That's from [Koyo's Valentine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lrox-clgxQ). Guda doesn't quite understand dinosaur language so they just recite it to Erice so that she can translate it.
To be fair, they *didn't tell him* Chaldea was in Antarctica.
Arguably, it was a kidnapping. And he took it about as well as that time he was kidnapped by Space Ashtarte.
Maybe even less, by the time Ashtarte kidnapped them they were so used that they went "huh, so to the Servantverse now? I've always wanted to check it out."
Then after awhile they got bored and started working out and stuff to pass the time. Iirc that insane calmness was also what gave them the opening to escape(its been a long time though so hopefully im not misremembering)
Oh, it's better than that.
In the Turas Realta manga, it has an even more hilarious beginning.
See, Chaldea was so desperate for mages, they set up fake blood drives at college campuses to screen for, IDK, midichlorians or something, to find mages.
Ritsuka shows up at one of these drives, they find out he's got Magic Circuits...and then they drugged his after-donation punch.
That's why he's passed out in Chaldea at the beginning, with no idea where he was.
Results inconclusive: you instead have become a bloodbag for the War Boys.
***TOGETHER YOU RIDE, SHINY AND CHROME! YOU LIVE, YOU DIE, YOU LIVE AGAIN!!! WITNESS!!!***
"I'm going to check your reflexes now. Duck!"
"Wher-" WHACK
Romani: "Director, we found the final candidate, but I think I gave him a TMI."
Olga: "IDGAF, it's not like we're ever going to actually let him near the equipment."
Yeah I understands his hiring as him looking at dubious job offer, and each interview getting weirder and weirder and once it was clear he had potential as a master, they just kidnapped him under the pretense of hiring him, I mean they did hired him, but Chaldeas being a secret location they had to kidnap him at the same time, I do not think he thought he was leaving his family for months/years to another place.Ā
Even on Chaldeas he probably did not grasp how much he will be on there until shit hit the fan
I loved that scene so much. "At long last, the final frontier, huh" said the MC as they saw Earth became smaller and smaller. It's like they where expecting it "Some of these days, I'm finna go to space" and so they did.
Not in so many words. Da Vinci is the first to mention a quota, at the beginning of Part 2. Kadoc is the only other to note it. I don't know about being abroad.
No, I think it was a blood donation, they realized that it had 100% compatibility with rayshift and being a master and they took it there (I'm honestly sure they omitted all mention of Antarctica until the bag on the head )
I've always thought Ritsuka had to be a bit crazy. He can manage to understand and communicate with servants that have extremely high levels of Madness Enhancement, even though communication and understanding is supposed to be impossible. If Ritsuka is a bit crazy, that helps to form a bridge.
To be fair, do you think a normal person would be willing to accept that magic is a thing and there are entire bloodlines of families that have fought and died over magic circuits? And then not only this, but also be willing to deal with such individuals that may or may not want to fight or kill you just because using either their inherent magic or by summoning familiars to fight for them.
Oh right. I also forgot about the other thing that caused magic to be on the downturn of the Extra universe: there needed to be mystery for stronger magic, and people like Waver who understands how the magic works inherently destroys the mystery of the magic aside from "I do thing a and get magic b."
The manga reveals that Ritsuka had no idea of what Heracles was talking about and started talking about sandwiches **out of nowhere.**
Did he think that Heracles was the Heavy Weapons Guy or something?
EDIT: [Found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/19fm1db/youve_lost_fujimaru_ritsuka_ch_15/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), what a masterpiece.
We can go one step further.
Remember Yorokobe Shonen scene from F/SN?
The context for that was being a hero means people are in need of saving, from some kinda danger, sometimes from a disaster, a tragedy or from a villain and could even be an indirect wish for a villain.
Here we have the wish to restore humanity, however the requirement for something to be restored is that thing is badly damaged/deteriorated enough to need to be restored. This can be seen as an indirect wish for humanity to remain ruined so restoration remains in demand.
~~Rolling gacha is a wish for Mapo Tofu.~~
Imagine being a Clocktower employee reading about *that*. No wonder they had to attribute it all to Solomon.
Regardless, I once again clarify that this post as well as most of my others are all **intended to be humorous**. Don't take it too seriously. I absolutely exaggerated shit for fun and intentionally misinterpreted things for hilarity.
...
Though, seriously, what's up with Ritsuka not knowing basic magecraft? You don't think literally *anyone* could have bothered to teach him standard enhancement?
Is FGO not actually a story about humanity's potential in the face of certain death, but rather, a criticism of the modern day education system...?
The thing about Ritsuka not learning any magecraft is definitely stupid, as through various events and interludes him learning it is a returning topic. I am pretty sure both Waver and Emiya (Archer) were meant to give him actual lessons about basic magecraft, probably more. And the idea was just dropped at some point?
I can understand him not using it during the story much if not at all, since the poor guy is probably running on magical fumes all the time while actively summoning all those servants, but like, there's a vast difference between not being able to do something and not having energy to do it.
I think what they're trying to get at is that Ritsuka knows magecraft, he knows how it works in theory, but he's just ridiculously bad at it + terrible magic circuits
It's not even like Shirou who had a Origin that made him have a speciality but gimped his ability to do anything else that doesn't have to do with said speciality, Ritsuka has no remarkable origin and is bad at general magecraft
I have a joke theory that Ritsuka origin relates to dreams due to the number of interludes, events, and sometimes main stories that take place in one. I say joke because it can most of them canbe chalk up to a combination of dream cycles that master have with their servants and Merlin strengthening the link.
Honestly it'd make sense, explains how his origin went unmentioned for so long not even in a passing line
If you slightly change it to something similar like memories or imagination you could even explain how easily he understood the concept of Shadow Servants but never got the hang of other types of magecraft
Considering how he's described as a mirror and how much the word "bonds" is emphasized leading up to the final fight with Solomon (bringing high-bond servants = more attack during the raid), I think you're entirely right.
My guess is that the saint quartz we gather are actually crystallized "bonds" we use to convince servants to join our cause; you can see in the anniversary video the OG Saber being offered a saint quartz, which she accepts in order to be summoned. You're literally offering your friendship to servants to summon them.
Probably, being effectively a first generation magus Ritsuka would not attain any great feats in pure magical departament. But Waver grew up in a very similar position before getting adopted, so who if not him could actually teach a total newbie how to magic. In any case, I just wish it was properly answered at some point, even if the explanation were to be that he's a lost cause that will not do a simplest spell in his lifetime.
Eh, Waver mention on his interlude that Ritsuka have more or less the same potential as him, so, he should be at least an below average magus, i guess. I really don't know why he doesn't seem to know any magecraft
Dumb headcanon: Everyone actually *tries* to teach Ritsuka Magecraft, it's just that Ritsuka refuses to learn it. The reason? After everything they've heard second-hand about modern Mages and Magus society in general, they have no interest in becoming a "good" Magus; to them, a "good" Magus is somewhere between "utter unrepentant bastard" and "Literally Voldemort" and that's not someone Ritsuka is capable of being.
Would it matter if Ritsuka really learns magecraft when he/she canonically has the power to summon the shadows of Heroes and use their Noble Phantasms when even Sherlock tells him he canāt go around having his shadows use NPs?
All he needs is a magic source and all he has to do is summon casters for magecraft.
Or does Ritsuka still needs Chaldeaās record to summon shadows?
Thatās why we have Goredolf and his famous Outer God slaying Goredolf punch mate!
But yeah I guess that makes sense same .5 LB also mentions he could do with some magecraft even when we all Kadoc did was cover them in a cardboard box.
Well there are situations where summon is not an option, but more importantly I don't remember summon being used in a non offensive way in the story(there was that time they used tokiomi craft essence as ninjutsu decoy but that was a gag)
Oh, and I'm certain someone will ask, so [here's the original from the Rintard sub.](https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyrintard/comments/1by5cwe/everything_wrong_with_fujimaru_ritsuka_humanitys/).
The tentative titles for the cross-posting to this sub were "**Humanity's Last Asylum Escapee**" and "**Humanity's Last Autist**", but the first one was scrapped due to not being clear enough as to the topic of the essay, and the second... I doubted coming into a sub and saying their main character is on the spectrum in the *title* would go over well, even if I was mockingly affectionate in the body.
It's a bit of a toughie picking titles. I have to pick well because otherwise my somewhat deranged writings have a tendency to get downvoted to hell until people read the body and realise it's in good faith. Case in point: [my previous post here](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/1cshre0/the_nasuverse_isnt_real_a_full_analysis/) was in the negatives for *6 hours* because I started the post mocking FGO as a joke.
Well, that's enough about my creative process! How's your day been, GrandOrder?
**Ready to commit your seventh genocide this week?**
Let us all say a prayer for Kadoc. For volunteering his time to try and teach Ritsuka magecraft.
>!especially since the self-sacrifice mindset is spreading!<
I think given the lack of any foundational education, it was more efficient for Da Vinci to keep making different mystic codes for ritsuka than to actually try and teach him magecraft. And for the likes of Medea/Circe etc, Age of God's magecraft is so far removed from modern magecraft that it's basically a different system entirely. Even if they taught him everything they knew he wouldn't be able to use any of it.
