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There are additional Classes and designations that do not fall under the seven "regular" Classes summoned as part of the Holy Grail War ritual. These fall under the umbrella term of "Extra Classes", and are typically only summoned under extraordinary or taboo circumstances. As the Grand Order and the FATE summoning system do not operate under the rules of a Holy Grail War, such Servants are far more common during the events of Fate/Grand Order.

While many Extra Classes exist, like Gunner, Faker, Voyager, Watcher, Saver, or Funny Vamp, only eight have appeared thus far in Grand Order: Shielder, Ruler, Avenger, Moon Cancer, Alter Ego, Foreigner, Pretender and Beast, with Foreigners and Pretenders making their introduction to the franchise here. The classes of Ruler, Avenger and Moon Cancer make up their own class triangle with Avenger beating Ruler, Ruler beating Moon Cancer, and Moon Cancer beating Avenger, while Alter Ego, Foreigner and Pretender also make their own class triangle, with Alter Ego beating Foreigner, Foreigner beating Pretender, and Pretender beating Alter Ego. Beasts are unique, namely in that each one has their own unique resistances. (Assuming more then Draco are made playable that is.) Shielder, currently exclusive to Mash, or rather Galahad, exists outside all class interactions and thus hits for and receives neutral damage from all classes.

Ruler


Avenger


Moon Cancer


Alter Ego


Foreigner


Pretender


Beast (Playable)

The ultimate enemies of Grand Order. "Beast" is a non-standard Servant class, the strongest and most evil of them all, that denotes one of the seven great existential threats to Humanity itself — but what's this? Through circumstances most bizarre and unknown, what should be Chaldea's greatest foe has suddenly manifested out of their summoning system! Is this a blessing in disguise? A curse? Or merely a strange coincidence? Whatever the case, the Beast pledges fealty to their Master, just as any other Servant would...

Beasts under a Master's control take the form of an Extra Class that is abnormal even by the designation's standards. Whereas "typical" Extra Class Servants could still be easily quantified, Beasts are different due to the basis of their existence having nothing in common with each other other than "humanity". Because of this wild variance in their nature, each Beast has a different set of strengths and weaknesses.

    Beast of Sodom/Draco (Unmarked Spoilers!) 
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The Exiled Wish-Granting Queen
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Voiced by: Sakura Tange

"My name is Draco. Beast of Sodom, Draco. Umu...that's right. My class is...Beast. Fufu...HAHAHAHAHA! This is a masterpiece! You, my friend, have just hit the jackpot!"

The Beast of Sodom, and the main antagonist of Fate/Grand Order Arcade. Following her defeat at the hands of the Arcade timeline's Chaldea, Queen Draco was left to fade away along with the remnants of her Convergent Singularity, Lilim Harlot, and for a time she was at peace with her own end. But something changed: the Singularity did not fade, and Draco was left in a heavily weakened larval state. With nothing to do but reflect, she eventually realized that she still wanted to live — a plea that reached the Master of the main timeline's Chaldea... whether they or Draco herself liked it or not.

Unlike her compatriots whose Class changed upon summoning, having clung to existence by a thread before establishing a contract has allowed Draco to retain her Beast nature through and through. But now bound to the Master through her gambit, to ensure her continued existence, Draco must now protect them with the power once meant to destroy them. But beneath what the world considers evil, could something more genuine lie within the heart of the Beast?

Draco debuted in the collaboration event between the Mobile and Arcade version of Fate/Grand Order as a SSR Servant. Unlike her Arcade Alter-Ego version however, she was not a welfare Servant and had to be summoned from a banner.


