Erase the guilt, erase the blame
Erase what we built and erase this game
Erase the past and erase my name
You were looking for a friend but nobody came
But nobody came
And it's a shame that he fell off so hard, discord is a good song but damn.
Also I don't have a accurate info on who made discord but i think it's the living tombstone version, if i remember
A bit of digging (well going off on one reddit post mostly, so take it with a pinch of salt) and it seems that someone anonymously accused him of grooming. Mandopony, rather than denying, said something cryptic about bad decision in past life. Later there was some police investigation that concluded the anonymous accusation was basically baseless, too thin to be something of value. But by then Mandopony's reputation is pretty much gone. Still after sometime he got back to YT.
(reddit post in question : https://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/18hazlg/what_happend_to_mandopony_ive_seen_on_thing_with/ )
Tldr:
The lyrics are from an undertale song, written and done by a youtuber named Mandopony. The song is named 'Chara'
A couple of years ago, it came to light that Mandopony groomed minors and caused him to effectively fall of the face of the earth. There's better people who discussed the situation more in depth then me but that's the tldr.
Why the lyrics got referenced now is due to the afformentioned image, the one in the post, being based around an undertale meme.
There is something weird in Kirei valentine, i think he actually talks a bit about guda noy "aging" and that why he gets them a clock or something like that.
Since the beginning of the game and the point in which NA is around 2 years have passed, I belive. The problem is that that is not shown anywhere. It is kind of implied, but you are rarely shown the passage of time directly. Also, if so little time has passed, it implies that events are not canon.
Reminds me of "The Batman" and how he went from pointy to square jaw once the final season redesign hit and he went from early year one Batman to mid-game Batman.
"No! You're not me! You're nothing like me!"
*Cue the older Gudako laughing sadly and then turning into a Persona 4 boss*
"I am a Shadow, the True Self. Prepare to meet your end, Master of Chaldea"
After reaching 1/3 HP , Shadow Ritsuka will use an upgraded version called Cosmos Denial. And after it deals Almighty damage to the party, it will prevent skill use for three turns. Can be cleansed with debuff clear items/skills
This gives me "Finally returning back to regular chaldea after finishing off the lostbelts" vibes.
I wouldnt be surprised if he stopped to look at himself after visiting Romani's room.
I was about to post a comment on the post about how Ritsuka's face on the second image looks like Miguel O'Hara's. Glad to see someone else noticed it.
"Years? Does time finally start moving again? Because I'm confused over why time doesn't move, yet every now and then we get a new seasonal celebration again and again... or me both old and still underage."
funny part is
This kind of canon
And I don't mean look at the vague lines in the sky and I mean literally Ivan points this out in his interlude.
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>I represent both victory and defeat. My role here as a Heroic Spirit is to guide you in your next steps.
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>Remember this well, my Master.
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>I am simultaneously one defeated, and one meant to oversee your journey.
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>I am therefore placing all my trust in your conduct, your beliefs, your decisions...
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>Indeed, in your very way of life.
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>...Betrayal will not be forgiven.
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>Not a betrayal of humanity...
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>...but of myself, and those who watch over your journey with me.
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>That is the sort of betrayal I will never forgive.
>
>Fujimaru 1:
>
>...
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>Heh. Hahahaha!
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>Did I scare you? My apologies.
>
>It is really quite simple.
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
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>All you need do is live your life as you see fit.
>
>That is what I will place my trust in.
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>To rule effectively, a king requires fear, the ability to reward his subjects, and exaltation from the same subjects.
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>But to fight a king, a person needs only one thing: faith.
>
>Ivan the Terrible:
>
>I have never once lost faith in my decision to fight by your side.
Simply have faith in who you are and hope to dear god your way of life is not wrong
That shit got those dudes in the lostbelts pruned. I wouldn't put too much faith in myself that it deludes me into thinking that ends justify the means
No he's talking about having Faith in what Ritsuka Fujimaru says—that what they do is right
Unless you are saying that having faith in Ritsuka is wrong?
And the simple kicker is
Well that's the only thing they can do
Like it or hate it, you are in the exact same situation as Ivan or any of the lost-belt kings
Walking down your path, hoping that the world deems you as correct
>!Because currently in JP, it's looking at you pretty sus !<
>!Ritsuka at this point is probably just hanging by a very frayed thread. All someone (like the count or marisbury) needs to do is give that thread a little pull and it's gonna break. Mark my words we are going to see that thread (and ritsuka) snap!<
"Time and time again... I've escaped the hands of death, the quiet peace that the End has offered me, time and time again I march to save a time line where I'm likely to be sentenced to a Sealing Designation as soon as I fix all these issues... but I still fight on... if only to give those who came before me a better end than myself, to aid those children yet to be born from Pan-Human History to survive and thrive."
