Protagonist (Ritsuka Fujimaru)

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Humanity's Last Master

^{Cosmos in the Lostbelt Outfit}

Voiced by: Nobunaga Shimazaki (Male), Akira Sekine (Female), Tomoko Kaneda (Both, Learning with Manga! anime), (Japanese); Griffin Burns (Male, English anime), Lizzie Freeman (Female, English anime)
Live actors: Ryo Saeki [2017]; Shōichirō Oomi [2019-Current] (Male, Stage Play), Renna Okada [2017]; Mioka Sakamoto [2019-Current] (Female, Stage Play)

The last Master available in Chaldea after their destruction in the Prologue. Actually a total newbie in terms of magecraft, they have now become the last hope for humanity.

Once they save humanity, they stay on with Chaldea, preparing for their inevitable departure... before certain circumstances get in the way.

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The Ace: They don't start as such, but by the time of the Sixth and Seventh Singularities and the extra events around then, they've absolutely become this in terms of being a Master of Servants. Holmes points out that your method of Servant usage is absolutely remarkable, and that obtaining not just the contracts but the loyalty of so many Servants (including numerous Servants with extremely questionable morality) is unheard of.
Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The events, some of which are traumatic, both versions of the Protagonist go through during their journey in Part 1 have clearly affected them more than they let on in varying degrees in many adaptations of FGO. One of the manga adaptations in particular, has the male protagonist try to call home after the Fuyuki Singularity, in spite of knowing that all his friends and family have been killed by the Incineration of Humanity. He even briefly dreams that he's back home only for the dream to end with his parents, their apartment, their city, and himself being engulfed in flames.
Adaptational Badass: The anime and manga adaptations give the protagonists a slightly more active role in the fighting, using small attack spells, and even kicking away a soldier in full armor.
Adaptational Jerkass: The female Ritsuka is hit with this in both the Learning with Manga! gag series and in Fate/Grand Carnival, where she's depicted as a selfish degenerate who abuses her Servants wantonly for farming (though it's downplayed in Fate/Grand Carnival). In the game canon and in serious adaptations of Fate/Grand Order featuring her, she's typically depicted as a kind girl who, at her "worst", is fond of playfully teasing her friends and the Servants allied with her.
Adaptational Personality Change: The female protagonist's chibi-fied mascot version, "Gudako", has a completely different personality in certain promotional material, as well as in live events. She's depicted as an erratic and hostile Kick Chick and troublemaker who seeks attention, breaks the fourth wall and has suffered horrible experiences with the gacha system.
All-Loving Hero:
- Described as "remarkably lacking in biases and prejudices", they manage to at least get a working relationship with even the most evil and devious Servants, who are often surprised by just how well they treat the Servants under their employ regardless of where they come from or who they were in life, or even if they tried to murder the protagonist in previous Singularities and events. They're even willing to fulfill Goetia's final wish of having someone see his last moments in the Final Singularity.
Charlotte: [referring to the protagonist] In a certain way, Master's kindness resembles a mirror. Whether they're a good person or an evil person, whether they respected the way they lived or not... "That's just how it is." That's what you'll see in the mirror.
- In the Id Ordeal Call, this unfortunately makes them conceptually incompatible with the Avenger class. While the Protagonist is more than capable of befriending Avengers, they're also someone who believes in finding salvation for others, which runs completely antithetical to the Avenger class's concepts of vengeance and destruction. Even after the Protagonist comes to learn and accept what the Avenger class represents, and even if they can justify their place in the Human Order, they themselves cannot walk the same path of blood, flame, and ultimately self-destructive vengeance as they can, and the Avengers don't want to force that path on them. Due to their master being unable to use them for their intended purpose in the Human Order on account of not being willing to follow them on their path of self-destruction the way an Avenger would, the Avengers are barred from entry to Antarctica regardless of their value for the defense of the Human Order having been proven, and end up leaving in order to allow the Protagonist to continue with their journey.
The Alleged Boss: Their title of "Master" is used by Servants to denote respect and even fondness. The station of it does not prevent these same allied Heroic Spirits from going AWOL during minor Singularities to pursue their own agendas these events afford and even becoming obstacles to resolving them.
Almighty Janitor: Is given the rank of "Cause" by the Mage's Association after part one ends (it's the third lowest rank in the Association). It's not that impressive of a title, though it still implies significantly more ability than the protagonist possesses. However, the protagonist also happens to have a veritable army of superpowered humans at their beck and call, any one of whom could probably devastate the Association on their own if they pleased. El-Melloi also mentions that despite his very prestigious position in the Clock Tower his own abilities as a mage are very close to the protagonist, so titles be damned.
Ambiguously Bi: In the main game, similar to Hakuno, the female protagonist expresses attraction to female Servants as well.
Ambiguously Human:
- "The Sealed Christmas Present" event has Vritra observe that the protagonist and Mash seem both human and not human. Mash is of course a Demi-Servant, but it's unclear why she would say that about the protagonist.
- In Lostbelt 6, Koyanskaya explains that her plan involves finding "Magical Beasts that don't exist in the history of mankind" and turning them into tails. According to Koyaskaya of Light's profile, her Original Plan had her turning the Foreign God and then the Protagonist into her 8th and 9th Tails respectively. Deductively this means that Protagonist has either become a "Magical Beast that doesn't exist in the history of mankind" or there is a way to turn them into one, as they would otherwise be useless for the scheme.
And I Must Scream: In the Ooku event, Kama/Mara plans to inflict this on the protagonist, stating she'll see what's left of their mind after she reduces the oxygen to the bare minimum necessary to survive, enforce the zero gravity of the space, shut off all light sources, and finally left them drift alone in the black empty space with no one to save them. Their allied Servants are only barely able to reach them and get them to safety in numbers so it doesn't crack their mind.
Anti-Hero:
- The nature of the Lostbelts in Part 2 firmly places them (and the rest of Chaldea) in this category, as they are essentially ending entire worlds to bring back their own. It falls into Black-and-Gray Morality as the worlds they're ending are nightmarish histories that should not have existed in the first place, but ending them means also killing all the innocent inhabitants who were born into them by erasing their worlds.
- After Lostbelt 5 they slide back more into traditional Hero, as the final two Lostbelts are apparently so horrific and nearly devoid of humanity that even Kirschtaria Wodime encourages the protagonist before he dies that those worlds must never come to pass, and to bring back the correct human history.
- In Ordeal Call II: Id, Dantès claims that, as someone who has suffered so much due to the machinations of Goetia, Chaldea, and the Foreign God, as well as at the hands of many others, they have the potential to become the world’s last and greatest Avenger and defeat the Foreign God with the power that entails. However, the Protagonist adamantly refuses to become a hateful seeker of vengeance despite everything, and so their potential as an Avenger remains unrealized.
Ascended Fanboy:
- Some dialogue options from the protagonist like with Avicebron's golems, during the third Halloween event, and their reaction to Babbage's transformation in "Dead Heat Summer Race" indicate that they're into mecha and are absolutely delighted that some of the Servants have made their fantasies come to life. Ishtar even describes them as having the heart of an eight-year-old. Then in the next summer event, the protagonist is left stuttering from sheer joy when they witness Mysterious Heroine XX in her full mecha suit glory.
  Protagonist: [upon finishing the Giant Babbage doujin] Who doesn't love giant robots? NOBODY!
- The Prisma Illya event also implies they're into the magical girl genre.
- In Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, he mentions growing up hearing about Ushiwakamaru's exploits and is delighted to inform her of her fame in the modern day and the songs written about her.
- In Kama's interlude, they're trapped by the Hindu god of love in a dream where they get to live out their wildest childhood fantasies to help them blow off pent up steam. Among them include being a secret agent, being an Ace Pilot astronaut locked in a lightspeed dogfight, and trekking through the jungle. All of these things have happened to them for real in some shape or form.^note
Attractive Bent-Gender: Both avatars are rather easy on the eyes while crossdressing, but the Shinjuku manga adaptation went out of its way to give the male protagonist both a fancy wig and a very stuffed bra for the ballroom infiltration segment.
Back from the Dead: In the SE.RA.PH chapter, they were actually killed by Beast III-R near the end/before the beginning of the event, but Meltryllis and Passionlip used their combination Noble Phantasm to send Meltryllis back in time to make sure the MC would win the next round. They also have a pseudo-resurrection with the Anniversary Blonde Mystic Code's Guts skill.
Badass Normal: Downplayed. They will never be a match for any but the weakest Servants in a straight fight, but they accumulate a variety of skills that would put trained soldiers to shame over the course of the story, including the Fuuma clan's advanced stealth techniques, the ability to ride Demonic Beasts like bicorns, and ridiculous Nerves of Steel as The Strategist. The anime adaptations show them kicking away soldiers in full armor and they pull off Diving Saves even against Servants. In the third summer event, they get prodded by Scathach until they can hit a bullseye at 50m with handguns and rifles without a scope.
Berserk Button: As someone who values their Servants like family, seeing a Master mistreat their Servant brings out the devil in them like nothing else.
Black Mage: The Chaldea Battlesuit stuns an enemy and also buffs all Servants to hit harder. It can also can switch your frontline Servant with sub-members, allowing you to be more creative with tactics.
Book Dumb: A modern mage who initially had little interest in history or mythology, their more learned allies or even some of their Servants have to take time to explain the circumstances of the Singularities and the important figures therein. Sometimes the player has the option to indicate familiarity instead, but the option is always there for the sake of those not in the know. (Teach Us FGO! takes advantage of this to have the Servants teach the male protagonist about their real-world backgrounds.)
Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: In every chapter where the Protagonist faces something that by all accounts they never have any business doing, it always comes at some kind of loss or injury, such as exhausting themselves to much they nearly die, or using all their Command Spells. The most noteworthy time being when they accomplished the borderline impossible job of killing Ort, before over exhausting themselves from throwing hordes of Servants at it, that they briefly die once the battle ends.
Brought Down to Normal: The major overarching danger of Epic of Remnant. With Mash's powers gone, the Protagonist has all the durability of a normal human (below-average) magus in scenarios where they're being targeted for extra-dimensional assassination.
- This happens in the first chapter of Lostbelt 7: Nahui Mictlan, as the Storm Boarder is attacked by an unidentified entity, causing the Protagonist to fall to their doom. In exchange for their Command Spells, Tezcatlipoca brings them back to life... without the ability to ever summon a Servant again.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Many of their dialogue options can make it sound like they have a few screws loose, on top of being occasionally Hot-Blooded, a fan of transforming robots, and a Covert Pervert. Despite all this, they're the best when it comes to earning the complete loyalty of their Servants and commanding them in battle.
Buxom Beauty Standard: Discussed in Caster of Okeanos' third bond line:
Caster of Okeanos: You like people with plentiful assets?! Well, I'm confident in my technique! Mhm... I'll do my best!
The Cameo: Fujimaru's female counterpart appears in the First Order OVA as another one of the forty-eight Master candidates of Chaldea.
Canon Name: In the anime adaptations, the male protagonist's name is Ritsuka Fujimaru. The stage plays, manga adaptations, and Fate/Grand Carnival use the same name for the female protagonist. As this implies, Ritsuka is a gender-neutral name so it's appropriate no matter what gender the protagonist is.
Can't Hold His Liquor: Quickly becomes drunk while partying with Francis Drake in the Okeanos singularity. An oddity as the protagonist is later mentioned to be immune to illness and poisons by means of their contract with Mash, though it could be argued that being drunk (non-lethally at that) doesn't count as an illness or poison. Then again, Mash later soaks up an aerosol mist of magical liquor in Rashomon, becoming drunk in the process... Later chapters mostly avoid this snarl by having the protagonist protest that they're too young to drink yet.
Cast from Hit Points: Enabling Mash to fire the Black Barrel Replica requires their stamina, mana, one of their Command Spells for each shot, and part of their Unmei-Ryoku^note. As Castor put it, they're the bullet.
Cerebus Call-Back: The -MOONLIGHT/LOSTROOM- OVA highlights scenes from previous Singularities from Part 1, showing that while the protagonist has tried to be as brave and helpful as he could, he has always felt an acute sense of powerlessness amidst all the bedlam, culminating in a scene from the very first level past the prologue (one of the easiest of the bunch) where he can do little but stare in helpless horror as an army of Jeanne Alter's dragons devastate a nearby castle.
Character Development: They begin Part 1 scared but determined, and end it as an experienced and loyal Master.
Chick Magnet: By leveling up your Servants' bond and ascending them, a lot of the female ones will fall in love with the protagonist, even if the protagonist is female. In the Babylonia story arc, Quetzalcoatl outright calls the male protagonist a "cutie" and quickly asks for his hand in marriage.
Chivalrous Pervert: While they sometimes make some leery comments, the protagonist would never actually want to do something that would make someone uncomfortable. In the anthology manga, the male protagonist is Genre Savvy enough to be wary of the girls' Pervert Revenge Mode and refuses to go peep on them in the hot springs and thinks it's wrong in general despite being clearly aroused by the thought. Even after Hector and Cu toss him over to the girl's side of the hot spring, the protagonist's first response is to apologize and try to leave. Instead, the girls understand that he didn't peep on them on purpose and instead invite him to relax to his continued embarrassment. When he gets back to Chaldea, the protagonist hits an already beat up Roman with a Megaton Punch for talking the male Servants into doing that.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: If it is remotely in their power, they will rush out to help someone in need even if it places them in mortal danger. The protagonist's altruism is lampshaded during the first Lostbelt, when Goredolf is baffled at the protagonist's insistence on helping Patxi when they could have used the moment to get away.
Goredolf: Huh? Why would you do that?
Holmes: I understand your confusion, Goredolf, but this is simply how Chaldea... ah, rolls, as they say. I do hope you'l learn to accept it. Rest assured that endeavors like this are far from fruitless. They may be fraught with risk, but their returns more than make up for it.
Clark Kent Outfit:
- As the swimsuit shows, the male protagonist is actually fairly muscular◊. Apparently running around in Singularities trained his body well. As he puts it in Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia:
  Fujimaru: [while performing his daily exercise routine] I'm just an ordinary human, and half-assed as a Master to boot. At the very least, I need to be buff.
- Due to running around in a spacesuit during the entirety of "Saber Wars II", Space Ishtar is surprised by how easily the protagonist picks up Ashtart in a Bridal Carry and runs with her to safety, saying that they are much stronger than they look.
Cleavage Window: The Chaldea Battlesuit has one for the female protagonist.
Clothes Make the Superman: The protagonist isn't much of a mage outside of their high compatibility with Servants, and many of their spells come courtesy of their Mystic Codes, which also double as their outfits. Chaldea seems to have made a point of ensuring that they never go out without a Mystic Code on, as even their swimsuits are Mystic Codes that let them use spells and protect them from falls and impacts, which Jeanne Alter lampshades as being incredibly overengineered.
Cloudcuckoolander:
- Some of their responses can range from using the wrong language, to having strange greetings, to generally having Skewed Priorities.
  Protagonist: True Alligators are clueless.
- In Kijyo Koyo's Valentine's scene, the protagonist goes to Erice to translate Koyo's roars. But rather than use a recording, they decide to perform a perfect replication of Koyo's roaring on the spot. Erice even asks if they're serious when they do it.
Contrasting Sequel Protagonist: Unlike Shirou, Hakuno, or Sieg, the Protagonist is genuinely average in all respects. They're really an Ordinary High-School Student with no knowledge of the world of magi prior to becoming a member of Chaldea, have a normal social life, no notable mental deficiencies, and no tragic backstory.
Cosplay: Some Mystic Codes reference other iconic outfits from the Fate series and occasionally other parts of the Nasuverse.
- Two Mystic Codes are Atlas Academy and Mage Association uniforms.
- For the 5 Million Downloads Campaign, they get the Anniversary Blonde Mystic Code, which are a homage to Saber's casual clothes for the female protagonist and Arthur's Waistcoat of Style from Fragments for the male protagonist. The Mystic Code itself carries two gameplay equivalents of their skills, Mana Burst and Instinct.
- As part of the promotion for Fate/Accel Zero Order, the Royal Brand Mystic Code is based on Saber's black suit ensemble from Fate/Zero for the female protagonist and the fitting of the male protagonist's suit virtually renders him the spitting image of her master, Kiritsugu Emiya. Heck, even their expressions match the characters the clothes represent.
- As part of the promotion for Fate/Extella, they get Memory of Lunar Mare, Hakuno's original school uniform from Fate/EXTRA.
- For the pre-SE.RA.PH chapter promotion, they got Hakuno's school uniform from CCC, Memory from the Far Side of the Moon.
- For the Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower commemoration event, they have the Homurahara school uniform. They came with three skills, "Code: F", "Code: U", and "Code: H", representing the three routes of Fate/stay night: Fate, Unlimited Blade Works, and Heaven's Feel respectively.
- The 7th anniversary event which dropped Arcueid as the anniversary Servant came with the Souya High School Uniform. The costume along with the facial expression has the male protagonist pulling off a good impression of Nanaya Shiki while the female protagonist engages in some Lecherous Licking.
Costume Evolution: As far as the main story is concerned, the protagonist's default outfit is the white standard Chaldea Mystic Code. At the beginning of Lostbelt 1, they switch to the black Chaldea Arctic Region Mystic Code. By Lostbelt 7, they switch to the Decisive Battle Chaldea Uniform.
Costume Porn: Besides the Mystic Codes, the protagonist is also depicted in various outfits through event Craft Essences.
Covert Pervert:
- They have their moments, but especially seen when they join in on Roman and Fou's antics to peep on the girls or comment on Servants' titillating appearances.
- In Meltryllis' Valentine's Day scene, they can choose to say that they wouldn't mind getting melted if it's Melt doing it, which kicks her sadistic streak into overdrive as she offers to melt them with her Melt Virus then and there rather than doing it through chocolate.
- But Kama's interlude reveals that the protagonist's thoughts are surprisingly platonic most of the time. She's almost disappointed that their deepest wishes for a romantic date involve drinking juice from the same bottle and sharing a pair of headphones rather than anything more erotic, straight up asking if they wanted to make out behind a shed instead.
Crazy Enough to Work:
- In Bablyonia, their plan to get Quetzacoatl on their side involves having Ishtar take them high into the sky, and then do a power-bomb move down at the ground, with the whole plan hinging on Quetzacoatl being Good All Along and catching them. It works.
- In "Servant Summer Camp! Chaldea Thriller's Night", while it was technically Illya who gave them the initial idea, their actual plan to beat Abigail comes down to Yu Mei-ren blasting them high into the sky with her Noble Phantasm and banking on Abigail's desire to protect them motivating her to go up there and form a contract to save them before they splat onto the ground. Again, it works, though not for lack of Abigail yelling/crying What Were You Thinking? both before, during, and after the stunt.
Crippling Overspecialization: The protagonist is a magus who is specialized as a Master to command multiple Servants at once, but in terms of magecraft, they are painfully mediocre, such that they are practically guaranteed to lose in a Wizard Duel against most named magi within the entire Type-Moon franchise.
Cuteness Proximity: The protagonist has a soft spot for a few Servants even when common sense would suggest caution.
