History Characters / FateGrandOrderOberon

'''Alignment:''' ChaoticEvil\\

The king of the fairies debuts as the first Pretender, offering his allies a level of power beyond their wildest dreams... and the last dreams they'll ever have. He carries two unique passive skills; the first is A Midsummer Night's Dream EX, granting him immunity to all mental debuffs and Curse debuffs while his second passive Anti-Human Order D increases the party's debuff success rate by 10% against all enemies save for Foreigners, but also throws a huge middle finger to Merlin by reducing his buff success rate by 20% if the two are in the same party. His first skill, Curtain of the Night EX, charges the party's NP gauge by 20% and also buffs their NP damage. His second skill, Morning Lark EX, greatly charges a selected ally's NP gauge and generates critical stars, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that decreases their NP gauge by 20% at the end of their turn. His third skill, End of the Dream EX, greatly boosts a selected ally's Buster performance, and massively amplifies any existing NP damage buffs they have, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that completely and permanently shuts them down at the end of their turn, removing all of their buffs, inflicting the Eternal Sleep debuff, and forces them to be targeted by the enemy. His Noble Phantasm, "'''Wry Rhyme Goodfellow - A Tale of a Dream Held Over the Distance'''"[[labelnote:note]]Ascension 1 and 2[[/labelnote]]/"'''Lie Like Vortigern - Eye of a Dream that Falls to the Distance'''"[[labelnote:note]]Ascension 3 only[[/labelnote]], is an [=AoE=] Buster attack that removes the enemies' offensive buffs before dealing greatly increased damage to Lawful enemies in particular. However, any enemy that survives will be put to sleep and be granted an Invincibility buff, preventing them from attacking or being attacked.\\\

The king of the fairies debuts as the first Pretender, offering his allies a level of power beyond their wildest dreams... and the last dreams they'll ever have. He carries two unique passive skills; the first is A Midsummer Night's Dream EX, granting him immunity to all mental debuffs and Curse debuffs while his second passive Anti-Human Order D increases the party's debuff success rate by 10% against all enemies save for Foreigners, but also throws a huge middle finger to Merlin by reducing his buff success rate by 20% if the two are in the same party. His first skill, Curtain of the Night EX, charges the party's NP gauge by 20% and also buffs their NP damage. His second skill, Morning Lark EX, greatly charges a selected ally's NP gauge and generates critical stars, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that decreases their NP gauge by 20% at the end of their turn. His third skill, End of the Dream EX, greatly boosts a selected ally's Buster performance, and massively amplifies any existing NP damage buffs they have, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that completely and permanently shuts them down at the end of their turn, removing all of their buffs, inflicting the Eternal Sleep debuff, and forces them to be targeted by the enemy. His Noble Phantasm, "'''Wry Rhyme Goodfellow: A Tale of a Dream Held Over the Distance'''"[[labelnote:note]]Ascension 1 and 2[[/labelnote]]/"'''Lie Like Vortigern: Eye of a Dream that Falls to the Distance'''"[[labelnote:note]]Ascension 3 only[[/labelnote]], is an [=AoE=] Buster attack that removes the enemies' offensive buffs before dealing greatly increased damage to Lawful enemies in particular. However, any enemy that survives will be put to sleep and be granted an Invincibility buff, preventing them from attacking or being attacked.\\\

The king of the fairies debuts as the first Pretender, offering his allies a level of power beyond their wildest dreams... and the last dreams they'll ever have. He carries two unique passive skills; the first is A Midsummer Night's Dream EX, granting him immunity to all mental debuffs and Curse debuffs while his second passive Anti-Human Order D increases the party's debuff success rate by 10% against all enemies save for Foreigners, but also throws a huge middle finger to Merlin by reducing his buff success rate by 20% if the two are in the same party. His first skill, Curtain of the Night EX, charges the party's NP gauge by 20% and also buffs their NP damage. His second skill, Morning Lark EX, greatly charges a selected ally's NP gauge and generates critical stars, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that decreases their NP gauge by 20% at the end of their turn. His third skill, End of the Dream EX, greatly boosts a selected ally's Buster performance, and massively amplifies any existing NP damage buffs they have, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that completely and permanently shuts them down at the end of their turn, removing all of their buffs, inflicting the Eternal Sleep debuff, and forces them to be targeted by the enemy. His Noble Phantasm, Wry Rhyme Goodfellow/Lie Like Vortigern, is an [=AoE=] Buster attack that removes the enemies' offensive buffs before dealing greatly increased damage to Lawful enemies in particular. However, any enemy that survives will be put to sleep and be granted an Invincibility buff, preventing them from attacking or being attacked.\\\

