History Characters / FateGrandOrderRidersAToF

* BuxomBeautyStandard: She has a busty figure, which is always emphasized by the CleavageWindow in her outfits. It's implied both Mash and Dr. Roman are at awe at her figure when they meet her for the first time, especially since they were expecting her to be a male in the first place.

* StraightManAndWiseGuy: In "Pseudo-Singularity II: Subterranean World of Folklore, Agartha", Astolfo is the wise guy to d'Eon's StraightMan as the pair are the master's Chaldean-native escorts. Astolfo will be playing with Fou, flirting with the master, or cracking jokes while d'Eon remains professional and diligent as a bodyguard.

[[folder:Constantine XI]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinichirouKamio

->''"Servant, Rider... Constantine XI. He who was the last emperor of the great and holy Rome. I will give all that I possess to fulfill your wishes."''

The last emperor of the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire, the Eastern Roman Empire. Famous for holding out against a massive Ottoman army in a prolonged siege of Constantinople that brought the end of the Byzantine Empire, Constantine died defending the city to the best of his ability, chosing to go down with the city rather than flee. \\\

He debuted in the "15 Bespectacled Intellectuals" event as an ally. He is a major antagonist for his main story appearance in "Parting Memory Manifestation Realms, Traum" by serving as the leader of the Restoration Faction.