- Elisabeth is not very popular in Chaldea as her Halloween events progress (and in her second and third events, everyone including the protagonist tries to avoid her concerts for the sake of their ears and sanity), but ultimately the protagonist can't resist liking her. In "Demonic Climb - Himeji Castle War", memories of Elisabeth yelling out for her beloved Puppy are enough to push the protagonist to participate in her event, and they are the only one who consistently wants to save Elisabeth in a party of people who are only doing what they want or are obligated to do.
- Ibaraki-Douji is treated as a petulant but very cute child even as she's threatening murder and pillaging, and Mash remains wary of her (and other characters instead name her as a wild animal, with the danger associated with one). The latter half of her Interlude quest is the protagonist humoring her, and a couple of dialogue choices just gloss over Ibaraki's threats.
  Ibaraki-Douji: The only relationship we have is the kind between a frightening tyrant and a whimpering, terrified kid!
  Protagonist: (It's so cute when she tries to be scary.) Terrifying. Truly.
  Ibaraki-Douji: Yes, yes! I knew it! Of course it is! That dull, warm gaze and your dumb face twitching in a terrified half-smile is all the proof I need!
- The protagonist's reactions to Abigail's Valentine present has them react in the following ways depending on which response you choose: either they collapse from the sheer cuteness, or they spontaneously give Abigail a piggyback ride around all of Chaldea out of sheer happiness.
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Lostbelt 5 gives them the Black Barrel Replica so they can destroy the Olympians. On top of needing a Command Spell to use as ammo, their nature as a mage means it's unsafe for them to use the gun even though Mash is the one physically handling it because of the gun's anti-magic nature. The first time they fire the Black Barrel Replica, both the protagonist and Mash get knocked out from the blowback of using it.
Deadpan Snarker: Some of their responses definitely can make them this. Such examples include some of their interactions with Olga Marie.
Protagonist: Aye aye, great director Olga Marie.
Defeating the Undefeatable: Against all odds, they led Chaldea to victory over the most powerful Servants seen in the series thus far and several Physical Gods that had never experienced defeat before then.
Despair Event Horizon: The protagonist comes dangerously close to this in the first Lostbelt when it's revealed that the only way to restore Proper Human History is to destroy every Lostbelt, resulting in an untold amount of blood on their hands. The protagonist immediately fell to despair, not responding as a Yaga attempted to gun them down. It was only because of Paxti's Rousing Speech after he Took The Bullet for them that they got back up again.
Determinator: Ultimately the only outstanding quality the protagonist has to bring to the adventure beyond their extreme open and forgiving nature. The single most dangerous quality about the Master of Chaldea is their inability to quit, despite the implied psychological trauma and guilt they've endured, against completely insurmountable odds that other characters who gave up on ever trying to fight. Although they have come close to giving into despair a few times, they always overcome it, and will not stop trying to restore the Human Order no matter how much physical and mental pain they endure.
Did They or Didn't They?:
- Swimsuit Tamamo offers you a cocktail which basically amounts to a date rape drug. Whether the protagonist drank it or not and then if they did the deed is left up to the player's imagination.
- During Valentine's Day, Fergus invites the protagonist to have a one-night stand with him.
- Edmond Dantès' Valentine's scene is very suggestive, though there's nothing outright explicit about it.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Near the end of the Final Singularity, the protagonist literally punches out Demon King Goetia. By themself. TWICE. This doesn't cover the other times they've led teams of Servants that bested Beasts II and both halves of III, as well as the Lostbelt Kings, including an even more powerful version of Zeus. They're also the only known person in the entire Nasuverse to have faced ORT, whose lesser incarnation puts all of the Protagonist's previous foes to shame, and lived to tell the tale.
Discard and Draw: Servants summoned by them tend to be weaker than they would have been if summoned by the more powerful mages most commonly seen in Holy Grail Wars, but in exchange might have access to alternate abilities or equipment that would have typically been withheld from them in a conventional manifestation. For example, unlike the one Illya summoned in the original show, the Protagonist's Heracles at his most powerful can only resurrect himself about four times, but possesses Valor and Nine Lives, making him a more skilled combatant.
- Taken to the extreme at the start of Lostbelt 7, as they give up their entire Command Spell crest - and thus their ability to summon and command Servants - in order to be brought back to life by Tezcatlipoca, and instead defend themselves by forging an alliance with U-Olga Marie.
Dragged into Drag: At a dance party in Shinjuku, the protagonist is forced to crossdress: the male one into a dress and the female one into a suit (hence the chapter PV where she's wearing a suit). The reason this is done is because Yan Qing, who's disguised himself as a yakuza member, will have a different reaction compared to his peers.
Drama-Preserving Handicap: Many of the adaptations, as well as "Cosmos in the Lostbelt" arc, give them harder limits on their Command Spells. They get three per Rayshift, and they do not regenerate daily as they do in-game, requiring the utilization of Magical Reactors to replenish them. It is possible for them to have reserve Command Spells in their journeys, but that doesn't give them free usage of them.
The Dreaded:
- By the time of the Sixth Singularity, their exploits and achievements are well known by almost all the Servants, to the point that when Goddess Rhongomyniad learns that they will be arriving in the Sixth Singularity soon, she immediately orders her Knights to intercept them, recognizing they're the only one capable of stopping her plans.
- By the time of Cosmos in the Lostbelt, they have become this to the Demon Pillars. Reines says that their affinity to take down Demon Pillars is comparable to Heroic Spirits.
Dude Magnet: By leveling up your Servants' bond and ascending them, several male Servants will fall in love with you, although the number pales in comparison to the females.
Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Commented on, after all their tricks, even mastering advanced ninja techniques from Kotaro Fuuma, fail, and they're dragged off to one of Elizabeth's Halloween concerts for a third year. Then one more time in the finale, when they realize the only way to prevent disaster is to ask Elizabeth to sing.
Ensign Newbie: They are the newest member of Chaldea at the game's start, having literally just arrived at their headquarters a few hours ago before the Fuyuki operation. Since the Command Room explosion took out all the other Masters, they were automatically given charge of solving Singularities by default of having no one else to Rayshift. The Garden of Lost Will section in the sixth Lostbelt reveals they have a fear of being designated disposable if someone like Kadoc was to be deemed a more suitable candidate for Chaldea's missions.
Even the Girls Want Her: If your protagonist is female, some female Servants (such as Medusa, Serenity, and Kiyohime) will acknowledge this, but are still interested in having a relationship. Morgan even has separate lines for both protagonists calling them her husband or wife.
Even the Guys Want Him: Two of the game's confirmed bisexual men are Astolfo and Fergus, both of whom show some interest in the protagonist, though Fergus makes it clear he doesn't intend to pursue a relationship. Although he still invites the male protagonist for a one-night stand in his Valentine's Day return gift.
Exposed to the Elements: They receive a new Mystic Code to deal with the extreme cold of the Russia Lostbelt. However these clothes don't seem to actually suit a -100°C environment, especially the female one with a short skirt with her thighs and knees exposed to the cold. Everyone else including Mash is either wearing heavy clothing, staying in the Shadow Border, or magically resistant to harsh weather. Probably justified as this Mystic Code is their "default" outfit for the rest of the Lostbelts.
Expository Hairstyle Change: The Lostbelt Part 2 Opening shows that the Female Protagonist has forgone her iconic scrunchie with side ponytail, letting her short hair down completely seemingly as indication of how serious she will be taking the rest of the journey. Basically it's Letting Her Hair Down, but she becomes more serious with her hair down instead of done up.

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Fantastically Indifferent: Being subjected to experiencing all the Singularities and the kinds of shenanigans their Servants get up to has led to the protagonist reacting to being suddenly plunged into a wacky new situation with indifference. It gets to the point where even Sieg as a giant dragon suddenly kidnapping them in a dream leads to them calmly guessing that something has gone wrong and this dragon needs their help hence the sudden appearance in a dream.
First-Name Basis: The female protagonist is primarily referred to by her first name in adaptations. This is in contrast to her male counterpart, who is mainly referred to by surname instead.
The Fool: The protagonist has an ordinary background and knows little about talent, yet they survived many dangerous situations and succeeded very difficult missions thanks to sheer luck. This includes avoiding the explosion in the command room, making it through all seven Singularities (which most of the Crypters wouldn't have survived per Word of God), being saved from certain death thanks to a time-traveling Meltryllis in SE.RA.PH, defeating several Beasts, and escaping from getting pruned by the Foreign God.
Forced Transformation: After their body and soul are split apart as a result of Molay's unsuccessful attempt at summoning her god, their possessed body transforms into a gigantic humanoid goat monster while their soul is transferred to a cute pumpkin doll to prevent them from dissipating, turning them into a miniature Pumpkin Person in the Halloween 2021 event .
Friend Zone: While many female Servants will waifu for them and males will consider them to have an extremely close bond, a few Servants will either Friend or Master Zone them depending. Tomoe Gozen, for example, is already married and will consider them to be a good Master and almost like her own child, Jack considers them to be her mother regardless of player gender, Suzuka Gozen doesn't even consider them as a potential love interest despite looking for one, and most female Servants who already had a love interest will have similar reactions, such as Medea considering the protagonist to be a little brother or sister. For male Servants, Gilgamesh will accept close followers, but has only one friend.
Frontline General: They tend to stand dangerously close to the battle, having gotten in the habit of expecting Mash to be able to protect them. But this is justified by how their connection to their Servants fuels their power: the farther away they are from the action, the weaker their connection and thus their Servants become. This comes back to bite them when enemies begin targeting them directly in Epic of Remnant when Mash cannot accompany them, either through ambush or with their dying breaths.