''Unplayable and Arcade Exclusive:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderUnplayable Unplayable]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeasts Beasts]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderBeastI Beast I]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArcadeExclusive Arcade Exclusive]]\\
''Other Notable Characters:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderChaldeaSecurityOrganization Chaldea Security Organization]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderProtagonist Protagonist]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderMashKyrielight Mash Kyrielight]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderVillains Villains]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderObserverOnTimelessTempleVillains Observer on Timeless Temple Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEpicOfRemnantVillains Epic of Remnant Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderCosmosInTheLostbeltVillains Cosmos in the Lostbelt Villains]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderCrypters Crypters]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderForeignGodAndForces Foreign God and Forces]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLostbeltKings Lostbelt Kings]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderEventVillains Event Villains]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderInterludeVillains Interlude Villains]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderOtherCharacters Other Characters]] ]]-]]]

''Extra Classes:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderRulers Rulers]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderAvengers Avengers]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderMoonCancers Moon Cancers]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderAlterEgos Alter Egos]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderForeigners Foreigners]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderPretenders Pretenders]] ('''Oberon''')\\

* BigBadFriend: During several forced choice sections in ''Avalon le Fae'' with him, the player can choose dialogues which imply that they trust him. While he eventually genuinely cared for both the protagonist and Altria Caster, he still went out of his way to destroy Fairy Britain and then the Proper Human History.

'''First appearance:''' ''Fate/Grand Order'' (Oberon), ''Garden of Avalon'' (Vortigern)\\

** His final fate after his defeat by Chaldea and Altria Avalon: he's weakened enough that he ends up falling off the Storm Border into the endless tunnels that makes up the Hollow Worm. The keyword being ''endless''; Oberon will never, '''EVER''', hit the bottom. He is unable to escape from it either. Despite the sheer horror of it all, Oberon himself is okay with his predicament, since he DID fulfill his purpose of destroying Faerie Britain in the end. He's only saddened when he realizes that he won't be able to see PHH for himself, noting that its sky is actually rather beautiful.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Why did Oberon have the Fang Clan wipe out the Wing Clan, leaving Muryan as its sole survivor? As he chillingly tells Muryan after running her through with his fist:
---> ''"I really didn't have a reason. I was just having a bad day"''.

* ConfusionFu: According to the ''Storm Border'''s analysis of his Spirit Origin as Oberon, his class constantly changes by the second which is [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration reflected each time he's used as story support]] in Lostbelt 6, including Caster, Archer, and Rider. His class reveal settles this by revealing that he's actually ''none'' of them (including his default 'Ruler' class) and is a completely new class, Pretender.

* HumanoidAbomination: His Servant form as Oberon looks ordinary on the surface, but the ''Storm Border'''s analysis reveals just how strange he really is. His Spirit Origin is in a state of constantly fluctuation, doesn't belong to Proper Human History, and is neither human nor faerie nor any sort of life-form previously encountered though Saber Altria Alter firmly identifies him as draconic in nature. As Da Vinci puts it, "he's an invisible man who's there and not there at the same time," just like how Vortigern of Proper Human History was "a hole in the world". It's also implied that he's nothing more than a terminal housing the mind of the Insect of the Abyss, and both of them are two halves of the same being.

** Lostbelt No. 7 both proves and disapproves his belief that the audience doesn't care about the stories. [[spoiler:Chaldea always remembered the Lostbelts they destroyed and tell the Deinos about their journeys complete with philosophical debates. However, there ''are'' people who want the Lostbelts gone now that they've served their purpose: Marisbury and CHALDEAS, who created the Lostbelts so they could be destroyed for the sake of their plan.]]

''Three Knight Classes:'' [[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabers Sabers]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabersAToF A-F]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabersGToM G-M]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderSabersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchers Archers]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchersAToC A-C]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchersDToM D-M]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderArchersNToZ N-Z]]) | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancers Lancers]] ([[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancersAToF A-F]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancersGToM G-M]] | [[Characters/FateGrandOrderLancersNToZ N-Z]])\\

All that was described above are all but lies when it comes to this Oberon. He is not a Servant from Proper Human History, but a doomsday device, created by the Lostbelt Britain consumed by Sefar, to destroy Faerie Britain out of disgust for its inhabitants. As the will of the isle personified, he naturally is named Vortigern, a name shared with the uncle of King Arthur, the first incarnated will of Britain and personification of the white dragon who tried to reject the incoming Age of Man in Proper Human History. He was first born 1,000 years ago as the King of Moss when he tried to bring an end to the land of fairies in the Great Calamity, but was slain after a decades-long war. He was reborn during the present day in the Autumn Forest of Wales, where the outsider fairies claimed him as their king, making him "Oberon".\\\

