w a t c h e r
HUBBLE
witnessing the birth of a star
ALTERNATE CLASSES
Foreigner, MoonCancer
ALIGNMENT
True Neutral
ATTRIBUTE
Star
IMAGE SONG
Birth of a Star
NATURAL ALLY
Rider of Heaven, Stella Maris
NATURAL ENEMY
Horned God, Marisbury Animusphere
STR —
END —
AGI —
MAG —
LUK —
NP EX
« Class Skills »Class Skills
Territory Infringement C
A class Skill of the Watcher class, granting the ability to bypass designated boundaries and barriers of all kinds. The privilege of the watcher to peer into others' secrets, as long as they don't interfere and remain true to their class' duty of staying passive themselves - though they remain able to send others as actors to act in their stead.
Truth be said, as Watcher doesn't quite materialize in an Ether spiritual body like other Servants do, this ability is of little help to it directly, and doesn't allow it to break through the one barrier it needs to overcome, the particle horizon beyond which lies the truth it will never see. That being said, it isn't useless to Watcher altogether. Though its body doesn't need to enter any Territory, it is able to use this ability to supplement its observational abilities, allowing its vision to reach through most magical boundaries and regular obstacles like walls and buildings.
KEYWORD
Observable Universe
The observable universe is the region of the universe that can be observed from Earth. It is a nearly spherical region with an estimated radius of 46.5 billion light-years, limited by the particle horizon, the maximum distance a photon could have travelled to the observer in the age of the universe, that is to say, the boundary between the observable and unobservable regions of the universe. |
Watcher D
A class Skill of the Watcher class, representing "the class' special contract status towards the Master". Across the class, it takes a unique form between each Servant, from the Shadows favored by ○○○·○○○○ and the screen projections of the Big Brother to the physical powerless form of some others. A characteristic that comes to show just how irregular the Watcher class is, and underlines their role as observers rather than direct actors.
Hubble is only a space telescope, a device whose purpose is to collect and relay data down to Earth where it is alter computed and studied. Unlike living conscious beings, it doesn't possess a proper will of its own, only following a set list of instructions. Although being summoned in a Holy Grail War does expand its functionalities to some degree thanks to the Mysteries bestowed over the Heroic Spirits summoned by the ritual, a free conscience isn't among these. Due to this, Watcher doesn't converse with its Master through words, nor does it manifest Shadows to relay instructions. Instead, it sends the data it collected directly to its Master's brain, overlaying the visual information as an extra channel over their vision. Functionally, it could be said to act as a form of Clairvoyance as a Master Skill.
KEYWORD
Watcher
An irregular extra Servant class that manifests as observers, differing from the other classes by its characteristic of Watchers being 「passive existences」 only interacting with the World through their Masters. Due to this characteristic, some entities qualify despite being far removed from the grasp of the Human Order they merely observed, and some prove themselves able to face reduced influence from mankind's perspective as they stay outside of its perspective. |
« Personal Skills »Personal Skills
Universal Bird's-Eye B++
A Skill that grants the capacity to understand everything within a limited territory in which it is summoned, limited to sight, hearing, and magical energy detection. It grants the ability to understand everything in a limited territory in which it is summoned from its summons. It cannot see into the past, so everything that preceded his summoning is unknown to it.
In Watcher's case, this Skill is merged with the Clairvoyance (Space) it possessed by virtue of being a space telescope, as one of the greatest observers of the modern day able from Earth's orbit to watch celestial bodies up to the very edge of the observable universe. Though it is impossible for Watcher to detect sound due to its lack of hearing devices and its position outside of the atmosphere, it is unparalleled when it comes to gathering visual information, being able to observe virtually anything on the side of the globe around the location of the Holy Grail War, as well as any spatial phenomenon as long as it leaves a visual trace.
KEYWORD
Space Telescope
A space telescope is a telescope placed in outer space to observe astronomical objects without suffering from atmospheric interferences. In other words, a space telescope is 「an eye of Alaya set outside of Gaia's range」. |
Existence Outside the Domain D
A class Skill of Foreigners, denoting a being descended from outer space. A Skill that Watcher possesses despite not being an emissary of Outer Gods - at least, not in this incarnation - due to its particular summoning. Unlike regular Servants summoned in spiritual bodies made of ether, Watcher is manifested as an echo of its true body, a formless spirit observing the Holy Grail War from above. Though the spirit's position is hardly defined clearly, it will always be above anybody else unless the one trying to surpass it is able to reach outside of Gaia's grasp and reach beyond the boundary of outer space. While Foreigners are able to wield part of their Outer God's Authority as emissaries from outer space on Earth, Watcher is instead able to ignore Gaia's Authority - and by extension that of its sense of touch - as an emissary from Earth in outer space.
