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Sometimes, when the sun is low, and the Storm Border is quiet, Fujimaru Ritsuka will wander across the ship, and eventually finding themself staring at the storage room full of grails, of wishes. Staring through the shelves of golden goblets Ritsuka thinks that wanting to live isn't enough. Not a strong enough reason to have made it through all they have. They've talked to all if their servant's about the wishes they would make, and all of them seem more important then their simple desire.

That there must be a more meaningful wish in their heart that they are just unaware of.

Yet whenever pushed to the brink, all of it seems to return to that one wish.

A wish to live.... what does that wish even mean for someone who sees themself more in the servants that follow them then the living people closest to them? Having more connection with the fragments of fragments of ghosts. When they have more memories of people long dead them their own family and friends.

Ritsuka doesn't know what form their wish would take.

But even as death shadow's their steps like close friend, Ritsuka refuses its embrace, staunchly holding onto life. Even as the burden they carry crushes them, Ritsuka hold's out hope, that they'll create the life they're wishing for, and find the meaning that will make it all worth it.

If Ritsuka can't, and death approaches for the final time, they hope the ghosts will take them in with open arms, just as they do now.

But as always, these musings fade as the sun rises, and as the halls of the Storm Border grow loud with chatter from both staff and servants.

Fujimaru Ritsuka knows their wish is more than enough.

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Fanservant: Anansi

Class: Assassin

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A spider trickster from African myth. Most well known for stealing all the stories in the world from the sky god Nyame.

Ascensions: First ascension: Literally just a spider. Not even a giant one just a tiny speck on your screen that hops around wildly during battles. Second ascension: Looks like a young west-african boy covered in bead jewelry and facepaint. Basically dresses himself like he’s hot shit and wants everyone to know it. Third ascension: The same as above but with six arms and eight eyes. Final ascension art: Anansi sitting by a campfire happily telling a tale to you as the smoke drifts towards the stars.

Skills:

Mystic-Sealing Thread: Anansi’s threads are capable of even trapping spirits and fairies, and he captured a particularly elusive one with this thread as part of his wager with Nyame. In addition to spirits, it can also tie up enemies and prevent them from using their noble phantasms for a turn. Trickster EX: Invincibility for one hit, then evasion for one hit, then one hit of damage reduction, which triggers in that order. He’s able to trick his foes very easily at first, but sooner or later anyone will grow wise to his tricks so its less effective. Broken Pot of Wisdom: A remnant of the time Anansi attempted to gather all the wisdom in the world and seal it in a pot for himself. His attempt ended with the pot being shattered, but in realizing how foolish his actions were Anansi became wiser anyway. Increases NP gain by a large amount. Noble Phantasm: All the World’s Stories (Arts)

Anansi tells one of his innumerable tales. The impact of the stories, and the skill with which Anansi tells it, causes a profound emotional effect on ally and enemy alike (and Anansi himself gets buffed through enjoying the attention he gets when telling the story). The effect of the noble phantasm depends on which story Anansi tells, balancing out the massive strength of the effect with the lack of control you have on which one you get. A Tale of Strength and Courage: A story of great heroes vanquishing evil. Big boosts to attack damage and critical damage for the whole party. A Tale of Wonder and Mysticism: A story of strange lands and magic. Gives whole party 2 hits of evasion and boosts the rate of NP gain. A Tale of Horror and Despair: A tale of things that man was not meant to know. Debuffs both the attack and defence of enemies massively, but also debuffs attack and defence of all humanoid allies (albeit a much weaker debuff than on enemies). Basically the only characters not affected by this debuff are BB (for obvious reasons) and Anansi himself (they’re tales that MAN was not meant to know not tales that spoder was not meant to know) Once the player completes Anansi’s interlude at Bond 5 however, Anansi will add a fourth tale to the potential stories he tells in his noble phantasm: A Tale of Love and Hope (name taken from this CE: https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/A_Tale_of_Love_and_Hope#TL): The story of a ordinary human who despite their weaknesses still fights with all their strength to save the world. It does not yet have an ending, but Anansi intends to help write a happy one. Increases NP gauge of party members other than Anansi by 50% and heals all party members for 5000 HP.

Might do another post bond/ascension lines and/or interactions with other servants if anyone else is interested.

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Rokka Fujimaru just proves that Guda is very much able to remain upbeat and positive even if things go down the absolute shitter. They will remain a Normal Human even in the end. (This itself, is a form of insanity. Remaining normal, remaining human, in the face of everything is itself abnormal.)

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If you asked what Fujimaru Ritsuka's favorite number is they'd say 47.

That would be a lie.

Though to say it's a lie wouldn't be the full truth either.

Needless to say Ritsuka has a complex relationship to the number 47.

This all started back when the incineraton of humanity had just been revealed, Dr.Roman mentioning the fate of human history was a burden their mind, but that weight always felt distant. It was difficult to fully grasp what that weight felt like for a long time.

