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Tine Chelc

Indigenous Defender

Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi (JP), Dani Chambers (EN)

The Master of False Archer. Tine's people are an indigenous group who had apparently kept watch over the Snowfield region for over a thousand years until the early twentieth century, where they were driven out by the government and the group of mages looking to prepare the land for the False Holy Grail War. Tine participates in the War seemingly with the intent to return her people to their rightful place. She does not have a particular wish for the Holy Grail to grant.

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• A Child Shall Lead Them: Is the leader of her tribe despite being not even being a teenager.
• Conditional Powers: Her Magic Crest allows her to directly tap into the leylines of Snowfield for a vast source of Mana and to use powerful Magecraft without an incantation. However, it comes at a cost; she cannot ever leave the Snowfield leylines' area of influence. If she does, she dies.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: To the young Waver Velvet during the events of Fate/Zero, as both of them are young and immature Masters who summon great kings as their Servants, who teach them how to grow and mature as people. However, compared to Waver, who was an arrogant yet cowardly and self-effacing Inept Mage of humble birth, Tine is a highly effective and near-emotionless magus descended from her tribe's leaders, and has no qualms with fighting, killing, and possibly dying in the Snowfield Grail War. While Waver's growth revolves around overcoming his insecurities and proving to everyone, including himself, that he's worthy of respect despite being a nobody, Tine's on the other hand is focused on learning to embrace her youth despite her perceived duties as the leader of her tribe, and deciding if blindly giving everything she has, her life included, for her people's cause is what she really wants. Even their appearances heavily differ outside of their youth, as Waver is a Caucasian British man in his late teens dressed in normal western clothes, whereas Tine is a dark-skinned Native American girl who isn't even a teenager and dressed in an ornate ceremonial dress.
• Dare to Be Badass: Gilgamesh tells her he doesn't respect people who blindly follow something like faith in the gods or the wishes of their ancestors. He challenges her to forge her own path and find her own reason to seek the Grail instead of following her people's wish to reclaim the land.
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite her goal of wanting the land back, when Gilgamesh jokes that simply killing everybody in the city would be the simplest way to reclaim it, she is disturbed by the thought of doing so.
• Human Sacrifice: Every generation, the siblings of the Clan's Head are sacrificed and have their Magic Circuits fed into the leylines, boosting the Head's power to even greater heights. This happened with Tine's siblings to make her more powerful than her father at Magecraft, and if she ever has children they will suffer the same fate for the new Head.
• Invisible to Normals: Gilgamesh gives her a ring that achieves this effect in the wearer. This way, anybody who can see her is flushed out as a potential threat.
• Just a Kid: In Gilgamesh's eyes, though she's respectful enough that he lets her tag along.
  Gilgamesh: You are but a child, so act like one. While you are still ignorant in the ways of the world, simply rejoice in the brilliance of my kingship.
• Kid Sidekick: Gilgamesh sees her as one. As far as he's concerned, kids (and thus Tine) exist to follow him around and watch him be awesome.
• Magical Native American: Powerful magus? Check. Indigenous to the land only to be driven out by the government? Check.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: She had twelve brothers and nine sisters. Key word being had.
• Morality Pet: To Gilgamesh.
• Playing with Fire: She kills the original Master of False Archer with a humongous wall of fire.
• Power Tattoo: The Command Spells on her right hand, which came to her after killing the original Master of False Archer.
• Spell My Name With An S: Can be spelled as Tine or Tiné. The Japanese spelling is closer to the latter.
• The Stoic: She refuses to show emotions for the sake of her leading her clan. She's so used to not emoting that when Gilgamesh tells her to rejoice in his glory, she finds herself unable to and can only apologize while promising to improve.
• Tough Leader Façade: Tries hard not to show any weakness in front of her tribe and represses her own desires.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She isn't even a teenager and her very first appearance has her slice a hand off False Archer's original master and then kill him via incineration, all in a state of perfect calm. Gilgamesh himself tells her to behave like the child she actually is, and is critical of her blind and borderline self-destructive devotion to her tribe's cause that prevents her from doing so.
• You Are in Command Now: Makes no pretense of trying to control her Servant and shows him genuine respect as her king and leader, behaving as if she were a lowly peasant speaking to the most glorious king who had ever lived. This actually earns her some degree of respect from him.