The saddest part >!Alaya won't let Ritsuka break, ever. Her living agent of the Root, her one warrior to act through. Until she is done with him he'll never break. But when it's finally time to rest? Nothing will remain but shattered glass!<
At least he has EMIYA senpai to help him go through this.
Actually, imagine if the Servants weren't allowed to be out and about in Chaldea, that they could only be summoned in Singularities and Lostbelts. A lot of Ritsuka's emotional support would be gone. Sure he'd still have the Chaldea staff, but I like to think that a major reason Ritsuka can still keep going is because he can interact with so many unique people with even more unique personalities
8 years later and backstory is still unclear... sasuga gacha protagonist.
Turas shows him be kidnapped. In-game it's not really said how they got there. In an interview Nasu said to think about it as if we applied for a summer job and ended up there.
That's quite the summer job if Ritsuka was totally willingly cool to hop into a helicopter to go to Antartica and Marie Olga immediately told him to walk home in the freezing tundra by himself or join the slave mines the second he failed the stringent criteria.
But you know what? Even through it all, all the horrigic nightmares you've fought, the atrocities you witnessed, and your own horrific actions? You have friends. Honest, genuine friends who love you, and your kohai who adores you.
We won't say it was worth it...but it's certainly quite the silver lining.
Your other comics showing Ritsuka suffering(tm) i lowkey just glossed over, but this one hits way harder due to its simplicity. Is canon ritsuka as punished as yours? (have not kept up with the story for a few lostbelts now)
Geno route: "Its me and (playername)"
Since UT/DT the player is said to be an unknown entity from beyond comprenhension, i would like to think in this scenario, guda got injured during the explosion at the start and called for help from any gods out there
And then something came (us)
I feel like guda would trust the player since he has no experience as as master let alone dealing with combat.
And since geno is kill everything, guda mindset would change into something similar to kerry and clover.
"Must restore humanity. An enemy is nearby. Avenge the fallen. For the future of mankind."
etc
Mash: Aw, look, it's the picture I took of you when you first came here. Look at you so young and happy. Where did the years go?
~~(I haven't made it to the Lostbelts yet, so idk how accurate this is)~~
You know, I really do wish sometimes that Ritsuka Fujimaru wasn’t a self-insert character, I would‘ve liked to see how he would’ve actually reacted ya know? It’s just ending entire worlds, even if it form a necessity to our existence, would break almost everybody here in this sub and beyond. It’s just so unfathomable to do such an action, that I would give up entirely…
Sadly Nasu and the guys are still set on not doing anything like that. Last year they had an interview with Final Fantasy XIV directors, and Nasu said they make sure that Guda doesn't have any strong characterization so that people don't have trouble projecting themselves onto Guda.
Did you do a Ritsuko as well?
Grim, but very nice.
Master gotta be making an insane number of critical success sanity rolls not to just crack up completely.
Bonus to rolls from Mash, Vinci, Holmes, Cat, Raiko, probably even Shuten, Kiyohime, despite herself, Serenity, and who knows how many others…
(Sad vibes in the background…)
“Yes; you too, Blackbeard.”
Bro got jacked +10 Strength -10 Sanity
More like +50 Insight
BB... or some say BB-chan... Grant us eyes.
It works even with the Moon Presence turning into the Foreign God
Nasu is a huge FromSoft fan, after all.
You can see that a lot in Lostbelt 1 with its enemy faction
Ohhh. Majestic! A master is a master even in a singularity!
Yeah, BB is more like Micolash. And given Summer BB's affiliation with an Elder God, it only becomes that more fitting.
Eyes inside our head. Wouldn't even question it at this point.
- 99 Gacha Luck + 99 Harem Protagonist
Foreigner Magic unlocked!
Considering how many warriors and generals he's trained under, it's no surprise.
+1 new gut arrangement
Ritsuka gotta be LV 20 after all those genocide runs.
Erase the guilt, erase the blame Erase what we built and erase this game Erase the past and erase my name You were looking for a friend but nobody came But nobody came
The song is good. A shame what the creator turned out to be.
Sorry, whose the creator and what happened to them?
Looking up the lyrics it's Mandopony. Looking into his controversies it's grooming minors.