  • Adaptational Modesty:
    • Regarding her infantile form, her First Ascension puts her in a red dress, unlike the Arcade version which keeps her in Barely-There Swimwear through all her ascensions. Subverted for the Second Ascension however which brings back the full Age-Inappropriate Dress, which is still her preferred "outfit" during her event.
    • Played straight with her mature form which puts her into a fully-clothed outfit in comparison to her incredibly skimpy outfit that Arcade got.
  • Adaptational Superpower Change: Draco being ported over from Arcade has resulted in a few oddities:
    • First and foremost, naturally, is the Beast Class. As an Alter-Ego in Arcade, Draco's Class strengths and weaknesses were the same as all the other Alter-Egos. But in Mobile, she retains her Beast Class which has a wildly different strength/weakness set.
    • In Arcade, Draco's Noble Phantasm was a party-wide attack, but in Mobile, it's single-target.
    • Player Versus Player modes in Arcade featured a Holy Grail as a Golden Snitch mechanic that buffed the player's team if they held it, and in Draco's own case gave a massive stack of buffs if using Seven Beast Crowns when held. Because Mobile has no such feature, a "Grail" buff was instead added to Draco's Second Skill so that Seven Beast Crowns would still work as intended.
  • Alternate Self:
    • It's not initially clear how she corresponds with Nero, as she's similar but "not quite." One hint is in her Noble Phantasm, Babalon Domus Aurea. The spelling of "Babalon" and not Babylon is distinct even in the Japanese spelling. Babalon was the Whore of Babylon as depicted by Aleister Crowley. The collaboration event for Mobile finally answers the mystery: Draco is a What If? of Nero who somehow did not die before the thrice-setting sun, instead choosing to embrace the monster everyone believed she was, making her Nero Alter in all but name.
    • Similar to Abigail Williams' case, there are two Dracos in the wake of the Lilim Harlot event. The one from the event survived and now walks her own path, while the one that's summoned to Chaldea doesn't yet have the former's Character Development and needs a helping hand.
  • BFS: Wields a huge broadsword made out of two halves of Aestus Estus wreathed in flames in her Third Ascension. She even plays it like a guitar in one of her skill animations!
  • Berserk Button: In both her stern child and agreeable adult forms, the one thing she will not tolerate from her friends and subjects is sloth. It likely stems from the horrible lengths her mother Agrippina went to in order to ensure a low-effort, lavish lifestyle for herself at the expense of everyone in her way.
  • Breaking Old Trends: While certainly not the first Beast character that was made playable, Draco is the first among them to actually keep her Beast Class.
  • Breath Weapon: In her Third Ascension's Extra Attack, she summons her seven spectral dragons and has them all breathe their own individually-colored fire breaths on the target.
  • Cuddle Bug: Adores hugs and invites others to hug her such as Tiamat and Locusta. Will comment on assets but affection is genuinely meant.
  • Dark Is Evil: She's called an Evil of Humanity for a reason!
  • Dark Is Not Evil: ...Though she gets better after the Lilim Harlot event, now wanting to use the power that once threatened Humanity to fight for it instead.
  • Death or Glory Attack: Draco's Second Skill is how she winds up to use Seven Beast Crowns and start rampaging — but it gives the whole enemy side some NP charge as a side effect, meaning she has to commit and take them out quickly if she doesn't want an NP fired back at her.
  • Death Seeker: The reason Servants are attacking her in the ruins of her Singularity is because she made a wish to the Holy Grail. Instead of dying alone, she wanted someone, anyone to be with her while she passed, even if it was only fragmented memories of Servants she had faced before that would kill her with their own hands. Anything to avoid a repeat of her lonely first death in life.
  • Double Unlock: Draco can be summoned without taking part in her debut event, but her Third and Final Ascensions cannot be accessed until the event has been cleared. If the event was missed, her Ascensions are instead made available through an unlock quest.
  • Draconic Humanoid: Draco's First and Second Ascensions show off her budding Beast nature with a large red dragon tail, and red-scaled limbs she can shift into and out of at will. Her matured Beast form in Arcade was an aversion that went for Little Bit Beastly instead; her Third Ascension in Mobile diverges by keeping the draconic traits with better-defined scales on her face and pointed ears, though trading the tail for horns instead.
  • Dragons Are Demonic: Nero's draconic traits as Draco are the result of her becoming a Beast.
  • Dual Age Modes: Following the Lilim Harlot event, she can switch between child and adult forms at will. Because the form change also affects her personality in undesired ways, she prefers her child form.
  • Dying Alone: Her greatest fear and her Trauma Button. The fact that she spent the thrice-setting sun alone with no one around to witness her end left such an impact on her psyche that Draco would rather summon a host of Heroic Spirits to kill her directly, just so she could take solace in being in the presence of another, even her killer, as she died.
  • Flaming Sword: Her adult form often sets her sword on fire.
  • Foil: To Tiamat, who reincarnated as an Alter Ego with the desire to aid humanity and shed her image as a Beast. Draco however has no qualms remaining as a Beast and is proud of it, even on Chaldea's side. Their skillsets are also polar opposites: though both are encouraged to be the main damage dealer, Tiamat is support-oriented Servant with an Area of Effect Buster NP, while Draco is damage-oriented with a single-target Arts NP.
