koutenko

HELLO FRIENDS. I was originally here with Gaius and adored the setting, but the end of 2023 was not kind, so I'm here now with my other blorbo of all time! I've been excited to app him in since Christmas so I'M SO READY. I apologise in advance for my annoying niche special interest in the Bakumatsu era unfollow me now this is all I'm gonna tweet about for the next week.

Ryouma is from the mobage Fate/Grand Order, which is where all his spoopy magic bullshit comes from, and I take his entire backstory and heavily supplement from the novel Ryōma ga Yuku! / Ryōma Goes His Way by Ryōtarō Shiba. It's such a fun novel, but it's also four 500-page volumes long, so I'll be canon reviewing for awhile yet...

Renaissance samurai cowboy. I'm not entirely sure what that looks like since it's never the same amalgamation of those three things, so use your imagination (and add more fringe), and you're probably correct.

He's happy to befriend everybody and probably comes off as an idiot because he's really just vibing and trying to enjoy himself while he's here. He's fully in his himbo phase, so that's the energy.

Ryouma also has an inkling that there's something about him that's Not Quite Human, but has decided he Does Not See It because it would mean his life is a lot more complicated than he thinks it is. Your character is free to notice this and mention it to him, but he probably won't believe it! OOCly, I intend to let him live in denial for a bit before he has to accept it.

The nice thing about memloss is that I never have to explain anything about Fate/ ICly, and that's amazing, but a little context will help this make more sense. Ryouma is a Servant, which in the simplest possible terms means he's the spirit of a dead famous person summoned into a completely magical body, which is relevant to his memories because a Servant is literally shaped by their memories; the person that they are is what gives them form.

That means most of Ryouma's initial memories are more abstract feelings and impressions instead of thoughts or events. It's why he feels more comfortable when he's close to others and why he's perfectly at ease with monster people who are visibly inhuman, even if he doesn't understand why. It's more like "muscle memory" than anything else. There is no way that this will complicate things with his new cr or anything, nah. :)

Ryouma does remember a bit about his life, so he knows he was a samurai in the 1860s but recalls very little in the way of solid details from that time. He knows he intended to make a living with his sword and he has his full mastery of his kendo skills as well. He does not remember that he was a Servant who basically gave his soul to the World-deliberate-capital-W and got bait and switched into a job slaughtering people for all of eternity to stop the world from ending or even that he died. As far as he knows, he's just a normal human guy in his mid-20s out here to have a good time!!

Ryouma will continue vibing and trying to make friends! He's aware there is something weird and mysterious about all this, but he will not be super motivated to solve any mysteries on his own (but feel free to drag him into stuff). He will most likely be down to get drunk a lot and spar with people as he embraces his dumb jock energy and tries very hard not to perceive his own inhumanness.