KEYWORD
Outer Space
Outer space is the region of space lying outside of celestial bodies and their atmospheres. In the World of Magecraft, it is known as the space beyond the boundary of Earth, the realm where mankind has started to encroach and will establish itself once it reaches the Age of Will. |
Guidance of the Stars EX
Guidance of the Stars is a Skill offering a variety of blessings including a form of guidance akin to Revelation, showing them the path to take. Summoned in the Watcher class, it bestows its gifts only to its Master, and their allies if a contract or a link has been formed between them and either the Master or Watcher itself.
Hubble is but a watcher of the stars, neither one who rules them nor possesses any form of Authority over them, thus it cannot bestow any kind of divine protection. Its discoveries resulted in major breakthroughs in astrophysics, but haven't given a revolution to mankind just yet by lighting up its Age of Will path to the stars
But those stars, nobody knows them better than it. Its guidance may not allow anyone to achieve the impossible yet, but it shows the path opened by the stars, a glimmer of hope among the troubled waters of life.
KEYWORD
Age of Will
The next age of human history. If the Age of Man is defined as 「the age when humans are the Prime Species on Earth」, the Age of Will is 「the age when mankind breaks free of their bodies of flesh and blood to live among the stars」. However, it is only one possible future era where mankind outlives Earth, the optimal one where humans neither give up their Seat of Primacy nor live on Gaia's corpse. |
« Noble Phantasm »Noble Phantasm
shine with hope, little new star of this world
Hubble
Anti-Star
Rank EX
Watcher's Noble Phantasm, the sublimation of its existence. Something it only possesses when manifested in this irregular class, it is the only direct interference it is allowed to use without breaking its role as an observer, the only alteration it can bring to the World aside from passing information.
By the definition of its nature, Hubble is 「one who observes the movement of the stars」.
By the definition of its class, Watcher is 「one who observes the path of its Master」.
At its core, the Hubble Space Telescope is a tool meant to allow mankind to understand the universe.
A tool meant to progress its science, to further its reach on the world.
A step on its Age of Will path to the stars
Hubble will bear witness to its Master's deeds.
Watcher will observe the course of a star.
The first step towards the realization of mankind's destiny.
Under its observation, Watcher witnesses its Master achieving the dream of Icarus.
Under its watch, Hubble observes the birth of a new star.
« Notes »Notes
I fulfilled my oath. Kinda.
As I was cooking, I thought about how I could make it a functional Watcher without just giving it Shadows (since afaik those are kinda supposed to be F/SF Watcher's thing rather than the norm for the Class, with each Watcher having their own way of communication), and I ended up with a Servant that communicates directly the data it gathers, pretty much no personality, so ... sorry gears, Watcher might not be the good friend for clock babby that I promised.
However. You might have noticed that his Foreigner self is not the only one listed in his Alternate Classes list. While I do not promise to make him my very next not-contest sheet like I promised for Watcher, I will make MoonCancer Hubble (under the "Threat to the Mystics of the Stars" categorization) as a more proactive Servant that will hopefully be the not-Foreigner star-gazing machine friend to AM that I promised.
Big thanks to pinetree for the assistance on the Age of Will lore.
I kinda looked through the many Watchers of the forum to get some inspiration, and I noticed two interesting things : there's apparently a semi-general consensus that Shadows are in fact not exclusive to ○○○·○○○○ (F/SF's Watcher), and Universal Bird's Eye is very unpopular, since apparently most Watchers either don't have it, or have an upgraded/composite version instead.
If the Noble Phantasm was unclear, I basically used the logic of "Watcher observes its Master and Hubble observes stars, therefore Watcher's Master conceptually becomes a star".
Whoever does the QoL post, please list him as "Hubble Space Telescope", not just "Hubble", I just put it that way at the top of the sheet because it didn't look at good with the long name.
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Originally Posted by asterism42
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