  • Happily Failed Suicide: Despite all her airs about wanting to die and ultimately deserving it, deep in her heart, Draco wants to live and atone for the horrors she committed as the Whore of Babylon and Beast VI/S. Thanks to the Protagonist, Hakuno, and (ironically) her Beast Class, she gets the opportunity.
  • Hidden Depths: Her Bond 2 profile mentions how she secretly desires for a human immune to her temptation and capable of becoming a Hope Bringer, perhaps referring to her Red Saber counterpart Nero. This is why she created Lilim Harlot and the Imitation Singularities, because the Protagonist also fits that bill and Draco is enthralled with their ongoing story. Hakuno spoofed the Protagonist's contract with Draco with this in mind, correctly believing that they were the only one who could save Draco from her own suicidal desires.
  • Horned Humanoid: Draco becomes one starting with her third ascension.
  • Hunter of His Own Kind: Draco's Third Skill with the Grail buff gives her a passive damage increase against Dragon- and Roman-trait enemies, both of which Draco has herself.
  • I Hate Past Me: Despite being in a younger form, Draco has the mindset of the older, embittered Nero that was known as the Whore of Babylon. When transforming into her adult form that more closely resembles the "foolish" Nero we know, she acts the part too — and is terribly embarrassed at her own behavior after going back to child form.
  • Irony:
    • Despite her Beast self thriving on humanity's decadence to the point of devouring the Human Order after it was overflowing with depravity, on the inside, Draco actually seems to dislike such things. She secretly wants to meet a human that won't fall to such temptations and can defeat her.
    • The Beast Class is the definition of an Evil of Humanity, painting Draco's actions in life as an atrocity punishable by death via the Counter Force. But thanks to the special features of the Beast Class (specifically Independent Manifestation) and some help from the Protagonist, Draco is allowed to live, atone, and prove that Beasts are part of Humanity too.
    • In her profile, her measurements for her adult form are simply listed as "NICE BODY". While certainly true, it's all of Nero's and Draco's other outfits that unsubtly showcase her body, while her adult self that actually got the "NICE BODY" descriptor has an outfit that shows no skin at all.
  • Interface Screw: Her summoning animation is very elaborate, consisting of the summoning system shutting down and the floor being superimposed with the Beast Class icon, followed by a whole lot of blood-red mist that congeals into her card. As the summoning system was originally made to stop Beasts, the implication is that, when Draco is summoned, she essentially barges her way into the summoning without changing class like other prior Beasts, and causes it to just break in response to what is the very thing it was meant to stop from appearing.
  • Little Bit Beastly: She has draconic red scales and eyes.
  • Loophole Abuse:
    • As a Beast, she possesses the Independent Manifestation skill, meaning it's possible that Draco just summoned herself to Chaldea, bypassing the normal summoning system and its restrictions.
    • In the event, Draco had lost her Independent Manifestation skill due to being near death. As a result she is forced to maintain a contract with the Protagonist against her will. Deep within her Secret Garden, it’s revealed that Draco’s quest to regain that skill isn’t to destroy Chaldea, it’s so that she can sever the contract she has with the Protagonist and then die without having to kill the Protagonist in the process.
  • Loss of Inhibitions: Draco’s adult form is Draco without her inhibitions. Instead of being serious and taciturn due to her impending death, she instead revels in her power and new found appreciation for life. Acting more closely to Nero again, she happily lets Tiamat hug her at one point. Indeed when Setanta mentioned to the younger Draco that the older one was just her baring her true feelings she straight up threatens to kill Setanta. When Locusta also comments on older Draco this is the one time in the event that Draco threatens Locusta to be quiet.
  • Mechanically Unusual Class: Need it be said? Even without factoring in the lore implications, the Beast Class plays differently from any previous Servant in the game, having its own set of strengths and weaknesses that no other Class has.
  • The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: When taking on her adult form, she takes on the more honest and flighty personality the Fate portrayal of Nero is known for. She goes back to her original stern self when reverting to child form.
  • My Rules Are Not Your Rules: At their core, Beasts are still Servants, but they are Servants that buck the rules that the world set for them. A fully-matured Beast with their full-strength Independent Manifestation does not need a source of mana or a Master to maintain their existence, yet they still retain their full catastrophic power. This is what happens to (a thankfully reforming) Draco at the end of the Lilim Harlot event, leaving her alive and free in the aftermath. In an In-Universe example of an Obvious Rule Patch, the summonable Draco notably has her Independent Manifestation hard-locked to the lowest possible ranking of E so that she can't survive to menace the world without a Master. invokedWord of God has also stated that Draco is the only Beast originating from Proper Human History that can retain her Beast Class upon summoning, making her truly one of a kind.
  • Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Her charitably-labelled "upbringing" by Agrippina left her as an emotionally-stunted ruler who had never known real familial love. The twisted understanding of love she derived from it not only alienated her to her people, it was what fulfilled her qualification for Beasthood, and it wasn't helped by her embracing the Rome-burning Satanist her people believed she was. The Protagonist and Hakuno pushing past Draco's bluster and trying to understand the tormented being she really was is what finally let her move forward again, convincing her to un-twist her love and embrace her inner darkness in a healthier way.
  • Number of the Beast: Her first skill is both named after and references the number itself since it gives her three buffs that lasts six turns.
  • Obvious Rule Patch: In Arcade, Draco's Noble Phantasm was AoE with Alter Ego's dodgy Class effectiveness, but said Noble Phantasm does bonus damage to the seven main Classes to make up for it. In Mobile however, Draco as a Beast already has advantage against the seven main Classes even before her NP effect, so it was changed from AoE to single-target so she couldn't just loop-nuke 90% of the game's content.
  • Playing with Fire: In her adult form, almost all of her attacks are imbued with fire.
  • Purposefully Overpowered: As to be expected of a Beast, she has a very powerful kit, with her skills all having a multitude of useful effects and buffs to her damage output with an extremely powerful single target NP. Her unique Class gives her offensive and defensive advantage against the original 7 classes, her NP's Overcharge effect ramps up its damage against those 7 classes even further, and she has good HP and a native Damage Reduction skill that ensures nothing short of an NP from them will scratch her. If a given quest doesn't have any Extra Class enemies, Draco will flatten everything in it with little effort. The only major flaw is that her NP is single target, not AOE, meaning long quests with multiple strong enemies will slow her down.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: A natural Beast trait, so it comes with the territory.
  • Screw Destiny: The Master convinces her to fight her supposed destiny of either dying like Nero did or destroying the world. She eventually agrees and joins Chaldea as a hero.
  • Sexy Slit Dress: Though her dress in First Ascension looks modest at first, it has slits on the sides that expose her bare legs all the way up the the hip. When she moves, it often exposes her underwear.
  • Summon Magic: In her Third Ascension, she can summon spectral red-orange versions of her True Beast form's dragons for various attacks, culminating with her Extra Attack having them all fire their Breath Weapon and her Noble Phantasm where she has them all charge and attack her foe before she comes in for the finisher.
  • Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: As a natural enemy to humanity at its decaying peak, Draco deals 1.5x damage and receive 0.5x damage against all seven Main Classes that are on top of the Human Order's food chain. But by extension, she does 0.5x damage and receives 2.0x damage against the Extra Classes that are less subscribed to the Human Order and get overlooked or preyed upon. She is neutral to Shielders and herself, with the exception of Beast VI/S Rebloomed which she has full advantage against.
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: Her main character flaw. While Nero's love for humanity and Rome was genuine, her upbringing left her with a very warped perception of what love was. Being the ruler of Rome meant there were was no one who could question her whimsy without threat of execution, and as such her people viewed her as "that tyrant who murdered her mother" rather than an abused child trying her best. Draco is what happens when Nero decides to run with that perception on purpose instead of ignorantly, because why bother changing for the better if her fate is to die all alone anyway?
  • Trash the Set: Her Noble Phantasm has her summon the Golden Theater like regular Nero does, but after she and her dragons land their attacks, she blows it up with the opponent still inside. The description says she doesn't care about entertaining people anymore, only driving them to despair.
  • Tsundere: She's constantly grumpy and not secretly grateful for the Master's company and desire to help her, perish the thought. And her adult self definitely doesn't display her true emotions and thoughts, no siree.
  • Turns Red: Normally her Third Skill only gives her Buff Removal Resistance for three turns. But if her Second Skill was used prior and she has the unique buff from it, her Third Skill will also provide her with whole slew of buffs that allows her to steamroll better.
  • Wham Shot: While the Interface Screw of her summoning was already concerning, and the new class card would've made eyebrows raise, the true shock is when you see the class name of her card proper is Beast. Up until this point it had been implied to be impossible to summon a Beast-class Servant because they can never be relied upon to support humanity, something which even former Beast Tiamat believes to be true — while Chaldea is already home to several reformed Beasts, they are all under different classes. It's even a plot point in the collab event because Tiamat's belief causes her to hunt Draco without cease, and a major contributor to its Surprisingly Happy Ending is Draco and the Protagonist proving everyone wrong.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: In an inversion of the usual case with Servants, Draco has the body of a child, but the mind of the embittered emperor Nero Claudius in her final days. When she shifts into her adult form more closely resembling the Nero we know, she actually becomes less mature.
  • Wreathed in Flames: An important theme of Draco's past life as Nero is that she is "a heartless flame that only knows to burn all around it". Once she hits her Third Ascension, she manifests this as a Battle Aura in the form of a literal Ring of Fire, and her Incarnadines-turned-dragons are covered in flames from snout-to-tail.

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