Tsubaki Kuruoka

Little Dreamer of the Apocalypse

Voiced by: Aoi Koga (JP), Kimberley Anne Campbell (English)

The Master of False Rider. Tsubaki was born to East Asian magi parents in their thirties seeking for ways to further their future in the world of magecraft. They were among those who managed to take the actual machinery underlying the Fuyuki Holy Grail War system, and while there, also obtained partial knowledge on Zouken Matou's magecraft. Seeking to adapt it to their own use, they eventually reached the idea of using magically-modified bacteria to better their host and decided to use their firstborn daughter as the test subject. This deprived her of her consciousness, but her parents had long lost any interest in her as a person.

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• Abusive Parents: Tsubaki's parents only see her as their means of success in the Holy Grail War and in the world of magi; her well-being is of no concern to them as they purposely infect her with what amounts to a magical disease that put her in a coma in the first place. Regardless, Tsubaki still loves them unconditionally in spite of their horrific treatment of her, though this is mostly because unlike, say, Zouken Matou's brutal abuse, the Kuruokas used "carefully dosified love" in order to string Tsubaki along.
• Apocalypse Maiden: Quite literally, as she winds up becoming the Master of the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse.
• Children Are Innocent: Despite being the Master to a nightmarish Servant, Tsubaki nonetheless acts and speaks like a child of her age, being sweet and also completely and innocently unaware of the War happening in the present, thanks to being in a coma. Unfortunately, this also makes it easy for a skilled monster like Karture to trick her into trusting him, giving him by proxy some control over her Rider. Also, her innocent wish to save the bystanders caught in the attack against the hospital resulted in False Rider plucking those people's souls and sealing them in her dream world.
• Corrupt the Cutie: What her parents tried to do.
• Creepy Child: Although it's not her fault.
• The Dog Bites Back: She accidentally does this to her parents, using False Rider to force them to act like loving parents for once.
• Dream Land: In her dreams, she's constructed a highly detailed model of Snowfield, though it's entirely empty until her Rider begins dragging the souls of living entities there. So far, "it"'s dragged her parents, a bunch of animals and a group of bystanders there. It's actually a Bounded World, taking the form of what Tsubaki believes is Heaven, produced by her Rider's Doomsday Come Noble Phantasm and using her as a focal point. Something, implied to have a connection with Qin Shi Huang, the Servant her parents originally intended to summon, manages to enter and make contact with Tsubaki while False Rider's not focused on her.
• Expy:
  • Of Sakura Matou, to the point that her parents' experiments on her were derived from the research of Sakura's primary abuser. Their names are also flowers, Sakura (Cherry Blossom) and Tsubaki (Camellia)
  • Also to Aro Isemi from Fate/Prototype, being a young, innocent, and bedridden heir (as a result of inhuman experimentation) to a lineage of magi and the Master of a Rider who's incredibly loyal to her.
• Fear of Thunder: She is terrified of thunder and lightning. She can hear them in her coma, so Pale Rider does its best to stop the source.
• Guinea Pig Family: Her parents approved of Zouken's technique, but felt he hadn't gone far enough. Tsubaki was always meant to be a proof of concept.
• Inconsistent Coloring: Her hair is colored either red or brown. Such as in the promotional CM for the light novel she is depicted with red hair, while in Whispers of Dawn she is given brown hair.
• Kid with the Leash: Of the Pale Rider. While Rider responds readily to her wishes, Tsubaki is too young and lost in a comatose dream to realize her situation and exert any proper control over "him".
• Living Battery: Her original intended role.
• Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: She is completely unaware of the Grail War, that she is in a dream world, or of False Rider's true nature. She is unaware that her innocent wishes cause False Rider to kill and imprison people.
• Obliviously Evil: She's unaware of being in a dream world and has no idea that her friend granting her innocent wishes like people not leaving the city, her parents being with her, or bringing in more animals, is causing havoc in the real world.
• Unwitting Test Subject: She knew that her parents were doing painful stuff to her to "make her a wonderful magus", but given her age, it's extremely unlikely she could have given informed consent to their monstrous experiment or even really understand it in the first place.

