Or: Saint Graft
Heart Transplant
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Type: Surgical
Within the bounds of his
Operating Room, Christiaan is a maestro with a scalpel. Though his skills in life were, by his own admission, far from perfect, his reputation literally precedes him, and thus as a Servant his skills are magnified to the point of being similar to 'Magic'. That is, he can use his Noble Phantasm to change the very
core of an individual... He can perform a
figurative 'heart transplant', so to speak, while he and his target are within his
Operating Room.
Essentially, he can take a deceased individual's 'Heart', be they human or Servant, and 'implant' it into another, living patient. This takes time, and is not guaranteed to work if the recipient and the donor are too fundamentally different, whether in terms of physical form or ideals, but it is well worth the wait and the risk. Upon a successful
Heart Transplant, the patient's 'Heart' is replaced that of the donor. So, for example, if he were to transplant the 'Heart' of a Servant into a normal human, the human would 'become' that Servant for all intents and purposes, as the 'Heart' of a Servant is, of course, their Saint Graph. When the donor is
not a Servant, however, it's instead "the donor's most defining trait" that is transplanted.
The recipient, after a brief recovery period, gains traits, abilities, skills, etc. that would logically be provided by the 'Heart' they received, within reason. That is, anything that's physically possible for them, becomes real. So, a person implanted with the 'Heart' of a Servant who is part beast, for instance, would not
become part beast themselves (such as growing claws or fur), but would simply gain beastly personality traits and skills. After all, the only surgery performed on the person is the transplant of the 'Heart', not the rest of their body. In Servant terms, this means that though they will gain the donor's Skills, and perhaps even Noble Phantasm if possible, they won't gain their parameters or appearance.
Since it is a 'transplant', however, the recipient
loses their
own 'Heart', as it's been replaced by the donor's. So, a Servant will lose their own Skills and have them replaced by the new ones... except in one case.
Christiaan can, though he will be hesitant to do so, perform a more advanced form of this Noble Phantasm,
Surgery in Defiance of the Natural Order
Heterotopic Heart Transplant
. Though a real heterotropic transplant, which involved giving the recipient a second heart in addition to their own instead of just replacing it, had a higher success rate than a standard one, dealing with 'Hearts' is far more complex than dealing with hearts. As such, the success rate of this Noble Phantasm is quite low, and has a significant chance to induce unintended, less-than-desirable side effects. Essentially, this version of the Noble Phantasm lets him 'combine' the two 'Hearts' into one... in Servant terms, it allows him to make the patient a 'Dual Servant', with all of the abilities of both the recipient and the donor. Though this, if successful, makes them incredibly powerful, the same rules regarding physical limitations and the aforementioned 'high chance of failure' keep this from being his standard choice of surgery.
Originally Posted by Kabalisto Koga
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