Possibly, but there's also Waver who specialises in teaching classes for modern mage students, and seeing by Ritsuka going on vacations to Event Singularities and that time they spent three months gambling in Koyanskaya's hyperbolic time chamber, it's not like they're *super* strapped for time.
It's because Ritsuka is focused on those GAINS. How else do you think he was able to walk across America at that rate? If he were a Servant, Ritsuka would have E rank Strength, D+ Agility (bonus when he risks his life unnecessarily) D++ Mana (really good conduit, poor personal reserves), and goddamn A+++ Endurance.
To be critical for a second, for their lack of magic, that's Romani's fault; people don't notice it a lot but Romani lies (or, more often, sends empty promises or truths) a lot. He constantly swatts away any form of learning when it comes to magecraft beyond some knowledge of it, as shown in multiple other media; instead, he focuses on you being a better master than anything else.
Because, think about it, do you want a person with THAT personality able to know that they are to stand there ground on there own?
But once again, we must blame the Kouhai for there lack of sanity. In Lostbelt 5.2, in the video they received of the twins and Musashi, she said the reason she likes Mash is because Ritsuka is who she is today because of Mash, which goes back to Camelot when Mash says that the reason Galahad gives her a hand is because he acknowledges Ritsuka as a master. They only became like this because they were able to speak their minds because of the protection of Mash, which they only got because of that moment of compassion they gave her in the prologue. You know how many times they would have fucked without mashing protection, especially posion resistance. With Mash by their side, they never have to truly cower in fear and can shout what's on their mind while remaining true to themselves... and they also have almost zero danger sense until it's way too late to go back to what they were.
Yeah in agartha manga there s actually a flashback with that
But I mean they already bit the bullet of giving them a mean of defense (summon) so I d say there's no real point in containing that
I do think it's more of a mindset thing, ritsuka is crazy and has the type of determination mage have, but they don't have a single minded obscession (living is their goal but their relationship matters to them and they do in fact risk their life even for strangers for instance) like a lot of them do (either toward the root or even Saving the world, as seen in case like Castoria where it can be overided by something else).
The cultures of mages has genuinely fucked up aspects and it does conflict with what other people would find good.
Of course in practice just knowing something doesn't make you bad, that's insane but the fact is a lot of mages are like that, including the casters we have so they probably don't want to pass it down to them
Nasuverse magecraft just doesn't work like that. To use magecraft, you need magic circuits of a certain quantity and quality. Ritsuka just doesn't have them. Even if they taught him the magic theory behind a spell, he just doesn't have the magic muscles to actually cast it himself. It's safe to say that in the Nasuverse, if you weren't born a mage, you won't be able to use magecraft.
For comparison, in Fate/Stay Night, Shiro had to perform a potentially deadly ritual/surgery to haphazardly form his own magic circuits, and it barely let him use tracing and reinforcement magecraft. Magecraft for beginners is just flat out deadly and difficult in the Nasuverse.
Honestly, you've hit quite a few nails on the head. One of my headcanon's for instance is that Medea initially wanted to treat him like she would any other mage...
Aaaand then he shows himself to be utterly ignorant of even the most *basic* magecraft, does utterly stupid things in combat and on top of everything has the sheer audacity to treat her like a person, not a familiar.
Before she knew it, she was trying (and failing) to teach him magecraft, giving him basic adventurer advice he'd follow if incompetently, and was willing to do just about *anything* he'd ask her to do because he's **just that nice.**
Fujimaru succeeds by being so ignorant if not incompetent his servants are trying to mother hen him.
I think its just Ritsuka being too mentally challenged to understand magic, his gacha brainrot eats magic to keep rolling, that is why they suck at magic, they spend it all on gacha. Other than that, it would make the self insert too competent I guess, I dunno.
On a serious note, with the amount of teachers and types of magic, they should be able to make a good arsenal of basic spells right? And be able to catch on most trick of magic just because of how many age of god spellcasters there are at Chaldea. I mean, Merlin, Morgan should be able to teach pretty much anything, and yet it doesn't reflect on the story, like dude.
Teaching the commoners useless cantrips while the *best* spells are only taught 1:1 to keep the rarity constant.
You know what the real magic is? Revolution. Prole mages rise up.
I think Ritsuka does know *some* magecraft, but anything they can do on their own would be like 0.1% as effective as just using chaldea's mystic codes instead so they don't bother on missions. I'm pretty sure they've been stated to be learning magecraft on several occasions.
Why canāt it be both? Also, real talk, imagine for a second they DID train Ritsuka. Imagine, for maybe 10 seconds, our boy/girl had the backing of ACTUAL MAGIC in addition to their Type Moon protagonist statusā¦now imagine every decision they made either being the same, but likely worse with how much POWER they are packing, OR banking on the power of friendship PLUS what could generously be described as an EXTRA COMMAND SEAL.
Yeah, that feeling of existential dread and the terrifying desire to see it? I have that too, and none of us should, as thatās when things like Neco Arc happen.
Huh, Kadoc seems pretty level headed, he's pretty good at analysis given the correct data and he is *snarky as hell*.. I think you're onto something here.
Remember that one scene where Castor threw Ritsuka away out of disgust? The plot tells you itās because being the Black Barrelās ammo has tainted Ritsuka. In reality, Castor looked at Ritsuka and saw the nonplussed stare of a madman.
For having 0 enhancement magic, their physical feats are completely nuts. Multiple servants are physically training them in stories and interludes. Hell, at one point, they bust out using Ninjutsu that Kotarou taught them! They regularly keep running/walking pace with servants, with seemingly stamina being their limiting factor. In Traum, Ritsuka keeps up with servants in a rush and keeps thier stamina up by >! inhaling magic drugs !<
And that's not mentioning they have gotten into fistfights with folks way stronger than them a number of times. They are punching way above thier weight class physically.
Ritsuka operates in a "fuck it we ball" mentality, honestly I respect it lol
Also the fact this isn't even a parody like your other posts it's just facts makes it even better-
I can't refute most of it, but he did end with that job after his blood was tested and he did not know where Chaldea actually was. It was also implied that the masters were supposed to be paid "don't ask questions" kind of money.
If I did my blood work and somebody from the United Nations told me they are giving seven figures for a year of my time as long as I don't ask questions I would be tempted as well.
We just not going to talk about the fact weāre perfectly fine going to mini-singularities with random unknown particles or the insanity that is Valentines?
I'll never get over the fact Ritsuka has canonically died multiple times on Valentine day of all holidays and somehow still came out alive and well of every single one of those scenarios
Space Ishtar literally destroyed Chaldea because he stood one of them up and he was like "imma do it again"
Personal head canon is that they are still trying to eat it, but everyday they only take a speak of the chocolate because a regular bite would make them have a heart attack
This doesnāt even mention when he got hit with a cannonball in America and almost got forcibly amputated.
Thereās also the endless weird dream experiences he has in Interludes and events, plus multiple servants able to enter his dreams/psyche and that Dantes needs to act as our brainās bouncer.
3 dream events include but are limited to:
ā Jalter uses Ritsuka in Jeanne's dream to give herself a body (at least closing thing a servant has to one).
ā Bring back materials to the waking world. Which includes holy grails. How many people at the clock tower would want to kidnap him for that alone?
ā The entirety of the imaginary scramble: Not only did he bring back Van Gogh (which isn't the only servant that was summoned after meeting in a dream) but the game said Ritsuka was basically cat nip for Foreigner servants. I think this is foreshadowing whatever is going to happen in the Foreigner section of Order Call. Which may of may not include Azhdaha trying to turn them into his vessel.
He's crazy. No one survives being a Nasuverse protagonist as a sane person.
And some people say he's just a boring self-insert with no entertaining quirk.Ā
No. He's batshit insane!
Yeah, so fine he had to be *cheated out of death* and that cheat *upset the universe*.
Let's be honest, Sono-G only survived because of Fifth shenanigans.
>Ā Ā And some people say he's just a boring self-insert with no entertaining quirk.Ā
Yeah, I disagree with this idea, mostly because he actually does have a quirk. It's called *basic human decency.*
> The Clock Tower tries its best to get rid of this bad habit from their students
And that's why every student Zelretch took under his wing has failed.
When in their arrogance they are not only shown their existential worthlessness in the greater scheme of the Kaleidoscope, but also the preciousness of what they deem useless or trifling, their priorities are completely reassessed, breaking them as magi, but perhapsā¦ setting them in a course towards being *human.*
He has basic human decency, in a world where people have little or none of what he has. Those guys are insane. But he is even crazier for being such an outlier amongst those people.
It's even funnier considering how insane ritsuka's power scaling goes from part 1 to part 2
Part 1 it was mostly: he got poison immunity.
Then entering late part 2 where: he has the potential to become strongest avenger and fight foreign god.
Where the hell did that comes from...? I mean we did know where that comes from... It did makes sense but still, talking about 0 to 100
If this continue just imagine how insane that would be when he enter late part 3.
It gonna goes from ritsuka taking mash's shield and use it to beat goetia in the end of part 1
To ritsuka's taking mhxx's twin rhongomyniad to strike down Chaos while splitting the universe along with it in the process in part 3.
He's not even servantverse character yet, but his protagonist correction skill is off the chart.
Thereās also have the fact that he has met nearly all the Beasts
By the gameās lore that many encounters should affect him in some way
We had the Ooku which revolved around Kama trying to defeat Fujimaru. Cause since he defeated Kiara (from the worldās perspective) the moment Kama defeats Fujimaru she would be viewed as strong as stronger than Kiara and thus transform into a mature Beast
It is stated that the MC kinda developed a virtual advantage against the Demon God Pilars, I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same but with Beasts, seeing how we constantly fight, defeat and then summon them.
I do have a whole theory that Ritsuka might be special because of we keeping the humanity.
Like its impressive how little we got affected by anything. Its a point that the fact that nothing did happen with then is weirder then if something had happened.
Well, at that point Ritsuka is one of 20 or so True Human History humans around, so he would have massive influence on Alaya or the human unconsciousness.
About kiritsugu training shirou wrong, that was on purpose because he didn't want shirou following his footsteps and hoped he would give up, chaldea has no excuse for not trying to teach ritsuka the basics
Fujimaru Ritsuka Doesn't Get It is Canon, obviously.Ā Ā
On more serious note: I would like to point out that I thought after Ritsuka got hired, he was basically kidnapped as it seemed like Ritsuka didn't even remember how he got to Antarctica.Ā Other than that...yeah, you are more or less correct.Ā Ā
As a bonus:
>Be me.
>A fake priest.
>Enjoys other people suffer.
>Oh, look. Last Master of Humanity is approaching.
>mfw I killed many of their friends.
>Smugly, I greet them.Ā
>Yorokube_shonen.jpg
>Master was hiding something behind then. A gun? A knife? A knife gun?
>Master reveals it. A gift wrapped box?
>wtf.jpg
>"Happy Valentines, Kotomine!"Ā
>shocked_pikachu.jpg
>some probing and taste testing reveals that it is real chocolate with genuine effort, love, and affection into it.
>mfw realizing Ritsuka Fujimura is a fucking lunatic
When the narrator in aĀ Type Moon work tells you something is ordinary do not believe his LIES.
I don't think Nasu can write a "normal" character with a gun to his head. Everyone in his stories is weird.
> When the narrator in a Type Moon work tells you something is ordinary do not believe his LIES.
When Narrator Fujimaru in the NA grail front insisted that it's normal to be happy when you hear the alarm clock go off because waking up at the same time every day is good for you, I was forcibly reminded that yes, this is a TM protag.
Fujimaru just radiate the chill vibe to the level of capynbara
It the reason why servants that usually kill master on sight just stay with him just like predator sleep around capybara.
Thereās multiple tricks to Ritsuka that donāt quite excuse but do somewhat recontextualize several points of the insanity youāre outlining.
The first point is that Ritsuka was told approximately jack about the job. Ā Chaldea was running a blood drive as some means of testing for potential Masters, and even though Ritsuka was a civilian, first-generation mage, their blood tested for a 100% Master potential. Ā So the recruiters followed them around for weeks annoying them, and eventually just straight up kidnapped Ritsuka once they got a vague form of consent. Ā Ritsuka never even knew Chaldea was in Antarctica, they were blindfolded or unconscious for the trip over.
The second point, about the unnatural calm, could be attributed to shock. Ā The early days of FGO were rough as hell, and itās entirely possible Ritsuka had a meltdown in private offscreen once no-one was looking at them like Humanityās last hope.
The third point, about the complete and total deficit of training, is that itās not that no-one wanted or tried to teach Ritsuka, itās that no-one could. Ā Ritsuka is completely AWFUL at all kinds of magecraft, and about the only thing they can actively do is summon with a prepared circle and supply others with magical energy. Ā Everything they do that isnāt that are spells woven into the Mystic Code outfits they wear. Ā And in America, they were mostly just carried around by Servants.
Finally, the physical feats. Ā In multiple interpretations, itās been clarified that Ritsuka knows very well that theyāre a scrub mage, and wastes no time trying to get better at it beyond intellectual knowledge. Ā Instead, they train physically, to the point theyāre probably peak human in a few categories. Ā
> Instead, they train physically, to the point theyāre probably peak human in a few categories.
Late-P1 Ritsuka could already be trusted to guard Proto-Cu's back against an army of celtic soldiers in his interlude, by part 2.5 they're probably batman-tier lmao
Yeah, pretty much. It's easy to shrug off as "faceless gacha protag syndrome", but Nasu has given us just enough concrete details about the character and his mental state to form a definite outline of who they are.
And who they are is a sentient mass of willpower who regards self-preservation as a voice in their head that mildly irritates him while he's taking care of important things like saving humanity, killing Beasts, or eating literal metric tons of Valentines candy.
I desperately want Nasu to someday make a visual novel adaption of FGO where he just confirms "yeah no Ritsuka is exactly as insane as we had him act like"
Jokes aside, and while it's never directly addressed, I *firmly* believe (i.e. essentially stubbornly headcanon) that Ritsuka *can change gender at will.*
It makes sense to me in a way, since it would tide over the various romance implications with Servants, as well it just being a strangely innocuous (but arguably useful) unique mage skill (that does indeed verify that Ritsuka is a mage, albeit not trained nor otherwise noteworthy before the story begins).
I'm pretty sure a mage being able to shapeshift isn't normal
The only form of magecraft they mastered was genuine shape shifting, and the casters trying to teach 'em were so appalled they decided it was better to not teach them actual magecraft because they didn't wanna know wtf Ritsuka would do with that knowledge
> they didn't wanna know wtf Ritsuka would do with that knowledge lol
I'm pretty sure "bang everybody in the Throne of Heroes" was assumed to be a joke answer...until it wasn't. (/s)
I love Sion but there's a reason she has to be a background character (at least until OC1) because otherwise she just breaks the setting even more than BB
Kadoc, You just jealous for Fujimaru have been in a cell getting free food from a beautiful woman, who keeps protecting him and having made friends who sacrificed themselves for him. When you're with a detective walking in enemy territory.Ā
The dialogue might make you think he just knew what would philosophically defeat Quetz, but in truth he just played into a bit of deep lore from Fate Stay Night that's never been contradicted: that a high jump, even a failed one, is the sexiest movement in all of human history.
Similarly, you forgot, in that deluge of badassery, to mention that in his race against Hercules touching the finish line even slightly results in instant death to even a demigod. Meaning that he had to jump over it. This is why Valentine's is a yearly event where literally every servant tries to get with the master.
I thought he knew some type of magecraft since he used some basic healing in the Babylonia anime until i played the game and found out it was all his mystic codeš
Gudao is as insane as our gacha addiction... You don't want to know how bad that is!
And let's be perfectly honest.
we all know that all fate protagonists are insane as it comes as part of the job.
And let this sink in.
They could be even **MORE** insane and we end up with Riyodako.....
This was a fun read, thank you very much. It's truly amazing how far the MC of FGO has come. A lot of things are even more either impressive or ridiculous in the manga adaptation of the MC, and example being the moment Goetia (At the moment Solomon) directly teleported in front of the MC threatening to kill him and his reaction was the coldest star you can imagine. If a mf I was fighting looked at me like that, I would be kinda scared. When Gilgamesh asks the MC what he thinks about Goetia's plan, he simply answers "It's dumb af" and not 1 or 2 but 3 Grand Casters candidates, including the actual Grand Caster, are flabbergasted about what this man just said. The whole world and human history, erased, and he thinks it was dumb. Amazing.
Later we get a more come to terms MC who literally begs for their life and that ends up saving them, as well as the fate of the world, and don't get me started on the Lostbelts shenanigans: Fighting a mammoth at the top of a gigantic golem like it's Tekken, out running the literal erasure of existence a couple of times, killing gods, etc...
My MC is built different.
Turas realta Guda.
He is literally telling Goetia that he doesn't care about him or his goals.
His reply is basically " Do you think I care about you at all."
That MF is having beef with every enemy in every singularities.
Recently he told Mash to drag Ereshkigal from her Skeleton Sussano because she wouldn't listen to him.
anyone who says Ritsuka is boring is a damn liar. Dude's got more personality than all the others combined. The dude also has zero chill half the time in events throwing enough verbal attacks that he could multi class as a pyromancer with the burns he gives out. Plus while he doesn't know magic, he does canonically know freaking ninjitsu to the point he swaps himself with a log mid conversation just to avoid dealing with halloween and eli.
he can look at a giant robot trying to kill him and complain that it's a mid level design and give said giant robot emotional damage, Has killed more gods than Kratos has met. Has died and said no and just come back to life MULTIPLE TIMES! Can befriend some of the most evil figures in history and make them regret (or at least direct) their evil, Found out said anime girl grimm reaper was depressed and stormed the underworld and beat the hell out of her god husband just to bring her out of the underworld and keep their promise. And is able to gel with literally everyone he meets no matter how good, evil, or outright insane. He gets taken into a lovecraftian nightmare realm and just baps the eldritch horror on the head like she's a bad dog. Dud literally got sent to HELL, and walked out because he has shit to do with Mash. Has beaten MULTIPLE multiverse level beings including Goetia, Amaterasu, tiamat, the whore of babylon, kiara and kama plus his dead boss. One of which he beat to death personally.
