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| 12 | This is a page about the Servant characters appearing in ''VideoGame/FateExtra'', the SpinOff RPG to ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', and its sequel ''[=Fate/EXTRA=] CCC''. |
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| 14 | * For the humans, see [[Characters/FateExtraHumans this page]]. |
| 15 | * For their appearances in ''VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'' and ''VideoGame/FateExtellaLink'', please see [[Characters/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar here]]. |
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| 21 | !!Playable Servants |
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| 23 | [[folder:Saber]] |
| 24 | !!!Identity: [[spoiler:Nero Claudius]] | Voiced by: Creator/SakuraTange (Japanese), Creator/CassandraLeeMorris (English, Anime), Alicia Vélez (Latin American Spanish, Anime) |
| 25 | [[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_saber_fate_extra_2875.png]] |
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| 27 | One of three Servants available to the Protagonist. Saber bears a physical resemblance to the Saber of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''; however, this Saber is vain, self-glorifying and pompous, with a love for the theatrical. Despite this, she genuinely cares for the Protagonist in her own way, and strives to embrace the beauty in all things. |
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| 29 | * AccentAdaptation: Averted; Saber speaks with an accent common to Japanese nobles during Imperial Japan, however, her dialogue is translated into normal English. |
| 30 | * AggressiveSubmissive: She's a confident love interest and a proud former harem master, but she becomes meek as a kitten when the protagonist [[spoiler:[[InterruptedIntimacy nearly]] beds her]] in her second SG. She's none too thrilled when they point that out, blaming it on a headache. |
| 31 | %%* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove |
| 32 | * AntiquatedLinguistics: Speaks in an old-fashioned manner, and uses the masculine and archaic "yo" to refer to herself. |
| 33 | * AttentionWhore: Absolutely adores it. She just wants to be loved by everyone like she loves everyone else. There is a reason her nickname is [[spoiler:"The Whore of Babylon"]]. |
| 34 | * BarelyThereSwimwear: An unlockable outfit in ''CCC''. |
| 35 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: At least she considers herself to be this. She claims all of the good she did for her people is self-serving, she couldn't care less if people she doesn't love face tragedy and, most importantly, she only knows how to judge people on whether their actions were beautiful or not, not if they were good or bad. |
| 36 | * ButNotTooBi: She's openly bisexual, though this line implies she likes girls more: |
| 37 | -->''"Beautiful boys are nice. Beautiful girls are even better! My single preference is beauty!"'' |
| 38 | * CallBack: She said she wouldn't mind if she was called [[spoiler:"The Whore of Babylon"]] because of her historical reputation, as long as the main character likes her... guess what she gets called during the the 7th week? Granted, it's someone else calling her that. |
| 39 | * CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest: Saber is not ashamed of her sexuality, but simply feels the protagonist is too innocent to do anything to. This doesn't stop her from loving them. |
| 40 | * ChainedByFashion: Her ''CCC'' "Virgin Bride" costume has chains around her neck and wrist. |
| 41 | * ChaoticGood: InUniverse alignment. You'd probably expect an emperor to have a more lawful alignment, but it seems not. |
| 42 | %%* ChivalrousPervert |
| 43 | * CleavageWindow: Both on her chest and on her rear. |
| 44 | * ClingyJealousGirl: In the manga adaptation, when Rani accidentally reveals she is GoingCommando (her skirt blew up), Saber gets upset and accuses her of doing it on purpose to try to seduce Hakuno. She orders Hakuno to stay away from Rani and then asks if he would like it if she went commando. |
| 45 | * CoolSword: Aestus Estus: The Embryonic Flame. It's easily [[{{BFS}} bigger than both protagonists.]] |
| 46 | * CrazyEnoughToWork: Her Imperial Privilege works like this: if I think I can do that, then I can! She becomes a Saber because of this, her class' base stats be damned. She is also capable of [[spoiler:summoning her Golden Theatre in the manner of a Reality Marble, granting herself ''Divinity'', and even summoning [[Literature/BookOfRevelation the Beast from the Book of Revelation]] as a ''riding mount'' due to her moniker as the "Whore of Babylon"]]. |
| 47 | * DeusExMachina: [[ConversationalTroping Conversed]] during a private room chat in Week 4. She says her favorite play ended with one for everyone to have happy endings, which the protagonist calls "cheating." |
| 48 | -->'''Saber:''' ''While it is a staple of theater, I do not like it much.'' |
| 49 | * DiggingYourselfDeeper: When Archer makes a small quip about Saber's devotion to her Master, she blows up and starts defending herself from perceived accusations of liking Hakuno. This is so at odds with what he was actually saying that a nonplussed Archer can merely respond with "...'Kay." It wasn't so much digging herself deeper as digging the hole entirely by herself. |
| 50 | * DrivenToSuicide: In her first lifetime. She stopped herself many times, as she felt that she had done nothing wrong and that she was punishing the public by having "such a magnificent artist disappear from this world", before finally stabbing her own throat with a knife. |
| 51 | * DudeWheresMyRespect: Back when she was alive, she once publicly fought a lion and killed it with her bare hands as a reenactment of Heracles vs the Nemean Lion. Nobody was impressed. |
| 52 | * DumpStat: Luck and Magic, especially since one of her skills limits her ability to use magic even further. Agility is of questionable worth, but it's not unreasonable to put some points into it to stabilize her damage range. Magic is still worth putting a little bit into though as to provide more mana to her. |
| 53 | * TheEmperor: Since Saber is almost as bad about hiding her identity as Caster, she makes it clear early on that she was a Roman Emperor with a poor reputation but with a generally positive reception from the people. |
| 54 | * EvilMatriarch: Her mother was this in her backstory. |
| 55 | * {{Expy}}: A blonde woman based on a male historical ruler, this Saber is based on ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight's'' Saber, to whom she bears some resemblance. |
| 56 | * FriendlyRival: With Lancer [[spoiler:Elizabeth]] because of their similar temperament, hobbies, and utter blindness that they suck at said hobbies. |
| 57 | * FullFrontalAssault: She was naked when she defeated a lion while alive. |
| 58 | %%* GiantPoofySleeves |
| 59 | * GiftedlyBad: Saber adores the arts and considers herself to be a creative savant on par with Apollo, god of the arts. Unfortunately, all signs indicates that her talents were sub-par at best, even before she began to suffer migraines. Her egotism in this field can be best illustrated by the fact that she [[spoiler:built a personal theatre devoted specifically to her own performances, and when people started to leave in the middle of her first recital, she ordered the exits sealed.]] At one point she enthusiastically tells the protagonist about a play she wrote, and the plot is...[[StylisticSuck not very good]]. |
| 60 | * HistoricalHeroUpgrade: [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} was notorious for being a hated tyrant who lavished in excessive wealth and ruthlessly oppressed Christianity, but in the Nasuverse she was a kindhearted individual who loved everything in the world but demanded to be loved in kind, not realising that her love was selfish and could not get reciprocated. She fell into despair when her people did not rise to defend her against a coup d’etat, and committed suicide. TruthInTelevision as the real-life Nero was well-liked by his subjects, and [[https://www.livescience.com/64812-nero-emperor-reign-pbs.html some historians believe that the many accounts written about him may have been heavily exaggerated for propaganda purposes]].]] |
| 61 | * HistoricalGenderFlip: Her true identity is [[spoiler:Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, 5th Emperor of the Roman Empire.]] |
| 62 | * HistoricalVillainUpgrade: In the ''Fate/Extra'' universe, her reputation is similar to her real life counterpart, but it's noted that it's not exactly deserved, which makes her an InUniverse example. |
| 63 | * HotBlooded: If it's something that she's passionate of, then she will ''be'' passionate. Her art, her people's wellbeing, and her Master are things that usually give out this reaction. There's also her new skill in ''CCC'', Rose of Closure that Wins the Star; |
| 64 | --> *wall of fire explodes behind her* "My dear Praetor, I love you!" |
| 65 | * IdiotHair: As per Saberface tradition. |
| 66 | * InSeriesNickname: [[spoiler:"The Whore of Babylon"]] is a figure in [[Literature/TheBible The Book of Revelation]]. Many scholars attribute it to [[spoiler:Rome under the reign of Emperor Nero; since Christianity was persecuted. [[HistoricalVillainDowngrade This was downgraded to "discouraged religion"]] in the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}}, but since Nero's a [[HistoricalGenderFlip woman]] here, it now refers to ''her.'']] |
| 67 | * InstantExpert: One of her skills allows her to temporarily become this for one other skill. Her Noble Phantasm is even more powerful, as it allows her to become one for multiple skills for as long as it's active. |
| 68 | * InterruptedIntimacy: [[spoiler:Her second Secret Garden event]]. You can thank Rin's phone call for that. |
| 69 | * ImageSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH0bO6tLzgU GRAND]]" |
| 70 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Though she does care about your well-being and can be pretty compassionate. Otherwise, she almost rivals [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh]]. |
| 71 | %%* KickingAssInAllHerFinery |
| 72 | * LargeHam: Its implied that this was how her people viewed her acting in her past life. She breaks out the ham occasionally during the War as well. |
| 73 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Saber, Everything is in Her Hand." |
| 74 | * LeotardOfPower: While at first her outfit looks as though she's giving the audience a perpetual PantyShot, it's not actually her panties we're seeing, but [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/Sensui22/303d0226.jpg a leotard]] that she wears under her dress. |
| 75 | * LightningBruiser: Her statline focuses on Strength, Defense, and to a lesser degree Agility the most of all the playable Servants in ''Extra'', with Magic being only viable for increase her magical defense. She is the easiest to play as because of this, and is very strong at the end of the game as a result. |
| 76 | * MusclesAreMeaningless: In spite of her slender build and D Rank Strength, she is incredibly powerful. Even when she was an ordinary human, she could wrestle and choke a lion to death with her bare hands. |
| 77 | * TheNapoleon: She dislikes being reminded of her height, especially if called little or petite. |
| 78 | * NavelDeepNeckline: In Saber CCC promotion artwork along with BB and CCC Type-Moon Virgin White Box. Her Bride outfit is sometime unzipped ''past'' her navel. |
| 79 | * NiceGirl: Boastfulness aside she always shows respect to her master [[spoiler: and even comforts them when Shinji dies]] |
| 80 | * OverlyLongName: [[spoiler:Her full name, Nero Claudius Augustus Caesar Germanicus.]] |
| 81 | %%* PimpedOutDress |
| 82 | * {{Pride}}: She rivals ''Gilgamesh'' for the title of "biggest ego in the Nasuverse". It helps that in her case, she doesn't really seem to understand sarcasm and often manages to twist insults into praise for herself. |
| 83 | * RedOniBlueOni: Saber plays this role with Caster in the Omake that show up in the Type-Moon Ace magazine. In a meta sense, she's also the vain, selfish, exuberant red oni to the original Saber's stoic and self-abasing blue oni. |
| 84 | * SarcasmBlind: A lot of Archer's taunts bounce right off Saber since, as he notes, she has a tendency to read the situation at face value. |
| 85 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Unlike ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'''s Saber, who simply doesn't care if anyone happens to see her naked, this Saber isn't afraid to show some skin because she likes the attention. She [[{{Lampshaded}} lampshades]] this in ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'': |
| 86 | --> '''Taiga''': Um, your dress is see-through...\ |
| 87 | '''Saber''': Fool. It's not see-through, I'm ''letting'' people see. Plus, it's cool and breezy...\ |
| 88 | '''Taiga''': Your rear is half-exposed too!\ |
| 89 | '''Saber''': Save the ogling of me for later! |
| 90 | * SomethingAboutARose: They pop out during some of her skills and when she activates her Noble Phantasm. |
| 91 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: |
| 92 | ** Her outfit does cover most of her, but it has a CleavageWindow and part of her skirt is transparent, showing her LeotardOfPower (which many players initially thought was a PantyShot). |
| 93 | ** It is, however, rather revealing from the back, making this almost a case of SexyBacklessOutfit - almost her entire back is on display above the hips barring the back of the collar and a metal clasp in the small of her back. The back of the skirt actually starts low enough to show off some of the other kind of cleavage. |
| 94 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Saber will not be giddy over your coming through for her in week five, [[{{Tsundere}} not at all.]] |
| 95 | * {{Tsundere}}: Downplayed; Saber is ''very'' open about her affection towards the protagonist, though there are a few times when she becomes a bashful ''tsun'' if someone presses her about it. |
| 96 | * UnreliableNarrator: Her Matrix talks about [[spoiler:Nero being the "Whore of Babylon"]], concluding that all that is just propaganda against [[spoiler:Rome as a whole]] and doesn't reflect Saber as an individual. However, many works after the original ''Extra'' bring attention to Saber having been unnatural even when she was alive and multiple details about her lean heavily on her possibly being [[spoiler:the Whore of Babylon]], meaning that either her Matrix is lying or [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve people's believe about her has slowly influenced her over time]]. |
| 97 | * VerbalTic: Umu, an archaic variant of "yes" used mostly exclusively by royalty. This trait is shared with royalty Servants like Rama, Iskandar and Ozymandias, but MemeticMutation made the word immediately associated with Nero in the West. In the English Dub of ''Last Encore'', this is replaced with her frequently saying "Indeed". |
| 98 | * WalkingSwimsuitScene: Saber does not like the heat in the 5th week Arena (which is a jungle), and expresses the desire to do this should the Item Shop sell bathing suits. In the sequel game, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLxek6llm0o you can unlock a skimpy red swimsuit for her to wear]]. |
| 99 | * WholesomeCrossdresser: While referring to the original Saber in passing, she remarks that in life she would also crossdress. However, this wasn't done in order to hide her gender, but rather because she simply liked it more and felt that gender was largely irrelevant. This turns out to be an InformedAttribute, since despite [[InsistentTerminology insisting that her dress is "male attire"]] she's never seen wearing male clothing. |
| 100 | * {{Yandere}}: Not nearly to same extent as Tamamo and the Alter-Egos, but she often tends to proclaim her love for Hakuno and gets very possessive of them [[{{Hypocrite}} despite being a self-admitted harem enthusiast]]. |
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| 103 | [[folder:Archer (Nameless)]] |
| 104 | !!!Identity: [[spoiler:EMIYA]] | Voiced by: Creator/JunichiSuwabe (Japanese), Creator/KaijiTang (English, Anime), Joaquín López (Latin American Spanish, Anime) |
| 105 | [[quoteright:165:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_archer_fate_extra_5119.png]] |
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| 107 | One of three Servants available to the protagonist. A red garbed Archer who fights with two blades, he's sarcastic and blunt, with an uncanny resemblance to a certain Archer [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight from a different Holy Grail War]]. |
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| 109 | * AbnormalAmmo: His bow shoots various {{Oddly Shaped Sword}}s as arrows. |
| 110 | * AlternateSelf: He is an alternate version of Archer from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. [[spoiler:Unlike Counter Guardian EMIYA, this version of Shirou never made a deal with Alaya, though his path of being a "Hero of Justice" ended up being just as bloody as Kiritsugu's. Also unlike EMIYA, he doesn't regret his past in the least and long since made peace with it.]] |
| 111 | * AntiHero: |
| 112 | ** Defines himself in this manner, noting that he has [[WouldHurtAChild killed children]] and ''innocent'' people in order to protect his ideal. |
| 113 | ** In fact, his methods were ultimately what ended his life -- his best friend, concerned that he was on the path towards becoming a KnightTemplar and likely couldn't be persuaded otherwise, turned him in to the police for the various crimes he committed in the name of justice, and he plead guilty to all charges. [[{{Irony}} In the end, the human court system was what sealed his fate, not a glorious heroic death in battle.]] |
| 114 | * BeyondTheImpossible: [[spoiler:Lancer's Gae Bolg bends cause and effect so that it will always pierce the heart, making it impossible to dodge or block it. Yet Archer's Rho Aias can successfully stop it.]] |
| 115 | * {{BFS}}: The skill Caladbolg II/Fake Helix Sword has him firing a magical one. It also automatically inflicts ''Break'' against ''Guard.'' Oh, and it's the highest damage skill in the original Extra, which is why "Caladbolg spam" is the main strategy for boss battles. |
| 116 | * BornUnlucky: To him, the Luck stat is the DumpStat to end all {{Dump Stat}}s. His life was not a particularly happy one either. |
| 117 | * BowAndSwordInAccord: He uses his bow a lot more than his counterpart does. |
| 118 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has matching silver hair and eyes. |
| 119 | * DiggingYourselfDeeper: The female protagonist has the option of confronting him about his relationship with Rin. He denies any attraction to her, which is fine, but then follows it up by saying her figure isn't really what he considers his type either, apparently alluding to her rather flat and thin figure. The way he does this indicates attraction to the ''protagonist's'' body type, at which point he realizes he's falling directly into this and shuts up immediately. |
| 120 | * DualWielding: Kanshou and Bakuya, just like in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. |
| 121 | * DeadpanSnarker: More so than his ''stay night'' counterpart. Not even his own Master is exempt from his snarking. |
| 122 | * DumpStat: Just like his ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' counterpart, it's {{Luck|Stat}}. Magic ''[[SubvertedTrope seems]]'' like this at first, as his physical attacks are often much stronger. However, the skill Caladbolg II's damage is boosted by the Magic stat and combined with the amplification from his Noble Phantasm, it can become enough to easily dispose of late game bosses (including the OptionalBoss) if Archer's magic stat is sufficiently high enough. |
| 123 | ** Not only does Archer [[LampshadeHanging lampshade just how bad his luck is]] during one conversation, Luck isn't just ''his'' slowest growing stat -- ''Archer's Luck is so bad it has the slowest growth rate of any stat for all playable Servants''. |
| 124 | * {{Expy}}: Likens himself to Franchise/JamesBond due to his comparable life of dangerous adventure and romantic conquests. |
| 125 | * FieldOfBlades: [[spoiler:Unlimited Blade Works.]] |
| 126 | * GameplayAndStorySegregation: His Noble Phantasm is stated to reduce his Projection magic's MP cost to 0, but in gameplay boosts his skill damage and debuff rate instead. |
| 127 | * HasAType: He admits he's got a thing for strong-willed women. |
| 128 | * HeroicSacrifice: Unlike ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', the player can learn what exactly motivated him to make his contract to become a Counter Guardian. [[spoiler:The details may not be 100% clear, but it involved a nuclear reactor in the middle of melting down and having to run a very long way very fast, using up all his magic just to get there, and finding himself unable to stop it on his own.]] |
| 129 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: He refuses to acknowledge that his antiheroic actions were actually appreciated by some people and did save lives. |
| 130 | %%* HeterosexualLifePartners: With the male protagonist. |
| 131 | * HiddenDepths: He knows a surprising amount about vampires, which he reveals if you talk to him on the 4th week. |
| 132 | * JackOfAllStats: In ''Extra'', its encourged to balanced out putting points in most of his stats, as unlike the other two playable Servants, Archer needs a bit of everything to keep up with them. Offensively, he's more powerful when it comes to his physical attacks than Caster, and has better combo potential than Saber does skill wise. At the same time, both of them are much better than him when it comes to what their good at, namely Caster's skills allowing her to trap enemies, and Saber's straight up brawling. |
| 133 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's rude and prone to snarking at the protagonist's expense, but he really is trying to help them out and his compliments tend to be sincere. |
| 134 | --> '''Protagonist''': ''My Servant may be pessimistic, cynical, and bitterly sarcastic, but at his core, he is a good person.'' |
| 135 | * KnightInSourArmor: He shows compassion for the MC throughout the war but he doesn't fully grow out of this until the final week. |
| 136 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Archer, Nobody Knows Him/The Hero" (A remix of "Emiya" from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''). |
| 137 | * LighterAndSofter: Than his original portrayal in that [[spoiler:he found peace in his ideal and fate as a nameless hero and a Counter Guardian thanks to his character development in the story.]] |
| 138 | * LossOfIdentity: The reason he's treated as not just simply being called Emiya. Unlike the Heroic Spirit Emiya, who was a Counter Guardian who maintained his sense of self, this incarnation forsake his identity to become a hero, throwing it away in exchange for the power to help those in need. While he still is in a way Emiya, and has memories of his past life, having given up his name and identity, he no longer is considered as a person, and is thus called Nameless. |
| 139 | * MythologyGag: He's one huge repository of these. [[spoiler:He compares Shinji and Kotomine to their ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' counterparts, refers to encountering an invisible sword wielded by "her", and he even compares Alice to Ilya.]] |
| 140 | * NoShirtLongJacket: His CCC new costume is an open red jacket that he wears while shirtless. |
| 141 | * NonLinearCharacter: True for all Servants, but Archer's a notable case as his human counterpart is actually still alive during the plot. Rin's met him before, though she doesn't connect the dots, and [[spoiler:the protagonist meets him during Archer's ending of CCC.]] |
| 142 | * OptionalBoss: [[spoiler:The original ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' version of him and Rin can be fought as bosses in ''CCC''.]] |
