damn indeed. whats up with all the people recently that do their faceclaims themselves.
clean picture. reminds me of Napoleon. i personally imagine him a bit older
damn indeed. whats up with all the people recently that do their faceclaims themselves.
clean picture. reminds me of Napoleon. i personally imagine him a bit older
Motherfucker stole the Chops, can’t have shit in Germany
But yeah, with you on the age angle- I’m just gonna try and do that shit in post, much easier to not mess up the scan lines for me
“...so having finished the Three Little Pigs, I suggest we do another tale that features a wolf.” Jacob stated, rolling his quill between his fingers as the Grimm brothers sat in his office.
Stifling a cough, Wilhelm leaned back against the wall and raised a brow at his brother. “Oh, what tale do you have in mind?” the younger brother asked.
Features shifted as Jacob’s ponderous expression turned to a smile. “I think little red cap would be a nice one.” remarked the eldest Grimm.
Wilhelm paused for a moment before responding, his brows knitted together as he turned to fully face Jacob. “My memory seems to be foggy on that one. A refresher if you would?”
Bringing a hand to his temple he massaged his head as he leaned back in exasperation, although the slight chuckle he released and broad grin gave away his real emotions. Wilhelm shook his head. His brother really would take any opportunity to spin a tale. “Well, there's a little girl who, presumably, resides with her family in a cosy little hamlet away from most.” Jacob began.
“One day she’s instructed to deliver a basket of baked goods to her grandmother. You see, sadly the elderly grandmother had fallen ill, and little red cap’s parents hoped to alleviate the burden she had to put on her body by providing some of the harder to make items like bread, and a few luxuries too. She was a good grandma afterall!” Continued the man, truly wrapped in his own little world.
“While on the way, she meets a wolf that tells her to maybe pick some flowers. Surely the lovely emblems of nature would remind the lady of the beauty of the world, encouraging her to regain her strength so as to experience it first hand again.” And would you believe that it seemed Wilhelm was getting wrapped up in the tale alongside his brother. However something about this was bringing old memories to the fore, memories preferably left alone.
“But her family had told her to stick to the path! To not deviate, tarry or in any way extend her travel. Yet th-” His brother's words faded into the background, a memory floated in front of Wilhelm’s eyes. A little girl, going towards a place that would soon be the sight of conflict. Warning and persuasion that, while causing her to hesitate, did not halt her.
“-and the wolf gobbled up grandma-” Another memory, of an ancient woman hanging in the air, suspended by the arm whose claws impaled her. A cavernous mouth opening and devouring her in a handful of bites.
“-brave huntsman cutting the beast open with his axe-” Fighting the now rampaging beast, trying desperately to figure out how to overcome it.
“-filled its stomachs with rocks and let it get to water, where it drowned-” Eventually figuring out they needed to damage the brain or heart, and selecting a method to hinder the former.
“-while the huntsman took the beast’s skin.” Skinning the beast, and receiving a horrifying revelation half way through.
Unknowing of his brother's stroll down memory lane, Jacob finished off and straightened up in his chair. “As you could tell, I’m more partial to the Hassenpflug’s versions over Perrault’s, although Jeanette’s is more thrilling than Marie’s. Why, we could even go far back and take a version where the beast is not a simple wolf, but a werewol-”
“NO!” Interrupted Wilhelm, already beginning to breathe heavily from the memories, fighting to hold back tears as he stared down his surprised brother. “Let’s… let us keep it as a simple wolf.”
First Ascension Second Ascension Third Ascension Class: Berserker Other Class: Rider True Name: Little Red Riding Hood Titles: Anything that even implies the concept red or wolf. Alignment: Chaotic Good Region of Origin: Germany, Fairy Tales
Height: Variable(Rests at 4’11) Weight: Variable(Does not have a set rest number) Gender: Variable(Usually female) Birthday: N/A Likes: Red, baked treats, hunters, heroes Dislikes: Adult things, villains, old ladies Talents: Baking, storytelling, ambushes
Parameters: Strength: B Endurance: C Agility: B Mana: D Luck: D Noble Phantasm: B+
Appearance:
How to describe a spirit whose form is constantly in flux? Focus on the constants. While Little Red shifts her appearance constantly, there are a few standard features. She prefers female forms, and keeping her distinctive red feature as something located above the waist. Hanging from her waist, she’ll have a wolf plush and a small wooden figure of a hunter, one on each side of her waist. Finally, she will have a pin of a baked good, usually a chocolate chip cookie somewhere on her person, where it is visible to others, but is incredibly difficult for her to see.
Of these, the two items she has on her waist are odd. Despite her claims of both being ‘full’, the huntsman sounds like hollowed wood, and, despite acting otherwise, the wolf has no stuffing inside.
While Little Red is essentially genderfluid, this sheet refers to her as female due to commonality and ease of consumption.
Personality:
Little Red Riding hood can be best described as a well behaved, naïve child. Her ability to focus on a singular task is actually somewhat odd for one of her mentality, as while a normal child would lose interest in something after a normally short period of time, she will stay focused on something for a disturbing amount of time. No better is this somewhat obsessive nature is best featured in her love for huntsmen and hero’s. Even the mention of either of these will immediately steal her attention, and ensure her undivided focus for as long as it remains the prime subject.
This fact actually results in her having a ridiculous focus in battle, as her joy at playing the part of a huntsman/hero keeps her from being distracted from anything from collateral damage to pain.
Conversely, she finds adult conversation quite boring, and engaging in such is one of the few ways to insure she will leave a situation alone. It says something that this boredom is so pervasive that it is the only reliable way to break her out of a huntsman/hero frenzy, outside just letting it run its course or having her master command her to stop(Command seal not required).
Her temperament towards her master can be summed up as a parental huntsman. She is expecting that her master would cater to her needs much like a parent, and will also try to get them to indulge her wants. In return she will return unconditional love and maximum obedience, even in the face of abusive treatment. Furthermore, she will differ from her master on all subjects relating to the conduct of a hero or huntsman.
An Additional note is that Little Red, having no true name, will respond to anything that even somewhat refers to her. This includes anything that invokes the idea of red, like the words ruby, rose or scarlet, to more disturbing and foreign examples, like blood, aka, or inferno. She will do the same for anything that invokes the idea of a wolf.
Her wish? To be a great hero who saves others like the huntsman saved her.
Relationships
William Tell: So cool! He’s an amazing hunter, isn’t he master? Hopefully I can learn a lot from him as well.
Kiara Sessyoin: She is weird. Everytime she talks to me her words just become a bable after a few seconds.
Brothers Grimm(Caster): The man is really nice, but that little hunter… why doesn’t he talk to me like he does everybody else?
Brothers Grimm(Archer): Hi Mr Hunts- where are you going? Why are you running away?! Come back here!
Hessian Lobo: Hessian is really cool, and, and, Lobo is scary… but he’s just a big puppy… right?
Scientific Servants: They seem really nice, but when they explain things everything becomes nonsense
Villainous Heroic Spirits: Oh, cool! Even these bad guys can turn over a new leaf and be heroes!
European Mythological Heroes: Role models everywhere! I wanna be just like them, just… ending happily.
The Wolf: Oh, he’s here? Um… please keep us apart.
Class Skills
Mad Enhancement: E
The class skill of the Berserker class, at this rank Little Red receives no bonuses to any of her parameters, while retaining an, admittedly warped, sense of reason.
All things that pass through her mind are refocused through the lens of a child. Topics of an adult nature, like the intricacy of business or advanced science, turn into literal gibberish. This applies if it is witnessed, heard or even read. Essentially, this skill makes it impossible for her to comprehend any concept that would be beyond the scope of a naive child, crafting her into the persona of the Protagonist at the very start of the tale.