Jester Karture

Dead Apostle Six-Hearts Revolver

Voiced by: Tatsumaru Tachibana (JP), Clifford Chapin (EN)

'"Since we are both heretics in this country, let’s be friends! Ha… Ahahahahahahahahahahaha!"'

The Master of False Assassin. Jester is a Dead Apostle known as the Six-Hearts Revolver who has taken interest in the Holy Grail to grant his wish. As it was his first time participating in such a battle, he researched the nature of the ritual thoroughly and planned to summon a Servant of the Assassin class. He brought ten disciples with him to Snowfield, all of whom are loyal to the point where they will face certain death to avenge their supposedly dead master. They don't appear to know of his true nature because they are shocked at his supposed demise. His original form is that of a girl.

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• Arch-Enemy: To his own Servant, upon realizing he survived her first attempt to kill him, Assassin makes it her main goal in the Holy Grail War to kill him. For his part, Jester is obsessed with destroying her faith and driving her to despair.
• Ax-Crazy: He's so screwed up he wants his own servant to kill himself and warp her own faith.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block: He effortlessly blocks weapons from Clan Calatin with his hands and even his fingers and shatters them.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: He becomes enraged when he sees Saber and Sigma standing next to Beautiful Assassin, saying they don't deserve to be near her. Believing Sigma and Beautiful Assassin are an item, he attacks them.
• Death Is Cheap: Had his heart ripped out as soon as the Beautiful Assassin was summoned, but it turns out it was only one conceptual core as a magus. Out of six.
• Despair Gambit: After sucking everyone into Tsubaki's dream world, he privately says his plan is to leave False Assassin with no option but to kill Tsubaki, as he believes her being forced to kill an innocent child will finally break her spirit.
• Driven to Madness: Did not handle Van-Fem calling him out on his hypocrisy as someone who wishes to romance a Heroic Spirit, an icon representing human history, while also claiming to be someone who rejects human history well as he starts ranting about the destruction he'll unleash on the world.
• Evil Is Hammy: Upon resurrecting from his supposed "death" in his introductory chapter, he starts laughing like a madman, completely entranced by Assassin's power and rambling how he's resolved to crush her faith.
• Evil Gloating: A tendency which does not go uncommented upon.
  Cervantes: You talk too much, dead man. If I were a writer, I'd cut out half your lines.
• For the Evulz: His original wish for the Holy Grail involved rousing Type Mercury (A Giant Spider from Space) from slumber so that it could destroy the world. He now has the much less omnicidal desire to break the spirit of the Beautiful Assassin. After Van-Fem's phone call, he decides to awaken ORT so there'll be nothing left in his way to break his Assassin's spirit and romance her.
• Gender Bender: Jester was originally female prior to becoming a Dead Apostle according to Word of God and presumably possible for him to still turn back into his original form given his Voluntary Shapeshifting ability.
• Healing Factor: Comes with be a Dead Apostle, but in his battle with Hansa he is capable to heal himself from a Black Key
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: His Command Seal is first used to get No Name Assassin out of harm's way, and to let her know that he can make her do whatever he wants whenever he wants.
• I Know Your True Name: Part of harming his real body was revealing his true name which was 'Dorothea'.
• The Juggernaut: While he does have some weaknesses, he is regardless incredibly hard to kill. His own Servant is no match for him.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Overwhelmed by Hansa, he makes good on his escape by taking the form of a young boy to sneak past him.
• Logical Weakness: While he can No-Sell Noble Phantasms, anything made from modern technology can still hurt him. Hansa is able to injure him using his robotic arm.
• Manipulative Bastard: Infiltrates Tsubaki's dream world and figures out how to manipulate False Rider through her.
• Mind Rape: The goal in his interactions with his Assassin.
• No-Sell: As a Dead Apostle, his very existence "denies the human history". Because this, he can just ignore the effects of Clan Calatin's Noble Phantasms.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Wishes to destroy the world.
• One-Steve Limit: Jester's true name is shared with Fate/Samurai Remnant's fellow Master of Assassin, Dorothea Coyett.
• Our Vampires Are Different: A Dead Apostle.
• Playing with Fire: Creates a tornado coupled with flames in his clash with Hansa.
• Red Baron: Six-Hearted Revolver.
• That Man Is Dead: He gets embarrassed when he is called by his old name Dorothea.
• To the Pain: This is what he tells Sigma when he attacks him.
  Jester: "I'll make you incapable of dying and then suck out your Magic Circuits one by one. I'll squash your eyeballs, break every bone in your body, peel off your flesh, violate your brain, rape your heart, pound your lungs to paste, and chop your guts into mincemeat. Oh! Oh! I have it! I'll rip your body into millions and billions of pieces while you're still alive and spread it around the feed trough in a chicken coop!"
• Villainous Breakdown: He doesn't take Van-Fem basically dismissing him as a Dead Apostle well, ranting about how now he and Assassin are the same and promising to wake up ORT so nothing can distract him from driving her to despair
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Change the shape of his body just after No Name Assassin tries to kill him.
• Wolverine Claws: Pulls off these in response to Hansa's Black Keys.

