#jeanne and emiya and naps all ALSO need embers

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

i saw your post on rin isthar and i completely agree with you. isthar is better when written as just herself, not as rin or as someone to be paired along with enkidu and gil. that’s why the isthar from strange fake is amazing to me. because she’s not just rin or someone to be with gil and enki. she’s herself. she’s allowed to show her true colors and isn’t as watered down as fgo isthar. i love when isthar in sf is just straight up terrible, because of that. we deserve a better isthar honestly

i keep hearing good things about strange fake, going 'i should read strange fake', and then not reading it...

but yes! basically whenever you take a character and use them just as an accessory to someone else it always ends up hurting their chances to develop on their own, and it's hard for ishtar bc she wasn't necessarily like that in her intro chapter but she's definitely degraded a bit in fgo, which does like to reference 'meta' jokes, and it really shows how much of a good change it is when they let them stand on their own as a character. like i remember reading somewhere one of the reasons eresh works so well was because the writers forgot she was a rinface and its like...yeah....

tldr; if you're going to have a character reference other characters/works don't use it as the crutch for their entire character, let them stand out on their own. or at least don't make their interlude revolve around someone else?