CLASS: CASTER
TRUE NAME: GIACOMO RAPPACCINI
ALIGNMENT: CHAOTIC EVIL
ATTRIBUTE: EARTH
ARMAMENT: TOXINS
TITLES: PROFESSOR RAPPACCINI, DELUSIONAL POISONED PERSON
REGION: ITALY
SOURCE: FICTIONAL - RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER
MANIFESTATION COST: MEDIUM
COMPATIBLE MASTER: ATRUM GALLIASTA
NATURAL ENEMY: HASSAN OF SERENITY
GENDER: MALE
HEIGHT: 180CM
WEIGHT: 85KG
SETTING DESIGN: REAPER OF REMNANT
CHARACTER DESIGN: HOSHINO KATSURA
CV: YUTAKA AOYOMA
MAIN WORKS APPEARANCE: FATE/STAY NIGHT
Nature
An elderly gentleman that dons a sophisticated robe of white over his voluminous figure, Caster presents himself as benevolent to his opponents but is ruthless beyond reproach. There lies an elegant topper perched upon his head which almost covers the shock of silver-hair cascading below his shoulders - whilst his crazed eyes remain concealed beneath opaque glasses fixed themselves above an ominous grin.
Motives & Attitude
Caster is passionate about science and desires to perform experiments on either humans or animals without qualm - excluding when he is interrupted. He shows loyalty to those he considers intellectual peers yet remains constantly scheming behind the scenes under most circumstances. If there were prospects of victory achievable through eliminating even his own Master he might reasonably entertain the notion also. The wish he seeks is that which previously drove him to such extremes - the discovery of an elixir which cures every physical ailment.
Legend
A natural genius born into a prestigious line of herbalist magi, Giacomo Rappaccini held little interest in improving his family’s noble works. He was instead content to squander his riches onto an education of science until he was finally excommunicated by his dishonoured relatives for his heretical actions - which led him to travel the globe in search of rare poisons for which he became renowned.
This decision would soon become his downfall however, since his obsession with poisons spiralled into sheer madness over time. Even the artificial human he had created through thaumaturgy but raised as his own daughter became cursed with a poisonous body due to the cruel experiments he undertook and she committed suicide alongside her lover after later unwittingly cursing the man to suffer the same condition with her hands.
Without either his youth nor the time to reproduce another homunculus, Rappaccini therefore realized he could not continue his work as a scientist so chose to quietly die rather than return to the magi society that had once disowned him. He was later ironically forgotten within the mundane society that had once respected his genius and even the writer whose work he inspired thought him as fictional.
Personage
FIRST PRONOUN: 我 (ware)
SECOND PRONOUN: あんた ちゃん (anta-chan) / 貴様 (kisama)
THIRD PRONOUN: 其奴 (soyatsu) / 諸君 (shokun)
Interaction Examples
[Summoned]: I give regards to you upon summoning myself as your Servant, my dear Master-chan. However, I must ask - is there is any laboratory around here perchance? My research cannot wait for idle hands you see. It must be resumed post-haste.
[Gilles de Rais]: I realize your evocation of demons is unparalleled but even I shall admit your research methods are questionable in places. I mean - isn’t it wasteful to display your experiments to the public like that rather than sacrificing them straight away? The work of a scientist is never finished after all.
[Hassan of Serenity]: You are the famed Assassin - that one whom resembles my dear Beatrice? Perhaps if she were also here it would be possible that you’d understand each other quite well. Alas, I have doubted myself on whether it is possible that she could make it. Therefore, I
MUST request an experiment be performed on your body immediately.
Parameters
STR: E, CON: E, AGI: D
MAG: B, LUK: C, PHA: C
Class Skills
Territory Creation B: The aptitude for creating or converting an advantageous territory to oneself as a magus.
Although specialized in a different school of thaumaturgy, Caster may produce a heavily-defended
[Workshop] in which to greatly accelerate his mysteries.
Item Construction B: An ability to produce tools tinged with magical energy.
As a prestigious scientist, Caster is able to manufacture high-quality medicines, hallucinogenic drugs and deadly poisons using natural materials gathered from foliage. He can also develop basic homunculi if given enough time.
Personal Skills
Herbology B: The seventh faculty of magecraft focused around the usage of flora.
Caster was once famed for his advanced knowledge of floral-life - both mundane or magical. He is notably skilled at combining his scientific and thaumaturgical dabblings together to reproduce numerous toxic species lost to time through genetic modification or crossbreeding. It is even possible to decrease their growth-cycles, increase their production-quality or perhaps enhance their harmful characteristics with this skill.
Mental Pollution C: A deranged mentality protected against mental interference at the cost of losing communicational understandings with others. Caster had no qualms in sacrificing his own daughter’s livelihood to ensure his research succeeded. In Servant form, he possesses no value for human-life either - using unwilling sacrifices to forcefully improve his cruel experiments while giving little regard to anything else.
Noble Phantasm
Rappaccini’s Last Laugh - Delusional Poisoned Person: C
[Type: Anti-Unit] [Range: 1] [Maximum No. of Targets: 1]
Rappaccini’s Last Laugh. A metallic flacon that was found within the records of Caster’s botanical workshop and of which contains a colourless liquid that gives off no smell or taste discernible to the human senses. This is but a nectar that had been extracted from the genetic code of Caster’s child in life - crystallized into reality as a Noble Phantasm.
Caster may apply immunity against certain toxins to those who drink this liquid through submerging toxic materials within the substance and then mixing them together. If successful in his endeavours, the consumer can then no longer be harmed with the effects of that specific poison and cannot die no matter how much they intake for about twenty-four hours. However, the true power of the flask is within this very same element - those who consume without the required level of poison resistance rapidly develop disadvantageous traits such as acidic blood or deadly skin the more they continue to feast from it without question. These traits may then be passed onto close allies as well over time - even through skin contact alone - where the eventual result should resemble a permanent reproduction of a certain Hassan’s body.