The Gadfly:
- Less serious events like Valentine's tend to portray the protagonist as this along with making them a Deadpan Snarker. For instance, they're blatantly onto Summer Martha when she forgets that it's Valentine's Day, constantly guilt-tripping her into getting them something with Crocodile Tears and mock sobbing. The protagonist also threatens to put duct tape all over Caster of Okeanos' wings as revenge for trying to turn them into pigs.
- The protagonist rips off Xiang Yu by charging him exorbitantly high QP prices as recompense for Yu Mei-ren taking their stuff during her interlude, only giving back the extra QP after Mash and the others shame the protagonist into it.
- The female protagonist in the Shimousa manga is an especially big one and forms a comedic duo with Musashi because of it.
Game-Favored Gender: While the writing itself is made as gender-neutral as possible with appropriate usage of male or female pronouns or gender-specific descriptors as necessary, characters generally react to the player character as if they were male. Valentine's Day and White Day notwithstanding, a female player tends to get the short end of the stick. Most FGO adaptations use the male protagonist, with the exceptions being the Shimousa, Salem and Duel manga (which use the female protagonist), and the stage plays and trailers (which use both). Event trailers also tend to use both versions of the protagonist.
- The female protagonist is also the main one used in the Learning with Manga! spin-off, making her the secondary de facto mascot since it's in the public eye more than the other manga adaptations.
Gameplay and Story Integration: Their "True Ether" Mystic Code is capable of all the feats they perform in the Babylonia anime it initially appeared in. Those being healing his Servants, and giving them some magical energy so they can use their Noble Phantasms faster. Its last ability compliments how most of the protagonist's allies with only a handful of exceptions were primarily Buster-focused Servants.
Gameplay and Story Segregation:
- While they are not used almost at all early on in the story, later stories have you using Command Spells to strengthen your Servants in critical moments. Sometimes it might be just one Command Spell and otherwise you might end up using all of them up such as helping out Super Orion to recover enough to shoot down Artemis. However, these Command Spell uses are in no way tied to the ones you can use in gameplay.
- The first Lostbelt is so frigid that the protagonist needs to wear the Arctic Mystic Code in addition to a heavy coat to survive in it. In gameplay, there's nothing stopping you from using any of your other Mystic Codes, including Brilliant Summer and Tropical Summer.
Genki Girl: Fate character designer and Type-Moon co-founder Takeuchi Takashi has stated that he designed the female protagonist with this personality in mind, describing her as a "lively, cheerful type of girl who would drag her Servants around her hijinks."
Glass Cannon: The Royal Brand Mystic Code (from "Fate/Accel Zero Order") is virtually a god-send for almost all Assassins, Riders and any Servants with a Quick-based deck, allowing them to hit hard with Quick cards and ensure their attacks will connect. Considering the suit is virtually a homage to Emiya Kiritsugu^note, it's very appropriate.
Good Old Fisticuffs: In the Final Singularity, the protagonist, equipped with Mash's shield and powering themselves up by burning a command spell, starts a fistfight with Human King Goetia and wins.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: Quite literally. The Protagonist has 0% affinity as a magus, but 100% affinity as a Master, owing mostly to one thing: that they care for their Servants like friends and family, no matter their background or deeds. It doesn't sound like much until you realize that the vast majority of Masters in the franchise that aren't The Hero are really shitty towards their Servants, viewing them as disposable slaves at best. On the other hand, never fails to treat their Servants like people, sharing joys and sorrows and helping them when they need it, earning they gain loyalty that has been repaid in spades on and off the battlefield, simply by being compatible with almost every single Servant they meet.
He's Back!: The second half of Olympus has been described by Nasu as the protagonist slowly shifting away from the inflexible rut of doing their duty that they've been in since the first Lostbelt and back into the single-minded determination of defeating any adversary that comes across their path from the end of the first storyline.
Healing Hands: Can heal their servants, either through a form of magecraft or using Command Spells.
Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Players name the protagonist at the start of the game, and the game does occasionally use this name in dialogue (with a stutter in dialogue pacing on some devices as it loads in the name). However, the game prefers to avoid Mad Libs Dialogue in favor of simply calling the protagonist "Master," or "the Master" or some other In-Series Nickname.
Hero with Bad Publicity: After Part 1, like all Chaldea staff prior to Goredolf's buyout, they're considered suspect for breaking various protocol originally set up by the Mage's Association and United Nations (summoning more than the original limit of seven Servants, rayshifting and changing personnel without authorization, releasing classified information to all levels of staff, and neglecting the Master candidates in emergency care) and are subject to scrutiny under interrogation as a result. Da Vinci tries to write up a counter-claim to this, but both efforts are ultimately moot when the Oprichnik attack.
Heroic BSoD:
- Went into this in Lostbelt 1 when they learned about the consequences of destroying the Tree of Emptiness near the end. They were able to snap out of it thanks to Patxi, who sacrificed himself to save them from being shot down by the rebels, and with his dying breath, gave the protagonist the motivation to continue on their mission regardless what will happen.
- Goes into another one in Lostbelt 5 when Aphrodite uses her song to guilt trip the protagonist into an endless "Groundhog Day" Loop of dreams consisting of all the people who have died directly or indirectly because of their actions over the events of Part 2. Only Dantès' intervention gets them to snap out of it.
Heroic RRoD:
- The female Ritsuka overexerts herself during the grueling battle against Archer of Inferno in the Shimousa manga adaptation and collapses by the end of it out of exhaustion from constantly forcing herself to summon Shadow Servants to support Musashi as a result of Ritsuka's abnormal Rayshift cutting off any proper assistance she would've gotten from Chaldea. She spends the following days of the aftermath of that battle mostly tired and burnt out for the most part, with Onui taking care of her in the meantime.
- The battle against ORT in the Seventh Lostbelt tries and tests the protagonist like nothing else. They go from summoning all of the Servants to try slowing it down, to summoning copies of those Servants to finish it off, to summoning yet more Servant copies when ORT ends up having a backup plan for one last bout. By the time ORT is finally down for the count, they're so drained that they end up collapsing and waking up in the afterlife, just like in the beginning of the Lostbelt, implying that they (temporarily) died again from the strain.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Though he is far more normal than the situations around him, Lostroom Fujimaru belittles himself as a mediocrity. While normal, he's far from mediocre (at least physically) as he uses fingertip pushups, which are more advanced than normal pushups, to train his body, and even manages to kick a well-trained Roman soldier away during a battle, both of which are not something to scoff at - he's just very poor in terms of magic potential.
Heroism Won't Pay the Bills: Averted. At the beginning of Part 2, the protagonist is being discharged from duty due to the takeover of Chaldea and turnover of the staff, but da Vinci made sure to give them an official check for their deeds. Judging by various comments, even though da Vinci tried to lowball it to make it look like they weren't playing favorites, the actual amount on the check would let the protagonist live quite comfortably for the rest of their life had things not proceeded to go to hell.
Hidden Depths:
- At one point, the protagonist can say that their adventure sometimes doesn't feel real to them, implying that they've coped with being unexpectedly thrown into the Grand Order by dissociating from it.
- Medb's observation of them during "Prisma Codes" leads her to conclude that for all their efforts, they would rather be forgotten by history.
- Played for laughs, but they're apparently not above hustling easy marks like Xiang Yu if given the chance, especially if they think no one will find out.
- They have the prompt to immediately talk about paleontological facts in the seventh Lostbelt without the need for anyone else to explain for them. Kadoc wonders if they've actually been into palaeontology this whole time. Perhaps da Vinci has been rubbing off on them.
- Out of all the losses and hardships in the story, Roman's death is the one that impacted them most and they miss the most deeply. The protagonist often shows a deep sense of sadness or melancholy from his absence, but also this loss granted them the mental fortitude to live up to Roman's example as shown through Part 2 or Interludes set during it. This is consistently shown in story moments in Lostbelts such Atlantis, Avalon Le Fae, and even their ideal Christmas gift during 7 Days/8 years is a pair of white medical gloves Roman used to wear.
Horrifying the Horror:
- "Satan"^spoilerwho was really the Foreign God set up the events of Pseudo-Parallel World: The Stage of Carnage, Shimousa in an elaborate attempt to assassinate the protagonist as it was "afraid of" them.
- The "Case Files" crossover event reveals that YOU have become the conceptual weakness of Beast I.
Hot-Blooded:
- Some of their dialogue options can make them come across as this, particularly during events like the Scathach Trial Quest, where they're taken in by the Celtic-ness of Scathach and Fergus, responding to many of their questions with a resounding "YEAH!" Mash lampshades this.
  Mash: Senpai, you're really trying to be a Celt, aren't you?
- Likewise, a small running gag is many times when Rome is mentioned, a dialogue choice often offers the option to shout ROMA! Crosses over with Ascended Meme.
- This actually becomes a requirement during the Babylonia singularity, as they're required to body slam Quetzalcoatl from a height of 200 m above her temple to get her to acknowledge them and switch sides. They even have the option of screaming "JUSTICE BOMB!" on the way down.
- While Ritsuka Fujimaru plays the more straightforward hero in First Order, when it comes to animated gag scenarios like the Himuro no Tenchi crossover, he shows enthusiasm and hot blood to the point of Suddenly Shouting when it comes to rolling for Servants.
  Fujimaru: Well, obviously... SAINT QUARTZ GACHA!!
  Fujimaru: If I do it now, I may be able to meet a Heroic Spirit that's never been seen before! IN THAT CASE, I CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT ROLLING THE GACHA NOW!!
- Although they're understandably nervous about their first spacewalk in "Saber Wars II" (especially while standing in the midst of a heated Servant battle), they can come away from it Suddenly Shouting about how cool it was.
Humongous Mecha: Gets a brief stint piloting Avicebron's Golem Keter Malkuth, powered by Avicebron sacrificing himself to act as his core, in order to match Ivan's mammoth in Lostbelt 1.