| 143 | * PrinciplesZealot: What he believes himself to be during life, the principle in question being justice. |
| 144 | * {{Retcon}}: It is stated in side materials that it is impossible for Fate/Stay Night Archer to replicate Excalibur with projection. In ''CCC'', it was added as one of Archer's skills, and now you can potentially ''spam'' Excalibur Image with few ill effects (minus giant MP loss, of course). The only explanation is a handwave about the quality of wrought iron being higher in the Moon Cell. Said handwave was conceived because the development team had made the animation before consulting Nasu about it. |
| 145 | %%* TheSnarkKnight |
| 146 | %%* SarcasticDevotee |
| 147 | * SpontaneousWeaponCreation: He projects all of his weapons whenever he needs them. |
| 148 | * SurvivorGuilt: The E-rank Matrix Event has Archer saying this word for word, and the protagonist musing this is why Archer's original self needed to be a selfless hero so much. |
| 149 | * ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Archer throws Kanshou and Bakuya at the enemy when using the Wing of the Crane Skill, just like in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. |
| 150 | * TrueNeutral: InUniverse alignment, same as his ''F/SN'' counterpart. Likely a result of him being a Counter Guardian, as the job description is to ensure mankind's and the world's continued survival by trying to keep the balance between the two. Unlike with his original incarnation, he sticks to this goal and doesn't really deviate from his assignment. |
| 151 | * VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Archer can get hit with this trope hard [[spoiler:if you decide to save Rani instead of Rin, which makes Rin your opponent in the 6th week. Archer becomes conflicted as he knew someone [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight very much like Rin]] during his life.]] Bonus points if you know of this ahead of time and do so on purpose. |
| 152 | * VigilanteMan: What he was in life. |
| 153 | %%* WhenHeSmiles |
| 154 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Downplayed -- not evil, but an AntiHero, and quite sharp-tongued. |
| 155 | * WouldHurtAChild: He notes that he doesn't make a habit of killing kids, but doesn't say that he hasn't done it before. He ''does'' say that he has no problem with killing Alice, though. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Caster]] |
| 159 | !!!Identity: [[spoiler:Tamamo-no-Mae]] | Voiced by: Creator/ChiwaSaito |
| 160 | [[quoteright:229:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_1caster_fate_extra_1099.png]] |
| 161 | |
| 162 | One of three Servants available to the Protagonist. Caster is a playful and mischievous fox girl whose wish is to find someone to whom she can devote herself to entirely, namely the Protagonist. She models herself as a YamatoNadeshiko, but [[BeneathTheMask occasionally lets slip]] hints of a more [[TheTrickster devious]] and [[{{Yandere}} predatory]] personality. |
| 163 | ---- |
| 164 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Caster is far nicer here than how she is in her original legend. [[spoiler:Her true identity is Tamamo-no-Mae, a seductress who took sadistic pleasure in engulfing kingdoms in chaos with her wiles and magic. In the Nasuverse, she's a well-meaning but misguided avatar of Amaterasu who was chased out for being a fox instead of actually doing anything wrong. She only turned to evil out of self-defense against the tens of thousands of soldiers sent to kill her. At least, [[UnreliableNarrator that's what she says]], as Tamamo's sometimes psychotic possessiveness and unnerving original self call her interpretation into question.]] |
| 165 | * AmnesiacGod: During her life as a mortal [[spoiler:avatar of Amaterasu]] she was not aware of her true identity. |
| 166 | * AnimeAccentAbsence: Given Caster's age and the time period she came from, you would expect her to have something of an older accent. However, she speaks contemporary Japanese (when she isn't speaking GratuitousEnglish anyway). |
| 167 | * {{Anticlimax}}: When she reveals her identity to the protagonist she does it so casually that the protagonist takes a while to notice that she said her actual name instead of simply calling herself Caster. |
| 168 | * AsianFoxSpirit: Tamamo has the ears and tail of a fox, originally had nine tails, and her true identity is that of [[spoiler:[[http://edb.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/exhibit-e/otogi/tamamo/tamamo.html Tamamo-no-Mae]] -- the evil nine-tailed fox spirit who won the favour of Emperor Toba as a beautiful and knowledgeable courtesan in 12th century Japan. However, she's technically not actually a ''kitsune'' -- being an incarnation of the solar goddess Amaterasu, which also makes her far more powerful than a normal fox-spirit -- and claims her resemblance to one is purely coincidental.]] |
| 169 | * TheAtoner: Caster was once a bloodthirsty monster who tried to bring Japan to ruin, and though she still has some CuteAndPsycho and {{yandere}} moments she's trying to redeem herself and atone for her past sins. |
| 170 | * BeneathTheMask: Caster will let slip some [[CuteAndPsycho scary]] comments from time to time. Such as wondering ''out loud'' whether the cries of her opponent will be as good as the last ones. |
| 171 | * BrokenBird: Caster has one of the saddest backstories in the entire Nasuverse. |
| 172 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: She's quite the meta girl and refers to the T regulations preventing adult content and her own affection points at times. |
| 173 | * TheCameo: [[spoiler:Briefly appears silhouetted in the anime during Twice's flashbacks]]. |
| 174 | * CannotKeepASecret: She's trying to keep her identity hidden, but she drops hints about who she is all the time. The main reason she reveals her name is so that she simply doesn't have to bother hiding it. |
| 175 | * ClingyJealousGirl: Shortly after rescuing either Rin or Rani, Caster begins practicing an apparently GroinAttack-based martial art ("Polygamist Castration Fist") while angrily shouting about how "other deities may allow harems, but never will I!" Perhaps fortunately, the protagonist is too innocent to pick up on the obvious implications, and manages to defuse the situation with a few sincere compliments about sticking to the fighting style that suits her best. |
| 176 | * CovertPervert: She's actually a very ''open'' pervert, but even she has her limits: when the protagonist asks about the strap on her CCC outfit, she's about to explain the style of bondage before [[VerbalBackspace bashfully clamming up and playing dumb]]. |
| 177 | * CuteAndPsycho: Gives this vibe off at times, especially when she thinks she's being criticized. |
| 178 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She was the concubine of a Japanese Emperor falsely accused of being a malicious AsianFoxSpirit who'd terrorized China and India centuries ago, was forced to slaughter the Imperial Army in self-defence, and was executed for crimes she hadn't committed... or [[UnreliableNarrator so she says]]. [[spoiler:Her actions as Twice's Servant, her past self/original form Amaterasu, and statements made in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' strongly imply that she's seriously in denial and trying to disassociate her current repentant self from her AxCrazy past self.]] |
| 179 | * DeadpanSnarker: She can give off some good barbs depending on who's the subject of discussion. |
| 180 | --> Caster(in refence to Shinji): Smells like cheap cologn and desperation. |
| 181 | * DumpStat: |
| 182 | ** Like all the Servants, she has essentially no use for luck or Agility and only needs strength for her Spirit Break ability. Even Defence gets little focus, which has some pretty [[GlassCannon obvious consequences]], though. |
| 183 | ** She has an amazing growth rate in Magic, good growth rates in Luck and Agility, and godawful ones in Strength and Defence. After her Magic is maxed, it's generally a good idea to throw points into Defence to help her survive and lessen her damage from ''physical'' attacks, as well as to take advantage of the damage boost a higher Defence stat grants. |
| 184 | %%zce* {{Expy}}: Of Kohaku from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', more specifically, her Magical Amber persona. |
| 185 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: A conversation while walking around the Arena on the first week has her saying that she feels nostalgic. [[spoiler:The last time she was there was as [[BigBad Twice]]'s Servant.]] |
| 186 | * GenkiGirl: Rivals Saber in this regard as she's constantly upbeat and cheery. At lest until things start getting serious. |
| 187 | * GlassCannon: She can deal huge amounts of damage with her skills, but can't take much. You can make it outright impossible to advance past Karna in CCC if you don´t get enough Endurance, as he will one-shot you with [[FantasticNuke Vasavi Shakti]]. Her Mantra: Aphotic Cave skill helps, as it cuts damage from skills by 90% and restores MP. She also takes almost no damage from Magic skills, assuming her own Magic stat is high; it's mostly physical skills that will result in an instant game over if you don't see them coming. |
| 188 | * GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Her Origin outfit [[spoiler:identical to Amaterasu]] is this. Her other name taken from her more bestial form is Kojinki-Hakumen (Golden Fur, White Face). |
| 189 | * GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:Her Servant Ending in ''CCC'' in the nutshell. In her attempt to save her Master from Moon Cell's deletion, she called up her full-powered nine tails form. Each tail gained sentience and became Alter Egos Tamamo 9, each wanting some of their Goshujin-sama. Caster, [[ClingyJealousGirl as expected]], cast the other eight to the Far Side, which they succeed in escaping, and they're now rampaging around the world looking for the traitorous original and the protagonist.]] |
| 190 | * GratuitousEnglish: This is taken to the point where Aksys actually translates one of her English lines ''into Japanese.'' |
| 191 | * GroinAttack: Her ultimate attack skills in ''Fate/Extra CCC'', deals critical damage against male enemies. |
| 192 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Considering her hatred of harems and polygamy she's certainly enthusiastic when it comes time for her to have sex with Rin or Rani to establish a mana link between them |
| 193 | * HypocriticalHumor: In Fox Tail she beats up Gawain and Shinji for attempting to peek on the girls hotsprings..... while she's in the middle of doing the same thing to the guys. |
| 194 | * IAmWho: During her life as a mortal, she was unaware of her identity as a fox spirit until one day she woke up with fox ears. |
| 195 | * IHatePastMe: Caster is deeply ashamed of her past as a villainous monster, to the point of denying she was responsible for the crimes she was executed for, and goes out of her way to try to avoid relapsing into that state -- dismissing her original self as a sadistic {{yandere}}. [[spoiler:One of the bonus bosses of CCC is Caster when she was Twice's Servant. If you also have Caster as your Servant, it quickly shows that the two don't get along even though they're technically the same person. In her last Secret Garden, Caster's original self also expresses contemptuous disgust towards her Servant incarnation.]] |
| 196 | * ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSzeWcja3kQ Hana arashi no Ki]] |
| 197 | * ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Her outfit gives you a ''very'' generous glimpse at her CleavageWindow. |
| 198 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: She wields a MagicMirror in melee. |
| 199 | * IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler:This is the reason Tamamo left her Celestial dwelling and ventured out into the world. She saw how happy serving her made the people and wanted to experience the same thing.]] |
| 200 | * KungFuWizard: Aside from some jokes about her infamous "Polygamist Castration Fist," averted in the original game, though CCC adds it in as an actual attack. In ''Fox Tail'', she is able to take Suzuka Gozen on in a fist fight. |
| 201 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "Caster, Extra Life With Anyone She Wants", which has samples from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'''s gallery menu BGM (Oh, and said gallery menu is named [[{{Pun}} Extras]]). |
| 202 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: |
| 203 | ** She originated [[spoiler:as a ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunrei bunrei]]'' of Amaterasu, but incarnated as a human out of curiosity and lost her memories of being a deity in the process]]. |
| 204 | ** She excised the bulk of her power and lost all but one of her nine tails -- according to ''Fate/Grand Order'' for no other reason than [[WeightWoe she felt having nine tails made her too heavy]]. While this made her able to be manifested as a Servant, it also created eight other versions of herself collectively referred to as the Tamamo Nine, each of whom seeks to assimilate the others and return to their original nine-tailed state. |
| 205 | * LittleBitBeastly: She has fox ears and a fox tail. [[spoiler:Her full-powered form is a giantess with nine fiery fox-tails.]] |
| 206 | * LittleMissAlmighty: [[spoiler:As a facet of Amaterasu, the Japanese Sun goddess, it fits.]] |
| 207 | * MagicMirror: Her melee weapon of choice. |
| 208 | * MagikarpPower: Starts out as the weakest Servant, but can deal astounding amounts of damage late in the game, completely lock down almost any move the opponent makes or counter anything your opponent does. However, the way she does this makes her incredibly vulnerable to opponents such as Rani's Berserker, who has skills that check against Tamamo's defense stat instead of magic and are preceded by 'Wait' moves, which keeps Caster from preventing them with stun. She also has the lowest HP of all playable Servants, to the point where she won't break 1000 HP until level 20, which means her margin for error against enemy programs (let alone bosses) is very limited. |
| 209 | * MarryThemAll: In the ''Fox Tail'' manga, she says she invented [[FantasticFightingStyle Polygamist Castration Fist]] to "[[DefiedTrope destroy the harem ending]]." |
| 210 | * MediumAwareness: Unfortunately, she knows that she is in a game only rated "T". |
| 211 | * MesACrowd: [[spoiler:Uses the Moon Cell to summon her other 8 Tails as servants so they can save their master in her CCC Servant ending.]] |
| 212 | * MistakenIdentity: Caster often claims that she's innocent of the crimes she was accused of in-life, [[spoiler:insisting that she was mistaken for Daji -- an evil nine-tailed fox with golden fur and a white face who'd previously laid waste to China and India -- by the ''onmyōji'' who exposed her true form to Toba's court]]. However, she also makes remarks that indicate that she ''is'' guilty of those crimes, [[spoiler:Amaterasu -- Tamamo's original self -- is a bloodthirsty sadist, and Tamamo is identified as being Daji by Tamamo Cat (her own LiteralSplitPersonality) and the Chinese Servant Li Shuwen (who fought Daji in ancient China)]]. |
| 213 | * MsFanservice: Her [[http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/File:CasterCCC.png Fate/Extra CCC]] outfit leaves little doubt to this claim. |
| 214 | * MythologyGag: Whether she is talking about her E-mail buddy [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyohime Kiyohime]] or asking for Aburaage (which is the Bakitsune equivalent of catnip), Caster is full of them. |
| 215 | * NeutralEvil: InUniverse alignment. Unlike the more questionable alignments of the other two playable Servants, this one is pretty obvious so long as you pay attention to the hints of obsession and craziness. |
| 216 | * NotQuiteTheRightThing: In her backstory, she became intrigued with humans since she wasn't quite one herself and decided to try living among them and serving them. However, [[spoiler:humans don't want that from the gods. Despite being harmless, she was hunted down when her identity was uncovered -- and currently claims to have been mistaken for Daji, an evil nine-tailed fox who'd previously laid waste to China and India -- and despite asking to simply be allowed to leave in peace armies kept pursuing her, which she destroyed before finally falling in battle. Not a very good track record there, Amaterasu.]] |
| 217 | * PaperTalisman: Her ''Curse:'' Skills have her throw one at her enemy. |
| 218 | * PowerLimiter: |
| 219 | ** Being summoned as a Legendary Soul actually ''decreases'' her power, since [[spoiler:as a facet of Amaterasu, her full power would be on par with, ''if not greater than'' the Big Three of the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}}.]] Being summoned as the Servant of a pure-hearted Master means she doesn't have access to her darker powers either. The in-game text states that if she were not a Servant, her Noble Phantasm would actually allow her to ''bring the dead back to life.'' |
| 220 | ** She seems even weaker than regular Servants, which she {{Handwave}}s as a result of being summoned in the Caster class, universally considered the weakest of the seven Servant classes. [[spoiler:The truth is that Caster is deliberately holding back her own power because the last time she used her seduction magic, she got betrayed and slaughtered by 80,000 soldiers]]. |
| 221 | * PowerPerversionPotential: If playing as female Hakuno she comments that if she begins to get to unconfortable with being with a female then she's use her magic to "fix' that. It's also implied that her shape shifting skills can also be used to make her breast's bigger but she isn't willing to do it. |
| 222 | * ProfessionalButtKisser: As a Servant, she changes her temperament to suit her current Master. Her actual personality is more in line with a nagging, stingy housewife. |
| 223 | * RedOniBlueOni: Caster plays this role with Saber in the Omake that show up in the Type-Moon Ace magazine. |
| 224 | * RetiredMonster: As revealed in Tamamo's third Secret Garden, [[spoiler:with all nine tails her original self was an arrogant, bloodthirsty, and sadistic monster. As a Servant, Tamamo cut off all but one of her tails and seeks to redeem herself by becoming a good wife, though she occasionally lapses into {{yandere}} moments; and if she regains all her tails or is summoned by an evil master -- like Twice -- she will revert to her evil self.]] Additionally, she mentions not really feeling guilty about those thousands of people she killed (though she somewhat regrets the events for reasons unrelated to morality) and can be extremely selfish and ruthless at times. It's implied she is holding back her monstrous side not so much out of guilt towards humans but because it would get in the way of her dream of a perfect romance, making Master her MoralityChain. |
| 225 | * RoseHairedSweetie: The protagonists even lampshade this when they realize they could have guessed her personality from her hair. |
| 226 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Her relationship with her Master is this. When the protagonist mostly has existential crisis over the slaughter that is Holy Grail War, she keeps up the cheerful front to keep their spirits up, encouraging them with not-so-subtle flirting. [[spoiler:From the bonus boss fight against her when she's still Twice's Servant, though she's more solemn than her present self, Twice thinks that she's sacrificing her own happiness and original personality too much to support his gloomy self.]] |
| 227 | * SayItWithHearts: Notably, she's the only one to do this in the whole game. |
| 228 | %%* SexyBacklessOutfit |
| 229 | * {{Sizeshifter}}: [[spoiler:Full-powered Caster is ''much'' larger than mortals.]] |
| 230 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Her default outfit dropes so low that it's a miracle that it doesn't fall off of her chest and constantly gives off panty shots. |
| 231 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Tamamo claims she was completely innocent of the crimes for which she was hunted down and killed; and vehemently insists that she is ''not'' Daji, a sadistic and bloodthirsty nine-tailed fox who laid waste to China. According to Tamamo, that Daji was -- according to those who fought her -- identical in appearance to Tamamo, had the same abilities as Tamamo, also went by the moniker "Golden White Face", and that both Daji and Tamamo's original self were Evils of Humanity are all coincidences. |
| 232 | * SuperPoweredEvilSide: It is said that if she is summoned by someone with an evil heart, she will [[spoiler:kill one hundred heroes and become one of the three great disasters of Japan. Reacquiring her missing tails will also restore her full power and cause her to relapse into her evil ways.]] |
| 233 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: [[spoiler:As Amaterasu.]] She has brown eyes normally otherwise. |
| 234 | * TheTease: She's foxy in one way or another. After all, teasing one's husband is a wife's duty, too. |
| 235 | * ThirdPersonPerson: She stops herself from doing it earlier on, but after you learn her true name, she does this all the time in the private room. |
| 236 | * TooMuchAlike: The cause of her HateAtFirstSight with Passionlip. They're both violent, curse wielding {{Yandere}}s in love with the protagonist. |
| 237 | * {{Tsundere}}: During some of her Servant Matrix events, especially when it involves other girls like Rin. |
| 238 | * UnreliableNarrator: Caster's backstory claims that [[spoiler:she was simply intrigued with humans and simply wanted to harmlessly live among them and serve them, being framed for trying to assassinate Emperor Toba and unjustly executed for crimes she didn't commit... but Caster's CuteAndPsycho tendencies and occasional slips of the tongue, Twice's evil Caster, and Golden White Face -- Tamamo's malevolent original self -- indicate there's more truth to the story of the evil Nine-Tailed Demon Fox that tried to plunge Japan into chaos than Caster wants to let on.]] |
| 239 | * UselessUsefulSpell: Zig-zagged throughout the game: |
| 240 | ** Played straight when you first acquire her various ''Curse'' skills, they seem like the perfect way to speed up dungeon crawling... except that Caster will quickly run out of MP. Unless you're playing on Easy mode (which gives you access to fountains that restore both a Master and Servant's HP and MP), you'll quickly run out of MP and facing the problem of MagicIsRareHealthIsCheap. Even if you're on a New Game Plus and have access to the Formal Wear that allows you to restore a Servant's MP, the only MP-restoring items available until the sixth day of the third week restore a Master's MP by a whopping ''two'' and ''three'' MP per item. It costs 60 MP to restore a "moderate" amount of your Servsnt's MP via Code Cast... enjoy those 20 Yakisoba Breads. |
| 241 | ** ''Charm: Spirit Theft'' allows Caster to steal MP whenever using the ''Break'' command, but it also costs 20 MP per use, so she needs to absorb ''at least'' 20 MP for the skill to be profitable... and then not die in the process. Go ahead, spam ''Break'' so Caster can fill up her MP. With her [[LampshadeHanging notably poor defence and HP]], what's the worst that could happen? It's not a bad option, but maximizing the MP gain from the skill typically means dragging out a fight as long as possible versus an enemy program, which makes the already tedious LevelGrinding even more so, particularly since Caster's melee damage is low and her ''Curse'' skills are the best way for her to deal with mooks. |
| 242 | ** Subverted once you've earned enough skill points to unlock ''Breath of the Soul'', a passive skill that automatically restores 10% of Caster's maximum MP after a battle. Coincidentally, by the time you have the points to unlock the skill, Caster will have at least 300 MP, meaning her ''Curse'' skills are now free: at 30 MP each, she can use one against enemy programs while dungeon crawling and will have the MP restored after the battle. Hallelujah! (And since her MP growth is so high, as Caster continues to level up, she can easily restore 40+ MP via her passive.) |
