Slight Jinako appreciation post ahead because it’s her birthday. Light spoilers for CCC and LB4.
I know I made like a joke post saying Ganesha/Jinako is the only good pseudo-Servant, but like… no joke, she’s probably one of the best ones that FGO has put out. Seriously.
She’s one of the few Pseudo-Servant’s that actually uses her role in the story for further her character arc rather than purely fanservice. One of the reasons Jinako was so compelling in Lostbelt 4 was because you get to see how far she’s come since CCC. In CCC she wasn’t really… a good person. She was selfish, arrogant– basically your sterotypical forum-browsing gamer, but she had a lot of pent up fears and pain that molded her into being like that, and in CCC we only get to see her slowly start working through them, but we never see the full results of her growth until Lostbelt 4.
And she’s grown in a realistic way. She didn’t leave the Moon Cell and immediately change her life. She’s not some sort of hero of justice, she’s far from perfect, but she’s improved. She’s still kind of lazy, yeah. She’s still a NEET, sure. But she’s a lot more selfless and open than she was in CCC. She’s willing to give people a chance and open up, she’s grown from someone who idolized Karna and saw him as ‘A Servant she didn’t deserve’ to fighting alongside him and feeling as if she deserved to fight alongside him.
She’s grown to the point where she was willing to basically trap herself in a sensory-deprivation chamber for thousands of years because she’s finally put out a limb to trust others, and knows the value of reciprocating that trust. She’s still afraid of dying, and ultimately being alone, but she puts forth enough trust in Chaldea that while she’ll have to stand alone for a long time, she won’t ultimately end up alone.
She’s a ‘fanservice character’, sure, but not in a way like Ishtar, Sitonai or Parvati where the divine spirit themselves take this awkward backseat in order to continuously make references about their hosts- the game makes it very clear that you called forth ‘Jinako Carigiri’, not ‘Ganesha who looks like Jinako’, but Jinako herself. There’s no awkward vagueness about her feelings towards other characters, or moments where ‘____’s acting weird because something something their host recognizes something’, you’re getting the genuine article and her interactions with characters like Karna hold weight because they’re just continuing what has already been established in CCC.
Her ‘fanservice’ is getting to see her truly complete the arc that she started in CCC, which is probably one of the better uses for fanservice out there.
Anyways, TL;DR, Jinako is the only Pseudo-Servant worth pulling and just burn everyone else.
stormborns
prguitarman
romaincrisis
annaxmalina
titsay
baratheonpilled
izzy806
discoholicmusic