* AchillesHeel: The threefold walls of Constantinople might be tough and durable, but the same cannot be said about Constantine. Legend has it that the city fell on account of an unlocked gate, creating a conceptual weakness in Theodosios Constantinos if one knows where to look for it. An opening the size of a pinhole, but an opening nonetheless. In theory, if an attack is accurate enough, it can fly through this weakness and snipe Constantine and thus ignore the entire Noble Phantasm. [[spoiler:And unfortunately for Constantine, Tametomo's arrows are like laser-guided ballistic missiles]].
* AnachronismStew: His NP recreates the siege on Constantinople where he died, with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia Hagia Sophia]] visible in the background. When Constantine was first released, the building included minarets, which were of course only added by the Muslim Ottomans ''after'' the siege. This mistake was quickly patched out.
* AncestralName: He is named after the first Byzantine emperor, Constantine the Great. Coincidentally or not, the fake name he used in the "15 Bespectacled Intellectuals" event is also that of the founder of the Palaiologos family, Michael VIII.
* BadassInANiceSuit: His First Ascension has him wearing a surprisingly-modern suit. While this suit makes him look more casual when he is first introduced, his sprites show that even his knights and infantrymen are wearing suits instead of armor.
* BequeathedPower: Constantine, as the final sovereign of a nearly irrelevant empire, has a weaker variation of Imperial Privilege called Cessation Privilege. It emulates fewer outside skills and is more expensive to use than Imperial Privilege, but it can be passed on to other fighters like a battlefield promotion when Constantine dies.
* ChainPain: One of his Buster animations has him calling the chain of Golden Horn, which was used to block unwanted ships from entering and in turn prevent naval attacks towards Constantinople, that spiral through the opponent.
* CripplingOverspecialization: His niche is to support Roman allies, and without it, it makes him a MasterOfNone. He's a StoneWall support for Roman Servants, with his NP giving a sizable damage reduction buff to Roman Servants as an example. Since Roman Servants are relatively niche in terms of buffing or support, unless the player has Romulus=Quirinus to give everyone the Roman trait, a good chunk of Constantine's skills go from pretty strong to rather mediocre.
* DePower: During the "15 Bespectacled Intellectuals" event he explains that while he is a Servant, him killing one of the invisible enemies has robbed him from all of his Servant qualifications. The reason why he is hiding is name is because he is too embarrassed to give out his True Name when he can do nothing to help.
* DeterminedDefeatist: His Bond 2 profile comments on the contradiction of his mindset, which seems to treat resignation as a virtue but still determines to "fight them with all that I possess". In life, he was born into a dwindling empire, ascended the throne when Byzantine was already in such a life-and-death crisis that it could hardly be called an empire anymore, and was hopelessly outmatched in numbers and firepower by the Ottomans during UsefulNotes/TheFallOfConstantinople, yet he still did everything in his power to protect his homeland, up to his very last breath.
-->''"We will perish", "we will lose". He was convinced of this, yet "even so, we have to fight with all that we possess."''
* {{Foreshadowing}}: As he promises, he gives out some hints to who he actually is, even if he doesn't mean it.
** In the flashforward at the beginning of the event, he almost calls himself a "ruler of a dead kingdom", referring to how he was the last of the Byzantine Emperors, amplified by how the Empire was already crumbling when he gained the crown.
** When he first introduces himself as "Michael", he nearly introduces himself by the Aramaic pronunciation ("Mikhail"), before correcting to the Anglo pronunciation ("Mycull"), hinting at his Eastern European origins.
** Merlin accidentally calls him "Co-" before stopping himself from giving out his name.
** He comments at the very end of the event that he may or may not be an ally when they meet again if they end up fighting for different reasons. He opposes Chaldea in his main story appearance because he wishes to support Joan and make her a proper Pope in history, which would require interfering with human history, the antithesis of Chaldea's goals.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Similar to Bartholomew Roberts, he showed up in an event before his official debut as a playable Servant.
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: He gives your party set of glasses in the 2022 White Day Event that allow you to see the invisible enemies roaming the Singularity and make you more intelligent, with him also wearing them.
* KingBobTheNth: He is the ruler of the Roman Empire (Western and Eastern/Byzantine) with the name of "Constantine" who is enumerated as the eleventh.