| 243 | ** Arguably played completely straight with her final skill, however, which costs 80 MP, deal's heavy damage , and has a chance to inflict Poison for ''six turns''. Unfortunately, it can only be used when Caster's HP is at 30 percent or lower (which is the point at which her HP bar begins flashing red) and it's [[SquishyWizard very difficult to lower Caster's HP to that point without bypassing the red zone for a Game Over]]. Since most players typically use an item or Code Cast to Heal during turns when it's likely their Servant will take heavy damage, this makes achieving the requisite low health even more of a gamble: you not only need Caster's HP to be lowered, but you also have to be certain it won't actually hit zero at the end of the turn, deliberately forgoing healing just so you have the option of using Land of Eternal Bane ... or you could follow the standard plan of stun-locking bosses and enemies, which is where Caster excels. It doesn't help that a translation error states that the skill requires Caster's HP to be ''above'' 30%, leading many players to cast the skill at full health and then helplessly watch as Caster did nothing, the word "FAILED" appeared, and the boss attacked. |
| 244 | * VocalDissonance: The perky GenkiGirl falsetto quickly drops to much crasser husky depths whenever she gets peeved. |
| 245 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Tamamo actually fought in a previous Holy Grail War, her master then was ''[[BigBad Twice H. Pieceman]]''.]] |
| 246 | * WillfullyWeak: Refuses to make use of her witchcraft or shapeshifting abilities, which are ranked EX and A respectively. You'd think she would at least agree to shapeshift enough to hide the ears and tail. |
| 247 | * WorthyOpponent: She has a tendency to trash talk all your opponents, but she has to admit that Dan Blackmore is a pretty good guy. Normally, she'd also find Arcueid a worthy opponent since they're so similar, but she's stuck in the role of Berserker. |
| 248 | * YamatoNadeshiko: Downplayed. Caster carries herself in this manner and her desire to be a good wife is as [[HiddenDepths genuine]] as it gets. She can also [[BeneathTheMask be pretty scary at times]] showing she is not an ExtremeDoormat but instead possessing a will of her own. However she has a pretty [[DoubleEntendre dirty mouth]] and yet it's always so ''politely'' dirty. |
| 249 | * {{Yandere}}: She even calls herself one in CCC! She's more than happy to curse of even kill anyone who tries to seduce the protagonist, and even the protagonist themselves runs the risk of being cursed for mishandling her feelings. |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | !!Enemy Servants |
| 253 | |
| 254 | [[folder:Rider]] |
| 255 | !!!Identity: [[spoiler:Francis Drake]] | Master: Shinji Matou | Voiced by: Creator/UraraTakano (Japanese), Creator/JessicaGeeGeorge (English, Anime) Karen Vallejo (Latin American Spanish, Anime) |
| 256 | [[quoteright:187:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_rider_extra_3689.png]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | A [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] woman who lives entirely for the moment and finds value only in ephemeral aspects of life, making her incompatible with Heroic Spirits like Caster and [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh]] (who stockpiles the treasures he gains). As a {{pirate}}, she favours using pistols in combat. |
| 259 | ---- |
| 260 | * AffablyEvil: Nicer than her Master is. [[JerkAss Not that that's a hard thing to do.]] |
| 261 | * BadassBoast: When using her [[LimitBreak Noble Phantasm]]. |
| 262 | --> ''"Remember my name by the death from my passing! [[spoiler:[[GratuitousSpanish Temeroso el Draque]]! I am the woman who set the sun!]] You rascals, it's time! The king of storms, a swarm of ghosts, this is the beginning of the [[spoiler:Wild Hunt]]!"'' |
| 263 | * BerserkButton: ''Fate/EXTRA'' material mentions that she can get truly angry if you were to call [[spoiler:Golden Hind by its original name, "Pelican".]] |
| 264 | * BottomlessMagazines: Exaggerated, since her weapons are ''single-shot flintlock pistols'' and she's never shown reloading them after firing. [[spoiler:In the Last Encore anime, she's defeated when they click on empty at the same time, leaving her open to attack]]. |
| 265 | * CardCarryingVillain: Well, she doesn't actually do anything villainous, but she calls her Master and herself villains. |
| 266 | * CleavageWindow: She outfit has a gap to show off her cleavage. |
| 267 | * CoolBigSis: She acts like this at times to her Master. |
| 268 | * CoolBoat: [[spoiler:The Golden Hind.]] |
| 269 | * EvilIsHammy: Thinks that villains should act as flamboyantly as possible. Since she considers herself one... |
| 270 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: She calmly accepts her defeat in both the first game (unlike her Master) and in the Last Encore anime. |
| 271 | -->'''Rider:''' [[spoiler:I'm out of luck]]? Well, [[ItCantBeHelped these things happen sometimes]]. |
| 272 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Has one across her face. |
| 273 | * GunsAkimbo: A pair of flintlock pistols that she [[BottomlessMagazines never has to reload]]. |
| 274 | * GunFu: Fights using a pair of guns. |
| 275 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: While she never drinks onscreen, she's a pirate, and her Master complains at one point that she stinks of alcohol. |
| 276 | %%* TheHedonist |
| 277 | * HistoricalGenderFlip: |
| 278 | ** [[spoiler:Although the game makes it clear that this is not an example of a female being recorded into history as male--like Red Saber--but simply how she has been incarnated into the Holy Grail War]]. |
| 279 | ** [[spoiler:There's also a possible subversion of this, since the Japanese version of the game hints that she's not actually Francis Drake, but Queen Elizabeth in disguise. However, this seems to be a case of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness since this concept has never been brought up again and ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' gives a different reason for why she was recorded as male.]] |
| 280 | %%* IdiotHair |
| 281 | %%* TheLadette |
| 282 | * LuckStat: Notable in that hers is [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale EX-Rank]]. |
| 283 | * MoreDakka: [[spoiler:Her Noble Phantasm summons her ship, the Golden Hind, as well as her armada, which bombards the target with cannons.]] |
| 284 | * MythologyGag: [[spoiler:Shinji's Servant being a Rider class, and the first to be defeated.]] |
| 285 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Well, her role as a Servant and her apparent ability to get along well with her Master might play a role, but she does demand a lot of money to fight and in an early quest, [[spoiler:she gets a power boost unless you can prevent her from reaching several treasures]]. |
| 286 | %%*PirateGirl |
| 287 | %%* {{Privateer}} |
| 288 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: [[spoiler:Possibly, as it's hinted that she may be Queen Elizabeth in disguise in the Japanese version]]. |
| 289 | [[/folder]] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | [[folder:Archer]] |
| 292 | !!!Identity: [[spoiler:Robin Hood]] | Master: Dan Blackmore | Voiced by: Creator/KosukeToriumi (Japanese), Creator/VicMignogna (English), Alan Prieto (Latin American Spanish) |
| 293 | [[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_archer_extra_4802.png]] |
| 294 | |
| 295 | A chivalrous outlaw thief who relies on guerrilla tactics such as [[CombatPragmatist preemptive strikes, traps and poison]]. Though he bitterly complains that he is unable to win in a fair fight, it is hinted that his true desire is to leave the shadows of the forest and be acknowledged and thanked as a hero. |
| 296 | |
| 297 | ---- |
| 298 | * AdaptationalBadass: Due to his master becoming [[AdaptationalVillainy more villainous]] in the anime, Archer is much more fearsome and dangerous compared to the game. This is of course due to not being forced to have a PowerLimiter placed on him by his Master, allowing him to fight at full power. |
| 299 | * CombatPragmatist: Traps, ambushes, poisons -- if it helps him win, he'll do it. [[spoiler:Though he's always wanted to fight fairly at least once in his life.]] |
| 300 | * DeadpanSnarker: It seems to be a requirement of the Archer class. |
| 301 | * {{Expy}}: His backstory, [[spoiler:specifically selflessly protecting everyone around him and ultimately being betrayed by them]] is very similar to [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight another Archer's]] and his role as a LegacyCharacter who has his own identity forgotten is very similar to [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Assassin's]]. |
| 302 | %%* FaceDeathWithDignity |
| 303 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: In his backstory. |
| 304 | * InvisibilityCloak: One of his Noble Phantasms, ''The Faceless King: No Face May King''. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation It has a different effect when used as a skill in-game]]. |
| 305 | * JustLikeRobinHood: [[spoiler:As expected, as he is the man himself.]] Archer gave BB’s SG after barely surviving Meltryllis’s encounter so the protagonist will have an advantage against the overly powerful BB. |
| 306 | * LegacyCharacter: One of many who used the identity of "Myth/RobinHood". |
| 307 | * MutuallyExclusivePowerUps: In the Last Encore anime, it's stated that he can't use ''[[InvisibilityCloak The Faceless King: No Face May King]]'' and ''[[PopGoesTheHuman Yew Bow: Bow of Prayer]]'' at the same time. |
| 308 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:During his life he fought for the people of his village, whom rewarded him with betrayal after betrayal. Despite all this, he still fought for them, as it was the right thing to do.]] It sucks being an Archer in the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}}. |
| 309 | * OutOfCharacterAlert: He’s usually very laid-back, so when he goes as far as being verbally and physically abusive to Passionlip, it tips everyone off to just what’s wrong with the Alter Ego as previously Alice and Caster also bullied her too cruelly for their standards. |
| 310 | * PoisonedWeapons: His arrows are coated with yew tree toxin. |
| 311 | * PopGoesTheHuman: One of his Noble Phantasms, ''Yew Bow: Bow of Prayer'', causes impurities in his target's body (such as poison from his arrows) to violently detonate with explosive force. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation In the game]], it only increases damage inflicted by a preexisting poison effect and [[UselessUsefulSpell fails completely if your Servant isn't poisoned when he uses it]]. |
| 312 | * PowerLimiter: [[spoiler:Due to his under-handed tactics, his stats got decreased [[NoFairCheating due to his breaking of the rules]]. Due to his Master's HonorBeforeReason and the rules of this Grail War, he is forced into a one-vs-one duel rather than his preferred [[CombatPragmatist fighting style]]. As a result, he never stood a chance and we never got to see Archer's full power. However, in the anime, due to the rules of the war having been completely changed and Dan becoming more pragmatic and more of a villain, he uses his abilities in full]]. |
| 313 | %%* RedheadInGreen |
| 314 | [[/folder]] |
| 315 | |
| 316 | [[folder:Caster]] |
| 317 | !!!Identity: [[spoiler:Nursery Rhyme]] | Master: Alice | Voiced by: Creator/AiNonaka (Japanese), Creator/XantheHuynh (English, Anime), Pamela Mendoza (Latin American Spanish, Anime) |
| 318 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_1extracasternurseryrhyme_2836.png]] |
| 319 | |
| 320 | An irregular Servant who bears an appearance identical to her Master's. This is because she is not a specific individual with their own identity, but a manifestation of the love of children towards the nursery rhyme genre, effectively making them a "hero of children". The Servant itself is a kind of pseudo-Reality Marble that reflects the true feelings of the one who summons it, creating a Servant in the image that their Master imagines. |
| 321 | |
| 322 | ---- |
| 323 | * AliceAllusion: For the same reasons as her Master. |
| 324 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[spoiler:Her true identity is Nursery Rhyme, a personification of children's stories such as ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''.]] |
| 325 | %%* CreepyChild |
| 326 | * CreepyTwins: Pulls off the act with her Master. |
| 327 | %%* DarkMagicalGirl |
| 328 | * DegradedBoss: In ''CCC'', she is faced as a random encounter in [[spoiler:Meltryllis's dungeon]] later on in the game. |
| 329 | * DemotedToExtra: In ''Last Encore'', she only appears once in the series due to the fact that [[spoiler:Alice's transformation stripped her of her human form, leaving her as a nondescript book trying to help Alice with her Noble Phantasms.]] |
| 330 | * DissonantSerenity: She talks about IronicNurseryTune with the same cheerfulness as when she’s playing with her Master, but it’s nothing like when [[spoiler:Meltryllis tore her apart and sent her Master comatose]]; she uses non-threatening phrases like “Welcome,” or “Let’s play,” while engaging in battle, laughs when damaged by skills, and mutters “Sweet dreams" when defeated. As there’s a lot of her in that floor, the best way to describe her predicament is a BrokenRecord. |
| 331 | * ElegantGothicLolita: She wears black and pink in contrast to her Master. |
| 332 | * EmpathicShapeshifter: [[spoiler:Caster changes form depending on the Master who summoned her.]] |
| 333 | * LossOfIdentity: [[spoiler:Caster's Reality Marble, the Nameless Forest, causes people to forget their names, their sense of self and then, [[RetGone that they ever existed]]]]. |
| 334 | * MesACrowd: In ''CCC'', [[spoiler:until you do Alice’s last will]], her countless [[spoiler:ghost]] copies replace every enemy program on the floor. |
| 335 | * MysticalWhiteHair: Appropriately enough for a Caster-class servant. |
| 336 | * NurseryRhyme: All her Matrix entries except two are done in nursery rhyme. She also utters a few of her own creation. |
| 337 | * OffWithHisHead: She talks about doing this four times (including optional scenes), all in relation to you and[=/=]or your Servant. Two of those times, she quotes the trope-naming line. |
| 338 | * OneSteveLimit: Caster is based on ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', which gives us such gems as ''"That's Alice, and I'm Alice."'' and ''"I am Alice, the Servant of Alice."'' RainbowSpeak is an early indicator that the two are different. |
| 339 | * TimeLimitBoss: |
| 340 | ** Not a clock-based time limit, but if the battle drags on, Caster will use her Noble Phantasm, which not only damages you but fully restores her HP, essentially resetting the battle. Oh, and the effect [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard activates between turns]], so there's no way to stop it. |
| 341 | *** In the anime, [[spoiler:this renders Alice undefeatable unless she decides not to activate it.]] |
| 342 | ** This particular facet makes her an extreme case of PuzzleBoss: looking into the Phantasm's description [[spoiler:lets you know that she simply repeats the exact same 8-turn move sequence over and over with no deviation between Noble Phantasm activations]]. |
| 343 | * WeakButSkilled: Every single one of her stats is [[RankInflation Rank E]]. She balances this out with a plethora of high ranked skills [[spoiler:and a Reality Marble]]. |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
| 345 | |
| 346 | [[folder:Lancer]] |
| 347 | !!!Identity: [[spoiler:Vlad III]] | Master: Lanrukun/Lil' Ronnie | Voiced by: Creator/HisaoEgawa |
| 348 | [[quoteright:198:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_lancer2_extra_7247.png]] |
| 349 | |
| 350 | A deranged individual who shares his Master's twisted notions of love. Though he had been noble and dedicated to the cause of protecting his nation in life, he became infamous for his excessively brutal methods, which eventually led to his people turning against him. Dying in despair, he questioned why his sincere efforts had been rewarded by betrayal, and lost his sanity. He's ''not'' a vampire. |
| 351 | ---- |
| 352 | * AdaptedOut: Never appears in the anime version. |
| 353 | %%* AxCrazy |
| 354 | * BerserkButton: The word "monster" if directed at his Master by someone else. |
| 355 | * BlessedWithSuck: One of his abilities is the Divine Aegis, more commonly know as Protection of Faith, which is ostensibly a form of divine protection given to those who have sacrificed themselves for something they believe to be the greater good, but is actually a manifestation of faith and self-righteousness. [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Higher ranks of this skill have detrimental effects on a person's sanity and personality.]] Lancer [[BlessedWithSuck has it at]] ''[[RankInflation A+++ Rank]]''. |
| 356 | * BloodIsTheNewBlack: The left side of his armor is permanently covered with blood. |
| 357 | * BornUnlucky: His Luck stat is a paltry D rank, in reference to his generally unpleasant personal life [[spoiler: (he lost his father and his older brother at a young age, was sent to live along with his younger brother Radu as a political hostage of the Ottoman Sultan even earlier) and his ultimately short reign with limited success (he spent less than ten years as Voivode in total, and despite his successful resistance against the Ottomans, Hungarians and other enemies multiple times was ultimately imprisoned later in life and never reclaimed his earlier military success)]]. |
| 358 | * TheButcher: He was known as the [[spoiler:Kazikli Voyvoda/Impaler Prince]] in life. |
| 359 | %%* DepravedBisexual |
| 360 | * FangsAreEvil: His canines are visibly long and sharp, like [[spoiler:a vampire's fangs]]. |
| 361 | * FieldOfBlades: A field of spears comes out when he uses his Noble Phantasm. |
| 362 | * GracefulLoser: Enough of one that it becomes [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness jarring]] since he's so hammy everywhere else. |
| 363 | * HistoricalVillainUpgrade: InUniverse, and it literally changes his appearance and abilities to match the common perception of him, represented on his Matrix as the Seraphic Monstrosity ability. |
| 364 | * HumansAreBastards: He believes that all humans are monstrous in nature, and those who aren't ain't humans in the first place. That being said, he does believe that all humans are capable of finding redemption for the evils they have done. |
| 365 | -->'''Lancer''': ''"Humans are the monstrous ones. A human who has never betrayed another of their wretched kind isn't human."'' |
| 366 | * HumansAreSpecial: His dying speech makes that certainly clear, where he finally acknowledges Ronnie's monstrous nature but, because she is ultimately human, even after death her soul can be saved and any wrongdoing can be atoned for in Purgatory. Would almost count as a moment of heartwarming if not for Ronnie's insane complaints about Lancer dying and not leaving behind a body to eat. |
| 367 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He loves it so much, his Ceremonial Purge skill involves doing it to himself. Strangely, it only damages your Servant. [[spoiler:His Noble Phantasm even has the title of Fortress of Impalement.]] |
| 368 | * KnightTemplar: He [[spoiler:impaled many of his own country's nobility]] because he felt that they had destabilized [[spoiler:Wallachia.]] He also [[spoiler:impaled thousands of Turkish soldiers as psychological warfare]], all in the name of protecting [[spoiler:the Christian kingdoms from the Ottomans]]. |
| 369 | * LargeHam: He has NoIndoorVoice, between that and his flowery dialogue he makes Saber look absolutely restrained in comparison. |
| 370 | %%* NoIndoorVoice |
| 371 | * MightyGlacier: His Strength is ranked B and his Endurance is an impressive A rank (plus an unexpected rank A in Magic), but his Agility is ranked E. An unusual case, seeing as Lancer class Servants are usually {{Fragile Speedster}}s. |
| 372 | * MythologyGag: [[spoiler:It was established in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' that Vlad Tepes wasn't a vampire.]] |
| 373 | %%* RedEyesTakeWarning |
| 374 | * ReligiousBruiser: He's very devout, both in life and during the Holy Grail War. |
| 375 | * TragicMonster: The protagonist believes so, anyway. |
| 376 | --> ''If he really did end up a monster because no one understood him, that's really sad...'' |
| 377 | * UnholyMatrimony: With his Master. You can tell, because she [[ItMakesSenseInContext wants to eat him as he fades away]]. |
| 378 | [[/folder]] |
| 379 | |
| 380 | [[folder:Berserker (Arcueid Brunestud)]] |
| 381 | !!!Identity: Arcueid Brunestud | Master: Monji Gatou | Voiced by: Creator/RyokaYuzuki |
| 382 | [[quoteright:182:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_berserkerarc_extra_4455.png]] |
| 383 | |
| 384 | Supposedly a blood-sucking demon who is worshipped as a god by her Master, she is in fact a True Ancestor, a demon inherently connected to the Earth. Her current state is due to her Master lacking the ability to handle or even comprehend her true form, forcing her into the Berserker class. While the Berserker class increases her raw statistics, it has sealed many of the abilities that would otherwise make her a GameBreaker. |
| 385 | |
| 386 | ---- |
| 387 | * AdaptedOut: Never appears in the anime. |
| 388 | * AlternateSelf: She is an alternate version of Arcueid Brunestud from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}''. [[spoiler:Or so it seems at first. In actuality, she ''is'' the original Arcueid and was merely altered by the effects of the Mad Enhancement. Once she's defeated and her Master dies, she returns to normal and heads back to her proper world.]] |
| 389 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: By having Berserker's passive Mad Enhancement. [[spoiler:After she is defeated and Gatou is deleted (breaking the Master/Servant link), she returns to normal and is quite friendly towards the Protagonist.]] |
| 390 | * CallBack: [[spoiler:While Gatou is her official Master in the Moon Cell War, her Servant Matrix reveals her true Master is actually Shiki Tohno.]] |
| 391 | * ColonyDrop: Her ''Blut die Schwester'' conjures an illusion of the Crimson Moon. |
| 392 | * ContinuityCameo: Nasu has said that Moon Cell has nothing to do with the Crimson Moon as it would just break the story of ''Tsukihime'' apart, albeit the equivalent "Brain of the Moon" in ''Fate/Extra'' timeline is still living. In Arcueid's own words, the reason why she's here is due to fanservice. |
| 393 | * FemmeFatalons: She can extend her fingernails into blood-red claws. |
| 394 | * GodGuise: Her Master proclaims her to be a true god. She is more of a natural phenomenon, comparable to a tornado or earthquake. |
| 395 | * MythologyGag: Her overall design and feral demeanor harkens back to that of [[VideoGame/MeltyBlood Red Arcueid.]] |
| 396 | * NoSell: Of course ''the Moon'' doesn't delete her if she loses. [[spoiler:She's a perfect copy of [[EldritchAbomination Type Moon]], after all]]. |
| 397 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: She is the most powerful True Ancestor in existence. |
| 398 | * PowerLimiter: Not only does being a Berserker reduce her overall capabilities, but her Master's incompetence reduces her abilities even further! Even her [[PowerBornOfMadness Mad Enhancement/Blind Rage]] skill has been reduced in effectiveness, giving her all the drawbacks of Rank A but only the benefits of Rank C. |
| 399 | * PowerBornOfMadness: She's a Berserker and trades away sanity for power, but because Gatou is both incompetent and doesn't even understand what Arcueid is she has the effects on her mind of rank A while only getting a level C powerup. |
| 400 | * TheSpeechless: Thanks to Mad Enhancement, she's mostly rendered unable to speak coherently. She's silent in all scenes besides the post arena dialogue with the exception of two lines during her boss fight.[[note]]If she dodges a blow from Hakuno's Servant or if she activates Gnaden Sturz.[[/note]] |
