People die. Elders die. Adults die. Babies also die. Children also die. Death visits all equally, with neither hesitation nor mercy in its gait.
... that, I could not forgive. I cannot forgive those who would kill and injure the innocent. But I found myself far more unforgivable, for merely watching such violence from afar.
Aah -- you made your fatal mistake then and there. In doing nothing, you lost your right to be a savior. And yet, you declare you will save the world.
A doll made by a child's clumsy hands. I felt as if it were quietly watching and accusing me.
Even so. Even so, I
The above text is the description for Avicebron's Bond CE, and seems to be a reference to a flashback scene from Fate/Apocrypha where Avicebron (in life) is seen picking up an abandoned doll after seeing a town(?) pillaged and razed. However, I'm not really sure what historical event this is referencing, if any. It seems the 10th and 11th centuries were actually periods of relative peace for the Jewish population in Spain, sometimes called the Golden Age of Jewish culture in Spain, with Jews being relatively tolerated and allowed to integrate into society. However, others state that this coexistence was uneasy at best; notably, the 1066 Granada massacre occurred during the tail end of this period. (Is it possibly the F/A writers subscribe to the theory that Avicebron died in 1069, and this is the massacre he witnessed?)
Historical inconsistencies aside, I do like the implication that Avicebron's guilt complex isn't something that was solely spurred by the events of F/A and is instead is something he'd also been struggling with in life, and was exacerbated by the events of F/A.
I don't know how much the Fate/ writers take historical accuracy into mind (not very much, I'm assuming), but given the historical Gabirol was consistently described as something of a jerk, the worsening guilt complex would go some ways in explaining his more even temperament come F/A and then F/GO. Though he does show traces of still being kind of a deadpan jerk (especially towards Shakespeare), he's largely just kind of aloof and quiet. It would make sense if, within the Fate/-verse, the arrogance he'd held in his youth was mellowed out with age by a stronger sense of guilt and responsibility, of perhaps knowing that he has no right to be so haughty when he was so powerless and futile in life and so weak compared to the others in the Throne of Heroes.
I do think this also gives a slightly stronger suggestion of what he was thinking when he decided to sacrifice Roche during F/A. While there's always the possibility that he just saw the chance and decided to take it, I do think it's more consistent with the rest of his characterization if he was spurred on by a twisted sense of responsibility and guilt -- the desire to do something to bring peace and salvation to the world, even at a horrific cost. If he'd previously hated himself for having only watched as people died, then it would make sense that he'd equally loathe the prospect of just being on the losing end of a war, and would never be able to pass up the perfect chance to complete Adam.
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The above text is the description for Avicebron's Bond CE, and seems to be a reference to a flashback scene from Fate/Apocrypha where Avicebron (in life) is seen picking up an abandoned doll after seeing a town(?) pillaged and razed. However, I'm not really sure what historical event this is referencing, if any. It seems the 10th and 11th centuries were actually periods of relative peace for the Jewish population in Spain, sometimes called the Golden Age of Jewish culture in Spain, with Jews being relatively tolerated and allowed to integrate into society. However, others state that this coexistence was uneasy at best; notably, the 1066 Granada massacre occurred during the tail end of this period. (Is it possibly the F/A writers subscribe to the theory that Avicebron died in 1069, and this is the massacre he witnessed?)
Historical inconsistencies aside, I do like the implication that Avicebron's guilt complex isn't something that was solely spurred by the events of F/A and is instead is something he'd also been struggling with in life, and was exacerbated by the events of F/A.
I don't know how much the Fate/ writers take historical accuracy into mind (not very much, I'm assuming), but given the historical Gabirol was consistently described as something of a jerk, the worsening guilt complex would go some ways in explaining his more even temperament come F/A and then F/GO. Though he does show traces of still being kind of a deadpan jerk (especially towards Shakespeare), he's largely just kind of aloof and quiet. It would make sense if, within the Fate/-verse, the arrogance he'd held in his youth was mellowed out with age by a stronger sense of guilt and responsibility, of perhaps knowing that he has no right to be so haughty when he was so powerless and futile in life and so weak compared to the others in the Throne of Heroes.
I do think this also gives a slightly stronger suggestion of what he was thinking when he decided to sacrifice Roche during F/A. While there's always the possibility that he just saw the chance and decided to take it, I do think it's more consistent with the rest of his characterization if he was spurred on by a twisted sense of responsibility and guilt -- the desire to do something to bring peace and salvation to the world, even at a horrific cost. If he'd previously hated himself for having only watched as people died, then it would make sense that he'd equally loathe the prospect of just being on the losing end of a war, and would never be able to pass up the perfect chance to complete Adam.