Ritsuka's WORST Traumas Throughout FGO 

His most traumatic moments left him with ptsd. That's right, I'm talking about him having to attend Elizabeth Bathory's concerts every Halloween. He fears it so much he learned the substitution jutsu from Fuuma to avoid going.

EMIYA: That's hell you're walking into Ritsuka: BITCH I WAS FORCED TO WIPE OUT ENTIRE TIMELINES AND UNIVERSES! I'M ALREADY IN HELL!

Honestly the fact that Ritsuka has maintained even a shred of physical and mental stability is testament to their mental and physical fortitude and the really strong support network they have

Out of all Mc in fate you have to give ritsuka some respect. this man went through hell

Didn’t think it could get worse than Shuten shoving her hand in our chest, but it can always be worse.

This really puts things in perspective in one event where one of DaVinci's creations tried to erase ritsuka's painful memories.

I fully agree and hope they do something. Like in Orleans, there is no doubt in my mind that we saw people burned alive by dragons and eaten by them. There is a lot of trauma we live through.

LB 6 literally doubled that trauma. LB 7 tripled it.

He and Mash seriously can’t catch a break especially after LB7… there is no breathing room. It’s just conflict after conflict.

Shoot, every time Rituska goes to a lostbelt and makes friendly with the locals knowing full well he has to delete their existence. I'm tired of meeting new little girls!

I don't think is possible to go though any type of grail war without some type of trauma

Damn, when you list all that, my man went through some heaviness. I just watched a parody video on Dragonball talk about the Sayian Saga, and while what he was saying was funny, he made a good point about Gohan. He said imagine being a small child and not only be asked to fight to the death, but also witness the others die gruesome deaths. He jokes it's no reason Gohan wanted to just go to school and be a scholar. Same here. After going through everything Ritsuka did, if that man never wanted to fight again I'd understand and leave him be. He carried the fate of mankind on his unready shoulders

One trauma that stuck out to me was right before Fuyuki began. When Ritsuka and Mash got trapped inside the rayshift room. Ritsuka had to sit beside Mash who had her entire lower body crushed beneath a huge slab of the ceiling… while she was still conscious. In the First Order movie he literally sat there with her, comforted her, all whole the entire room was filling with fire and he had accepted he was about to burn to death or be crushed. And that was what started his journey off! Ritsuka seriously has had some of the worst shit ever happen to him, like main end stuff on par with some of Stay Night’s BAD ends. And yet, he continues to work his ass off and be a source of strength and optimism for those around him. I love Ritsuka, I think he’s a fantastic MC. I would really love to see his traumas and humanity get addressed in game. I know it’s constant action and shit happening, but I’d love for someone to be like “Man, this guy is practically still a kid and has suffered through unimaginable circumstances. I can’t even imagine what he’s going through internally.” Just some recognition or something for our man, maybe get him a therapist even? Cause DAMN.

"Lie back and think of Chaldea" - actual line from Shimousa.

Feel free to toss in ones I missed. Will likely make a part 2 since there are so many

Man, he is definitely one of the kindest MC you can possibly meet, and yet he suffered a lot. I think what is heartbreaking was Olga vaporized Lostbelts 2 when that girl was unaware that she was going to be erased. Also, I do agree with you about the grinding and farming just to get a summon a spicy tofa that was soulcrushing for sure and had a good laugh. Thanks for your contents of FGO it has been fun listening and looking forward for more.

I like that they showcase both Ritsuka / Gudako's *AND* Mash's trauma in the latest lostbelt trailer we have on NA (when booting the game). Most lostbelts featuring a child *we know* is gonna die is kind of a meme already, tho the trailer makes it very clear how much that actually impacts the protagonists. Killing off entire populations for your own sake gotta make you feel like actual shit, it really shows in Mash's dialogues early on. Her part in the trailer especially focuses on her former Team A members, the heaviest hitter of which was probably Ophelia's death. That shit was awful. Overall there are some really nice "hidden gems" like the descriptions of CEs you get from completing lostbelts. For example "Family Portrait", the child from lb4 who had basically all her family removed from memory by Arjuna.

