- Location
- Three feet to the left
- Pronouns
- He/They
Sorry, who is this guy? I don't recognize him.
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Hereafter [Worm x Fate/Grand Order]
- Thread starter James D. Fawkes
- Start date
- Crossover
You know Ritsuka summoned Shakespeare right?
Personally, I think it's Abraham van Helsing, who was a medical doctor in Dracula.
- Location
- United States
Yeah, and he spends most of his time locked in his room with Taylor only interacting with him rarely.
Plus hans is responsible for more modern works like the Little Mermaid, the ugly duckling, and the Snow Queen. He is the man behind a lot of fairy tales. Not the same thing.
- Location
- Colorado
That was who I was talking about, yes
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
- Location
- Earth
So is Flamel cribbing from the Book of Abramelin the Mage for an alias here?
If this is suppsoed to be Van Helsing, I'd expect someone to mention his accent and also there's another Caster running around somewhere who's already met Mordred, because the Caster from the interlude was linked with Paris (and also had NF initials judging by the title).
Stahor
BookWorm
- Location
- Russia, Moscow
Either it's very obscure dude, or it's Flamel using him as alias.
- Location
- Oregon, USA
Tied for worst servant with Phantom and Caster Gilles.
Write him out of this singularity. Please.
Caster of London "Abraham"
James D. Fawkes
Court Scribe
- Location
- Avalon (Isle of Mists)
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Unless this is a different Caster from Interlude NF, I can't see this being Van Helsing. Abraham Van Helsing wasn't married, and I think he visited London, although it's been a while since I read Dracula.
It's almost certainly Flamel. The "I wound up famous for the parts of my life that people really had no business knowing" line is what clinched it for me. Flamel didn't become known as a famous alchemist until almost 200 years after his death. In other words P. Arnauld de la Chevalerie, who first popularized Flamel's legend, had no business knowing about Flamel's alchemical feats.
Also, there's actually a connection between Flamel and the name Abraham. Nicholas Flamel was said to have learned his art from the original Book of Abramelin the Mage. Said grimoire tells the story of a man called Abraham (or Abra-Melin) who taught magic to another man, Abraham of Worms.
It's possible that Caster is one of those two Abrahams, but I find it unlikely. Flamel just fits too darn well.
- Location
- Finland
Of Worms you say? Quite fitting if Taylor were to contract them.
Worms, Germany to be more precise, and believe it or not, Taylor's already contracted to a Servant with a connection to that historic city. A sizable chunk of the Nibelungenlied takes place there. It's Siegfried's wife's hometown.
Raiseth
I Find Your Lack of Memes Disturbing
- Location
- Russia
Abraham Lincoln, the vampire hunter?! I mean, he's not a Saberface, but we got Mo-chan, so rejoice, HeWhoLurks.
/jk
MWKillKenny84
Lurking from the Trauma Switch.
- Location
- Vado Ligure
Cue also Mordred's cutscene waifu aka Fran/Evie/Bride of Frankenstein entering the scene.
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Isiri Pudireach
Predictive text can go duck itself
I think you mean "still poking around" because iirc he was in the London Singularity, he just left it to go to the Camelot Singularity before Ritsuka ran into him.
fishsicles
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- Location
- Alexander Horned Earth
- Pronouns
- They/Them
As a purveyor of shenanigans, I think the funniest option would be for this to be Flamel passing himself off as Van Helsing right up until the real one shows up.
- Location
- Quebec
No, it fits, it IS the London Singularity after all. It's a miracle we got a clear picture of him.Never did figure out something to do with the background, so I guess it's just a grey plane. Oh well.
- Location
- Philippines
Pretty much. The only clue we had to his existence prior to Camelot was how Andersen found it way too convenient that all the books he needed to figure out the Grand Classes had been organized right where someone could find them. It was then that he concluded that someone had put them there so someone like him could figure things out, and furthermore he hypothesized that there was probably a reason why this other person left without actually meeting Chaldea.