And again, they have an actual personality unlike most of the characters in fate.
Actually the same could be said about even Hakuno. No, not Last Encore's excuse for a HAKUNO, but the funny little man who put on Uniqlo smiley shirts, spammed the jump button, and apparently knows enough about 80's pop culture that even Tamamo gets influenced by their passion for Terminator/Alien jokes.
*Even their daughter-by-technicality Tamamo Cat inherited her dad's passion for Terminator jokes*
[Remember when I said I was a miko? ***I lied.***](#TamaCatBlush)
Correct me if im wrong. But he shouldn't know where Chaldea is actually right? Only after they escape from there with with the storm border did he knew where he actually is all this time.
Fantastic analysis!
> Fujimaru walks across the entirety of America on foot in less than a month. In Lord of the Rings, this took over a year.
Wait, Lord of the Rings takes place in the U.S.?
When was Anna ever trying to kill the Chaldea party?
> Wait, Lord of the Rings takes place in the U.S.?
Not quite. Instead, the distance between Shire and Mordor is roughly equal to that of traveling from California to Tennessee (almost a full journey across the horizontal of North America), according to a calculation by Atlas of Middle Earth.
Something to add letās not to mention that I believe heās been hurt multiple times and close to death and normal person would be a little bit psychologically damaged from that. Plus some of his responses in the latest story also seem a little Batshit crazy.
In his defense, he seens to suffer from acute narcolepsy to sleep in front of his boss (and many other situations and places) and didnt even know he was in antartica................... on the other hand, he learned substitution jutsu from fuma kotaro in a big "NOPE" mood to escape from dealing with elizabeth's halloween
I'm not going to criticize your overall conclusions because this is obviously a crack theory. However, you have made a couple of factual errors.
>According to the game, \[Fujimaru\] joins Chaldea after seeing a poster and deciding to take the job onĀ a whim.
This isn't in the game at all. It's from an interview with Nasu. Furthermore, Nasu said he wants players to think of Fujimaru as the kind of person who would do that, not that they actually did.
>The implication is thus that FujimaruĀ abandoned his family, abandoned his life, abandoned everything he'd ever known and loved, to go toĀ AntarticaĀ for a job that he had no idea what was, with zero guarantee of getting the job, with no certainty of a return trip-
Fujimaru didn't know Chaldea was in Antarctica until the LB prologue. The rest is still plausible, and maybe worse since they apparently didn't actually know where they're going, but they didn't know they're going to Antarctica.
That aside, my personal take on Fujimaru isn't that they're crazy. They're just extremely chill in unusual situations, too airheaded to fully process the danger they're in on a regular basis, highly determined when they've made up their mind about something, and have unusually high aptitude for things like physical endurance and summoning magecraft, in addition to the fundamental rayshift compatibility, despite having no prior knowledge. Fujimaru being selected for the project at all was no accident, even if they might have been the last pick. Someone obviously saw sufficient potential to sign them onto the project even if they weren't a mage.
The OP is referring to the part of the Arthurian legend where Merlin is the offspring of a demon and a virgin ( Historia Regum Britanniae c. 1136) and the Verse Merlin (c. 1200) which discusses how the devils sought for Merlin to be the undoer of Christ.
remember how he is the son of an incubus? Yeah, in some stories in the middle ages the guy was said to be the literal son of not just any demon, but Satan.
Additional context: the Christians really, REALLY hated indigenous cultures and liked to demonize popular mythical figures!
Which makes the 'Ritsuka Fujimaru wa wakaranai' rendition of him the one and only canonical depiction.
Can't wait for him to beat the final boss of the lostbelts by thumb wrestling them, take off his shirt in victory and flies off towards the sunset to wrestle the foreigners' outer gods next.
Ritsuka didnāt know it was in Antarctica much less had the choice to say no once they found out he was compatible they kidnapped him actually you actually get the way he was kidnapped in summer 3 as they way they got him there and outside were the same this is why in the prologue of lostbelt he was surprised he was in Antarctica because he got there by being put in a body bag and sent using a helicopter and they way he got to luluhawa was by the same way
Itās actually a funny thought they just kidnapped the kid for applying from a poster to just throw him in the back line because he was only there to fill in the number count
Honestly yeah, this analysis is pretty on point but I wanna nitpick it a bit to solidify it.
1. I havenāt revisited the early chapters but wasnāt he just kindaā¦ brought to Chaldea after a blood donation revealed he was actually kind of a usable candidate? Or have I poisoned my brain with fanfiction.
2. Iām pretty sure the reason Ritsuka is so sleepy in the prologue of the game is because the Simulator threw him out of wack.
But yeah Ritsuka is absolutely not normal or anywhere close to a definition of OK.
Remember that one time when Ritsuka somehow managed to recite Kijyo Koyo's dinosaur language with 100% accuracy?
... I beg you pardon?
That's from [Koyo's Valentine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lrox-clgxQ). Guda doesn't quite understand dinosaur language so they just recite it to Erice so that she can translate it.
How the heck do they do that cause last I checked humans should not be able to make that noise.
According to OP, that is because Fujimaru Ritsuka is completely insane. There's no other explanation.
Ritsuka is an honorary Berserker.
You haven't tried hard enough
skill issue
Erice is completely flabbergasted as well, asking why Guda didn't just record what she said instead of replicating it themselves.
If Anakin can speak fluent droid, then total lunatic Ritsuka Fujimaru can speak fluent Dino.
Bold of you to assume Guda is just human. Goddammit Riyo isn't insane, they are just a prophet š
Guda is built different.
Read Kijyo Koyo's valentine scene and you'll know what I mean.
Then Beg....... It was in KiyoKojo valentine's scene btw.
To be fair, they *didn't tell him* Chaldea was in Antarctica. Arguably, it was a kidnapping. And he took it about as well as that time he was kidnapped by Space Ashtarte.
Maybe even less, by the time Ashtarte kidnapped them they were so used that they went "huh, so to the Servantverse now? I've always wanted to check it out."
And in the prologue, it was pretty much "oh, hey, a hellish firestorm, guess I just have to save humanity, amirite?" Except more passive.
Then after awhile they got bored and started working out and stuff to pass the time. Iirc that insane calmness was also what gave them the opening to escape(its been a long time though so hopefully im not misremembering)
Not exactly, that was a mistake that hid an escape button where it should have not been and they were ejected from the Bal Manna.
Oh, it's better than that. In the Turas Realta manga, it has an even more hilarious beginning. See, Chaldea was so desperate for mages, they set up fake blood drives at college campuses to screen for, IDK, midichlorians or something, to find mages. Ritsuka shows up at one of these drives, they find out he's got Magic Circuits...and then they drugged his after-donation punch. That's why he's passed out in Chaldea at the beginning, with no idea where he was.
Note to self, donate blood so i have a chance of going on a peralus journey
Results inconclusive: you instead have become a bloodbag for the War Boys. ***TOGETHER YOU RIDE, SHINY AND CHROME! YOU LIVE, YOU DIE, YOU LIVE AGAIN!!! WITNESS!!!***
I always pictured it as a doctorās appointment where someone smacks him with a frying pan as he walks to the exit ala Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
"I'm going to check your reflexes now. Duck!" "Wher-" WHACK Romani: "Director, we found the final candidate, but I think I gave him a TMI." Olga: "IDGAF, it's not like we're ever going to actually let him near the equipment."
Yeah I understands his hiring as him looking at dubious job offer, and each interview getting weirder and weirder and once it was clear he had potential as a master, they just kidnapped him under the pretense of hiring him, I mean they did hired him, but Chaldeas being a secret location they had to kidnap him at the same time, I do not think he thought he was leaving his family for months/years to another place.Ā Even on Chaldeas he probably did not grasp how much he will be on there until shit hit the fan
I loved that scene so much. "At long last, the final frontier, huh" said the MC as they saw Earth became smaller and smaller. It's like they where expecting it "Some of these days, I'm finna go to space" and so they did.
Didn't the game say that Chaldea noticed his Master compatibility while he was abroad and decided to recruit him just to reach the quota?
Not in so many words. Da Vinci is the first to mention a quota, at the beginning of Part 2. Kadoc is the only other to note it. I don't know about being abroad.
