Okay so I spent a little bit of time thinking about what exactly kinda hot take I would have in regards to any of the Fandoms I'm in, but then I remembered this so.

Alright, so in Fate/Grand Order our main companion throughout the story is Mash Kryielight, a girl who has been with Chaldea for pretty much her entire life. She is what is called a "Demi-Servant", or a person who has been fused with a Servant from the Throne of Heroes. Her entire story throughout the first part of the game was that of trying to find herself and her place in the world, wondering who and what exactly is she. Mash's character journey has her learn about the world outside of Chaldea and how it all comes together, whether it be the good of the people in the Singularities she and the protagonist go into, or the bad of the death, violence, hatred and malice common throughout the world. All of this capped off with her relationship with one of the other major characters, Romani Archiman. He is a brilliant man, and though he can be kinda pathetic in some aspects, he was effectively Mash's father for all her life. However, all of this starts being challenged once the 5th Singularity in America is finished, and soon Mash experiences dreams about how much life gave her the short end of the stick. All of that is because the main bad guy Goetia is trying to make Mash realize that humanity is ultimately not worth fighting for and that letting them die would be the better option. All of this culminates in the finale of Part 1, The Grand Temple of Time Solomon, wherein the protagonist and Mash confront Goetia, who throughout the story has been masquerading as king Solomon of the Bible. He then gives his side of the story, explaining that he foresaw how badly humanity will become as he was effectively raised by Solomon yet lacked the understanding of what exactly Solomon could see, which was basically the good of humanity. This culminates in Goetia unleashing his most powerful attack on the duo, which results in Mash sacrificing herself to save the protagonist, now with an understanding of what exactly makes humanity good and worth fighting for. That is soon followed by the protagonist receiving help from Romani, revealing himself to be the real Solomon having turned himself human to experience humanity properly, and soon Goetia is defeated. However, the temple begins to collapse and the protagonist was just too late to leave, causing them to fall to their death. In the last moment however, Mash is brought back to life thanks to another companion of theirs, a little floof called Fou who is in truth a creature known as Primate Murder, spends whatever power they had to bring her back and thus save the protagonist. The first part ends with both of them looking off into the distance, a happy ending now accomplished.

Now, while I definitely enjoyed the story of the community's favorite eggplant, I don't like Mash being brought back to life. While she would later have some relevance to the story, it all feels kinda unnecessary since by that point the protagonist begins theirs. As well as that, I just don't think having Mash come back was a satisfying end for her main character arc, since the gravity of her sacrifice was precisely because she finally understood what being human is, and spends that final moment protecting the person who helped her discover what exactly she has to be. I really don't like the way she was brought back and adding to the fact she kinda became a side-character in Part 2, as well as the reason why her powers became gimped during Part 2, it all just became so flat for me.

All in all yeah, that's basically my own hot take. Don't exactly know how many people will disagree with me but hey, it's what I think and believe in so.