Flat Escardos

Most Unorthodox Magus

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (JP), Khoi Dao (EN)
Live actor: Takeru Naya (JP, Lord El-Melloi II Case Files)

'"I mean, it’d be so super-cool! It’s the Holy Grail! Hitler and Gobbles wanted it for the Third Reich! And Qin Shi Huang and Nobunaga and Godzilla all looked for it too! If it really exists, I’ve just gotta see what it looks like!"'

The Master of False Berserker. Flat is the eldest son of the Escardos family, a line of magi living on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It was originally hoped that he would be a magus of rare quality in terms of Magic Circuits and the talent to control them. He was thought to be a true prodigy in his childhood before his true nature was shown and he was sent to the Clock Tower. He was taught by several professors who became frustrated with him, leaving Flat with the only professor left, Lord El-Melloi II. Though he quickly developed his magical talents over the next few years and surpassed all of his peers, the problems with his personality caused him to be unable to graduate and he is one of El-Melloi's eldest students, close to the age of twenty. While his teacher does not like to let unprepared magi into the world, he came to regret keeping Flat around.

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• Achievements in Ignorance: Flat managed to summon Jack the Ripper with the blatantly fake knife given to him by Lord El-Melloi II accidentally simply by fiddling with the residual mana in the air and his honest belief that it was a knife used by the actual Jack the Ripper. He did so without a chant, magic circle, or any other kind of preparation, which is borderline if not outright impossible for most magi.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Flat's combination of immense magical talent and complete cluelessness have led much of the people around him to regard him as dangerously unmanageable at best and a Humanoid Abomination at worst. When Jack admits that he considered Flat to be an idiot, Flat is actually happy to hear it because he's so used to people being afraid of him.
  Flat: People have always been weirdly afraid of me or avoided me, ever since I was a little kid... The only ones who ever call me things like fool or idiot to my face are the professor and his sister, the princess. And everyone else in our department. Oh, and the OBs...
  Jack: Wouldn't that be, well, quite a lot for most people?
• Ambiguous Innocence: Flat occasionally makes comments that don't reflect the nature of a dim but good-hearted boy, but rather something disconcertingly alien. It eventually turns out that, while not exactly sociopathic or malicious, Flat is generally too out of synch with the world for conventional ideas of morality to make much sense to him. What he does have is an intense loyalty to El-Melloi II, and thus he acts in accordance to what he recognizes as El-Melloi II's principles rather than following his own, more amoral inclinations.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Initially, Flat's parents believed he was "defective" because he had "too much kindness for a mage"; however, it was not even that, his "purpose was fundamentally different". Likewise, Jack also had a similar impression in that Flat was not the kind of person who could be described in terms of "good" or "evil".
• Boom, Headshot!: He's killed when one of Faldeus' snipers manages to put a bullet through his head. It doesn't last long, but what comes back isn't exactly the Flat everyone knows.
• The Cameo: Appears in the first episode of the anime adaptation of Fate/Apocrypha, where El-Melloi explains the Great Holy Grail War to him for the audience's sake.
• Canon Immigrant: The only character besides Enkidu who made his appearance in other works before Strange Fake's revival as an official light novel series, having been mentioned briefly in material books for Apocrypha and Zero. He's also part of the main cast in Lord El-Melloi II Case Files, and makes brief appearances at the beginning and end of Fate/Apocrypha's anime adaptation.
