Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #FateZero
Most recents (4)
the conflict between #FateZero and #FateStayNight is really, in the end, very simple: Fate/Zero is a tragedy, and Fate/stay night is a romance.
*romance* shouldn't be a bad word. #capitalism made romance into a mere brand, but _romance_ is the literature of knighthood.
~Chara
*romance* shouldn't be a bad word. #capitalism made romance into a mere brand, but _romance_ is the literature of knighthood.
~Chara
"The Matter of Britain"—Arthur's story, Arturia's story—was told in the form of *romantic poetry*. in a similar fashion, the knights who fought for Charles the Great were romanticized in "The Matter of France".
#romance, not tragedy or epic, is the medium for heroism.
~Chara
#romance, not tragedy or epic, is the medium for heroism.
~Chara
romance has room for a large cast. tragedies tend to be about a few people. #FateZero is (in my view) spectacularly successful as a tragedy—and, as a tragedy, it's therefore spare with its emotions. there's a not a lot of emotional range in "Fate/Zero".
~Chara
~Chara
the first is the one that makes actual sense: I mean...
...Britain desperately *needs saving*, really and truly, and the legend is that Arthur will return for that.
*modern* Britain is not Arthur's Britain—even though modern Britain has tried to *appropriate* Arthur.
~Chara
...Britain desperately *needs saving*, really and truly, and the legend is that Arthur will return for that.
*modern* Britain is not Arthur's Britain—even though modern Britain has tried to *appropriate* Arthur.
~Chara
that's what modern Britain is: a mere thief, a jackdaw that collects other people's heroes and symbols and pretends to own them. Romano-Celtic Britain succumbed the very Germanic barbarians whom Arthur tried to drive back, and now...they wear Arthur like a costume.
~Chara
~Chara
#FateZero's got its problems but it got straight to the heart of why Arthur's still important *at all*.
I find myself thinking about how there's a lot of very silly and superficial people who no doubt think that "Shakespearean England" was a pinnacle of civilization.
~Chara
I find myself thinking about how there's a lot of very silly and superficial people who no doubt think that "Shakespearean England" was a pinnacle of civilization.
~Chara
we've played this music a few times a day, routinely, for a long while now. Kajiura Yuki's theme music for #FateZero: "Back to Zero". it's one of my favorite pieces.
we've used it for grounding ourselves—it is, after all, right there in the name.
(1/x)
we've used it for grounding ourselves—it is, after all, right there in the name.
(1/x)
"Fate/Zero" is fiction. our present-day world may have magic in it, for surely magic is as eternal as anything that's woven into the Beatific Vision; magic, I tell myself in hope, can never completely die. but it has no magic like that of the mages of the "Fate/" universe.
(2/x)
(2/x)
it is perhaps well that this is so. one of the lessons of the "Fate/" universe ought to be that humanity perhaps ought *not* to have magic, because magical crimes are truly nightmarish in scope and scale. a little handful of mages almost bring about the end of the world...
(3/x)
(3/x)
there's a crucial moment in #FateZero when Kotomine Risei, a priest of the Holy Church (which is fairly clearly the "Fate/" universe's analogue of the Catholic Church), stands in his church among the presence of Hassan of the Hundred Personas (unfortunately, minus one).
(1/x)
(1/x)
and then he says something that his son, Kotomine Kirei, really doesn't like—at least, judging from the way Kirei's face falls when his dad says (in translation):
"These old eyes of mine will finally see a miracle incarnate."
(2/x)
"These old eyes of mine will finally see a miracle incarnate."
(2/x)
Kirei was a man with serious emotional issues—unrecognized, because he was (effectively) a Catholic priest's son. all he'd known was a rigid Catholic life. he'd even been an official church mage-killer.
he's *shocked* to learn that his father is involved in a magical war.
(3/x)
he's *shocked* to learn that his father is involved in a magical war.
(3/x)