Hunter of Monsters: During "Lady Reines' Case Files", Reines mentions that due to how many Demon Pillars the protagonist has faced and taken down, they would have the affinity to slay them more easily than even Heroic Spirits. She uses this fact to impose a weakness to Barbatos, allowing them to face it with just a single team of Servants.
Idiot Hair: The female protagonist has one.
Inept Mage:
- Even after being a Master for over two years, they still aren't that skillful as a magus outside of their Mystic Codes, which comes into play in Lostbelt 1 such as how they don't know any real magecraft to relieve the pain of an injured Yaga nor can they reinforce their eyes to spot Ivan's crown, which is his weak point. The most they can do is cast Gandr, one of most basic magic spells there is. They also cast "Rain of Isis" during Pseudo-Parallel World: The Stage of Carnage, Shimousa to counter Douman's Curse on Musashi.
- Amusingly, this is why Jack is fine with them being her Master according to "Inheritance of Glory". Normally all magi have the worst compatibility with Jack due to her being exorcised by one, but since they suck at being mages she doesn't really hate them.
In-Series Nickname: While most Servants refer to him/her as "Master" or whatever name the player set, certain Servants refer to him/her by other variants of "master" like "Lord Magus" (Cursed Arm Hassan), "Contractor" (King Hassan), "Aruji-dono"^noteRoughly "my lord" (Ushiwakamaru), "Danna-han"^note (Shuten Douji), and "Oyakata-sama"^note (Assassin Paradiso), or actual nicknames like "Senpai" (Mash and BB), "Mommy" (Jack), "Puppy" if male and "Deerlet" if female (Elizabeth), "Boss" (Kintoki), "Big Boss" (Daikokuten), "Reindeer-san" (Jeanne Alter Santa Lily), "Young Mage" (Fujino), "my Emperor" (Yang Guifei), and even "Maa-chan" (Osakabe-hime).
Iron Butt Monkey: Being the Master of a Shielder makes them significantly hardier to physical and mystical injury than most mages. However, this encourages the mindset among their other Servants that they can drag them into all sorts of dangerous situations while paying little heed to their safety, so long as they remember to shanghai Mash as well so they can cut loose without fear.
It Began with a Twist of Fate:
- The First Order booklet that came with the First Order Blu-Ray details how they became a Master candidate for Chaldea. An employee of Chaldea was searching for candidates in Japan, via a blood donation event. Fujimaru decided to donate their blood and turns out, they have 100% affinity for being a Master. The employee then pressured them to accept the job, even chasing them to their home. The turas:réalta manga exaggerates this to the point the courtesy lunch he was given after donating blood was drugged, and he got immediately shipped to Chaldea. Mash chides Lev for trying to soften the fact that he got kidnapped and basically shoved into the Master position with no preparation or any idea of what was to come.
- During the SE.RA.PH chapter, this gains vastly more sinister undertones, as it is revealed that Chaldea had been recruiting Master candidates for some time prior to the Fuyuki Point F crisis... but these Master candidates met with a far, far darker fate than the ones who went to the Chaldea complex proper. Sheer timing is mostly what prevented the protagonist from becoming part of the Seraphix experiments.
Jack of All Stats: With an attack buff, healing, and a one-turn all-dodge available, the initial Chaldea Mystic Code stands here in contrast to the rest. It almost trends into Master of All territory, since while it's not quite comprehensively better than other choices, the attack buff and heal are both the strongest of their kind available to any Mystic Code or Servant (the attack buff, in particular, is the strongest single-target attack steroid in the game), and you can't ever really go wrong with the initial outfit.
- The Brilliant Summer Mystic Code (i.e. the swimwear) also falls under here (even if mostly for Quick/stargen servants), with it providing a party-wide Quick cards buff, heal and invulnerability break/pierce.
- The debut of Cosmos in the Lostbelt gives us the Chaldea Arctic Uniform, which while nearly-identical to the original Chaldea MC, actually has the usual dodge, a combo attack-NP power up, and a combo healing/DEF debuff cleanser. It's not by much, but it's still technically superior.
- The Decisive Battle Chaldea Uniform unlocked after beating Tunguska Sanctuary is another upgrade to the standard Chaldea uniform, turning the ATK and NP buff party wide and clearing ATK debuffs in addition to healing. The biggest upgrade is replacing the evade with the Order Change skill, which, while removing a defense option, makes it incredibly versatile in a vast array of tactics previously limited to the Chaldea Combat Uniform while being much more flexible.
Kid Hero: On multiple occasions, it's scrupulously noted that they're too young to drink. After Olympus, they protest that since they don't know if time is passing in Proper Human History, while they might physically be of age, they might not be legally.
Kidnapped by the Call: All the time in events. The protagonist can't even fall asleep without being dragged into a dangerous adventure (which could result in them perishing if their dream self is "killed").
The Kid with the Remote Control: The reason why they're so important: they're the last available Master in modern human history and thus the only one available to contract Servants to save the world with. However, they can't participate in battle themselves besides providing support and mana for their Servants due to being heavily outclassed as a magus and fighter.
The Knights Who Say "Squee!": In the Babylonia anime, Fujimaru reveals that Ushiwakamaru was his childhood hero. He gets awkward around her because he admires her, and says that as a kid he pretended to be her.
Lampshaded Double Entendre: In the early parts of SE.RA.PH., there is a dialogue option where the Protagonist can be given an offended reaction to having the size of only 1GB, which is followed up by BB who immediately turns it into a sex joke, claiming that they have not much going for down/up there, depending on the chosen gender. BB then mockingly comforts the player that it's not the size, but the shape that matters.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: The crux behind the "Csejte Halloween Trilogy: Ultra Deluxe Highlights!" event is that somehow the Protagonist's memories of the first three Halloween events with Elisabeth Bathory and her various welfare versions have all gone missing, prompting her and the Servants involved in said events to walk them through all the zany schemes of the past to try and recover their memories.
Last-Name Basis: In the anime, the protagonist is generally referred to by his last name, Fujimaru.
Last of His Kind: The last mage of human history since the other contemporary magi are now dead after the earth's incineration, in critical condition and are currently frozen or killed during the plot. Even in Epic of Remnant, they're the only Master Chaldea has on hand for the several crises that pop up. Averted in Cosmos in the Lostbelt as they now must confront seven other Masters to save humanity's future.
Latex Spacesuit: The "Captain Chaldea" Mystic Code is not quite the Future Spandex of the other Servantverse characters but it's also way less bulky than any realistic space suit ought to be. The gloves appear to be easily removable (which is an enormous hazard in the vacuum of space) and follows the contours of the body fairly closely (which is especially noticeable on the female protagonist). It also doesn't seem to feature a helmet.
Leitmotif: "As the Last Master" for Fujimaru in the Babylonia and Solomon anime, a stirring orchestral piece that underlines his determination and choices made as he fights to restore humanity.
Lightning Bruiser:
- Not the suit itself, but the Anniversary Blonde (Altria/Arthur's casual clothes) Mystic Code buffs up Buster command cards and provides Battle Continuation. While you are expected to use it on most Sabers (who normally have Buster Noble Phantasms and well-rounded stats), using these skills on your Glass Cannons (such as almost all Berserkers, or Jeanne Alter) can turn them into even more terrifying attack units.
- The Fragment of 2004 Mystic Code (Homurahara school uniform) has the same effect, upping star attraction for a unit's Buster cards to increase chances of critical attacks for a Servant with low star attraction like Berserkers or Avengers, enhancing their NP gain to make it easier for them to build their NP gauge, and an NP attack buff to make them more powerful.
- In practice, the Captain Chaldea Mystic Code (astronaut uniform) falls under here too, with its skill ensuring the buffed Servant will survive and cause enough critical hits/NP damage.
Loved by All: Due to their status as a gacha gane protagonist, it's basically a requirement that all their servants love them. Even servants who despise each other agree that Master is fantastic and will swallow their differences for their sake.
Magic Knight: Likely the expected play style of the Fate/EXTRA, Fate/Extella and Tropical Summer suits: with buffing Arts cards and preventing enemy buffs/debuffs (all), increasing star generation (EXTRA), sucking out the enemy's NP gauges (Extella), or charging the NP of your Servants (Tropical), you are expected to sabotage your enemies' spells and be able to hit harder (either with normal attacks or Noble Phantasms). All of them are nigh-essential support when using offensive Casters and other Arts-based Servants (such as Vlad III, both versions of Nero, Robin Hood and the like - and conveniently, guess where those latter two are from?).
Magnetic Hero: While they are subpar as far as their potential as a magus goes, they are noted to be amazing as a Master, capable of getting along with even the craziest of Servants. At this point they are a unique existence simply by their having fought alongside more of humanity's greatest individuals than anyone can claim.
- The main character gets around many "hopeless" scenarios by getting opposition to Heel–Face Turn to their side.
- This is why they can summon and recruit almost every Singularity villain, through either this, Villain Respect, or some combination of both. It doesn't keep them from occasionally being troublemakers (Medb and Archer of Shinjuku especially), but they do end up siding with Chaldea fully.
- Captain Nemo, upon switching from their previous master to the protagonist via provisional contract, describes the difference in pull "like a fishhook in their brain."
- Nasu's post hoc explanation for this character trait in the Babylonia anime is that Fujimaru recognizes that everyone, no matter whom, deserves respect in one way or another for their life and deserves recognition of their own unique existence.
