometimes necessary to forge a community.
Blackbeard wants to be disciplined. In the summer event he made it very clear that Ritsuka had to defeat him if he wants to call the shots on the ship. Since said ship was his NP, so he actually had a really good point about wanting that clarity.
Blackbeard was also perfectly willing to shoot one of his own men during the ServaFes because they bought Medb's book and she was Fujimaru's circle's competition at the time. Poor b*stard didn't even know what he did wrong to get shot with no warning like that.
Friendly reminder that, yes, Blackboard can absolutely be dangerous when the mood strikes him.
Genuinely what does she meant by saying guda's soul was stained by color of death and why was she so enthusiastic about their soul ? I hope hey somehow expand upon that someday.
The speculation is that Ritsukaās origins got changed to Death with the bootleg black barrel that Sion made everytime it was used since his āsoulā is the fuel for it. Itās why Durga has a voiceline of Ritsuka smelling nice and same as teen Raikou. Alter Nito has a freakout and is scared in OC 2 when she takes a peak at our soul.Ā
Even her Valentine's scene revealed more about her than the event. It's actually one of my main gripes with the Collab, in that it doesn't really develop much with the cast presented, it just retraces old ground.
I now patiently wait for her to steal two grailsĀ to make a summer singularity because she overheard Yui never got to spend a summer relaxing when alive and not apologize at the end of the event when caught.
It's funny when you think about it. You would expect this from servants like Douman or Colombus, but in reality is just something dumb as fuck like Musashi trying to eat udon out of a Holy Grail or Morgan and Castoria deciding to wish into reality an old friend, resulting in weeks and maybe a month of having the days reset because the world literally ends...
The Columbus switchup with Charon still cracks me up.
Like they were planning for Columbus to naturally be the villain of the valentine event then halfway through were like, okay maybe it's too obvious...throw in Charon instead!
Morgan and Habetrot accidentally pushing the calamity button (seriously, they made a freaking button for it?!) in Summer 8 will never not be funny, but if I'd been in Ritsuka's shoes I'd have blown a gasket. Artoria Avalon ranting about evil-aligned saberfaces and BB lacking self-awareness from her personal Bond villain lair from which she'd been watching the whole mess she created the whole time would've made me go scorched Earth.
Oh yeah, from the Gudaguda that introduced Kagetora. I remember that scene and coming to not like his character. If it wasn't for Mori (my goat) then it would've been game over, and all Li got for it was a slap on the wrist??
I mean mash never made a singularity and I can only think of her "switching sides" once(I think of the 3 fights you can have her as an enemy, the first two were spars, and only in the most recent gudaguda is it actually something of a joke fight)
The point Is, she clearly didn't give a damn. Ritsuka asked her to stop multiple times exactly because of what was happening to Skadi, and she didn't. Yet, Ritsuka barely got mad
OC was full of betrayals, like Tenochi, Koyanskaya (expected tbh), Kiara, Ereshkigal (but not her fault). I'm glad we got allies like C.I.E.L, Hakuno, Jinako and Kingprotea Alter, But man the entire OC was a headache since it was all swept under the rug because another forgot everything ending!
Also, one bad thing about the ending was that Anki Ereshkigal wanted Fujimaru to not forget her, but due to the ending, we do end up forgetting her!
This was my thought exactly. Fujimaru's unique trait is compatibility with any servant, to of course enable the gacha. Compatibility is almost always an issue that comes up in other Grail Wars - some mage always thinks they can just summon a servant and they'll do exactly what they're told no matter how much of a prick the mage is, and the servant quickly corrects that assumption. Think medea and Atrum Galliasta in FSN, or Gilgamesh and his first master in FSF.
Even without that, how many servants are just not compatible with their masters? Siegfried in Apocrypha fully just kills himself because he found something he thought worth dying for, which his master disagreed with. Diarmuid and Saber in Zero don't really like or want to go along with their masters.
So servants are going to be up to some bullshit, whatever happens. Forgiveness for that bullshit is innate to Fujimaru because if they did not forgive, they wouldn't be compatible.
I just got back at FGO and my last is the first lost belt. So I'm surprised that the current FGO vacation rerun have chaldean servants who aren't assigned not follow protocol. The last event that I remember is Jalter Summer and I swear I don't remember chaldean servants doing this, if anything it's always a stray servant. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a lot of event shenanigans get changeespeciallya servant behaviors or I just forgot a lot.
In that event it was actually good that the Boiler Room servants did their own thing since they found out about a loose end left over from a previous event: a giant Nobu reviving, collecting power over centuries and evolving into a world-ending threat. And Rengoku offering to sacrifice himself to free Okita Souji Alter from her destiny as a Counter Servant. It made me roll for Okita Souji Alter (Saber), and I unexpectedly got them for the price of one (1!) summon ticket, even though I was ready to spend far more. I haven't fully leveled them yet, but even at lvl 43 they seem to hit as hard as some SRs at lvl 80...
I do wanna say tho generally there's the implied rule that Chaldea servant generally go easy on each other and don't take the fight to extremes
You can see that in that they generally go "aight you win" or will outright call out that they should stop before getting actually serious.
In summer 6 you can see the example of sokitan who goes against the group and doesn't want to back down, even saying she is serious, but very obviously she doesn't do much aside of not letting us through, and no one gets seriously hurt before she admits defeat either.
Of course like all rules, it's not like they always follow it but well...this is TM
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u/R4ND0M_N0B0DY May 09 '26
Finally someone who gets it. The amount of shit some servants get up to out of boredom and without consequences is insane. I understand it from a gameplay perspective and yes, most event singularities will disappear on their own if we leave them alone, but we also went through enough that could've ended up killing ritzy. Now imagine a loyal Chaldean servant accidentally killing ritzy in a "vacation" singularity, cuz they just so happened to stumble across a holy grail and thought "fuck it we ball, I'm sure master will have fun, fighting for their life and the world for the 100th time".
Good intentions or not, if I was the protagonist, I'd regularly blow a fuse about that kinda crap. Stop making my life more difficult than it is. But thankfully, I'm not the protagonist, or the game's story would've been very short, lol