Talk:Yang Guifei/@comment-1971498-20200101132627

Reading up on her history, it seems that her main cultural sticking point lies in being a beautiful tragic figure that an Emperor (creepily) stalked and pined for until he had her become his consort, the irony being that her life ended with said Emperor using her as a scapegoat anyway. Based on hearsay and loose translations, it sounds as if Fate has written her as pining for said Emperor which feels a bit backwards considering how often she rejected his advances in her real life history.

Now I could be wrong (heck I'd love to be proven as such) but I can't help but feel like they're trying to cash-in on Yu/Hinako's appeal and popularity by making a SSR equivalent (at least character-wise). Also various translations confirm that even outside of her possession by some eldritch god, they also wrote her to be a Chinese Elemental, the same sort of Elemental that Yu was revealed to be. Now this is all just speculation, though I can't help but feel like there was a missed opportunity here since she's actually closer to Marie Antoinette in terms of her real life cultural influence and they could have easily drawn from that angle a bit more.