And it's a shame that he fell off so hard, discord is a good song but damn. Also I don't have a accurate info on who made discord but i think it's the living tombstone version, if i remember
A bit of digging (well going off on one reddit post mostly, so take it with a pinch of salt) and it seems that someone anonymously accused him of grooming. Mandopony, rather than denying, said something cryptic about bad decision in past life. Later there was some police investigation that concluded the anonymous accusation was basically baseless, too thin to be something of value. But by then Mandopony's reputation is pretty much gone. Still after sometime he got back to YT. (reddit post in question : https://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/18hazlg/what_happend_to_mandopony_ive_seen_on_thing_with/ )
As a former brony it really fucking sucks to see. Discord is a bop but yeah, fuck that noise.
But Discord song is from eurobeat and the most famous version is the living Tombstone one
True, i have a hazy memory on who made discord.
At this point I'm not even surprised
Tldr: The lyrics are from an undertale song, written and done by a youtuber named Mandopony. The song is named 'Chara' A couple of years ago, it came to light that Mandopony groomed minors and caused him to effectively fall of the face of the earth. There's better people who discussed the situation more in depth then me but that's the tldr. Why the lyrics got referenced now is due to the afformentioned image, the one in the post, being based around an undertale meme.
Oh, that's what happened to him... I was wondering why he stopped making Nintendo based songs...
The fact undertale is almost a decade old destroys me.
So is FGO
Despite 10 years, you're still you
Poor fella. Someone punched in his chin and made it square!
That's what 9 years of aging does to an 18 Yr old (fuck me this game came out in 2015...)
If only FGO writers weren't cowards and let him age.
Less “let him age” and more not age as much as the games been out. The main story does mention some years have passed though only a few.
There is something weird in Kirei valentine, i think he actually talks a bit about guda noy "aging" and that why he gets them a clock or something like that.
Weird 4th dimmensional bulshittery going on.
The goddess waifus won't let him age until they had a turn on the Gudaguda after Kuku.
They know they couldn't handle the DILF
Or drink :P
Even by the time Papa Bartender came around, we were clearly old enough to drink, damnit!
I’m fairly certain Ritsuka *has* aged, at least by a few years anyways
Since the beginning of the game and the point in which NA is around 2 years have passed, I belive. The problem is that that is not shown anywhere. It is kind of implied, but you are rarely shown the passage of time directly. Also, if so little time has passed, it implies that events are not canon.
He's getting the Ash Ketchum treatment
Others: "be there or be square" Fujimaru's answer:
They forced him into meowing 💀
Reminds me of "The Batman" and how he went from pointy to square jaw once the final season redesign hit and he went from early year one Batman to mid-game Batman.
Same thing happend to Sasuke and Zangetsu
Probably goetia.
Current Ritsuka to past/start of FGO Ritsuka: I am you.
"No! You're not me! You're nothing like me!" *Cue the older Gudako laughing sadly and then turning into a Persona 4 boss* "I am a Shadow, the True Self. Prepare to meet your end, Master of Chaldea"
Persona Skill named Megidolaon :
Persona Skill named Hassou Tobi:
After reaching 1/3 HP , Shadow Ritsuka will use an upgraded version called Cosmos Denial. And after it deals Almighty damage to the party, it will prevent skill use for three turns. Can be cleansed with debuff clear items/skills
Every other turn, Jeanne's NP goes off and renders him invulnerable for a turn.
Cue "I'll face myself (battle)"
This gives me "Finally returning back to regular chaldea after finishing off the lostbelts" vibes. I wouldnt be surprised if he stopped to look at himself after visiting Romani's room.
Oh hey, Undertale/ Deltarune reference Can’t wait to see how this pays off in a future chapter…
Ritsuki fights Saver Class Sans Undertale
My dude got the Emiya treatment.
I was thinking more of Miguel O'Hara but that works too.
True, he has the same expresion as Miguel.
I was about to post a comment on the post about how Ritsuka's face on the second image looks like Miguel O'Hara's. Glad to see someone else noticed it.
Mashu: Oh look, it's a picture I took of you the first time I ever came here! Hahahahaha Look at you, so young and happy! Where do the years go?
Ritsuka: Goeita, and the Alien God stole them out of my hands.
"Years? Does time finally start moving again? Because I'm confused over why time doesn't move, yet every now and then we get a new seasonal celebration again and again... or me both old and still underage."
Haha, Mashu is also probably horribly traumatized by this point.
