Doris Lusendra (ドリス・ルセンドラ, Dorisu Rusendora?) is the "True" Master of True Rider in the True and False Holy Grail Wars of Fate/strange Fake. Rider is summoned during a duel between Doris and Rin Tohsaka, representing the El-Melloi Classroom, to determine who would take control of the Servant. The Classroom members obtain Doris' Command Spells after Rin emerges victorious, collectively becoming Rider's Master and using Doris' supposed participation in the Holy Grail War to mask their activities.[1]
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Background[]
Doris is the youngest daughter of the Lusendra family, a clan from the far north who use Reinforcement Magecraft and are said to have discarded even the concept of humanity.[2][3]
Appearance[]
She is a young woman with shark-like teeth and wears a pair of gothic goggles engraved with magical letters.
Personality[]
Despite the degradation of the Lusendra, Doris was the only member of the family who hadn't given up yet, being visited by Francesca and invited to the Holy Grail War. She believed that seeing a hero from the Age of Gods with her own eyes and having her magical energy connected to one was worth it, and most importantly, if something close to a god manifested, she had a chance to incorporate it into her body.
However, after Rin attacked her before she could summon her Servant, she lost sight of everything, the Holy Grail War, the revival of her family, and the roadmap of her future, considering them all trivial during that moment. After her defeat, she recognizes her loss, saying she has no regrets and having no problems with her blood, flesh, and soul being devoured by the victor, though she was spared.
Role[]
Fate/strange Fake[]
Doris is said to have apparently entered the United States of America illegally prior to the beginning of the Holy Grail War in Snowfield.[2] Any attempts by Faldeus Dioland to contact her were refused.[4]
Abilities[]
Doris' family has been said to be proficient in Reinforcement Magecraft. In response to seeing the growth of True Rider, Francesca, not knowning the truth of Rider's Masters, wonders if Doris may have entered "forbidden territory" in regard to reinforcement, possibly using her lifespan and Magic Crest to enhance her own Magic Circuits.[5]
With a special form of Reinforcement Magecraft passed down in the family, they repurpose their skeleton, each muscle fiber, each nerve, each lymph duct, and each capillary vessel to pass as a makeshift Magic Circuit. The Lusendra devoured everything they could to grow closer to the phantasmagoria of the oni, or to live life the way they did. Their final destination is defined by the contradiction of making the already lost past reach the distant future. To take hold of, understand, or rewrite what is lost with the progress of the current form of Human Order, many mages keep the engine of their bloodlines running.[1]
Using this Magecraft, Doris can alter her body's properties, altering the form and hardness of her fingers to resemble the talons of a bird of prey—or rather, of a phantasmal dragon, this makes them blades capable of bisecting a human being. She can release a cloud of black smoke, her blood of an acidic black color, out of her body that can sometimes serve as a traditional obfuscating smokescreen, sometimes serve as shackles to slow down the enemy's movements, and some of the smoke can concentrate to attack as a third arm. It can also change the attribute of the surrounding area, making the environment more magically advantageous to her.[1]
She can reinforce her skin, making it hard like steel and being able to block consecutive curse volleys of Gandr, but also rip it apart as her right arm's bones start to morph into a blade. During her fight with Rin, Doris makes the debris around her float and begin to gather on her right arm, compressing all the steel beams and concrete, the bone blade coated in steel and debris covers the whole arm, turning into armor as it grows larger until the black hand eventually surpasses her own height, almost reaching from the ground to the ceiling, using her right arm made of debris, bone, iron, and most importantly, Doris's Circuit-converted flesh and blood, to assault Rin with the palm of a giant. This whole alteration and strike took place in less than 1 second.[1]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fate/strange Fake Volume 8 - Bridge Chapter: "Puddle"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fate/strange Fake Volume 3 - Prologue VIII: "The Star Performers' Feast (Part 1)"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 4 - Chapter 10: Day 2: Day 2 "Separate Mornings, Separate Pasts I"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 3 - Chapter 7: Day 1, Afternoon (1) "The Canon of the Demigods"
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 6 - Bridge Chapter: "The Canon of the Demigods, Act 2"