Berserker (Fate/Grand Order - Raikou)

Berserker (バーサーカー) is a Berserker-class Servant able to be summoned by the Protagonist in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.

Identity
Berserker's True Name is Minamoto no Raikou a person from the 10th~11th Century. Born as the eldest son of the family, he is the founder of Settsu Genji-line and a person who contributed for the advancement of the  as a whole. Also, the strongest mystery-slayer of the who destroyed many apparitions such as "Shuten-douji of Mt. Ooe", the "Oogumo from the imperial capital" and "Asakura Temple's Gyuuki".

She slayed many monsters including Shuten-douji, and her own younger brother turned oni, Ushi Gozen, also called.

Naturally, a male in historical fact. As for the reason why she is a woman, it seems to be related to the secret of her birth. Leading her subordinates, the Yorimitsu's Four Heavenly Kings (頼光四天王), Watanabe no Tsuna, Sakata Kintoki, Urabe no Suetake and Usui Sadamitsu, she continued to protect the peace of the imperial capital.

Unbeknownst to most, she is born Ushi Gozen, a descendant of the Gozu Tennou (牛頭天王), and was thus abandoned and imprisoned by her father. However, realizing she is an indisputable genius, her father reinvited her back to the family under the guise of a new born son. The defeat of Ushi-oni was actually an act to separate and seal away her Oni part.

Appearance
While a cool-headed warrior, she is a beautiful woman who possesses overflowing tolerance. Truly, a personification of maternal love. An elegant, virtuous and glamorous woman in her blooming age.

She is a tall Woman with a curvy figure. Her breasts are noticeably large. Also, she has very long hair. She uses a kind of latex body Suit under some warrior clothes and armour.

Personality
"So... what is the problem with being a mother...?"

- Minamoto no Raikou An elegant, virtuous and glamorous woman in the prime of her youth. While a cool-headed military woman, Raikou is also a beautiful woman overflowing with tolerance. Surely the personification of maternal love.

Raikou is a diligent career soldier, but she becomes a doting crybaby prone to worrying when concerning matters related to Kintoki. As a matter of fact, she is passive and introverted. Although she is seen as a person with a good sense to make peace pleasant for everyone, because her true nature (a nature mixed with Divinity) is inhuman, she grasps everything in an overlooking manner, as well as in a big-picture perspective. On the other hand, her affection towards those she came to like is strong, becoming the embodiment of maternal love that “makes the world her enemy if it is for the sake of her child.” For her, a “lover” is equal to “her own child”. The person herself does not really notice how out of sync that way of perceiving things is.

During moments where she looks after Kintoki, Raikou would not say that she had said “''Kintoki. I will discipline you not as your older sister, but as your mother''”, among other things. Thereafter, her first pronoun towards Kintoki became “Mother”.

Raikou, since birth, has continually suffered for she had thought of herself as something “close to a demon”, even if she has the blood of a god. Below her devotions, such as responding to the expectations of her father, and defending the Imperial Capital, she is constantly bearing a viewpoint that “I am not a human being.” She cannot live as a human being, and she also cannot live as a demonic being.

For that sort of Raikou, the encounter with Sakata no Kintoki, who had been backing her up as one of her guardians, and who possesses a similar mixed-race origin much like herself, albeit weaker than her own’s, grew to be a little salvation for her. Raikou swore that “although I cannot become familiar with you as an older sister, I will discipline you as a mother”, and that was also her purpose in not letting Kintoki be exposed to the experience of the same solitude she had suffered. To her father, she was thrown away as unnecessary, and for Raikou, she did not experience maternal love, but the days of disciplining Kintoki as a substitute parent were her only “human days”.

Such days were also the bygone days, and one day, Kintoki became an adult. A new demon appeared in the Imperial Capital. That was Shuten-douji. Boasting “freedom as a demonic being” and doing as she likes, Shuten-douji enjoyed herself in the world of humans, and that very state was “what I wanted to be.” Disdain. Envy. Jealousy. Yearning. For Raikou, Shuten-douji was a “close stranger” that mixed up her feelings just like that. As for Raikou herself, she did not assail Shuten-douji aggressively compared to the other criminals. Because up to a time, she ascertained that Shuten-douji was an acquaintance of Kintoki from his childhood days.

Due to her Mad Enhancement Skill, her reason is not lost, and her state of being remains as her original intellectual self. However, with the impurity of her Oni blood, that mentality became morally broken because of the manifestation of her maternal love that is so far as abnormal. (She would eliminate any and everyone for the sake of her beloved ones, and she would protect them fanatically.) While talking of proper love, she does not hold a sight of social morals if it is for the sake of love, approving all kinds of deeds… that is to say, she is mentally ill. She draws a line from other Berserkers by not letting the others truly perceive that broken side of her’s. Fundamentally, persuading her, or making her correct her ways, are impossible.

