Berserker of Red

Berserker of "Red" ("赤"のバーサーカー) is the Berserker-class Servant on the Red Side in the Holy Grail War of Fate/Apocrypha.

Identity
Berserker's identity is Spartacus, the Gladiator (剣闘士 スパルタクス). A gladiator captured by Romans, he was affiliated with a gladiator training camp in the Campania region. But in 73 B.C., he deserted along with 78 companions. The Romans dispatched a troupe of 3,000 men to pursue them, but Spartacus ambushed them. This victory encouraged servants all around to revolt, and the rebel army grew to 7,000 men. Heading North, the rebel army kept defeating the Roman army, but failed to cross the Alps, and headed to the island of Sicily instead, hiring pirates; but the pirates betrayed them, and they were attacked by the Romans. Spartacus died in that battle. It is believed his body was scarred beyond recognition.

Personality
He never questions his faith that it is a strength of humanity to endure anything. He only ever acts according to one single thought. To revolt against the oppressor, and to protect the oppressed. Following the most virtuous option, he will choose the path of suffering. He will not strike an enemy in numerical inferiority, and he will only fight back an enemy stronger than him. He strikes back after stopping the enemy's attack, and turns the table back to grasp victory only at the last minute. It is very frightening when a scar-riddled face remains composed and smiling regardless of whether you strike him or he strikes you.

Development
He was designed by Gen Urobuchi and illustrated by Katsuya Terada for the original canceled online game project.

Fate/Apocrypha
Caster of Red intentionally revealed the location of the Black faction headquarters to Berserker, and he begins marching towards Trifas with Archer of Red going after him. Shirou Kotomine, knowing that Berserker couldn't be stopped, even with a Command Spell, decided to order Archer of Red to follow and support him, so long as the situation did not get too disadvantageous.

At some point in the story, Berserker attacks the Black faction headquarters. The ensuing chaos draws a confrontation between himself and Lancer of Black. His might pushes Lancer to use his Noble Phantasm, Kazikli Bey, to impale him. However, due to his own Noble Phantasm, Crying Warmonger, Berserker is seen grinning viciously while impaled on 4 spears.

The battle ends seemingly with Berserker's defeat, but rather than being killed, he is imprisoned in the Black Faction's stronghold. Rider of Black is soon interred in the same chamber as Berserker, as punishment for causing the death of Saber of Black.

Skills
Mad Enhancement (狂化): EX

Rank-Up parameters, but robs most of reason. Even while under Mad Enhancement, Spartacus can normally speak things such as "Those who are bound are strong! For until the time when they are set free, anger and sadness will continue to be accumulated." However, because he is fixated with thoughts of "always making the most difficult choices", he never listens to what people have to say. In practice, it is impossible to come to a mutual understanding of intentions with him. Spartacus is indeed an uncontrollable Berserker.

The Honor of the Battered (被虐の誉れ): N/A

In the instance that Spartacus' injuries are repaired by means of magecraft, the required prana cost is quartered. In truth, the pain inflicted heightens his combat focus, allowing him to tap into his full potential; by corollary, if he is not injured, he cannot fight at full strength. The notion that "one must first conquer the pain inflicted by the enemy to attain absolute victory" is a fundamental premise of Spartacus' tactics.

Noble Phantasm
Crying Warmonger: The Howl of the Wounded Beast

A permanently active-type of Noble Phantasm. It is possible to convert part of the damage inflicted by the enemy into prana and accumulate it in the body. The efficiency of this conversion into prana raises the more Spartacus physical strength decreases. The prana that was accumulated in the body like this can be used to boost Spartacus' abilities. If he is damaged to the point of being on the verge of death, possibly an enormous amount of prana enough to destroy everything before Spartacus' eyes will be saved up.

Since he unified the rebel army that was just a simple gathering and attained successive victories over the powerful Roman Army, it is thought that his popularity and abilities as a war commander were excellent. But before all that, the main reason why he collected popularity was due being a hero that "always won by reversal", symbolized by this Noble Phantasm. For the soldiers of the rebel army, the more hopeless the progress of battle was, the more certain the victory beyond that became. He himself is not aware of this, but this reversal strategy conforms with the principles of showmanship and made him extraordinarily popular as a gladiator. He certainly has no motive to seek the Holy Grail; his dearest wish is just to proceed to fields of battle. Because for Spartacus, who only aspires to rescue the oppressed and rebel against the oppressor, the battlefield is a place where there is only the weak and the strong and also a place full of the everlasting pain and trials that he desires.