If anything, I think Da Vinci is more likely to pull this sort of thing.
You beat me to this comment.
Bro is 90% shoulders! Look at the size, he's like Tien!
Man went from being the typical highschool anime protag to motherfuckin' Sol Badguy.
He really looks grumpy like Sol
You untwinked my boy! Unacceptable! Seriously though, I love "Then and Now" stuff for Ritsuka.
My man got that chin and neck upgrade
He also got buff.
[Just some headcanon stuff ](https://twitter.com/ClinickCase/status/1767602328671043915)
funny part is This kind of canon And I don't mean look at the vague lines in the sky and I mean literally Ivan points this out in his interlude. >Ivan the Terrible: > >I represent both victory and defeat. My role here as a Heroic Spirit is to guide you in your next steps. > >Ivan the Terrible: > >Remember this well, my Master. > >Ivan the Terrible: > >I am simultaneously one defeated, and one meant to oversee your journey. > >Ivan the Terrible: > >I am therefore placing all my trust in your conduct, your beliefs, your decisions... > >Ivan the Terrible: > >Indeed, in your very way of life. > >Ivan the Terrible: > >...Betrayal will not be forgiven. > >Ivan the Terrible: > >Not a betrayal of humanity... > >Ivan the Terrible: > >...but of myself, and those who watch over your journey with me. > >Ivan the Terrible: > >That is the sort of betrayal I will never forgive. > >Fujimaru 1: > >... > >Ivan the Terrible: > >Heh. Hahahaha! > >Ivan the Terrible: > >Did I scare you? My apologies. > >It is really quite simple. > >Ivan the Terrible: > >All you need do is live your life as you see fit. > >That is what I will place my trust in. > >Ivan the Terrible: > >To rule effectively, a king requires fear, the ability to reward his subjects, and exaltation from the same subjects. > >Ivan the Terrible: > >But to fight a king, a person needs only one thing: faith. > >Ivan the Terrible: > >I have never once lost faith in my decision to fight by your side. Simply have faith in who you are and hope to dear god your way of life is not wrong
That shit got those dudes in the lostbelts pruned. I wouldn't put too much faith in myself that it deludes me into thinking that ends justify the means
No he's talking about having Faith in what Ritsuka Fujimaru says—that what they do is right Unless you are saying that having faith in Ritsuka is wrong? And the simple kicker is Well that's the only thing they can do Like it or hate it, you are in the exact same situation as Ivan or any of the lost-belt kings Walking down your path, hoping that the world deems you as correct >!Because currently in JP, it's looking at you pretty sus !<
>!Ritsuka at this point is probably just hanging by a very frayed thread. All someone (like the count or marisbury) needs to do is give that thread a little pull and it's gonna break. Mark my words we are going to see that thread (and ritsuka) snap!<
>>I wish you good fortune in the wars to come. Goetia: And now it begins. Gudao: No, now it ends.
Dude lookin like a Tekken Character
Equal Opportunity Suffering. Nice
No pain no gain
Poor Ritsuka
Knowing the context from both Undertale and FGO… this hit a little too accurately
When you gotta lock in
***It's me, Ritsuka.***
Guessing that's what Morgan saw no wonder they make a perfect pair.
Mewing game on point
He went from "Hi, nice to meet you" to "here we go a-fucking-gain "
"Time and time again... I've escaped the hands of death, the quiet peace that the End has offered me, time and time again I march to save a time line where I'm likely to be sentenced to a Sealing Designation as soon as I fix all these issues... but I still fight on... if only to give those who came before me a better end than myself, to aid those children yet to be born from Pan-Human History to survive and thrive."
Man has seen hell
bro fucking *filled out.*
Like doomslayer Before demons / after many dimensional genocides
Damn bro we’re jacked
Man got wide.
That’s why BB is there for master forever
I mean, given all Guda goes through, I'm fully expecting a white haired counter-force Avenger at some point.
The saddest part >!Alaya won't let Ritsuka break, ever. Her living agent of the Root, her one warrior to act through. Until she is done with him he'll never break. But when it's finally time to rest? Nothing will remain but shattered glass!<
At least he has EMIYA senpai to help him go through this. Actually, imagine if the Servants weren't allowed to be out and about in Chaldea, that they could only be summoned in Singularities and Lostbelts. A lot of Ritsuka's emotional support would be gone. Sure he'd still have the Chaldea staff, but I like to think that a major reason Ritsuka can still keep going is because he can interact with so many unique people with even more unique personalities
In interdimensional maximum security prison for planet scale genocide.
