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Pseudo-Servants (疑似サーヴァント, Giji-Sāvanto?) are Servants that have manifested utilizing humans as their vessels. While similar to Demi-Servants in the end result, the process of forming one is different.
Characteristics[]
Pseudo-Servants are the result of Heroic Spirits and Divine Spirits that cannot become Servants normally.[1] There are those like Senji Muramasa whose Saint Graph isn't worthy of being a Heroic Spirit,[2] Divine Spirits that cannot manifest in the modern age without a host,[1][3] and other Saint Graphs that cannot be created by Chaldea's FATE Servant summoning system.[1] In such cases, human vessels are utilized to allow the Spirits to manifest, the human body acting as a catalyst to forcibly summon the Spirit.[1] Sherlock Holmes speculates that there may be Heroic Spirits only summonable in the form of a Pseudo-Servant taking over a deceased body.[4] While the result is the same as a Demi-Servant, a human empowered by a Heroic Spirit, the idea behind each is different.[1]
Personality and abilities[]
Most Pseudo-Servants merge into a single entity,[5] their personalities combining to become a third, new personality[1] that combines aspects of the personalities of both the vessel and the Spirit. In the case of Divine Spirit Pseudo-Servants, they should generally manifest simply utilizing the host as a vessel, placing a small portion of their power into them and forcing them to manifest as a Servant.[6]
Ishtar as a Pseudo-Servant has her Dark traits buried by Rin Tohsaka
For those that do merge with their host, the Divine Spirit's memories will be at the forefront of the fusion of personalities, but the effect of the host's personality on the Divine Spirit varies.[6][7] It is possible to manifest in such a way that it is akin to the "Goddess using a human as her core" in the case of Ishtar or a "human using a Goddess as her own core" in the case of Parvati, but the Goddess' mind will still be at the forefront of the manifestation due to the Divine Spirit possessing more Spiritrons.[6][3] As humans are unable to handle the full weight of a Divine Spirits memories and mind, the memories and past of the human host are typically sealed upon merging.[6]
There are special cases where the host and possessing Spirit remain completely separate[1], generally due to the personal preference of the possessing Spirit.[5][1] They are the rarest pattern of Pseudo-Servant.[8] In the case of Divine Spirit Pseudo-Servants, Ganesha in particular is an exemption where the host is the one in full control.[9]
Being placed into a host can reduce the rank of certain Skills like Divine Core of the Goddess.[10][7] Other Skills may be modified due to influence from the host, such as Mana Burst (Gem)[7] and Protection of the Scales.[11] The host can also have Skills entirely unique to themself, such as Supreme Mystic Code: Volumen Hydrargyrum.[12] Abilities unique to the host have ability for growth, differing from normal Servants that are complete records on the Throne of Heroes, due to the special nature of Pseudo-Servants, beings who are simultanously deceased and alive.[8]
Host selection criteria[]
Pseudo-Servant hosts are generally individuals connected to a Holy Grail in some capacity.[13][5] Most hosts will be Magi who already possess some power of their own.[1] Hosts and the possessing Spirit require similar personality traits and mentality,[10] compatible qualities such as Magic Circuit quality and talent,[3] and similarities in their "shape of the soul",[3] so the host will typically closely resemble them.[1]
There can be secondary criteria depending on the possessing Spirit, such as Jaguar Man requiring "the person who carries the fate of the wildness and the wildest force is elected."[13] Particular circumstances like the Noble Phantasm Chu Shi Biao can allow for individuals not directly connected to a Holy Grail to manifest or for hosts with no personal connection to the possessing Spirit to be summoned.[14] Divine Spirit Pseudo-Servants may have the ability to choose their own host, but they do require commonalities in personality.[15]
Pseudo-Servant hosts do not need to be from the same world into which they are summoned, Lord El-Melloi II originating from the World of Fate/stay night and being summoned as the host of Zhuge Liang in the World of Fate/Grand Order.[16] Those that retain the personality of the host may encounter alternate versions of people they know from their original world, which may be a weakness to them depending on the relationship with said individual.[8]
Within the parody work Fate/Grand Order x Himuro's World, the personification of the Counter Force acts as an intermediary to help hosts find a suitable Heroic Spirit.[17]
Saint Graph[]