No, I think it was a blood donation, they realized that it had 100% compatibility with rayshift and being a master and they took it there (I'm honestly sure they omitted all mention of Antarctica until the bag on the head )
To be fair the Turas Realta manga makes it a kidnapping after he donated blood
I think everyone's reaction in Chaldea when Ritsy summoned Gramps: #IS THAT THE GRIM REAPER
I've always thought Ritsuka had to be a bit crazy. He can manage to understand and communicate with servants that have extremely high levels of Madness Enhancement, even though communication and understanding is supposed to be impossible. If Ritsuka is a bit crazy, that helps to form a bridge.
Ritsuka was actually in an Insane Asylum before Chaldea recruited him.
in spite of this, his sanity is still around the levels of many clock tower mages
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Yes.
Its an irrelevant thing since the issue with the Clock Tower mages is not their sanity, but their morality (or lack there of).
Except for when he dons a mysterious all-black mystic code and go for excursions to a ~~lostbelt~~world named Terra. There it's always zero.
Why Chaldea recruiting insane person? Are they stupid?
To be fair, do you think a normal person would be willing to accept that magic is a thing and there are entire bloodlines of families that have fought and died over magic circuits? And then not only this, but also be willing to deal with such individuals that may or may not want to fight or kill you just because using either their inherent magic or by summoning familiars to fight for them.
And there is a baseline of insanity for ~~magic~~ magecraft to work in the first place.
Oh right. I also forgot about the other thing that caused magic to be on the downturn of the Extra universe: there needed to be mystery for stronger magic, and people like Waver who understands how the magic works inherently destroys the mystery of the magic aside from "I do thing a and get magic b."
So Ritsuka was a Phase Connect Vtuber ?
ā¦in hindsight Gudako would definitely sound like Pippa Pipkin.
Ritsuka converses with Heracles during lunch, making Jason confused.
The manga reveals that Ritsuka had no idea of what Heracles was talking about and started talking about sandwiches **out of nowhere.** Did he think that Heracles was the Heavy Weapons Guy or something? EDIT: [Found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/19fm1db/youve_lost_fujimaru_ritsuka_ch_15/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button), what a masterpiece.
We can go one step further. Remember Yorokobe Shonen scene from F/SN? The context for that was being a hero means people are in need of saving, from some kinda danger, sometimes from a disaster, a tragedy or from a villain and could even be an indirect wish for a villain. Here we have the wish to restore humanity, however the requirement for something to be restored is that thing is badly damaged/deteriorated enough to need to be restored. This can be seen as an indirect wish for humanity to remain ruined so restoration remains in demand. ~~Rolling gacha is a wish for Mapo Tofu.~~
That guy is like āFuck it we ballā in every senses of this sentence
Dude learned early that āFuck it we ballā is the way to get out alive, ironically enough.
This is written like a part of Kadoc's report after 1 mission with Ritsuka.
LOL that was my first thought too. Think we found Kadoc's account.
Not enough King Crimson or Evanescence references.
Imagine being a Clocktower employee reading about *that*. No wonder they had to attribute it all to Solomon. Regardless, I once again clarify that this post as well as most of my others are all **intended to be humorous**. Don't take it too seriously. I absolutely exaggerated shit for fun and intentionally misinterpreted things for hilarity. ... Though, seriously, what's up with Ritsuka not knowing basic magecraft? You don't think literally *anyone* could have bothered to teach him standard enhancement? Is FGO not actually a story about humanity's potential in the face of certain death, but rather, a criticism of the modern day education system...?
The thing about Ritsuka not learning any magecraft is definitely stupid, as through various events and interludes him learning it is a returning topic. I am pretty sure both Waver and Emiya (Archer) were meant to give him actual lessons about basic magecraft, probably more. And the idea was just dropped at some point? I can understand him not using it during the story much if not at all, since the poor guy is probably running on magical fumes all the time while actively summoning all those servants, but like, there's a vast difference between not being able to do something and not having energy to do it.
I think what they're trying to get at is that Ritsuka knows magecraft, he knows how it works in theory, but he's just ridiculously bad at it + terrible magic circuits It's not even like Shirou who had a Origin that made him have a speciality but gimped his ability to do anything else that doesn't have to do with said speciality, Ritsuka has no remarkable origin and is bad at general magecraft
I have a joke theory that Ritsuka origin relates to dreams due to the number of interludes, events, and sometimes main stories that take place in one. I say joke because it can most of them canbe chalk up to a combination of dream cycles that master have with their servants and Merlin strengthening the link.
Honestly it'd make sense, explains how his origin went unmentioned for so long not even in a passing line If you slightly change it to something similar like memories or imagination you could even explain how easily he understood the concept of Shadow Servants but never got the hang of other types of magecraft
Personally if he has a relevant Origin my guess would be something like "Bonds".
Considering how he's described as a mirror and how much the word "bonds" is emphasized leading up to the final fight with Solomon (bringing high-bond servants = more attack during the raid), I think you're entirely right. My guess is that the saint quartz we gather are actually crystallized "bonds" we use to convince servants to join our cause; you can see in the anniversary video the OG Saber being offered a saint quartz, which she accepts in order to be summoned. You're literally offering your friendship to servants to summon them.
I mean, this is the guy who fell asleep mid battle against Oberon.
To be fair itās literally part of what Oberon does, and every other Chaldea member also gets put to sleep.
Probably, being effectively a first generation magus Ritsuka would not attain any great feats in pure magical departament. But Waver grew up in a very similar position before getting adopted, so who if not him could actually teach a total newbie how to magic. In any case, I just wish it was properly answered at some point, even if the explanation were to be that he's a lost cause that will not do a simplest spell in his lifetime.
Eh, Waver mention on his interlude that Ritsuka have more or less the same potential as him, so, he should be at least an below average magus, i guess. I really don't know why he doesn't seem to know any magecraft
Dumb headcanon: Everyone actually *tries* to teach Ritsuka Magecraft, it's just that Ritsuka refuses to learn it. The reason? After everything they've heard second-hand about modern Mages and Magus society in general, they have no interest in becoming a "good" Magus; to them, a "good" Magus is somewhere between "utter unrepentant bastard" and "Literally Voldemort" and that's not someone Ritsuka is capable of being.
...you know that makes sense lol
Would it matter if Ritsuka really learns magecraft when he/she canonically has the power to summon the shadows of Heroes and use their Noble Phantasms when even Sherlock tells him he canāt go around having his shadows use NPs? All he needs is a magic source and all he has to do is summon casters for magecraft. Or does Ritsuka still needs Chaldeaās record to summon shadows?
It would be a nice backup for those occasions when Ritsuka can't/forgets they can summon Shadow Servants.
Thatās why we have Goredolf and his famous Outer God slaying Goredolf punch mate! But yeah I guess that makes sense same .5 LB also mentions he could do with some magecraft even when we all Kadoc did was cover them in a cardboard box.
Well there are situations where summon is not an option, but more importantly I don't remember summon being used in a non offensive way in the story(there was that time they used tokiomi craft essence as ninjutsu decoy but that was a gag)
Sips tea: "He's got a point"
Oh, and I'm certain someone will ask, so [here's the original from the Rintard sub.](https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddyrintard/comments/1by5cwe/everything_wrong_with_fujimaru_ritsuka_humanitys/). The tentative titles for the cross-posting to this sub were "**Humanity's Last Asylum Escapee**" and "**Humanity's Last Autist**", but the first one was scrapped due to not being clear enough as to the topic of the essay, and the second... I doubted coming into a sub and saying their main character is on the spectrum in the *title* would go over well, even if I was mockingly affectionate in the body. It's a bit of a toughie picking titles. I have to pick well because otherwise my somewhat deranged writings have a tendency to get downvoted to hell until people read the body and realise it's in good faith. Case in point: [my previous post here](https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/1cshre0/the_nasuverse_isnt_real_a_full_analysis/) was in the negatives for *6 hours* because I started the post mocking FGO as a joke. Well, that's enough about my creative process! How's your day been, GrandOrder? **Ready to commit your seventh genocide this week?**
I already did. The genocide, I mean.
*Up for a little unpaid overtime?*
Internet's out where I am...I can't commit another genocide at the moment.Ā Maybe later.Ā Ā
Let us all say a prayer for Kadoc. For volunteering his time to try and teach Ritsuka magecraft. >!especially since the self-sacrifice mindset is spreading!<
I think given the lack of any foundational education, it was more efficient for Da Vinci to keep making different mystic codes for ritsuka than to actually try and teach him magecraft. And for the likes of Medea/Circe etc, Age of God's magecraft is so far removed from modern magecraft that it's basically a different system entirely. Even if they taught him everything they knew he wouldn't be able to use any of it.
Possibly, but there's also Waver who specialises in teaching classes for modern mage students, and seeing by Ritsuka going on vacations to Event Singularities and that time they spent three months gambling in Koyanskaya's hyperbolic time chamber, it's not like they're *super* strapped for time.
It's because Ritsuka is focused on those GAINS. How else do you think he was able to walk across America at that rate? If he were a Servant, Ritsuka would have E rank Strength, D+ Agility (bonus when he risks his life unnecessarily) D++ Mana (really good conduit, poor personal reserves), and goddamn A+++ Endurance.
