Ritsuka Fujimaru |
Fate/Grand Order |
Gudako (ぐだ子?), also called the Nameless Master or Master without a Name and the Female Protagonist, is one of the main characters of the Learn with Manga! FGO series. She is the Master of Berserker.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
Gudako is, for all intents and purposes, a "chibi" version of the female design for Ritsuka Fujimaru. She wears the female version of the Mystic Code Chaldea uniform or its Arctic version, has orange eyes that don't seem to reflect light, and has short red hair with a side ponytail and an ahoge. Occasionally, she wears only underwear or nothing at all. Her facial expression is usually a blank, open-mouthed smile.
Personality[]
Gudako exhibits a noticeably erratic and eccentric (if not outright insane) personality characterized by an all-consuming addiction to gambling on gacha. Belligerent, impulsive, and volatile, she often berates, harasses, and abuses the people around her in various ways, particularly her Servants. Gudako seemingly has a love/hate relationship with rolling gacha: while she often demands Saint Quartz in order to facilitate rolls and goes into manic fits of excitement upon learning that she can play the gacha, she also warns other people to stay away from gambling on gacha and cites it as being a hell she can't escape from. Even so, her attitude towards her Servants is incredibly poor. She discards low-rarity Servants as worthless, and treats her high-rarity ones little better, frequently neglecting or assaulting them.
Gudako's motivation for gathering Servants seems to be largely credited to lust. She is seemingly exclusively interested in women, with a particular fondness for Mash Kyrielight and Olga Marie Animusphere. With other people, she tends to alternate between an utterly uncaring, sadistic, and abusive attitude, and an extreme protectiveness and genuine fondness- often doing so for no logical reason. When Mash is absent her already unstable temperament becomes even more psychotic, squandering Command Spells to force her Servants to dress up in ridiculous costumes and add "cute" suffixes to the end of their sentences.
Gudako is extremely lazy, and has absolutely no regard for her position as a defender of humanity; indeed, she may not even be entirely aware that she's supposed to be defending it at all. It is often noted that, despite her having been active since launch, she makes very little progress in the game's story mode, preferring to focus on farming and events or accumulating quartz and only beginning Part 2 after it seemed Mash would leave her otherwise. For this reason, Chaldea has made active efforts to remove her from power, which almost always fail. She also complains incessantly about the game itself, and is especially vocal when complaining about the inability to skip Noble Phantasm animations.
Relationships[]
- Mash Kyrielight and Olga Marie Animusphere: Mash and Olga are the most common victims of Gudako's sexual advances, and are engaged with her in a peculiar love triangle. Despite her interest in both Mash and Olga, Gudako is aware of their own burgeoning relationship and fantasizes about the idea of them cheating behind her back in a way that most observers consider disturbing. She still seems to care for Mash in some strange way however, and in her absence Gudako's behavior becomes even more unhinged than usual.
- Jeanne d'Arc: Being an avid worshipper of the Fate/Grand Order development team, Jeanne often finds herself tormented by Gudako, who believes the team to be responsable for the game's flaws. She has even gone as far as imprisoning Jeanne in the Second Archive to prevent her from getting other Servants to support the development team aswell. Gudako also hopes to break Jeanne's faith in God to corrupt her into her Alter self. Despite all of this, Jeanne still cared enough for Gudako to nurture her back to health after she was stabbed by Mary Anning.
- Gudao: The two seem to be friends.
Role[]
Learn with Manga![]
Gudako joins the Chaldea Security Organization and is sent to Singularity F all the while Mash Kyrielight and Director Olga Marie Animusphere try to teach her about Fate/Grand Order, but they find doing so difficult since she is more intrested in rolling banners and making sexual advances towards them and the female Servants.[1][2][3] They eventually make it out of the singularity, with Olga Marie dying the same way she did in Fate/Grand Order, though Gudako missed it as she wasn't paying attention to the plot.[4]
After 3 months, Mash and Gudako have covered all the basics of the mechanics of Fate/Grand Order and restored history. Using CHALDEAS, the pair look into the year 2019 and learn that the game has become a sensation and that Olga Marie, who is somehow alive, is doing her best to promote it. Happy the future is saved, the pair share an emotional moment as they remember the Director's sacrifice.[5]
Learn More with Manga![]
Gudako learns from Mash that Learn With Manga! has ended and that it's time to move on. Unwilling to do so, Gudako decides to prolong the manga, starting with bringing Olga Marie back by deleting FGO from her phone and start over, but Mash convinces her to take a different approach so she won't lose her progress. Instead, Gudako plucks her from CHALDEAS.[6] Since there is nothing left to teach, Olga Marie comes up with the idea of talking about the Servants,[7] which Gudako finds difficult as she knows nothing about the Fate franchise.[8] After New Year's Eve 2018, Gudako drop the idea as she got tired of it, stating that the readers already know more than her.[9]
One day, Gudako, Mash, and Olga recieve a sugestion to add their own original character to the manga.[10] After reading Koha-Ace, Gudako decided to follow the sugestion so they can have their own Pickup Summon banner in Fate/Grand Order and benefit from the rewards.[11] Using udon dough and Holy Grail Mud, she created three Udon Servant larve, and gave Olga Marie and Mash one each to raise, resulting in Rider, Assassin, and later Paul Bunyan.[12][13][14][15]