* {{Irony}}: In Proper Human History Vortigern was the embodiment of Britain's will who wanted a world dominated by Mystery and fought to keep the Age of Man from happening. In the Lostbelt, Oberon Vortigern seeks to destroy Faerie Britain, which is exactly the kind of world the other Vortigern wanted.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Honeydew melons, as revealed in one of his My Room lines. Like everything else about him, it's not clear whether he actually likes it, since Altria Caster in her materials comment towards him accuses him of constantly ordering them simply to piss off everyone in the cafeteria by claiming that they're "rare and expensive".

All that was described above are all but lies when it comes to this Oberon. He is not a Servant from Proper Human History, but a doomsday device, created by the Lostbelt Britain consumed by Sefar, to destroy Faerie Britain out of disgust for its inhabitants. As the will of the isle personified, he naturally is named Vortigern, a name shared with the uncle of King Arthur, the first incarnated will of Britain and personification of the white dragon who tried to reject the incoming Age of Man in Proper Human History. He was first born 1,000 years ago as the King of Mors when he tried to bring an end to the land of fairies in the Great Calamity, but was slain after a decades-long war. He was reborn during the present day in the Autumn Forest of Wales, where the outsider fairies claimed him as their king, making him "Oberon".\\\

* ArchEnemy: Much like how Proper Human History Vortigern considers Altria as his greatest obstacle in preserving the Age of Gods and killing the humans of Britain, this Vortigern regards Morgan, who tries to preserve Faerie Britain against the wishes of the island itself, as his enemy, especially during his time as King of the Mors. Likewise, Morgan also sees him as a personal threat, and expresses her displeasure to him in a voice line. That being said, see ItsPersonal below.

** After the Welsh forest is burnt down, he takes off by himself after one of the surviving enemy commanders. The commander is attacked by a dark corruptive substance that he finds familiarity with by citing the Mors Wars and that it's something Morgan would be familiar with before being consumed by it. As it turns out, Vortigern was summoned once before into the Lostbelt as the Great Calamity of 1000 AD, the King of the Mors that attempted to destroy Faerie Britain with an army of such monsters in the same-named wars.

* HeinzHybrid: Goredolf states Proper Human History Vortigern is a Fae embodiment of Britain's will (specifically to preserve its Mysteries and destroy its humans); he is also human in flesh and blood who then transforms into a dragon at the end of his life. ''This'' Vortigern is also an incarnation of Britain's will (specifically to destroy the Faeries and their sins), a dragon and a Faerie at once; but it's unclear if he has been a Faerie since the moment he is summoned into Faerie Britain as the Great Calamity King of the Mors, or if he only becomes one after he is resummoned in Servant format.

* ItsPersonal: Zigzagged regarding his relationship with Morgan. Ever since his first incarnation as King of the Mors, Vortigern did everything he could to kill her and undo everything she had ever done by destroying Faerie Britain, and there is no denying he has a degree of hatred toward her, which is mutual on Morgan's part. However, upon his Third Ascension, he claims the reason he didn't watch Morgan's death in the Lostbelt is because he acknowledges he was only born as a response to Morgan's actions in preserving Faerie Britain, and he doesn't hate "the picture book she drew" - as in, he doesn't hate the story she has created.

** His profile notes he has been incarnated three times, with his first life as the King of Mors and his third and current life as Oberon. Nothing is spoken about his second incarnation.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Twofold. When first summoned into the Lostbelt as King of the Mors, Vortigern was able to corrupt an untold amount of Faeries into Mors, enough to be considered a Great Calamity, and fought Morgan’s forces in a war with them. Then once Cernunnos is defeated and he realizes his nature as Insect of the Abyss, he takes this up a couple notches by being able to suck in everything (up to and including the ''entire planet'') into the pit Cernunnos was sleeping in.

* PurposeDrivenImmortality: As long as Morgan tries to save the land, Britain will keep fighting back and incarnating its will to destroy it. He's already died once before as the King of Mors to Woodwose, but was revived as Oberon.

* ShapingYourAttacks: Several of his projectiles decay into a suspiciously dark-looking mud-like substance after they connect with the target. It's foreshadowing how he was the King of the Mors by having a more refined version of their sludge attacks.

* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: This man first materialized into Faerie Britain as Vortigern, started the Great Calamity of 1000 AD as the King of the Mors, was reincarnated in a Servant format modeled after Oberon, pretended to be "Merlin" in order to teach Altria Caster magic, is identified by Melusine as the White Dragon of Britain, and finally became the last of the Great Calamities as the Insect of the Abyss. So in total he has ''[[ExaggeratedTrope six different aliases]]'' as just one character. He's actually pretty proud of having a ton of names and titles to go by.

* OmnicidalManiac: A step up actually from Proper Human History Vortigern in the ''Garden of Avalon'' novel, who sought simply to [[KillEmAll wipe out mankind]] to ensure a world dominated by Mystery; in the time Vortigern spent undermining the Lostbelt, seeking to destroy it so he could escape, he decided to elevate his goal to simply annihilating '''''ALL''''' of Proper Human History, which includes the world.

The king of the fairies debuts as the first Pretender, offering Buster Servants a level of power beyond their wildest dreams... and the last dreams they'll ever have. He carries two unique passive skills; the first is A Midsummer Night's Dream EX, granting him immunity to all mental debuffs and Curse debuffs while his second passive Anti-Human Order D increases the party's debuff success rate by 10% against all enemies save for Foreigners, but also throws a huge middle finger to Merlin by reducing his buff success rate by 20% if the two are in the same party. His first skill, Curtain of the Night EX, charges the party's NP gauge by 20% and also buffs their NP damage. His second skill, Morning Lark EX, greatly charges a selected ally's NP gauge and generates critical stars, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that decreases their NP gauge by 20% at the end of their turn. His third skill, End of the Dream EX, greatly boosts a selected ally's Buster performance, and massively amplifies any existing NP damage buffs they have, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that completely and permanently shuts them down at the end of their turn, removing all of their buffs, inflicting the Eternal Sleep debuff, and forces them to be targeted by the enemy. His Noble Phantasm, Wry Rhyme Goodfellow/Lie Like Vortigern, is an [=AoE=] Buster attack that removes the enemies' offensive buffs before dealing greatly increased damage to Lawful enemies in particular. However, any enemy that survives will be put to sleep and be granted an Invincibility buff, preventing them from attacking or being attacked.\\\

The king of the fairies debuts as the first Pretender, offering Buster Servants a level of support beyond their wildest dreams... and their last. He carries two unique passive skills; the first is A Midsummer Night's Dream EX, granting him immunity to all mental debuffs and Curse debuffs while his second passive Anti-Human Order D increases the party's debuff success rate by 10% against all enemies save for Foreigners, but also throws a huge middle finger to Merlin by reducing his buff success rate by 20% if the two are in the same party. His first skill, Curtain of the Night EX, charges the party's NP gauge by 20% and also buffs their NP damage. His second skill, Morning Lark EX, greatly charges a selected ally's NP gauge and generates critical stars, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that decreases their NP gauge by 20% at the end of their turn. His third skill, End of the Dream EX, greatly boosts a selected ally's Buster performance, and massively amplifies any existing NP damage buffs they have, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that completely and permanently shuts them down at the end of their turn, removing all of their buffs, inflicting the Eternal Sleep debuff, and forces them to be targeted by the enemy. His Noble Phantasm, Wry Rhyme Goodfellow/Lie Like Vortigern, is an [=AoE=] Buster attack that removes the enemies' offensive buffs before dealing greatly increased damage to Lawful enemies in particular. However, any enemy that survives will be put to sleep and be granted an Invincibility buff, preventing them from attacking or being attacked.\\\

* ConMan: Oberon has a reputation in Fairy Britain for borrowing money and not returning it. He brought millions in counterfeit money to an auction. This behavior led to his reputation as the King of Debts in Chaldea, in which the Queen of Sheba reveals in her interlude that he owes money to Beni-enma, Vlad III, Europa, Ishtar, Miss Crane, Nightingale, Kama, Meuneire and Karna. Shakespeare on the other hand faked the [=IOU=] just to screw with him.

* SuddenSoundtrackStop: Upon finishing his Ascension Quest to unlock his third and final Ascensions , all music completely stops and the usual victory fanfare for a completed battle will not play. Nor will any background music play for the first time he is Ascended into his Oberon Vortigern form. Nasu stated this was deliberate on his blog.

