Alexandre DumasWP (アレクサンドル・デュマWP, Arekusandoru Dyuma?), Class Name Fake Caster (偽キャスター, Nise Kyasutā?, also translated as "False Caster"), is the "Fake" Caster-class Servant summoned by Orlando Reeve in the True and Fake Holy Grail Wars of Fate/strange Fake.
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Profile[]
Identity[]
Famous French novelist and playwright of the 19th century, he is most known as the author of both historical novels The Count of Monte CristoWP, which features the fictional character Edmond Dantès, and the The Three MusketeersWP series of novels.
History[]
When he was a child, Dumas' father, Thomas, served under Napoleon Bonaparte as a general. He was, however, killed by Napoleon over policy disputes and his ethnic background, being a child of a marquis and a black woman. This left Dumas and his mother in poverty. The young Dumas, however, blamed God for the death of his father instead of Napoleon and tried running up to the second floor of a building and shooting towards the sky, believing the bullet could reach God. His mother slapped him and scolded Dumas for this, telling him that they don't need any more heroes picking fights with God.[2]
Despite their great poverty, Dumas' mother wanted her son to grow up educated. Initially, Dumas despised books and theater, until seeing a play of HamletWP. Despite it not being the original play written by William Shakespeare and being a revisioned version by Jean-François DucisWP, who rewrote the whole script in his style and poorly translated it, it nonetheless changed Dumas' life and he learned the entire play by heart. The translation was a complete hackjob of Shakespeare's original play, an Imitation-Hamlet. Despite this, it still was the thing that changed Dumas life.[2]
During his childhood, he met Hans Christian Andersen while living in Paris around the time of 1843,[3] and Charles Nodier, another famous French author, during his time as a younger author. Dumas also helped his friend, Giuseppe GaribaldiWP in his war campaigns in Italy, by smuggling weapons to his forces. In return, Garibaldi helped Dumas establish a museum that searched and dug up ancient relics. This would be the origin of Dumas' ability to create Noble Phantasms.[2]
Appearance[]
Alexander Dumas is a physically large man, with a physique that several officers of Clan Calatin found intimidating. Despite being a novelist, his physique is said to be inherited from his father who was a military man, and it reflects a highly active lifestyle that involved hunting wild beasts to write a cookbook; despite the said build, Dumas hates doing manual labor. He has a light brown skin tone, light blue hair styled in a buzzcut with his eyebrows connecting to his hairline, and has checkered teeth whose colors alternate between white and red. He wears a blue tailcoat with buttoned white lapel and a white cravat.
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Personality[]
While Dumas doesn't consider himself to be a Hero, he doesn't mind being worshipped as one and instead states that it is his job to create Heroes. He has no interest in the Holy Grail because he doesn't have a wish that would require its power and doesn't care how the War will develop or what kind of conclusion will result. Instead, he wants to spectate and during the True and Fake Holy Grail Wars, was content with his role in the plan of his Master, Orlando Reeve, while enjoying good food and beautiful women.
He is an extremely boisterous man who likes to indulge in pleasure and speaks with vigor while segueing from one topic to another without pause. He likes to make extravagantly blatant lies, such as having slept with Cleopatra VII and Yang Guifei in his resting place and the ability to produce one thousand babies from one hundred women.[4]
He doesn't like the constant work forced upon him, which once caused him to complain to Orlando over the phone to get him a woman from a TV advertisement. He is quite taken with both the internet and television, and he likes to tell Orlando about what he has seen during his ramblings. He likes to call his Master 'bro' because he says they vowed to be brothers over a 'bonding drink' due to seeing that Asians love using that word on the Internet.
He doesn't like having his power compared to rearranging and rewriting old stories, believing his forgeries cause commotion.
Role[]
Fate/strange Fake[]
Day 0[]
Caster talking with Orlando.
Caster is a "tamed magus" used solely as part of his Master's, Orlando Reeve's, plan to win the Holy Grail War rather than a direct participant. He calls his Master during a meeting to discuss their failed plans at keeping complete observation over the Holy Grail War, and begins by asking for a prostitute. He changes topics several times in a brief moment, while also complaining about his workload. Discussing the merits of his abilities drives him into a frenzy, causing his Master to hang up on him during a long insult to continue with his meeting. Utilizing Caster's power, his Master plans on shaking the very foundation of the Holy Grail War by planning "to defeat Heroic Spirits with the power of humans." Caster creates multiple Noble Phantasm imitations, which are given to the police officers lead by Orlando, and they are dubbed the Clan Calatin. Caster states there are better counterfeiters than him, referencing Elmyr de HoryWP and someone who can use magecraft that copies things endlessly, asking why Orlando doesn't contact such people instead of him. But Orlando vetoes the idea, thinking he needs something surpassing a forgery to take on the Gate of Babylon.[4]
From his own room, Caster observes the Grail War and gathers information about the world.