Yet what Ritsuka immediately felt, was the burden of 47 people's lives on their mind. Their hopes, dreams, and the duty those 47 people we're denied being able to complete now rest upon Ritsuka's shoulders.

Some days are better than others, some days it's as if 47 pairs of hands are pushing them towards their goal, towards the future. Other days they're suffocating under the weight of 47 bodies. Even now after the Temple of Time, and after all these Lostbelts, the memories of each of those of the people they met always feels eerily similar to the initial weight of 47 lives.

The only thing Ritsuka hopes, is that when they die, they leave enough room in their grave for 47 other people.

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don't go

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Fgo part 1 is as much a story about love and kindness as it is about anything else. A love so deep it makes someone forgo their own chance at life to save the ones they love, a love so strong it makes someone want to destroy and remake the ones they love, and a kindness so pure it let's someone save the world

And part 2 is still about love and kindness, but it's asking you the question "Can you still love so fiercely and show such kindness while taking actions directly contrary to that love and kindess?"

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Fgo part 1 is as much a story about love and kindness as it is about anything else. A love so deep it makes someone forgo their own chance at life to save the ones they love, a love so strong it makes someone want to destroy and remake the ones they love, and a kindness so pure it let's someone save the world

And part 2 is still about love and kindness, but it's asking you the question "Can you still love so fiercely and show such kindness while taking actions directly contrary to that love and kindess?"

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A new idea for Guda as a psudeo-servant, with Guda and Pandora, with Pandora's Box being Guda's body as in their life they were a vessal for 7 entire lostbelts worth of curses, so it seems like a fair stretch to make Guda's body not only a vessal for Pandora but also her Noble Phantasm

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I AM HAUNTED BY A PAST I CANNOT GO BACK TO !!!!!! anyways

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on one hand, berserker guda having an immortality np is overpowered and kinda bad writing on its own without anything to balance it out. On the other hand, this gives me the perfect opportunity to write them slit open from throat to navel, guts hanging out, holding onto their own severed arm to club people over the head with it, and I am nothing if not self-indulgent.

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the journey home is an endless one

may sarton “letters from maine” // james baldwin “giovanni’s room” // neil gaiman “the graveyard book” // @wordsnquotes-net // anne carson “men in the off hours” // miriam adeney // “no longer fits” // han kang “the vegetarian” // “garden state” dir. zach braff // richard blanco “mexican almuerzo in new england” // mitski “there’s nothing left here for you” // julian barnes “a history of the world in 10 1/2 hours”

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the journey home is an endless one

may sarton “letters from maine” // james baldwin “giovanni’s room” // neil gaiman “the graveyard book” // @wordsnquotes-net // anne carson “men in the off hours” // miriam adeney // “no longer fits” // han kang “the vegetarian” // “garden state” dir. zach braff // richard blanco “mexican almuerzo in new england” // mitski “there’s nothing left here for you” // julian barnes “a history of the world in 10 1/2 hours”

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dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

your house has a gas leak

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Reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a Croissant (🥐).

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I know Guda as their own servant is a super fun concept to toy with, however I propose that it would be even funnier if Guda became a pseudo-servant for some extremely powerful entity, and still kept being the main driver of their body regardless

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Reblog for bigger sample size!

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Anyways I can't make a poll about it, but iconic canon Guda moments, on top of my head:

Choosing to hold a dying girl's hand during what they initially assumed to be their final moments (Fuyuki)

"WE ARE NOT SOME BUTTERFLIES ON A BOARD!" (Camelot)

Breaking down in historical laughter upon learning that the ally army has been utterly slaughtered (Camelot)

Planchaing a goddess (Babylonia)

Threatening to sue a different goddess (still Babylonia)

"Yeah uhhh I don't really care about onis and humans? You answered my call. That's what matters." (Setsubun)

Fistfighting Goetia with their bare hands (Solomon)

Immediately flagging Sherlock as an impostor (Shinjuku)

"Helping people is my hobby" (KnK event)

"I am a monster. I am fundamentally evil. My existence is fundamentally at odds with that of humans." "... Anyways." (Yu Meiren's valentine, Gorgon's interlude, CCC event)

[Wakes up falling from the sky] "Again??" (Apocrypha event)

Banging their head against a wall to force themself to pass out under the assumption that it would help someone (Murder at the Kogetsukan)

Being unable to see people's face properly (murder at the kogetsukan)

having to be reminded that a man is dead and no, that is not cause to rejoice (murder at the kogetsukan)

[being forced to fight a former ally] "Oh so business as usual huh?" (CCC event)

Blatantly disregarding authority to save people (CCC event)

Saving Goredolf, a man who has been nothing but a pain so far, despite very much being in a situation where they couldn't afford it (Lostbelt prologue)

Using their own lifespan as a bullet to kill gods

Randomly astral projecting into whoever is nearby and vaguely thinking about their backstory (Little big tengu)

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