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Player Information

Name: Aura
Personal Journal: archerko
Age: 23
Contact Info: ryogi
Other Characters Played: N/A

Character Information

Character Name: Rider (Medusa)
Character Series: Fate/Stay Night
Character Age: Looks like a woman in her early twenties, actutally a good number of thousands years old.
Character Gender: Female.
Canon Point: Heaven's Feel True Ending.

Background Link: About Fate/Stay Night.
Type-Moon Wiki on Rider.
Heaven's Feel Route.

Personality:

To say that Rider is duty driven would be the understatement of the century. Regardless of the route taken, Rider is always shown to be fiercely devoted to her Master and the orders given to her, to the point Shirou, from his perspective, constantly refers to her as something akin to a machine. Whenever she finds herself in a position of danger, or knows that her Master might be in danger, Rider usually defaults to an expressionless, calm and calculative personality, and tends to have an overly logical take on things that might make her seem odd at times, considering how devoid of apparent logic are most things that happen around her; this is actually more like she usually is, danger or not. She makes herself seem cold and impersonal for the sake of revealing as little as possible about herself, but at the same time is a very good method of not showing herself to others like she truly is. Rider is willing to go to extremes to fulfill her duties, including but not limited to use others as weapons and/or leverage, attacking in ways she considers "undignified" and even allowing herself to be treated like a mere tool. The route she comes from implies that her, for the sake of her temporal Master, allowed him to have his way with her, something she seems to be completely unperturbed about. Duty driven to a fault.

That said, Rider is a lot less of a stoic, amoral person than she lets on; it's just easier to deal with her duties as a Servant if she casts off her personality for the sake of efficiency in battle. In reality, Rider is a very nice, level headed woman; she enjoys reading to a rather obsessive point, enjoys being by herself and having a calm environment, but is perfectly capable of holding her ground in a conversation; she's mostly an introvert though, and tires easily of constant interaction, so she tends to default to her books. Rider gets clumsier and less serious the more familiar she is to someone, lowering her defenses accordingly how much she trusts someone; she's not overly trustful to begin with, though, but given the right conditions she won't try to push people away. Still, Rider is pretty bad at socializing, usually not putting much on her part to keep a conversation going beyond a point where she has gotten what she wants, and beyond a few others she's not that interested in befriending people; she doesn't mind acquaintances, but can do without them just as easily.

Abilities:

Rider is a Servant, and also a Heroic Spirit; she's the highest, most powerful kind of spirit there is, and under conditions different from the Holy Grail War keeping her as a familiar would be a feat only the best of the best magi would be able to achieve, considering she's so ridiculously powerful she demands a lot of magical energy to remain in the world. Rider, like any other Heroic Spirit, is several times faster, stronger, more agile and just generally incredibly better at anything than a regular human. She can't be hurt by any conventional means (bullets, bladed weapons, etc) and her physical form can be wounded in ways that would kill a living being, but she won't die until her "core" is destroyed, making her incredibly resilient to damage. She's also capable of assuming an spiritual form for the sake of being covert and consuming less of her Master's prana.

On a more individual note, Rider possesses a number of abilities particular to herself. Here is the full thing. What matters the most is that she has three differentiated skills: The "nails" she uses for both ranged attacks; they look like long, thick pieces of metal with spikes coming from one of their sides, and they are attached to chains. They don't have any particular power by themselves.

Then there is Bellerophon, the Pegasus, which can be shot like a projectile or used as a ride to charge at enemies. It's insanely powerful and can travel at Match 2. In order to use it Rider needs an incantation, besides a good amount of magical energy ready to be spent.

She possesses two Bounded Fields, which are spells that cover an area and cause an effect on either those inside or those trying to enter/leave it. One is Blood Fort Andromeda, a Bounded Field that sucks the energy of every living creature inside of it, liquefying humans instantly for the sake of giving her more magical energy, and the other one is Breaker Gorgon, which is capable of sealing the target inside the mind of the user. Rider usually keeps Breaker Gorgon to herself, using it to seal her eyes, although from the point she is taken she has changed the use of her bounded field for an Eye Killer pair of glasses. Beraker Gorgon can be used to trap enemies in real-like hallucinations that keep them from moving and allow Rider to do as she pleases.

Finally, Rider has a pair of Mystic Eyes known as Cybele, or the Mystic Eyes of Petrification. A note about her eyes; they have square pupils, cannot be closed ever. The eyes affect everything Rider can see, whether her targets are looking at them or not, even if they are closing their eyes, because they already "know" where she is and can sense her. To put it in simple terms, anyone without magic abilities will be instantly turned to stone, and depending on how good someone's magic resistance is the petrification time will take longer, with those with average-to-good magic resistance finding movement more and more difficult before actually turning to stone. However, anyone and everyone will eventually turn to stone if exposed for long enough.

Sample Entry: dear_mun entry.