Heavy Snark

Fate/illuminated histoire

@Heavy Snark Yo, wanna pair my Suit-Wearing-Lightning-Mage with your Rooty-Tooty-Point-And-Sun-Shooty-Archer?

Wanna pair your Archer with my master on the Red Team? :D

@Crusader Lord

@Crusader Lord Sure.

Fate/illuminated histoire

The guy with more sheets than even Simo Haya

Hou Yi

Name: Hou Yi, Slayer of the Nine Suns, Bowman of the Heavens
Class: Archer
Appearance: "Mine are the arrows that shall fell the sun!"

Personality: Easygoing and straightforward. Charming and honest. His greatest assets are his confidence in his own decisions and his courage in the face of adversity. A serene appearance that betrays a heart bursting with feelings. Archer goes about his life with a boyish heart, a taste for dramatic flair, and an unshakeable hope for meeting again a certain person…

He is easily impressed and just as easily amused. He is also a natural airhead, incapable of understanding subtleties when communicating with someone else, mostly taking things at face value. (He broke many hearts by just being himself, but obliviously kept going.) He admires heroes of justice and people who stood against the world for their ideals, broken as they were; for him, these are the bravest souls. The owner of a deep spiritual core, he offers respect and prays to all the departed souls, no matter their side in a War. All lives deserve the cycle of birth and rebirth, and all lives deserve to be mourned.

――He is also the one person always urging his Master to get a parasol, for the UV-rays in this time of the year are just brutal on your skin.

Stats:
Strength: D
Endurance: C
Agility: A
Mana: C
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: A+

Class Skills:

Independent Action - B

As a Servant, he can stay in the world for two days without the support of a Master. However, this is the ideal value achieved by conserving mana and avoiding battle.

It looks like his original parameter was supposed to be C, but thanks to his personal Skill Affection of the Moon, he somehow got a rank up. One explanation can be that, by being the owner of an unshakeable faith that he is favored by the moon, he can actually survive quite longer when it is dark in a sort of Placebo-effect phenomenon.

Magic Resistance - C+

Cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals. He has a remarkable resistance to Chinese-related Witchcraft.

Personal Skills:

Affections of the Moon - A

Hou Yi is blessed by the light of the Moon, the only connection he has to his beloved Chang'e. Once per night, if Archer were to take a lethal or even fatal blow, Chang'e shall bless her husband with her divine fortune. Upon this activation, Archer must make a "luck check"; if it succeeds, the attack will fail regardless of circumstances or properties of the attack. Not only this, but events will change in such a way that it will allow Archer to make a single action before his opponent can retaliate, essentially giving him a "free action".

The chance of success is heavily dependent on the eight phases of the moon; upon the New Moon, the chance is extremely low. During each successive phase, the chance of the Skill activating grows more and more until the Full Moon, where activation is guaranteed. However, each successive phase after the Full Moon causes the chance to rapidly fall until the New Moon, where it resets entirely.

Divinity - D-

Due to his original status as a god, Hou Yi has access to natural Divinity. However, due to his banishment at the hands of the Jade Emperor, the Parameters for this Skill have dramatically decreased.

Clairvoyance - B+

Hou Yi had honed his senses to a tremendous degree, as shown by his feats against the many demons he does throughout his travels as well as his feats as a god. Archer has the capacity to see through illusions as well as in areas without light. Just as the gods see the world from their perch on the Heavens, Archer is also able to see from a bird's eye view above the battlefield, giving him nigh-unparalleled spotting ability.

Noble Phantasm(s):

Name: Gifted Gale: Pouch of Travelling Winds
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit (Self), Anti-Unit
Effects: Gifted Gale is the power Hou Yi once demonstrated while still mortal. Due to his victory against the Count of the Winds, he was given a bag of winds that is worn on his waist. In life it allowed the warrior to travel across the land in search of the fearsome demons to vanquish. When activated, Hou Yi opens the bag, allowing a massive gale wind to fire out. Once the winds have calmed after a moment, Archer gains control over the air in the surrounding environment, allowing him to control it to an extreme degree. He can use this to soar about in the air freely and extremely quickly, allowing him to rarely touch the earth if need be. His usage extends over multiple forms of flight from levitating to utterly defying gravity and using the wind as a physical structure to grasp. He can also utilize the wind in combat, sending out gale winds and cyclones to strike Masters and strike at Servants, manipulating air currents to redirect ranged attacks or simply as a way to move himself and his Master if they need to preposition or even retreat.