Pseudo-Servant possess two Saint Graphs, the possessed human and the possessing spirit.[18] In the case of Pseudo-Servants that maintain separation between the human and Spirit, it is possible for the human to separate from the Spirit.[18][19] In the case of Lord El-Melloi II and Zhuge Liang, this allows Lord El-Melloi II, with permission from the Heroic Spirit, to grant the power of Zhuge Liang to his younger self from an alternate world temporarily,[19] and to sacrifice much of Zhuge Liang's power to create a false corpse to hide himself from his enemies.[18] The removal of the Spirit leaves the power of the Servant around that of the possessed human, but also makes them difficult to identify as a Servant.[18] The human Saint Graph can sleep while the Heroic Spirit Saint Graph remains awake.[8]
Medusa speculates that recently manifested Pseudo-Servants may be forcibly separated from their vessels if hit with a sufficiently powerful spiritual attack.[6]
Pseudo-Servants need more rest than normal Servants, benefiting from sleep.[8]
Other uses[]
The terminology Pseudo-Servant is used in other contexts that may not be connected. The term was first utilized to refer to Nursery Rhyme being a "pseudo-Servant dreamt up by her Master."[20] Titan Altera, utilizing her Familiar Creation, is able to create Pseudo-Servant Hero Altera as her human-sized avatar.[21] Space Ishtar, a resident of the Servant Universe, uses the term to refer to herself as a "Pseudo-Servant who really, truly believes herself to be a real Servant."[22]
Known Pseudo-Servants[]
- Others
Characters that have similar characteristics to Pseudo-Servants but have not been officially classified as such.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Fate/Grand Order - Zhuge Liang Interlude I: Heroic Spirit Possession
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa Province: The Stage of Rivers of Blood and Mountains of Corpses - Section 4: Seconda Cantica: Inferno (Beginning)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Fate/Grand Order - Babylonia: The Absolute Frontline in the War Against the Demonic Beasts - Section 10: Good Morning, Goddess of Venus
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Anastasia: Permafrost Empire - Section 2: Yaga
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Fate/Grand Order - Patchwork London: Phantasmal Collection Realm - Section 3: Masquerade
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Fate/Grand Order - Parvati Trial Quest: A Lady Descends upon Fuyuki
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Fate/Grand Order material IV - Ishtar Profile
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Fate/Grand Order - Sima Yi Interlude I: Lady Reines's Reminiscence
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Yuga Kshetra: Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus - Section 3: A Mountain Where One Encounters God
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Fate/Grand Order material V - Parvati Profile
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order material VIII - Astraea Profile
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order material VIII - Sima Yi Profile
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Fate/Grand Order material IV - Jaguar Man
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Patchwork London: Phantasmal Collection Realm - Section 9: The Mage's Inference
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Patchwork London: Phantasmal Collection Realm - Section 10: The False Sacred Lance (3/3)
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Fate/Accel Zero Order - Prelude
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order x Himuro's World
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Fate/Grand Order - Patchwork London: Phantasmal Collection Realm - Section 8: The Final Scrap
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Fate/Grand Order - Fate/Accel Zero Order - ACT-18: The Fallen Grail
- ↑
[] Fate/EXTRA material - Encyclopedia: Caster (Alice) [Servant], p.174-175 [T] Caster (Alice) [Servant]
This is Sansenme’s Servant Caster.
I am you, and you are I.
For you who have even forgotten your own name,
I will mimic your exact appearance.
My name is Nursery Rhyme.
Tommy Thumbs’s cute picture book.
The very first version of Mother Goose.
A romantic flight that continues through the night,
For the you and I who are dreaming.
Ahh, but alas the elevator descends.
The end of the dream has come along.
The end of Alice has come along.
This is a story, so of course it has an end.
The lonely you and the sad me.
Let us grant our final wish.
◆
Nursery Rhyme is not a true heroic spirit; she is the manifestation of a real picture book.
The picture book genre, which is deeply loved in England, has stimulated the dreams of many a child. Nursery Rhyme is essentially a heroic spirit born from children; by children and for children. (Nursery Rhyme is the book which eventually became the foundation for Lewis Caroll’s famous works. One of his great works, Alice in Wonderland, is actually a nursery rhyme he improvised while entertaining his nieces.)
