I do not think she had that many options though, especially as a King back then. Such ages were different and of course the modern ages are entirely different. And she is an idealist pretty much.
I honestly don't buy that argument. She was the king, of
course she had options. I understand not wanting to break the law to favour herself, but in the case of Lancelot and Guineviere the law was only there to protect the king in the first place. It's utter nonsense to say that the king cannot grant clemency in such a situation, plenty of others did so.
Acceptable. Very popular characters can also annoy me, especially when people care only about them.
Yeah, for me the problem is the proliferation of Saber-centric fanfics and, even, official stories and art, at the expense of other characters (it particularly pisses me off when people do things like drawings or merchandise of main heroines and just include Rin and Saber, just include Saber or, worse, include Saber, Rin and
Ilya). Particularly since Sakura's situation is such that just leaving her out implies a bad ending on her part.
I believe part of why Sakura is the least popular out of Saber and Rin is because she is not a 'fighter' (except when she goes all yandere in HF) and because she is quite ignored in the first two routes.
Yeah, I think that's a fair point (although I dispute the assertion that HF Sakura is a Yandere), although I think she
is a fighter, just not in that manner. And, honestly, she doesn't get any option. If she tries to fight she can only make things worse, due to Zouken's control over her.
It focused a lot on her relationship with Shirou and sadly her route wasn't that exciting.
Well, it focussed on her as a character too. I would agree the route was less exciting, though.
Also, as a reader, you were expected to have knowledge of Arthur's legend. It would be good enough if they could add part of her background in the route.
Yeah, perhaps. I never really noticed that aspect since, as a British person, I have grown up with the legend and was already very familiar with it before I even read FSN.
I have noticed though that people like to put mainstream characters in their favorites, for example Lelouch, Light, etc. Perhaps that gives them some sort of image that they are fond of 'good' characters, even if majority of those characters are overrated.
Well, it's hard to say, really. Perhaps those characters are liked because people see them so much they grow fond of them, perhaps they're liked to keep up an image, or perhaps they're liked because they're just characters who fit with what the viewers want to see. It's almost impossible to distinguish.
It is. Or they like a x character because he/she has a lot of merchandise that they can purchase.
That seems like putting the cart before the horse to me. I mean, you don't
have to like a character in order to purchase merchandise of them.
