Arjuna is one of my fav Archers in the fate lore for how deep his story truly is. A man who hated Evil and took pride over that hate yet he knows hate is not an emotion a hero should feel but still takes pride on his devotion of vanishing Evil. He knows Humans and Gods are not perfect but he as both of them and on top of that as a Hero he has the duty to be perfect, no vanish all evil and allways be a hero the people need and love, for that he cannot allow himself to do unheroic deeds or treachery as he is the Endowed hero. but even knowing that he cannot help but still feel those emotions as he also is inperfec so he tries to hide them deep down, and since even if he hides them they are still there he even tough about also digging himself deep down alongside his emotions to never allow them to harm no one, yet, he never did. He understood that even if he´s not perfect, thats the reason he can still live as a hero and to allways give his best, even if the battle against evil is ethernal and neverending he will allways stand on the way of it and stop it for those and everything he holds dear. Not simply because he´s a half god - Half human hero. But because he´s a Hero who allways will give his best to become a better person, even if he doesn´t know or notice, he is a real Hero. Thank you Arjuna for coming to my Chaldea and helped me for so many years and battles. You truly, lived up and even beyond, the tittle of the Endowed Hero.
This was a great video! I'm so glad someone made this and I'm just glad to see a FGO channel that talks about the characters in depth! It brought up a lot of points of his character I wished the fandom talked about more and stuff I never even noticed, like the connection between Karna's ability to see the truth of anyone and Arjuna's 'hate' for Karna. Mahabaratha is one of my favorite myths and frankly, the FGO writers have done a rather good job with Arjuna over the years. His FGO interpretation lines up with a lot of the events in the Mahabaratha very well and is a nice mix of Fate spin and the original legend. For example, the main picture that Krishna teaches Arjuna prior to the war (when the latter is hesitant to fight and kill the Gaurava army) through the Bhagavad Gita is this idea of divine self-acceptance - that is to say, all individuals carry out actions that are predetermined by god and fulfill their destiny. Therefore, any murder that Arjuna carries out is not a sin of his, it is Krishna/Vishnu's own will. He is just an instrument that obeys that will. That would also explain why Arjuna refers to the actions and thoughts he regrets as a "Dark Krishna" in his interlude. Pretty similar to the idea this video talks about when it mentions Arjuna's need to separate his role from a personal one to that of something like a protagonist carrying out actions in a story. I would say the splitting point of LB4 Arjuna is when he fails to accept the messages of the Bhagavad Gita, which already had basis in the original myth considering Arjuna kept holding back against Bhishma, who was a grandfather-like figure to him. Karna was one of the only persons he really did want to kill. Another key characteristic of FGO Arjuna that has some interesting base in myth is his desperate need to cover up his dark thoughts with his heroic image. I think Ekalayva's story could be a very good base for this and I wish FGO used it because it matches up so well with what they've established. The story has a few extra bits to it, but essentially, Arjuna's archery teacher Drona only teaches people of royal blood, so this forest kid, Ekalayva, learnt archery by just watching Drona teach Arjuna from afar. After finding out about this kid and discovering that his skill in archery rivaled Arjuna, Drona has Ekalayva offer up his right thumb as compensation for learning archery from him (indirect it may have been). Why? Because Drona wanted his pupil Arjuna to be the greatest archer in the world. And Arjuna did find out about this as well, which must have been made him feel quite ashamed and fueled his need to make that split within himself in order to keep up with the expectations of the world around him. Main reason I'm bringing up all of this is because one of the common criticism I hear about FGO Arjuna is that his character in FGO doesn't match up with the original story at all, which I disagree with. It seems to often come from people who haven't gone deep into the Mahabratha themselves, just hearsay from what is repeated online.
Bro it's true . Arjuna character didn't match up to how mahabharat potray him. As for eklvya he did steal drona knowledge about divya astra and use it impulsively on dog who was just barking . As a matter of greatest archer: eklvya was 17 years older than arjuna (as old as karna basically ). And arjuna at that time was 13 year old .Later on in mahabharat he improve himself and learn the art of ambidexterity ( means he can use his bow left to right or right to left hand) . As story progess he learn to shoot arrow without using his middle finger , third finger , index finger as well as thumb also. Why did he ask eklvya's thumb? So l also ask why did he not ask for a hand ? Why Dronacharya refused to teach Eklavya? Dronacharya was appointed as a teacher only to teach the children who hailed from the family of Kuru dynasty. And teaching anyone else other than the members of the Kuru family was against the protocol. Moreover, Eklavya had learnt the lessons without Dronacharya's consent. So he ask eklvya to give up his right hand thunb as payment . To show kuru family that drona had kept his promise to them . And truth be told thumb is least use finger in archery. in archery arrows are held in between index and middle or middle and third finger .
I will thank Iris/aka EA for bringing the script to life by putting the video together and voicing it! Here is to continuing this series for a long time to come
Arjuna is one of my fav Archers in the fate lore for how deep his story truly is.