* LastStand: During the UsefulNotes/TheFallOfConstantinople where the Roman Empire finally collapsed under the Ottoman's, Constantine chose to go out with a fight along with the survivors that were still in the city, both Greek and foreigners. When the invading Ottomans finally breached the city he led the remaining troops in one last charge against them. This was turned into his Noble Phantasm Theodosius Constantinos which increases his Buster Card, applies invincible for himself, increases the part's defense and if they are Roman trait a Damage Cut of 5000 for one turn. [[spoiler:He muses that he's dying the same way as a Servant as he did in life, using the last of his life after he's mortally wounded by Tametomo to buy time for Pope Johanna to escape to Chaldea.]]
* LogicalWeakness: Theodosios Constantinos is mighty, but it is not invincible due to the fact that Constantinople fell in the end. [[spoiler:Charlemagne overcomes it with brute force using Joyeuse Ordre, while Tametomo ignores its walls entirely and goes straight for its AchillesHeel.]]
* MasterOfNone: Constantine's kit is rather undertuned for his rarity. The majority of his power only comes through with Roman allies, which are rather rare and generally not worth building around without Romulus=Quirinus's assistance. His other main problem is that his skillset is unfocused to the point where it isn't sure whether Constantine wants to tank a hit or die for his allies. While his buffs do apply to himself and allow him to be used as a decent solo servant, there are better options.
* MrSmith: "Michael" is not his True Name, he is WithholdingTheirName and just picked the name on the spot.
* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with his third skill "Cessation Privilege". Should Constantine die within three turns of activating said skill, he gives the character in the last spot a slew of buffs, seemingly meant to ensure that when he dies, he provides a last minute boost to someone so they can finish the fight.
* MyGreatestFailure: He considers the fall of his Empire to be this. In his quotes towards other Servants with the Roman traits, he asks forgiveness for his sins.
* PastimesProvePersonality: He likes chess and shogi, which shows his penchant for strategy as an emperor who [[FrontlineGeneral fought on the front line]] and that he is an intellectual just like how his profile describes him.
* PowerMakesYourHairGrow: His hair noticeably gets longer from his Third Ascension onwards.
* ReligiousBruiser: He is incredibly honored to fight alongside the Saint Servants, like Georgios and Martha, and asks for Jeanne d'Arc to join him in prayer. His profile mentions how the influence of his Noble Phantasm is affected by the profoundity of faith, and his Bond 3 line has him discuss the meaning of prayer.
* SituationalSword: His second skill and Noble Phantasm has additional effects that only get applied to Servants with the Roman trait. Fortunately for Constantine, Romulus=Quirinus's Noble Phantasm applies the Roman-trait to allies, meaning that he can theoretically apply the effects to anyone.
* StoneWall: His skills do offer more than a few damage boosts, but between his high HP stat, taunt, and heavy defensive bonuses, he's clearly more intended to serve as a tank, especially with Roman specific defensive boosts.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Tametomo uses his Noble Phantasm to snipe down Pope Johanna behind Theodosios Constantinos, but Constantine pushes her aside and takes the attack instead.]]
* TheStrategist: Once he reveals his true name in the White Day event, "Michael" contributes by helping to formulate a plan to take out the invisible enemies.
* SwordBeam: Not only can he change his sword with mana, but he can shoot it out from the flat side of it like a reflection.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: A variation of Traum's battle themes plays when he uses his Noble Phantasm, both in gameplay and in the story.
* TheUnfought: Despite opposing Chaldea in the Traum Singularity, he is not fought, as he dies TakingTheBullet from an attack aimed at Joan.
* UnusualHalo: He has diamond-shaped metal fragments floating above his head in a halo formation in his Third Ascension, making him look like he is blessed by God.
* VocalDissonance: That deep voice isn't something you would expect from a fellow like him.
* WhiteStallion: He rides on a white horse, befitting of his title as the Marble Emperor. While his profile doesn't make note of the horse, a real life UrbanLegend claims that its hoofs left permanent marks on a pillar in the Agia Sofia.
* WithholdingTheirName: During the "15 Bespectacled Intellectuals" event he doesn't want to give out his True Name when you first meet him as he cannot function as a Servant, only revealing it when the situation with the Invisible Enemies become dire enough where he has to tell what they stole from him.

