User blog comment:Nep-Nep/Murasaki Shikibu/@comment-25848535-20190117001925/@comment-24978536-20190118175727

I enjoyed reading about her as well (Toukiden 2 provided a good introduction of her for me, though I had heard of her before) and as an aspiring writer myself, she is definitely an inspiration for me. And honest, I just want a waifu servant in the game who is a writer, and I can't think of a single better female historical figure as a writer servant as Murasaki. Despite not being very famous world-wide, she has the achievements to back up her being a servant, she is not from modern times and there is just enough known information about her to allow for some historical accuracy and at the same time, design freedom as a fictional character. And from what is known about her personality, I'm pretty sure I would like her depiction in FGO a lot. Also, with the addition of Sei Shōnagon, Murasaki would have the potential to become an even more interesting servant, since well, rivalries = interesting happenings. And yeah, I'll probably do another page for Sei Shōnagon, since I've already planned a rough kit for her. I'm probably not going to get seriously into creating fan-servants though, so she'll probably be my last or 2nd last design (thinking about actually writing bond info pages for both though, not sure if I'll do it). Thanks for sharing the page, I didn't know of that one, some really interesting ideas there and some historical figures I didn't even know about before.