— Carol Rifka Brunt In Tell The Wolves I'm Home

been doing some valentine cards over at dailyenkidu these days! give em to your crush or your homies!

Gudas's parents visiting Chaldea Headquarters

Gudako: *whispers to Gudao* I thought Da Vinci-chan would say no...

Gudao: *whispers back* She did say she got some plans on her sleeve so...

Gudas's father: *bows* It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Gudao's and Gudako's father

Gudas's mother: *bows* And I'm their mother. Thank you so much for taking such good care of Gudao and Gudako

Da Vinci: *smiling* Leonardo Da Vinci. The world's-- *got kicked at her leg* I meant, their Boss. I'm pleased to have both Gudao and Gudako as a member of Chaldea here.

Mash: *smiles, nods* That's right. Gudao-senpai and Gudako-senpai has been such amazing senpais, Sir, Ma'am.

Cu Chulainn: *grinning* They've always been a great help too! Right?

Gilgamesh: *smiling* Yes, despite their foolish dimwit capabilities... Those mongrel has been a great honor in serving me

Gudas's mother: Did that man just say 'mongrel'?

Enkidu: *pulls Gilgamesh in a chokehold, covering his mouth and smiles at them* Pardon him, please ignore what he just said

Emiya: *nods, smiling* That's right, Gudao and Gudako are hardworking and pleasant to work with was what he meant

Gudas:

Gudako: *whispers* I don't think I've ever seen them smile so much...

Gudao: *whispers back* That's some muscle training Da Vinci-chan was talking about

not aromantic but I believe in their beliefs.

"there's no platonic explanation for this" try harder bucko

all guda related stuff in mahoyo collab

summoning as a highly complicated magecraft -> highly intact sense of self, magical energy, magical crest, sheer willpower........you who is light and equally dark....

casual comments/banter to the people they trust

guda getting shocked of all things at a talking bird www

gudako -> young girl that likes to jog every morning

gudao -> brat that likes small time candy store sweets

UGH the further emphasis on Servants being familiars that no one - not anyone should just use (exceptional...)

stressing the role of a 'Master'

'I also make mistakes a lot'

"I still don't see what's so special about summoning."

guda screams during summons? lmao kind of reminds me of mash with lord camelot

the way guda just refers to other people as 'that another human' www (i know 'person' is more accurate but to me it sounds like an alien in disguise calling someone as 'fellow human' ww)

Of COURSE guda knows how to stop their own pulse

disbelief. perhaps gut feeling. guda's perception of death to others. (i guess in the face of unnatural they would doubt it. but considering Id chapter, it would depend on the person and how theyre closest to?)

'more like tobimaru' 'more like soujyuurou' getting angry on behalf of someone without letting it show as well... i Understand.

THE TOPIC OF AGING KILLS ME. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE HESITANT????? dont yokuwakaranaina ME????

Don't face world-ending disasters alone

IM CRYING OH MY GOD IM NOT WELL "did you sleep well?" "i slept peacefully because the night was quiet and nice" AUGH GUDAAAAA😭

probably nothing of note but additional descriptor to guda is that they look like a college student as compared to previous descriptions of being 'high school student'.......

not being good at horror stories 🥹 reminds me of summer 5...

(unwell) i forget about guda's tactical prowess sometimes (lies) + guda's mention of the looking glass reminds me of berkercas valentines...

Subtle but gudao's reaction to beating down kashin is 'exhausted or relieved' meanwhile for dako she has the 'doubt' in her dialogue

subtle again but theres a hesitance to guda when asked about what the future looked like. but their second option is saying "eh there arent any flying cars anyways"

ahh okay now i know the crypto stuff guda said. its from gudao. is this MHX's influence lmao. gudao youre advertising crypto seriously? ww

guda casually joking about the times they astral project out of their body likes its nothing and mash is not normal either of course and treats it as regular occurrences. well, its regular but for a normal average person in the 21st century, it certainly isnt ww

GUDA ONCE AGAIN PROVING that despite being 'camera' for us players, they actively hide information and i am not over that fact. (knowing who the culprit is before most of the rest-)

guda not hesitating at ALL to rayshift back to 1999 where the end of the world was supposed to happen www

Ah!! To encourage kinomi in confessing, guda confessed their own out in the open!!!

