Kingprotea
The Alterego of craving.
A waste matter sealed away at the depths of imaginary space.
Just like the other Alteregos... Meltlilith, Passionlip..., she is a High Servant that was reproduced・removed(1) in the Deep Sea Virtual Town SE.RA.PH.
A giant that grows infinitely and possess the greatest output among the Sakura Series.
The Alteregoes are fusions of multiple goddesses, but Protea was created from the essence of the Earth Mother Goddesses commonly found in all mythologies.
Supposedly, the
Grand Mother(2) of Ancient Mesopotamia - Tiamat - is also included among those.
One among the Sakura Five, the virtual life-forms born from the heavy weight emotions that BB found too unmanageable.
As you can see, she possesses a huge Saint Graph and a fearsome ego that grows infinitely. Due being a hazardous material that can become a calamity of cosmic proportions if left alone, she was sealed at the bottom of the imaginary space by BB.
The original Kingprotea was a "pure girl that starved for love", but the Kingprotea released on the Virtual Town SE.RA.PH. attained intellect while en route of growth - maybe due the influence of the one who recreated the SE.RA.PH.
With a mental age of about 14 year old, she is the image of an introverted and ephemeral girl. However, as she is greedy towards love, this girl loves skinship and shows no hesitations in her actions despite being a late bloomer.
Even though she does not like conflict, it is not like she "hates・is scared" of combat either. Once the battle starts, she will mercilessly exterminate the opponent no matter how weak he is (even in case of the weakest enemy). Without any pain to her heart.
For better or for worse, Protea remains ignorant of the fact that she is a cruel god of destruction.
Introverted and active.
An airhead whose thoughts cannot be even guessed by others.
A glutton character who tries to eat anything in the surroundings that she can lay her hands on due basically being always hungry (i.e. seeking love).
While her personality is close to that of her sister, Passionlip (introverted・boastful in private but reserved when in public), she appears to be more active due a lack of shame.
Like a large-breed dog that demands communication, skinship even though she is a taciturn.
As far as her image goes, it is something like "First you think: 'oh there is a cute little bird over there'. But once you get closer, it turns out that little bird is so big that you have to look up at it."
Fundamentally, she obeys you like a faithful giant robot... I mean, Servant.
Although a taciturn, since she has urges such as "I want you to love me", "I want to be chosen by someone" and "I want to be treated kindly", she seeks communication from the Master even while silent.
Her dream is "to become a cute bride".
Since she does not perceives "cute" and "bride" as different words, but rather that "a bride is unconditionally cute", she is not thinking at all about being cute... in other words, "maintaining a human size".
The Alterego of craving.
In the Deep Sea Virtual Town, she ended up being reproduced as "something attached to the SE.RA.PH" during the process of Kiara turning into a SE.RA.PH (as "the two that had been absorbed by (synchronized with) Kiara", Meltlilith and Passionlip were removed by her own will, but Kingprotea's reproduction was not something from Kiara's design).
Originally, she was supposed to disappear in the bubbles along with the SE.RA.PH-Kiara without meeting, being found by anyone.
Now that she turned into a Servant, she awaits for the Master's orders... or rather, she started to love being ordered by him.
This is due to the joy of 'being ordered=being loved' and also because Protea has no confidence in herself.
Since Protea understands that she is a waste matter, she is constantly "feeling guilty".
She has no interest in the outside world nor in new relationshiops, and only seeks the Master's affection.
It may sound good if you call it a pure courtship, a wholehearted devotion, but that relationship is something like walking on a tightrope.
Protea does not "love the Master because she likes him", but rather she "likes the Master because he gives his love to her" - she thinks of nothing but love without really knowing what love is.
Should the Master's deep affections come to an end... if she were to become unable to feel them, or think of it as insufficient... Protea will probably become unable to endure her hunger and try to prey upon the Master.
In the end, just like the other Alteregos, Protea was also born from a twisted ego.
While she obediently follows the Master's orders, that is not absolute submission. The Master contracted with Kingprotea must make her mentality grow before she becomes like that.
Freeing herself from the "craving" that is not exhasted no matter how much she drinks.
He must teach her that a heart that only demands will completely consume the other party, and only a relationship were they accept and provide each other can become "nourishment for the heart".
Height/Weight: 5~??cm・??kg
Source: Fate/EXTRA CCC
Region: SE.RA.PH
Alignment: Lawful Good
Gender: Female
"
...I want to be touched more. Please touch me. Touch me now. Since... I am (very) fluffy".
While she rarely makes affirmatives and expresses herself in a way that seeks confirmation on everything, as you can see, she occasionally takes an authoritative tone.
It is believed that this is a manifestation of the "ruthlessness of a goddess" that lies at roots.
Huge Scale: C
A id_es skill born from her "desire to grow", while having the skill Self-Modification as a base.
It makes a limitless scale expansion possible.
Upon reaching her level cap, she enlarges her own standards and establishes a new level cap. This is repeated infinetely. Also called infinite propagation.
A cosmic-level disaster that will eventually destroy the planet, but since the complexity of her intelligence・functions is lost with each enlargement, your usual intelligent life-form would be unable to withstand this skill and ended collpasing onto itself.
In the past, she had a nonstandard
EX Rank in this, but it suffered a Rank DOWN due not being possible to fully reproduce this under the Chaldea-system of summoning.
Her growth starts at the same turn it is employed, and the numerical upper limit increased by this is permanent until "Infantile Regression" is employed.
Infantile Regression: C
Shackles imposed by BB. A safety device that controls Kingprotea, who can grow infinitely.
Something that restores her level and resets her hypertrophied self.
In exchange of making all the growth attained through Huge Scale turn to zero by using this, she acquires NP in accordance with its stage.
Area Smash: A
An attack that fully operates that gigantic Saint Graph ends up turning an entire "area", and not just an "individual enemy", as its attack target.
Pulverizing even a magic formula that manipulates space with a punch, this is truly a skill that "solves everything through brute strength".
However, having awakened to her own "heart", Protea is currently sealing this skill.
NOBLE PHANTASM
Airavata King-size - A Large Shadow Comes Out from the Sea of Life
Rank: E
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1000
A Noble Phantasm that has the
samudra manthana anecdote (a myth from Hindu Mythology) as its motif.
In order to survive in the devastated surface of the world, the gods sought after a miraculous medicine of immortality - the
amrita.
In order to create the amrita, one had to stir the sea that covered the world, the
ocean of milk. The gods cooperated with their enemy, the
Asuras, to turn the world under the axis of
Mt. Mandara and stir the ocean of milk - creating the miraculous medicine and many life forms in the process.
Airavata is the name of a giant white elephant that appeared from the ocean of milk at that occasion.
The Kingprotea that was restrictively summoned by Chaldea is constantly under "pressure".
That comes both from the world's Counter Force and the limitations of being in the physical world instead of the virtual world.
This Noble Phantasm is a Reality Marble that temporarily pushes aside such "pressure" and returns Protea to her original size.
Having attained such a size that humans can no longer have an unbroken view of her, Protea will then simply swing her limbs at the enemy and, with a single strike, exterminate them.
In the original work, she herself was being treated as a Noble Phantasm, but in the Deep Sea Virtual Town, she became capable of manifesting a Noble Phantasm in exchange of suffering a Rank DOWN to her Saint Graph.
(1) as in a surgical removal
(2) not "Great Mother", but "Grand Mother". A clear allusion to Tiamat's identity as a Beast.