[[folder:Dobrynya Nikitich]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MayuMineda

->''"I’m Rider. Name is Dobrynya Nikitich. Call me whatever you like, whether it's Dobrynya or Nikitich. By the way, I was curious...... what kind of job is Rider?"''

A bogatyr who is told in various Russian bylina. Born unto a noble family, Dobrynya Nikitich is a warrior who went to fulfill many tasks in behalf of the Sovereign of the Sun Vladimir, riding on his horse Burko. His most famous exploit is him slaying the horrifying three-headed dragon known as Zmei Gorynych. While he did not win a dame for slaying the beast, he would later engage in battle with the giantess Nastasia and marry her after suffering defeat.\\\

...As the stories told, Dobrynya was a man, but here in Chaldea Nikitich has manifested as a woman akin to a beastwoman. She is a headstrong warrior who insists that she can do almost anything and will rush into action once she has decided what she must do. But she is not one to talk about her tales or her fiance in strict terms, so how is she a woman now is a mystery.\\\

She made her debut in the Tunguska Sanctuary event.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: She does not have the Hominidae trait. The only people who don't are usually gods, programs, robots, oni, fairy, or such. [[spoiler:Since she's actually the giantess Nastasia, it's confirmed she was never human in the first place. This is what allows her to bypass the Tunguska Sanctuary's anti-human effect whereas Taigong Wang had to use his sage arts to achieve the same thing.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: Their exact identity isn't clear, but they seem to be a CompositeCharacter of Historical Dobrynya, their wife (who had giant blood), their horse whose magic keeps whoever rides it young and healthy, and the dragon Zmei Gorynych through his blood. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that she is indeed Dobrynya's wife Nastasia using his name.]]
* AuthorAppeal: Robi-na has a reputation of drawing plenty of art of Mithra characters from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI''. So of course the character they end up drawing is a CatGirl of sort.
* BadassBoast: Claims that if she had been summoned into the Russian Lostbelt, she could have taken down ''Ivan the Terrible'' by herself, albeit with great difficulty.
* BreathWeapon: For her Noble Phantasm she summons Zmei Gorynych to spew blue flames from it's three heads to her enemies.
* CatchPhrase: She likes to remind people that she can do almost anything.
* CatGirl: She possesses cat ears and a long, white tail. When asked about it, she talks about how Nastasia was a giant who was more beast than a man, suggesting that she was also a beastwoman.
* DragonRider: Another Rider who actually rides on an animal in-battle, with her riding on a saddled white wyvern. Turns out that the dragon is Nikitich's horse, Burko, who has been transformed by the dragon's curse to fit the trope, turning him into a perverted SapientSteed.
* TheDragonslayer: What she's most famous for, slaying the dragon Zmei Gorynych. Her second skill gives her 3-turn Bonus Damage against Dragon enemies, and her third skill gives party-wide 3-turn Bonus Damage against Dragon enemies.
* DragonsVersusKnights: Donrynya's most famous bylinya centers around the fight between the polianista and the dragon, Zmey Gorynych
* ElementalWeapon: By her Third Ascension her axe has become blue flames.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Despite introducing herself as Dobrynya, the game's text boxes always label her Nikitich, not Dobrynya. Even her Bond profile refers to her as Nikitich when not using her full name. [[spoiler: This hints she isn't actually Dobrynya but rather Nastasia, the real Dobrynya's wife]].
** She never denies that Dobrynya was male in history, with her Bond profile even outright saying she doesn't dispute that fact, and refers to Dobrynya as male several times.
** She's AmbiguouslyHuman, despite the stories of Dobrynya painting him as being a mostly normal human. When asked about it, she attributes it to her wife, which even by the series standards seems like a strange reason for her CatGirl appearance. [[spoiler:Makes sense since she's Nastasia.]]
** When discussing Dobrynya's legends, Dobrynya gets heated when talking about Nastasia getting kidnapped once, which everyone present comments on being strange, since if anything, Nastasia should be the one that is so upset. [[spoiler:This is one of the first clues in the story she is really Nastasia, and she even goes silent after being pointed out]].
* HistoricalGenderFlip: Maybe? The game acknowledges that the actual Dobrynya was a man, but Chaldea staff argues three possibilities why she's a woman here; either this is an Altria situation where she was always a woman but was recorded as a man, Dobrynya swimming in dragon's blood has cursed them into taking the form of a woman, or she's not even Dobrynya but his wife Nastasia. Nikitich herself hasn't given a definite answer to the question. [[spoiler:The last possibility is revealed to be the correct one.]]
* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:She absorbs thousands of bullets from hundred Combat-beasts summoned by Koyanskaya with Belza Damask in order to protect Chaldea. Even with her armor destroyed and her bleeding like hell, her being a Demonic Beast means that the bullets weren't as fatal as they would normally be and she survives the sudden assault.]]
* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:Dobrynya was sent to the Tunguska Explosion to tame and raise the creature who was born in middle of the explosion. While he gave the creature the name Yaskaya and raised it the best he could, him being a Heroic Spirit and a hero of Russia means that he eventually disappeared, with him hoping that the nature spirit will forgive him from being unable to properly raise her. Dobrynya, or rather Nastasia using his name, tries to act like a parent before Koyanskaya is sealed away, only to leave her confused to why she's yelling at her. And in Chaldea, Nikitich tries to act as a parental figure to both versions of Koyanskaya.]]
* PunnyName: Retroactively so as she's a CatGirl who's name is Dobry'''''nya'''''.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Her My Room line for Georgios suggests that she knows him from somewhere before, thanking you for letting her meet him again. While Saint George is a fairly popular figure in Russia to the point that Dobrynya's quest to slay the dragon is believed to have been inspired by George's own exploits, the two legends haven't crossed over in their own myths.
* StarterMon: As of May 11th, 2022[[note]]JP-only right now[[/note]], Astolfo and Nikitich replaced Marie Antoinette and Martha as the two starter Riders.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: She gets along swimmingly with Ibuki-Douji, to the point they hold entire conversations with their odd mentalities bouncing off each other just fine while others watch on with bemusement. [[spoiler:Which makes sense, given aside from their dragon connections, they're both nonhumans who have interest in humans.]]
* SummonMagic: Her NP allows her to summon Zmei Gorynych himself, a massive three-headed blue-white dragon that bathes the enemy in blue fire.
* TalkingAnimal: Her dragon mount can freely talk even though he is a dragon, something that doesn't really surprise Chaldea since they have seen other talking steeds like Red Hare.
* WalkingSpoiler: Not so much herself, but her connection to Tunguska Sanctuary, where the climactic confrontation with Koyanskaya occurs. [[spoiler:It has absolutely nothing to do with the land she was summoned in and everything to do with ''Koyanskaya herself'', as Dobrynya was her [[LukeIAmYourFather adoptive father]].]] It's major enough that if asked about Koyanskaya of Light or Koyanskaya of Dark in My Room before the player has cleared Tunguska Sanctuary, Nikitich will just stand there humming concernedly to herself for a solid few seconds, because there's nothing she can say that won't spoil the twist.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TadahisaSaizen (Japanese), Creator/JasonMarnocha (English)

