Nasu's male characters who reveal their "true nature" at the end with a twist foreshadowed since the start
He really likes this trope. And I like it too considering I eat it up as my best boy each time. So I'm curious why he likes it so much, haha.
I hope this won't make Iori discourse worse, since I'm trying to show that he had a face-heel turn and that his goals were what warped his personality, but he still fits my favorite trope and is my favorite showing of it.
They also tried to do this with Kirschtaria in Olympus but flopped. I hope I can make a post about that later. Kirschtaria wasn't a "true nature" character, and IMO, what happened to him is him having been watered down in both Olympus and the From Lostbelt manga probably because a large majority of the fanbase found him too intimidating after Atlantis.
This seems to be an extremely unpopular opinion because people say that if you don't like his "true self" in Olympus like Ophelia in the simulations initially didn't, you're a fraud, but this isn't about shipping stuff like the Ophelia vs Caenis drama (the prototype for the Yui vs Takeru wars).
Kirschtaria was the ambitious jerk with a heart of gold, not this..flawless Mary Sue that goes against his pre-Olympus character. I maintain this take as someone who loves both the "true nature" twist and Kirschtaria pre-Olympus. Olympus Kirschtaria was not that trope, and he should have stayed the jerk with a heart of gold who had the personality of someone like Gilgamesh with pride and battle hunger but selfless goals of someone like Amakusa and Yui instead of being turned into, "Brodime loves everyone now, including his literal enemies like the Dioscuri and Chaldea that he enjoyed beating the shit out of". Nasu loves the duality in his characters, and that was what he had until it got ruined.
On a positive note, what I love about this trope is that clever readers can clock it from day one. I know people that figured out Archer was Shirou from Fate route, and I realized that Romani was Solomon since Okeanos when he reacted defensively to David talking about King Solomon. But it's how they got there that makes it so fascinating every time.