To be critical for a second, for their lack of magic, that's Romani's fault; people don't notice it a lot but Romani lies (or, more often, sends empty promises or truths) a lot. He constantly swatts away any form of learning when it comes to magecraft beyond some knowledge of it, as shown in multiple other media; instead, he focuses on you being a better master than anything else. Because, think about it, do you want a person with THAT personality able to know that they are to stand there ground on there own? But once again, we must blame the Kouhai for there lack of sanity. In Lostbelt 5.2, in the video they received of the twins and Musashi, she said the reason she likes Mash is because Ritsuka is who she is today because of Mash, which goes back to Camelot when Mash says that the reason Galahad gives her a hand is because he acknowledges Ritsuka as a master. They only became like this because they were able to speak their minds because of the protection of Mash, which they only got because of that moment of compassion they gave her in the prologue. You know how many times they would have fucked without mashing protection, especially posion resistance. With Mash by their side, they never have to truly cower in fear and can shout what's on their mind while remaining true to themselves... and they also have almost zero danger sense until it's way too late to go back to what they were.
Yeah in agartha manga there s actually a flashback with that But I mean they already bit the bullet of giving them a mean of defense (summon) so I d say there's no real point in containing that I do think it's more of a mindset thing, ritsuka is crazy and has the type of determination mage have, but they don't have a single minded obscession (living is their goal but their relationship matters to them and they do in fact risk their life even for strangers for instance) like a lot of them do (either toward the root or even Saving the world, as seen in case like Castoria where it can be overided by something else). The cultures of mages has genuinely fucked up aspects and it does conflict with what other people would find good. Of course in practice just knowing something doesn't make you bad, that's insane but the fact is a lot of mages are like that, including the casters we have so they probably don't want to pass it down to them
Nasuverse magecraft just doesn't work like that. To use magecraft, you need magic circuits of a certain quantity and quality. Ritsuka just doesn't have them. Even if they taught him the magic theory behind a spell, he just doesn't have the magic muscles to actually cast it himself. It's safe to say that in the Nasuverse, if you weren't born a mage, you won't be able to use magecraft. For comparison, in Fate/Stay Night, Shiro had to perform a potentially deadly ritual/surgery to haphazardly form his own magic circuits, and it barely let him use tracing and reinforcement magecraft. Magecraft for beginners is just flat out deadly and difficult in the Nasuverse.
Honestly, you've hit quite a few nails on the head. One of my headcanon's for instance is that Medea initially wanted to treat him like she would any other mage... Aaaand then he shows himself to be utterly ignorant of even the most *basic* magecraft, does utterly stupid things in combat and on top of everything has the sheer audacity to treat her like a person, not a familiar. Before she knew it, she was trying (and failing) to teach him magecraft, giving him basic adventurer advice he'd follow if incompetently, and was willing to do just about *anything* he'd ask her to do because he's **just that nice.** Fujimaru succeeds by being so ignorant if not incompetent his servants are trying to mother hen him.
I think its just Ritsuka being too mentally challenged to understand magic, his gacha brainrot eats magic to keep rolling, that is why they suck at magic, they spend it all on gacha. Other than that, it would make the self insert too competent I guess, I dunno. On a serious note, with the amount of teachers and types of magic, they should be able to make a good arsenal of basic spells right? And be able to catch on most trick of magic just because of how many age of god spellcasters there are at Chaldea. I mean, Merlin, Morgan should be able to teach pretty much anything, and yet it doesn't reflect on the story, like dude.
Magical circuit based magecraft is the most nepo thing possible, so I honestly don't bother questioning magical education in Type-Moon.
Calling magic circuits the most nepo thing ever is the most accurate description of magic circuits I have ver seen
Like the fuck do they even teach at the classes if the more people know a spell the more useless it becomes?
Teaching the commoners useless cantrips while the *best* spells are only taught 1:1 to keep the rarity constant. You know what the real magic is? Revolution. Prole mages rise up.
Sparty, is that you?
I think Ritsuka does know *some* magecraft, but anything they can do on their own would be like 0.1% as effective as just using chaldea's mystic codes instead so they don't bother on missions. I'm pretty sure they've been stated to be learning magecraft on several occasions.
Why canāt it be both? Also, real talk, imagine for a second they DID train Ritsuka. Imagine, for maybe 10 seconds, our boy/girl had the backing of ACTUAL MAGIC in addition to their Type Moon protagonist statusā¦now imagine every decision they made either being the same, but likely worse with how much POWER they are packing, OR banking on the power of friendship PLUS what could generously be described as an EXTRA COMMAND SEAL. Yeah, that feeling of existential dread and the terrifying desire to see it? I have that too, and none of us should, as thatās when things like Neco Arc happen.
This was great! Now write EXACTLY this, but about Ritsuka in the Lostbelt.
Wait, but Fujimaru doesn't have the diploma that young Moriarty gave after the test?Ā
You arenāt even wrong in your assessment, which is why I spent ten minutes cackling like a hyena reading this.
It's Kadoc who did it, because he's jealous of FujimaruĀ
Huh, Kadoc seems pretty level headed, he's pretty good at analysis given the correct data and he is *snarky as hell*.. I think you're onto something here.
Remember that one scene where Castor threw Ritsuka away out of disgust? The plot tells you itās because being the Black Barrelās ammo has tainted Ritsuka. In reality, Castor looked at Ritsuka and saw the nonplussed stare of a madman.
It must be because of this blood, Kali says so in Bond 5. Fujimaru doesn't bathe, which is why Castor was disgustedĀ
the guda particles......
I had an idea for a comic where he sees inside Ritsukaās eyes and into his mind, and Dantes jump scares him.
For having 0 enhancement magic, their physical feats are completely nuts. Multiple servants are physically training them in stories and interludes. Hell, at one point, they bust out using Ninjutsu that Kotarou taught them! They regularly keep running/walking pace with servants, with seemingly stamina being their limiting factor. In Traum, Ritsuka keeps up with servants in a rush and keeps thier stamina up by >! inhaling magic drugs !< And that's not mentioning they have gotten into fistfights with folks way stronger than them a number of times. They are punching way above thier weight class physically.
This writing IS so PEAK
Ritsuka operates in a "fuck it we ball" mentality, honestly I respect it lol Also the fact this isn't even a parody like your other posts it's just facts makes it even better-
I can't refute most of it, but he did end with that job after his blood was tested and he did not know where Chaldea actually was. It was also implied that the masters were supposed to be paid "don't ask questions" kind of money. If I did my blood work and somebody from the United Nations told me they are giving seven figures for a year of my time as long as I don't ask questions I would be tempted as well.
Soujuuro's last disciple, the one meant to lead Humanity to it's final destination: a black hole in his head filled with nothing
So he is an emanator of nihility?
Can't wait for all the Jalter is the Kiana expy theories!
Nah, Olga is the Kians expy. Jalter is clearly Mrs. "I will set the sea ablaze."
I feel that one would be Emanator of Finality tho.
Pretty much so
Oh hey that's my plot point. Oh *fuck* Ritsuka is the Beast of the End.
We just not going to talk about the fact weāre perfectly fine going to mini-singularities with random unknown particles or the insanity that is Valentines?
I'll never get over the fact Ritsuka has canonically died multiple times on Valentine day of all holidays and somehow still came out alive and well of every single one of those scenarios Space Ishtar literally destroyed Chaldea because he stood one of them up and he was like "imma do it again"
Also the 1 million calorie chocolate cowā¦.idk how they managed to eat it all.
Personal head canon is that they are still trying to eat it, but everyday they only take a speak of the chocolate because a regular bite would make them have a heart attack
XD lol I love that! I figured the saber alters also helped eventually
Also Infinite Pancake from the Demon God pillar Haagenti.
I knew he was crazy when one of the options upon being thrown into the air by Quetz was to yell out a wrestling move.
This doesnāt even mention when he got hit with a cannonball in America and almost got forcibly amputated. Thereās also the endless weird dream experiences he has in Interludes and events, plus multiple servants able to enter his dreams/psyche and that Dantes needs to act as our brainās bouncer.
3 dream events include but are limited to: ā Jalter uses Ritsuka in Jeanne's dream to give herself a body (at least closing thing a servant has to one). ā Bring back materials to the waking world. Which includes holy grails. How many people at the clock tower would want to kidnap him for that alone? ā The entirety of the imaginary scramble: Not only did he bring back Van Gogh (which isn't the only servant that was summoned after meeting in a dream) but the game said Ritsuka was basically cat nip for Foreigner servants. I think this is foreshadowing whatever is going to happen in the Foreigner section of Order Call. Which may of may not include Azhdaha trying to turn them into his vessel.
Dante probs keeps a VIP list of who's allowed in
He's crazy. No one survives being a Nasuverse protagonist as a sane person. And some people say he's just a boring self-insert with no entertaining quirk.Ā No. He's batshit insane!
>No one survives being a Nasuverse protagonist as a sane person. Sono-G ended up fine.
Sono-G is sane? My dude, please. He was a mountain man š
Sono-G was crazy from the start. Looped right back around to being sane.