->''"My goodness! What a coincidence! Fahaha! Blackbeard has come to see you! Green is the enemy!"''

Edward Teach, better known as "UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}", was probably the most notorious pirate in the world, with records of his acts of savagery throughout the West Indies striking fear to sailor and pirate alike, even his own men. It took a surprise attack from the Royal Navy to finally put an end to his reign of terror, with the dreaded pirate defiant to the bitter end.\\\

He's an antagonist in the "Third Singularity: Sealed Ends of the Four Seas: Okeanos". He is a recurring character in the various summer events, sometimes as a minor antagonist, sometimes as an "[[TheFriendNobodyLikes ally]]" and even sometimes as an actual ally.
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* ColbertBump: Constantine's inclusion in the game brought interest into the person who was responsible for him dying, [[UsefulNotes/TheFallOfConstantinople Mehmed II]], who was one of the fan-submitted designs for ''Fate/school life'' as well as one of the only one from those designs to appear in the animated special ''Fate/Grand Order x Himuro's World: Seven Most Powerful Great Figures Chapter''. His popularity has increased so much, that amount of illustrations on Website/Pixiv on his tag surpass those of Lê Lợi, who is a [[OverusedCopycatCharacter Saberface]]. Combine this with the fact that his design is the more mature of the bunch as well as his more romantic appearance of wearing glasses, holding a rose and having a cat has made him THE most popular character from ''Fate/school life'', all because of Constantine XI's implementation.

* HumongousMecha: In a similar manner to Odysseus' Trojan Horse becoming a mecha, Cetus is depicted as a gigantic mecha whale. This should come off as no surprise, considering how the Greeks are depicted in Lostbelt No. 5.

* MassiveNumberedSiblings: She and Perseus had ''seven'' children together, six boys and a girl. (Some versions of the tale gave them ''nine'' children.) Notably, one of these children went on to become the grandfather of Heracles.

* LethalChef: For Valentine's Day, she gives the Protagonist either chocolate as hard as a rock, or actual rocks covered with chocolate (it's vague as to which it is).

* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: What kind of rock is on the end of her chain? Whatever can be ''legitimately defined'' as a rock. Naturally this broad scope makes for quite an arsenal, and Andromeda knows how to use it; the only restriction is that more elaborate shapes/types of rocks need more mana.

* DamselOutOfDistress: Andromeda's debut event reveals that she wanted to save herself and be a hero, even had an improvised weapon. But Cetus utter monstrosity compared to her shook her and only with Perseus arrival was she saved. Now that she's a Servant and has the power to be a hero she fully takes the chance to be a hero who can be there for people and to her love, who she wanted to be there for as a hero and understand his woes of being one.

* HappilyMarried: She and Perseus were in one in life , a rarity for a Greek hero.

* LoopholeAbuse: Andromeda ''liberally'' abuses the main facet of her myth being a vague "ChainedToARock as a sacrifice to Cetus". The only constant is that her chains will always respawn with a rock at the end, but neither the chains nor the rock have a defined size, shape, or location. This culminates in her maneuvering the chains and their portals to swing like Franchise/SpiderMan or even outright fly, unleash many different types of rocks as projectiles, and even ride ''Cetus itself'' as a beast of war because it was TakenForGranite in her myth (and thus counts as a "rock").