• Cloudcuckoolander: He enters the Holy Grail War as a tourist. Of course, one of the first Heroic Spirits he takes a picture of is none other than Gilgamesh. Kairi Shishigou is equal parts fascinated and surprised at how carefree Flat is.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Flat is both a direct callback to and complete inversion of Waver Velvet from Fate/Zero. Instead of an intelligent but woefully underpowered boy from a working-class background, he's a very gifted but equally daft one from an aristocratic mage family. While Waver was a Jerk with a Heart of Gold frustrated with his powerlessness and mundanity, Flat is outwardly sunny but disconcertingly alien and has ambivalent feelings regarding the incomprehensible nature of his existence. Their Servants are polar opposites, with Iskandar being a boisterous, larger-than-life Manic Pixie Dream Guy that lifted Waver up and Jack serving as a reserved, sensible Cloudcuckoolander's Minder who reins Flat in. The manner in which they acquire their respective catalysts is contrasted: Waver stole his, Flat was given his by mistake. Waver loathed his own instructor, while Flat holds his in high esteem. Waver also survives his Grail War completely intact, while Flat is the first Master in his to be killed. El-Melloi II (aka Waver himself) even comments on this in the first volume.
  El-Melloi II: Damn, he's everything I wasn't at that age.
• The Cutie: Has no business participating in a Holy Grail War because he is way too carefree and sunny.
• Dark and Troubled Past: His non-mage temperament combined with his talent and genius resulted in his parents thinking of him as a monster and thus attempting to kill him.
• Defusing The Tykebomb: In volume 4, it's heavily implied that Flat would have gone on to become a world-level threat had he not come into Lord El-Melloi II's care. Narita confirms this, stating in an interview that Flat is eliminated by either the Mage Association or the Counter Force in all timelines where they don't meet. The revelation that he carries a potentially apocalyptic entity in Thia helps explain this.
• Dissonant Serenity: Throughout the story, Flat drops a few lines that make the reader question just how nice he really is.
  Flat: [referring to a bunch of captured magi] We won’t kill them, Jack. A human life weighs more than the Earth, you know? Human lives, these people’s lives included, are valuable parts for jumping clear of the Earth. Wouldn’t it be a shame and a waste to just kill them?
• Dumb Is Good: The proper temperament for a magus is cunning and ruthless. Flat is neither, worrying about the welfare of his Servant and the local bystanders, and chuckling nervously when his Servant notes that he would have possessed Flat and used his body to murder countless innocents if he was summoned in a class other than Berserker. He also lacks the common sense to use his magecraft abilities to hypnotize or otherwise disable a "police officer" that came up to arrest him.
• Expelled from Every Other School: More like "dropped by every other professor", but the idea's the same. Basically, every single professor in the Clock Tower except Lord El-Melloi II has dropped Flat, feeling he's either an idiot or a monster. The thing is, they're kinda right...
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Just about everyone whom Flat considers a friend finds him to be annoying.
• Genius Ditz: He's an incredible mage and an utter moron. In fact, he summons Berserker completely by accident.
• The Gift: Was born with an unparalleled number of magic circuits powerful enough to be acknowledged by Van-Fem and Zelretch, two of the twenty-seven Dead Apostle Ancestors, with Zelretch being one of the two Magicians currently known to be active in the Nasuverse. Flat is also blessed with an innate sense for magecraft no one (including himself) can quite understand. Unfortunately for those around him, he doesn't have the wits to make the best use of these gifts, leading him to be unable to replicate his amazing feats and generally goofing off however he pleases.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Called the "mage without malice" by the narrator.