| 401 | -->'''Berserker''': [[YouFightLikeACow "How inelegant."]] |
| 402 | * SkywardScream: Upon using ''Blut die Schwester'', she leans back and lets out a howl. |
| 403 | * UnskilledButStrong: While true of the Berserker class in general, because of her master's lack of skill and understanding, she's not as strong as she could be. All she gets is a slight increase in power compared to other Berserkers, and most of her skills are sealed as a result. Despite this, her natural power is enough that she can easily pose a threat, and the small boost in stats makes her able to kill enemies with just pure strength alone. |
| 404 | [[/folder]] |
| 405 | |
| 406 | [[folder:Assassin]] |
| 407 | !!!Identity: [[spoiler:Li Shuwen]] | Master: Julius B. Harway | Voiced by: Creator/KunihikoYasui (Japanese), Creator/ChrisHackney (English, Anime) |
| 408 | [[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_assassin_extra_2592.png]] |
| 409 | |
| 410 | A Chinese martial artist whose skill in the art of Bājí Quán was so advanced that it was said he could slay any opponent with a single blow. Though he is famed as a Lancer, his Master elected to summon a younger version for compatibility, and for his Servant's ferocity and unquestioning impulse to fight during his youth. |
| 411 | |
| 412 | ---- |
| 413 | * AffablyEvil: He's much nicer than his Master, even if he is trying to kill you. Archer lampshades this at the start of the Elimination Battle. |
| 414 | * BadassBoast: His Noble Phantasm comes from a quote by the elderly RealLife Li Shuwen about not knowing what it is like to hit a man twice[[note]]In context however, Li was referring to ''spearfighting'', not his punching power[[/note]]. |
| 415 | * BareFistedMonk: He doesn't need to wield weapons or wear armor when he can use Bājí Quán. |
| 416 | * BloodKnight: He's very happy to face an enemy that doesn't go down in one hit. |
| 417 | * CardCarryingVillain: He feels that all he can do is destroy, so he embraces it. |
| 418 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: His [[LimitBreak Noble Phantasm]], despite being referred as such in-game, is actually the highest form of his martial art, where [[FingerPokeOfDoom even the slightest touch]] is enough to kill the opponent. |
| 419 | %%* CurtainsMatchTheWindow |
| 420 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He comments that, if he killed as often as [[spoiler:his Master]], he wouldn't be able to sleep at night. |
| 421 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:The first time you defeat him. He's been turned into a Berserker the second time, so he doesn't have the state of mind for this.]] |
| 422 | %%* FieryRedhead |
| 423 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[spoiler:After he's brought back as a Berserker.]] |
| 424 | * GuyLiner: Red, matching his eyes and hair. |
| 425 | * {{Invisibility}}: [[spoiler:Due to his personal skill, instead of the Assassin class skill, ''Presence Concealment''[=/=]''Obfuscation'']]. In gameplay terms, you can't hurt him at all until you nullify it. |
| 426 | * MythologyGag: |
| 427 | ** This isn't the first time an [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Assassin]] prefers head to head combat, as well as having a Noble Phantasm that is the product of years of training rather than an artifact or magic. |
| 428 | ** In Material book, one of his listed enemies is [[VideoGame/MeltyBlood TATARI]]. Seems rather random enemy to have until you remember that [[spoiler:it tried to influence another bajiquan practitioner with Miyako Arima, who managed to reach the same skills as Li Shuwen under its influence]]. |
| 429 | %%* NobleDemon |
| 430 | * NoSell: Thanks to his above mentioned {{Invisibility}}, in gameplay terms there is no way to hurt him when you first meet him. He can only be damaged when it's nullified. |
| 431 | * OneHitKill: Despite his reputation, [[CutscenePowerToTheMax the only time he gets to do this is in cutscenes]], unless you made your Servant into a GlassCannon. During the battle with him it has an HPToOne effect instead, taking off 90% of your Servant's current HP if it hits. |
| 432 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Red-eyed and ''very'' deadly. |
| 433 | * RuleOfThree: It takes three attempts to [[spoiler:nullify his ''Concealment'' skill: the first two traps made to disable electronic devices and interfere with thaumaturgy respectively fail, but the third trap disrupts his chi and reveals him]]. |
| 434 | * ScreamingWarrior: [[spoiler:After he's brought back as a Berserker.]] |
| 435 | * SquareRaceRoundClass: While his hand-to-hand combat skills fit the Assassin class container, under normal circumstances he ''shouldn't'' be able to be summoned as the container is normally restricted to the nineteen Hassan-i-Sabbah. As the least combat oriented class, Assassin also should have no business going hand-to-hand against Saber-class Servants, who are considered the ''strongest'' Servants in close combat, and ''winning.'' |
| 436 | * TouchOfDeath: His famous quip about not knowing what it's like to hit a man twice is the biggest clue to his identity. |
| 437 | * WeakButSkilled: Makes up for his rather low stats (save for an A Rank AGI) with his unique [[spoiler:''Sphere Boundary''[=/=]''Concealment'' and ''Chinese Martial Arts''[=/=]''Liuhe Quan'' skills, ranked [[RankInflation A and A+++]] respectively]]. |
| 438 | [[/folder]] |
| 439 | |
| 440 | [[folder:Lancer]] |
| 441 | !!!Identity: Cu Chulainn | Master: Rin Tousaka | Voiced by: Creator/NobutoshiCanna |
| 442 | [[quoteright:136:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_lancer_extra_3183.png]] |
| 443 | |
| 444 | An Irish demigod hero, and {{Expy}} of Lancer from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. Much like his counterpart, he's cocky, aggressive and a womanizer. |
| 445 | |
| 446 | His Noble Phantasm is the spear Gae Bolg, which instantly pierces the target's heart and then [[RealityWarper reverses cause and effect]] to create a reason for it. |
| 447 | ---- |
| 448 | %%* BloodKnight |
| 449 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler:Is ordered to eat ten mapo tofu in under a minute by Kotomine for losing.]] |
| 450 | %%* DeadpanSnarker |
| 451 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In Rin's route, he delays Rani's self-destruct long enough for the protagonist and Rin to be logged out by the SE.RA.PH, but is gravely wounded and unable to escape the explosion.]] |
| 452 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: [[spoiler:If you save Rin, he doesn't really have much of a reaction to Rani's Servant taking off "his entire right side" with one hit.]] |
| 453 | * MythologyGag: In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', Lancer says he would have liked [[spoiler:Rin to be his Master.]] |
| 454 | ** If you [[spoiler:save Rin]], he [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] himself and comments: |
| 455 | --->''"Now, I just need to work on finding ways to defend people without getting myself killed..."'' |
| 456 | * OneHitKill: [[spoiler:Gae Bolg]]. As in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', high {{Luck|Stat}} or Archer's 7 Rings of Heaven skill can stop it. |
| 457 | * OptionalBoss: [[spoiler:In ''CCC'', he is an optional boss and has Kotomine as his master.]] |
| 458 | * PowerLimiter: Lancer's [[{{Determinator}} Battle Continuation]] skill was reduced by his current master in order to raise his endurance. |
| 459 | * TronLines: The main difference between his design here and the one in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. |
| 460 | [[/folder]] |
| 461 | |
| 462 | [[folder:Berserker]] |
| 463 | !!!Identity: [[spoiler:Lu Bu]] | Master: Rani VIII | Voiced by: Creator/KunihikoYasui |
| 464 | [[quoteright:238:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_berserker_extra_7.png]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | A Chinese military commander infamous for his many betrayals. His military acumen and mastery of weaponry is so great that it would [[TheAce allow him to be summoned as any class within the Holy Grail War]] with the exception of Saber and Caster. |
| 467 | |
| 468 | ---- |
| 469 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: In his backstory, but not in the game itself, since Mad Enhancement denies him the state of mind for it. |
| 470 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Later games in the franchise stress that he gets attached to young girls, who remind him of his daughter, and was close with [[spoiler: his strategist, Chen Gong]] in life, whom his Master resembles. Collectively, these help explain why, even when her control over him snapped, he chose to save her life at the cost of his own, despite his infamous ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. |
| 471 | * FlatCharacter: If he actually gets a story arc to himself, rather than [[spoiler: sacrificing himself to save his Master on her route]], he shows ''less'' personality, since he's just her tool and puppet to the end. |
| 472 | * FourStarBadass: [[spoiler:His true name is Lu Bu, one of the more infamous military commanders during the ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'']]. |
| 473 | * GoOutWithASmile: The one time he really emotes in the game is when he smiles slightly [[spoiler: upon saving his master and the protagonist, at the cost of his own life.]] |
| 474 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:In Rani's route, he protects her and the Protagonist from the explosion that was trying to [[TakingYouWithMe take Rin and the Moon Cell with her]]]]. |
| 475 | * {{Hypocrite}}: One of his listed dislikes is betrayal. Yes, the most treacherous warrior of [[spoiler:the Three Kingdoms era]] and whose like section lists ''betrayal'' as one of things he likes, hates being betrayed himself. |
| 476 | * MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Rather than filling up the action bar, Berserker will act only half the turns in a given round. This is more deviously difficult than it seems; Caster especially struggles to deal with him since so many of her defensive tricks involve stunning an enemy for a turn if she can guess what kind of attack they're going to make and passing instead means she doesn't have any reliable way to avoid eating his Skills to her face. |
| 477 | * MythologyGag: A famous Berserker-class Servant (who also qualifies for nearly every other class) that can't use his Noble Phantasm to its full potential and his combat skills because of Mad Enhancement, like another [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Berserker]] that we know. [[spoiler: Later games in the franchise suggest he also easily comes to see teenage girls as surrogate daughter figures, much like that Berserker, and in the route where he makes a HeroicSacrifice, it's implied he liked his Master as a person.]] |
| 478 | * ScreamingWarrior: All his attacks are accompanied by loud roars and mechanical clanks. |
| 479 | * SwissArmyWeapon: His Noble Phantasm has five forms, but due to Mad Enhancement, he can only use Halberd Force and Cannon Force. |
| 480 | * TheUnintelligible: His text boxes contain only gibberish lines instead of legible text. |
| 481 | * UnskilledButStrong: Relies solely on brute strength, but has more than enough of it to spare. |
| 482 | [[/folder]] |
| 483 | |
| 484 | [[folder:Saber (Sir Gawain)]] |
| 485 | !!!Identity: Gawain | Master: Leonard Harway | Voiced by: Creator/TakahiroMizushima (Japanese), Creator/ChrisPatton (English), Pascual Meza (Latin American Spanish) |
| 486 | [[quoteright:129:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_saber_extra_8923.png]] |
| 487 | |
| 488 | A knight of the Round Table, known as the "Knight of the Sun" and counterpart to King Arthur. Having regretted his decisions in life, in which his personal failings led to the downfall of his king, Gawain hopes to restore his honor by serving Leonard Harway unquestioningly as "the perfect knight". |
| 489 | ---- |
| 490 | %%* AssKickingPose |
| 491 | * TheAtoner: After his actions resulted in the [[spoiler:destruction of Arthur's kingdom, the death of most of the knights and his own disgrace]] he wished for a second chance to [[ToBeLawfulOrGood perfectly serve a king without question]]. |
| 492 | * BlindObedience: After his failures in Camelot, Gawain has decided to ''never'' question or critique his king, even if that means ignoring blatant flaws and weaknesses. |
| 493 | * ChivalrousPervert: See his reaction to any of Leo’s perverted hijinks and to the Alter Egos. He somehow can spout most detailed description of women’s erotic features with such a straightforward manner, it’s like he’s telling only truth. |
| 494 | * CoolSword: [[spoiler:Excalibur Galatine, which has a shard of the Sun in it]]. Its name is a reference to [[spoiler:both {{Excalibur}}, which certain early French stories had him wielding, and Galatine, the sword he wields in most other stories]]. |
| 495 | * DiscOneFinalBoss: In the original game. He is the last opponent for the Holy Grail War, [[spoiler: but the game still isn't quite over after you defeat him.]] |
| 496 | %%* FaceDeathWithDignity |
| 497 | * FlamingSword: When he uses his Blade of Devotion skill. |
| 498 | * HopelessBossFight: If you decide to fight him in ''CCC''. Note that it technically ''is'' winnable, but only if you're either cheating or have some very broken New Game+ outfits equipped. |
| 499 | * HourOfPower: Between 9AM and 12 noon, and 3PM and 6PM, his power increases threefold, represented by the Numeral of the Saint ability. In gameplay terms, you can't damage him at all and must find some way of nullifying this ability or it's game over. |
| 500 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: The way he puts the duty placement between him and your Servant makes him seemingly belittling you. It’s only when both Leo and Julius apologize for his tactless manner he realizes it. |
| 501 | * ItsAllMyFault: Believes his hatred for [[spoiler:Lancelot]] caused [[spoiler:the fall of Camelot]]. |
| 502 | %%* KnightInShiningArmor |
| 503 | * LethalChef: His cooking is so horrid, Leo forbids him from for touching the kitchenware ever again. It implied that the reason why [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Arthur]] is such a glutton is because she put up with his foods in their Round Table time. |
| 504 | * MythologyGag: His appearance is based on the original design for Saber, before she was changed to a girl. Fitting, considering that in most legends he is referred as Arthur's nephew. |
| 505 | * NoSell: If fought during his HourOfPower, he is immune to damage. |
| 506 | * OvershadowedByAwesome: Excalibur Galatine is a really powerful Noble Phantasm that compliments Gawain's fighting style, but it is also the sister-sword to the ''much'' more popular Excalibur, meaning that it rarely got mentioned in the original myths. |
| 507 | * ThePowerOfTheSun: The Sun empowers him during the day. |
| 508 | * {{Revenge}}: Originally against [[spoiler:Lancelot]]. He eventually forgives [[spoiler:Lancelot before his death]]. |
| 509 | * RuleOfThree: His Numeral of the Saint ability triples his strength during three-hour periods. |
| 510 | * SlapOnTheWristNuke: Excalibur Galatine is supposed to be the equal of Excalibur, which is basically the most powerful directly damaging Noble Phantasm out there not named Ea. It should reduce you to dust, but what it actually does is just sort of hurt. Toss your Servant an Ether Crystal and they'll be good as new. |
| 511 | * ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Whenever Gawain actives his Noble Phantasm, ''Excalibur Galatine: The Reborn Sword of Victory'', he always makes a habit of tossing up Galatine high into the air as it charges up and somehow managing to catch it after getting fully charged. |
| 512 | * ToBeLawfulOrGood: Thinks of his actions in life along these lines, and unlike most examples he resolved to be ''lawful'' and obey his Master without any question whatsoever, in order to repent for his grudges getting in the way of his duty towards the king. Archer and Saber will both call him out for this in different ways - Archer thinks he is LawfulStupid and Saber thinks he is an insult to knights. Caster merely thinks he swore his loyalty to someone unworthy of being called a king in the first place. |
| 513 | * TrashTalk: [[http://i.imgur.com/GM5Ls.png He's kind of a dick to his enemies]]. He's not even good at it. However, according to materials released.... |
| 514 | --> ''[[BlatantLies "He never looked down on his enemies. Needless to say, he also never insults his enemies, confronting them with politeness and maintaining his fighting spirit and resolve even when the opponent lacks capacity.]]"'' |
| 515 | * TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: As part of his BlindObedience, CCC shows that Gawain ''hates'' traitors. He can't stand Elizabeth for killing her own Master, and gets into an arguement with Gilgamesh - who didn't see a problem with Elizabeth's actions on the ground they never shared a common goal in the first place - despite ''everyone'' thinking it's a bad idea. |
| 516 | * TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Suffers from this when he fights BB, who proceeds to use the Grail to deal 99999 damage to him]]. |
| 517 | [[/folder]] |
| 518 | |
| 519 | [[folder:Saver/Savior]] |
| 520 | !!!Identity: [[spoiler:Buddha Shakyamuni]] | Master: Twice H. Pieceman | Voiced by: Creator/HideyukiTanaka (Drama CD) |
| 521 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_servant_saver_3400.png]] |
| 522 | |
| 523 | A celestial being summoned from the records of the Moon Cell by Twice H. Pieceman to act as the strongest Servant and free humanity from suffering. His exact identity is unclear during the game itself, but supplementary materials reveal him to be the Buddha. The Protagonist speculates that Savior does not agree with Pieceman's philosophy of endless war, but agreed to aid him as a way of showing mercy and compassion to Twice's tortured soul. Savior acts as the final boss of the game. |
| 524 | |
| 525 | ---- |
| 526 | * TheDragon: [[spoiler:Even though he doesn't support Twice's ideals, he's just being compassionate towards the soul of the original Twice]]. |
| 527 | * FinalBoss: Of the first game. |
| 528 | * FinalBossPreview: Downplayed in the Last Encore anime. The ActionPrologue shows [[FirstEpisodeTwist Savior defeating Female Hakuno and the playable Saber]], but [[spoiler:when Male Hakuno and Saber arrive at the Moon Cell core, Savior has long abandoned the place, and only his TimeLimitBoss Noble Phantasm remains with Twice's Dead Face to oppose the protagonists]]. |
| 529 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: When he [[EyesAlwaysShut opens his eyes]] to glare at his opponents, and looks rather menacing that way. |
| 530 | * InvincibleVillain: In Extra Materials, the final showdown is described as Hakuno simply talking Twice down, implying any notion of actually defeating Savior to be ridiculous. Appropriately, his profile shows us exactly why: He's got martial arts at a higher level than [[WeakButSkilled Li Shuwen]], reduces all damage taken by an amount equivalent to his max health, reduces his enemies' stats dramatically by just being in their presence, and his Noble Phantasms are ludicrously powerful. |
| 531 | * LastOfHisKind: ''And'' also the first. A Character Materials entry released for ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' relevant to [[spoiler:Solomon]] mentions that he is the only human to ever achieve enlightenment. |
| 532 | * LightIsGood: Everything that he does, he does out of compassion. |
| 533 | * MartialPacifist: He is always meditating, even in battle, and his attacks are all projectiles he waves gently with his hands. |
| 534 | * MythologyGag: In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the original version of Saber]] was called Saver. |
| 535 | * NiceGuy: [[spoiler:Given how he's ''the Buddha'', did you expect anything else]]? |
| 536 | * OneHitKill: His Noble Phantasm, [[spoiler:''Amita Amitabha: Transmigration into One'']]. |
| 537 | * PhysicalGod: [[spoiler:As a Boddhisattva, he is a god of cosmic proportions, capable of governing the Solar System easily, and is one of the Vajra holders in heaven]]. |
| 538 | * PowerLimiter: Since he's the Buddha, he's far and away stronger than any other Servant in the game by a country mile, but it's implied that he doesn't have access to much of his power due to being in a Servant container, plus he's not really trying to begin with. |
| 539 | * PunchClockVillain: [[spoiler:He's only working with Twice out of pity]]. |
| 540 | %%* SupernaturalGoldEyes: When he is serious. |
| 541 | * TimeLimitBoss: During the fight, he will charge his Transmigration into One attack. Every two turns, one light will shine on his Mandala; if he lights all seven mirrors, he delivers a OneHitKill, instant Game Over. |
| 542 | * WillfullyWeak: He has access to some rather broken skills that make him more or less untouchable, but they don't appear to be in effect during the boss fight, meaning his "defeat" was not due to his opponent's strength, but rather because the Protagonist is able to tell Twice off. |
| 543 | [[/folder]] |
| 544 | |
| 545 | !!''CCC'' Servants |
| 546 | |
| 547 | [[folder:Gilgamesh]] |
| 548 | !!!Voiced by Creator/TomokazuSeki |
| 549 | [[quoteright:247:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_gilgameshccc_8778.png]] |
| 550 | |
| 551 | A new playable Servant in ''Fate/EXTRA CCC''. Gilgamesh is known as the "King of Heroes", a legendary Servant who boasts that he is so powerful, he does not fall under any of the typical seven Classes. His ego is so great that he does not bother to hide his identity as the famous Babylonian king who was said to own all of the world's treasures. |
| 552 | |
| 553 | His Noble Phantasm is the Gate of Babylon, a portal leading to the treasury containing the thousands upon thousands of Noble Phantasms he collected during his lifetime. As he lacks the proficiency to wield most of them, Gilgamesh mainly uses them as projectiles or shields. However, he does have a few favourites: such as the anti-World Noble Phantasm Ea, a drill-sword that he uses for his devastating Enuma Elish FinishingMove. |
| 554 | ----- |
| 555 | * TheAce: WordOfGod states that the main reason Gilgamesh has no class was because "there was no more reason to restrict his power [using the Class system]". In fact, [[spoiler:the reason he is not allowed to be summoned on the Near Side is that he would make the Holy Grail War ''too easy''. Thus he can only be summoned on the Far Side.]] |
| 556 | * AdaptationalBadass: While Gilgamesh is far from weak in ''Fate/Stay Night'', he often loses to opponents weaker than him due to his own arrogance and never taking any fight seriously. Here, he's able to hold his own against likes of ''Kiara and BB'' and even come out on top. Even his trademark arrogance, which is a FatalFlaw that constantly bit him in the ass, isn't a hindrance. |
| 557 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: While the Gilgamesh in ''Fate/Stay Night'' and ''Zero'' is an outright irredeemable asshole from beginning to the end. His incarnation in the ''Fate/Extra'' universe; while a self-centered dick at worse, at best he's capable of forming a loyal bond with Hakuno as their servant and expresses respect to other servants provided that they impress him with their fighting skills. It's possible he's this way because Seraph, the world he's summoned to is a virtual world that reminds him of Babylonia, his own nation he once ruled over before his death. |
| 558 | * ArmorIsUseless: An odd example, and something of a DoubleSubversion. Gilgamesh's default costume is his [[ArmorOfInvincibility infamously durable]] golden armor, and his Guard animation involves raising his gauntlet to stop his opponent's attack dead. However, because he still does this even without the armor equipped, after you unlock more costumes for him (basically blocking with his bare hand), and the breastplate itself doesn't hamper the enemy's damage, this trope still applies and his Guard animation is best chalked up to RuleOfCool. |