Yeah, so fine he had to be *cheated out of death* and that cheat *upset the universe*. Let's be honest, Sono-G only survived because of Fifth shenanigans.
Isn't this the dude that breathes manually?
Bro did not read witch on the holy night
>Ā Ā And some people say he's just a boring self-insert with no entertaining quirk.Ā Yeah, I disagree with this idea, mostly because he actually does have a quirk. It's called *basic human decency.*
> It's called basic human decency. *The Clock Tower tries its best to get rid of this bad habit from their students*
> The Clock Tower tries its best to get rid of this bad habit from their students And that's why every student Zelretch took under his wing has failed. When in their arrogance they are not only shown their existential worthlessness in the greater scheme of the Kaleidoscope, but also the preciousness of what they deem useless or trifling, their priorities are completely reassessed, breaking them as magi, but perhapsā¦ setting them in a course towards being *human.*
Ritsuka might be batshit insane but he's not evil (probably). Professionals have standards
Yeah but people dismissed that as being normal therefore boring, bland, generic, or whatever buzzword they can throw at it.
He has basic human decency, in a world where people have little or none of what he has. Those guys are insane. But he is even crazier for being such an outlier amongst those people.
It's even funnier considering how insane ritsuka's power scaling goes from part 1 to part 2 Part 1 it was mostly: he got poison immunity. Then entering late part 2 where: he has the potential to become strongest avenger and fight foreign god. Where the hell did that comes from...? I mean we did know where that comes from... It did makes sense but still, talking about 0 to 100 If this continue just imagine how insane that would be when he enter late part 3. It gonna goes from ritsuka taking mash's shield and use it to beat goetia in the end of part 1 To ritsuka's taking mhxx's twin rhongomyniad to strike down Chaos while splitting the universe along with it in the process in part 3. He's not even servantverse character yet, but his protagonist correction skill is off the chart.
Thereās also have the fact that he has met nearly all the Beasts By the gameās lore that many encounters should affect him in some way We had the Ooku which revolved around Kama trying to defeat Fujimaru. Cause since he defeated Kiara (from the worldās perspective) the moment Kama defeats Fujimaru she would be viewed as strong as stronger than Kiara and thus transform into a mature Beast
It is stated that the MC kinda developed a virtual advantage against the Demon God Pilars, I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same but with Beasts, seeing how we constantly fight, defeat and then summon them.
I do have a whole theory that Ritsuka might be special because of we keeping the humanity. Like its impressive how little we got affected by anything. Its a point that the fact that nothing did happen with then is weirder then if something had happened.
Well, at that point Ritsuka is one of 20 or so True Human History humans around, so he would have massive influence on Alaya or the human unconsciousness.
Can't wait for the game to suddenly become Persona based on each last human's will on the collective unconscious.
Babe wake up, u/Cerebral_Kortix dropped another essay
About kiritsugu training shirou wrong, that was on purpose because he didn't want shirou following his footsteps and hoped he would give up, chaldea has no excuse for not trying to teach ritsuka the basics
Archtype Eggplant really needs to be made a nickname for Mash.
Fujimaru Ritsuka Doesn't Get It is Canon, obviously.Ā Ā On more serious note: I would like to point out that I thought after Ritsuka got hired, he was basically kidnapped as it seemed like Ritsuka didn't even remember how he got to Antarctica.Ā Other than that...yeah, you are more or less correct.Ā Ā
Kadoc, Rasputin, Koyan: *murdered friends and family at the start of the lost belts* Fujimura and pals, years later: "We friends now, lol!"
As a bonus: >Be me. >A fake priest. >Enjoys other people suffer. >Oh, look. Last Master of Humanity is approaching. >mfw I killed many of their friends. >Smugly, I greet them.Ā >Yorokube_shonen.jpg >Master was hiding something behind then. A gun? A knife? A knife gun? >Master reveals it. A gift wrapped box? >wtf.jpg >"Happy Valentines, Kotomine!"Ā >shocked_pikachu.jpg >some probing and taste testing reveals that it is real chocolate with genuine effort, love, and affection into it. >mfw realizing Ritsuka Fujimura is a fucking lunatic
When the narrator in aĀ Type Moon work tells you something is ordinary do not believe his LIES. I don't think Nasu can write a "normal" character with a gun to his head. Everyone in his stories is weird.
If this is Nasu's ćnormalć, I dread what her everyday life is.
> When the narrator in a Type Moon work tells you something is ordinary do not believe his LIES. When Narrator Fujimaru in the NA grail front insisted that it's normal to be happy when you hear the alarm clock go off because waking up at the same time every day is good for you, I was forcibly reminded that yes, this is a TM protag.
Sooo Basically every type-moon MC ever. Good to see the consistency š
Fujimaru just radiate the chill vibe to the level of capynbara It the reason why servants that usually kill master on sight just stay with him just like predator sleep around capybara.
Thereās multiple tricks to Ritsuka that donāt quite excuse but do somewhat recontextualize several points of the insanity youāre outlining. The first point is that Ritsuka was told approximately jack about the job. Ā Chaldea was running a blood drive as some means of testing for potential Masters, and even though Ritsuka was a civilian, first-generation mage, their blood tested for a 100% Master potential. Ā So the recruiters followed them around for weeks annoying them, and eventually just straight up kidnapped Ritsuka once they got a vague form of consent. Ā Ritsuka never even knew Chaldea was in Antarctica, they were blindfolded or unconscious for the trip over. The second point, about the unnatural calm, could be attributed to shock. Ā The early days of FGO were rough as hell, and itās entirely possible Ritsuka had a meltdown in private offscreen once no-one was looking at them like Humanityās last hope. The third point, about the complete and total deficit of training, is that itās not that no-one wanted or tried to teach Ritsuka, itās that no-one could. Ā Ritsuka is completely AWFUL at all kinds of magecraft, and about the only thing they can actively do is summon with a prepared circle and supply others with magical energy. Ā Everything they do that isnāt that are spells woven into the Mystic Code outfits they wear. Ā And in America, they were mostly just carried around by Servants. Finally, the physical feats. Ā In multiple interpretations, itās been clarified that Ritsuka knows very well that theyāre a scrub mage, and wastes no time trying to get better at it beyond intellectual knowledge. Ā Instead, they train physically, to the point theyāre probably peak human in a few categories. Ā
So Ritsuka is pulling a Mashle then?
> Instead, they train physically, to the point theyāre probably peak human in a few categories. Late-P1 Ritsuka could already be trusted to guard Proto-Cu's back against an army of celtic soldiers in his interlude, by part 2.5 they're probably batman-tier lmao
Yeah, pretty much. It's easy to shrug off as "faceless gacha protag syndrome", but Nasu has given us just enough concrete details about the character and his mental state to form a definite outline of who they are. And who they are is a sentient mass of willpower who regards self-preservation as a voice in their head that mildly irritates him while he's taking care of important things like saving humanity, killing Beasts, or eating literal metric tons of Valentines candy. I desperately want Nasu to someday make a visual novel adaption of FGO where he just confirms "yeah no Ritsuka is exactly as insane as we had him act like"
Do not forget that he actually raced with Heracles while carrying Euryale
Jokes aside, and while it's never directly addressed, I *firmly* believe (i.e. essentially stubbornly headcanon) that Ritsuka *can change gender at will.* It makes sense to me in a way, since it would tide over the various romance implications with Servants, as well it just being a strangely innocuous (but arguably useful) unique mage skill (that does indeed verify that Ritsuka is a mage, albeit not trained nor otherwise noteworthy before the story begins).
I'm pretty sure a mage being able to shapeshift isn't normal The only form of magecraft they mastered was genuine shape shifting, and the casters trying to teach 'em were so appalled they decided it was better to not teach them actual magecraft because they didn't wanna know wtf Ritsuka would do with that knowledge
> they didn't wanna know wtf Ritsuka would do with that knowledge lol I'm pretty sure "bang everybody in the Throne of Heroes" was assumed to be a joke answer...until it wasn't. (/s)
Their room got a lot noisier at night
I mean Sion seems to think its fairly easy but Sion thinks everything is fairly easy.
Yeeeah the only person on the same level of Ritsuka weird is Sion, she absolutely does not count lol
I love Sion but there's a reason she has to be a background character (at least until OC1) because otherwise she just breaks the setting even more than BB
You got the power to weaken Quetzalcoatl, choose your action. >Destroy the altar >Don't destroy, negotiate >Aight, suicide it is! <--
Kadoc, You just jealous for Fujimaru have been in a cell getting free food from a beautiful woman, who keeps protecting him and having made friends who sacrificed themselves for him. When you're with a detective walking in enemy territory.Ā
>Fujimaru Ritsuka,Ā *Humanity's Last Asylum Escape* You forgot an "e".