Day 1[]
The Police station is attacked by Fake Assassin, who is trying to kill Saber. The Noble Phantasms prepared by Caster initially work very well against her, but when Assassin's Master, Jester Karture, appears and sends Assassin away, the weapons prove to be ineffective against him. Caster is also aware of this, but is unable to fully warn Orlando and the Clan Calatin. Caster also reminisces about the time he watched a play Le Vampire and met Charles Nodier. The police officers are, luckily, saved by Hansa Cervantes, the overseer of the Church, who fights against Jester and causes him to flee.[5] After the battle, Caster informs Orlando that he has received the hydra venom dagger from a certain freelance mage, which he plans on using to create an exceptionally strong Noble Phantasm.[6]
Fake Caster and Orlando later discuss the sword of Saber, who had escaped the police department. Caster confirms that the sword is indeed not a Noble Phantasm, and instead simply a fancy blade. However, Caster is able to guess that Saber's identity is Richard Lionheart, a famous King of England who Caster is well aware of. When Orlando tells Caster that he thought that the Saber could be King Arthur, due to him using a similar attack to the King's Excalibur. Caster though joyfully explains that Richard was a fanatic about Arthurian Legends, who called everything he could get his hands on Excalibur. This is the origin of Richard's Noble Phantasm.[7]
Later in the day, when Sigma summons Watcher, Fake Caster can vaguely tell someone is watching him, but decides not to pay it any mind.[8]
Day 2[]
Caster talks to the members of Clan Calatin.
Due to some of the Clan Calatin members having lost their weapons, they are sent to Caster, who will prepare them new weapons. He tells them of his past and takes particular notice of John Wingard, an exceptionally brave member, who lost his hand in the battle against Jester. Caster gives him a prosthetic arm to replace the arm that he lost, which also includes the hydra-dagger, making it an exceptionally strong Noble Phantasm. In the end, the officers question if Caster believes they have any chance in the Holy Grail War, using imitations of Noble Phantasms. Caster is not certain of how they will do, but says that even the imitations prepared by him, can make a difference.[2]
During a battle between the Clan Calatin, True Archer and multiple other Servants and Masters, Fake Caster also appears. He decides to make John a hero, not wanting to let him end up as worthless. Caster then activates his Noble Phantasm, Musketeers' Masquerade, stating that he will revise the plot a little.[9]
As the battle rages on, he walks up to Flat Escardos and his injured Servant Fake Berserker. Sensing that he's a Servant, Fake Berserker tries to threaten him by shape shifting into a wolf, but he explains that as Orlando and Flat are allies, he is on their side. He comments he is not sure what to make of Flat and that he knows Fake Berserker's identity is Jack the Ripper. He casually reveals his true name, Alexandre Dumas, to them. Flat comments that he is a fan of his, and also knows of his father and his son. After hearing Flat's description of his son, he becomes very happy and proud to learn that his son also became a famous writer. He then offers the two his help in taking on True Archer.[10]
Musketeer's Masquerade heals John when True Archer breaks his neck and then enhances his strength and speed to allow him to fight True Archer directly. When Fake Caster gets Flat and Fake Berserker's permission, he uses Musketeer's Masquerade to blend their traits together, allowing them to nearly perfectly imitate each other. The two use this in a strategy to fool True Archer and inflict serious damage to him.[11]
Day 3[]
Fake Caster enters Orlando's office and tells him what he did. As Orlando had refused telepathic communication with him, he had not been aware of his actions the previous day. Fake Caster says he is glad he left before the wave of blackness that made several combatants disappear hit. Orlando scolds him for going on the battlefield, as his officers can be replaced, but if anything happened to him, they would have no way to win the Grail War. Fake Caster says he can still sense the presence of the Noble Phantasms he created, so there is a small chance the officers who wield them are still alive, and he can still sense John Wingard's presence. The two speculate that the missing officers are in a Reality Marble. Fake Caster reads a newspaper that says a hurricane is heading towards the city and that several people in the US have died under mysterious circumstances.