Romani death. Goetia killing the servants in London. Musashi death. Must also add the death of many servants, such as those he admired, such as Ushiwakamaru. He carries the fate of all people on his shoulders, including his friends before joining Chaldea. I think only EMIYA has more traumas.

I still wonder will the main character become a servant in his own way it’s just make so much sense for him to come one after all did

Dude has PTSD and still friendly and trusting, and he went fist to fist with a dying beast of humanity.

Don't forget the whole reason summer BB did the whole servant summer festival was to trap us inside here. Because with her own and with nyarlathotep's powers she saw our future n it was so horrible she tried to trap us. And this was before the lostbelt. She prolly saw that or what we will suffer in part 3 , after ordeal call.

I believe in the El Melloi event Reines deduces that Ritsuka has been disassociating all of his trauma. He might be just compartmentalizing all of the lost belts.

Ritsuka has been through so much that constantly being at the ready in case something happens is just a natural routine, now. There's not many opportunities where he can rest easy, and at this point, it's all he knows what to do. What hurts even more is that the future he's fighting for isn't guaranteed to be a prosperous one, either.

Off top. America Chapter when my dude got cannonballed. Seeing Mash die. Salem what with the Outer Gods stuff. All of the Lostbelts once you realize the reality is pruned and wiped out. Dealing with beasts in general! And I know it's pre LB6 But...spoiler... In LB7 dude dies TWICE in that Lostbelt.

If Ritsuka is not made into a servant after all the sh*t he went through especially all the saint quartz he spent hands are gonna fly

Ritsuka become Hollowed after LB 6 because of emotional trauma.

*Finishes the video.* You pretty much covered everything, I was aware of. As a player of fgo. And quite frankly, outside of other specific anime characters or video/movie characters. Ritsuka has gone through a lot of shit. And it only gets worse as the journey progresses. (With a potential third journey if the game does well enough.) But there are two things, you forgot to include. First: Roman aka Solomon, shortly after mash died. He literally HAD to sacrifice himself and erase himself from the world, just to ensure ritsuka got the chance of victory against goteia. The one 'human' freind ritsuka had throughout the singularities died with no way of returning or summoning him. Only to see a him(goteia) pop up during lostbelt five. Second: Now, back to the pseudo singularties. You forgot about the first one. Where ritsuka was sent to a world of evil. Where people were turned into puppets and for morality to create a bomb with a puppet. Only to give the remote to you and blow it the fuck up. Keep in mind, depending on the choice you made. You either give moriarty or he swipes back the remote from you. To ensure you don't end up being the one to PRESS THE TRIGGER. I know, this is small compared to destroying lostbelts. But considering, what ritsuka had to do, fight or work with untill then. This was a significant way to cause trauma. Because he NEVER actually truly killed someone before. It was either fighting monsters, servants. Or with "the back of the blade" if humans got involved. (Aka holding back to not kill them.) Edit: I forgot to mention, during the lotbelts. Ritsuka lost a wolf freind and two girl's. The former knew what was happening. The latter were so innocent, rituska couldn't fucking tell them. That they were going to die.

Man's went through the near incineration of humanity, people in Orléans being burned or eaten alive by dragons, people gruesomely murdered eaten and turned into a bloody pulp by Lāhmu in Babylon

There's also the time the Ooku event, Kama put Ritsuka through a blackhole

This being pre LB6 and LB7 (not gonna list the extra chapters) on trauma scale shows already how deep it goes. I won’t spoil but goddamnit it just gets worse and worse for them 💀

tbh i guess the worst trauma fujimaru suffered was one of the last battles in LB7, even in the mystic code between the multiple fights with the same enemy his facial expression changes slowly to something more desperate, because of the non stop fights and the insane things that happened with his servants

Reminder that being forced to hike across amarica is a massive undertaking for anyone unless you have a servant with a really convenient mount The idea that the crypters could've done it so much faster is bullshit simply for that fact alone

I will never forget Suten Doji literally rearanging Ritsuka's insides, like sure it was to help but even then- that was absolutely horrid

I would have told Ritsuka before his start of the journey:That's hell you're walking into.

