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We got a new Pretender with a name reveal animation, a fruit Typhon ate in myth with some of his power it had sealed off mixed in becoming a weord Typhon-Anti-Typhon mix in the form of a girl who does the opposite of what people want. Depite all that, might just be an NPC for now, given limited expressions and lack of battle sprite so far. Also we got a full on design for the actual Typhon, a three headed mech dragon.

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Another Fate Grand Order Unpopular Opinion

I hate the Lion King. I’m not gonna mince it, I absolutely prefer Lartoria to the Lion King. I hear people praise the Lion King for being a complex and interesting villain that helped make the Camelot chapter great. I heavily disagree. She was the epitome of everything wrong with Artoria’s rule of Camelot. She is now a divine spirit and almost entirely emotionally detached, any compassion she demonstrates is more condescending outside of Agravain and Lancelot, she’ll execute anyone who refuses to obey her, the Gifts she gave her knights were insurance policies at best or slowly killing them like Mordred at worst, and she is ultimately a horrible person. Character flaws make a character interesting, but the Lion King is bland, nothing but flawed, and frankly overhyped.

Camelot was ultimately interesting to me because of everyone else. The Hassans, mainly Cursed Arm, Bedivere, Sanzang, Arash, Lancelot, Agravain, Mash, even Gawain. But the Lion King and everything she touched just irritated me. Mordred was a shadow of herself, basically amounting to the Lion King’s toadie and fangirl. Tristan was turned into a monster thanks to his gift. And the Lion King as stated previously was just so damn bland.

Admittedly towards the end she doesn’t seem as bland, but that’s because she isn’t the Lion King at that point anymore. The spear was destroyed, the tower collapsing, and the effects it had on her were wearing off. She was effectively losing her divinity and becoming similar to Lartoria. Notice how it was Lartoria who showed up at the Temple of Time with Bedivere to fight the Demon Pillars rather than the Lion King returning.

Lartoria I see everyone call a walking boob joke, but I find her more interesting than the Lion King. She is an Artoria who never discarded Rhongomyniad in favor of Excalibur. She has some divinity, but she’s still human. She feels immense guilt for the actions of the Lion King, even though they aren’t the same person, and is hesitant to form an attachment with the master since she feels as a being of Divine power, she need hold no attachments. However, in comes Rhomulus, Fionn, Gilgamesh, and Ozymandias, all forcing her to acknowledge her true feelings and finally open her heart. She may be divine, but she is not the Lion King, and she has a right to be close to her master. She has what the Lion King doesn’t: She has humanity. 

The Lion King was ultimately no longer Artoria. She was the will of Rhongomyniad using Artoria’s body, and she only came close to being Artoria after the spear was destroyed. Lartoria meanwhile is actually Artoria. She has connections with her Knights, is able to form a connection with her master, still gets flustered and even has a love for actual lions, one of her Bond Lines even having her state she loves that her helmet has a lion design.

Lartoria succeeds where the Lion King fails, she has flaws, but she also has positives. She has divinity, but she retains her humanity. She feels like a person, an actual character, whereas the Lion King feels like a robot.

I’m probably in the minority on this, but I had to say it seeing so many people excited that the Lion King is (somehow) in the fourth Summer Event. Until the event ends however and she has her information fully translated, I’ll take any claims of her being the Lion King with a grain of salt, considering the Lion King would need to exist in the Throne of Heroes to be summonable, and unlike Bedivere who did something that warranted this specific version of him entering the throne, the Lion King doesn’t seem to have done something worthy of the Throne. I’d sooner believe she’s just regular Lartoria affected by a Foreigner or deity and made to think she’s the Lion King. That’s kind of the trend with Summer Events afterall. Summer 1? Demon Boar and Shadow Lands. Summer 2? Ishtar wanting to bring back Gugalanna. Summer 3? Foreigner merges with BB and she pulls a Groundhogs Day. So it seems likely we’ll be getting either another Foreigner, or another Deity. And so far the only candidates for the antagonists right now are Lartoria, Melt, or Okita, and I’m more inclined to think its Lartoria.

You don't have to play the game to engage with the characters and story. There are a lot of translators who post videos on YouTube for those unwilling or unable to play fgo. Heck I've been a fan for years (thanks in part to you) despite only downloading it recently. Fanfiction, fan art, there are plenty of ways to enjoy a game without actually playing it.

Dropping out of FGO is killing me slowly because what else am I supposed to write long essay-ass posts about? What if some new guy drops that's exactly my vibe and I'll have no idea because I'm not reading the story anymore? What, am I gonna write about Persona? People who do that get mauled by the fandom like meat to a pack of wild dogs.

So I have a gender-related question to y'all. It's something I've been wondering of as of late.

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