Fake Caster says there is a slim chance that he might be able to reach the officers and rescue them, but Orlando refuses to risk him, threatening to use a Command Spell if he persists. Fake Caster reminds Orlando that he summoned him to make Clan Calatin strong enough to fight Servants, but all he can give them is stories. Every action forms a story that affects the world. He lists the names of everyone in Clan Calatin and says they are the cast of his latest story. Even he doesn't know how it will end, but he wants a front row seat.[12]
Abilities[]
Alexander Dumas is extremely weak compared to other Heroic Spirits, who far surpass humanity, with even Orlando Reeve, his Master being confident he could easily defeat him. His true strength, however, lays not with his prowess in battle, but for his special ability, Sublimation (昇華, Shōka?). The skill involves somehow rearranging and rewriting the legends of Noble Phantasms and bringing them into existence. The ability is caused by the mixing of Item Construction, Territory Creation and Dumas' time viewing ancient relics. He also possesses an unspecified level of Intelligence-Gathering Skills, deemed abnormal by his Master.[4]
Dumas' ability is not to create pure forgeries of the weapons, saying that it is outside of his forte and instead recommending Elmyr de HoryWP as someone he believes capable of producing an infinite number of forgeries with powerful magecraft. Instead, he is capable of strengthening objects by writing their legends. This is a time-consuming process, however, as Dumas once stated he was being driven crazy by overwork after his Master kept requesting objects to be strengthened. During the True and Fake Holy Grail Wars, he created at least thirty weapons with powers that are greater than what were told in legends. Orlando saw this ability as vital in defeating Gilgamesh due to mere forgeries not being enough to overpower the King of Heroes.[4]
Skills[]
Class Skills[]
- Territory Creation (E Rank): The ability to create a terrain advantageous to one as a magus.[1]
- Item Construction (Revision) (EX Rank): Normally the Skill used to construct magical items, Dumas was given a unique variation of this Skill by his Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine Noble Phantasm which allows him to revise the history of an existing object by writing their story, increasing their "Rank" to the level of a pseudo-Noble Phantasm. Since objects with A Rank already have a complete story, Dumas cannot strengthen them further. The Skill fluctuates between E and A+ depending on the object he is revising.[1]
Personal Skills[]
- Era Observation (A Rank): The Skill to observe not humans, but the flow of time and incorporate it into his works. Because he pours this power into the novels he writes rather than into his own attitude, it has little effect on his personal life.[1]
- Gourmand (A Rank): A Skill representing a wide range of knowledge, from junk food to palace cuisine, with technique and keen sense of taste to match. Includes hunting and fishing techniques for cooking.[1]
- Innocent Monster (E Rank): A Skill given to Servants whose true history and existence have been distorted, affecting their appearance and abilities. Dumas was given this Skill due to the influence of multiple different stories made famous by gossip or by biographies written by later authors (and one by Dumas himself), ranging from cases about his father's bravery, his copyright lawsuits to even post-mortem controversy. Its rank is low because details of his case (like whether or not he really made any statements about his plagiarism) are still under investigation.[1]
Noble Phantasms[]
- Musketeers' Masquerade: The ability to overwrite the target's life with Dumas' own personal experiences or moments from his literary work, allowing him to increase the target's strength. Since this ability is about empowering the ones about to face overwhelming power, it usually only works when used on humans. It can only be used a limited amount of times per summon and only once per person.
- Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine: An ability that changes the Caster Class Skill Item Construction to Item Construction (Revision).
Development[]
It was character designed by Shidzuki Morii.
TYPE-MOON Ace 10 showcased a prototype design for Caster.[13] The design looks similar to what ended up being used for Saint Germain.
References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29
[] Fate/strange Fake - Volume 4 - Servant status: Caster [T] Class: Caster
Master: Orlando Reeve
True Name: Alexandre Dumas père
Gender: Male
Height/Weight: 182 cm, 82 kg
Alignment: True Neutral
Strength: C
Endurance: D
Agility: E
Magic: EX
Luck: A
Noble Phantasm: B
Class Skills
■ Territory Creation: E
■ Item Creation (Modified): EX (A+–E depending on the target catalyst)
Personal Skills
■ Era Observation: A
The skill to observe not humans, but the flow of time and incorporate it into his works. Because he pours this power into the novels he writes rather than into his own attitude, it has little effect on his personal life.
■ Gourmet: A
A skill representing a wide range of knowledge, from junk food to palace cuisine, with technique and keen sense of taste to match. Includes hunting and fishing techniques for cooking.
■ Innocent Monster: E
The influence of numerous anecdotes, from his father’s valor and his copyright trials to controversies after his death, that became famous due to gossip or to biographies written by other authors (or by Dumas himself). Its rank is low due to the progress of research into the truth of statements on plagiarism scandals, etc.