Morality Chain: Obviously Evil Servants like Gorgon or Kiara flat-out tell the protagonist that they are the only thing preventing them from destroying the world now. Koyanskaya of Darkness' profile states that if the protagonist were to die, she would either disappear or try to become a Beast since she has no moral obligation not to do it anymore. They also show how susceptible Jack is to outside influences. Under Reika, she was a murderous cannibal, but with the protagonist she's just a slightly unhinged but otherwise friendly little girl.
Morality Pet: They help bring out some Evil Servants' better sides. Carmilla, for example, is genuinely loyal and wishes she had known someone like them when she was Liz's age so she could have ended up better than she did (and, likewise, Liz is better-adjusted in GO in part due to the protagonist's influence), while Archer of Shinjuku considers them to be the first person he's ever really cared about. Lancer Altria also sees them as such and it's pointed out in her Interlude that the fact she cares so much about them is what makes her fundamentally different from the Lion King.
Mysterious Past: The protagonist's past before arriving in Chaldea is completely unknown outside of having a normal school life. According to Kinoko Nasu, since Fate/Grand Order was designed as a mobile game, they are avatars for the players themselves, so he didn't really write any backstory beyond "they are someone who saw the recruitment flyer at a station, applied and got accepted into the job, and somehow ended up getting taken into Chaldea."
- The Shimousa manga adaptation adds a small throwaway line that has the female protagonist mention that she used to be part of her school's volleyball team, which would explain her athleticism, but not much is known about her background beyond that.
- Nasu's character memo for CloverWorks during production of the Babylonia/Solomon anime is the closest that exists for a backstory on Fujimaru as depicted in those two works. It only keeps to a thinly sketched background and one significant event in his life before high school.
- Ordeal Call II is set in a world based on their memories and explores some of their home life, though it's also distorted since their friends and family use the appearance of Servants. Still the Protagonist does recognize the neighborhood and family in ths world as theirs, which tells us at least that they lived in Shibuya, Tokyo, had a little sister, and both parents were alive.
Naïve Newcomer: They had lived ordinary lives and had no knowledge of magic or Servants before being recruited, causing them to spend their first few adventures confused.
Nerves of Steel: While they show alarm and surprise at times, they're able to keep their composure no matter what when the chips are down. Whether it's facing Physical Gods or someone threatening to kill them, the protagonist keeps a straight face and talks about the prospects of their death almost casually.
Nice Guy: Both protagonists go out of their way to make their Servants' lives as comfortable as possible, providing them with all sorts of refreshments in their downtime and taking the time to get to know each and every one of them. They even show kindness and respect towards the more tragic characters such as Tiamat.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: As Galahad furiously points out in -MOONLIGHT/LOSTROOM-, the only reason the Crypters have become a threat was because the protagonist defeated Goetia, who was revealed to be trying to stop them the entire time.
Ninja: They get ninja training from Kotarou to hide one's presence and prepare themselves in an instant. It's Played for Laughs both times, as their skills fail to present them from being dragged away by Elizabeth during the third Halloween event, while their ability to prepare themselves manifests in jumping out of bed, showering, brushing their teeth, and getting changed in 40 seconds flat.
No-Sell: As Master of Shielder, they are protected from all illnesses and impurities. This allows them to survive the demonic fog during the London Singularity, the Accidental Kiss with Hassan of Serenity, and shields them from the effect of Shuten-douji's intoxicating mist during the Rashoumon event. However, Mash herself is still vulnerable to these effects since her skills only protect her allies.
Non-Action Guy: The protagonist obviously can't directly take part in battles, only direct their Servants and offer support spells whenever possible.
Non-Action Protagonist: On the above note, the Protagonist stands out in this department even compared to all the other protagonists of other Nasuverse media; both Shikis (Shiki Ryougi and Shiki Tohno) have Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and are trained assassins, Shirou Emiya can conjure swords on a whim and has a Future Badass self, Ayaka Sajyou is a skilled Dark Magical Girl who knows powerful old-school Magecrafts, and Aoko Aozaki outright has access to the Fifth Magic. The Protagonist, meanwhile, never goes beyond being passable at best at the art of Magecraft themselves and almost entirely relies on their Servants summoned through the game's gacha system to do their fighting for them.
Oblivious to Love: Some Servants clearly flirt with or proposition the protagonist in My Room lines, but it frequently flies over their head, much to their chagrin.
Oh, Crap!: While they have several Oh, Crap! moments throughout the game, the standout example would be during the climatic confrontation with ORT in Nahui Mictlan - their expression in the battle menu actually becomes more distressed as the fight drags on and their opponent keeps finding new ways to continue the fight.
One-Note Cook:
- EMIYA has been trying to teach them how to cook, but they've only learned how to make curry by the events of "Saber Wars II". But said curry happens to be out-of-this-world thanks to EMIYA's recipes, impressing everyone who tastes it and even satisfying the ghost cat's 5 billion year long hunger, removing her quantum uncertainty and giving Space Ishtar the chance to beat her.
- Averted in the Turas Realta adaptation. After completing the fourth singularity, an injured Fujimaru still manages to bake and ice a birthday cake for a Mission Control member who didn't get to celebrate in the midst of the chaos. He just needs Mash's help to finish decorating it given that he's bandaged all over.
One-Steve Limit: Averted; Ritsuka Suse is another Nasuverse character, from Witch on the Holy Night. Though in Japanese their names are spelled with different kanji.
Only Sane Man: "Avalon le Fae" shows that one of the protagonist's greatest fears is becoming this in regards to eliminating Lostbelts, in that the rest of Chaldea will come to view the act with ambivalence at best and fanatical eagerness at worst. This particular worry manifests in the Garden of Lost Will as a rabid phantom of Director Goredolf Musik that destroying Lostbelts and everyone in them is not only necessary to ensure that Proper Human History survives but a moral imperative.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: During the ORT raid in Nahum Mictlan, for the only time in the game, their portrait changes the further you progress along the fight, going from its normal determined form to progressively more and more nervous expressions, before finally settling on flat out terrified. For all of their willpower, having to face the (genuinely) Hopeless Boss Fight that is an Ultimate One is shredding their resolve.
Ordinary High-School Student: They're normal high school students who didn't even know about magic prior to joining Chaldea.
Pals with Jesus: Over the course of the game, they befriend and become close with an extraordinary number of mythological and legendary figures from all over the globe. They even give the protagonist gifts on Valentine's Day to show their deep affection for them.
Past Experience Nightmare: A few of the manga adaptations show Fujimaru suffering nightmares from previous Singularities. The Shinjuku manga has Fujimaru dreaming about Mash's temporary death in the Temple of Time, while the Salem manga shows Ritsuka having nightmares of the Laḫmu attacks in Babylonia.
Plucky Girl: The female protagonist in the Shimousa manga adaptation is a chipper, determined, fun-loving, and rambunctiously eager young girl who doesn't easily back down despite the horrors she witnesses in the titular Pseudo-Singularity. Her voice actress in Fate/Grand Carnival, Akira Sekine, personally describes the female Protagonist outside of Grand Carnival as the type of girl who learns from her mistakes and strives to do better next time after learning her lesson the first time.
The Pollyanna: No matter how much grief and hardship they go through, they continue to press on to help others and save history. Several characters points this out and commend them for their bravery and inner strength, but for others like Patxi, it's downright unnerving how they're able to remain cheerful and optimistic at the end of the day. As the story goes on, this becomes increasingly subverted as the pressure and guilt of their actions weigh down on them, making them appear far more like a Stepford Smiler.
Patxi: How are you able to smile?
Protagonist: Am I smiling?
Patxi: Yeah. All the damn time. Even if you're depressed, or angry, you always look to me like you're smilng deep down inside! I don't get it. This world is nothing but pain and suffering. I don't ever... EVER smile. There's never been anything to smile about.
Pop-Cultured Badass: In the Turas Realta adaptation, Ritsuka makes numerous pop culture references when encountering Servants for the first time. For instance, having read Tatsuyoshi Kobayashi's biographical manga about Thomas Edison, Ritsuka is blindsided by the sight of the Presi-king Edison he meets in the Fifth Singularity. He's also confused by Nightingale's behavior, having read about her too as a child.
Power Tattoo: Their Command Spells, which in this game are used to provide potent healing abilities and offensive boons (one of them can be used to either heal a Servant to full health or increase their NP gauge by 100%, while all three can be used to revive the entire party after a Total Party Kill with 100% NP gauges each). Unlike in other media, they can restore their own Command Spells one at a time. However, they need 24 hours to regenerate each one, meaning they still need to be used conservatively. Adaptations makes it so that they only have three Command Spells per Rayshift and can only recover them after returning to Chaldea.
Proper Tights with a Skirt: The female protagonist when wearing the default costume or Mage Association Mystic Code.
Psychic Block Defense: Zig-Zagged. They don't have a defense on their own and it is noted that they have piss-poor resistance to mental attacks, so Servants with an affinity for dreams cover it instead. This usually ends up being Dantès, though Beni-Enma has also rescued them from a nightmare at least once. Lady Avalon's Valentine's scene reveals in one dialogue branch that Abigail (Summer) and Oberon also participate... while also demonstrating that all this protection still isn't perfect, as this scene takes place in the Protagonists's dreamscape and Lady Avalon is not there with permission.
Psychic Dreams for Everyone:
- The protagonist will get involved in Interludes, Trial Quests, and even entire events and Singularities (notably the Prison Tower event; Pseudo-Parallel World: The Stage of Carnage, Shimousa; the Apocrypha "Inheritance of Glory" event and "Imaginary Scramble") solely within their dreamscape. Shimousa is special and explains that they are not only a Dreamwalker, but their soul creates a secondary body when doing so (meaning if they die in a "dream", they die in reality too).
- Hokusai's trial quest reveals that they have a natural weakness to mental interference, which the Outer God that transformed Hokusai into a Foreigner sought to use to infect the protagonist with its madness to infiltrate Chaldea.