Holmes or Da vinci warned Fuji one time to NOT BEING FRIENDLY OR TO NOT GET INVOLVED WITH PEOPLE/FOES IN THE LOSTBELTS, but that was Inevitable...

Even after all of this , ORT tops them all in trauma .

Kirei really said old habit of mine 💀💀

It's wearing you down isn't it, Master of Humanity? How long can you keep going before you break? Before all the pressure on you, the memories of those you left behind, those you had to erase, comes crushing down on your shoulders? Can you stay strong going forward, knowing what you've done to save your own world at the cost of the others Master of Humanity?

lostbelt 7 brought player and Ritsuka a lot of trauma by seeing your servant got erased one by one when facing ORT

I'm damn certain that by the end, whatever is left of Ritsuka, will no longer be human.

Justice 4 Ritsuka! Leave them be for once in their unfortunate and possibly short lived lives! Being Ritsuka is suffering.

Now he gotta add the moment where he faced ORT the man was SWEATING so hard each time his servants gets eaten by ORT his face literally changes every 3 breaks on ORTs life, you can see the fear in his eyes bro

But Ritsuka’s characteristic is built to withstand trauma. If you actually look through the setting art books and lore books. You can see that in the past Ritsuka lived next to an old man who is alone and he would help spend time with the old man and the old man pretty much set up his characteristics of how to go through traumatic things and one day when Ritsuka went to the old man he found that the old man died (I forgot if it’s illness and by old age) but as for how Ritsuka took it? He doesn’t feel sad (or at least not the dramatic kind of sad and he just went with it. Now, in LostBelt we can see that he and Mashu feel bad about destroying them but as they say they need to play the villain to save old humanity and yet as 2.7 pass we now that we are blocked out to go back into it since the shield of humanity blocks us out.

We do have the assistance of Edmond Dantes for helping with PTSD in his interludes. Which includes a certain THING in lostbelt 6

Was not expecting that ending. Definitely a lot of trauma.

Dread it ,run from it, it all arrives the same. The gacha will always be there no matter where you go not matter what you do RNGesus will have your back and screw you over at any given chance. I rest my case best of luck on your pulls my fellow Chaldeans, Shilkans, Commanders, and Dokutahs.

Really goes to show Player Character was never meant to be a self insert (Yes, I know about Nasu's comments, its not the first time he's given us contradicting info). If you pay close attention the game goes out of its way to refer to the MC as generically as possible. It always treats the character as a minor, including in "My Room". Even our dialogue choices through out the story are more often different ways of saying the same thing, and most definitely won't have any impact in the story. Combine info and dialogue from events, story, etc and its pretty evident Nasu designed the MC to have his own identity.

The gachs is the one beast of humanity, Ritsika cannot overcome.

Ritsuka facing the WORST Traumas a person can experience: Also Ritsuka: ┐( ˘ ､ ˘ )┌

As if cursing us with endless tofu wasn’t bad enough, that damned priest took Mama Da Vinci from us

That last part hurt too much (I will get you someday X alter)

I wonder if ritsuka will ever become a powerful combatant he's seen so much tragedy he couldn't prevent because he wasn't strong enough if he gets any free time I can definitely see him training and since he has so many powerful people around him they could definitely teach him a thing or two I think it might be possible that by the end of fgo ritsuka might become one of the most powerful characters in the nasuverse.

Nasu really loves to break his own characters 💔

And let's not forget the very first Lostbelt, where he has to deal with the mental trauma of sending an entire civilization to die in order to attempt to preserve Proper Human History.

Ritsuka’s trials just make me think of a quote from the Dark Knight questline in FFXIV; “Do not seek forgiveness, for it will not ease the burden. It weighs as it should.”

Ritsuka gaining trauma Gudako giving trauma

bro can swap from harem king to hardened war hero in a heart beat

that last one traumatized me too

There is also him losing our good doctor Solomon during the fight with geotia

I don’t know if this is a theory but I feel like Ritsuka/ us at the end of the series he might turn into a beast of humanity like the beast of desperation/survivability

This kid can't catch a break...