| 559 | * ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Created from the Counter Force by the Gods to control humanity]]. |
| 560 | * AscendedMeme: The "A.U.O. Cast Off System" he possesses in this game is phonetically identical to the Japanese rendition of his title, ''Eiyū-Ō'' (英雄王, "King of Heroes"), with fans calling him "AUO" ever since ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. |
| 561 | * BadassArmfold: His standard battle stance. Only by getting his HP to red does he lower his arms to a relaxed standing pose. |
| 562 | * BagOfSpilling: Him being at level 1 is the result of sleeping for (in Moon Cell time) over a millennium. He said he could regain his power by just using his Elixir of Youth and turning himself into a kid and thus naturally regaining his power by growing up (like he did in the time from Zero to Stay), but says it would be fun to do it the old-fashioned way. |
| 563 | * BlindedByTheLight: When confronted by Red Lancer, Gilgamesh deals with her by [[spoiler:stripping naked. [[MaleFrontalNudity His crotch (but not his buttocks)]] is concealed by a shining golden sun]]. |
| 564 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Most characters don't really grasp Gilgamesh's morals. For example, he doesn't consider red Lancer to be a traitor to her Master because they were never pursuing the same goals to begin with, so when a better opportunity came up for her, betrayal was a natural decision to make. |
| 565 | * TheCaligula: Anderson tells him to his face he was this, caring only for his own pleasures while ignorant to the suffering of his people at best or just making life harder for them at worst. He's not wrong, either; Gilgamesh as king during his early years was an absolute monster. |
| 566 | * DefrostingIceKing: He comes to regard the Protagonist at almost the same level as Enkidu. |
| 567 | * TheDreaded: Everyone watches what they say around him, including his allies. Even [[TheAce Leo]] makes sure to be respectful. |
| 568 | * DualWielding: Can use two swords in combat. |
| 569 | * EasierThanEasy: According to the beta testers in a blog post, using Gil is essentially cheating because of how high his base stats are. There's a good reason that his mode is called "Cheat mode" in-game. |
| 570 | * EscapedFromHell: [[spoiler:Pulls this off in his ending when he burns through all three of his own Command Seals and a reported ''90% of his Noble Phantasm treasury'' to break out of the Far Side and rescue the Protagonist from deletion at the end of the Near Side story]]. |
| 571 | * {{Foil}}: As he himself points out, he's one to his fellow overpowered Servant Karna. Gilgamesh is a greedy tyrant who (initially) couldn't care less about his Master, Karna's the generous Hero of Charity who would do anything for his Master. |
| 572 | * GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: He ''is'' a demigod. |
| 573 | * GuideDangIt: Gilgamesh's Secret Garden is much harder to get without looking it up. The first requires you to use over 10 items, and must be done before you obtained the first SG of the Sentinel ''from Chapter 3 onwards'', or it will be {{Permanently Miss|ableContent}}ed. The second SG requires you to use Gilgamesh's skills for at least 30 times, which is easier to be done than the first one. The last SG can only be unlocked by spending 300,000 Sakurament. Particularly jarring since the other servants are not as hard to acquire. |
| 574 | * HasAType: A noble and virgin woman will always be his type. Preferably rich and well-endowed noble, virgin women. He spends much of his time with Hakuno telling her that she's too plain, poor, and skinny to ever be one of his lovers. |
| 575 | * TheHedonist: Look around his private room; he replaces the bed for a throne for himself (which means the protagonist sleeps in some other corner), decorated by tapestry, the shelves and table is full of wine bottles, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a lion doll because he can't get the real one]]. |
| 576 | * HiddenDepths: This was one of Nasu's intentions for Gil's depiction in this game. According to WordOfGod, his personality is affected by the era in which he's summoned to. This is why he was such an insufferable douche during ''Fate/Zero''. However, the era he's summoned to in this game affects him more positively, which is why he's more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold here. |
| 577 | * HyperspaceArsenal: Just like the Gilgamesh from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''Literature/FateZero'', he mainly fights by pulling weapons out of his treasury or just launching them. |
| 578 | * ItAmusedMe: Gilgamesh responded to Hakuno's call because he found interest to Hakuno's refusal to give up even as they are about to disappear when they first met. |
| 579 | --> '''Gilgamesh''': How amusing. Even as you prepare to lose yourself, you have something that you still cannot forget? |
| 580 | * ItMakesSenseInContext: Most of his conversations only make sense if you have prior knowledge of things in-universe. Like his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Gawain flies over everyone’s heads because they don’t know who Arthur actually is and calling Julius [[spoiler:"a ghost" before the reveal that this Julius was taken after the fight in the final week, from which he had lost his round and only remaining as a cyber ghost]]. |
| 581 | * ItsAllAboutMe: He's calmer and less psychotic than he was in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''... but only because the ''EXTRA'' world resembles ''his'' kingdom more than the primary world did. |
| 582 | * ItsPersonal: He was fine letting BB do whatever she wanted and all, [[spoiler:but after nearly being taken by BB and seeing the determination his Master went through to save him,]] Gilgamesh declares BB to be his enemy now. |
| 583 | * JerkassHasAPoint: A lot of the things he says, while cruel, are pretty much spot on. The way he calls out Gawain for putting his king on a pedestal is spot on, but because Gilgamesh is a jerk nobody wants to listen to him. If you voice support for his position, though, all Hakuno does is defend Gilgamesh, not his statements. |
| 584 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Make no mistake, Gilgamesh is still a gigantic prick who's more than willing to throw barbs at anyone, his Master included even if he's much nicer here than in Fuyuki. However, he's done something that would only be done with [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Ritsuka Fujimaru]] years later: Acknowledge the protagonist as his Master. Gil is willing to take his fights seriously on behalf on the protagonist to the point where he would ''willingly pull out Ea if his Master desires it without complaint''. |
| 585 | * LonelyAtTheTop: [[spoiler:After he became an adult and came to understand the world and the future in ways [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer neither Gods nor Humans could understand]]. Leading to him becoming the arrogant Jerkass Tyrant until he met Enkidu]]. |
| 586 | * LoveHurts: He likes the kind of love that is and has a potential of being cynical, the love that also has an ugly side beside the good. That's why he somehow respects {{Yandere}}, {{Narcissist}}ic, and MyMasterRightOrWrong kind of people; they love so openly to the point of unsightliness, and that kind of love will surely become either their downfall or salvation. [[DeadSidekick Must be talking from experience]]. |
| 587 | --> ''That which appeals my heart the most is the sound of a heart breaking that, when you washed the beautiful (heart), drips an even more beautiful water. When you lick it, it tastes sweet.'' |
| 588 | * MasterOfAll: Gilgamesh uses all of his stats equally and suffers no draw backs as a result. His physical strength is more than Saber's, his magic stat is higher than Caster's, and his skills are more useful and powerful than Archer's. |
| 589 | * MundaneUtility: He has a poison-tasting Noble Phantasm stored away. |
| 590 | * MythologyGag: His swimsuit mystic code vaguely resembled what Gilgamesh wore in his child form. |
| 591 | * NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Enuma Elish. It not only does the maximum possible damage in the game, it ''also'' inflicts the "instant death" effect on top of that. So it does enough damage to annihilate anything in the game, and then applies a one hit kill effect anyway, just because. On top of that, it can only be used when the enemy is at less than 30% of their health, ensuring that the "instant death" effect is redundant no matter what. There is no possible situation that this Noble Phantasm is not pure overkill.]] |
| 592 | * NotSoAboveItAll: After finishing the swimwear quest, Gilgamesh will talk about an indoor water park his child self designed in ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'' which he calls "Thrilling Splash Time" and excitedly monologues a ten-minute description of it. |
| 593 | * OneHitKill: [[spoiler:His Enuma Elish attack kills any enemy with less than 30% HP remaining, including boss characters.]] |
| 594 | * OnlyFriend: Enkidu as it has always been. [[spoiler:He is still able to grow close to the Protagonist over time]]. |
| 595 | * PetTheDog: Has a few of these after [[spoiler:escaping from the seal BB placed on him and seeing Hakuno so determined to save him]]. He starts by saying he'd give Hakuno candy as a commemoration for their good work and overall, starts to treat Hakuno nicer. And here's what he had to say for [[spoiler:Alice and Nursery Rhyme later]]. |
| 596 | --> '''Gilgamesh''': Hurry. If you go now you can catch up with your mistress. Illusion and ghost curled up together. Speak together, laugh together, take one another’s hand, and so disappear together to wherever you may go. |
| 597 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives one to Gawain over his loyalty to his king, right in front of the Student Council. He basically calls out Gawain for not catching Arthur’s personal dilemma over her "perfect king" image and further burdening her with that adoration and expectation. Gawain unintentionally proves him right by not listening to his words and keeping his position as a mindless, loyal knight only answering to his king’s whim, though at that moment everyone agrees with Gawain as they’re ignorant of what he means. |
| 598 | * RegeneratingMana: Gets the ability to regen MP after passing Level 20 for 3 turns. |
| 599 | * SemiDivine: Two-thirds divine. [[labelnote:Genealogy]]Gilgamesh's mother was a goddess who had sex with a human king and a male god; according to [[ScienceMarchesOn Mesopotamian genealogy of the time and myth]], [[GenderInvertedTrope both males]] were Gilgamesh's fathers in equal measure.[[/labelnote]] |
| 600 | * ShamelessFanserviceGuy: First appears in his Servant ending completely naked, though he puts clothes on later. There's also him casting off his clothes in front of CCC Lancer. He also has a completely casual reaction to Rani's demands that Hakuno strip for one level, neither excited nor disgusted. |
| 601 | * ShoutOut: His "secret Noble Phantasm" (the A.U.O. "Cast Off" system) is a ShoutOut to the "Cast Off" system in ''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'' (with the same effect and everything). |
| 602 | * TheStarscream: Gilgamesh makes no secret of the fact that, as his first action is to steal his own Command Seals from you, he could kill you at any time if he feels the whim. The dialogue choices you make determine whether he follows up on this threat or eventually becomes a SarcasticDevotee to you. |
| 603 | * StormOfBlades: Uses Gate of Babylon this way when guarding. Also has it as one of his skills. |
| 604 | * ThisIsADrill: He uses one that's also a [[{{BFG}} Gun that's bigger than him]]. Also, as all people who have read Fate/Stay Night should know, Ea resembles a drill more than a sword, since '''It´s older than the concept of the first sword'''. |
| 605 | * TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: [[spoiler:Although created by the Gods to keep them relevant and control humanity, he ends up being the one who deals the fatal blow that ends their reign]]. |
| 606 | * {{Tsundere}}: Continues to act harshly towards the protagonist, even after coming to like them. |
| 607 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:Back when he was a young boy. Loved by the people, the Gods, and ruled them fairly]]. |
| 608 | * YouDidntAsk: Unlike the other playable servants, he knows a lot more about what's going on behind the scenes in the main plot. He chooses to say nothing at least partially because he wants to see if the team is smart enough to figure it out without him spelling it out for them, but also because he knows BB is only playing with kid gloves because everyone is in the dark right now. |
| 609 | * WellDoneSonGuy: The protagonist has this relationship with him. Realizing just how precious Gilgamesh's praises are, s/he starts using them as a scale of his/her achievements. At least, that's how it goes if both the Master and the Servant are not trying to out-{{Tsun|dere}} each other. |
| 610 | * WillfullyWeak: In a sense. His sleep brought him back down to level 1, but unlike the other servants he still has full access to his Noble Phantasm. He holds back on using it purely because he knows his master would never be able to handle the mana strain it creates until they become stronger. |
| 611 | [[/folder]] |
| 612 | |
| 613 | [[folder:Karna]] |
| 614 | !!!Master: Jinako Karigiri | Voiced by Creator/KojiYusa |
| 615 | [[quoteright:181:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_karnaccc_2472.png]] |
| 616 | |
| 617 | A cold and powerful warrior whose body has been fused with a suit of invincible armour. |
| 618 | |
| 619 | As the rules of the Holy Grail War have become corrupted, there is no reason for him to hide his identity as the invulnerable hero from the Indian epic ''Literature/{{Mahabharata}}''. Karna is summoned as a Lancer, (although his Master later gives him the nickname of "Launcher" Class.) |
| 620 | |
| 621 | His Noble Phantasm is Vasavi Shakti: O Sun, Abide to Death, the spear that Indra (king of the Devas) granted to Karna after being shamed by the latter's unflinching generosity and self-sacrificial honour. As the mightiest weapon of Indra, Vasavi Shakti is a spear of light that can take down even gods, but can only be used by Karna once. |
| 622 | ----- |
| 623 | * AllLovingHero: How he got the title as the "Hero of Generosity". |
| 624 | * AllPowerfulBystander: His power is equal to Gilgamesh himself albeit weaker due to his master, and BB even remarks that she wouldn't be able to defeat him if teamed up with Gawain. Unfortunately, Jinako refuses to cooperate with the student council and she forbids him to help even if he wants to so he spends all his time guarding her in the Janitor's closet instead. |
| 625 | * ArmorOfInvincibility: His kavacha (armor) and kundala (earring) are so powerful that not even [[StoryBreakerPower B.B.]] can do as much as put a scratch on them. [[spoiler:He gave the armor to Jinako without her knowledge or consent so that she could survive the reset]]. |
| 626 | * BornLucky: |
| 627 | ** His Luck stat is A+! This is ''really'' ironic because Karna was really screwed over by the universe in his past life, and was originally conceptualised as a Lancer-class (who traditionally have terrible Luck stats). He also genuinely believes that such a thing as bad luck does not exist, and that the tragedies he suffered in life were just "bad timing." |
| 628 | ** [[spoiler:Subverted. Karna requests that his luck be displayed at A+ since he feels ''that lucky'' getting Jinako as his master.]] |
| 629 | * CanonImmigrant: He was originally created for the light novel {{Spinoff}} ''Literature/FateApocrypha'', where he was a Lancer. |
| 630 | * DeadpanSnarker: All. The. Time. At one point he comments that if Jinako keeps stuffing her face so much with food, dropping her from great heights will do more damage than his Noble Phantasm ever could. |
| 631 | * {{Determinator}}: |
| 632 | ** [[spoiler: He's keeping himself alive through sheer force of will after his fight with Hakuno's servant, all so his master won't get killed. Just before the school disappears, he reveals to Jinako that his wounds actually never healed since he never had his armor in the fight.]] |
| 633 | ** In the Foxtail manga, Leo even commends him for stopping himself from vanishing after tanking Gawain's noble phantasm. |
| 634 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Due to their divine nature, Gilgamesh isn't actually sure if he has his armor and spear in the Gate of Babylon (or rather, he cannot identify their originals because they are divine items "no one has laid eyes upon"), so he asks Karna to give him either his armor, his spear, or his head. Karna replies that since he's given the armor to Jinako and has to use the spear to fight him, Gilgamesh can take his rotten head if he wins. |
| 635 | * DramaPreservingHandicap: He is called a Heroic Spirit that is as powerful as Gilgamesh (and [[Literature/FateApocrypha his Lancer counterpart]] seems to live up to that claim), but he is weakened by his connection to Jinako, a subpar Master. While still a formidable boss, he's no longer as unbeatable as his ''Apocrypha'' counterpart is. |
| 636 | * TheDreaded: When people find out his identity, they are guaranteed to be cowed by his fame. It's shown the most when he does a BigDamnHero to the Student Council as Gawain is ganged up by Meltryllis and Passionlip in ''Fox Tail'' - the Student Council is the one who crapped their pants despite Karna being on their side. |
| 637 | * EyeBeams: Brahmastra, a projectile Noble Phantasm that changes its shape depends on his class. As a Lancer, it manifests as his signature DeathGlare given offensive power. [[labelnote:Trivia]]In his original ''Apocrypha'' design, Brahmastra was the spear that he used before Vasavi Shakti was materialized, but when the actual work rolled around his first spear was changed to a sealed form of Vasavi Shakti while Brahmastra became his EyeBeams just like in ''CCC.''[[/labelnote]] |
| 638 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:At the end of the game, he reveals that he had given his armor of invincibility to his Master without her knowledge earlier. This allows her to survive the "reset" of the system at the end of the Far Side scenario and safely exit the Moon Cell, which is why she does not show up in the Near Side scenario]]. |
| 639 | * ItOnlyWorksOnce: Indra's thunder spear Vasavi Shakti is immensely powerful, but converting so much raw energy into the attack comes at the cost of shattering his own armor. He spends the rest of the game recovering from his injuries. |
| 640 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Played with. He is saintly in his thoughts and feelings for others, never holding grudges and is endlessly loyal to his Master. However, due to growing up without a proper parental figure to teach when and when not to say something he suffers from BrutalHonesty. Thus he comes across as someone who needlessly prods others for their flaws when he attempts to give honest advice through his Discernment of the Poor skill, particularly involving Jinako's irresponsibility and poor physical condition. |
| 641 | * MeaningfulRename: His "Launcher" nickname isn't entirely from Jinako's kookiness - it fits him more than "Lancer" does within this summoning, since the aforementioned DramaPreservingHandicap means that even materializing his spear is a lot of mana. As a result, he has to resort to his fists for basic attacks, and his Brahmastra EyeBeams are his most reliable Noble Phantasm at his current level (hence, Launcher). |
| 642 | * MommasBoy: Not that you would expect it from her treatment of him, but he is overjoyed by the fact that she called him son just once when they finally meet again face-to-face. |
| 643 | * NiceGuy: To the point that it basically is the sole reason he died in life, he was quite simply too nice for his own good. He was raised to be effectively the patron saint of charity after his death. |
| 644 | * NoFlowInCGI: As the game engine would have a hard time rendering his flowing cape, the character designer changed it to a set of metal spikes with the same feel. |
| 645 | * NoSocialSkills: Everything that comes out of his mouth sounds like a cold insult or a sly remark, but it's actually him simply observing and critiquing what he sees without any malice since he grew up ostracized by everyone due to his low social status, meaning he couldn't talk to ''anyone'' without getting insulted or teased and thus relied entirely on body language and what he could read to understand people. |
| 646 | * ParentalSubstitute: To Jinako, though he prefers to be seen as the younger brother. |
| 647 | * PrettyBoy: Acknowledged in his official profile in that he exudes a "divine radiance" and is stated to be beautiful in every regard, but this trait is undercut by his [[PerpetualFrowner constant frowning]] and piercing glare. |
| 648 | * SelfDeprecation: He pretty much agrees with Jinako's complaints about himself while casually low key-roasting his master. |
| 649 | --> '''Jinako''': Why are you taking (Hakuno)'s side anyway! You useless servant! |
| 650 | --> '''Karna''': That's a sound argument as well. Useless masters have useless servants. |
| 651 | * SlapOnTheWristNuke: A subdued example. Brahmastra Kundala ''hurts'', but much like Gawain's Excalibur Galatine it's entirely possible to survive it. In the latter case, it's an Anti-Army Noble Phantasm and a sublime existence on par with Arthur's Excalibur. In the former, it's a ''God-Level Anti-Country Noble-Phantasm'' declared to be the Noble Phantasm equivalent to a ''nuke'', not to mention the fact that its ''Apocrypha'' counterpart would have killed Ruler despite her damage immunity. Somewhat justified by his subpar Master, but still... |
| 652 | * TheStoic: He comes across as this because he believes that most things and events are "normal" and how they were meant to be, therefore there is no reason to be surprised. This trait even allowed him to accept his own death without a hint of resentment, even though [[TraumaCongaLine he really had every right to be]]. |
| 653 | * TragicHero: The world worked ''really'' hard to screw him over throughout his entire life. |
| 654 | * TraumaCongaLine: Okay, born to the Sun God, sounds great right? Problem is, he's born into the peasant class, which in India means he's treated worse than garbage by the upper classes. Then his mom abandons him after he catches the fancy of the local King. Being a demigod, his skin and hair were a pale white and everything else was covered by a strange black substance, which along with his harsh statements and [[PerpetualFrowner cruel countenance]] only further ostracized him from his peers. |
| 655 | * UndyingLoyalty: While Jinako isn't fond of him until the end, he faithfully guards and follows whatever she says while low-key roasting her habits and weight. [[spoiler:He even fought for her sake after she was turned into a Sentinel by BB and is falling into a very depressed state. When Jinako finally agrees to lend Karna to help them out, he refuses to follow the order with the excuse of his weakened state, but the true reason was to stay and help her escape the Moon Cell.]] |
| 656 | * WellDoneSonGuy: He single-handedly started a war after his foster father (who only adopted him out of greed) was insulted by the five Pendava brothers. |
| 657 | * WhiteHairBlackHeart: Averted. Despite his stoic exterior and tendency for BrutalHonesty, Karna is an almost ''pathetically'' nice guy who helped anyone who asked for it in life. The problem was that he spent most of his childhood as an outcast who was thrown away ''by his own mother'' and thus lacked the training necessary to properly express emotions. |
| 658 | * WorthyOpponent: Though he isn't exactly disrespectful of his other opponents, he holds Gilgamesh in relatively high regard, and for once Gilgamesh seems to return the sentiment. |