An odd addition is the fact that Little Red is incapable of perceiving the Wolf outside any secondary source. She could see him in a mirror or a picture, but not with her own eyes. This part strangely affects the Wolf as well, although in reverse.
Magic Resistance: C
Despite not being a usual class skill for a Berserker, Little Red is in possession of a middling rank of this due to the Wolf Emblem. Thanks to its operational parameters as a Noble Phantasm, the Wolf is capable of solidifying the age and mystique of the fairy tale as a defensive aura around Little Red. It can successfully overwhelm magecraft of less than two verses.
Thanks to the inability to perceive each other, alongside the inherent disorientation of the class, it is very much a brute forced procedure that lacks in efficiency, and therefore results in lacking defensive power.
Personal Skills
Emblems of Fairy Tales: -
Despite possessing the very emblems that make up this skill, and even the granted skills, it does not seem as if this skill is actually… working
Normally, this skill would be a sibling to one such as Imperial Privilege, allowing heroes whose roots rest in fairytales to utilise all facets of their story. More specifically, it includes other characters of the tales, and by extension skills most applicable to them, into the saint graph. Where its sibling grants a large number of standard skills the spirit would have no way of possessing, this gives a smaller number of esoteric skills that have an innate relation to the spirit.
The emblems and skills usually falling under this skill for Red Riding Hood would be:
The Protagonist Emblem- Red Feature- Shapeshifting(Red)
The Victim Emblem- A Baked Good- Feast
The Huntsman Emblem- A Huntsman Figure- Aptitude for Slaughter(Huntsman)/Noble Phantasm
The Wolf Emblem- A Wolf Plush- Magic Resistance/Noble Phantasm
Shapeshifting(Red): D
Possessing this skill at such a low rank limits shapeshifting to only to forms that are possible in the human body without major surgery.
Due to the extremely variable nature of the appearance of Red Riding Hood, there can be no claim to any singular definitive appearance. Due to this, all but one aspect of her appearance has become malleable. That one aspect is her recognisable red feature. To be specific, no matter what form Berserker may take, she must still possess a very easily identifiable feature that is red, such as red hair, a red cloak or a red hat. This skill is granted to her by her Protagonist Emblem
Mana Burst(Wind): B
Little Red is capable of suffusing mana dense air currents around her body. While the power of these winds is even enough to generate lift for her form, her low mana rank heavily influences her usage of this skill, limiting it to short, sudden bursts so as to not exhaust herself.
While this doesn’t impact her outward usage of this skill in offensive and utilitarian instances, it means defensively she requires perfect timing for it to be of any help. Of course this is within normal usage parameters. In desperate situations, she will run it till utter exhaustion so as to push it for every benefit.
Feast: D
A skill somewhat unique to Little Red, it specialises in making the process of gaining mana from that which is consumed far more beneficial. Using this skill grants the user two benefits, a rank of Independent Action equal to that of this skill, and a plus modifier to their mana stat. These bonuses last depending on the rank at this skill.
At this level, Little Red has to functionally eat as often as a normal human if she wants to gain its benefits constantly. This means it is active for about six hours after each time she eats. Drawing from the common connection of food to the Victim, this skill finds it source in the Victim Emblem
Aptitude for Slaughter(Huntsman): B-
At once a more limited, and more expansive version of the tools variation of this skill. This skill grants its bearer bonuses to attack when wielding items that would be related to the concept of a huntsman. In exchange for this limit, the damage bonuses affect all within the animal kingdom, including those of a more phantasmal nature.
This skill is granted to her through the Hero’s aspect of the fairy tale, and therefore is connected to the Huntsman Emblem she carries. Due to Little Red’s nature, she finds the manipulation of the huntsman’s tools to be somewhat alien. This is only further weakened by her madness inhibiting the knowledge she gains from the Huntsman to teach her how to use them.
Noble Phantasm
The Darkness that Lurks Beyond Children's Eyes
Fairytale Wolf
Anti-Unit: B
Max Number of Targets: 20
Range: 1~99
The Wolf that antagonised Little Red was too central to the tale to be left behind, so he too has come along. His looming presence is contained within the shadows inside the wolf plush of the Wolf Emblem.
The wolf essentially acts like a second servant, although due to its manifestation using shadow the Wolf is incapable of physically interacting with the world through physical means. Due to this servant-like nature, the wolf possesses the skills Animal Communication(Because why would an animal be unable to speak to animals), Shapeshift(A shadow has no true form) and Magic Resistance(Living facet of a legend with hundreds of years of history) at the same rank as this noble phantasm. Furthermore, its incorporeal nature makes it so that, while sufficient damage can disperse it, you cannot permanently destroy the Wolf without eliminating the Wolf Emblem's ability to contain shadows.
These facets make the wolf a fantastic scouting unit, gathering information for the master so as to better prepare for offensive operations. However, these utilitarian aspects are not the end of the Wolf’s abilities. Drawing forth a mystery that hides in the very depths of its nature, it can make it so the shadows it is formed from is capable of ‘digesting’ that which it swallows in shadow.
The rate of ‘digestion’ depends on three factors. First, it is faster when acting on something without any magical energy, than something with. Second, being exposed to concepts that a child considers good slows the pace, and actually weakens the wolf as a whole. Third and finally, the wolf has an odd interaction with divinity, the more one possesses… the faster it works.
Personality
The wolf is, of course, in possession of its own personality, and unexpectedly, that personality isn’t immediately malicious.
The wolf is very much a personification of its title, the Darkness that Lurks Beyond Children's Eyes, however this is not an inherently evil factor. After all, the true lives of adults can be said to be one such darkness. The wolf is usually an unrepentant jokester, with a dark sense of humor and a particular taste for gallows humor.
Thanks to the concepts he encompasses, he is actually quite well informed and is capable of in-depth conversations on science, philosophy and other advanced topics. Although, long conversation with him requires one to look past the jokes he will unapologetically sow throughout, some good, many not.
For the most part, the wolf will treat the master like a pack leader, deferring to his guidance despite possible clashes of ideas. However, in the face of personally directed violence, the wolf will drop all civility towards the master, truly embracing the malevolent personality one would have expected. From that point onwards, the wolf would do everything it could to kill the master.
Relationships
Nursery Rhyme: As cute as she is, being around her hurts. And I’m not Passionlip or the nun.
Brothers Grimm(Archer): YOU!
Tesla: I may know a lot, but I can’t keep up with him. Feel like I’m swinging and fighting for each word, and he’s chatting away with a hand on the release.
Atalanta: My, my, she really seems to hate what I represent. Cats and dogs never can get along.
Lawful Good Servants: How the hell do they function so well with that stick so far up their asses? Or is that just their thing?
Little Red Riding Hood: She’s somewhere around here, eh? Wouldn’t mind meeting again.
Cycle of Union and Separation, Cleave Once More
Huntsman's Heroic Intervention
Anti-Unit(Self): C+
Max Number of Targets: 1
Range: Contact
The axe that saved Little Red in legend, splitting the stomach of the Wolf and allowing the Protagonist and Victim to escape a messy end. This crystallisation is stored within the wooden figure of the huntsman and fills the Emblem, being unleashed from inside when required.
This axe is a constantly active Noble Phantasm that possesses two separate effects. The first exists hand in hand with the skill granted by the emblem. While the main form of the axe is never lost, it can gain features and functions allowing it access to the equipment of a huntsman, from skinning knives to trapping gear, crossbows to rifles, all tools are available. Simply put, this shifting weapon grants its wielder what is needed to use their skills, just like the Huntsman possessed the tools to bring down the wolf in any incarnation.
