#berserker class

[birdhouseblog25]

Why Berserkers are weak to the Foreigner Class (kinda sorta theory but here me out).

(This was a post originally submitted in my old account, but I want to bring it back because I saved it on my docs. )

Do you know what took me the longest time to realize playing Fate/Grand Order for at least 4-6 years now? 

That Berserkers are weak to Foreigner servants because of their lack of sanity. 

When you think about it, for a heroic spirit to become a berserker class servant, they got rid of any sanity left in them to gain the power to defeat their enemies in the Holy Grail War.

 In some cases, a berserker class can be the weakest and strongest class because they are a power balance to weigh out the war from any other servants that might get a head start to fight them. In FGO, Berserker servants and enemies gain a 2.0x double attacking power against any class of servant..

It’s crazy how the most cracked-out class unit of the game, let alone the Fate franchise, could be the most balanced by just selling the sanity for corn chip and power.

 But then Hercules exists.

To this very day, I am baffled that Hercules in his Berserker form is his WEAKEST form. It melts my brain just thinking about it because even in his weakest class, he is a literal war machine, let alone a straight-up beast doing unimaginable feats that question how insane the Greek servants are in Fate.

(Don’t get me started on his list of noble phantasms like his 12 labors, God's Hand, and Maine of the Nameaon Lion because we would be here all day.)

Long story short, the Berserker class is insane (pun intended), which brings us to the Foreigner class and why they upset the power balance of the Berserker class.

Foreigners at the time were a class of servants that made contracts with beings beyond the fabric of reality. They are what we know are the Outer Gods and Elder Gods from the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. These are creatures that no mortal human can comprehend. Just trying to understand the nature of these beings can burn your brain to mush and cause you to lose your mind. 

Berserkers are no exception. The Elder Gods, Outer Gods, and The Old Ones all consume chaos and insanity as their drive, berserkers barely lack enough sanity to fight a foreigner. If we’re going by not only the lore of H.P. Lovecraft and Fate lore, chances are the berserkers have a fighting chance, but then lies the problem.

While half of the roasters of berserkers do have sanity left in them to function freely, they are limited by their madness enhancement. Even some of the Foreigner-class servants currently in the fgo roaster are alien life forms from our solar system and universes that aren’t in contact with any Outer God.

MHX, MHX Alter, Mysterious Ranmaru X, Ciel- Servantverse

Voyager- Satellite of Pan-Human History

The Types/Ultimate One, Wandajin, Koyanskya- Alien Life Forms

The Olympians- Gundams

Mesoamerican Gods- Gundams, but if they were spiders

Now we do have the Salem manga in the Epic of Remnant manga series being published, so we might have a chance to see a berserker and a foreigner fight each other. Unfortunately, I don’t know where to read the translated manga online, so I don’t mind waiting for the pages to be translated into English. Let's hope for the best!

(I would also add in the Mooncell since it is also alien in origin, but my brain cells aren’t ready to go back to the Extra lore. I don’t wanna go back, please; it’s too much sometimes.)

[i-scream-for-fate]

Berserker class Shizuki Sōjūrō for the Kumano Hot Springs Killer Case - Mahou Tsukai no Yoru x FGO Collab event in Fate Grand Order.

Illustrator: Koyama Hirokazu.

[edswordsman]

Summoned a new Berserker-class Servant:

Arjuna (Alter)!

[tortured-griffith]

Tumblr user transsexualcoriolanus said:

"I find differences between Hamlet's and Ophelia's "madness" super interesting. Because Hamlet puts on his "antique disposition", in part, so that people essentially stop listening to him. ...Ophelia's madness, on the other hand, is, in part, because nobody will listen to her. Throughout the play, she is dismissed and ignored, and when she breaks, it's through her "madness" that people notice and pay attention to her for the first time. ..."

○Casca as women of mythology/literature.

[yukiranine]

fantasy au iruka would use a morningstar flail this is not a question

[puspa-san]

These are samples for the final ascension chibi version. All class included.

[drsunshines]

Some Berserk for art class, and John Hancock wip

[gacha-incels]

not the tearful apology for Faust’s lower voice before they drop her wedding dress gacha banner lol

[thegreatyin]

also i think the scoundrel should be a berserker because it's funny. and also the bat obsession thing. but mostly because it's funny

[iluknights]

piggybacking manu's servant classification for amphoreus : anaxa berserker, rider castorice, caster hyacine, assassin cipher

[birdhouseblog25]

Failed to get Kotominee Rasputin, but I did get Tezcatlipoca. Am I still bitter about the fact that he's not a Berserker? Yes.

The lack of Berserkers pains me, which is crazy considering we do have a good amount of berserker servants but lacking in terms of new servants.

[i-scream-for-fate]

Berserker class Artoria Caster (Summer) for the Servant Summer Festival 2023 in Fate Grand Order.

Illustrator: Takeuchi Takashi.

[edswordsman]

⚔️ Summoned a new Berserker-class Servant: Lancelot! 🛡️

[wobspots]

griffith enjoyers pspspspspspsppsps

originally sketched this a year ago, trying to imagine how he'd look post-torture. my other headcanon is that his face is normal but hes bald. they balded him.

i have more of these btw, i just have to render them but the ogs are already posted here

[jeudimacabre]

i have oc making fever again bc i want to cook up a weird dogmatic woman

[summer-oil]

alsooooo i added another layer of Lore to my kitsune!geto fic (that may never see the light of day). it was already pretty fate-inspired but i think i’ve gone overboard atp LMAO ….. it’s tasty though……