| 659 | [[/folder]] |
| 660 | |
| 661 | [[folder:Lancer (Elizabeth Báthory)]] |
| 662 | !!!Master: Varies[[note]]Has been shown as Rani, Rin, Shinji, Meltryllis, and the PC's Servant.[[/note]] | Voiced by Creator/RumiOokubo |
| 663 | [[quoteright:192:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_ccclancer_4797.png]] |
| 664 | |
| 665 | A new Servant in the "Far Side" scenario of ''CCC''. She has the horns and tail of a dragon, and refers to herself as an "Idol" class Servant. Though initially summoned as the Lancer-class Servant of Rin Tousaka, she is later re-summoned by Shinji as a Berserker. |
| 666 | |
| 667 | Her true identity is UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, an infamous Hungarian noblewoman and {{serial killer}}. |
| 668 | |
| 669 | Her Noble Phantasm is Kilenc Sárkány: Roar Of The Dragon, the voice of the dragon Sárkány, who was said to be able to invoke rain and wind with his cry. When used by Lancer, it amplifies her voice to such a degree that it destroys both the body and mind of its victim. She later upgrades this Noble Phantasm to Báthory Erzsébet: Fresh Blood Demoness, the castle where Elizabeth reigned during her lifetime and tortured hundreds of young girls to death. After Elizabeth became a Servant and began to dream of becoming the ultimate IdolSinger, it was remodeled into a massive stage that channels the foul magic gained from the ceremonial slaughter into its amplifiers, increasing the power of Kilenc Sárkány. |
| 670 | ----- |
| 671 | * AmbiguousInnocence: She's like a little girl who dreams of happy fantasy romance, but she's also an insane butcher because she doesn't truly understand the pain of others at all. For her, being a noble means the people exist for her benefit and she can do whatever she pleases to them. To do anything else would be failing her duty! |
| 672 | * AntiVillain: Subverted. During her third appearance, she's built up as someone that might be sympathetic, but in the end, she really isn't. Whatever mental illnesses she may have had, whatever the effect her dragon blood may have had on her, she still chose to torture young girls to death just to stay young and beautiful. |
| 673 | * AttentionWhore: Her obsession with idol life is because of this. [[spoiler:After being outed as the serial killer bathed in her victims' blood, Bathory was house-arrested in her castle. Her windows were sealed because she was always wailing non-stop for attention of her wardens and she died of loneliness.]] |
| 674 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: She's a ditzy idiot, but she's actually pretty potent under the right circumstances. And no matter how goofy she is, she's still a sadistic SerialKiller. Sure, she likes the player, but it doesn't change what she is. |
| 675 | * BloodCountess: She represents a preteen version of UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory, the Hungarian noblewoman and SerialKiller, known as the "[[TropeNamer Blood Countess]]" because she was said [[BloodBath to bathe in the blood of her victims]] as a means of preserving her beauty. This version retains her Torture Technique skill from the stories in which she tortured hundreds of men and women who tried to escape her Castle Csejte. |
| 676 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Because of the combination of her upbringing and mental illness, she honestly doesn’t see her actions as wrong. [[spoiler:As a noble, the lives of the peasants that she tortured and whose blood she drained for her baths meant nothing as peasants were considered nothing more than cattle for her to slaughter]]. |
| 677 | * BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler:She killed her original Master, Lil' Ronnie, when she though Ronnie was unsightly and allied herself with BB because she's more beautiful. She changes Masters the most because she doesn't stop the threat when someone tries to assassinate her Masters.]] |
| 678 | * BoxedCrook: [[spoiler:When the protagonist dives into the root of his/her Servants’ Origin, Elizabeth is given to them as their Servant to conquer the Servant’s Zero Model and gaining the Servant’s Origin in exchange of her freedom from her Ice Maze prison]]. |
| 679 | * {{Claustrophobia}}: She's claustrophobic because she died in house arrest. Her wardens became so annoyed at her wailing, they sealed off her windows and only left a small slit to push her food in. [[spoiler:When the protagonist gains her SG and the MissionControl traps her inside a cage of [=IceWall=], she loses any shred of her arrogance and screams for mercy the entire time]]. |
| 680 | * CuteIsEvil: No matter how innocent and cute she may appear, she's still an unrepentant, narcissistic mass murderer. |
| 681 | * CuteMonsterGirl: She appears as a cute little girl with prominent monstrous features such as horns, protruding fangs, long pink claws, a long draconic tail, and pink scales scattered throughout her body. |
| 682 | * DisappearsIntoLight: [[spoiler:Subverted; from her dialogue, it seems she believes she will return to the Imaginary Number Space after aiding the Origin Servant activation, Rin says she just goes back to stasis in her Ice Maze prison. In short, she's not really gone like other Servants in general after they fulfill their purpose]]. |
| 683 | * DreadfulMusician: Her songs are hilariously off-beat and off-key, sounding almost like she can't decide if it's a song or a poetry. Not that her Noble Phantasm needs her to be an expert in singing; as long as her voice is loud enough, her voice can be weaponized. |
| 684 | * ElegantGothicLolita: She's claded in a cyber-goth-loli dress. |
| 685 | * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: She has a lot of potential excuses prepared. She suffered from constant migraines, her dragon blood influenced her, she was raised not to consider peasants as fellow humans and so on. But in the end? They don't excuse anything. She made her choices and her choices damned her. [[spoiler:It's only accepting that her fate was her own fault and trying to do better that makes her possibly redeemable.]] |
| 686 | * GuestStarPartyMember: [[spoiler:In order to defeat the Origins of each Servant and unlock each Servants' full potential.]] |
| 687 | * HappilyMarried: Despite Liz's obsession with remaining "pure," which most likely stems from the fact that she had to get married at age 15, her character history states she had a long, loving relationship with her husband and was probably one of the few sources of genuine happiness she had in life. |
| 688 | * HollywoodToneDeaf: Her singing is hard to stand because even though her voice is beautiful and her lung power extraordinary, she's tone deaf and has no artistic sense at all. |
| 689 | * HornedHumanoid: Due to her "Innocent Monster" skill (which transforms the physical appearance of a Servant based on the conception others had of them in real life). Her horns and tail are meant to invoke the image of a dragon. |
| 690 | * IdolSinger: She introduces herself as an "Idol" class Servant. She's... not very good at it. |
| 691 | * IJustWantToBeBeautiful: She has a constant fear for her beauty. It seems the reason why she fears romance is because marriage through love equals getting pregnant equals having bloated stomach, which is a big no-no for her. |
| 692 | * {{Irony}}: She killed her original master out of disgust for her being a crazed serial killer who has no idea she's doing anything wrong and is just following her nature. ''Which is exactly what Liz is''. |
| 693 | * LethalChef: Her appetizer alone is enough to cause a literal BSOD. |
| 694 | -->'''Sakura''': I-It can't be! Vital signs are dropping at an unbelievable rate! Mach down!\ |
| 695 | '''Rani''': It does not appear that there was any poison included. This dish makes a double attack on the taste buds and the soul by its disagreeable flavor alone. |
| 696 | * LittleBitBeastly: While at first one might think she looks like a HotAsHell devil girl, her horns and tail are actually those of a dragon. |
| 697 | * MagicalGirlWarrior: Of all Servants, she might be the most magical girl-like. With her humorous skill animations like her spear throw leaving a trail of hearts, jamming her spear too deep that she has difficulty of pulling it out, her Noble Phantasm is a giant loudspeaker, and her idle animation has her dancing in place. |
| 698 | * MakeMeWannaShout: Her Dragon's Breath skill as she uses her dragon lungs to power up her screams. |
| 699 | * MoralEventHorizon: InUniverse, [[spoiler:during her final Punishment it's stated that she can never be saved or forgiven for what she's done, even if she didn't fully understand what she was doing at the time. At her deepest core, she knows this as well. It's played with, however, because this is the moment where she finally admits to herself that she was the one to blame for her own fate, meaning there's a possibility for her to change after that]]. |
| 700 | * MythicalMotifs: Dragons. [[spoiler:In life her family crest had a dragon on it and there were rumors that she had dragon's blood]]. |
| 701 | * NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Fought the most out of any character in the game yet keeps changing Masters. [[spoiler:She made pact with BB to be her personal PsychoForHire to defend her Labyrinth as long as she makes her immortal, namely keeps spitting her back out of the imaginary number space every time she dies]]. |
| 702 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: Her horns and tail are actually those of a dragon. She also has the Dragon's Breath skill. [[spoiler:This is the result of the "Innocent Monster" skill, which transforms her physical appearance based on the conception that others had seen of her in real life. Elizabeth Báthory was often rumoured to have mixed her own blood with that of a dragon, and her family crest also bore the mark of a dragon]]. |
| 703 | * PointyEars: She has pointed ears that add to her devilish look. |
| 704 | * PointOfDivergence: She is Run Ru's Lancer in ''CCC'' instead of Vlad III. |
| 705 | * ThePowerOfBlood: [[spoiler:She requires gallons of blood daily in order to bathe in it. It's also how she can increase her power.]] |
| 706 | * PurposelyOverpowered: If you look at her skill list, it's obvious she has tons of great effects on her abilites and really high damage multipliers, she's just terrible at utilizing them as a boss. [[spoiler:Then when she becomes your temporary servant, you see how hilariously strong Liz can be in the right hands, because the player needs a servant strong enough to beat their own no matter which one they picked, turning what should be a relatively hard fight into a ZeroEffortBoss even against ''Gilgamesh''.]] |
| 707 | * RecurringBoss: Is the boss of chapters 1, 2 and 5, practically half of the game's 7 chapters. |
| 708 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: The English localization of ''Fate/Grand Order'' spells her name as "Elisabeth Báthory" rather than using Elizabeth Báthory. |
| 709 | * SuperpowerLottery: Flight, powerful skills, a devastating Noble Phantasm, and oodles of bonus buffs from being one of the most infamous villains in history, her mediocre stats and flightiness are the only things holding her back. |
| 710 | * TailSlap: Her Vér Salgóvár move uses this as an attack, and her Lert sügér Tran move uses this as a misdirection. |
| 711 | * TooKinkyToTorture: She possesses the Berserker skill Mad Enhancement, but the rank is so low (E-) that it doesn't increase her stats or affect her intelligence... all it really does is invoke this trope. |
| 712 | * TortureTechnician: Has a "Torturing Method" skill ranked A. [[spoiler:We see first hand that she has both Rin and Rani to gather [=NPCs=] and Masters alike for her blood bath in their respective floors, which also incites the suspicion that Rin and Rani are [[NotHimself Not Themselves]]]]. |
| 713 | * {{Tsundere}}: Her like in [[WordOfGod the artbook]] is the Protagonist, but the way the entry is written is very stereotypical tsundere; it starts with a very long VisibleSilence, before finally admitting that it was [[EmbarrassingNickname the Pig]] that she likes. Even then, the entry ends with question mark, almost that she's not sure herself. |
| 714 | * VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:She goes out begging for anything but imprisonment, even a dirty, ignoble death. She still doesn't really understand why she's being punished, either.]] |
| 715 | [[/folder]] |
| 716 | |
| 717 | [[folder:Caster (Hans Christian Andersen)]] |
| 718 | !!!Master: Kiara Sesshouin | Voiced by Creator/TakehitoKoyasu |
| 719 | [[quoteright:168:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_enemycasterccc_5155.png]] |
| 720 | |
| 721 | A new Servant introduced in ''CCC''. Though he bears the appearance of a young boy, he has the voice of an older gentleman. |
| 722 | |
| 723 | His true identity is Creator/HansChristianAndersen, a famous Danish writer. |
| 724 | |
| 725 | His Noble Phantasm is Märchen Meines Lebens: A Story Just For You, which allows Caster to transform someone, body and soul, [[OneWingedAngel into their "ideal self"]]. However, the target must incite the lust of a writer within Caster for the Noble Phantasm to work, and his "Author's Spirit" typically doesn't allow someone to reach their true "ideal self" if their narrative/CharacterDevelopment is incomplete. |
| 726 | |
| 727 | ----- |
| 728 | * ArmorPiercingResponse: After [[spoiler:Kiara becomes a monster bent on destroying humanity]], your Servant demands to know who's side Anderson is on. He bluntly says ''[[MyMasterRightOrWrong his Master's]]'', like any good Servant should be. Your Servant has no response. |
| 729 | * BeleagueredAssistant: Despite his UndyingLoyalty, Caster does not like how Kiara acts and insults her every chance he gets. [[spoiler:He even warns the protagonist when she's going to use her Noble Phantasm during the boss fight]]. |
| 730 | * BodyHorror: Thanks to the Innocent Monster skill he has no control over his physical form. Being a famous author has inflicted this upon him. Underneath his clothes are a merman's scales, frostbite, burns, and sharp pains that cut his throat when he speaks. |
| 731 | * BrutalHonesty: His Rank-A Human Observation skill makes him understand the flaws of others and leads him to make assumptions about the person. He then rudely states their flaws and errors. Although pessimistic, he does this because he [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold understands that person]], not out of malice. |
| 732 | * CassandraTruth: He repeatedly calls Kiara the worst kind of selfish hypocritical scum, but nobody pays any attention to him. |
| 733 | * CripplingOverspecialization: His magic rank is EX, but all his other stats are ranked E. |
| 734 | * CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has matching blue hair and eyes. |
| 735 | * DeadpanSnarker: And if you have Caster as Servant, they have a short SnarkToSnarkCombat that quickly evolves into an [[NotSoDifferentRemark epiphany]] of just why they're bitter to each other. |
| 736 | * DeathByCameo: [[spoiler: Gets oneshot by Suzuki Gozen in the Foxtail Manga.]] |
| 737 | * {{Deconstruction}}: It seems to his hobby. If asked about Lancer [[spoiler:Elizabeth]], he calls her "unsightly" because if she thinks that other people are nothing but pigs, then she's a foolish woman for being narcissist in front of a bunch of "pigs". He isn't exempt from his own sharp tongue, calling himself a useless Servant for having all his parameters E and prone to SelfDeprecation when he looks back to the time when he was alive. |
| 738 | * TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Kiara, the true mastermind of CCC]]. |
| 739 | * ExactWords: [[spoiler:In his final words to Kiara, he states that he is incapable of loving a human. He also states that he no longer sees Kiara as human, which can be taken in various ways]]. |
| 740 | * GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:Lets everyone escape and doesn't bother to fight them after they defeat Kiara, happy with how the story had played out]]. |
| 741 | * InnocentBlueEyes: He's lacking in the innocent department due to his cynical mindset, but his childish form ''does'' give him the sensitivity and empathy he lacked later in life, leading to his own embarrassment upon rereading his own children's stories. |
| 742 | * LethalJokeCharacter: Hans should, by all means, be absolutely horrible as a servant - except for his Noble Phantasm, which (if used correctly) can be one of the strongest Noble Phantasms in the franchise. [[spoiler:Kiara uses it to become a ''demi-god'', and that's even with Hans holding back]]. |
| 743 | * LoveHurts: Had his heart broken throughout his life, [[spoiler:yet he still believes in love]]. |
| 744 | * TheMedic: Specializes in healing and support magic. |
| 745 | * MyMasterRightOrWrong: [[spoiler:His reason for following Kiara is that a servant follows their master, so he will follow her to hell itself. While seemingly merely out of duty, his final words to her imply that he did care for her in his own way]]. |
| 746 | * NonActionGuy: He ends up simply buffing Kiara and letting her fight most of the time since the majority of his stats are absolutely atrocious. |
| 747 | * OlderThanHeLooks: Thanks to the Innocent Monster skill, he's been summoned in the form of a young boy instead of as the adult he obviously became. He still has the voice of an adult man, however. |
| 748 | * PunchClockVillain: [[spoiler:He only helps Kiara since she's his master, but for the most part he doesn't really care about her goals. He even saves the Protagonist from Meltryllis in the normal story mode after Kiara is killed and he's about to meet the same fate.]] |
| 749 | * RealityWarper: [[spoiler:His Noble Phantasm ''Märchen Meines Lebens: A Story Just For You'' can be used to make one into their ideal self, but they must also incite lust in Andersen. His lust as an author for CharacterDevelopment within the story, to be precise. The reason why Kiara isn't her "ideal self" in her boss fight is because she didn't go through said development, thus his buffs only go so far. Even ''then'' they were enough to raise Kiara to the level of an Earth Goddess, with the ability to make herself the size of a planet]]. |
| 750 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: |
| 751 | ** If you ask him to give his opinion about your Servant, he'll happily give you a critique...or roast them depending on which Servant you picked as your partner. He even has the balls to do this to ''Gilgamesh'' of all people, telling the King of Heroes to his face he was a horrible king, even demanding ''payment'' for his "critique". Contrary to his expectations, Gilgamesh is actually impressed by Anderson's "critique" and compliments him for it. |
| 752 | ** [[spoiler:Gives one to Kiara after she loses, telling her that her inability to realize her own flaws and that she should know she stood no chance against the Protagonist is the reason for her defeat]]. |
| 753 | * TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Never fights in battles directly. Instead it's his master that is fought]]. |
| 754 | * VocalDissonance: Despite his young appearance, he has a voice of an older gentleman. This represents [[spoiler:his childish mind capable of the fairy tales he wrote, but that he was still an adult]]. |
| 755 | [[/folder]] |
| 756 | |
| 757 | !!'''CCC''' Other Entities |
| 758 | |
| 759 | [[folder:B.B.]] |
| 760 | !!!Voiced by Creator/NorikoShitaya |
| 761 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_cccbb_9282.png]] |
| 762 | |
| 763 | A mysterious girl who bears a striking resemblance to Sakura Matou. She claims to be a dangerous and unusual AI, but it's unclear as to who or what is responsible for her creation. After seizing control of the Moon Cell, she imposes her will over the "Far Side" by destroying the Holy Grail War and replacing it with the Sakura Labyrinth, the keys to which are hidden within the hearts of the Masters and Servants trapped there. |
| 764 | |
| 765 | Her true identity is a mutation of the Sakura Caretaker AI that controls the Moon Cell. After Kiara Sesshouin hacked the Sakura AI and removed her behavioural constraints, Sakura fell in love with the Protagonist and placed him/her in a GroundhogDayLoop to prevent their inevitable death at the end of the Holy Grail War. However, knowing that this was not a permanent or ethical solution but unable to come up with a better idea, Sakura broke down further and decided to escape the pain by restoring herself to factory settings. Because AI data cannot be erased, she moved her memories of loving the Protagonist into a trash file that was stored away, where they eventually gained sentience and became BB. |
| 766 | |
| 767 | Her Noble Phantasm is C.C.C. (Cursed Cutting Crater), an Anti-World Noble Phantasm created from the combined authority over creation held by every primordial goddess in history, now usurped by BB. With it, B.B. can create new worlds as she desires, completely overwriting every aspect of the previous world. Her mastery over creation is so absolute that she can affect abstract concepts like consciousness or luck, and even the rules of cause and effect. In battle, she uses it to encase her target in a world where they no longer exist, wiping them out. |
| 768 | |
| 769 | ----- |
| 770 | * AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Subverted, as B.B. only really went crazy due to being hacked by Kiara Sesshouin.]] |
| 771 | %%* AlphaBitch |
| 772 | * AntiVillain: She has almost no malice to her enemies, she’s never actively attacking your party [[spoiler:until Moon Cell overrides her, and her goal is to ensure you survive through the entire Grail War alive]]. |
| 773 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Her personality is outwardly bubbly and eccentric, and her methods involve lots and lots ''and lots'' of Sakura and things based on Sakura bordering on narcissism. This is hemmed in by every scene featuring her ''loudly'' reminding the player that she has 100% control of the Far Side and 0% concern for anyone's well-being [[spoiler:except for Hakuno, who as a full-on {{Yandere}} is not a good thing]]. |
| 774 | * CallingYourAttack: When using Crowns of Ten Rulerships/Hill of Seven against Gawain; |
| 775 | --> '''BB''': Sakura Beeeeeam!!! |
| 776 | * TheChessmaster: She is completely aware that she, as an infirmary AI, doesn't have any active combat ability to defend herself. So she uses the Sentinels to buy time to absorb more data, then she sends out her Alter Egos to engage with the Masters. As the Alter Egos are parts of her, when the Masters fight them, her system turns on her self-preservation mode against the aggression, allowing her to use the authority to engage in battle, and allowing her own system to absorb more harmful data into herself. |
| 777 | * CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:She absorbed the forgotten primordial Goddess from which all Goddesses originate, along with the Goddesses that came from her such as Tiamat, Gaia, Athena, Ishtar, Astarte, etc.]] |
| 778 | * CreepyMonotone: If she's sufficiently ticked off (notably refusing to sever your contract with Gilgamesh, or even if you decide to), she lapses into this. [[spoiler:When the Moon Cell wins in its and BB’s struggle of power over the Moon Cell’s control, it starts up full time.]] |
| 779 | * CuteBruiser: No matter what kind of power within her arsenal, she’s still the impishly cute junior [=BB=]-chan and acts that way. |
| 780 | * DoNotAdjustYourSet: BB Channel! BB can hack everyone's senses to project her own little broadcast, usually just to taunt the cast. Her third SG reveals it's also meant to be her own crazy version of a love call and is always sulky that the protagonist doesn't notice. |
| 781 | %%* {{Doppelganger}}: To Sakura Matou. |
| 782 | * EvilIsHammy: She's as evil as she is over the top, and she ''will'' let you know it. |
| 783 | %%* EyeBeam |
| 784 | * FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Of the normal Far Side story mode.]] |