However, that is not what gives this sublimation its power. No, that comes from the very nature of the Huntsman that this Phantasm draws from. An inconstant addition to the tale, it is a human addition to a story whose roots are divine, one that shifted its meaning from an eventual finality to an eternal cycle. It is essentially a grand ritual created to overturn an ending, incapable of doing so because it requires more strength than it had, and because the will of humanity no longer needs the story that came before the ending.
The second aspect of this Noble Phantasm is the ability to split one into two, even though it is fated to become one once more. To elaborate, it acts like a monomolecular blade from fiction, capable of cutting through anything by changing the nature of what it touches from united to split. Furthermore, that which is forcefully combined to begin with, such as a certain Avenger or the Great Detectives Foe, will suffer a time where they are out of synch, and so the aspects that can be called grafted onto a main whole will be weakened. After all, that is what it does for Little Red.
However, this is not an all powerful effect. For one, the effect is weaker than it should be due to something that lurks too close to the surface in Berserker, distracting its power. Furthermore, as there is no aspect that halts reunion of that which is split, regeneration, healing and such easily undo that which is done. Finally, and probably most glaringly, this Noble Phantasm can be trumped by simple magic resistance, being weakened and even negated depending on the Rank of the skill the opponent possesses and its interaction with grand rituals.
Oh, and did I say it was constantly active? I misspoke. Little Red keeps it active constantly. What would happen if it was deactivated?
Well...That's for another time.Well...Let's fine out.
Fragment of the End of a Mythos
Fairytale Wolf/Lupine Apostle
Anti-Unit(Self): B+
Max Number of Targets: 1
Range: 1~10
A second form of the Fairytale Wolf, only activatable when the Huntsman Emblem is fully deactivated and handed off to the master. With the grand ritual of separation no longer affecting it, that secret that lurks so close to the surface fully manifests. In doing so, it seals all of Little Red’s existing class and personal skills and transforms Fairytale Wolf into a new form. To put it succinctly, Wilhelm Grimm made a mistake attaching this girl to this fairy tale.
A Foundation of Heaven within a Crest that Little Red possesses, a Devouring Deity residing within the roots of the tale, and a Mandate of Consumption engraved upon her Saint Graph. These three facts combined produce twin results.
A Fairytale Werewolf Acting as a Phantom of Fenris Wolf
&
A Lupine Dead Apostle in Possession of an Ideal Blood of Consumption
Thanks to this, Little Red becomes a werewolf made of blood and shadow, with a factor of regeneration that matches the curse of an apostle, the shadowy consumptive powers of the original Fairy Tale wolf and new class and personal skills to replace those sealed. Furthermore, at a great cost of energy, Little Red may perform a true name release to produce a zone of perfect circumstance.
In this case, that causes all inorganic matter and energy to be converted to magical energy for Little Red’s consumption. This even affects the energy released by Noble Phantasms such as the Sword of the Sun or Arc of Triumph, stripping at maximum a tenth of their strength for usage. This reenactment of Fenris’s own role in Ragnarok is fittingly hidden behind the true name Dämmerung.
Regardless of all this strength, an imperfect form still produces weakness. Weapons that deal extra damage to any category she now falls under does even more extra damage than they should, as they cause self damaging instability. This same effect is achieved by Little Red encountering Paradoxes, afterall, a paradoxical grand ritual acts as the seal for this form. Finally, despite her regeneration, her brain and heart cannot regenerate as each is responsible for one half of her regeneration, blood for the heart and shadows for the brain. Sufficient damage to either will shut down her regeneration until the damage can be healed.
The only way to deactivate this Noble Phantasm is to bring the Huntsman Emblem into contact with Little Red’s form. Upon contact, this Noble Phantasm will be reverted back into the base Fairy Tale wolf and Huntsman’s Heroic Intervention, and her original skills, will be available again.
Personality
During the times she has her sanity, anger can be said to be the primary emotion, followed by self pity as a distant second. Her mind is still somewhat clouded, as she is still not aware of her own true name, and some of the specifics of her history are hard to remember. Therefore, she retains her fairy tale self's reaction to words referring to Red Red wolves, although now it is a conscious decision rather than a subconscious occurrence.
While she can hold a good conversation on advanced concepts, seeming to have inherited the wolves knowledge, and is frighteningly knowledgeable about general magecraft, she has no drive to actually talk about things. Really, she will only respond when talked to first.
In fact, reactionary can describe her entire modus operandi while her sanity is intact, as she will not even really fight without outside prompting. While prodding for a reason for this will only result in a verbal assault of legendary proportions, a master with a strong relationship would find that this is ingrained from her time with her great grandmother, where rules like speak when spoken to and children should be seen and not heard were harsh realities, and brutally enforced.
Without her sanity, she only cares for food, doing anything to get it. Everything that can be possibly considered food, is. This is inclusive of her master, but in that case if they were to be described on a menu, they’d be the final option on the desert menu that has its own, easily missed, page.
If the master is abusive though… They shoot from the bottom of the deserts to the top of the appetiser, becoming a first priority to consume, regardless if Little Red is sane or not.
Her wish? To have never gone through her great grandmothers tortures.
Relationships
Brothers Grimm(Archer): You… tried. I can acknowledge that much.
Cú Chulainn(Caster): Why do I have the urge to rip you apart and eat you? Oh, that’s why. He really gets around.
Norse Servants: It is hard to control myself around them. The fucking lurker really wants to put on a reenactment.
Paradox Wielding Servants: No offence meant, but please relocate to the arctic. Yes I’m aware that’s on the other side of the world.
Cooking Servants: Can’t talk, must eat.
New Class Skills
Mad Enhancement: A+
Within the form of the wolf, the Mad Enhancement level Little Red possesses gets kicked up several notches. At this rank, all parameters receive a rank up, and while most of her reason is ripped away for the vast majority of time, there are periods where she regains her reason.
For Little Red, those times are during, and for a period after, she has consumed something that counts as sustenance for her, which considering her Devouring Engine skill, is a lot. During these times of reason, she still receives her rank up
New Personal Skills
Mana Burst(Wind): B
Little Red is capable of suffusing mana dense air currents around her body. While the power of these winds is even enough to generate lift for her form, her low mana rank heavily influences her usage of this skill, limiting it to short, sudden bursts so as to not exhaust herself.
While this doesn’t impact her outward usage of this skill in offensive and utilitarian instances, it means defensively she requires perfect timing for it to be of any help. Of course this is within normal usage parameters. In desperate situations, she will run it till utter exhaustion so as to push it for every benefit.
Devouring Engine(Magical Energy): C-
A skill that represents one's fundamental nature as a devourer, and something that indulges that nature by granting them boons for doing so. The principle of consumption, something that her great grandmother tried so desperately to make resonate with Little Red’s blood. Where in life it was a failure, the amalgamated Noble Phantasm that is the Fragment of the End of a Mythos has succeeded to engrave this mandate onto her saint graft.
What this does practically is grant Little Red a B rank in Magic Resistance, as this form allows her to outright consume the magic used against her, although magecraft that is more complex is too hard to break down in time, explaining why the ability to just eat it doesn’t push it higher and the minus modifier.
It also causes an overburn to occur, boosting three of Little Red’s traits(Skills or Parameters). However due to the instability of the engraving, it does not last for as long as it should. While enhancing as many abilities as a C rank, it has the duration of a D rank, that being a few minutes.