• Horrifying the Horror: Jack initially views Flat as a dim, young man who's in over his head. It gradually dawns on the Servant that Flat is something else entirely to the point that it gets freaked out over Flat's reasons for not killing people as they have little to do with conventional morality or empathy.
• Human Sacrifice: The project hiding within the Escardos Crest was always meant to be activated with the sacrifice of the current user. The Escardoses tried to get rid of the Crest by gambling it away... but Flat won it back, allowing him to "see" Thia, with whose help he successfully evaded his family's attempts at killing him. However, Flat would still die at the hands of Faldeus' Thorn mercenaries, completing the spell and endowing Thia with the remains of his body.
• Humanoid Abomination: He becomes...something when given an otherwise lethal injury. It wants to become a "True Human" and is willing to kill off humanity to do it. Also it refers to itself as Boku instead of Ore. It turns out that 1800 years ago, Flat's ancestor Mesala Escardos engineered the creation of what was supposed to be Earth's next Prime Ones, the beings to remain on Earth after the departure of humanity for the stars, sealed the project into the family Crest, and cursed it to become more and more incomprehensible with each generation to ensure the family wouldn't mess with it. The main condition for activation was the sacrifice of the future for the past, which came to be with Flat's death. Following this, the dormant project snapped into completion, producing an entity that thinks of itself as Thia Escardos. His abilities are so strong, the narration interprets them as Skills and Noble Phantasms, and even renders them as such into his profile.
• Humble Goal: Rather than having a specific wish for the Grail to grant, his wish is to see the Grail itself and the different Servants.
• Idiot Savant: Flat's magical genius is purely intuitive and beyond anyone's ability to follow, including his own. While capable of almost impossible feats such as deciphering the Voynich manuscript or solving magecraft research problems that others had written off as impossible, he doesn't even possess the intelligence to articulate what he actually did. His fantastic Magic Circuits also mean that his raw power is at the level of a first-class mage despite being completely and utterly inept at actually utilizing magical theory. That said, he's not utterly incapable, and is in fact more perceptive than his own Servant when it comes to detecting magical signatures. He then uses water as a medium to hack into the senses of the familiars being used by the other Masters of the war and allow him to see what they are seeing, which takes Jack aback. He later rewrites Orlando's meticulously laid wards in four seconds.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Easily the most prominent Wide-Eyed Idealist of the story, with the baby blue eyes to show for it.
• Innocently Insensitive: When False Berserker laments on how he doesn't know his true identity or past, Flat obliviously makes an inane comment, causing False Berserker to comment Flat doesn't know how to read the atmosphere at all.
• Ironic Echo: Unknowingly repeats Iskandar's desire to take all Servants as followers and the feeling that with such power even world conquest would be very easy.
• Keet: Loud, slight, and very excitable.
• Kicked Upstairs: While becoming Lord El-Melloi II's student is usually a mark of honor, Flat came under his tutelage because no other instructor was willing to deal with him any longer.
• Kill the Cutie: First of the Masters to die.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": When he meets False Caster and learns that he is Alexandre Dumas, he becomes very excited and says he's a fan of his works.
• Meaningful Name: His parents, being the wonderful people they are, think of him as "a flat expanse with unintelligible scribbles on it."
• My Death Is Just the Beginning: When he's shot to death on Faldeus' orders, something horrific emerges from his body and starts trying to kill everything around it. Its first victims? The sniper team who murdered Flat.
