fran

Medb

horny on medb

Past characters count if people remember them! I...really need to update my muselist.

damn it i wasn't fast enough

FENIMORE

Holy crap I was correct that people would be around right now.

One moment while I screenshot the timestamps on this.

Mira was 11 seconds after I posted this.

i didn't realize i was that fast

Okay now that that's been immortalized, Fran for aureatian.

1) While Fran doesn't speak much at all, she's noted as being very intelligent and empathetic, but it's balanced out by the fact that she is afraid that she is a monster and she has very little in the way of life experience.

I try to find a balance between her being too naïve and not naïve enough, and between her being too withdrawn versus too friendly.

When I'm going via FGO, I can lean a bit farther into the less naïve and more friendly.

I also gotta recall on the naïveté front that, in the Dead Heat Summer Race event, it's shown that she both sees through Ishtar and deliberately plays Moriarty, so I gotta hold myself back from leaning too far on the cute inexperience.

2) Fran is quiet and kind most of the time. But she also killed everyone Victor ever cared about? And as a Berserker has definitely gone the route of BEATING THE CRAP out of stuff, so she's still got that part in her.

I don't expect her to ever actually go on a MURDER SPREE outside of an actual battle, but I don't want to forget that potential is in her and that she does have the standard Berserker temperament even if she's a lot gentler a lot of the time.

The old version of Fran's battle voice is canon in my heart, at least as a possibility: 【 FGO 】 黒のバーサーカー 【 フランケンシュタイン 】 プレイ

3) I keep in mind perhaps a little too much about how basically everyone she met while she was alive thought she was a monster.

(I'm not...100% sure how to fit together the history suggested in the London Singularity and the history suggested in Fate/Apocrypha in that the former is partially an event that never happened in history, but supposedly Babbage was an exception.)

(Half the time I'm not sure how to fit together how she's portrayed in the novel versus the anime versus FGO but anyway I just pick what I like.)

This gives a lot of grounds for a great deal of self-esteem issues, which I enjoy exploring. But I also don't want to make it take over, so again: balance!

I guess balance is what is the sum up.

Battymynameis and also slothdere: Horny on Medb.

1) Medb's lust for the d is obvious. What I want to keep in mind is that she also lusts for power, status, and treasure.

"All tresaure is mine. Then that's mine too, right?" Who do you think you are, Medb, Gilgamesh????

As much as Medb is obsessed about Cú Chulainn, she apparently started the Cattle Raid of Cooley because her husband was one cow up on her in wealth so she had to have THE BEST COW.

I get the feeling she wants to just be above absolutely everyone. Too bad that doesn't really get to happen in Chaldea. I'm constantly worried her pride is going to get her killed every time I tag someone who is stronger than her....

2) Medb is wicked. She's not only wicked - apparently, she and a later Servant get lines for each other that suggest she's trying to take the other, semi-shut-in Servant out for what Medb considers a good time (you know. outside of fucking. apparently she's got things other than that she does with people. who knew.).

But she is not a good person, and she gets a charge out of the suffering of others.

She doesn't just do anything for the sake of being wicked, as much as she's proud of being a wicked queen, but her reasons for doing or not doing things is based on her own, very self-centred view on things.

Like when she looks down on some immoral act, she's probably looking down on it because she thinks it's the act of a pathetic person. She's just as likely to look down on a moral act for similar reasons.

She doesn't just do everything wicked and nothing good. But she skews wicked.

3) She specifies that she likes strong warriors and she adores watching them submit to her. Which is to say: she has tastes.

It's so easy to fall into an "anything that moves" trap, which I admit to doing sometimes. But she actually has a type and she probably would ignore people who don't fit her tastes.

...Well. She might still fuck some of them if they catch her interest.

She's mostly into strong warriors who lust after her, but see: Cú Chulainn. She compromises on the lusting after her bit.

(That I think is more of a pride thing, based around that she built up as part of her strength that she's able to make the powerful submit to her by using her body, so meeting someone who neither loved nor hated her when she came on to him was a shake-up of that worldview, BUT THIS IS HEADCANON I'M STILL WORKING THROUGH AND ALSO WOULD BE A 4 SO MOVING ON.)

Strong warriors is most of Fate. Nice to know she wouldn’t go for like, Anderson, tho

I mean, it does lead me into nearly an anything that moves thanks to that, but yes, Andersen would have to look elsewhere (I assume he's not exactly crushed by this).

slothdere: Fenimore time to gaze into my past crystal ball

1) .....I mean most obviously she got SUPER TORTURED AND 99% OF EVERYONE SHE EVER KNEW DIED so like. There's that to remember.

I was not and still am not exactly in the best position to properly portray that level of trauma, but I tried to keep it in mind as what would affect how she recovered from being initially super racist, as well as things she might not be comfortable dealing with, to put it lightly.

2) She likes to think of herself as a confident person who knew What Was Up, particularly when talking to Shirley, but a lot of her advice is...not good? Or at least excessively straightforward.

I like to think she was a big fish in a small pond (the Ferines fish jokes are accidental) of her village. Probably considered the older twin. I expect at the head of her group of friends before they all died.

And now out in the bigger world, she thinks she still knows how things are and what people should do. She's learned to pay attention to things not being immediately obvious, like when she learned to not immediately paint all Orerines with the same brush, but she still likes to pretend she's got it all figured out.

Though, in contrast, when she really feels in over her head, she kind of ends up shy and awkward, like when she talks to the party during that scene where the teen squad talks out how they can still help in the fight.

3) While she's absolutely in over her head a lot of the time, she really does what she can to help when she can help.

I didn't get to do this super much when I played her, because for me Slice of Life is Monarch of All I Survey and plot is an occasional appetizer, but in the war, she works in the triage tents, which must have been a nasty job.

When Shirley is seeming down, she travels on her own to an Orerines city - a people she's just starting to trust a few members of - to try to change that. And there's of course her part during the Rite of Ascension.

And, on top of that, where she sprinkles blessings to the party at various times. I'm pretty sure they're basically meaningless outside of being a feel-good thing, but Fenimore clearly believes that it's real.

...Well, my tendency to not be succinct sure remains strong.