As far as Raikou is concerned, the Master who became her contractor is an earnest salvation that had appeared in the darkness. Continuing from Kintoki, she sees the Master as a person she was fated to meet, who accepted and contracted with her as a demonic being. Speaking of that doting, it is as fierce as it can be. However, given that she has a strong desire to monopolize him or her, she will press a question with a sick look as if she had suffered from one being unfaithful to her, and she will cry immediately if she sees the Master averting his or her gaze. Speaking of her maternal love, it gives off an impression of thoughtfulness, but her maternal love goes way too far, becoming “a conversion of the child into her own possession, and snatching away all of his or her freedom and future.” Although Raikou’s affections are at the stage of insanity, Raikou’s own high intelligence and strong sense of reason does not make this aspect be noticed as such (even to the people in the vicinity, as well as to Raikou herself).

Relationships
Sakata Kintoki

"Kintoki, ahh Kintoki… Hehe, you still have a grain of rice on your cheek. Forever a child."

Shuten-douji

"You’re being, an insect————"

Ibaraki-douji

"An insect."

Hassan of Serenity

"Why have I not acknowledged insects? Then should I consider you as just the right proxy insect repellant?"

Ushi-Gozen

"… Excuse me, what kind of tale does this seem to be?"

Tamamo-no-Mae / Abe no Seimei / Ashiya Douman

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Onigashima: The Demonic Fairy Tale
Upon arriving at the summit of Onigashima, Ritsuka Fujimaru, Mash Kyrielight, Benkei, Ushiwakamaru, Sakata Kintoki and Fuuma Kotarou encounters Raikou. Sakata Kintoki realize that Raikou is actually Ushi-gozen of Suzugamori.

Salomon: The Grand Time Temple
She is one of the "special event" Servants to assist Chaldea against the Demon Gods Pillars.

Shimosa Province: The Stage of Rivers of Blood and Mountains of Corpses
Minamoto no Raikou appears as Rider of the Hell of Black Threads (ライダー・黒縄地獄) after being taken over by Caster Limbo.

Interlude
In her first interlude The True Form of Ushi-gozen: A Different Account (丑御前の御本地、異説), the protagonist, Mash and Kintoki discuss Raikou.

Abilities
She wields a katana called Doujigiri Yasutsuna (童子切安綱), Raikou used it to cut off the head of Shuten-douji.

Her Noble Phantasm is Ox-King Storm Call - The Inescapable Net of Heaven.

Swimsuit
Raikou heard of the extreme disruption of public morals on the southern island during the previous Summer. To ensure that this year's event do not turn out the same way, she offered her prayers to the Gozu-Tennou and forcefully changed her class. Though it is not the same as when she is in her rightful Saber class, the Lancer-class Servant Raikou has achieved a transformation where her Motherly power has been strengthened into a moderate, city-guarding disposition.

"When Raikou-san becomes her rightful profession as a Saber, she becomes super serious. A super Public Morals Committee President."

"If it's Lancer... hmm well, something like a Public Morals Committee President's Shadow. In short―――"

In short a sukeban (delinquent schoolgirl). Her Motherly power becoming temperate, Raikou, as the brilliant warrior protecting the city, cuts through the Summer!

Surprisingly this time, it appears that she does not possess the Mental Pollution Skill (self-reported).

In order to manage the public morals, Raikou has transformed into the Public Morals Committee President's Shadow. Her catchphrase is "Forbidden, forbidden, absolutely prohibited!" She has no interest in the outcome of the race opened by Ishtar, and is thinking of using the Summer Event as an opportunity to monitor its seemingly delinquent participants.

Upon ascending to the third stage of her Saint Graph, the tension in her rises and she discards the sailor uniform. As a result, she becomes the number one cause of a disruption in public morals, but... the person herself has absolutely no awareness. Or does she...?

Towards the Master, she proclaims that "Even though it is Summer, you are not to drown yourself in liberal thoughts, am I clear?", though this is really just her acting out a Public Morals Committee President move.

"But um President, it's, it's showing... The um... the slit in that skirt is rather revealing... Most importantly, under that sailor uniform, there's quite the swimsuit..."

"? Is something the matter, Master?"

"So she really is unaware!?"

Creation and Conception
Raita Honjou is the character illustrator for Minamoto no Raikou. Hikaru Sakurai and Kinoko Nasu are the scenario writers for her character.

Comment from Illustrator
"For Miss Raikou, I stuffed in plenty of components into her lovely self, such as making her style similar to a model that turned un-Japanese in appearance, making her outfit look erotic despite showing little skin exposure, making her have a maternal love that does not want any reward, making her show a small amount of signs of jealousy, etc. Although she has swung towards the maternal love aspect quite considerably since implementation, if you really have something for huge breasts, you will also love the motion of her breasts shaking in every single way. She is the Ace of Chaldea currently. Still, her massive Noble Phantasm is fun."