The Servant Nursery Rhyme is actually a pseudo-Servant dreamt up by her Master. She is a Reality Marble that embodies a reflection of her Master’s feelings.
This servant managed to save her miserable Master, yet at the same time she is not her own person, just a mirror image who was also saving herself. …this fragile balance…is it meaningless?
Also the prose poetry included above is the same as in the game’s “Matrix Details:1” section.
Before the final battle with Alice there is the “Let’s guess their true name!” event, and after that the poem is displayed. In the poem, the line “Let us grant our final wish.” is a reference to a desire of Alice’s that is not from when she was alive, but rather from after her death when she became a ghost.キャスター（アリス）【サーヴァント】
さんせんめの、サーヴァント。
ワタシはアナタ、アナタはワタシ。
名前も忘れたアナタのために、
アナタの姿をそっくり映す。
ワタシの名前はわらべ歌。
トミーサムの可愛い絵本。
マザーグースのさいしょのカタチ。
夢見るアナタとワタシのために、
夜が明けるまで浪漫飛行。
ああ、でも昇降機が降りていく。
夢の終わりがやってくる。
ありすの終わりがやってくる。
物語である以上、終わりがくるのはあたりまえ。
寂しいアナタに悲しいワタシ。
最期の望みを、叶えましょう───
◆
ナーサリーライムは実在の英雄ではなく、実在する絵本の総称である。
イギリスで深く愛されたこのジャンルは、多くの子供たちの夢を受け止めていくうちに一つの概念として成立、”子供たちの英雄”としてサーヴァント化した。
（のちにルイスキャロルという有名な作家を生み出す下地になったもの。彼の著作「不思議の国のアリス」は、もともとは彼の姪っ子たちに即興で聞かせたナーサリーライムである）
サーヴァントそのものが固有結界であり、マスターの心を映し、マスターが夢見たカタチの疑似サーヴァントを作り上げる。
このサーヴァントはひとりの悲惨な少女を救ったが、同時に、常に何者でもない、鏡であるこのサーヴァント自身も救われていた。……たとえそれが、砂糖菓子のように脆く、意味のない事だとしても。
また、上記にある散文詩テキストはゲーム本編におけるマトリクス「詳細：１」と同じもの。
ありすとの決戦前、「相手の真名当てイベント」の後に開示されるのだが、ここで言う「最期の望み」はありすの生前の望みではなく、死後、ゴーストとなった後の望みを指している。 - ↑
[] Fate/EXTELLA material - Encyclopedia: Heroic Spirit Altera [Servant], p.099 [T] Hero Altera [Servant]
An avatar the "Titan Altera" created to act as a separate, more mobile agent. Creating the avatar drained the titan's resources greatly, so much that she actually shrank as a result. (Her body dropped down one rank, from thirty-four meters, her size when she was sealed away, to sixteen meters.)
As a pseudo-Servant created by the titan, she is able to freely move around SE.RA.PH (within the restrictions of her limited mana supply). When the titan is in sleep mode, she sees through Hero Altera's eyes in an experience similar to a dream.
A pseudo-Servant, "Hero Altera" requires a Master (in her case, the Main Character) in order to exist in a tangible form. Without the Main Character at her side, she would have no mana source, and would be unable to move or act.
Her personality is exactly the same as the version of Altera who walked the fields of the Earth, better known as Attila the Hun. Attila, for reasons she only half remembered, revered the God of War, and of Altera's three present incarnations, her Hero self most clearly shows that god's influence.
She wields the Sword of Mars, a tricolored blade of light. As a Servant of the Umbral Star, she feeds on the data inside of SE.RA.PH. She leads the warped "Forces of Destruction."
Although the Main Character is, by Fate's definition of the term, her Master, she uses "Prisoner" instead, and treats her Master like a tool...at least at the beginning. She is brash and straightforward to the point of tactlessness, as opposed to Titan Altera, who keeps many of her true thoughts pent up inside out of guilt.
Cold-hearted and cruel, she seems like a killing machine without a shred of emotion, but is there more behind her stoic facade? You'll have to play the game to find out.英霊アルテラ【サーヴァント】
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars 4.8: Shining Blue Galactic Space Opera — Queen's High School II
- ↑ 'Fate/Grand Order' - Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Order - Encounter