An Holy Grail War eventually broke out between Gudako, Mash, and Olga Marie. Now without Mash, Gudako began to look for new eggplant-like Servants to replace her.[16] When Olga Marie complained that her room could no longer fit her Servants in it, she paid Gudako to expand her room, leading to others asking for their room to be expanded aswell. As a result, Gudako turned the Chaldea HQ into a maze which she used as a playground to hunt for Mash.[17][18] She eventually learned that Olga Marie knew where Mash was hiding and threatened with sexual harrasment if she didn't reveal her hiding spot. In response, Olga Marie orders Assassin to use her Noble Phantasm. Following the order, Assassin used Official and Confidential, revealing Gudako's secrets, only to become her new target.[19]
Gudako tracks Mash to the special summoning room, leading Rider to burn all of Chaldea down as a last ditch effort to get rid of her.[20] This only angers Gudako who orders Bunyan to attack Mash to win the Grail War. In response, Mash calls upon Rider to defend her.[21] The battle results in Gudako's death, who later reappears in the remnants of Chaldea.[22]
Learn Even More with Manga![]
Unstatisfied with how Learn More with Manga! ended, Gudako began to pretend the climax was a future event that had yet come to pass, much to Olga Marie's annoyance.[23] After Bunyan rebuild Chaldea, Gudako was confronted by Rider and Assassin, who she thought she killed, and the pair threaten to turn the world into an R-rated Pseudo-Singularity.[24] To punish the two Servants, Gudako burried their bodies, leaving their heads sticking out of the ground. They were saved by Olga Marie, who became their new Master[25]
Gudako and Mash were eventually convinced by Assassin to join her side, who promised them that Olga Marie would sexually use them in return, though Rider was kept in the dark of this fact.[26]
When Olga Marie ordered Gudako and Assassin to find out each Servant's atribute, they decide to start with Nitocris. Although she is more than willing to give information, Gudako continues to sexually torture her regardless.[27] Jeanne tried to free Nitocris by turning her 'Select' button off and sneaking her out of her cell, but it doesn't work, as Gudako doesn't bother with filters, and Jeanne ends up captured too.[28] As Gudako is showing the new Bunyan figure to her captives, Lancer and Assassin sneak up from behind and kill her as the latter reveals that the manga is going to have plotlines and more battles, leaving Jeanne and Nitocris shocked.[29] The pair somehow freed themselves and decide to nurse Gudako back to health.[30]
While nursing Gudako, Jeanne and Nitocris find a Servant larva. Jeanne wants to serve it to Gudako, though Nitocris believes this would be cruel as it still a Servant. After both considered how much effort it would be to raise the larva to adulthood, they decide to serve it anyway.[31] Despite Gudako eating the larva, it matures into a Caster that started feeding her. Not wishing to be shown up, Jeanne and Nitocris got to work.[32] Without access to the internet, Gudako shifted towards playing consol games instead and slowly lost intrest in mobile games. She also began to shift her sexual desires from Mash to Nitocris, who urged the mice to find Mash and get Gudako to get a WiFi connection in the hopes shifting the attention away from herself.[33] After Caster modified her, Gudako grew larger and fat.[34]
Caster trapped Gudako, Jeanne, and Nictoris, leading to the latter two to bicker, only to make up once they realized they were fueling Gudako’s fantasies.[35] Meanwhile, Mash, who learned of Gudako after they communicated through a dream, tracked her Master’s location down with the aid of a captured Lancer, only to be confronted by a horde of Caster mice when she fell in the chasm where they were keeping her.[36] After disposing of the horde, Mash found that Gudako had transformed into a Caster Servant that took up the entire tunnel.[37] After Gudako Mash endured her attacks and escaped, Gudako made her way to the surface and charged her Noble Phantasm, threatening to change the drop rate of 5-Star Servants in Fate/Grand Order to 100%.[38] When the attempt to stop her by a newly arrived Gudao failed, Rider, with the combined Noble Phantasms of Archer and Lancer, struck her down in the nick of time, seemingly dying in the process. [39][40] Gudako instantly recovers and returns to normal before arriving at Assassin's hiding place and stuffing her in a barrel as punishment for pitting the Learn More with Manga Servants against each other in a bit to guarantee her implementation into the game.[41][42]
Chaldea was eventually incorporated into the United States of Chibikko, and Bunyan was elected to be its first president.[42] Since Bunyan didn’t deliver on her campaign promises of free weekly Saints Quartz every week, Gudako decides to climb onto her head and ask her why. Before she could, she was confronted by Jack posing as a high-level enemy, whom she easily beat, only to lose motivation once she was confronted by Nursery Rhyme, who was even harder to beat.[43] Nonetheless, Gudako and Mash made it past her and Jeanne Alter Santa Lily and reached Bunyan’s head, only to find that there was a mission left on a nearby fake moon with a story node. Gudako states that she will simply skip the story and read it from the materials later, which frustrates Mash as she is not enjoying Fate/Grand Order for either the gameplay or story, making it pointless in her eyes to play the game.[44] Reaching the moon, the duo was captured by Archer who attempted to explain the reasoning behind their capture and Rider’s last request, only for Gudako to skip past the cutscene again.[45] Once the cutscene was over, Gudako and Mash fought Archer, who pushed the moon down to Earth with her Noble Phantasm. As they fell back to orbit, Mash attempts to get Gudako to play Part 2 of the story, though she remains hesitant. [46] Luckily, the moon was returned to the sky by Artoria's authority before it could hit the Earth and the pair got of safely. With the dust settled, Mash encoures Gudako to play Part 2 again. She refuses, stating she has to look after Lancer, Assassin (both of whom was released by Rider, who faked her death), and Saber, though Mash notes she is just using it as an excuse to avoid the story.[47]