Punch a Wall: In the opening of the Sixth Singularity, the game uses sound effects to make clear this is what the protagonist does when they learn about the circumstances of Mash's confinement to Chaldea and her now dwindling lifespan.
Punny Name: "Fujimaru" is effectively a way of writing "FGO" (Fuji to FG needs no comment, while "maru" means circle).
Purely Aesthetic Gender: While the game generally expects a male protagonist (see Game-Favored Gender), there are only minor, gender-specific story changes and no mechanical effects. You can even switch your gender sprites whenever you want to, which is nice for experiencing the other gender's occasional flavor text.
- That said, this is averted in First Order, where the female character sprite exists as one of the original 30 Masters injured in the initial assault at Chaldea.
- Among the couple of scenes where the choice of gender does have an effect are the dancing scene in Shinjuku and BB's reference of Hakuno Kishinami. In the former, the Protagonist will always be dressed in the opposite sex. In the latter, Kishinami’s gender will always be the same as the Protagonists’s. Similarly, in "Servant Summer Camp! Chaldea Thriller's Night", the Protagonists's gender in the second team will always be the opposite choice of the player's since Xu Fu has to do so due to the "yin and yang" nature of the Singularity.

Q — Y

Quantity vs. Quality: A very rare heroic example of Quantity against the Quality of their opponents. While their foes in any given level might start with the same or even greater amounts of Servants as them, their inability to work together allows the Protagonist to overcome them one-by-one with their slapdash, but ultimately cohesive, team.
Rank Up: For their efforts in the Grand Order, the Mages' Association promotes them to the rank of "Cause". It's only a lower middle level title, but one that the protagonist absolutely doesn't merit under normal circumstances.
Really Gets Around: At the end of Salem, Caster of Okeanos accuses a male protagonist of seeming like the kind of guy who really gets around, justifying why she wouldn't want to return to Chaldea with the others and why he isn't right for her. How accurate this trope actually is depends on the unsaid conclusion to multiple confessions and dates that the protagonist will have gone on by the time Salem canonically occurs.
Red Baron: They are referred to as Humanity's Last Master by several characters.
Retirony: With human history seemingly at peace, they were preparing to return to Japan to reunite with their family after Epic of Remnant, but the Foreign God and Crypters had other ideas, taking over Chaldea before bleaching the world with the Trees of Emptiness to make way for the Lostbelts.
Reused Character Design: Though they have little to no similarity in backstory or personality as Ridiculously Average Guys, the two's looks are confirmed by Takashi Takeuchi as gender flipped versions of Rin and Shirou. This led to fanart depicting them as Rin & Shirou's children, though this is biologically impossible in-universe^note.
Ridiculously Average Guy: In contrast to other Type-Moon protagonists, there is absolutely nothing hidden beneath the surface. They really are just an ordinary person with no traumatic backstory, secret power, or out-of-reach ideal.
- Despite this trope in play, Mash finds them appealing because of said ordinariness, as her conditions mean that she cannot live the ordinary life that they've had up to the point where they joined Chaldea. Dr. Roman even says this to be the case, as the person Mash would connect with the one is someone who is "naturally human".
- During Fujimaru's discussion with Olga Marie in the -MOONLIGHT/LOSTROOM- OVA, he explicitly makes the point that he is mediocre at best in magic and several other fields but he has to make do with what he can improvise, because he is humanity's last hope for saving the world. This surprises her as she thought he would give in to the hopelessness of the situation.
- In Shinjuku, this actually ends up being the main reason Bael seeks revenge for Goetia's defeat, as he cannot accept that someone as painfully average as the Protagonist managed to defeat the King of Demons, and not one of their Servants.
Right Man in the Wrong Place: Joined Chaldea for what they thought was a seasonal support job, only to find themselves resolving cataclysm after cataclysm due to being the only qualified Master left after the opening attack in the prologue.
Romantic Wingman: For Fergus' interlude, he's trying to get laid with the female Servants with the protagonist's help. Unfortunately for him, the first two he runs across are Brynhild and Kiyohime. Brynhild finds him attractive so she tries to kill him, while Kiyohime tries to kill him for lack of fidelity. Lastly, he tries to convince Nightingale he's suffering from love sickness and needs some sexual healing and she agrees to help, though she does her best to kill him first. Unfortunately, she feels that the true victor of the battle is the protagonist, since they're Fergus' Master, so she offers to sleep with them instead.
Sanity Has Advantages: Nasu has stated in interviews that none of the Crypters would have been able to solve the Lostbelts, with only Daybit, Kirschtaria, and Kadoc only under certain conditions stood a chance against Goetia in the first place. The only advantage the Protagonist has over Team A in-universe is their universal Master compatibility and lack of a tragic backstory. The implication is the Protagonist being a Ridiculously Average Guy gives them an advantage none of Team A had.
Secret-Keeper: The protagonist is asked by Arash to keep meeting Arthur a secret from the other Prototype servants besides himself, Jekyll, and (Proto) Cu Chulainn. Said servants being Brynhild, Ozymandias, Paracelsus, and Serenity, due to their rather bad history with him as shown in Prototype Fragments.
Seen It All: They're so used to the crazy nonsense they always experience that they've rapidly learned to just roll with whatever with little question. By the time of "Saber Wars II", they take being abducted off the planet to another reality and being told by "Ashtart" that they are to be a sacrifice for her with basically a casual "well crap, guess I'm gonna need to roll with this" and treating it so lightly "Ashtart" starts being chummy with them despite herself.
Romani: [Protagonist] seems to have gotten used to things lately, mostly just reacting with "Eh, it'll work out" and the like.
Selective Obliviousness: In the first chapter of Cosmos in the Lostbelt, they seem dimly aware of what it means to destroy a Lostbelt, but try their best to ignore the very obvious implications because it clashes with their compassionate nature. Anastasia even wonders if they're being purposely obtuse or they're just stupid. Unfortunately Ivan the Terrible brings up the topic at the worst possible moment, nearly driving them into despair as they finally realize what terrible things they have to do in the future, forcing Patxi to sacrifice himself to save them.
Signature Headgear: The female protagonist is well associated with her yellow hair scrunchie, which holds up her side ponytail. She wears it with almost all of her different Mystic Codes, and even if it isn't the yellow one, it'll still be a scrunchie.
Sleepyhead: Early on in the story, one of the protagonist's quirks that make them less of a cipher is their tendency to fall asleep easily at odd times and in odd places. It's what gets them in trouble with Olga Marie to begin with, and most chapters open with Mash commenting worriedly on their sleeping habits. Goredolf even notes in the prologue to Götterdämmerung the protagonist's files note they have a propensity for falling into REM sleep almost on a dime, including sleeping while standing up.
- Comes up again briefly during "Servant Summer Festival" as they fall asleep after working hard on the script for the doujin and it takes Jeanne Alter a fair bit to try and wake them up.
Spanner in the Works: Because they fell asleep during the Master debriefing, the protagonist was taken off the mission to Fuyuki and ran into Dr. Roman, engaging in a conversation with him while he was slacking off in their room. This allows the two of them to dodge the explosion in the control room, not only allowing them to rescue Mash and become the sole Master left to save the future, but also allowing Dr. Roman to take command of Chaldea. In the Final Singularity, Professor Lev notes this when you confront him, commenting that he wanted Dr. Roman in particular to die in the explosion.
Stepford Smiler: While their smile is by no means always fake, various events heavily imply that the protagonist disassociates from the experiences they have undergone and is suffering from various mental health problems and fears being replaced by in their own eyes someone more suited to their role. This is the reason for why Mnemosyne started the Lady Reines events as it believes that all the horrors that the protagonist went through should have broken them and how Aphrodite was able to control them by relieving them of the trauma and guilt that they have to break their spirit.
Stranger in a Familiar Land: A subconscious fear discussed in the Garden of Lost Will section of the sixth Lostbelt by the protagonist and Oberon. After years of dealing with Singularities and Lostbelts, they're unsure if they can ever return to a passive role in events or if they could ever return to a normal life if PHH is restored. Oberon observes that they've been trying to deny that possibility for a while.
The Strategist: Their role in combat is to advise their Servants on how to fight and draft battle plans in each Singularity with advice from Roman and Mash. They're actually really good at it, with almost any Servant under their care growing to place absolute faith in their commands. It should be noted that the protagonist is rarely shown coming up with battle plans. That doesn't mean that they don't; after all, that's what the player does.
Suddenly Speaking:
- During the climax of the Setsubun event, the protagonist, who has been answering in one-sentences only for the entirety of the game, is suddenly given an extended dialogue about their thoughts about Archer of Inferno.
- While in the Garden of Lost Will during the sixth Lostbelt, they speak their own dialogue in response to various hallucinations.
- When they masquerade as Karl der Große in Traum, they recite a speech fed to them by Holmes to maintain their guise.
- U-Olga Marie's flashback in Nahui Mictlan actually shows their dialogue sprite and directly talking to Daybit.
Surprisingly Normal Backstory: The backstory conceived by Nasu for Fujimaru in the Babylonia anime and released with the Solomon film keeps to how this game's protagonist is the most normal out of all of Type-Moon's protagonists. He grew up in a middle class family with no significant strife or events and came out of it well-natured and happy. The only event that really impacted him before Chaldea was right before high school when he was taking care of his elderly neighbor the last week before the old man's passing since all the man's family is gone and the helper wasn't available. Fujimaru feels angry that the old man has no one else to be with him before his death besides his neighbor, but the old man rejects that as he's happy that he has no regrets and can simply spend time talking with someone before he dies. Fujimaru internalizes this after his neighbor's death to mean that he should celebrate good events when they happen and try to live a contented life even with no reward given to him before death. This is significantly much more mundane and less traumatic than any other TM protagonist who determine their philosophy in life during backstory.