The king of the fairies debuts as the first Pretender, offering Buster Servants a level of support beyond their wildest dreams... and their last. He carries two unique passive skills; the first is A Midsummer Night's Dream EX, granting him immunity to all mental debuffs and Curse debuffs while his second passive Anti-Human Order D increases the party's debuff success rate by 10% against all enemies save for Foreigners, but also throws a huge middle finger to Merlin by reducing his buff success rate by 20% if the two are put together. His first skill, Curtain of the Night EX, charges the party's NP gauge by 20% and also buffs their NP damage. His second skill, Morning Lark EX, greatly charges a selected ally's NP gauge and generates critical stars, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that decreases their NP gauge by 20% at the end of their turn. His third skill, End of the Dream EX, greatly boosts a selected ally's Buster performance, and massively amplifies any existing NP damage buffs they have, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that completely and permanently shuts them down at the end of their turn, removing all of their buffs, inflicting the Eternal Sleep debuff, and forces them to be targeted by the enemy. His Noble Phantasm, Wry Rhyme Goodfellow/Lie Like Vortigern, is an [=AoE=] Buster attack that removes the enemies' offensive buffs before dealing greatly increased damage to Lawful enemies in particular. However, any enemy that survives will be put to sleep and be granted an Invincibility buff, preventing them from attacking or being attacked.\\\

* SitcomArchNemesis: While all Pretenders have some sort of antagonistic relationship with Casters, Oberon specifically has this with Shakespeare; as heard in his My Room line, Oberon attempted to poison Shakespeare by writing a heartfelt letter but laced the wax seal and the writing ink with poison (or so he claims). Shakespeare returns the favor in The Queen of Sheba's second interlude by faking his [=IOU=] and allowed her to take his flesh, clothes, hair and wings with a ''Theatre/TheMerchantofVenice'' reference, much to Oberon's chagrin.

* SitcomArchNemesis: While all Pretenders have some sort of antagonistic relationship with Casters, Oberon specifically has this with Shakespeare; as heard in his My Room line, Oberon attempted to poison Shakespeare by writing a heartfelt letter but laced the wax seal and the writing ink with poison (or so he claims). Shakespeare returns the favor in The Queen of Sheba's second interlude by faking his [=IOU=] and allowed her to take his flesh, clothes, hair and wings with a ''Literature/TheMerchantofVenice'' reference, much to Oberon's chagrin.

The king of the fairies debuts as the first Pretender, offering Buster Servants a level of support beyond their wildest dreams... and their last. He carries the unique passive skill A Midsummer Night's Dream EX, granting him immunity to all mental debuffs and Curse debuffs. His first skill, Curtain of the Night EX, charges the party's NP gauge by 20% and also buffs their NP damage. His second skill, Morning Lark EX, greatly charges a selected ally's NP gauge and generates critical stars, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that decreases their NP gauge by 20% at the end of their turn. His third skill, End of the Dream EX, greatly boosts a selected ally's Buster performance, and massively amplifies any existing NP damage buffs they have, but inflicts a delayed and unremovable debuff that completely and permanently shuts them down at the end of their turn, removing all of their buffs, inflicting the Eternal Sleep debuff, and forces them to be targeted by the enemy. His Noble Phantasm, Wry Rhyme Goodfellow/Lie Like Vortigern, is an [=AoE=] Buster attack that removes the enemies' offensive buffs before dealing greatly increased damage to Lawful enemies in particular. However, any enemy that survives will be put to sleep and be granted an Invincibility buff, preventing them from attacking or being attacked.\\\

-->''"...What's this? Why did it turn out like this…? Ah, right. Until Human Order is stabilized, lies will come through as lies, or something like that? *sigh*… Alright, I give up. You're that kind of human. My name's Oberon. Since you called me, I'll give you a hand. Although from the bottom of my heart, it feels awful."''

** The Queen of Sheba's 2nd Interlude reveals that the moment he came into Chaldea, he quickly became the King of Debts, owing money to Beni-enma, Vlad III, Europa, Ishtar, Miss Crane, Nightingale, Kama, Meuniere and Karna. We don't know how he managed to get them to lend him money (especially the likes of Ishtar, Kama and Meuniere), but unlike fellow debtor Izou, we never got to know what he did with his money.

* AscendedMeme: His SleepModeSize is both a CallBack to the April Fools' Day card art of Queen Medb (who has a connection to fairies) and the classic meme of [[https://imgur.com/a/tx7yy putting other Servants in her comfy looking cloak.]]

* TheDitz: By his own admission, he becomes less intelligent when in his SleepModeSize. A frustrated Da Vinci agrees with this.

* NoodleIncident: His profile notes he has been incarnated three times, with his first life as the King of Mors and his third and current life as Oberon. Nothing is spoken about his second incarnation.

* SleepModeSize: He can shrink down to the size of a moth, represented in his art as a chibi version. He calls this his "Robin Goodfellow" form. His Extra Attack animation shows that he can still fight while in this form. While he uses this form to fly fast enough to cover the entirety of Faerie Britain in 2 days, it also turns him into a slight airhead.