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Headcanon (and canon references)
Let's face it, "Fujimaru Ritsuka" is supposed to be a proxy for the player, and even though there are definite bits of non player-defined characterization, for the most part, they're meant to be a blank slate. So for my own reference as much as anything, some general headcanon to roll with.
* I'm setting her birthday as July 29, which is the day that FGO launched in Japan.
* Ritsuka is the only child of often-absent parents. They weren't emotionally absent -- they would call and write and otherwise communicate with her when away -- though as a whole, the family unit isn't a very close one. Ritsuka was always cared for in terms of having basic necessities and money for some small extras, but mostly learned to be independent very early on in her life. Even now, she's not extremely close to her parents, but she doesn't hate or resent them either. She loves them! They just had different lives that took them down different paths.
* She's English/Japanese bilingual, though better at conversation than she is at reading -- though if you dropped her anywhere in the US or Japan, she'd be able to get by just fine. She doesn't really consider either of these to be her "native" language, since she grew up with both regularly in her life. (To further extrapolate on her family, I assume that one of her parents either is American or spent a great deal of time there, and that Ritsuka herself has probably traveled back and forth on occasion.)
* She's the sort of person who gets along decently well with the majority of people; the sort of person who, when walking down the street, gets greeted by plenty of others, but isn't really terribly close to any of them. Mash is not the first friend she's had, or even the first close one, but she is the first one that Ritsuka is actively willing to do what she needs to to keep her around. It's not an exaggeration to say she gets along better with the Servants she's summoned than her classmates, because the forced closer quarters and high octane scenarios that has forced her to open up further.
* Schoolwise, she basically coasted on average to okay grades, without a whole lot of ambition. She never reached a point where she'd be in danger of failing, but she never stood out, either; she was always very solidly in the middle. True Average, instead of True Neutral.
* She found the flyer advertising Chaldea's program in a train station -- the sort of thing that was not really meant for the eyes of ordinary people, and decided to apply on a whim. Her school friends absolutely think(/thought/whatever is going on in the year that the Epic of Remnant took place) that she's the victim of some urban legend organ trafficking ring or something.
* She was 15-16 at the beginning of the Grand Order, so with a nod to obvious handwaving time shenanigans, I play her as 18/19 by default.
* Magicwise, she's only a first-generation magus (what little she knows and is capable of is stuff she's learned at Chaldea), and obviously a bad one at that. This doesn't particularly bother her, except to be occasionally annoying when someone wants to make a big show of their superiority. She's much more comfortable in the modern technological world.
* She does have some stupidly good luck more often than not. Call it intuition or actual luck, she's used to having her hunches play out exactly as she hopes they will, even if not immediately.
* I'm frankly just rolling (ha ha, get it) with her having every currently-available Servant in Chaldea just for ease of her recognizing and communicating with the ones she encounters. Other than threads deliberately meant to break the fourth wall, though, any jokes about game mechanics stem from her being someone who did/does play mobage on her own and understanding how much the summoning system corresponds to gacha rolls.
* Despite fate's origins as an eroge, and the knowledge and understanding that it could make it easier for her if she performed that sort of mana transfer (I assume that she got that talk from Da Vinci and Roman, the latter under some protest), I will play fresh-from-canon Ritsuka as NOT having slept with any of her Servants. Since Chaldea itself can provide the mana necessary, she's too wary of showing any sort of favoritism, especially among those that are bad at taking "no" for an answer. She's basically a useless bisexual by choice, because it's not even that she's disinterested, she just knows that if she makes the decision to do so, she's going to have to be very careful, because even if only one or two Servants care, those one or two are worrisome enough that she can't take them lightly. (Looking at you, Kiyohime.)
* She is still a teenager of the internet age, though. She's done research. And also that's why rp continuity exists.
* A general scar reference. I assume that Ritsuka has definitely picked up scars during her time as Chaldea's Master, which are probably not as many as she COULD have due to Servants with healing abilities and high-tech medical equipment, but they're present and can be very obvious. Therefore, the Mystic Codes she wears have a mild glamor effect that allows her to appear completely unmarked. This is mostly to avoid having to answer questions about why a young girl is that battered, and also a little bit of a nod to vanity.
* For the record, my favorite ships are with Kadoc, Spoiler1 [Goetia], Spoiler2 [Solomon] but I'm open and interested in all! Obviously some are easier to assume than others, but I'm interested in everything really. /o/ I am very open to playing both ships and gen.
* The summoning incantation Ritsuka specifically uses (as translated in Lostbelt 1) is as follows:
My will creates your body, and your sword creates my destiny. If you heed the Grail's call, and abide by this will and reason, then answer me.
I hearby swear.
I embody all that is good in the world.
I shall defeat all that is evil in the world.
Seventh Heaven clad in the three words of power! Come forth from the circle of binding, Guardian of the Scales!
Which seems to be a streamlined version of the versions used in other installments of the franchise. In the (likely rare) event where she has to use it in rp, I'll probably riff off this, or copy it wholesale.
* The Shimousa manga says that Ritsuka was part of the volleyball club in school. I'd say she's fairly fit, but not to the level of jock or sports anime. Other hobbies that might be referenced would be karaoke (she'd be a decent singer if she put any practice into it) and camping.