Fate/Grand Order[]
Event: All the Statesmen![]
Called the Nameless Master, Gudako allows Paul Bunyan to possess udon dough. She then shaped said dough, hoping to create a powerful welfare Servant for Fate Grand Order's 2nd anniversary. But Bunyan turned out to be a low-rank Servant, and therefore, useless in Gudako's eyes. So Gudako sealed Bunyan away in her inner world, only to become trapped as well.
To ensure Bunyan doesn't destroy the world by redeveloping it to its limit, Gudako takes away her axe. She then ditched Bunyan in the woods to leaver her to disappear and left for Chicago. She also summoned Altera, Billy the Kid, Jack the Ripper, Nursery Rhyme, Mata Hari, and Nikola Tesla.
Ritsuka's party confronts her at the center of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. She explains to them she is a Master from a parallel Chaldea. She then reveals the truth about Bunyan. Then, after complaining about the game's gacha system, Gudako decides to eliminate the group for bringing Bunyan before her.
Even though her Servants all being high-ranked, they were underleveled and thus easily defeated. Gudako then starts to disappear. She asks for Jack and Nursery Rhyme's help, but they refuse to. Gudako confesses she only wanted everyone to have a laugh and for her to do many other lewd things. She then disappears, realizing she let the truth spill out at the last moment.
Abilities[]
- Master Abilities: As a Master of Chaldea, Gudako can summon Servants[48] and use Command Spells.[49]
- Physical Prowess: Gudako is a capable physical fighter and is able to deal severe damage to people by attacking them weaponless. She also demonstrates the strength necessary to lift and carry heavy objects, such as Mash's shield. She has enough prowess to easily defeat Servants, having killed Elizabeth Bathory in a single blow to the head at one point. Her resilience is no less impressive, having survived being impaled through the chest by Mary Anning.[29]
- Superhuman Regeneration: After having her body be blown to pieces by Rhongominyad, Gudako's head inexplicably remains alive and somehow manages to grow a set of limb-like tendrils from its underside to move around. She was even brought back to life after being killed by Rider.[22]
- Agelessness: Gudako is thousands of years old, having survived an attempt to get rid of her via rayshifting her to 10,000 BC by simply waiting it out. She credits this to the indomitability of the human spirit.[50]
- Servant Creation: Gudako is able to handle the mud of the corrupted Holy Grail with no ill effects. Using it, in combination with udon dough, she can craft "Servant larvae." They take time to grow, but develop into full-fledged (albeit often weak) Servants.[12][13]
- Fourth Wall Awareness: Like most of the characters in Learn With Manga! FGO, Gudako is aware of and capable of breaking the fourth wall.[1] She makes frequent reference to the gameplay mechanics of Fate/Grand Order, particularly the gacha system[3] and the lack of Noble Phantasm animation skip button.[51]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Learn with Manga! FGO - Episode 1
- ↑ Learn with Manga! FGO - Episode 2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Learn with Manga! FGO - Episode 3
- ↑ Learn with Manga! FGO - Episode 14
- ↑ Learn with Manga! FGO - Episode 15
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 1
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 2
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 3
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 5
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 42
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 43
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 44
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 46:
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 48
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 59
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 57
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 71
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 72: The Running Mash
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 80
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 82: The Final Act
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 83: The Final Battle
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 84
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 2
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 4
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 7
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 25
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 66
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 71
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 77
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 80
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 84
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 86
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 97
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 108
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 112
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 109
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 115
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 116
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 116
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 118
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 121
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 122
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 145
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 149
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 151
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 153
- ↑ Learn Even More with Manga! FGO - Episode 157
- ↑ Learn with Manga! FGO - Episode 4: Connect With Your Friends!
- ↑ Learn with Manga! FGO - Episode 19: For Humanity's Future
- ↑ Learn with Manga! FGO - Episode 2: Seize the Future!
- ↑ Learn More with Manga! FGO - Episode 7: The NP Animation After