Shapeshifting(Lupine): C
The ability to shift one's form freely. At this rank, inhuman characteristics begin to be possible.
Part due to its derivation of fairytale, part because of its partial nature of shadow, and part its vampiric nature, Little Red is now capable of taking up impossibly large and light forms, shapes possessing more appendages than it should, or even granting herself multiple heads, she is capable of reaching any low tier phantasmal trait as long as it fits one restriction. She needs to remain vaguely wolflike.
Fallen Demon: D
The skill that proves one is a man made demon, improving a number of factors thanks to this status of existence, such as defence and resistance against abnormal status.
While in life Little Red was never fully a demonic entity, the experiments she went through slowly stripped her of her humanity, and her nature granted to her by that Noble Phantasm, combined with her death in this inhuman form, solidifies her as a demon, for as much of a demon one of those bloodsuckers can be defined. The technicalities of her gaining this are most of the reason for its very low rank.
Lore
Little Red Riding Hood. A tale known the world over, with numerous variations but a few consistent beats, at least in more recent years:
A Protagonist, denoted by something Red.
A Wolf, conniving and crafty, tricking the victim and endangering another
A Victim, unaware of the story going on around them, yet ever so central.
And a Hero, swooping in to save the Bystander and Victim from the maw of the Wolf.
It’s deepest roots reach into the wolves of ragnarok, with bright Little Red representing either the sun goddess Sol, or the general guiding light of the gods, which would be consumed and forever extinguished by Sköll or Fenrir, although in the latter’s case it is not as direct, as while he does not devour all the gods, he eats the leader of the gods and so shatters the status quo.
However, the addition of aspects like the Hero has changed parts of the fundamental meaning from endings, to cycles, as once consumed they would eventually be released once more. Or the Victim to a warning tale of how one’s actions can have consequences that affect others. Even the shift of the nature of some of the original aspects, such as the wolf to a werewolf introducing the meaning of the danger of the supernatural in corrupting the mundane, has further distorted the base meaning of the tale.
This story, hundreds of years old, finds its anthropomorphisation in the girl, Little Red Riding Hood, and her lupine Noble Phantasm, the wolf. The version that would be the ‘true history’ according to the servant would be that written by the Brothers Grimm, more specifically that which was published in 1857. Or at least the first half, as the servant possesses no memory of the second wolf. Really, she has little memory of anything after the death of the first wolf.
Some of her reactions may even speak to things missing from her definitive ‘true history’...Some of her reactions may even speak to things missing from her definitive ‘true history’...
…and there is.
In reality, the core that the phantoms making up the story wrap around is a young magus girl who lived from the late 18th to early 19th century. The heir of a Germanic mage family, she was chosen to succeed her great grandmother and so was instructed to study directly under her during the Crest implantation period and until she, the great grandmother, passed.
In reality, the great grandmother, disgusted by the progressive weakness displayed by the majority of her family and believing that her great granddaughter, with her great ability, was a statistical anomaly in the downward generational spiral, had decided something. She would invalidate the need for more descendants, by making herself immortal. However, such a procedure would be risky, but if one of similar constitution to her was used to produce a successful result, she could limit risk. And perhaps retain the single worthwhile descendant.
Having decided to use her great granddaughter as a testbed for her method to do so, she experimented on the young girl, temporarily transforming her into a beastly form that idealised the family’s consumption magecraft. Each time the girl visited for a lesson and implantation, she was torturously experimented on under the guise of preparing her. Then given the smallest piece of the crest possible to maintain the illusion.
Eventually, the strength of the transformation would plateau. In a bid to push her research further, to truly complete it, the great grandmother used the child as a weapon. Attacking other mage families whose knowledge could be the pieces she needed, she brought upon her the gaze of the mages association and a certain local enforcer, Wilhelm Grimm.
All the while, the girl tried to fight against her grandmother, hating what she did to her and the acts she had performed. However, the transformation suppressed her mind whilst in effect, one of the failings. Furthermore, mind controlling magecraft was used to manipulate her, although its effects grew weaker as the research progressed.
In the end, an attack was planned against the great grandmother. In the run up to this attack, the girl met Wilhelm, who, unaware of her magus nature, tried to keep the girl from the conflict, but ultimately failed.
During the confrontation, the girl was used against the enforcers. However, the strength of the transformation was beyond the magecraft made to bind her, and her rage was turned back on her tormentor. Butchering her great grandmother, the now mindless girl began indiscriminately killing all those around her.
Wilhelm was able to trick the girl into a nearby lake, using magecraft to increase her weight and insure she drowned. Whilst skinning her to prove success, she transformed back into the girl he had met.
The horror of this event would later influence the retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, or to be exact Little Red Cap, that was published in his and his brother’s books.
Developer Notes:
So, this is the first in a series of magecraft/fairy tale sheets I have in the works. This one is focused around Dead Apostles and the Ideal Blood featured in the Tsukihime remake.
Originally, this was going to focus on Little Red’s rider form, which emphasises the fairy tale links to Sol and Sköll and her living status as a magus. However, I decided against it for two reasons.
One, berserker felt closer to the exact lore I was writing up for her.
And two, I have a Shielder Sol sheet involved in a story of mine, and was having way more difficult time warping Sol’s presence here just enough to not feel copy pasted, but not so far to feel flanderized.
Regardless, I intend to eventually redo the Rider form and post that and Shielder… eventually. Got an Epic of Remnant type singularity in the works as well, and that has a few servants of its own to make. Like the next servant I’ve got, Caster J.R.R. Tolkein.
So, probably the biggest reach on this sheet, at least skills wise, is Devouring Engine. This one was essentially conceptualised as a weakened version of the Soul Eater ability that Fenrir possesses in cannon. Temporary compared to his permanent, but a lot easier to activate in exchange.
How much of this sheet was inspired, at least initially, by Ruby Rose? Definitely non zero amounts.
The plateau that the great grandmother reached was me trying to refer to the fact that in Fate worlds, Dead Apostles cap at rank VII instead of IX. While I am unsure if this just refers to strength range, and the apostles of that level can still form Ideal Bloods, or they are limited to that because Ideal Bloods are impossible to form, this sheet is written assuming the latter over the former.
Edit: Added a few images I had forgotten.
Last edited by Legendary Hero of the Chain; July 1st, 2022 at 11:51 PM.
Ah the finished version. I peersonally think this is the most creative sheet of the little red riding hood I have seen and one of the best ones out of all the fairy tale servants.
Holy shit, this if fucking metal dude, excellent shit
Much appreciated! This actually reminds me. Really well done with Gotz, you had some really good balancing and some interesting concepts throughout, especially with the NP. Gotta say the art just tops it all off. Softens the fact that I need to re-plan my version of the guy to try avoid overlap.
Originally Posted by TQG Imaginatorious
Ah the finished version. I peersonally think this is the most creative sheet of the little red riding hood I have seen and one of the best ones out of all the fairy tale servants.
Once again, thanks TQG. I did a little work clarifying stuff on Lupin Apostle, and I am happy that it's been well recieved.
Much appreciated! This actually reminds me. Really well done with Gotz, you had some really good balancing and some interesting concepts throughout, especially with the NP. Gotta say the art just tops it all off. Softens the fact that I need to re-plan my version of the guy to try avoid overlap.