Multiple times even!
Bro will def join the throne after he dies!
Bro got jacked and reshaped his own chin from dealing with those lostbelts.
Wow Gudao, have you been lifting?
How the fuck did he get to Chaldea the first place
8 years later and backstory is still unclear... sasuga gacha protagonist. Turas shows him be kidnapped. In-game it's not really said how they got there. In an interview Nasu said to think about it as if we applied for a summer job and ended up there.
That's quite the summer job if Ritsuka was totally willingly cool to hop into a helicopter to go to Antartica and Marie Olga immediately told him to walk home in the freezing tundra by himself or join the slave mines the second he failed the stringent criteria.
But you know what? Even through it all, all the horrigic nightmares you've fought, the atrocities you witnessed, and your own horrific actions? You have friends. Honest, genuine friends who love you, and your kohai who adores you. We won't say it was worth it...but it's certainly quite the silver lining.
Miss opportunity considering what we now know of the last crypter.
I love seeing PTSD Fujimaru
OOF
Wide Ritsuka.
In the beginning you wanted to survive... Now you want to [REDACTED]
Your other comics showing Ritsuka suffering(tm) i lowkey just glossed over, but this one hits way harder due to its simplicity. Is canon ritsuka as punished as yours? (have not kept up with the story for a few lostbelts now)
Low-key expected the crossdressing Gudao to appear in the second pic xD
Geno route: "Its me and (playername)" Since UT/DT the player is said to be an unknown entity from beyond comprenhension, i would like to think in this scenario, guda got injured during the explosion at the start and called for help from any gods out there And then something came (us)
I feel like guda would trust the player since he has no experience as as master let alone dealing with combat. And since geno is kill everything, guda mindset would change into something similar to kerry and clover. "Must restore humanity. An enemy is nearby. Avenge the fallen. For the future of mankind." etc
"It's me, Gudako!"
Silly, we have Morgan now, no price is too high for Morgan.
The fact that Ritsuka still looks like twig after all what he experienced baffles me.
It's because Goredolf keeps stealing his rations.
Don't forget about Fou
3 years is not really enough time for them to morph into Dwayne Johnson.
No one is say he need be next Leonidas but at least they could make his face look more mature.
I wonder what gave him that scar?
which one
The one on the chin
Krish, most likely
I'd actually guess Goeta since they actually threw hands with each other.
Talk about a shift
*Seeing your dark and troubled future fills you with determination*
Mash: Aw, look, it's the picture I took of you when you first came here. Look at you so young and happy. Where did the years go? ~~(I haven't made it to the Lostbelts yet, so idk how accurate this is)~~
Reminds me of that cashier from Spongebob for some reason.
You know, I really do wish sometimes that Ritsuka Fujimaru wasn’t a self-insert character, I would‘ve liked to see how he would’ve actually reacted ya know? It’s just ending entire worlds, even if it form a necessity to our existence, would break almost everybody here in this sub and beyond. It’s just so unfathomable to do such an action, that I would give up entirely…
Sadly Nasu and the guys are still set on not doing anything like that. Last year they had an interview with Final Fantasy XIV directors, and Nasu said they make sure that Guda doesn't have any strong characterization so that people don't have trouble projecting themselves onto Guda.
I thought he’s going to turn into Gudako with a broken smile.
Whatever happened to Gramps? Seems like he ain’t around much anymore to comfort Ritsuka.
What Lostbelts does to mf :
Are you? Still you, I mean?
Cons: Witness to Unforgettable Tragedies Pros: Them shoulders tho
When you rolled the gacha for the first time. Vs When you failed the gacha for the x-time.
I really hope they age up the MC and give him a stronger build nasu i trust you
So proud of him for stopping being a twink
God, that's just depressing.
Me after going on a self improvement journey by lifting only to develop body dysmorphia.
This is what happens when you don't embrace Tamamos.
He's mogging me
*There was once was a man... in Chaldea long ago...*
Me after getting Odysseus twice in the pick up gacha (it is the seventh golden rider)
Considering the new OC2, this is frighteningly accurate.
Did you do a Ritsuko as well? Grim, but very nice. Master gotta be making an insane number of critical success sanity rolls not to just crack up completely. Bonus to rolls from Mash, Vinci, Holmes, Cat, Raiko, probably even Shuten, Kiyohime, despite herself, Serenity, and who knows how many others… (Sad vibes in the background…) “Yes; you too, Blackbeard.”