A bakery with the one they love / A wish to reach the South Pole

You may not be able to have all of your dreams, your nights be peaceful, but I hope that you will still be rewarded at the end of your journey 😭

Im sorry but a good amount of servants genuinely confused at how Guda managed to befriend them despite all logic has me hella suspicious if they really are the “totally normal person” Nasu says they are. Like, Edmond is extremely confused about how you can even summon him and finds himself absolutely infatuated with you, to his own confusion. Meanwhile, inhuman(for servants) monsters like Izou and Summer BB are lowkey intimidated by Guda’s absolute lack of care, so far as to having Summer BBs Valentines have her trap Guda in another world because she wants to assure their absolute safety, where she herself doesnt understand why. Then theres the case with Foreigner Class servants, where the events of the Salem Singularity has Yog Sogoth almost desperate to posess Guda, especially since like, even if they command what is essentially an army of servants, Guda is still limited to 3 Command Seals and could be easily overrun. Then theres the fact that in part 2 we meet Jeancle, whose more or less a stand in for the Chaldea staff and he sees Guda as friendly but ultimately weird, which implies that Guda may not actually have good regular people skills but are great at speaking to Servants and other, specifically nonhuman beings, so them having been a “totally normal person” seems hella suspicious to me, even if they arent a good magus. Nasu give me the forbidden Guda lore

Hello! Can you come up with headcanons for Kingu (evil clay child from the Babylonia singularity (if you got there or watched the anime)) being summoned to Chaldea (so that's an au?) and developing a bond with master that eventually grows from caution to platonic (or even romantic) feelings? There's no content on Kingu, he definitely needs more love ~

I put half of it under a line because it gets long aff

Kingu Summoned to Chaldea

For a moment Kingu is probably confused as fuck and hyper-panicking and ready to stab a bitch (instinctively, Ishtar). 

He was created the Son of Tiamat during a Singularity, using Enkidu’s corpse. Were “Kingu” EVER summoned as a Servant, HE certainly wouldn't be the one summoned. In this HC, Kingu thinks he, Kingu from Babylonia Singularity, doesn’t exist as a Servant.

Jalter: first time, bitchface?

Then VOILA, he gets summoned by the shitty little human he met in the Singularity. You know, the one that tried to punch his face out and almost succeeded?

(fuck the anime, the Master canonically beats Goetia’s face in with Mash’s shield, they know how to break peoples’ teeth in)

Kingu as a Servant does remember the Singularity. Is high-key guilty about Siduri.

Kingu actually spends most of the time trailing after the Master. It starts out as being a sort of almost antagonistic (one-sided) relationship, where he makes scathing remarks, taunts them, tries to get a rise out of them, uses them to Avoid™ the Babylonia Servants, and looks down at Master in any way he can for being an Old Human. 

He gets unsettled when the Master only smiles at him and hands him some pie. 

Still grudgingly shoves the pie into his mouth.

Eventually, Kingu goes from antagonistic to neutral, relaxing around Master, to becoming increasingly fond of Master in his own way. Eases out on the biting words and doesn’t actually mean them anymore when he yells or snipes at Master. 

Actually gets somewhat clingy to Master. Kinda like a cat. Kinda low-key tsundere and will probably let Ishtar take a shot at him before ever admitting he was fond of the Master.

Outwardly still looks like he disdains Master and scoffs at them a lot, but if anyone were to say something about Master he would just skewer them. How dare they? To the human who went up against him without flinching? Were they looking down on him?

shhh Kingu baby we know you care

Has an aneurysm whenever the Master does dumb stuff (which is a lot of times), because humans are so frighteningly fragile and holy shit you dumb human get down from that eldritch god altar right this instant or I will force you im not fucking joking-

stop randomly falling asleep and NOT WAKING UP

Reaches a realisation that he, as the only New Human, should take it upon himself to guide this dumb and weak Old Human and making sure they don’t die by tripping over a rock. 

Kingu is a dumbass in human emotions like 95% of the Chaldea Servants. Takes him a while to realise “oh shit I care for this dumbass human” and freak the fuck out. Or might never realise it and keep thinking he’s just doing stuff because he wants to.

Kingu has no qualms about murdering humans and other such creatures if they piss him off, tbh. His low empathy makes him capable of cruelty, brutality and even painful deaths, and he knows this and doesn’t care. 

At least, he SHOULDN’T care, but he subconsciously reigns in his brutality whenever he’s with his Master. Of course, he still rips apart through enemies and is scarily efficient as a Weapon but at least it isn’t as inhumane as in Babylonia.

Definitely is one of the Servants that advocates for the death of the entire population of mages from the Tower.

When their relationship gets close enough, the Master tells them of TIamat’s final moments. Kingu goes quiet and then thanks them for not raising their blade against his Mother. Kingu did love Tiamat, despite going against her at the end. 

Cried a bit during Gilfest. 

Enkidu is zen about Kingu and is pretty fond of him. 

Might have to do with the fact that Ishtar has an aneurysm after seeing the two of them together.