| 785 | * GenkiGirl: Acts this way during "BB Channel" segments, but calms down otherwise. |
| 786 | * HeroicSacrifice: In ''CCC'' True End, holding back Moon Cell's [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Advancing Firewall of Doom]] as your Servant tries to clear the path out of the Labyrinth, complete with an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. |
| 787 | * HolyHalo: In the fight against her she has a purple like halo behind her, which has a eye in the middle. |
| 788 | %%* IAmNotLeftHanded: See TheChessmaster |
| 789 | * HumanityOnTrial: [[spoiler:After the Moon Cell starts taking control of her, it uses her to begin a vote by all things that have ever existed on earth on whether humanity should be wiped out or not. Most lifeforms voted for humanity's extinction including humanity itself. Most plants were firmly on humanity's side and voted for their survival.]] |
| 790 | * InsecureLoveInterest: [[spoiler:She's absolutely flabbergasted if you confess to her on the CCC route, pointing out how horrible she's been and admiting that she's a really hard person to deal with (albeit with some self-praise thrown in).]] |
| 791 | * KingOfAllCosmos: Omnipotent AI who creates the entire Labyrinth in the Far Side of the Moon, capable of doing just about everything, and has stats that are immeasurable even against the immeasurable EX rank, yet she spends her time trolling her opponents and allies alike with mild pranks and hijacking the transmission to host her talk show BB Channel. |
| 792 | * KillerGameMaster: Due to her being in charge of the Moon Cell, she can use all kinds of ridiculously unbalanced abilities in battle, like a manifestation of the tainted Holy Grail itself. |
| 793 | * LeotardOfPower: Similarly to the playable Saber, while it looks like she's constantly giving {{Panty Shot}}s, she's actually wearing a white leotard under her skirt. |
| 794 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: She's Sakura's backup that she filled with her growing affection for the protagonist when her function disallowed her to act so. The backup grew its own sentience and became BB. Also, the Alter Egos are parts of her that she separates from herself as her drones to perform functions in the Labyrinth. The more Alter Egos she splits from herself, the weaker she gets. Passionlip calls her Mother, though. |
| 795 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: She's Sakura's discarded affection for Hakuno, and despite her pleasant overall attitude and demeanor she is not a very nice person. [[spoiler:Zig-zagged in the final fight where she muses that she did all this to protect someone, yet can't remember who as a result of the Moon Cell interfering. Subverted entirely in that it was Kiara hacking her that made her turn out this way, which is only revealed on the CCC route.]] |
| 796 | * LovingBully: Her final SG points out that she's such a sadist that her occasional bouts of cruelty towards the protagonist are just her way of showing affection. |
| 797 | * MeaningfulName: Capsule Servant reveals that ''BB'' is an acronym for ''Black Blossom'', fitting the FloralThemeNaming of the Sakuras and her status as Dark Sakura's expy. This is supported by Meltryllis who refers her as ''Black Sakura''. |
| 798 | * NoSell: Potnia Theron, the embodiment of all the Mother Goddesses she absorbed, makes it so no being of earthly origin can defy or harm her. The effect can be nullified by activating the Zero Model in the servant, and the Protagonist is unaffected since they were able to exist thanks to the Moon Cell, which makes them alien in origin as a result. |
| 799 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She tends to drop her trolling personality whenever the protagonist is in ''actual'' danger and she's not in a position to help, like when she rages at Gilgamesh for taking the protagonists Command Seals (and the Master protections they confer) or when the protagonist risks [[spoiler:deleting themselves trying to reawaken their Servant]]. |
| 800 | * OtherMeAnnoysMe: She hates Sakura for [[spoiler:dumping her memories of the protagonist on B.B. Not because she doesn't want them - she cherishes them beyond anything! - but because she's disgusted that Sakura could have given up on those memories or on saving the protagonist]]. |
| 801 | * OutOfCharacterMoment: Suffers a few through the storyline when her charming, GenkiGirl mask slips to become something more mechanical. [[spoiler:It's because she cannot handle manipulating the entire Moon Cell, and it's starting to consume her]]. |
| 802 | * PhallicWeapon: Her riding crop[=/=]baton is actually a transformed version of the Bishop Staff of Rulership, which is explicitly stated to be symbolic of the phallus as it is literally an erect rod. |
| 803 | * PhysicalGod: Within the Moon Cell, she can do almost anything imaginable. Travel through time, decide the future, strip away all of your powers, manipulate your senses, set the rules of the Grail War to whatever she wants, resurrect the dead, and much more. Even after you go through extensive preparations in order to stand up to her, she can still render herself invincible temporarily and [[OneHitKill instantly defeat you with her Noble Phantasm]]. |
| 804 | * PureIsNotGood: She created her Alter Egos to excise parts of her being that she found troublesome. Now free of doubt and all other internal conflict, she's more megalomaniacally unfettered than anything else. |
| 805 | * SarcasticConfession: She's actually pretty open about how much she loves the protagonist, it's just that her words are just ''dripping'' with cruelty and sadism, on top of the whole "evil villain" schtick, that nobody actually takes it seriously. |
| 806 | * ShadowArchetype: To Sakura, figuratively and [[EnemyWithout literally]]. |
| 807 | * SinisterSurveillance: She has a good understanding on what is going on in the Moon Cell. As a demonstration, if you get a particular NPC to claim that she's a better nurse than B.B., she will kill her on the spot for her BlasphemousBoast. |
| 808 | * StoryBreakerPower: Oh lordy. She absorbed the powers of hundreds of Servants and Masters, giving her sufficient power to attempt hacking the core of the Moon Cell itself. Fortunately, she can't overcome her original nature as a "caretaker AI", and thus has practically no combat power. [[spoiler:Less fortunately, she eventually manages to fix that.]] |
| 809 | * TimeStandsStill: The Moon Cell cannot be hacked no matter how long you spend attempting to hack it, B.B. places herself outside of Time itself in order to take control of it. |
| 810 | * {{Troll}}: The self-proclaimed little devil's M.O. She teases you, hijacks your senses with the BB Channel, and far, ''far'' more. It's to the point that characters [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness start to get worried when her trolling slows down]] as [[spoiler:the Moon Cell encroaches on her mind]]. [[spoiler:According to her third SG and her own confession on the CCC route, it's mostly just to [[LovingBully get the protagonist's attention.]]]] |
| 811 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: Where B.B. stores the Golden Grail for her Aurea Boura Attack. |
| 812 | * {{Yandere}}: For the Protagonist. |
| 813 | [[/folder]] |
| 814 | |
| 815 | [[folder:Passionlip]] |
| 816 | !!!Voiced by Creator/YuiOgura |
| 817 | [[quoteright:244:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_plccc_75.png]] |
| 818 | |
| 819 | A girl whose arms have been shaped into massive metallic talons. Like Meltryllis, she bears the same face as BB. Although Passionlip is friendly to the Protagonist at first, she attacks after receiving orders from "her mother". |
| 820 | |
| 821 | Her true nature is that of an "Alter Ego", a "High Servant" created by BB after she accessed the records of the Moon Cell. She is a composite of three Servants- Parvati, Durga and Brynhildr- and her giant arms are the embodiment of the ten weapons that Durga received from the gods. |
| 822 | |
| 823 | Her Noble Phantasm is Brynhild Romantia: Until Death Divide the Two Apart, the spear that Brynhildr used to exact revenge upon the hero Sigurd, who had promised to marry her but later betrayed her trust by deceiving her into marrying his brother-in-law (the king Gunther) instead. As such, the more affection the user has towards the target of this Noble Phantasm, the deadlier and more accurate the attack will be. |
| 824 | |
| 825 | ------ |
| 826 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: To the protagonist. Well, more like a FanDisservice incarnate than outright ugly, but with hands as large and deadly as hers, people just want to stay away from her. She doesn't understand why her affection is unwanted, though. |
| 827 | -->'''Caster''': That girl... Does she never look into a mirror? |
| 828 | * BigEater: She engages in battle several times, but always breaks off first because she always gets hungry in the middle of it. |
| 829 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: Her inhumanly large breasts are her most notable feature, and are sometimes PlayedForDrama or {{fanservice}}. They're also often a source for BoobBasedGag, with Nursery Rhyme, Robin, and some of the player Servants bullying her for her [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure appearance]]. |
| 830 | * CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:She is a composite of the Indian Goddesses Parvati and Durga, and the valkyrie Brynhildr, and her giant arms are the embodiment of the ten weapons Durga received from the gods.]] |
| 831 | * ConspicuouslySelectivePerception: Her skills, "Quality as a Target of Abuse" and "Barrier Against Cognizance", essentially take this trope up to its logical extreme. Quality as a Target of Abuse basically makes her automatically DrawAggro from surrounding enemies and turn herself into a giant punching bag, while Barrier Against Cognizance turns the trope onto ''herself'', making her unable to perceive her own strange body proportion and making her capable of executing her SuperStrength skill. She ''weaponizes'' NotEvilJustMisunderstood by turning her own perceptions into those of abuse victims! [[PlayingTheVictimCard She would then use those abuses as a "justification" for lashing out]], never to realize that she was made that way. |
| 832 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Everyone near her has an inexplicable urge to be abusive to her, and her Punishment Time is disturbingly played like a girl being sexual assaulted by her boyfriend in an act of betraying her trust in them. |
| 833 | * DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: She destroys the Noble Phantasm of Archer [[spoiler:Robin Hood]] that he gave her because she wants to use it as ribbon. |
| 834 | * FemmeFatalons: To a ridiculous extent, as her hands end in massive claws that are closer to ten {{BFS}} than "fingers". |
| 835 | * FloralThemeNaming: She is named after the passionflower. |
| 836 | * HumanoidAbomination: She's the only Alter Ego, beside the unseen Kingprotea, that is visibly monstrous. She weights 1 ton and unlike Meltryllis (who is not even that bad), she doesn’t have an indication of weight "without". That means her giant arms and hands are not prostheses. |
| 837 | * IJustWantToBeNormal: Her entire character arc is that she's under a delusion, brought by her id_skills, that she's a normal girl who just happens to get pushed around by everyone. She tries to do delicate tasks even though her fingers are literal swords, she tries to be affectionate but her very personality is twisted by nature and she would harm her target of affection without fail, her DrawAggro skill makes everyone around her unable to resist the urge to abuse her and her other skill makes her unaware that [[DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength she's causing all of these]]. Her inability to realize that she's not normal makes her lash out for the wrong reasons, and she ends up getting some sense beaten into her. |
| 838 | * ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN284EDwIDo Dreamin']] |
| 839 | * ImpossibleHourglassFigure: She has a 160cm bust, 63cm waist, and 87cm hips. Her disfigured shape is the first sign that the Sakura Five were created just to lighten BB's load, with no concern for giving them functional bodies. |
| 840 | * KickTheDog: Because of her skill always gathering aggro and inciting people around her to be abusive to her, she always becomes a victim of this. Robin Hood physically and verbally abuses her (something that he is horrified to realize is not in his usual character), Alice and Nursery Rhyme bully her to the point of KidsAreCruel, and even the protagonist has the chance to do her in; if the protagonist goes on to her Punishment Time, they dismiss her ability to love and denounce her as an irredeemable monster - leaving Passionlip a sobbing, self-hating wreak as she dies. |
| 841 | * RocketPunch: [[spoiler:Brynhild Romantia, which becomes stronger and unavoidable more she loves her target. And she loves the protagonist so very much...]] |
| 842 | * ShootTheShaggyDog: If enough flags were gathered and proper understanding of BB's motive is gained (which is GuideDangIt unless you're in NewGamePlus), it's possible to spare Passionlip from the Punishment Time, which is fatal to the Alter Egos. Getting a second chance to live out her life even though she's just a small offshoot of BB, both she and the protagonist then promise each other they will meet again in a better ground. [[spoiler:When Meltryllis attacks Kiara, Kiara is using Passionlip as her decoy. Poor Passionlip then left to die alone, her thoughts filled with her broken promise.]] |
| 843 | %%* ShrinkingViolet |
| 844 | * StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:She had been following the protagonists and their servant for some time before being fought as a boss]]. |
| 845 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: She wears nothing on her top save for a couple of straps over her breasts. |
| 846 | * SuperStrength: With those arms it was obvious (she has a A+ rank in Strength) but it goes further than that: she also has an EX-ranked skill that allows her to crush ''anything'' that can fit into her oversized hands into a small five-inch-wide cube. And it doesn't even ''need'' to be so in reality; if she can use DepthDeception to "fit" her target within her claws via FingerFraming, then [[PerspectiveMagic she perceives it as "crushable"]]. The game acknowledges the absurdity of this, even classifying it as a "cheat" skill. Her strength is also so absurd that merely attempting to ''touch'' her hands will cause your arms to ''explode'' if you're anything less than a Servant. |
| 847 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: Her boobs are ''literal'' trash bins! Her main duty is to crush trash data and store it away in the valley of her breasts, even things that would otherwise exceed her memory capacity. They're just that huge. |
| 848 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Her Barrier Against Cognizance is so bad, she thinks the reason that everyone rejects her is because she's an Alter Ego and BB's clone, instead of her monstrous appearance. Her entire Punishment Time is basically telling her that yes, she's a monster and yes, it doesn't matter; a girl is still a girl. |
| 849 | * {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:For the Protagonist. Her composite goddesses are those who were also screwed by love, to boot]]. |
| 850 | [[/folder]] |
| 851 | |
| 852 | [[folder:Meltryllis]] |
| 853 | !!!Voiced by Creator/SaoriHayami |
| 854 | [[quoteright:249:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_meltlillith_3535.png]] |
| 855 | |
| 856 | A deadly fighter whose face resembles that of BB. She has sharpened spikes for legs, and a love of violence. |
| 857 | |
| 858 | Her true nature is that of an "Alter Ego", a "High Servant" created by BB after she accessed the records of the Moon Cell. She is a composite of three Servants- Artemis, Leviathan/Lotan, and Sarasvati-. |
| 859 | |
| 860 | Her Noble Phantasm is Saraswati Meltout: Benzaiten's Five String Biwa, a concept of Saraswati's rule over civilization as the Goddess of River, Art, and Education. A non-combat Anti-World Noble Phantasm that turned destructive because of Meltryllis's love for battle, it is a great sweeping tidal cyclone that destroys the form of "anything that flows", whether it be water, words or even morality; thus the very concept of civilization itself. |
| 861 | ----- |
| 862 | * AlasPoorVillain: As explained by the protagonist, Meltryllis herself [[spoiler:fears being loved]]. Caster's analysis of her pretty much explains this: |
| 863 | --> '''[=Caster=]''': A visage of a girl who is proud, but therefore, tragic. |
| 864 | * AnimalMotif: Bees. Her spikes are like a stinger injecting their venom, and her pattern of turning everyone into obedient copies of herself places herself as the queen above drones. |
| 865 | * ArmedLegs: Her lower legs are giant metal prostheses she uses to fight with. |
| 866 | * AssimilationBackfire: [[spoiler:She attempts to assimilate Shinji because of his intelligence. Unfortunately for Meltryllis, Shinji's a genius hacker and was able to implant a virus in himself that weakens her.]] |
| 867 | * TheAssimilator: [[spoiler:Her ranked A skill Melt Virus allows her to absorb anyone she injects it into after they have been liquefied. It allows her to absorb EXP, Skills, Capacity, and more this way.]] |
| 868 | * BeneathTheMask: She's haughty and stoic, but she's also probably the most aware of her flaws and [=SGs=]. [[spoiler:She doesn't even really resist in her Punishment Time, she just wants the protagonist to finally confirm what she already knows.]] |
| 869 | * BigSisterBully: To Passionlip; she's verbally abusive and callous to Lip as she can only protest weakly at her. |
| 870 | %%* BloodKnight |
| 871 | * BreakTheHaughty: The entire point of her punishment scene is to break her ''eternal unchanging love'' philosophy. |
| 872 | * CatchPhrase: Her “[[InsistentTerminology Came from BB, and yet not BB]]” every time she introduces herself or other Alter Egos is the first sign of her [[BetaTestBaddie most apparent issue]]. |
| 873 | * CombatStilettos: Her legs end in ''massive'' stiletto-like points. |
| 874 | * CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler:She is a composite of the Greek Goddess Artemis, Old Testament's Leviathan or Ugaritic's Lotan, and the Indian Goddess Sarasvati.]] |
| 875 | * CreepyBallet: Meltryllis performs dances based on those from operas like ''Theatre/{{Giselle}}''. She uses those dances to rip her foes to ribbons with her ArmedLegs and melt them into data for her to absorb and devour. |
| 876 | * DanceBattler: Her fighting style identified as bastardized ballet, though it's said that she wasn't training to gain that skill but by hacking herself into having that skill. |
| 877 | * {{Expy}}: Has some elements of Dark Sakura from Heaven's Feel, such as [[spoiler:assimilating people into her body]]. |
| 878 | * FastballSpecial: Her combination attack with Passionlip, Virgin Razor Palladion, unseen in ''CCC'' but used against Gawain and Karna in ''Fox Tail'', has Passionlip throw her legs first into the enemy. |
| 879 | * FloralThemeNaming: She is named after Lily flower, the origin of Lilith's name. This is also true for the Meltryllis spelling, as it derives from amaryllis. |
| 880 | * HandicappedBadass: As noted by her skill, she’s in all but form a quadruplet amputee and it doesn’t hinder her as a bonafide BloodKnight. She does have normal, perfectly functioning human arms underneath that coat, but they are completely insentitive to any sense of touch, which upsets her greatly when her hobby is building model figures and thus doesn't have the precise tactile feel needed to make them. |
| 881 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Deconstructed, because the nature of her love is so warped that no one would be happy with it. [[spoiler:Played straight in CCC Route, which she lets the protagonist go as she knows that just be able to love is enough for her]]. |
| 882 | * ImageSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ31EvUlKTY Doukoku ("Poison")]] |
| 883 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Her preferred method of killing her victims in cutscene is usually by impaling them with her knee spikes, while in battle it's usually with her heels. |
| 884 | * IShallTauntYou: When using [[DeflectorShields Farewell Albrecht]]. |
| 885 | --> ''Oh~ Scary, scary~!'' |
| 886 | * KickChick: Her main form of attacking is using her ArmedLegs. |
| 887 | * LonelyDollGirl: She absolutely adores dolls [[spoiler:because she's terrified of love, so she takes comfort in a one-sided love on the closest thing.]] |
| 888 | * MakingASplash: [[spoiler:The goddesses that she is a composite of are those who had strong ties with water or the tides: Artemis, a goddess who strikes those who seeks power to rule over moon movement and tide rising, Leviathan, the famous sea monster that becomes model of Moses's staff that split the Red Sea, and Saraswati, Hindu's river goddess. And then, there's her Noble Phantasm, Saraswati Meltout, which she surrounds her opponent within torrent of water.]] |
| 889 | * MotorMouth: Normally an aloof IceQueen, if the topic of the conversation is Figurine then she will talk '''non-stop'''. |
| 890 | --> '''[=Meltryllis=]''': [[labelnote:Wall of Text]]That’s right, precisely. Dolls are nice. However much I love them, they don’t complain, they never show displeasure, they never change. While I consider human consumer culture foolish, I am grateful that it has polished figurine culture. [[[LampshadeHanging She begins talking much faster than her usual languid pace.]]] It began with the statue of Venus, I think. In Greece. That’s what I imagine. And from there it spread through countries, across oceans, across time...When it reached the hands of Japanese craftsmen, a big bang rivaling the birth of the universe, no, a paradigm shift occurred. It’s come out already, so I’ll just say it. I like dolls. I love them. From life-sized to miniatures, I appreciate them all equally! But certainly scale models in particular draw my interest. Being able to run you tongue over them and admire them from 360 degrees gives such a feeling of control, of ownership, it’s the best there is. All there can be for those who can’t appreciate this hobby is total reeducation. After they’re melted, I’ll make them into base materials. Ah, but American action figures are no good. Too much muscle. When it comes to industrial arts, the delicacy of the Japanese is second to none. My dream is to gather lost model-makers and have them build my own toy story kingdom — Ah, of course I’ll make the craftsmen into dolls as well. Figurine craftsmen polishing their arms day after day, pursuing the ultimate mold...good smiles! Is there any other image so lovely? No, there can’t be. There isn’t, and so I will build it![[/labelnote]] |
| 891 | * MyRulesAreNotYourRules: Meltryllis is a ridiculously unbalanced opponent: she's Lv. 999(due to Level Limit), she can [[MegaManning absorb the EXP, skills and stats]] of fallen enemies to strengthen herself, and best of all, ''she is [[NighInvulnerability immune to damage]]''. [[spoiler:B.B. removes her invulnerability, and later Shinji uses an AssimilationBackfire to infect her with a virus that drops her to Lv. 1. By the time you fight her for real, she's far more squishy and actually easier to deal with than Passionlip because she only focuses on raw offensive power]]. |
| 892 | * {{Narcissist}}: [[spoiler:As her main component is Sarasvati, Hindu Goddess of Culture]], it’s not exactly wrong when she says she’s acting on humanity’s desire. But her way of showing love to humanity is twisted into a self-love completely barren of anyone else, and instead assimilating everyone into herself so she can love herself along with everyone more. |