By Camelot, we found out that this was because Holmes was suspicious of someone in Chaldea - and his main suspect was Roman, who he questioned the origins of and his connections to Marisbury. Taking advantage of the lousy connection in Camelot and the local Atlas branch, Holmes took them to find out some of the secrets of Chaldea as well as the hints to Solomon.
Also as a long time Andersen fan this is greatly underrepresenting his achievements in FGO canon. In London alone he was crucial to figuring out pretty much most of the Grand Classes lore and he literally was the only Servant to be able to tank two attacks from Goetia. Note, the list of Servants that fell immediately in the first strike included both Kintoki and Tamamo. Andersen survived that attack AND then took the next attack for Mordred to survive while also verbally roasting Goetia in the process. Needless to say, there's a reason why I Grailed him immediately after that chapter.
There's also his background activities in Shinjuku, where he hid his presence for most of the conflict just so he could abuse Shinjuku's circumstances with stories to enable Ritsuka to defeat Moriarty with the stories of countless nameless detectives. In SERAPH, even with Kiara pushing him far away from the main conflict he became crucial to figuring out what was needed to take down Kingprotea. Lastly, in Salem, he and the other Writer Servants were the ones the prepped the team to pose as wandering entertainers. All in all, for a non combative Servant he actually does a lot of plot important stuff, all without even using his Noble Phantasm.
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- Location
- Southern California
Oh boy that'll be an interesting interaction.
Rika once again giving the bestest of nicknames to servants
More accurate of a description then you might realize Tay
Weirdly enough I'd say this is a good sign
Shows that Mordred is comfortable enough to take off her armor
And then Mordred manifest her armor that actually covers head from head to toe
*Press X to doubt*
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fishsicles
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- Location
- Alexander Horned Earth
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Caster tends to be the classical shoehorn, but given that most of his actual deeds boil down to his political/management skills, I'd expect a Heroic Spirit Lincoln to be a Ruler in the FGO sense (they've definitely relaxed "no desire for the Grail" since the class was introduced...). Assuming that Nasu didn't get Weird with him, anyway, but there's easier Americans to get Weird with than him.
I'll cut short most of my usual grumbling about E Pluribus Unum, but god, the missed opportunities...
Hell, I wouldn't be totally surprised if Lisa shows up as Holmes' host. It would fit with Nasu's tendency to cram every single semi-prominent character into FGO as a Demi-Servant.
I'd actually argue that Lincoln would fit better as a Rider, since that seems to be the most fitting Class for leaders of men. Admittedly a lot of said leaders are of the military variety, but not all of them, and Lincoln was a wartime president.
fishsicles
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- Location
- Alexander Horned Earth
- Pronouns
- They/Them
The main issue I have with Lincoln as Rider is that he was never really a soldier, even if he was a wartime President; even as a militiaman, he was considered competent, and persuasive enough to be elected captain, but he never actually saw battle. I'd still call it a better fit than Caster or any of the other standard classes, but his martial leadership was more down to his generals, with the real genius of his administration being his ability to keep the rest of the government working to maintain the war effort.
I've also seen someone also propose a Nightingale/Spartacus hybrid sort of Berserker focused on slavery, though frankly Lincoln is still a poor fit for that - Lincoln was a moderate abolitionist, and viewed it more as a political than ideological issue. (If Civil War alt-history wasn't played to death, I'd love to see a POD where Lincoln decided to go forward with recruiting Garibaldi.)
The other issue with Rider is that there's many better-suited Presidents for it; Grant being the obvious point of comparison, but even outside of Civil War specific situations, there'd be little reason to summon Lincoln as a Rider versus Washington, Teddy Roosevelt, or (much as I hate the man) Jackson. Hell, maybe even Eisenhower, if the Grail War were in the right part of Europe.
(My biggest bias pick for a Rider from the Americas, though, would be L'Ouverture.)