Ritsuka's gonna need AI therapy to get through the franchise.

Gacha hands down is the cruelest experience anyone can go through

I like to think Chaldea has a mandatory therapy sessions after every mission and they also make use of tre recovery exercises

The gacha got me crying

really good video as always i feel like i need more nightingoat content

I honestly think ritsuka sufferd the most out of every character in anime

And yet, in between all of this, there’s time to go to Vegas or attend idol concerts.

Don’t forget about being launched twice. Once by Arash and the time in Babylon

Greatest traumas The Gacha Eli in concert Halloween Eli and Nero collab The Gacha again

Anyone else thinking that the MC will be swinging the Holy Sword or something equivalent at the end?

And the tsiah cooking doesn't stop

Meanwhile Gudako is the embodiment of trauma 🗿

8:21 Related 100%

Clearly the most trauma is seeing all those mapo tofus

I feel the final one

Bruh, you're too early. I was expecting a video like this during either LB7 or during the Vitch raid this year.

On the other hand guduko is living the good life with red hare

sad that it goes through 8 min... man we gotta hug the m8

Preach: Mental Health

Glad he got at least 3 guardian (2 of them is overpowered) to protect his mind if not, he might have long gone insane. Not to mention he got at least 7 Beasts and 2 Archetypes to protect him now, honestly I don't even know a master who can beat Ritsuka now.(considering his heavy hitter servant are like that)

I swear, how does Ritsuka(us) not have white hair(stress) after all this? Seriously.

Gudako is when the gacha betrayed Fujimaru 😂

The worst is LB7 won't elaborate further let just say facial expressions as never been more dire than emotional damage lol. For me it LB5 p2 It hurt seeing that CE and losing redacted the pain still fresh in my mind.

Before Shimousa, I believe the first time he is doing nothing in front people massacre is in Camelot early chapter. Before that he will jump to danger to save someone. My personal pick is Patxi last moment. It's the first time we're realising we're no longer the "hero". So instead watching people suffer, it's us the MC who will be responsibile for all the death by erasing LBs (spoiler: lb 6 & 7 are exception). Borrowing Goetia words in LB prelude pv, "In these worlds (LB) no one will be your ally. Because YOU ARE THE EVIL". Afair the 1st time we have these dilemma is in Shinjuku, but without any consequences because Moriarty gave us fake bomb trigger. It's LB1 where we face the consequence in front of our face. And this is the first I really feel when MC cried. Personally if I am in MC position, probably I am failed in here without Patxi words, more or less: just take the sins to kill us & our world, & more LB you will erase. Because it's definitely worth. Your beautiful world deserve to survive!". It's so hard Ritsuka have to wait the approval of someone who will be his "victim" to accept what we need to do even it's cruel & the opposite of everything we have done before.

Gatcha is the true evil of humanity

Is ritsuka strong enough to defeat a real life peak human on his own? And by real-life peak human I'm talking about an individual that has every current world record for physical and mental strength. In this fight both characters will be unarmed so can ritsuka do it?

You forget the part where we get CEs in a single 10 pull and then pulling multiple copies of Shinji CE :">

i dislike every master leaving sieg and emiya fuckin hate them but ritsuka there is no dislike towards him that literally is just a common dude

Tbh, I kinda want Ritsuka and Mash to meet someone that can just help them deal with their trauma. Like, just them talking about it seems good enough for them. Now, I know its not gonna make sense, but them meeting Kamijou Touma from Toaru sounds like a free therapy considering Touma' s trauma (NT9). Just saying.

Not the mapo tofu, anything but that

can you do dont sleep on kiyohime??? idk if she has feats tho since im new

If I can say something I don't know why he doesn't have therapy or take pills because if I were in the situation, I was going to need a psychologist and psychiatrist.

requesting for a don't sleep on ozymandias

All this because he wanted a job lol.

Don’t forget when he was netorare in the Babylonia hentai manga by Gilgamesh

Ritsuka worst trauma is when he got spook during his roll

The Mapo Tofu really hurts my friend

He quite literally us

He isn't sane nor crazy. Just highly fictional.