Name: Jinwu - Punishment of Nine Fallen Suns
Rank: A+
Type: Anti-Army
Effects: The crystallization of You Yi's greatest achievement, Jinwu is Archer's most powerful technique. Upon activation, Archer fires an arrow into the sky, targeting a point in the heavens above the battlefield. Upon the point, the act of felling a sun is re-created; the death wails of a sun-bird act as the warning cry as one of nine suns falls from the Heavens and onto the earth, engulfing the battlefield in a surge of incinerating sun-fire.

Just as the act of felling the suns was that of punishment for defying the will of the Jade Emperor, the arrows themselves as well as the flames created by the sun's fall carry the property of [Divine Punishment]; those who have committed an act of defiance or rebellion against the gods shall find themselves swiftly slain by both the arrows and the flames, their bodies pierced or burnt to ash.

Despite its power, there is one caveat to this ability; as there were only nine suns that were slain in his legend, Archer can only cause nine suns to fall onto the earth. Due to this, Archer can only use this Noble Phantasm nine times in total.

Alignment: Red Faction

Fate/illuminated histoire

@Heavy Snark: Edit the limitation(as in, once a night) in on his Protection of the Moon and he's good to go.

@VitaVitaAR

@VitaVitaAR Done.

Fate/illuminated histoire

@VitaVitaAR I've edited his personality and removed his third NP. Is this alright now?

Fate/illuminated histoire

@Heavy Snark: Alright, after some extensive discussion and matters brought to my attention by players, the ultimate conclusion is that I'm going to have to deny Hou Yi in his current state. He's too divergent from the widely-accepted versions of the myth(even accepting standard Nasuverse reinterpretation) and you did not address his third NP when I pointed out that it was too much.

@VitaVitaAR

@VitaVitaAR Hmm. What if I were to change Hou Yi to be more in line with the widely-accepted versions and removed his third NP?

Fate/illuminated histoire

<Snipped quote by Heavy Snark>

Ahhh, so it’s a one-time thing? That was unclear from the wording of it, but if that’s the case then it’s definitely somewhat more reasonable. However, when you say ‘one’ lethal blow, do you mean one per night or one in the entire war or what?

@Anza

@Anza One per night, keyword: night; Blessing of the Moon is incapable of working during the day.

@Heavy Snark: Alright, after discussion...

Can you explain a bit more about your interpretation of Hou Yi? He's different then most stories about him, basically, and in this case for a few different reasons brought up to us by other players we'd like to know a bit more.

@VitaVitaAR

@VitaVitaAR Basically I'm using the Hou Yi from the 'bad end' variant of the myth. More especially the version where both of him and his wife were gods before being banished and Chang'e immediately chugs the Elixir of Immortality after Hou Yi brings it back, leaving him to grow old all alone as a mortal until he's murdered by his apprentice.

Fate/illuminated histoire

@Heavy Snark: Hmm... After discussion, we've decided that his ability to be invulnerable under the moon and his third NP are both kind of excessive.

@KoL: Accepted.

@VitaVitaAR

@VitaVitaAROh no, he's not invulnerable. Rather when under the moon he can make one fatal or lethal blow not have happened while getting a free counter attack. If he passes the luck check that is.

Fate/illuminated histoire

Well since Talos was a no go due to there already being a version of him (Even if it's not really him due to being from a Lostbelt and also a fusion with Rhodes too), here's someone that hasn't been added to Fate.

The guy with more sheets than even Simo Haya

Hou Yi

Name: Hou Yi, Slayer of the Nine Suns, Bowman of the Heavens
Class: Archer
Appearance: "Mine are the arrows that shall fell the sun!"

