Talk:Artoria Pendragon/@comment-26441403-20190522141022/@comment-35022050-20190813061245

Because there's ACTUALLY a backstory behind her gender-bending. The rest are just, here you go nerds, fap away. She was born female, so she was obviously given a female name, but had to be pretend to be male in order to be king.

As mentioned, most of the gender-bended were originally done as jokes so not much thought were put into them. After FGO had become such a waifu game that they had to gender-bend EVERYONE, they just didn't care anymore, it would be too much work to come up with back-stories for all of them.

Jack and Nero are the only other "more serious" gender-bending. There IS a sort of backstory behind Jack though, as Jack is not her real name and she is not actually Jack the Ripper. Her killings were attributed to Jack the Ripper and so Alaya (the human collective consciousness) also attributed some aspects of "Jack the Ripper" to her, or rather them. As for Nero, who knows?