* According to the Lostbelt 3 intro, the names of the remaining staff within Chaldea are: Meunière, Kawata, Octavia, Tomlin, Chin, Cayenne, Elron, and Marcus.
* I'm setting her birthday as July 29, which is the day that FGO launched in Japan.
* Ritsuka is the only child of often-absent parents. They weren't emotionally absent -- they would call and write and otherwise communicate with her when away -- though as a whole, the family unit isn't a very close one. Ritsuka was always cared for in terms of having basic necessities and money for some small extras, but mostly learned to be independent very early on in her life. Even now, she's not extremely close to her parents, but she doesn't hate or resent them either. She loves them! They just had different lives that took them down different paths.
* She's English/Japanese bilingual, though better at conversation than she is at reading -- though if you dropped her anywhere in the US or Japan, she'd be able to get by just fine. She doesn't really consider either of these to be her "native" language, since she grew up with both regularly in her life. (To further extrapolate on her family, I assume that one of her parents either is American or spent a great deal of time there, and that Ritsuka herself has probably traveled back and forth on occasion.)
* She's the sort of person who gets along decently well with the majority of people; the sort of person who, when walking down the street, gets greeted by plenty of others, but isn't really terribly close to any of them. Mash is not the first friend she's had, or even the first close one, but she is the first one that Ritsuka is actively willing to do what she needs to to keep her around. It's not an exaggeration to say she gets along better with the Servants she's summoned than her classmates, because the forced closer quarters and high octane scenarios that has forced her to open up further.
* Schoolwise, she basically coasted on average to okay grades, without a whole lot of ambition. She never reached a point where she'd be in danger of failing, but she never stood out, either; she was always very solidly in the middle. True Average, instead of True Neutral.
* She found the flyer advertising Chaldea's program in a train station -- the sort of thing that was not really meant for the eyes of ordinary people, and decided to apply on a whim. Her school friends absolutely think(/thought/whatever is going on in the year that the Epic of Remnant took place) that she's the victim of some urban legend organ trafficking ring or something.
* She was 15-16 at the beginning of the Grand Order, so with a nod to obvious handwaving time shenanigans, I play her as 18/19 by default.
* Magicwise, she's only a first-generation magus (what little she knows and is capable of is stuff she's learned at Chaldea), and obviously a bad one at that. This doesn't particularly bother her, except to be occasionally annoying when someone wants to make a big show of their superiority. She's much more comfortable in the modern technological world.
* She does have some stupidly good luck more often than not. Call it intuition or actual luck, she's used to having her hunches play out exactly as she hopes they will, even if not immediately.
* I'm frankly just rolling (ha ha, get it) with her having every currently-available Servant in Chaldea just for ease of her recognizing and communicating with the ones she encounters. Other than threads deliberately meant to break the fourth wall, though, any jokes about game mechanics stem from her being someone who did/does play mobage on her own and understanding how much the summoning system corresponds to gacha rolls.
* Despite fate's origins as an eroge, and the knowledge and understanding that it could make it easier for her if she performed that sort of mana transfer (I assume that she got that talk from Da Vinci and Roman, the latter under some protest), I will play fresh-from-canon Ritsuka as NOT having slept with any of her Servants. Since Chaldea itself can provide the mana necessary, she's too wary of showing any sort of favoritism, especially among those that are bad at taking "no" for an answer. She's basically a useless bisexual by choice, because it's not even that she's disinterested, she just knows that if she makes the decision to do so, she's going to have to be very careful, because even if only one or two Servants care, those one or two are worrisome enough that she can't take them lightly. (Looking at you, Kiyohime.)
* She is still a teenager of the internet age, though. She's done research. And also that's why rp continuity exists.
* A general scar reference. I assume that Ritsuka has definitely picked up scars during her time as Chaldea's Master, which are probably not as many as she COULD have due to Servants with healing abilities and high-tech medical equipment, but they're present and can be very obvious. Therefore, the Mystic Codes she wears have a mild glamor effect that allows her to appear completely unmarked. This is mostly to avoid having to answer questions about why a young girl is that battered, and also a little bit of a nod to vanity.
* For the record, my favorite ships are with Kadoc, Spoiler1 [Goetia], Spoiler2 [Solomon] but I'm open and interested in all! Obviously some are easier to assume than others, but I'm interested in everything really. /o/ I am very open to playing both ships and gen.
* The summoning incantation Ritsuka specifically uses (as translated in Lostbelt 1) is as follows:
My will creates your body, and your sword creates my destiny. If you heed the Grail's call, and abide by this will and reason, then answer me.
I hearby swear.
I embody all that is good in the world.
I shall defeat all that is evil in the world.
Seventh Heaven clad in the three words of power! Come forth from the circle of binding, Guardian of the Scales!
Which seems to be a streamlined version of the versions used in other installments of the franchise. In the (likely rare) event where she has to use it in rp, I'll probably riff off this, or copy it wholesale.
* The Shimousa manga says that Ritsuka was part of the volleyball club in school. I'd say she's fairly fit, but not to the level of jock or sports anime. Other hobbies that might be referenced would be karaoke (she'd be a decent singer if she put any practice into it) and camping.
* According to the Lostbelt 3 intro, the names of the remaining staff within Chaldea are: Meunière, Kawata, Octavia, Tomlin, Chin, Cayenne, Elron, and Marcus.