It's been a year since we've seen our friend trying to guess the identities of Fate servants, and in that time, Lostbelt 6, 6.5, and many events have come and gone. Let's see how he does this time!
A thing to remember is that the character designs are affected by their legends and how people think of them in their mind. So a historical person can be twisted and warped into a caricature version of themselves. Be it turning into a monster, looking sexier, or anything else. The game even acknowledged when certain characters aren't supposed to look like how they currently are. And the Servants don't necessarily have a definitive look, as depend on each summon, they may possess different traits, circumstances, or having some other characters or aspects mixed in, different points in their life, different weapon/class, or alternate what-if timelines. Hell, sometimes the characters themselves just brute force it and change their look because they want to (like Da Vinci sex change from a man into the Mona Lisa), and that's good for them.
In defense of the Scheherezade design...it's actually pretty accurate to her lore. People seem to forget she was quite literally one of the king's harlots. So for that reason I can't really call it orientalism.
Yeah, if you aren't a big anime fan the Romulus=Quirinius armour wouldn't look as great. But the fact that it's a Saint Seya reference is what a lot of people love about it.
Regarding Galatea, despite the image kinda evoking the idea of her being half-carved, those giant pants are actually a pair of her husband Pygmalion's pants - big poofy pants to keep the dust off when sculpting. The "wheel hand" is an illusion - it's just the sleeve obscuring most of one of the sculpting tools she's holding.
The Lovecraftian entity known as the Black goat of the wood mother of 1000 young (SHUB ) took over his Saint graph due to the fact he made Baphomet it was how they worked her into it. Honestly I love the design in the sense it stays true to the Lovecraftian deity and uses someone with a historical footnote to do it.
I love that don quixote level up have him being less powerfull instead of more powerfull since is true power is actually is imagination. And his final noble phantasm is basically cutting out all nonsense and going back to reality
To defend Jacques de Molay. The Lovecraftian diety that possessed her in this form was the Mother goddess Shub-Niggurath, mother of monsters. So in a sense, she could only possess the female version. The female one that created an era of sexual debauchery in the Knights Templar. And the male version upheld poverty (donating everything they own to the church) chastity and obedience. A Lovecraftian outer god isn't going to want to possess that. Especially an outer god of sexual hedonism.
Also, not so fun fact, Rama looks the way he does for the same reason we will never get Sita...the curse made him so sad he'd never see her again he took on her appearance.