Personality: Easygoing and straightforward. Charming and honest. His greatest assets are his confidence in his own decisions and his courage in the face of adversity. A serene appearance that betrays a heart bursting with feelings. Archer goes about his life with a boyish heart, a taste for dramatic flair, and an unshakeable hope for meeting again a certain person…

He is easily impressed and just as easily amused. He is also a natural airhead, incapable of understanding subtleties when communicating with someone else, mostly taking things at face value. (He broke many hearts by just being himself, but obliviously kept going.) He admires heroes of justice and people who stood against the world for their ideals, broken as they were; for him, these are the bravest souls. The owner of a deep spiritual core, he offers respect and prays to all the departed souls, no matter their side in a War. All lives deserve the cycle of birth and rebirth, and all lives deserve to be mourned.

――He is also the one person always urging his Master to get a parasol, for the UV-rays in this time of the year are just brutal on your skin.

Stats:
Strength: D
Endurance: C
Agility: A
Mana: C
Luck: B
Noble Phantasm: A+

Class Skills:

Independent Action - B

As a Servant, he can stay in the world for two days without the support of a Master. However, this is the ideal value achieved by conserving mana and avoiding battle.

It looks like his original parameter was supposed to be C, but thanks to his personal Skill Affection of the Moon, he somehow got a rank up. One explanation can be that, by being the owner of an unshakeable faith that he is favored by the moon, he can actually survive quite longer when it is dark in a sort of Placebo-effect phenomenon.

Magic Resistance - C+

Cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals. He has a remarkable resistance to Chinese-related Witchcraft.

Personal Skills:

Affections of the Moon - A

Hou Yi is blessed by the light of the Moon, the only connection he has to his beloved Chang'e. Once per night, if Archer were to take a lethal or even fatal blow, Chang'e shall bless her husband with her divine fortune. Upon this activation, Archer must make a "luck check"; if it succeeds, the attack will fail regardless of circumstances or properties of the attack. Not only this, but events will change in such a way that it will allow Archer to make a single action before his opponent can retaliate, essentially giving him a "free action".

The chance of success is heavily dependent on the eight phases of the moon; upon the New Moon, the chance is extremely low. During each successive phase, the chance of the Skill activating grows more and more until the Full Moon, where activation is guaranteed. However, each successive phase after the Full Moon causes the chance to rapidly fall until the New Moon, where it resets entirely.

Divinity - D-

Due to his original status as a god, Hou Yi has access to natural Divinity. However, due to his banishment at the hands of the Jade Emperor, the Parameters for this Skill have dramatically decreased.

Clairvoyance - B+

Hou Yi had honed his senses to a tremendous degree, as shown by his feats against the many demons he does throughout his travels as well as his feats as a god. Archer has the capacity to see through illusions as well as in areas without light. Just as the gods see the world from their perch on the Heavens, Archer is also able to see from a bird's eye view above the battlefield, giving him nigh-unparalleled spotting ability.

Noble Phantasm(s):

Name: Gifted Gale: Pouch of Travelling Winds
Rank: B
Type: Anti-Unit (Self), Anti-Unit
Effects: Gifted Gale is the power Hou Yi once demonstrated while still mortal. Due to his victory against the Count of the Winds, he was given a bag of winds that is worn on his waist. In life it allowed the warrior to travel across the land in search of the fearsome demons to vanquish. When activated, Hou Yi opens the bag, allowing a massive gale wind to fire out. Once the winds have calmed after a moment, Archer gains control over the air in the surrounding environment, allowing him to control it to an extreme degree. He can use this to soar about in the air freely and extremely quickly, allowing him to rarely touch the earth if need be. His usage extends over multiple forms of flight from levitating to utterly defying gravity and using the wind as a physical structure to grasp. He can also utilize the wind in combat, sending out gale winds and cyclones to strike Masters and strike at Servants, manipulating air currents to redirect ranged attacks or simply as a way to move himself and his Master if they need to preposition or even retreat.

Name: Jinwu - Punishment of Nine Fallen Suns
Rank: A+
Type: Anti-Army
Effects: The crystallization of You Yi's greatest achievement, Jinwu is Archer's most powerful technique. Upon activation, Archer fires an arrow into the sky, targeting a point in the heavens above the battlefield. Upon the point, the act of felling a sun is re-created; the death wails of a sun-bird act as the warning cry as one of nine suns falls from the Heavens and onto the earth, engulfing the battlefield in a surge of incinerating sun-fire.

