Fate/Take Pride (2/2)
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RAMI VII
An ATLAS homunculus and precedessor to the female model VIII, Rami was a combat model, with gemstone organs and silver transmutation as weapons, as well as four increasing levels of overclocking power-ups that destroyed his innards more with each use. A cold, emotionless 'butler' for Caster who obeyed her every wish and seemed to have no desire of his own, treating her more like his Master and replying 'as you wish' to even her most absurd orders.
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http://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread...797#post591797
SERVANT CASTER
Cleopatra, the third strike GO dealt to me. Mine had a NP based on the desert she created in Turkey, making her fight like a mix between Gaara and Gilgamesh. The NP sounds mundane until she is using it to create an immense desert, all of which she can turn into flechettes, sphinxes, spiked pits, etc. with little more than eye contact. She could kick up a sandstorm and then turn the entire thing into a wall of flechettes to tear you apart or just regenerate constant undying familiars to fight for her, while protecting herself with a reinforced sand shield.
Her wish was to become powerful enough to secure her safety and make others love her, never realizing that her methods denied her means by always making more enemies. She would be the first to discover Bardsley's true nature and what lie beneath the soil, trying to 'drill' into the grail's core. Her lair would be a mean surprise - she was camping at one of the island's two beaches, eating tourists and collecting forced priestesses for mana. It would only be confirmed accidentally, by an island native, that the island didn't -have- two beaches - the second one was created by Caster and maintained as a tourist trap during the course of the war. Her ultimate fate is discussed below in Rider's section.
KIDDONot his actual name, but the nickname given to him by Rider when he refused to identify himself. It sticks as a name and he feels no compulsion to divulge any more than that about himself.
He seems like a pretty ordinary young man in his teens, around the same age as Saber's master and Michel - my mental image is a baseball jacket and short hair like Berserker's Master Tatsumi in Prototype Fragments. I never fully developed him, unfortunately. His relationship with Rider is strictly professional at first, but grows amiable over time, mostly against his will.
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RIDER
She was to be Francis Drake, if I ever got there. I never got to the point where I wrote much of their story, but I envisioned two main plot beats for her - a banquet of queens between her and Cleo being the first, in which more about her nature as Queen Elizabeth came out. The main difference between the two would be that while both were spendthrifts, Drake was one because she envisioned everything she did as enriching the British empire as a whole - she could commit any sin or spend any gold that ultimately stayed within or furthered the empire's expansion, while Cleo does it only for herself and would burn her own kingdom if it benefited her enough. This would lead to Drake prioritizing 'stopping her' over 'winning.'
This would lead to their big fight, in which the entire Desert of Heaven was marshalled against the entire Wild Hunt, in a large-scale sandship battle in which Drake kept hopping from ship to ship and protecting the Hind from Cleo's sight with other ships and the cover of the sand, with an ultimate goal of getting the Hind close enough to perform a close-distance kamikaze strike against Cleo directly.
She would approach the downed Cleo, ready to kill her, and unaware Cleo saved at least a little more sand to stab her through the back when she gloated - only to be shocked when Drake coldly, quickly executed her without a word as queen. Probably my favorite isolated scene after that would be Kiddo finding her in the desert, first tracking her by a trail of blood... that turns out to be spilt rum as Drake sits on the wreckage of the hind, defusing the tension before confirming some of it WAS blood and she did get impaled at the same time she killed Cleo, bleeding out while the two share one last moment.
SAGARA RYOUMABased on and in the same family as Sagara Hyouma, Jack's failure summoner in the Apocrypha oneshot. Weak and unimpressive as a magus family, the Sagaras were chemists whose circuit quality diminished over time, as they went from creators of potent poisons to little more than cheap magi drug peddlers, lacking the ability to seek the root with their meager talents and loathsome concoctions. Hyouma was little more than an unambitious, potion-peddling drug dealer in the city the war takes place, with no desire to compete when the Grail selects him to fill the last spot as Assassin's master. A slimy, unscrupulous youth whose life was going nowhere and who goes along with Ruler's offer of riches and advantage to whoever uncovers the reason for Ruler's calling to this HGW.
During the story, Assassin does his best to teach Ryouma and impart actual values on the delinquent, trying to improve his character for the better as Assassin battles each Master in the grail war, using his skills to escape after each meeting with another Servant, but not killing anyone decisively.
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SERVANT ASSASSINhttp://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread...344#post757344
The legendary outlaw of Feudal Japan, Ishikawa Goemon was a thief who pilfered from rich lords in order to return their riches to the poor. While documented as little more than a common thief in life, after his death Goemon became an incredible folk hero, with stories of his life attributing him the status of a samurai, a ninja, and even a wizard in folk tales and kabuki performances for generations to come.
However, the most famous tale of Goemon is the one that led to his death. Attempting to assassinate the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Goemon was overheard in the act and sentenced to a public execution along with his entire family by being burned alive in a boiling cauldron. It is said that Goemon held his son above the boiling water even as he died in defiance of his enemies, saving the boy's life at the expense of his own. Yet even that legend is inconsistent and may never have truly occurred - records disagree on everything from the date to the outcome of the execution.
As a Servant, Assassin would have no real stake in the war - like Cu, he doesn't wish for much, and just enjoys his time as a Servant. He and Ryouma would fight the other Servants one by one as the only team who seriously carried out Ruler's order to investigate the cause of the war.
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SERVANT RULERThe Ruler of the Bardsley Grail War, King Solomon, the King of Magic. You can imagine one of the reasons I abandoned this project now. He would task the Servants with investigating the reason he was summoned, promising his favor to whoever first ascertained the danger to the world.
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FATHER JOHN MURPHY
A hapless local priest, full of complaints and close to a mental breakdown. A dropout moved to a minor, unimportant island, little and nothing was unexpected of him until the Bardsley grail began to manifest. Due to the unexpected nature of the apparent Grail War, he was selected to be the church's local representative, and when Ruler was invoked to oversee the war, it was his chapel that was commandeered. Overnight, his sleepy refuge from responsibility became Solomon's Temple inside, vast and powerful, and tasking Murphy with keeping others from discovering it. The suddenly overworked priest is quick to berate Ruler, complain to those who visit him, and turn away anyone not affiliated with the Grail War in a panic. All he wants to do is return to his normal life...Spoiler: