User blog comment:Nep-Nep/Sei Shōnagon/@comment-24978536-20190403121131

A new servant design, I took it a bit more seriously this time. I wrote a long biography, but honestly, I've only done the absolute bare minimum of research Sei Shōnagon (heck, I'd say not even the bare minimum, I never even read the Pillow Book!), so yeah, not much historical basis here.

To be honest, from the beginning ever since I became a Fate fan, one thing that has always felt wrong to me about the whole franchise is the rewriting and reimagining of actual historical figures. I mean, it is fiction and everything is fine for a fiction, but it still makes my stomach feel somewhat queasy. It may be because I'm a history nerd, or because I somehow feel it is wrong to make fictional characters of actual, historical people (proof of that being, I don't really mind characters that are based on divine deities or any sort of folklore, it's only for people that actually existed).

Now, I ended up doing the same myself, creating a fictional character based on an actual historical person.... And what's worse, I didn't even do any proper research! So doing this does make me feel wrong in a way. But oh well, in the end, it is just fiction and doing this was fun.

Also, admittedly despite all that, I do love gender-reversed Nero for example, she's the best waifu ever (well, one of them) and I don't want to imagine a world where no one created her.