Just as the act of felling the suns was that of punishment for defying the will of the Jade Emperor, the arrows themselves as well as the flames created by the sun's fall carry the property of [Divine Punishment]; those who have committed an act of defiance or rebellion against the gods shall find themselves swiftly slain by both the arrows and the flames, their bodies pierced or burnt to ash.

Despite its power, there is one caveat to this ability; as there were only nine suns that were slain in his legend, Archer can only cause nine suns to fall onto the earth. Due to this, Archer can only use this Noble Phantasm nine times in total.

Alignment: Red Faction

Fate/Glimmering Oasis

Chaldea's Canteen, Chaldea (duh)

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"Oi Oi Oi kid, settle down with the backstory - I only met you for five minutes at most. I appreciate the enthusiasm about defeating mages and the drive about how we're gonna win this, but ya gotta think a little before you decide to announce your hatred of sorcerers in a place run mostly by sorcerers, anyway I gotta go before my Master here burns down the breakfast buffet," Lancer said before following along with his Master.

While he could appreciate dramatic speeches due to being around his Lord for so long there was a certain time and place for them, it just wasn't the same when someone unloaded one right into you when you barely know them. 'Gotta give him an A for effort though, the kid has conviction, it's kinda sad how rare it is to find someone with drive nowadays,' Lancer mused before the familiar voice of a smug painter broke him out of his thoughts.

"Ah, Michelangelo, nice to see the upper echelons hanging out with us down in middle management," Truth be told, Yasuke didn't like the Caster very much. Not only was he a smug jackass but the Jesuits couldn't shut about him and his paintings back when he was a slave (they are not even that good! That Leonardo fellow was way better). That's why he drew particular pleasure in getting his name wrong just to watch the painter "correct" him; it was one of those little things in life that made Yasuke happy. Plus it's not like the Caster didn't deserve it, coming unto his Master like some spectral renaissance creep.

Interposing himself between Raphael and Charlotte Yasuke scratched his chin as he looked at the menu. "Hmm, I guess I'll take some Natto and eggs. So, Raph, it looks like you and my Master are getting along pretty well. A seventeen-year-old pyromaniac and the incarnated spirit of the man who painted the Sistine Chapel, truly an unlikely friendship, don't you think?"

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@Reflection

Fate/illuminated histoire

Well I've decided to try my hand at this and pick the Berserker of Red spot. So here's an Attack on Titan reference.

Seid ihr das Essen? Nein, wir sind der Jäger!

Talos

• Name: Talos
• Class: Berserker
• Appearance: "P...rO...t...Ek...t..."
• Personality: Talos was truly "born" only after Medea acknowledged its desire to be something more than a tool. As a result, one might call it a baby when it comes to attitudes and behaviors.
  
  It finds everything curious. Despite having seen them so many times, it still finds trees and the sea interesting since it only stared at the same ones for generations.
  
  Even after becoming a Heroic Spirit, it is still attached to its duty. Talos considers it something sacred and forsaking it would make its past existence meaningless. Therefore, despite its endless curiosity for everything, its Master's safety is the giant's top priority. Despite wishing to be "something more than a tool", in a regular Holy Grail War it would readily accept death in order to ensure its summoner's safety. However, being betrayed and discarded like an object is a different matter.
  
  It will not betray its Master under any circumstance, but if it's constantly assailed with statements such as "Servants are nothing but tools", it might start to display slightly rebellious behaviors. It won't let its Master be harmed, but it can't be helped if they land painfully on their butt as Talos pushes them out of harm's way.
  
  Indeed, just like a child.

• Stats:
  
  • Strength: A++
  • Endurance: A++
  • Agility: D
  • Mana: C
  • Luck: E
  • Noble Phantasm: B

Class Skills:

Mad Enhancement: D

-Raises basic parameters and strengthens one's physical abilities in exchange for hindering mental capacities and/or their sense of reason. The rank is rather low for this Class, enhancing only Strength and Endurance. Speech is still possible, but complex thoughts can bring complications. Berserker barely had a sense of self but developed one after its encounter with a young witch, who led it to a short-lived madness followed by death.

