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#64: Qlipoth Rhizome
Nominator: @Raka_Putra
Character: Abigail Williams
Source Material: Fate/Grand Order

Scores:
Aesthetics: 1
Dominance: 3
Damn: 2
Total score: 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHpQwjr62I

Hoo boy, this choice might be spicy, given how people I know who play FGO seem to love this character.

Let me get this out of the way: Abigail's design here is creepy as fuck, and not in the intended vaguely-Walmart-brand-Lovecraft sort of way. It's creepy in the "I feel watching this is going to make Chris Hansen tell me to take a seat over there" way. That automatically makes things rough for any ratings I could give it toward aesthetics.

Even if I manage to somehow ignore the pedo-ish-ness of the design, the keyhole in her head is just dumb, or at least it's dumb in how the move uses it, which is, er... it glows menacingly after the obligatory tentacles surrounding her give her target a low-animation-budget slappy slap. I can appreciate surface-level dumb designs if used in awesome ways -- that's Guilty Gear in a nutshell -- but this just exists in a way that tries desperately to be menacing in the way that a seven-year-old tries to menace her mother with her new Halloween wax fangs. Is it meant to be more conceptual or metaphorical, given the time-wasting anime chant that comes before and after? I don't care, and I'm not going to bother looking shit up to salvage an abject failure like this.

I think I bumped up Dominance to 3 because whatever that keyhole looks like it should be doing, it's certainly a bad thing, but it should have stayed at 2, just as Damn did. Why were these above 1? Because Zell set the bar so low that it was approaching Earth's mantle, while Abigail merely tunneled down to bedrock.

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