• Naïve Newcomer: Admires Jack the Ripper for his "coolness" and hopes that he'd be able to settle the Holy Grail War nonviolently through activities like chess games.
• The Nicknamer: Prone to coming up with silly nicknames for people he knows. El Melloi II and Svin are not fond of this tendency. He also called Kairi Shishigou "Go Lion-san" after mistaking the "劫" in his surname for "ゴ", as in the Japanese word for five or "Let's go!" in English.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: As it turns out, "Flat" isn't his real name. It's a name he adopted in order to protect himself from curses that would need his full name; that, and because "Flat" is just quicker and easier to say than his longer real name.
• Parental Abandonment: Flat's parents "allowed" their son to attend the Clock Tower at a much younger age than average entirely as an excuse to get rid of him after failing to kill him for the fifth time.
• Playful Hacker: Flat cheerfully rewrote all of the wards in Orlando's police station in four seconds by flooding it with his magical energy, leaving Orlando defenseless.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: Like his teacher, Flat doesn't shy away from technology the way most magi do and enjoys all sorts of TV shows, video games, and other forms of popular culture. He's easily influenced by modern movies, keeping Jack as a watch because he wants to emulate all the spy movies he watched and showing the Volumen Hydragyrum The Terminator to make it act like one. When he's actually trying to use magecraft, he also begins most of his chants with "Game Select" and ends them with "Game Over", as if he were picking up a video game to play and putting it down.
• The Power of Friendship: A firm believer in this.
  Flat: To be friends with all six other Servants, you'd have to be an amazing magus! Even conquering the world wouldn't just be a dream!
• Pure Is Not Good: "At first, I thought that he was too kind to be a mage, that he was defective. But he's not even that. His purpose is fundamentally different. It's like finding out the tube you thought was a telescope was actually the barrel of a cannon. He's something... something alien."
• Spear Counterpart: To Manaka Sajyou, a blonde and exceptionally powerful young mage whose "oddness" and unique worldview may bring about great calamity.
• Spell My Name With An S: His first name is spelled as either Flat or Flatt.
• Squishy Wizard: Case Files has revealed that despite his prodigious abilities in magecraft, he has no physical aptitude for normal self defense or hand-to-hand combat and has consistently flunked any class in this subject.
• Stepford Smiler: Was this before meeting El-Melloi II to the point that he used magecraft to force smiles.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: While everyone else is stunned at Saber's declaration on live TV, Flat's clapping and cheering at the sheer charisma.
• Supernatural Sensitivity: He feels False Rider's Bounded Field closing around Snowfield.
• Unskilled, but Strong: While Flat is a prodigy whose raw magical potential is already on the level of a Brand, a first-class mage, he lacks the intelligence and temperament of a magus to utilize his true potential. That said, he's far from helpless, easily rewriting wards and Bounded Fields laid by expert magi in seconds.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Flat has a long history of accidentally causing disastrous incidents through innocent, seemingly innocuous actions. Such incidents include starting a vampire riot on a riverboat, convincing his professor's mystic code it was the T-1000, and a mysterious event relating to the Voynich manuscript.
• You Remind Me of X: When El-Melloi II tries to warn him not to join the Grail War, pointing out how dangerous it is, Flat suggests he and his Servant could befriend the other Servants and they could conquer the world together. El-Melloi II is briefly stunned, as that was something his beloved friend Iskandar wanted.