Personal Skills:

Guardian Knight: B-

-A rare Skill that grants the Servant a temporary attribute bonus if acting in the defense of others. Upon summoning, Berserker will immediately mark its Master as "the one who must be protected". As long as Berserker is guarding its Master, defensive power is raised significantly. Berserker was crafted for one single purpose: protect a woman loved by the King of Gods. It never faltered in this duty until it met a young bewitching magus.

Projectile (Rocks): A

-The expertise for throwing projectile weapons; in this case, rocks. It may sound ridiculous, but Berserker's inhuman strength compensates for the odd choice of weaponry. Rocks as large as one's head can be thrown with enough force to collapse a small house in a single hit. Berserker can form its own rocks through its Self-Modification skill. In its legend, by picking up large boulders and throwing them, Berserker easily sank hundreds of ships that threatened the woman it was tasked to protect. Not even the famous Argo and its Argonauts could directly match Berserker's monstrous power.

Earthly Vessel: A

-By virtue of being an existence made of earthly materials, one's body can be shaped and modified. In Berserker's case, it's any type of metal. A Skill possessed only by inhuman Heroic Spirits. Berserker is capable of shaping its body to form any sort of weapon: swords, axes, spears, maces, shields. By shedding much of its body mass and forming a pair of wings, even a limited form of flight can be achieved. Berserker can absorb metallic materials by coming into contact with them, but its body mass is limited to a set value. If its body is heavily mutilated, as long as Magical Energy is sufficient, Berserker can merge the broken parts and reform it. Berserker was a creature of the earth, crafted by the Divine Spirit Hephaestus, all for one purpose. Manipulating its body to such an extent alienated it from the concept of humanity, but it was born to be a tool, so no one ever cared.

Noble Phantasm(s):

Name: Zoi Ilios: The Life-Granting Sun
Rank: B~A+
Type: Anti-Unit (Self)/Anti-Army
Effects: Talos is the Sun. In Crete, Berserker's true name was the equivalent of Helios, the Greek embodiment of the Sun. Rather than the two having any actual link or bond, it hints at Berserker's birth and origin instead.

As a Noble Phantasm of the Gods, endowed with strength and toughness that not even Demi-Gods could hope to match, a powerful energy source was required in order to sustain such an imposing existence.

Hephaestus replicated a Sun and shrank it. Although the size was dramatically different from the real deal, it still accomplished its objective by animating the once motionless statue of brass and bronze.

Zoi Ilios is located in the same spot where one might find a human's heart. It's a mystical furnace, endlessly emanating magical energy that's converted into heat if Berserker doesn't consume it. As a result, steam is constantly emitted from its mouth and its unmeltable metallic body is capable of reaching blazing temperatures that instantly boil water, liquefy flesh and injure even Servants on contact unless they possess a particular resistance.

By stimulating the mini-sun acting as its core, Berserker can boost the production of magical energy even further, enhancing the above-mentioned effects. In Berserker's legends, pirates and intruders would be executed with a hug from its heated body, reducing their bodies to sizzling husks devoid of fluids and life. In this state, Servants without high defensive values would be instantly killed.

It acts as Berserker's main power source, making support from the Master meaningless. The Berserker class is infamous for the obscene amount of prana it demands, but if not for this Noble Phantasm, this particular Heroic Spirit would drain an average magus of all their reserves in a minute if allowed to rampage. Thanks to Zoi Ilios, Berserker can always fight at full capacity and won't tire, making him the ideal Servant for attrition battles.

If Berserker wills it, Zoi Illios can be overcharged and turned into a powerful Anti-Army blast surpassing a modern nuke when it comes to raw power. Anyone caught in the radius will be undoubtedly vaporized, including Berserker itself.

Alignment: True Neutral
Changes: Duo to being summoned as a separate entity from the Noble Phantasm version of Talos mixed with Rhodes that belongs to Europa, this Talos takes the form of the original. A Monster and weapon created by the Gods in the same vein as the Minotaur and Enkidu. The fact he can be summoned at all comes from becoming more human due to the manipulations of a certain Greek witch.