Noble Phantasms
■ Musketeers Masquerade: Musketeers, Tilt at Windmills
Rank: E–A+ depending on target catalyst
Type: Anti-Personnel Noble Phantasm
Range: 1~99
Maximum Targets: 1
A Noble Phantasm to “writes” and “revises” the target’s life by overwriting it with Dumas’ own experiences or creations. Usable only a fixed number of times per summoning. A support Noble Phantasm that boosts one target’s abilities several times to several tens of times with each use. Because it is enhancement for those confronting immense power, it normally only displays its effects on humans.
■ Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine: Long Unfinished Stunning Tale of Culinary Delights
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Object Noble Phantasm
Range: —
Maximum Targets: —
A Noble Phantasm based on the fact that Dumas worked on multiple collaborations and revisions during his life, his posthumous work Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, and the fact that he was once the general manager of an archaeological museum dealing in ancient relics. It transforms the Caster Class Skill “Item Creation” into “Item Creation (Modified),” the ability to raise the “rank” of preexisting items by creating anecdotes concerning them, making them pseudo-Noble Phantasms.
If Dumas obtains a relic that is already rank A or higher, he will not be able to modify it because its anecdotes are already “complete.”CLASS キャスター
マスター：オーランド・リーヴ
真名：アレクサンドル・デュマ・ペール
性別：男性
身長・体重：１８２ｃｍ ８２ｋｇ
属性：中立・中庸
筋力：Ｃ
耐力：Ｄ
敏捷：Ｅ
魔力：ＥＸ
幸運：Ａ
宝具：Ｂ
クラス別能力：
■ 陣地作成：Ｅ
■ 道具作成(改)：ＥＸ(ランクは対象触媒によりA+～Eと変動する)
固有スキル：
■ 時代観察：Ａ
人間ではなく時代を観察し、作品へと組み込むスキル。
■ 美食家：Ａ
様々な料理の知識と技術、味覚の鋭敏さの所持。狩猟、漁猟の技術も含まれる。
■ 無辜の怪物：Ｅ
デュマに関する各種逸話による影響。真偽についての研究が進んでいる為にランクは低い。
宝具
■ 銃士達よ、風車に挑め
ランク：Ａ＋〜Ｅ
種別：対人宝具
レンジ：１〜９９
最大捕捉：１人
対象の人生に自らの体験や創作物を上書きして『執筆・改稿』する事により、対象の力を数倍から数十倍にも引き上げる他者支援系宝具。一度の召喚につき特定回数のみ使用可能。 強大な力に立ち向かう者への強化なので、通常は人間にしか効果を発揮しない。
■ 遥か終わらじの食遊綺譚
ランク：Ａ
種別：対物宝具
レンジ： —
最大捕捉：—
複数の共著や改稿を手がけた事、遺作である『料理大辞典』の執筆、古代遺跡などの発掘調査博物館の統括責任者を務めていた事に由来する宝具。 キャスターのクラススキル「道具作成」を「道具作成(改)」へと変化させ、既存の物品の逸話を創作して道具を擬似的な宝具と化す能力。
ただし最初からランクA以上の物は、その逸話は既に『完成している』と見なされるために手を加えられない。 - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Fate/strange Fake Volume 4 - Chapter 12: Day 2, Daytime "Genius Was Not Built in a Day; All Magecraft Leads to Disaster"
- ↑ TMitter2015 - しっかしまあ、アンデルセンの野郎の姿を見た時、ドロップキック食らいながら大爆笑しちまったよ俺！ 俺が 最初にパリで会った時、あいつもう４０歳近かっ たからよ！ キックの痛みより寧ろ爆笑で立てなかったぜ！ さっきの【拡散希望】って文章、あいつ、俺の大 爆笑聞きながら書いてたんだぜ？
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Fate/strange Fake Volume 1 - Prologue IV: "Caster"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 2 - Chapter 3: Day 1, Early Dawn "Ensemble Versus Illusion"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 2 - Chapter 5: Day 1, Dawn "The Shadow in the Dark"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 3 - Chapter 7: Day 1, Afternoon (1) "The Canon of the Demigods"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 3 - Interlude: "Watcher"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 4 - Chapter 13: Day 2, Night "At Last, a Second, and a Third..."
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 5 - Chapter 14: "Gold and Lions I"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 5 - Chapter 15: "Gold and Lions II"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 6 - Chapter 17: "Breaking Dawn and Wakeless Dreams II
- ↑ TYPE-MOON Ace Volume 10 p.73