A man who hated Evil and took pride over that hate yet he knows hate is not an emotion a hero should feel but still takes pride on his devotion of vanishing Evil. He knows Humans and Gods are not perfect but he as both of them and on top of that as a Hero he has the duty to be perfect, no vanish all evil and allways be a hero the people need and love, for that he cannot allow himself to do unheroic deeds or treachery as he is the Endowed hero. but even knowing that he cannot help but still feel those emotions as he also is inperfec so he tries to hide them deep down, and since even if he hides them they are still there he even tough about also digging himself deep down alongside his emotions to never allow them to harm no one, yet, he never did. He understood that even if he´s not perfect, thats the reason he can still live as a hero and to allways give his best, even if the battle against evil is ethernal and neverending he will allways stand on the way of it and stop it for those and everything he holds dear. Not simply because he´s a half god - Half human hero. But because he´s a Hero who allways will give his best to become a better person, even if he doesn´t know or notice, he is a real Hero.
Thank you Arjuna for coming to my Chaldea and helped me for so many years and battles.
You truly, lived up and even beyond, the tittle of the Endowed Hero.
This was a great video! I'm so glad someone made this and I'm just glad to see a FGO channel that talks about the characters in depth! It brought up a lot of points of his character I wished the fandom talked about more and stuff I never even noticed, like the connection between Karna's ability to see the truth of anyone and Arjuna's 'hate' for Karna.
Mahabaratha is one of my favorite myths and frankly, the FGO writers have done a rather good job with Arjuna over the years. His FGO interpretation lines up with a lot of the events in the Mahabaratha very well and is a nice mix of Fate spin and the original legend.
For example, the main picture that Krishna teaches Arjuna prior to the war (when the latter is hesitant to fight and kill the Gaurava army) through the Bhagavad Gita is this idea of divine self-acceptance - that is to say, all individuals carry out actions that are predetermined by god and fulfill their destiny. Therefore, any murder that Arjuna carries out is not a sin of his, it is Krishna/Vishnu's own will. He is just an instrument that obeys that will. That would also explain why Arjuna refers to the actions and thoughts he regrets as a "Dark Krishna" in his interlude. Pretty similar to the idea this video talks about when it mentions Arjuna's need to separate his role from a personal one to that of something like a protagonist carrying out actions in a story. I would say the splitting point of LB4 Arjuna is when he fails to accept the messages of the Bhagavad Gita, which already had basis in the original myth considering Arjuna kept holding back against Bhishma, who was a grandfather-like figure to him. Karna was one of the only persons he really did want to kill.
Another key characteristic of FGO Arjuna that has some interesting base in myth is his desperate need to cover up his dark thoughts with his heroic image. I think Ekalayva's story could be a very good base for this and I wish FGO used it because it matches up so well with what they've established. The story has a few extra bits to it, but essentially, Arjuna's archery teacher Drona only teaches people of royal blood, so this forest kid, Ekalayva, learnt archery by just watching Drona teach Arjuna from afar. After finding out about this kid and discovering that his skill in archery rivaled Arjuna, Drona has Ekalayva offer up his right thumb as compensation for learning archery from him (indirect it may have been). Why? Because Drona wanted his pupil Arjuna to be the greatest archer in the world. And Arjuna did find out about this as well, which must have been made him feel quite ashamed and fueled his need to make that split within himself in order to keep up with the expectations of the world around him.
Main reason I'm bringing up all of this is because one of the common criticism I hear about FGO Arjuna is that his character in FGO doesn't match up with the original story at all, which I disagree with. It seems to often come from people who haven't gone deep into the Mahabratha themselves, just hearsay from what is repeated online.
Bro it's true .
Arjuna character didn't match up to
how mahabharat potray him.
As for eklvya he did steal drona knowledge about divya astra and use it impulsively on dog who was just barking .
As a matter of greatest archer: eklvya was 17 years older than arjuna (as old as karna basically ).
And arjuna at that time was 13 year old .Later on in mahabharat he improve himself and learn the art of ambidexterity ( means he can use his bow left to right or right to left hand) .
As story progess he learn to shoot arrow without using his middle finger , third finger , index finger as well as thumb also.
Why did he ask eklvya's thumb? So l also ask why did he not ask for a hand ? Why Dronacharya refused to teach Eklavya?
Dronacharya was appointed as a teacher only to teach the children who hailed from the family of Kuru dynasty. And teaching anyone else other than the members of the Kuru family was against the protocol. Moreover, Eklavya had learnt the lessons without Dronacharya's consent.
So he ask eklvya to give up his right hand thunb as payment .
To show kuru family that drona had kept his promise to them .
And truth be told thumb is least use finger in archery.
in archery arrows are held in between index and middle or middle and third finger .
I'm glad to see Arjuna appreciation
Kirei but with the desire to be a hero? That's really interesting! Thank you for this video I never understood this servant in either of his forms.
I've been WAITING for one like this to come out! Can tell already it's going to be a great video.
Love of my life!!
I will thank Iris/aka EA for bringing the script to life by putting the video together and voicing it! Here is to continuing this series for a long time to come
Good character but not really how he was in myth I been told