Orlando Reeve

Police Chief Magus of Snowfield

Voiced by: Wataru Hatano (JP), Christopher Wehkamp (EN)

Known as the Police Chief in the pilot novel, he is the Master of False Caster. Orlando Reeve is the police chief of Snowfield. He is a magus who has gone to great lengths to prepare for the Holy Grail War. He knows of the ritual and is disappointed in the government for their decision to advertise it to outsiders.

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• Crazy-Prepared: His basic plan to deal with Gilgamesh? Have Caster forge Noble Phantasms that are superior to the originals using his own NP, give them all to a squad of police officers he handpicked, and overwhelm him with their numbers and forged weapons before he can draw out Ea.
• Da Chief: Of the city of Snowfield.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Even if in this case Cthulhu is doing everything short of mooning him. Unlike Atrum Galliasta, he's reserving his Command Spells for when he really needs them, even if Caster is all but daring him to use them right away. To remove some of the temptation, he refused to establish the traditional Master-Servant telepathic link so he wouldn't have to endure Caster's nonstop boasts.
• Katanas Are Just Better: The Noble Phantasm he obtained from False Caster is a katana that he's quite proficient with, and his Servant outright states that he's the closest among Clan Calatin to unlocking its True Name after the fight against False Assassin and Jester.
• The Musketeer: He carries both a pistol and a katana.
• Straight Man: To Caster.
• Underestimating Badassery:
  • While his initial appearance might lead you to believe that he has every detail planned out in regards on how to deal with Gilgamesh, his plans have more than a few holes, mainly those not taking into account the Gate of Babylon. For one, it doesn't matter if the weapons that his officers have are superior or not to Gilgamesh's, because the Gate of Babylon shoots them so fast that even Servants have difficulty perceiving them, let alone humans, as demonstrated with Waver back when he fought in Zero, which makes the NPs useless. Two, no matter how many soldiers Reeve sends he is still gonna have a limited amount, but the Gate has an infinite amount of weapons stored in it and Gilgamesh can manipulate where the portals appear, making defense Phantasms useless. And third, while the Gate has fearsome power, that is not what makes it so formidable. Rather, its main strength is its versatility, and Gilgamesh knows of most of the Treasures inside of it; even more glaringly, Treasures like Vimana render the entire strategy pointless.
  • This is further demonstrated by his treatment of Dumas, who to be fair is his only real frame of reference, whom he believes he can beat in a fight; his soldiers on the other hand are not sure this is the case...
  • At one point, False Caster suggests they contact Shirou Emiya and hire him to help them take on Gilgamesh. Orlando declines, saying since Shirou's Noble Phantasm copies are weaker than the originals, he wouldn't stand a chance, the same mistake Gilgamesh made in 'Unlimited Blade Works'.
• Would Not Hurt A Child: Though Tsubaki is unwittingly responsible for Snowfield's mysterious epidemic and also a very easy target, Reeve is insistent on finding a way to resolve the issue without killing her while also sending his forces to ward off more opportunistic Masters. This leads to a temporary alliance between him and Flat.

Wolf

The Silver Wolf Familiar

The Master of Lancer. The Wolf is an artificially created silver wolf familiar of a magus originally planning to participate in the Holy Grail War. He was created for the purpose of being used as a catalyst to summon a Servant. The magus believes that he needs to summon a being more ancient than the Origin of Heroes, something that transcends Heroes who were "kings". He wishes to summon an existence Egyptians called "God", but his plan is ruined when the Wolf obtains Command Spells instead of him.

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• Big Friendly Dog: Acts as one towards Ayaka.
• Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Downplayed. He looks very much like a wolf, but according to his creator he's actually a chimera. Though we don't get any details of his creation before his creator is unceremoniously killed.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: Pretty good at judging character. Enkidu uses him to sniff out prospective allies such as Saber and Ayaka.
• Familiar: Was a chimera made by his Master to summon a Servant. The wolf gets something far more powerful than expected.
• Nearly Normal Animal: Despite his ability to summon Enkidu, the Wolf seems to otherwise be of normal animal intelligence.
• Noble Wolf: A silver wolf which serves as both the catalyst for summoning and the master of Enkidu. He proves his nobleness when he asks Enkidu to help Tine even though she resembles the kinds of humans he hates.