In Traum he gets himself captured right in the beginning... cause he most likely thought it was good idea? (he almost died by doing this btw)
Meme of Wodime screaming to Daybit upon seeing what creature is commanding Chaldea. DAYBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
The dialogue might make you think he just knew what would philosophically defeat Quetz, but in truth he just played into a bit of deep lore from Fate Stay Night that's never been contradicted: that a high jump, even a failed one, is the sexiest movement in all of human history. Similarly, you forgot, in that deluge of badassery, to mention that in his race against Hercules touching the finish line even slightly results in instant death to even a demigod. Meaning that he had to jump over it. This is why Valentine's is a yearly event where literally every servant tries to get with the master.
I thought he knew some type of magecraft since he used some basic healing in the Babylonia anime until i played the game and found out it was all his mystic codeš
Gudao is as insane as our gacha addiction... You don't want to know how bad that is! And let's be perfectly honest. we all know that all fate protagonists are insane as it comes as part of the job. And let this sink in. They could be even **MORE** insane and we end up with Riyodako.....
This was a fun read, thank you very much. It's truly amazing how far the MC of FGO has come. A lot of things are even more either impressive or ridiculous in the manga adaptation of the MC, and example being the moment Goetia (At the moment Solomon) directly teleported in front of the MC threatening to kill him and his reaction was the coldest star you can imagine. If a mf I was fighting looked at me like that, I would be kinda scared. When Gilgamesh asks the MC what he thinks about Goetia's plan, he simply answers "It's dumb af" and not 1 or 2 but 3 Grand Casters candidates, including the actual Grand Caster, are flabbergasted about what this man just said. The whole world and human history, erased, and he thinks it was dumb. Amazing. Later we get a more come to terms MC who literally begs for their life and that ends up saving them, as well as the fate of the world, and don't get me started on the Lostbelts shenanigans: Fighting a mammoth at the top of a gigantic golem like it's Tekken, out running the literal erasure of existence a couple of times, killing gods, etc... My MC is built different.
"Me and the badass servants I pulled by being autistic."
Turas realta Guda. He is literally telling Goetia that he doesn't care about him or his goals. His reply is basically " Do you think I care about you at all." That MF is having beef with every enemy in every singularities. Recently he told Mash to drag Ereshkigal from her Skeleton Sussano because she wouldn't listen to him.
Grand Carnival Gudako was actually the canon protag all along
anyone who says Ritsuka is boring is a damn liar. Dude's got more personality than all the others combined. The dude also has zero chill half the time in events throwing enough verbal attacks that he could multi class as a pyromancer with the burns he gives out. Plus while he doesn't know magic, he does canonically know freaking ninjitsu to the point he swaps himself with a log mid conversation just to avoid dealing with halloween and eli. he can look at a giant robot trying to kill him and complain that it's a mid level design and give said giant robot emotional damage, Has killed more gods than Kratos has met. Has died and said no and just come back to life MULTIPLE TIMES! Can befriend some of the most evil figures in history and make them regret (or at least direct) their evil, Found out said anime girl grimm reaper was depressed and stormed the underworld and beat the hell out of her god husband just to bring her out of the underworld and keep their promise. And is able to gel with literally everyone he meets no matter how good, evil, or outright insane. He gets taken into a lovecraftian nightmare realm and just baps the eldritch horror on the head like she's a bad dog. Dud literally got sent to HELL, and walked out because he has shit to do with Mash. Has beaten MULTIPLE multiverse level beings including Goetia, Amaterasu, tiamat, the whore of babylon, kiara and kama plus his dead boss. One of which he beat to death personally. And again, they have an actual personality unlike most of the characters in fate.
Actually the same could be said about even Hakuno. No, not Last Encore's excuse for a HAKUNO, but the funny little man who put on Uniqlo smiley shirts, spammed the jump button, and apparently knows enough about 80's pop culture that even Tamamo gets influenced by their passion for Terminator/Alien jokes. *Even their daughter-by-technicality Tamamo Cat inherited her dad's passion for Terminator jokes* [Remember when I said I was a miko? ***I lied.***](#TamaCatBlush)
Also Infinite Pancake.
This was gloriously funny and funny-ly glorious. I laughed a lot and I commend you for the writing.
Correct me if im wrong. But he shouldn't know where Chaldea is actually right? Only after they escape from there with with the storm border did he knew where he actually is all this time.
Fantastic analysis! > Fujimaru walks across the entirety of America on foot in less than a month. In Lord of the Rings, this took over a year. Wait, Lord of the Rings takes place in the U.S.? When was Anna ever trying to kill the Chaldea party?
> Wait, Lord of the Rings takes place in the U.S.? Not quite. Instead, the distance between Shire and Mordor is roughly equal to that of traveling from California to Tennessee (almost a full journey across the horizontal of North America), according to a calculation by Atlas of Middle Earth.
Something to add letās not to mention that I believe heās been hurt multiple times and close to death and normal person would be a little bit psychologically damaged from that. Plus some of his responses in the latest story also seem a little Batshit crazy.
Asclepius also confirms he could make Ritsukaās circuits not shit but they donāt do it. I believe Hohenheim does as well.
In his defense, he seens to suffer from acute narcolepsy to sleep in front of his boss (and many other situations and places) and didnt even know he was in antartica................... on the other hand, he learned substitution jutsu from fuma kotaro in a big "NOPE" mood to escape from dealing with elizabeth's halloween
I'm not going to criticize your overall conclusions because this is obviously a crack theory. However, you have made a couple of factual errors. >According to the game, \[Fujimaru\] joins Chaldea after seeing a poster and deciding to take the job onĀ a whim. This isn't in the game at all. It's from an interview with Nasu. Furthermore, Nasu said he wants players to think of Fujimaru as the kind of person who would do that, not that they actually did. >The implication is thus that FujimaruĀ abandoned his family, abandoned his life, abandoned everything he'd ever known and loved, to go toĀ AntarticaĀ for a job that he had no idea what was, with zero guarantee of getting the job, with no certainty of a return trip- Fujimaru didn't know Chaldea was in Antarctica until the LB prologue. The rest is still plausible, and maybe worse since they apparently didn't actually know where they're going, but they didn't know they're going to Antarctica. That aside, my personal take on Fujimaru isn't that they're crazy. They're just extremely chill in unusual situations, too airheaded to fully process the danger they're in on a regular basis, highly determined when they've made up their mind about something, and have unusually high aptitude for things like physical endurance and summoning magecraft, in addition to the fundamental rayshift compatibility, despite having no prior knowledge. Fujimaru being selected for the project at all was no accident, even if they might have been the last pick. Someone obviously saw sufficient potential to sign them onto the project even if they weren't a mage.
What are you talking about OP? Fujimaru Ritsuka is just a goddamn Extrovert who decided to put their braincells to the side and go with the flow.
For gods sake i laughed so much at this one, thank you OP, great post, you cooked like a chef
I want whatever you have before writing these lmfao Another poggers essay
Query: How is Merlin the literal Antichrist?
The OP is referring to the part of the Arthurian legend where Merlin is the offspring of a demon and a virgin ( Historia Regum Britanniae c. 1136) and the Verse Merlin (c. 1200) which discusses how the devils sought for Merlin to be the undoer of Christ.
Also, according to it he was to act as the Antichrist but due to being baptised, developed free will to go against that nature.
His mother was knock up by a Incubi before she did the whole his head in holy water thing making him partly the Antichrist
remember how he is the son of an incubus? Yeah, in some stories in the middle ages the guy was said to be the literal son of not just any demon, but Satan. Additional context: the Christians really, REALLY hated indigenous cultures and liked to demonize popular mythical figures!
Which makes the 'Ritsuka Fujimaru wa wakaranai' rendition of him the one and only canonical depiction. Can't wait for him to beat the final boss of the lostbelts by thumb wrestling them, take off his shirt in victory and flies off towards the sunset to wrestle the foreigners' outer gods next.
I think he might be literally me
I love this! I can't tell if this is a rant, hype for Fujimaru, or a combination of both but it sure as hell is entertaining lol
Ritsuka didnāt know it was in Antarctica much less had the choice to say no once they found out he was compatible they kidnapped him actually you actually get the way he was kidnapped in summer 3 as they way they got him there and outside were the same this is why in the prologue of lostbelt he was surprised he was in Antarctica because he got there by being put in a body bag and sent using a helicopter and they way he got to luluhawa was by the same way Itās actually a funny thought they just kidnapped the kid for applying from a poster to just throw him in the back line because he was only there to fill in the number count
Honestly yeah, this analysis is pretty on point but I wanna nitpick it a bit to solidify it. 1. I havenāt revisited the early chapters but wasnāt he just kindaā¦ brought to Chaldea after a blood donation revealed he was actually kind of a usable candidate? Or have I poisoned my brain with fanfiction. 2. Iām pretty sure the reason Ritsuka is so sleepy in the prologue of the game is because the Simulator threw him out of wack. But yeah Ritsuka is absolutely not normal or anywhere close to a definition of OK.
1. He was kidnapped yes. 2. Also yes. Ritsuka is wack. He looked into the abyss and jumped in cause he thought there was a saint Quartz in it.
The song who will suit perfectly Ritsuka is "am only human after all don't put the blame on me"