[FGO] Kurohime reacts to other Japanese Girls!

[@jvts8916]

Yeah, I can see why Sei would be a hairdresser's worst nightmare

[@sapphieverosa]

So Chaldea finally has a hairdresser? Wonderful! We have a seamstress, a hairdresser, all we're missing is a makeup artist!

[@juliansoria7733]

Kurohime is peak

[@thecolorgreen9022]

Fun fact. Ushi's most common Japanese name in most media is 'Kuro' (i.e. Kuro Yoshitsune) So Kurohime can basically be read (by a yuri obsessed mind) as Ushi's hime, i.e. Ushi's princess.

[@unitcharles8278]

Fun fact : Takanashi clan is direct Descendant of Raikou brother. Basically Raikou is her greatgreatgreargreat(alot) aunt

[@Heisenberg0125]

>Ushi >Kagetora Yeah, Japanese _girls_

[@JohnnyJustice777]

Bro, you missed Barghest. Thats like the ultimate gap moe

[@KurtChangeBringer369]

Wait...wait,wait,WAIT A SEC....Are you telling me this Kurohime is Kagetora's Great Great Grandma?😲🤯

[@maniacguy7899]

No? She said it was a women from Kurohime’a family and not even if it was a direct descendent of hers. At best they would very rey distant cousins.

[@OwO377]

Remember when gojo said to yuta about family relate. Yeah similar case.

[@jkosch]

Not really, one version of her legend says Kagetora's father, Nagao Tamekage, recommended her as a future handmaid to the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshihisa. But than the story with the snaky suitor happend instead. The Takanashi family did intermarry with the Uesugi (and the Nagao were a retainer family that intermarried with the Uesugi as well, even before Kagetora got adopted by the Uesugi main line). So Kurohime is of the same generation as Kagetora or maybe just slightly older. Fun fact, not only were the Takanashi Minamoto retainers in the Genpei War (which is how they go the sword from Kurohime's story from Ushowaka's brother), they also are a side branch family of them, as they trace their fmaily line back to Minamoto no Yorinobu, brother of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raikou)).

[@car_johnson21]

Wife

[@cameronrhodes1101]

I never heard of this historical character before. Who is she?

[@Necro-xy5ej]

She's a mythological figure, there's various versions of her story, but I think the one fate is using involves her using a sword wrapped in her hair to kill a dragon after he got pissy her dad wouldn't let them marry and he decided to destroy her village over it

[@alexanderticonuwu7591]

She's from folklore about a mountain in Nagano. Mount Kurohime.

[@jkosch]

The legend of Kurohime and her snake lover seems to have many different versions. The short version of the longest variant of the narrative is: Kurohime, a lord's daughter who wanted to marry a snake/dragon yokai/god (an Uwabami, also called a daija or an (not the) orochi) but her father was against it and arranged a trap in race for the right to marry her. The snake survived inured and gathered all his people to cause rains and flood that made the rivers swell and devasted the land. Kurohime than scarified herself and the flood ended. Only one version contains the race used to disguise a trap for the snake/dragon god/yokai. Multiple have Kurohime being fond of the snake, but only the race version has her fully opposing her father. In some she even killed instead of pacified the snake/dragon god using a sword and (in one version also cutting her hair, as we see in the NP) herself (in the version with the haircut it is a perhaps killed; hair and sword got swallowed and the pond it was in turned red, than a dragon/snake shaped cloud took the princess away to what is now called Mt. Kurohime). What the other versions mention is a) a special sword, in one version said to have been passed down in the Takanashi family from Minamoto no Yoritomo (Ushiwakamaru's brother) (they were Minamoto retainers in the Genpei war and originally decent from Minamoto no Yorinobu, brother of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (Raikou)), that she took and in one version her father used to hurt the snake god before (As a Takanashi she is a realative of Uesugi Kenshin/Nagao Kagetora, as they intermarried into that family and during the Sengoku time served as their retainers; one of the versions of her legend even mentions that Kurohime was supposed to become a handmaid of the Shogun Ashikaga Yoshihisa at the recommendation of Nagao Tamekage, the father of Nagao Kagetora.) b) In many versions the uwabami/daija(/orochi) of the legend is poisonous and either poisoned or evaporated the waters instead of causing a flood. In some versions Kurohime met the snake sneaking into her bedroom in human form (in one it seems like multiple times until her father waits there instead of her to capture/kill the young man) and it got injured by the sword mentioned above and threatens the water sources of the region (in which way depends on the version). Then Kurohime deals with it, either by killing the snake/dragon god/yokai or by facing him in some way and disappearing (one version seems to say they married, which is corroborated as older tradition by the local shrine in Nakano). There seems to be local shrine in Nakano, old Shinano Province (modern Nagano Prefecture), that celebrates an annual festival for the snake god and Kurohime that is connected to rainfalls (likely fertility).

[@musashishinmen4286]

Don't worry, most of us haven't either until FGO released this specific Servant. Nasu does that a lot.