Summon Magic: They can summon facsimiles of Servants at Chaldea (via Mash's shield in Observer on Timeless Temple, just by themselves in Epic of Remnant, or through da Vinci's briefcase in Cosmos in the Lostbelt) but only have enough magical energy to sustain them for battles in gameplay. Scathach-Skadi refers to this ability as combat silhouettes during "Imaginary Scramble". Full support requires the Servant to be rayshifted in via coffin or summoned in the Singularity.
Super-Speed: Played for Laughs during the third summer event. Jeanne Alter threatens to kill the protagonist if they don't get out of bed and get dressed in 40 seconds in time for her spar with Osakabehime. Sure enough, they somehow manage to jump out of bed, shower, brush their teeth, wash their face, and get dressed in that 40 seconds. Even Jeanne Alter is taken aback, saying that she didn't expect them to actually do it, while Osakabehime asks if they've been training with Kotarou.
Support Party Member: While not exactly within their party of Servants, the protagonist stands on the sideline and supports their Servants from there. They give them the commands, can use magic to heal them, buff them, debuff the enemy or switch out Servants, etc.
Supporting Protagonist:
- While the protagonist is an essential character, the narrative of Part 1 is more about Mash's story and then Roman's.
- This is largely averted later on: Epic of Remnant forces most of Chaldea into the background as the Master and whoever joins them take focus (especially in Shinjuku and Shimousa, where the Master is explicitly targeted), and during Cosmos in the Lostbelt, the protagonist has become the target of enmity for the Crypters and must make judgment calls regarding the fate of Chaldea while pruning the Lostbelts.
Sweet Tooth: The Valentine's event shows they have quite a liking for chocolate.
Too Many Belts: While both protagonists wear normal belts, they have a couple extra. The female protagonist has two belts across her chest (above and below her breasts, presumably for emphasis), while the male protagonist has one across the top of his chest just below his collarbone. First Order shows that this is actually standard Master attire for Chaldea.
Tragic Time Traveler: As a guardian of Proper Human History and due to the way Singularities and Lostbelts work, while they can Set Right What Once Went Wrong, they cannot meaningfully change history for the better: they have to leave the young Emperor Nero to her deplorable fall in Septem, they can't truly bring a bloodless end to the Genji/Oni feud in Heian-kyo, and so on.
Trauma Conga Line: While they keep up a cheery and upbeat attitude throughout their adventures, the protagonist's pain and anguish over what they've experienced becomes increasingly prevalent throughout Part 2. They watch Mash, Dr. Roman and da Vinci die, suffer a severe Heroic BSoD after learning about the fate of the Lostbelts, and are generally forced to come to grips with the ridiculous amounts of responsibility placed on their shoulders. It gets to the point that Mash and da Vinci are about to confront them about avoiding a complete physical and mental breakdown when Kama takes things into her own hands in her Interlude.
The Trickster: The Mage's Association Mystic Code allows you to fill up your Servants' NP gauge quicker as well as reshuffle your Servants' Attack cards, allowing you to mess around with the rules and save yourself in a pinch.
The Unchosen One: By all accounts, they were only invited to Chaldea to fill a quota. They were weak in Magecraft, had little knowledge of the greater Nasuverse lore, and had little influence in any Magus affairs, and yet, when the situation called for it, they rose up and became the savior needed to stop the threats that attempted to destroy mankind. At various points it's commented on just how insane it is that a nobody did what would be hard for even the most powerful of Mages.
Walking Swimsuit Scene: The Brilliant Summer and Tropical Summer Mystic Codes can be worn by the player 24/7, even in environments where it'd be impractical.
The Watson:
- While they're the protagonist of the story, their lack of a magical background means that they're prone to asking questions about the histories of their Servants as well as the nitty-gritty details of the Nasuverse's magical system.
- In the Heroic Spirit Food Chronicles, the male protagonist is the one getting lectured on the history of the food he's cooking and/or eating. It's particularly emphasized with its precursor, Food of Uruk, where the protagonist's thoughts on the beer he's helping to brew amount to: "Amazing! What's going on?"
Weak, but Skilled:
- As a magus, they're middling at best, comparable to the infamously inept Waver Velvet. They can't even properly form spells without the help of Mystic Codes. In the Turas Realta adaptation, Dr. Roman straight up tells them that it's pointless for them to learn magecraft on their own with their magic circuits being as poor as they are. As a result, they're almost entirely reliant on their Servants to defend themselves. However, their compatibility as a Master is second-to-none, and they possess unusual tactical acumen for someone their age, leading their Servants to victory against ridiculous odds. This get highlighted in Cosmos in the Lostbelts where all the Crypters are superior magi compared to them but the protagonist is able to overcome them due to their experience stopping the incineration of humanity.
- Their Servants also become this when compared to other versions of themselves summoned by other Masters. While they don't normally have the same level of strength, though their parameters rarely seem to suffer, in their Noble Phantasms they have access to skills and abilities they would normally never be able to access; this, combined with the quantity of Servants that they have makes them a formidable opponent due to their ability to use their Servants so well.
Weak-Willed: Despite their determination to make it through everything thrown at them, they're surprisingly easy to influence mentally and outside help is almost always needed in order to snap them out of it.
- Brynhild uses her runes to hypnotize them into believing that she is Mash in her Trial Quest and the third Nero Fest storyline. (Though, the player has the option to fight it with dialogue choices.)
- Summer BB's Valentine scenes and Bond Craft Essence depict a timeline where they're completely under her mental sway.
- The Fisher Kingdom that is Pseudo-Singularity IV: The Forbidden Advent Garden, Salem tampers with their mind in order to keep them away from peeking too hard underneath the hood.
- Beast III/L manages to momentarily brainwash them completely in the "Tokugawa Labyrinth, Ooku" event, only stopped by Chaldea's Servants managing to keep her at bay long enough to figure out a way to stop the process.
- Mnemosyne easily edits their memories in "Lady Reines' Case Files" and almost manages to completely rewrite their perception of certain events.
- They get brainwashed by Jeanne's Big Sister beam in the fourth summer event. Though unlike the other cases where the mental influence is noted to lead to possible harm, this is very much Played for Laughs.
- Played deadly seriously in Olympus, when Aphrodite attempts to Mind Rape the protagonist by plaguing them with nightmares that trap them in a "Groundhog Day" Loop until Dantès helps them resist her influence.
White Mage:
- The Atlas Academy Uniform allows you to buff up your Servants and cure their status ailments, allowing them to fight at full power. This becomes plot-relevant in Pseudo-Parallel World: The Stage of Carnage, Shimousa as its ability to remove debuffs is what the protagonist uses to remove Caster Limbo's curse on Musashi.
- On offense-oriented buffing, the Ceremonial New Year code (i.e. the formal kimono) provides NP up, NP gauge, critical stars and max HP.
- Another offense-related buffer Mystic Code would be the Chaldea Uniform (True Ether), i.e. the deployment outfit worn during the Babylonia Singularity anime. It has party-wide buffs, HP regeneration and NP gauge and gain up. Effect-wise, this turns you into your own Support Caster, somewhere between baseline Buster support William Shakespeare and premier Buster support Merlin.
- Chaldea Pathfinder (i.e. the camping/scout uniform from Summer 2020) carries with it a Quick+NP buff, a cleanse+10% NP charge and a critical hit buff. In practice, this helps make your Quick Servants (especially those who need some additional help on 3-turn looping) perform better.
- Halloween Royalty (i.e. the princely outfit from Halloween 2021) works like a combination of the previous two, which carries with it Buster+NP Up, Invincibility and a cleanse+10% NP charge.
Worthy Opponent: The protagonist is acknowledged as such by several of their enemies, coming more frequently as the story progresses and their victories become more numerous.
You Are a Credit to Your Race: Heroic Spirits tend to have a dim view on "regular people," often seeing them as prey, cannon fodder, non-entities, or hapless peons who need to be ruled over. Most of them eventually take a shine to the protagonist and are surprised to find such heroism in a common person.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: They're told this in Lostbelt 5. Weirdly, this sentiment comes from Kirschtaria Wodime of all people, as despite the protagonist seeing him as an unsurmountable obstacle, Kirschtaria regards the protagonist as the greatest adversary and wishes for them to be at their full strength when they clash as Masters. This sentiment, along with the encouragement given by other characters, is what drives the protagonist out of their inflexible funk about restoring the status quo to focus solely on defeating Kirschtaria.
You Are in Command Now: The protagonist was initially taken off the mission for being inferior to all the other potential Masters (and sleeping during the initial mission briefing), but all the other Masters ended up in critical condition, leaving them as the only Master available.
Young Conqueror: They take this role in the "GUDAGUDA Final Honnouji" event, where they more or less conquer all of Japan in a spoof of Nobunaga's Ambition with Nobu herself as one of their lowliest footsoldiers. Despite this onerous task, the protagonist succeeds with flying colors even while treating everyone in their employ and the lands they conquered nicely.
You Remind Me of X:
- Many Servants become attached to them because they're similar (or at least according to the Servant's belief) to the Servants' beloved. This is especially prevalent for the Evil alignment Servants, who barely restrain from their more evil urges or going into rampages because of this trope is at work. It's not exactly beneficial with Brynhild, though, since she kills anyone that reminds her of Sigurd; the heat was thankfully taken off when the actual Sigurd was summoned.
- In the Turas Realta adaptation, Ritsuka is tackled out of the way of an oncoming fireball by an American soldier in the Fifth Singularity. The man knows a farmhand who resembles Ritsuka and couldn't bear the thought of letting him get hurt.

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