Talk:Artoria Pendragon/@comment-25685875-20170713064835/@comment-88.112.87.185-20170722073652

Vortigern was against the Britons themselves, so what do you expect them to do? Just accept that the world wants them all dead?

Merlin says the rest of the world is essentially out to get Britain as the age of mysteries is passing. Even after Vortigern died at Artoria's hands, droughts and starvation plagued the people. Saber being king started nothing, Vortigern already fucked Uther's shit up because he wanted to bring down the Britons before all of that.

Outside of battle she was the best administrator they had (other than Mordred, which really tells you something), as everyone else was a goddamn goofball. There was no one else who could handle the job and as a result of her rule they did have like a decade of relative prosperity until the Rome excursion. Also, at one point or another, pretty much every Knight of the Round Table calls Artoria perfect as a king iirc. What the point Iskander essentially was bringing across was that Saber never explained herself or acted relatable. There was a drought and she would solve that somehow while minimizing the suffering, for example by sacrificing one village, which resulted in people going "holy shit, the king is ruthless". Even as she saved them, because it didn't suddenly become easier afterwards, people blamed the King. Hell, it was Tristan who uttered the words "the king doesn't understand the people" but in reality that was just as much a lamentation on his part that he didn't understand the king, resulting in him being unable to even look at Artoria out of shame in FGO.

Mordred couldn't have become King in a hundred years anyhow; pissing off half the knights who came from relations Guinevere's family by accepting a bastard child would have resulted in rebellion anyhow and as Artoria says; Mordred lacks the ability to be King.

And Lancelot always was and will be a complete and total fuck up; he's a French Gary Stu.