#general-grey

LOVE THAT BITCH 

usually in fiction gods are written either of these two ways: “They’re just like humans” (which, valid) or “They do basically whatever the plot demands” (which fair enough but predictably less of my jam) Fgo is one of the rare times where I’ve seen “gods are fundamentally different than humans without being inherently evil/good” actually pulled off and Goetia is a shining exemple of that. 

He’s not doing his shit for the lolz. He obeys to a logic of his own. More than that: he obeys to morlities of his own, and from his perspective, what’s he’s doing is right. We can conceive why he’d go from point A to point B even if that’s a reasoning that’s completely bonkers from our point of view, because well, even if it will end, we do value our life, thank you very much. Taking it away to make a newer stronger humanity is good on paper but it won’t change the fact that I, personally, will be very much dead. 

And likewise! Goetia cannot conceive why we wouldn’t agree that this is objectively the better path for humanity because he’s never had the whole “I’m alive and one day I won’t be” experience. He doesn’t understand why life would have a value when it has a set end because himself spent 99% of his life without an end in sight. “Misplaced pity isn’t any kinder than hate.”

Which is why he becomes the “King Of Men” when he is on the verge of dying and crumbling away. When finally, finally he sees his death coming, when finally he sees he only has a few minutes remaining, then he understands that hey, even if I’m gonna die, that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t do the most of what time I have left. Which is why he fights you even though at best he’ll just drag you down with him. This isn’t about ideals anymore. This isn’t even about living anymore. This is about being seen. This is about being heard. Witness me. The one thing he can do with the last remnants of his life is make sure he has an impact on you.

And honestly, who am I to blame him? When I crawled up the Temple of Solomon, I didn’t expect to win. My reasoning wasn’t that I was going to stop time. My reasoning was if I must die here, at least I want you to remember me, I want you to know that all your carefully crafted plans almost got casted aside by one puny human you deemed unimportant. Fuck you. 

JDJAJDHAHHDHQHZHH IT'S TRUE THAT ALL ARTISTS WHO DREW GOETIA DREW LIMBO....IT'S HOW WE WORK AFTER ALL

the only difference is that limbo lacked the love necessary to make a rival out of seimei...and to make his goal tangible compared to goetia, limbo is aimless to an even higher degree unimaginable because...he comes from a human being

How I feel about this character -> I was spoiled a bit about certain characters in my first playthrough so I was said to be wary of Lautrec. I didn’t trust him anyway because of the laugh.. I mean, every Soulsborne character laughs but his was a bit more evil? I still am mad at him for taking Fire Link Shrine, but I still let his quest play out like intended every single time... it is so damn satisfying to take revenge.

All the people I ship romantically with this character -> Phew, I think I haven’t seen a single Lautrec ship I was really into? In the fics I read he was normally a really bad asshole and then there was one that didn’t tag the rape/non-con warning and I wasn’t suspecting it and was like “That wasn’t fine”. So you can blame a wrongly tagged fanfic for not wanting Lautrec anywhere near another character. 

My non-romantic OTP for this character -> Lautrec doesn’t have friends. 

My unpopular opinion about this character -> ... Um, is there even a popular opinion about him? 

I’ve been meaning to get to it for a while- every time I see people posting about these middle-aged bi weirdoes at the end of their last rope, I keep going “huh, I should check it out!”

but I do really really badly with podcasts because I keep zoning out in the middle of them