| 893 | * NoSell: Apparently being level 999 wasn't enough for her, so she reprogrammed the Labyrinth's rules to say "Meltryllis cannot take damage". This aspect of her doesn't get removed until near the end of her story section, making it possible to even damage her, let alone beat her. Once that's gone, there's just the fact that she still has insanely high stats. |
| 894 | * OlderThanTheyLook: She's the second oldest Alter Ego after the unseen Violet, and yet looks like standard lolicon bait. It seems she has a complex regarding being older, yet looking younger than Passionlip. |
| 895 | * PetitePride: She comments that BB and Passionlip have too much "excessive meat". |
| 896 | --> '''Meltryllis''': Which is to say it’s a body where every part is carefully placed, apace with the upper limits of the plastic arts. |
| 897 | * ReallyGetsAround: From the skill description, it seems this is the reason why she has that B rank Riding skill. |
| 898 | * SenseFreak: An actual Skill of hers: Neurological Disorder. She's essentially a quadruple amputee because of it. Seeking to gain her touching sense in a proactive manner, [[BloodKnight she can only feel satisfied with it by fighting]]. Another outlet for her touching sense is by [[MundaneLuxury collecting and making figurines]], which is all but impossible as her fingers are uselessly paralyzed. |
| 899 | * SoftSpokenSadist: She always talks with a certain grace that only apparent to stereotypical IceQueen and Andersen describes her as ‘mother-like’ in manner and speech. Doesn’t stop her from being such a sadistic bitch who dismisses everyone as pawns and dolls, revels in the strength from other’s suffering, and completely loses herself when fighting. |
| 900 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Her name is ''supposed'' to be "Meltryllis", in order to match the floral naming of the other Alter Egos, including the ones in secondary materials; she is named after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaryllis amaryllis]] and as of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', all game-related material and international releases are consistent in spelling her name this way. But no, your eyes do not deceive you: her name is indeed spelled "Meltlilith" in ''CCC'' itself, as shipped. This is because "ryllis" and "lilith" are both transliterated as リリス in katakana, and evidently the graphic design team somehow wasn't informed of the intended Anglo-Romantic spelling. As a result, her name is consistently spelled "Meltlilith" in-game and also in promo material leading up to ''CCC'''s release, and the error wasn't caught in time to correct it before the game went to print. This led to half a decade of mass confusion concerning the anglo-roman spelling of her name, prior to ''Grand Order'' ultimately sorting it out. |
| 901 | * TheStarscream: She dislikes BB because BB is one-upping her attempt to be an absolute being. [[spoiler:Her floor is where most of BB’s remaining ally Servants kick the bucket because Meltryllis destroys them in one way or another in her quest to overthrow BB.]] |
| 902 | * StatusBuffDispel: [[spoiler:Sarasvati Meltout’s effect of "destroying the form of anything that flows" translated as [[PowerParasite stealing enemies' status buffs and giving them to herself]].]] |
| 903 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Her top half is fully covered but the same thing cannot be said for the bottom half. Ironically, in ''Fate/Grand Order'' she describes her outfit as "chaste" when it's anything but. |
| 904 | * TooKinkyToTorture: She outright challenges the protagonist to make her cough out her confession in her Punishment Time. She holds out her composure the best of all Sentinels. |
| 905 | * {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler:For the Protagonist. If Archer is the Female Protagonist's servant, she is yandere for him.]] |
| 906 | [[/folder]] |
| 907 | |
| 908 | [[folder:Golden White Face -- SPOILERS]] |
| 909 | The evil [[AsianFoxSpirit nine-tailed fox]] who is Tamamo-no-Mae's original self. In truth, she is actually Amaterasu, the solar goddess of Shintoism. |
| 910 | ---- |
| 911 | * AdaptationalVillainy: In Japanese myths, Amaterasu is portrayed as being GodOfGood who only did negative stuff in response to her brothers' actions. In ''Fate'', her association with Tamamo turns her into someone who can potentially become an Evil of Humanity. |
| 912 | * AsianFoxSpirit: Although she's not ''actually'' a fox-spirit -- being a Divine Spirit instead -- Amaterasu nevertheless appears as a colossal woman with fox ears and nine fiery tails. |
| 913 | * AxCrazy: She is the source of her Servant incarnation's CuteAndPsycho and ClingyJealousGirl issues -- as well as Tamamo's general reputation as having been an evil monster -- and is gleefully bloodthirsty when interacting with Hakuno. |
| 914 | * CompositeCharacter: Probably the ''most'' syncretized character in the whole franchise. Firstly, Amaterasu seems to be composited with at least two other deities: the Buddhist god [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakini Dakini]] and the Japanese fox-goddess [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inari_Ōkami Inari Ōkami]]. From those connections, Amaterasu is connected to Tamamo herself. And by the time of the 19th century artists such as Katsushika Hokusai had composited Tamamo with at least two other fox spirits -- namely the ''huli jing'' Daji, which is where the moniker Golden White Face comes from. While Caster Tamamo vehemently denies having been Daji, several Servants who fought Daji identify Tamamo as being her in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', which elaborates that 3000 years prior to the present Daji was an Evil of Humanity known as the "Beast of Collapse". Whether Daji and Amaterasu/Tamamo truly are one-and-the-same, Daji is a separate avatar of Amaterasu from Tamamo, or they are -- as Tamamo insists -- separate individuals who coincidentally happen to share the same appearance and powers is ultimately left ambiguous. |
| 915 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: She only appears as a massive version of Tamamo because she interacts with Hakuno in their dreams, and otherwise would manifest as a miniature sun. |
| 916 | * FutureMeScaresMe: Amaterasu finds her one-tailed future self so utterly pathetic that she expresses the desire to reach through space-time and smite her after she's through eating Caster's beloved Master. The feeling is mutual, as Caster is disdainful towards her past self and went out of her way to avoid becoming her again even if she were to regain her full power. |
| 917 | * HumanoidAbomination: As a Divine Spirit and a canditate for becoming a Beast-class entity, Amaterasu is an existence beyond what even Servants are capable of reckoning with, to say nothing of mere mortals. When appearing before Haruko in ''CCC''[='=]s "Caster's Secret Garden", she takes the form of a giant woman with fox-ears and nine fiery tails. ''Fate/Grand Order'' refers to Golden White Face as the "Beast of Collapse"... but this is a [[HistoricalCharacterConfusion different]] Golden White Face who Tamamo was mistaken for, or so Tamamo insists. |
| 918 | * IHaveManyNames: Known by the moniker "the Golden White Face", in Japan she was worshipped as the solar goddess Amaterasu and her [[LiteralSplitPersonality incarnation]] was first named Mizukume and later known as Tamamo-no-Mae. While many assume Tamamo-no-Mae to be the evil nine-tailed fox Daji -- who is ''also'' an Evil of Humanity known by the moniker "Golden White Face" -- due to her evil original self, ''Fate/Grand Order'' reveals they're actually separate entities who just happen to be nigh-identical... or so Tamamo claims. |
| 919 | * LittleBitBeastly: Like Tamamo, she appears as a woman with fox ears and nine tails. |
| 920 | * LiteralSplitPersonality: Tamamo was created by Amaterasu as a ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunrei bunrei]]'', and is thus technically a seperate entity from her while also being Amaterasu herself. |
| 921 | * PhysicalGod: Golden White Face (Konjiki Hakumen in Japanese) -- the evil nine-tailed fox-goddess who is Caster Tamamo's original self -- turns out to be the celestial emptess of Shintoism, Amaterasu. |
| 922 | * SinisterSentientSun: Amaterasu is an embodiment of the Sun itself, manifested as a humanoid AsianFoxSpirit with nine fiery tails -- though according to Nasu she would have appeared as a miniature Sun under other circumstances. She's also a bloodthirsty sadist disgusted by her repentant LiteralSplitPersonality. |
| 923 | * TimeAbyss: She is as old as the Sun itself -- making her older and more powerful than the earthborn gods and spirits. in ''Extella'' she's noted by Tamamo to have witnessed the battle between Velber 02 and the Hero who first wielded Excalibur. |
| 924 | * TimeMaster: Owing to her immense power as a Divine Spirit, she is capable of reaching through time and space to drag Hakuno back to the Age of Myths for a face-to-face chat, and contemplates smiting her wayward future self via time-space shenanigans out of sheer disgust. |
| 925 | * {{Yandere}}: Caster refers to Amaterasu as having been one, and the source of her present ClingyJealousGirl tendencies. |
| 926 | * VillainRespect: Amaterasu had originally intended to eat Hakuno, but their refusal to be intimidated and sheer audacity impresses her enough to spare them and send them back to the present. |
| 927 | [[/folder]] |
| 928 | |
| 929 | !!''CCC'' Fox Tail Characters |
| 930 | |
| 931 | [[folder:Kingprotea]] |
| 932 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kingprotea_5.png]] |
| 933 | |
| 934 | A giant bandaged girl whose face resembles that of BB. |
| 935 | |
| 936 | Her true nature is that of an "Alter Ego", a "High Servant" created by BB after she accessed the records of the Moon Cell. Unlike other Alter Egos, she herself created from the essence of the Earth Mother Goddess. |
| 937 | |
| 938 | ----- |
| 939 | * AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: She's taller than a school building. |
| 940 | * {{Expy}}: Of [[spoiler:Dark Sakura]], specifically, if her bandages are taken as metaphor for [[spoiler:the original Sakura's torment throughout the years]]. |
| 941 | * FloralThemeNaming: Named after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protea_cynaroides Protea Cynaroides]], or king protea. |
| 942 | * HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:She returns to save Hakuno from Kazuradrop, but ultimately ends up falling victim to Trash and Crash at Kazuradrop's hands, the latter having consumed Passionlip to get it]]. |
| 943 | * InLoveWithLove: She's obsessed with the idea of love, but she doesn't really understand what it is. |
| 944 | * MeaningfulName: Her name is taken from the ''Protea Cynaroides'', the largest flower of its Genus. Fittingly, as she is the largest of all Sakuras. |
| 945 | * SealedEvilInACan: Because BB found Kingprotea to be way too destructive after creating her, she decided to seal her inside a cube and throw her into the Cage of the Fallen where she wouldn't be able to escape. |
| 946 | * TokenGoodTeammate: She's the nicest Alter Ego met so far, she saved Hakuno because she wanted to hear what he had to say, and quickly saw the error of her ways after their conversation. |
| 947 | * TokenMiniMoe: [[spoiler:Her inner self looks as young if not younger than Kazuradrop]]. |
| 948 | [[/folder]] |
| 949 | |
| 950 | [[folder:Violet]] |
| 951 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/violet_3.png]] |
| 952 | |
| 953 | A glasses-wearing girl whose face resembles that of BB. |
| 954 | |
| 955 | Her true nature is that of an "Alter Ego", a "High Servant" created by BB after she accessed the records of the Moon Cell. She is a composite of three Servants: Medusa, Apsara, and Melusine. |
| 956 | ----- |
| 957 | * TheAssimilator: Combining her Riding skill with her Transformation skill, she can assimilate anything to be her ride. |
| 958 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: She gains Medusa's square pupils when using her id_ese skill. |
| 959 | * {{Expy}}: Of Rider Medusa. In fact Medusa is one of the Servants used to create her, and she appears near identical to her before revealing her true form. |
| 960 | * FloralThemeNaming: She is named after the Violet flower. |
| 961 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:After losing to Caster and being told off for just blindly following orders, she helps Gawain and Leo with Shinji in protecting Hakuno from Kazuradrop]]. |
| 962 | * HeightAngst: Based on her reaction to Shinji's line about her height, she's also sensitive about it like Medusa was. |
| 963 | * KickChick: She has a tendency to use kicks because her arms turn into whips when fighting. |
| 964 | * MsFanservice: She's the only one of the Sakura five that looks like an adult, has a huge bust that she constantly shows off and even looks like Medusa who was ''the'' MsFanservice of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight''. |
| 965 | * MythologyGag: Her teaming up with Shinji is one to VisualNovel/FateStayNight where one of her base Servants was his Servant. Her tendency to mock him is a reference that Medusa really disliked Shinji. |
| 966 | * NotSoStoic: She tries to come off as serious but deep down she's sad that she looks like an adult and thus can't be cute. She even changed her hair to pigtails to get a reaction out of Hakuno. |
| 967 | * SexyBacklessOutfit: Her outfit doesn't even have a back, only barely covering her butt. |
| 968 | * TheStoic: She keeps a still face no matter the situation. |
| 969 | * StrongButUnskilled: As one of the Sakura Five, she's much stronger than any regular Servant but she's lacking fighting experience and mix that with her straightforward personality, Caster can easily predict her actions. |
| 970 | * TimeStandsStill: Her id_ese skill "Crack Ice" freezes time in the area she sees. |
| 971 | [[/folder]] |
| 972 | |
| 973 | [[folder:Kazuradrop]] |
| 974 | [[quoteright:220:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kazuradrop.png]] |
| 975 | |
| 976 | A young girl whose face resembles that of BB. |
| 977 | |
| 978 | Her true nature is that of an "Alter Ego", a "High Servant" created by BB after she accessed the records of the Moon Cell. It is currently unknown which goddesses she is composed of. |
| 979 | ----- |
| 980 | * AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:She considers BB her mother and is currently trying to eat BB and kill the person she loves most.]] |
| 981 | * BerserkButton: Bugs and imperfections. |
| 982 | * BigBad: [[spoiler:Turns out she's the real main villain of the ''Fox Tail'' manga who stole most of B.B.'s power]]. |
| 983 | * BodyMotifs: Her mouth and tongue get a lot of focus. [[spoiler:It ties into her Insect Eater skill and Pitcher Plant motif.]] |
| 984 | * CannibalismSuperpower: [[spoiler:Her Insect Eater skill lets her use the powers of any Sakura she consumes]]. |
| 985 | * ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:She spent 207 days torturing Hakuno in her Bug Space until Hakuno used his last command seal to summon Caster to his side. She intended to repeat the process later on, only to be foiled by Julius and Kingprotea]]. |
| 986 | * {{Expy}}: Of young Sakura. [[spoiler:But once we meet her, her personality is closer to Dark Sakura and she's shown similar powers]]. |
| 987 | * FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: She's an adorable TokenMiniMoe free from the fan service of her family that's currently [[spoiler:attempting to wipe out all of humanity when not indulging in her torturing hobby.]] |
| 988 | * FanDisservice: While there is really nothing wrong with Kazuradrop's appearance or abilities, her id_eses skill names "Hatred of the Brethren" and "Insect Eater" are this when you remember [[spoiler:the original Sakura's experience with worms and resentment toward Rin]]. |
| 989 | * FloralThemeNaming: She appears to be named after the Arrowroot (Kazura) flower. [[spoiler:She's actually named after the Pitcher Plant (''Utsubo-Kazura'')]]. |
| 990 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:As "BB", she demonstrates a private field called the "Bug Space" wherein her captives are aptly reduced in size and virtually helpless. This at first seems like the typical BB sadism, but ends up having been a landslide hint to who she really was]]. |
| 991 | * IncredibleShrinkingMan: [[spoiler:Bug Space is a special space that shrinks her targets to the size of a bug, afterwards she is free to do as she pleases with them for however long she desires thanks to it having a self-contained time zone]]. |
| 992 | * InformedAttribute: The Alter Ego of Kindness is probably the cruelest of them all. |
| 993 | * IrrationalHatred: [[spoiler:She LOATHES Hakuno because due to him, Sakura became flawed which lead to the creation of BB and the Alter Egos. While she is happy to be alive, she's not at all happy to be born because of an error]]. |
| 994 | * JustEatHim: [[spoiler:"Insect Eater", a skill devised for cleansing system bugs, ends up being utilized instead as the ability to consume others, but only can be used to full effect on Sakura AIs ''specifically'']]. [[note]]She can only wholly integrate the being and skills of Sakura or those derived from her. Anyone else doesn't give her anything.[[/note]] |
| 995 | * MeaningfulName: She is, by origin, a virus-cleansing program, [[spoiler:named for the pitcher plant -- in other words, for "bugs" in the system to be dropped into and erased. Following her whiplash FaceHeelTurn, this is re-purposed for [[JustEatHim her entire new ''modus operandi'']]]]. |
| 996 | * OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:Her goal is the extinction of humanity]]. |
| 997 | * ThePerfectionist: A big part of her personality is her desire to be perfect. [[spoiler:She hates how BB and the other Alter Egos are error prone due to their love of Hakuno and hates that she's an Alter Ego of those flawed AI]]. |
| 998 | * PlotRelevantAgeUp: [[spoiler: After eating Kingprotea she ends up looking like a teenager in comparison to her previous child form.]] |
| 999 | * RightUnderTheirNoses: [[spoiler:She was pretending to be normal Sakura since the start of the manga]]. |
| 1000 | * TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Betrays and absorbs seven-eighths of BB's powers before the start of the manga]]. |
| 1001 | * ThouShallNotKill: Her origin of Kindness prevents her from killing Masters. [[spoiler:She's trying to overcome this.]] |
| 1002 | * TokenMiniMoe: The one with the youngest appearance of the Sakura Five. |
| 1003 | * TooMuchAlike: Her id_es Repulsion For One's Kin causes her to hate her fellow AI or anyone who reminds her too much of herself. |
| 1004 | * WalkingSpoiler: Virtually her entire existence in ''Fox Tail'' is a game-changer, if all the above hadn't made it apparent. |
| 1005 | * WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:When she absorbed BB to get her powers, she also got exposed to the thing that BB had been using as a power source; all of the human malice that the Moon Cell had been dumping into the Imaginary Number Space. This combined with her already twisted love for humanity lead to her wishing for the annihilation of humanity.]] |
| 1006 | [[/folder]] |
| 1007 | |
| 1008 | [[folder:Saber (Suzuka Gozen)]] |
| 1009 | !!!Master: Kazuhito Sakagami | |
| 1010 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/suzuka_gozen_takeuchi_concept.png]] |
| 1011 | Kazuhito's Servant, a Japanese Saber who is head over heels for her Master. |
| 1012 | ----- |
| 1013 | * AffectionateNickname: She calls her master Kazu-kun; he doesn't like it at all. |
| 1014 | * BackFromTheDead: Her myth has her dying at the age of 26 and Tamuramaro traveling to the underworld and reviving her. |
| 1015 | * BoringButPractical: ''Shoutouren'', which Saber admits isn't that flashy at all but the increase to her intelligence makes her a much more efficient and deadly fighter, as Caster found out. |
| 1016 | * TheDitz: She's quite the airhead, with Caster saying her swordsmanship is more her flailing around than a martial art. |
| 1017 | * DumbassNoMore: Her second Noble Phantasm, ''Shoutouren'', greatly increases her intelligence. She even states that as a result of this Noble Phantasm, she can [[MouthfulOfPi recite every digit of Pi]]. |
| 1018 | * {{Foil}}: To her rival Caster despite being incredibly similar, they oppose each other due to that similarity and have inverted myths. [[spoiler:Caster or Tamamo-no-Mae was the mortal avatar of the goddess Amaterasu but became a demon that slaughtered hundreds of people as she was killed because they rejected her. Saber or Suzuka Gozen was a demon princess that travelled to Japan to conquer it but fell in love with the hero, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, and instead helped him kill evil demons and had a happy ending with Tamuramaro. Their main reason for fighting is to protect their Masters who just so happen to be on the opposite sides]]. |
| 1019 | * FlyingWeapon: In battle, she wields one katana in her hands and two others with her mind. |
| 1020 | * GoingCommando: She has this in common with Rani and appears equally nonchalant about accidental flashing. |
| 1021 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When she realizes [[HopelessSuitor Kazuhito will never be hers]], she gives up on her dream of being together forever in favor of his decision to move foward. [[spoiler:...Or she did until she learned Caster helped him reach that ephiphany and became '''livid'''. Truth is, accepting his choice was about ''her'', not him, and learning that someone else interfered with what was supposed to be ''her'' big moment with Kazuhito is unacceptable, even if it is for his benefit.]] |
| 1022 | * LittleBitBeastly: She also has fox ears and a tail, but (unlike Caster's) they're not genuine. |
| 1023 | * LoveAtFirstSight: Like Caster, she has a tendency to fall in love very easily. She says she fell in love with Kazuhito at first sight and part of her myth is she fell in love with Sakanoue no Tamuramaro at first sight as well. |
| 1024 | * MindOverMatter: One of her skills is to levitate items she has on her body. |
| 1025 | * MyMasterRightOrWrong: Based on her myth and her current actions, Saber doesn't really have any set morals and only does things that will make her master/boyfriend happy or let her spend more time with them. Under the hero, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, Suzuka was a heroic figure, [[spoiler:thus why she's siding with Kazuradrop despite seeing her brainwash Kazuhito as it lets her spend more time with him]]. |
| 1026 | * OddFriendship: She and Rani became friends because they both [[GoingCommando don't wear underwear]]. |
| 1027 | * PoorCommunicationKills: [[spoiler:Suzuka never actually ''told anyone'' that she was faking her betrayal. By time Sakanoue no Tamuramaro found her, he was duty-bound to kill her.]] |
| 1028 | * TheRival: To Caster. |
| 1029 | * {{Seers}}: [[spoiler:Her final and most powerful Noble Phantasm, ''Sanzendaisensekai'' gives her clairvoyance that Suzuka states has been compared to omniscience. She states it allows her to see all worlds past, present and future. During her fight with Minamoto-No-Raikou, Suzuka used it to look in Kazuhito's past to tell him that his father was actually proud of him.]] |
| 1030 | * {{Shapeshifting}}: She used it to copy Caster's animal features, under the assumption Kazu liked it. |
| 1031 | * StormOfBlades: As one of her Noble Phantasms, her first sword Daitouren. |
| 1032 | * TooMuchAlike: Caster and Saber are honestly nearly identical in their ideals of love but it only causes more strife between them. |
| 1033 | * WillfullyWeak: [[spoiler:Using her final Noble Phantasm, ''Sanzendaisensekai'' forces Suzuka into her original form as the daughter of a heavenly demon king which gives her clairvoyance to the point of omniscience, allowing her to defeat even Minamoto-No-Raikou. But it also ups her divinity past the limits of a servant container thus heavily damaging her. Caster even states if she uses her final Noble Phantasm too much it could destroy her.]] |
| 1034 | [[/folder]] |
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