Your kidding right? I'm also going through LB1 right now and my thoughts on the Crypters have basically been "Egotistical, whiny, traitorous pieces of shit who need to die"
Ophelia at least gets it rather quickly. Of course she realized her Lost Belt was a piece of crap that needed pruning, but it counts. Yu... I'm one hundred percent certain she avoids conflict as a Heroic Spirit now that she has the knowledge of the shit that went down. Kadoc saves everyone though it might have been Stockholm Syndrome and self-interested. Kirsch... is the meta player with Crap Bond Stats, basically the Fanon Ritsuka.
I mean, it was the Alien God putting him through simulations of the Singularities rather than actually doing them...and I'm skeptical as to how accurate it was. The Alien God, after all, isn't actually his ally.
To be fair it could also have been the result of failing to stop Tesla from activating the Fog.
On top of that, canon!Ritsuka isn't even a magus, meaning he didn't have even a fraction of the tools or tricks that any of Team A would have had.
I'm still searching for the original source, but I distinctly remember that Kirschtaria didn't face "Camelot", he faced "Jerusalem". Rhongomyniad and Tiamat were both events that ocurred independently of the emplacing of the Grails. And it's noted that we arrived to both those Singularities "late", which allowed those changes to occur. I'm also skeptical of the Alien God's ability to simulate Solomon, considering Goetia's nature as a different Beast, the Temple of Time's atemporal existence, and the fact that the Time Temple isn't brought up in the material covering what Kirschtaria had to run through.
Hey, sometimes you gotta call a whiny asshole out on his behavior. His motivation for working with the Alien God and assisting in the destruction of Pan Human History is to prove that he can do something we can't. It's just so childish.
He was a dead man who chose to take a second chance at life without any explanation for why it was being offered, and then got shoved into the Lostbelt situation after shit was already finished. It's not like he personally pulled the trigger on the planet or anything.
It comes off as forced and author driven, not a real argument. In a real argument, people don't just take it and fume silently.
At no point in LB1 does Kadoc ever seem to not be on board with it, and he continually tries to throw shade at Chaldea's Master, along the lines of "I could've done better". I get that it would've happened with or without him, and that the Crypters get developed better later on, but my first impression of him was "envious, whiny, sore loser".
He did try to interrupt. Also, this is Type-Moon. Monologues are these characters' bread and butter. If you're gonna complain about realism...maybe look for it in places where you don't beat up genderbent mythological heroes to fix the course of history?
Wodime also has damaged circuits caused by his father's attempted Assassination of him. Yeah, his father was a piece of crap.
Because at that point he's been dead for a year and revived for an unspecified amount of time that's a little longer than three months, and he has absolutely no choice but to go hard on it because the other choice is to...well, give up and die?
Usually monologues are internal narration stuff, or, you know, arguments with back and forth, like with Shirou vs. Emiya or Shirou vs. Kirei.He did try to interrupt. Also, this is Type-Moon. Monologues are these characters' bread and butter. If you're gonna complain about realism...maybe look for it in places where you don't beat up genderbent mythological heroes to fix the course of history?
Usually monologues are internal narration stuff, or, you know, arguments with back and forth, like with Shirou vs. Emiya or Shirou vs. Kirei.
Boiling down my complaint to "realism" is missing the point, and that it is fantasy with genderbending has nothing to do with it. It's about verisimilitude. "Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities" as Aristotle said: I (or any audience for that matter) can accept any kind of fantastic premise, as long as the events happen logically and the characters act believably.
This isn't believable. This reads as the author inserting their hand up a character's ass so their mouths move and say what they want, instead of something happening organically.
And if we are using "this is Type-Moon" as a defense to fall back on, Type-Moon works are works where first impressions are usually wrong and characters have more depth than when they first appear. So according to that logic, Kadoc should be treated with more clemency
Kadoc is intended to come off as whiny but understandably so, it digs deep into why he is the way he is, how he copes with his inferiority complex and then refocuses onto his relationship with Anastasia and how it drives him. I don't know if you've done Lostbelt 2 yet but, well, spoiler alert.
Dude, all the Lostbelts were plotted out, if not written entirely before they've been released. They have bits and pieces of foreshadowing going on in them that calls forward to stuff happening years later, in some cases. This isn't a case of a different writer retconning in something to make Kadoc more sympathetic after the fact, it's the writer choosing not to dump literally every aspect of the Crypters in your face the moment they show up, because teasing out their character is better and more believable.