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especially after the events of olympus it is paramount that fgo players understand that they are not above the narrative, and the story’s antagonists will never be as cartoonish and one-dimensional as they might think they are. their motivations, their thoughts, and their goals will always be more complex than the most surface level reading, and often you will not know what they are right away. passing judgment upon them is stupid, the decisions they’ve made come from far more gray and far less lenient circumstances. it’s always been that way. you are not immune to making those same choices. that’s the point. from the earliest days of the fate series, way back during the original vn era, one of the most compelling and prevalent ideas within the story was you might have something in common with your worst enemy. you might have also walked down their path had your roles been reversed. you cannot say you could have objectively done better or worse simply because you have the benefit of hindsight and because your experiences were different. shit, ubw smacks you on the head with this by making its main protagonist and main antagonist the same fucking person.

this is especially evident with the crypters. everyone wants to brand them as insecure, jealous, holier-than-thou mass murderers. this is disproven as early as lostbelt 1. kadoc didn’t take part in the bleaching of the earth’s surface. he says explicitly that when he woke up from cryostasis, the world had already been bleached. he wasn’t truly jealous of you, he was taking out the trauma of being denied a purpose and then dying out on someone like him. had guda been in his position, they would’ve reacted the same. he cools off in lostbelt 2, which is why he is kinder and happy to see your gaze has regained some measure of resolve.

ophelia, akuta, and pepe also reinforce this. none of them took part of the bleaching, and they killed no one. the bleaching was all the alien god. the lostbelts were all the work of the alien god. the only thing here that matters is that the alien god chose wodime as their emissary, and the other crypters were expendable. kirschtaria did not accept this. he would not abandon his friends, his comrades, his family. the choice was to cooperate with the alien god or die. could you have seriously, in all honesty, chosen differently? could you, knowing the entire earth was doomed by a product of its history, honestly have decided to keel over and taken your loved ones down with you? could you look me in the eye with zero bullshit and zero hesitation and tell me to my face you wouldn’t have chosen to cooperate if it meant you had an opportunity to turn things around so none of those billions of deaths were for nothing and the world wouldn’t belong to the being behind that destruction?

the lostbelt competition was a foregone conclusion. everyone knew kirschtaria was going to win, because the contest was designed that way. the alien god only intended for kirschtaria to win, and kirschtaria knew this. which is why he used his connection to the crypters as leverage. the other lostbelts were never meant to survive, they were kirschtaria’s way of keeping the crypters out of the alien god’s watch. that’s why kadoc, pepe, and beryl weren’t killed by kirschtaria when their lostbelts went SNAFU. it is an immensely cruel thing to do to all those worlds and all those lives, yet would you have done differently? if the lives of your loved ones were at stake, if you were being surveilled at all times with a gun to your head ready to pull the trigger at the slightest disobedience, would you have been so reckless as to put the people you cared about in harm’s way? because that’s what kirschtaria’s position was. the alien god was ready to crush kirschtaria’s heart if he broke their contract, and tipping off the crypters that he intended to do so would’ve gotten them all killed.

ultimately, that’s what drives the conflict between chaldea and the crypters. the shared need to survive pitting them against each other. there is no guarantee chaldea can restore proper human history, and wodime could not take that chance when he had a plan of his own and the clear methods with which to accomplish it. a new world, a new humanity, free to make new mistakes and reach new heights, free from the grip of the gods, free from the grip of the systemic forces that plagued not just the lostbelts but proper human history itself.

and i need to stress that the story isn’t trying to justify the deaths (if we can even call them that, in all likelihood) of 7 billion people by trying to say “maybe wodime was right!” what the story is saying is that, if there was a staggering loss of life, what alternative would humanity have to even have hope of moving forward? through lostbelts 1 - 4, you may be helping these worlds die peacefully, but you are still letting them die over the chance that you might restore proper human history. your success is an uncertain inkling, yet you have no choice but to move forward and accrue suffering to make sure NONE of those deaths are in vain. you are not judged for it, because the story knows there is no right or wrong answer to this kind of conflict, and the same principle applies to the crypters.

need i remind you that olympus ends with people being crushed by buildings, abandoning all hope, quivering and perishing in absolute terror as the only world they’ve ever known crumbles around them and the only beings that could save them were killed by your hand and by your order because there was no other way out. it is a gruesome death, an unsightly death. and it is brought about by your actions, and it is a terrible burden. and it is the exact same burden carried by kirschtaria, because he was a member of team A tasked with safeguarding humanity, and he failed. he does not claim that proper human history is full of too many mistakes to salvage because he is above them. he claims so because he also made mistakes in his own limited existence and doesn’t want that for whatever humanity can still exist in the world he means to make.

and you know what? kirschtaria even understands what you’re doing. he is the only one who can. he cannot agree but he understands. which is why he never denies you the opportunity to prove yourself. he opposes you, challenges you, dares you. but he never denies you. he says “you think you can bring back proper human history? prove it. prove you have the conviction necessary to bear it and beat me with it.” and then you do. because he wanted you to, because he believed in you from the very start that you could do it if you set your mind to it because kirschtaria wodime for better or worse believes in mankind, and you do too.

so, tl;dr you and the crypters are the same do not be so arrogant as to pretend you are better than the story and you are the perfect blameless unbiased judge of everything ever because you look really stupid doing that

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