Eyyy, thank you brother, deadass can't wait to see what you come up with- especially with the Fairy-Tale story basis, I'm hyped for Tolkien
I summon the Wurm of great cunning
Swiftly growing to great size, gorging on ox and man
White-scaled grasping lord of the ground
A strangling serpent, scrawny forelegs sprawled from her sides
Red stripes streaming down a serpentine length
Her size is grand, her movements graceful, yet greed is in her coils
Her scales they scrape and score the land
Caring only for the next kill, eyes cold as an iron dagger
She reaches all round and wraps about a hill
Deviously demanding her due in tribute
《 ~~ ★ ~~ ★ ~~ ★ ~~ 》
B E R S E R K E R
of Draconic Love
《- Princess Lindwurm and the Shepherdess -》
First - Third Ascencion
The Shepherdess (Left), Princess Lindwurm (Right)Final Asencion
"Hello! We are your Berserker Servant. Although, I don’t really fight much at all. I’m just a humble shepherdess after all. That’s why I have Linde with me. She’s so powerful you wouldn’t even believe."
"Do not get your hopes too high. I am only a girl donning a dragon’s scales."
"Sigh … I hope you don’t mind. Linde’s a bit of a downer sometimes. She’ll warm up to you sooner rather than later, I promise."
Class
Berserker
True Name
Princess Lindwurm and the Shepherdess
Alias
Kong Lindorm, König Lindwurm, King Lindworm
Alternate Classes
Rider, Lover, Gatekeeper
Origin
Denmark, Fairy Tale
Alignment
Neutral Good
Armaments
Draconic claws and fangs
Catalyst
A piece of the Lindwurm's seven skins
Attribute
Star
Height/Weight
156 cm / 5'1" (Lindwurm)
61 kg / 134 lbs (Lindwurm)
178 cm / 5'10" (Shepherdess)
73 kg / 161 lbs (Shepherdess)
STR
END
AGI
A
A
B
MAN
LCK
NP
D
C
A
《 ~~ ★ ~~ Class Skills ~~ ★ ~~ 》《 ~~ ★ ~~ Class Skills ~~ ★ ~~ 》
Mad Enhancement (Love) E → EX
A modified version of the Berserker class’ signature Mad Enhancement skill. It has functionally the same effects as the regular Mad Enhancement, drastically increasing the power of the Heroic Spirit in question at the cost of their sanity. Only Princess Lindwurm seems to be affected by this skill.
However, in Lindwurm's case this skill is practically non-existent while Berserker is idle. Should she get into a fight however, the rank of this skill will slowly begin to rise, supplying her with more and more power. However, the rank of this skill begins to skyrocket should the Shepherdess be put in any danger. The more danger she is in, the faster the rank of this skill rises. In theory, there is no limit to how much the power granted by this skill can grow.
"Linde likes to be protective of me sometimes. She’s very adamant that I’m always safe and in good health. I, for one, think it’s adorable how doting she is."
"...I just want to be sure that you are safe."
"Case in point."
Magic Resistance A
Normally a skill granted to Servants of the Saber and Lancer class, it allows the Servant to essentially become immune to certain types of magecraft. In the case of Berserker, she was granted this skill not only due to being a dragon, a species with naturally high magic resistance, but also because she is an artificial magical creation with incredibly strong magical circuits.
Though she is not exactly a homunculus, not having been created from actual matter but rather purely through magic, her body and mind work in very similar ways.
"Yeah, actually, could you do me a favour? Don’t mention to Linde that she was created with magic, ever. She’s a bit touchy on that subject. She lived the first part of her life as a dragon, so she already has a hard time actually seeing herself as a human. Reminding her that her birth was not a natural one doesn’t help."
《 ~~ ★ ~~ Personal Skills ~~ ★ ~~ 》《 ~~ ★ ~~ Personal Skills ~~ ★ ~~ 》
Dragon Scales C
Having been born in the form of a dragon, Lindwurm still retains many of her draconic capabilities. Although she shed her draconic form, the blood of a dragon still flows through her veins and her skin still retains some of the scaley, protective features.
This skill prevents magic, but particularly physical attacks of an equal rank show practically no effects on her, and attacks above that rank only deal damage after the C-Rank of this skill has been subtracted from the attack, if Lindwurm is hit with an attack of Rank B hit her, that attack would then only deal damage equal to an attack of Rank E.
Notably, there are ways to circumvent this defence. Magic is generally more effective against Lindwurm and due to the general power of Noble Phantasms severely outclassing regular attacks, most Noble Phantasms are able to hit her as normal.
"All these scales are quite uncomfortable. They often remind me of a time where I was a crazed beast. I often wish they were not there."
"Well… if it wasn’t for that, you and I would never have met."
"Maybe. But it would also mean that two princesses would still be alive."
"One day, you’ll see the good being done rather than just the bad."
Magical Healing D
A skill possessed by the Shepherdess, rather than Princess Lindwurm. She learnt it from the witch that explained to her what she needed to do to return the Princess back into her human form after she married the Princess. The Shepherdess’ magic is not very powerful, largely due to her possessing very weak magical circuits. Regardless, she always did her best to support her wife with her healing.
Princess Lindwurm is very protective over the Shepherdess’ attempts at magecraft, any who would dare tell her that she is bad at it, or that she should drop it because of lack of ability or talent are promptly eaten or clawed to ribbons. No one speaks ill of the Lindwurm’s wife.
"I know that I’m really not the be-"
"Nonsense."
"But, I’m really no-"
"Non. Sense. You are powerful enough to turn a dragon to a human. None of these kings of legends possess such power."
"I suppose you're right."
Mental Pollution EX
A skill denoting the Princess’ madness brought on by her draconic form. In life, she was driven mad by her mind being not truly that of a dragon and not truly that of a human, yet had to exist as one or the other. She was mentally incapable of accepting her own existence, and thus began furiously searching for one who would love her and accept her existence.
Once the Shepherdess was married to the Princess and got her to turn into her humanoid form, the Princess’ mind became more at ease, through the acceptance of another, she managed to come to terms with herself. Due to this her Mental Pollution is currently sealed. However, should she be separated from the Shepherdess, this skill will begin unsealing itself. Driving the Princess back into complete madness. In this rage she will furiously begin looking for the Shepherdess, destroying anything that she believes to be in her way. The only being capable of re-sealing this skill is the Shepherdess herself.
"For being such a big, strong dragon, Linde can be a bit clingy at times."
"I'm not clingy"
"...Linde… you get upset and pout when I don’t pay attention to you for a while. Then you always act all hurt and look at me with the worst puppy-dog eyes."
"I- Bu- s, so what if i’m a little clingy?"
The Shepherdess had to spend the next ten or fifteen minutes reassuring the Princess that she doesn't mind and loves her regardless.
Monstrous Strength B
A skill granting a Servant the strength of a monster or devil and another remnant of the Princess’ once draconic form that grants her incredible strength. Though she is not capable of utilising its full potential without the use of her Noble Phantasm, at which point the strength granted by this skill skyrockets. In addition to the increases granted by her Mad Enhancement she becomes basically unstoppable and without equal in terms of sheer physical strength.
"Linde’s really strong, even though she’s kind of short. She’s like an ant, she can carry things many times her own size."
"I am... an ant?"
"Yeah, you’re like… an ant-dragon."
"I... I'm not an ant...+"
"Wittle baby ant-y dwagon."
A powerful Noble Phantasm that allows the Princess Lindwurm to regain her draconic form. She becomes an enormous silvery-white serpentine dragon. Her Monstrous Strength and Draconic Scales skill are also greatly impowered, turning her into an almost unkillable monster of unparalleled physical strength. Beyond that she regains the ability to fly in this form and is capable of spewing concentrated mana from her mouth, allowing her to breathe fire. Her voice, and specifically her roar become panic inducing, causing most who are not used to the sight of dragons to fall into manic fear. Only high levels of mental pollution or magic resistance can prevent this effect from taking hold.
