Wait no ppl actually genuinely full heartedly from the bottom the soul believe Parvati in Sakura Matou's body (the girl who had been violently assaulted since the day her father abandoned her) is a good character???? Who is literally forced to be perfect wife because of Parvati (which is upsetting because Myth Parvati is more than that as well) and they think she's a good character???
Parvati bullies Kama and they play it off like she didn't get him killed by her husband and continues to do so in her interludes and nothing else because she has no other character traits other than be "Perfect Wife" omfggg nooooooo plssss free the fate fans.
Like out of all servants to defend as pseudo servants why choose the servant with the least personality—Jinako is better by fucking leagues because she was chosen by Ganesha to live her best life (even if she ends up getting played off for fat phobic jokes)
KAMA'S A BETTER FUCKING PSUEDO SERVANT you forget she's even one because she's so fucking good
Parvati has dry turkey personality compared to the full buffet of any other pseudo servant.
Sorry I'm just really heated about this bc seeing you get hate for being absolutely fucking right boils my piss.
Don't worry i'm used to it, the sentiment is appreciated tho and I'm also stealing that last line.
I also fully agree about Kama! I didn't do the first run of Ooku (burnout) so I didn't even know they were a pseudo servant for a LOOOOOONG time, I thought at most they had a slightly similar design to evil Sakura. She's certainly by far the best Pseudo servant. Parvati is tied with Sitonai for the worst and regardless definitely has the least personality. I can think of something redeemable for every other one despite most pseudo servants being bad.
The good ones I'd say are Ishtar, Taiga, Esh (Babylonia), Muramasa, Jinako, and Kama.
The bad ones are Astraea, Rasputin, Parvati, Sitonai, Esh (playable version), and the tacticians.
Taiga is a fun character full of personality who has a canon reason to be the way she is, Muramasa doesn't rely on Shirou's brand appeal and acts as something of a philosophical inversion of Shirou himself (maybe Olympus will fuck that up before I'm done tho), Ishtar believably acts like Ishtar herself having her personality mercifully held back by human will and we get things like Super Ishtar with the tattoos in Enkidu's interlude and the like being truly menacing, Jinako when not being wasted on body shaming is genuinely funny and they at least TRIED to give her a proper arc that continues off from Extra (even if they were too cowardly to make it meaningful) and Kama is just...her own character who happens to use Sakura as a vessel simple as that.
Even with the bad ones there are positives. Playable Esh still has personality and if I cant put the butchering of her myth out of my head for 5 seconds I can appreciate they way they implemented her powers in gameplay. Astraea is a much needed f2p ruler and isnt offensively bad if only because she's so bare minimum as a character. The two tacticians are at least fully flushed out characters by proxy of Waver's own spinoff. Rasputin is.....moving on. Sitonai is.............Ainu representation, I guess...........? ......Look my point is that Parvati is the only one I can look at and take downright offense to how bad a character they are purely on the grounds of how they're implemented. Sitonai is bad because she's blatant Prilya creep baiting but she at least has Oniland giving her origin a modicum of respect. Parvati GLEEFULLY ignores any and all of her origin while also not actually doing a single thing with Sakura because it views her pseudo-servant status as nothing more than a free space on the "waifu quota" checklist.
This is also evident in how similarly the two are designed. Parvati is literally just Sakura in a different outfit, while Kama feels like a totally different entity in how she's presented. I assumed she was a terrible character at first but I've been more than proven wrong after learning about her to the point I'm kind looking forward to the Ooku rerun despite what the other less good things i've heard about it. I think if you gave Ishtar a redesign she'd be on Kama's level. My issue with Ishtar is her design. Final Asc Kama, now THAT is how you do it. Something that just screams "beyond anything human" which makes the sexual nature of her design inherently work because it doesn't feel like it's supposed to just be eye candy, on something so monstrously powerful is properly conveys that this is Mara the demon of lust. Ishtar doesn't work on that level because she doesn't look like Ishtar, she looks like a barely not-naked Rin. If they wanted her to be a rin servant that badly they should have gone all in like Kama's final. This is supposed to be Ishtar, the living Dawn, the Morning Star, the god of love and war who strikes terror into people. Don't make her "beautiful" by just putting her in a gold bikini. Make her awe inspiring. Make her draped in ornate robes and/or jewelry, draw her differently, make it so she has a aura of light that makes it hard to look at her. Make her carry herself body language wise like someone who is stuck up enough to believe everyone owes them something. You can keep your useless goddess jokes and all that, heck you barely need to even tone down the Rin attitude, but make her design something I actually believe is a goddess seen as a sign of devastation, not what feels like pure fanservice from the word go.
Oh also don't forget how Parvati also completely undermines any Ash scene in every event. His valentine illustrates EVERYTHING wrong with how they use the "Parvati" label.
So yeah. Parvati's a pretty objectively shit character and it's very telling when a sakura fan tries to defend her because it tells me that they care for Sakura's character about as much as I do, the guy who's made very clear he doesn't like HF.