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the year is 2028

reporter: the stars are all here for russell brand’s comedy comeback show!!! oh my god who do we spot in the audience? is that… is that noel gallagher we see? hiiiii noel!!!!! how are you tonight?

noel: amazing fucking amazing!!!! can’t wait to see rb back in the game, even brought my lads for this occasion!

reporter: wicked!!! tell me if i’m wrong but wasn’t russell the best man at one of your weddings?

noel: he was! he was! he really was the best man for the job he gave such a fucking funny speech

reporter: well noel have fun tonight!!

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top comment: omg my 61 year old baby he looks SAAAAAURR GOOD!!!!!!

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STRANGER THINGS 5

Think about it. He's the only one of the four original kids without any real ties for a future. Will has suffered too much to kill him, and the Bros wouldn't kill people related to Will (Joyce & Jonathan). The only way to kill Lucas would be to kill him and Max together. Mike ain't dying; whether Mileven or Byler that mofo is the only one with love plot armor. Yeah, it's gonna be Dustin. Save this post.

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louis tomlinson is signing a cover so gay or with the words “larry” “green” “baby I’m so gay”

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hey! we spoke earlier

- he DOES have a design (he's in Fate/Zero and the manga/novels has a full illustration of them) and Case Files materials confirm he would be summonable as a servant (I got my hands on it earlier) so he does have a high chance of appearing due to his skills being revealed as well

Since him and Iskander are canon in Fate, it isn't a Van Gogh situation and hetwashing

If he gets added for real i’ll gladly take back literally everything i said. I have zero faith in it, but If it actually happens I’ll do it. Keep in kind though it wouldn’t be the first servant to have all that laid out yet not added. Heck look at the recent GudaGuda controversy with how many servants are fully designed and written in yet not actually summonable.

To reiterate my core issue it’s that the way they’ve handled this is terrible in multiple ways. The biggest being there is a precedent that means I have ZERO reason to not assume the absolute worst. If fgo wasnt already guilty of poor research, whitewashing, blackface, and implied straightwashing, then it’d be a very different story. But to lay out in full the optics of what they’ve done:

They took a character from a side series with a far more tight focus and put them in the spotlight of a far grander scale. The inherent connection between Waver and Iskandar is no longer primary context, and the character in question is a genderswapped substitute for a famously suspected gay man. The series DOES go out of its way to establish that they have not written out or existence the original, placing this in a Benkei situation rather than a “Van Gogh” one. But actions speak louder than words, and showing is better than telling, and what they’ve SHOWN is this substitute while only TELLING us about the original. What this says to me is that they are afraid to actually portray that homosexual relationship, which lines up with reductive storytelling decisions from Delightworks in the past. When a pattern is established, people will assume it even before it’s completely fulfilled.

That’s why I WILL take it all back if they implement the original in full, because then my core argument that they will only say one thing while doing another is null and void, they will have stopped TELLING us this isn’t the real Hephaestion and instead SHOWN us she isn’t while also doing justice to the original myth, the lack of which being the issue people have with most servants like this such as Jane being an gag character stealing her pan human history counterpart’s spot while having nothing to do with Calamity Jane, Altera writing one of the most famous names in all history out of existence for the sake of an (frankly very badly written) OC, or Van Gogh’s depiction acting as a complete insult and trivialization of the very real struggles with mental illness the historical figure dealt with and the artistic themes they used resonating very deeply with people to this day as a result. Even characters well received like Ivan and the Fairy Knights + Morgan understandably get flak for not wholly being the figures their names imply. Lastly is the case of Patroclus and the series conspicuous reluctance to even acknowledge him while candidly ship teasing Achilles with Atalanta heavily in an implied straightwashing.

So when ALL of that get added into the mix, then even if the original idea is perfectly fine which from what i’ve seen it’s certainly NOT gratuitous or malicious, in fact I like the concept in full context quite a lot, the context is completely different now right down to the framing of FGO as focusing far more on the idea of historical record rather than personal and often diverging/subversive stories. What’s more on a completely different note this feels like somewhat of a trivialization of the pretender class, much as how Alter Ego was slapped on anything tangentially related and OC based rather than used applicably on historical figures. Voyager is the same sort of deal but the proper idea of a Foreigner had been actually established by the time Voyager was added, whereas this is literally the second official member of the class.

So TLDR: I will take back all my complaints and accusations if you are correct and the ‘proper’ Hephaestion gets added because then it is no longer purely their word that this isn’t replacing the original, and them showing it’s not a way to avoid portraying the original version. But until then, because of Delightworks’, and frankly Nasu himself’s, long history of writing choices over such matters ranging from questionable to problematic to downright offensive, I have zero reason to take ANY of this in good faith. And on a wholly different note, the use the new pretender class as something of a catchall on the SECOND servant in said class can be seen as trivialization.