There is virtually no way of piercing her hard, scaly armour by blade or spell, unless they are specifically made to fight and slay dragons.
However, technically this Noble Phantasm does not belong to the Princess, but rather the Shepherdess specifically, as she is the one who caused the transformation while they were alive. As such, the Princess is unable to perform this transformation without the presence of the Shepherdess, nor would she be able to reverse the transformation.
Should the Shepherdess die, the Noble Phantasm will activate on its own, permanently trapping the Princess in her draconic form without a way to return to her humanoid one. Due to the high mana consumption of this Noble Phantasm, this would essentially spell a sure defeat for the Princess and possibly mean death for her Master, who could be drained entirely should they not sever the contract in time.
Essentially, while the Lindwurm herself, in both draconic and humanoid form, is incredibly powerful and, specifically as a dragon, essentially invincible, the Shepherdess is not and she happens to be the Lindwurms greatest weakness.
"It’s unsettling sometimes, to see the transformation. From a quiet, loving young woman to a fierce beast. I would lie if I said that it didn’t scare me at first too. But, I know that she won’t ever hurt me. I trust her. Sometimes, it may be a bit difficult to recognise her, under all those scales, claws and teeth. But, I know that that gentle soul is in there. Now I know there's no reason for me to be scared."
Bond 5
Madness of the serpent, take over my mind
Lindormens tøj
Dresses of the Lindwurm
Anti-Unti (Self) | Rank EX
Entering this state partially unlocks the Lindwurm’s Mental Pollution and heightens both the madness and strength granted by Mad Enhancement. Though this protects her from mental interference as well, it also makes it practically impossible to communicate with her, outside of the use of a command seal. The only one able to pierce through the madness without any magical aid is the Shepherdess.
The Princess greatly resents this Noble Phantasm. She hates that it robs her of her mind and reason, leaving her only barely more than a wild animal. But beyond that she is much more afraid that she would hurt her wife in her madness than anything else. She is happy, however, that her wife is in full control when and if the transformation occurs.
"I do not know if you were ever completely out of control. But, let me assure you, there is no more scary a feeling than the powerlessness of madness. It is particularly bad because I can remember the lucidity that there was before."
A royal couple had been married for a long time, but had no children despite many attempts. One day the Queen lamented her suffering to an old woman she had met in the garden. She advised her to put a bowl in the garden after sunset and take it away again the next morning. Where the bowl had been, two roses would grow, one white and one red. If the Queen ate one of the roses, she would become pregnant and have a child, with the red a girl and with the white rose a boy. After that, the old woman warned the Queen never to eat both roses.
The Queen took the old lady’s advice and placed a bowl in the garden in the evening. As announced, the next morning two roses grew where the bowl was. The Queen took the red one and ate it. But the queen found the rose tasted so good that she, forgetting the warning of the old woman, ate the other rose as well. And in fact, she got pregnant a short time later. The King had just gone to war when she gave birth to her child. The horror was great, for the first child was neither a boy nor a girl, but a terrible Lindworm, though the second was a healthy young prince.
It grew up frighteningly fast, and when the King returned home from the war, it forced him to recognize it as his child, threatening to destroy the whole kingdom. Then the Queen confessed to him all that had happened between her and the old witch.
When the Lindworm was so large that it filled an entire chamber, it summoned his parents and announced that it was now old enough to marry. As a result, the parents made it known throughout the country that their child was looking for a wife. But not a young woman in the whole country wanted to marry a Lindworm. But the Lindworm again threatened to destroy the kingdom if he didn’t get a wife. So in distress the Queen turned to the poor. But even the peasant girls and beggars didn’t want Lindworm as their husbands. Then the queen came to a shepherd who had a beautiful daughter. She also refused to marry the Lindworm. In despair, the queen told the shepherd’s daughter of her son’s threat. She felt sorry and asked for three days to think about it. She went into the woods and pondered back and forth for a long time.
Then she met an old woman. She advised her to take the Lindworm as her partner. If they were then in the chamber together and the Lindworm asked her to undress, she should reply that it too should take off its skin. She should repeat the whole thing seven times. When the Lindworm had shed all its skins, and lay weak and half dead, she should wash it in brine, bathe it in sweet milk, and cover it with her seven shirts. Then everything would end well.
The shepherd’s daughter took this advice to heart and then actually married the Lindworm and before she entered its chamber, asked the maids to dress her in seven layers of clothes and bring her brine and sweet milk. When they were alone in the room after the wedding, the Lindworm asked the shepherd’s daughter to take off her shirt. But she answered him, “First take off your skin.” angry and growling, the Lingworm did as it was asked. When it found the Shepherdess was still dressed, it repeated its command, to which the Shepherdess once again answered that the Lindworm take off its skin first.
And although the Lindworm grew furious every time, spit fire and brimstone and raged, and the castle shook, the shepherd’s daughter remained steadfast and forced him to take off all seven skins. When the dragon lay half-dead before her, she washed it in brine, bathed it in sweet milk, and put on it her seven shirts. When that happened, she fainted.
When she awoke the next morning she was in the arms of a beautiful young woman with hair as white as snow. This was the Lindworm she had redeemed with her act.
The wedding was celebrated again in the greatest splendour and the former Lindworm became a wise and just queen after the death of her father.
Likes
"Well… let’s see here. I like animals, of course. It’s my job to look after them after all. I think the way people treat animals really reflects on what they are like, you know? I guess I also just like physical labour. Just sitting around doesn’t really suit me."
"When she began living in our castle, she insisted that she take care of our horses. Within a year she had turned part of the castle’s yard into a small farm. Sheep, chicken, horses, she had some vegetables growing there as well."
"Oh yeah! Setting up that garden was a lot of fun!"
Dislikes
"Hm… I really dislike it when I can’t choose things for myself. I get unreasonably angry over the smallest things when someone tells me what to do. I guess I just really don’t like being bossed around."
"But, weren't you forced to mar-"
"Yes, I was forced to marry you. My first reaction was to run away, actually. My father helped me pack my things so I could get away. But, while I was running I found a witch that told me how to help you, so I came back. So, in a way, I suppose I still made my own choice. I could’ve just kept running after all."
"Oh, well... I'm sorry anyway."
"Oh, don't worry too much about it Linde. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for your father’s questionable marriage arrangements."
Wish for the Grail
"My wish would be to cast away my draconic form. It has brought on more pain than it has healed. I am very dangerous, and I believe the Holy Grail would allow me to erase that danger. It would be for the better."
"Linde, you are here now, protecting the proper order of human history. If you gave up your dragon-self, not only would a part of you be forever gone but think of all the good you couldn’t do anymore."
"But without you, I am nothing more than a savage beast."
"So then we should wish for you to be able to control yourself. Not to erase the Lindwurm. You try to save as many lives as you can. Sometimes not everyone. But if the Lindwurm goes, then maybe next time nobody is saved. And, besides, who is to say that a wish like that would not erase you as well? You are as much the Lindwurm as the Lindwurm is you."
Bond 5
Likes
"What do I like? … I like my wife a lot."
"Aww… But, Linde, while sweet, I think Master meant other things than that."
"Oh. I see… I like… cooking? Eating, really. But to eat you first have to cook, so I guess I like it by association. I like it when it is quiet. Dragon ears hear very well. You would not believe how loud the world really is."
"You like quiet, but married one of the loudest, energetic people in town?"
"There are exceptions to every rule."
Dislikes
"What do I dislike? … In this form, I still have some patches of my dragon scales. Like right here, on the back of my neck. I usually cover them up as best as I can. I find them uncomfortable. And while I may have much more control over my draconic form now, it was not always that way and the scales always remind me."
