Oh, Fate/Zero fandom, really?

[aeanagwen]

Assumes the reader is familiar with the premise of the Fate/ franchise.  Spoilers for up to episode 9, stuff about Sola-Ui's backstory that I don't expect the anime to touch on anyway, vague ones about the fates of the Lancer trio and one big-ole end-of-story one for Lancer himself.  Kind of uncharitable towards Kayneth, but I promise I like him

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[akai_senshi]

*APPLAUSE*

I really had no idea that Sola-Ui was hated on. As you said, the situation is kind of beyond her control.

This especially got me though:

None of these three are blameless, although, yes, Lancer is probably the most sympathetic. They are adults, they are making decisions that will frequently prove to be poor ones, following their instincts and their desires and their personality traits in the face of common sense or due caution. That is what makes them interesting and, more to the point, when they’re badly outthought by Kiritsugu and continue to follow those character flaws all the way to the end, it’s what makes them tragic.

SO VERY TRUE. <3 Characters in general would suck if they had no flaws.

[aeanagwen]

Oddly enough, I don't see a lot of it anywhere else--there's no bashing art on Pixiv, no unpleasant requests on the (direly underactive) kink memes, no hatred in the episode reviews... Admittedly it's probably because the English-speaking fandom is not very active in the kinds of circles I frequent (e.g. livejournal, anon memes, Pixiv, etc, as opposed to long-established forums with sixty page posts about it); I expect there'd be more hate if the fandom were bigger or I were looking in the right spots. She seems the type of character to attract it. But not having seen it before just made it more jarring to see the streams of invective pouring across the screen when her scenes came on.