"Well, if it's any consolation to you, I kinda like them."
"Are they not coarse or hard?"
"Well… they are, but not really. They feel a bit funny, really. And, I don’t know, I just kinda like them. They're unique if nothing else."
Wish for the Grail
"My wish? Easy. I would wish for Linde and me to be reincarnated, and, if it isn’t too much to ask, that I live as long as she does. Sounds a bit selfish, right? Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate that we get to preserve proper human history with you, Master. But think of all the good we could do if we were actually alive."
"I don’t think that would be such a good idea. How would the world react if there was suddenly a dragon among them?"
"Maybe you are right. Well… we wouldn’t need to do anything. Maybe we could just be selfish and live a second life together?"
"But… we dragons become ancient. You would live for hundreds, maybe thousands of years."
"Then I suppose I would just have to grow ancient together with you."
Artoria Pendragon
"I hear this king has the blood of a dragon. I think it was called something like Albion?"
"Albion? I do not think we ever met. Though, I can feel it, the spirit of a dragon within. No doubt she can feel me as well. I don’t envy her. To share the blood of dragons is not as much of a blessing as most would suspect."
Martha
"She managed to tame a dragon?"
"She and I seem to have something in common then. Though, I think her dragon friend was murdered not long after she tamed it."
"Hm... what a shame."
"I heard that it appears as part of her Noble Phantasm. Maybe we can ask her to introduce us? You could make a new dragon friend!"
Siegfried
"A dragon-slayer? I never thought a mortal could kill a dragon."
"I didn’t either. Apparently he was bathed in its blood and now his body is as hard as the scales of a dragon."
"A hell for one with a warrior’s heart. Why fight when he is invulnerable anyway?"
"You think that he’d really take it that hard?"
"I don’t think that he would, I know it. To some very small degree, I know exactly what that he must feel like."
...
"I wish to fight him."
"WHAT?!"
"It would only be a sparring match. But that aside, nothing sparks the fire in a dragon’s heart more than facing another dragon. I am sure he would appreciate the challenge."
Sakamoto Ryouma
"An unassuming hero with a draconic lover…"
"And not only is she a serpentine dragon too, she’s the quiet sort as well. Just like you! You think maybe you’re distantly related?"
"I think I would recall having a sibling besides my brother. I do wish to come to better know this Oryou. She seems agreeable."
"I’ll do my best to get along with that Sakamoto guy then, wouldn’t want to drive you away from your new potential dragon-friend now, would I?"
Author's Note
I don't know how this sheet happened. I just noticed that, as far as I could see nobody had made a sheet about the King Lindworm fairy tale yet, so I went at it.
I also really wanted to make a sheet for a more powerful character, and since dragons in the nasu-verse are no joke, I thought this would be a good excuse to do so. This also happens to be my first genderbent sheet. But, I think it makes sense. After all, the white rose in the fairy tale was supposed to make the queen give birth to a girl, yet in the original tale it's another boy, which always confused me a bit.
I originally wanted to have more CaS Servants in the relationship option but not only did filtering by "Dragon" spit back every sheet with the Riding skill, but dragons are also such a ubiquitous concept in folk and fairy tales, I'd probably never stop writing relationship entries. So, I decided to not do that.
Last edited by DesReploid; July 2nd, 2022 at 10:32 AM.
Damn, now that's a dragon. Really well done DesReploid. The little snippets of conversation for sections instead of straight up saying it is a really interesting way of doing it, and shows a lot of the characters personality. And while I had an immediate question about dragon scales, the final bit that noted that NP's basically bypassed it made it more sensible as a skill instead of an NP.
Speaking of NP, that was done really well, and the little bit of character injected there helped make it really unique.
Only thing I need to note is this:
Originally Posted by DesReploid
A king and a queen found themselves unable to have children of their own, so the queen turned toward an old witch living in the woods, who offered her a white and a red rose. She could eat one to become pregnant with a child, should she eat the red rose, she would have a boy, should she eat a white rose she would have a daughter. But under no circumstances should she eat both roses.
After much deliberation the queen decided to eat the red rose, though when she did she found the taste of the rose so enchantingly beautiful that she ate the white one without thinking. Nine months went by uneventfully and when her children were born the first turned out to be a hideous white worm-like dragon called a Lindwurm, who immediately disappeared from the chambers. The queen’s second child, however, was a healthy young boy and she paid no more mind to the escaped beast.
When the boy grew up he decided to venture out into the world to find himself a wife, but quickly he is stopped by an enormous white serpentine dragon who demands “A wife for me, before a wife for you”. When the boy explained what had happened to the king and queen, the queen explained what happened and since the Lindwurm was first born, she technically had a right to marry first.
The king called a young princess into his kingdom to marry the Lindwurm, but the night after the wedding it turned out that the Lindwurm had devoured the princess and the
A royal couple had been married for a long time, but had no children despite many attempts. One day the Queen lamented her suffering to an old woman she had met in the garden. She advised her to put a bowl in the garden after sunset and take it away again the next morning. Where the bowl had been, two roses would grow, one white and one red. If the Queen ate one of the roses, she would become pregnant and have a child, with the red a girl and with the white rose a boy. After that, the old woman warned the Queen never to eat both roses.
The lore section kinda starts on one interpretation, stops suddenly, and restarts with a completely different interpretation.
Also, while I agree with ya on making the Lindwurm female, especially for the sake of those Weiss and Ruby faceclaims, I believe the reason it was male in the fairytale was because the male flower was eaten first, and so took dominance when it and the magic of the white flower mixed to produce it.
Damn, now that's a dragon. Really well done DesReploid. The little snippets of conversation for sections instead of straight up saying it is a really interesting way of doing it, and shows a lot of the characters personality. And while I had an immediate question about dragon scales, the final bit that noted that NP's basically bypassed it made it more sensible as a skill instead of an NP.
Speaking of NP, that was done really well, and the little bit of character injected there helped make it really unique.
Only thing I need to note is this:
The lore section kinda starts on one interpretation, stops suddenly, and restarts with a completely different interpretation.
Also, while I agree with ya on making the Lindwurm female, especially for the sake of those Weiss and Ruby faceclaims, I believe the reason it was male in the fairytale was because the male flower was eaten first, and so took dominance when it and the magic of the white flower mixed to produce it.
I fixed the lore bit now. That was a first draft I accidentally left in, thank you for pointing that out.
I know that there is tellings of the story where the Lindwurm is the only child the Queen has, in which case, sure the explanation of one overpowering the other makes sense, but the one I knew for the longest time, for example, sees the queen giving birth to the Lindwurm and then another boy, which always confused child-me she had the boy from the red rose, so it would stand to reason that the Lindwurm is a girl because that should be the one form the white rose. Plus, I feel like given that this Fate, I'm required to genderbend at least one of my Servants. And also, thank you for the positive feedback, I am glad that you liked it.
Little Red Riding Hood: I'm absolutely ignorant when it comes to Tsukihime lore, so I can only praise the sheet by being amazing to us ignorants, and you can read and understand it just enough to not feel like scratching your head like "what??" It's very good! I found the idea behind it creative af I could never (and I can't wait to see more of them)
Princess Lindwurm and the Shepherdess: EXCUSE ME?? Amazing sheet, what a wiwwte baby ant-y dwagon. It was so good I didn't even noticed time passing, when I blinked I've reached the end of the sheet. Lovely FC, lovely individuals (coughs) and a lovely sheet, what else can we ask for? You're good even as you branch out of your area of expertice, that's so unfair!
i am exhausted from my summer project
it became much bigger than I thought.
I step in two realms I did not dare to enter yet.
I write this to hold myself accountable, expect something from me soon-ish.
Princess Lindwurm and the Shepherdess: DesReploid, what I have done to you for me to deserve to die by diabetes and what will you get out of it? Cause that was sweet and high quality.
"I guess those Watchers were right, after all. You all are travelers from a distant land, right? I assume you are aware of who I am, yes? Then allow me to reintroduce myself."
"I am Michael, and I have waited for so very long."
Second Ascension
“Do I look more prepared for the coming days? I was wondering if this still fits me but I’m glad it does. I’m…very glad.”
Final Ascension
“These garbs…how nostalgic. Come then! Your indomitable big sister has returned to her renewed glory! Extra features notwithstanding.”
True Name: Michael (Lostbelt)
Class: Saber
Alignment: Neutral Good
Source: Christianity
Region: Israel (Lostbelt)
Parameters:
Strength: A
Endurance: A+
Agility: B
Mana: A+
Luck: C
Class Skills:
Magic Resistance A Grants protection against magical effects. Differing from the Resistance effect that merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels the spells altogether. The skill is lowered due to sacrificial effects of Distortion but not nearly much as expected.
"Things have…changed as you can see. For the worst, very much for the worst."
Riding E
A Class Skill of Rider and Saber class Servants, denoting the ability to ride mounts and vehicles. Her capabilities in this are still unremarkable as ever.
"The nearest safe zone is within reasonable walking distance. I don't put much stake in my taming abilities to afford a better ride."
Madness Enhancement A
A skill gained the implementation of the Berserker class due to her Distortion skill. The primeval aspect of a draconic beast that threatens to burn all of humanity to cinders, such a nature has to be kept on a tight lid at all times.
"I have bigger things to worry about."
Personal Skills:
Remnant of Heaven A
A skill gifted to the heavenly beings that survived the calamitous binding of Heaven and Earth. The lingering scraps of their previous Divinity that allows them to survive within the torn patches of the world they live in. This skill exists in every individual descended from the angelic beings that have come into a forceful accord with and fused into humanity, becoming Nephilim. It mostly exists as a foundational strengthening, one invoked either consciously or instinctively.
"Every living being has this…trait that allows all of us to survive here, not only sapient beings but also those fell into bestial madness."
Aspect of the Adversary (Dragon) EX
The interchangeable aspect that fused with Saber during the binding of two worlds. The Adversary, the one meant to act as the supreme enemy of Heaven. An entity depicted as Saber's very opposite. However, events have bound Saber, who existed among the highest reaches, with that which existed in its lowest rungs. Despite this, Saber has used its interchangeable nature to force it into its most bestial state of being for the sake of keeping easier control over it.
"When Heaven was bound to the crust of the world, all of the beings in heaven were bound to something as well. Some were reasonably lucky and bound to animals or humans. Others were not."
Mana Burst (Flames) A+
A version of Mana Burst that infuses weapons with Magical Energy that imparts a flame effect. The retention of her nature as an Angel associated with fire. Though, the implementation of the other side of herself has made the flames more chaotic.
"Whatever they were fused with maddened them, they were reduced to…"
Distortion A
A Skill that forces the distortion of the class the Servant was originally called forth in. He or she would receive the other class' specialty as proof. Conversely, at least one among the set of the original Class Skills has declined. A result of both the forceful fusion of two opposing beings and the twisting of one of said beings into a monstrous state. Due to this, the Berserker class was gained, with the addition of Madness Enhancement at A rank, though her Magic Resistance has leveled down a bit.
*Distant Howling* "...Beasts! I hope you are used to occurrences like this!"
Noble Phantasm
"By peace, you fall. By blood, you fall. May you find rest in the darkness."
Curtana Sheol: Still Blade of Execution
Rank: B+
Type: Anti-Unit
The first noble phantasm of Saber. A sword used to bring Michael's nature of mercy to others. In this case, it is now used to end the distorted figures of those she had once called comrades and bade a final rest for them. It holds Anti-Divine properties to make the transition much easier for her.
Sheol was a part of the Biblical texture that was said to hold the souls of both the wicked and the good, a neutral world of still darkness that gives rest to all. With the lack of a better option, Saber named the blade after with hope it would be their destination.
"...Heh, a descent into mindless bestial savagery. To think, I narrowly avoided such a thing. Who knows, I may just become the worst beast of all."
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Ophis Angelos: The One Who Is God's Monster
Rank: A+
Type: Anti-World
Lore
In proper human, the being known as Michael would have gone down in history as one of God's archangels. She would've been an Archistrategos, a Supreme Commander of the Heavenly Forces. She would've been a true example of one of God's warriors, capable of trampling over the draconic form taken by Satan.
Things were different in the Lostbelt of Israel. She was no longer an Archistrategos, for she had no army to command over. Nor was she an archangel, her state could be said to be far from it. All she had left to herself was her title as a warrior, one that took honor in delivering mercy to the beasts that used to be her kin.
On the day that
Pillar
Tower
was complete and used against God, He had gone silent. The world had collapsed into itself, the land and air bending, ripping, and tearing into itself as two patches became one. And Michael was left at the forefront of the calamity, watching as all she knew was imploding into itself, as her army was reduced and fused into the earth and graves that littered the land around her. Michael watched as her Father's Land Broke, before a shadow enveloped her form and another two had become one as well. She awoke with whispers in her mind, and when she saw a sight, she would never forget, those whispers became roars, as she fought and put down the monstrosities her fellows had become.
She located and gathered those who had survived with their mind intact. She watched as they built up a civilization in the only place they could without consequence, around that damnable
Pillar
Tower
. Then she left to brave the wilds, unable to stay near the cause of all the trouble as well as for other reasons.
Personality
The Michael of Babilla Eve is much more caustic and withdrawn than the one of PHH. The experience of witnessing the world collapsing on itself, the sight of her army forcefully merging into the land, and God going silent had driven her to become more dour. The fact that she is merged with the Adversary does not help in the slightest.
She is desperately looking for a purpose in her new life, and found one in putting down the countless maddened Nephilim and beasts that plague it. However, such a purpose is detrimental in the long run for her state of mind. She has nothing to herself nor anything to truly strive for…at least, until she hears word of the coming of distant stargazers.
Author's Note: I don't know. This feels a bit...cluttered. There's a lot of unsaid things and implications. Also I am just not good at character lore, which I normally skip it in my sheets. I'm also not good at presentation since the best one I had was Maria I with the collapse.
Lostbelt Michael: Going to be honest, when you said you were going to join an archangel to the Adversary, I was certain it'd be the one who is commonly portrayed as wooping his ass in the first place, so nice to be vindicated.
On the sheet though, you are right to say somethings were left as implications, but that actually works for the idea. Least I think so. Lostbelts being alternate worlds, slowly seeding ideas and showing the new truths of the world are things I always find enjoyable, so the parts left unsaid feel very much like things that would be explored in the story. Maybe not the best, but a damn good reason to hook someone into the world. They want to know everything about the new waifu afterall!
And despite you putting yourself down on the character lore, I still think you did a really good job on it. Short it might be, but it covers the necessities, so everything feels addressed, although maybe not in enough depth. But everyone has their own style, and I know my textbook lores can be a hell to get through. Says something that the ones I post on here are usually shortened severely.
Finally, nice touch with how the sword got its name. Shows that a little bit of the old/PMM Michael is still in her somewhere. Overall, a really nice character for your lostbelt.
Originally Posted by DelRey
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