Caster of Red: SHAKESPEARE Explained - Fate Apocrypha | Past & Abilites / Noble Phantasm 

AniNews karna please

AniNews Why must you always forget sexy boy spartacus in your polls

Begs for us to vote for caster of red, uploads a rather disappointing video. RIP. Welp, back to Atalanta boyz~ \o/

+Cake# Unfortunately only room for 5 :(

AniNews could you do an episode explaining abilities you missed because the show wasn't done.

It could also easily backfire on him if he tried to induce PTSD on a spirit who has accepted their regrets and past as part of their choices. Trying to break someone who's already broken could only lead to pissing them off

@@phantomwraith1984 yess! And we know it because something similar happens to Akame ga kill.

@@uselesshero.official exactly. Dont try to traumatize someone who has made peace with their demons. I'd love to actually see Shakespeare try that, and see it hilariously backfire on him xD

@@phantomwraith1984 Shakespeare : How are you still standing!? Cu : EPIC HEROES LIKE US DON'T NEED A SECOND LIFE

@@phantomwraith1984 This seriously won't work on someone like Iskandar or Gilgamesh but imagine of Archer Emiya or Diarmud-

O god Shakespeare during fate/zero

Kiritsugu + Shakespeare would be extremely powerful, no one would have been able to stand up to Kiritsugu's cunning, and given how Shakespeare is all about tragedies, he would definitely be on board with Kiritsugu

would also work since Fate zero has a tragic end

Tactical nuke sniper... Arash's Stella eat your fucking heart out! With Shakespeare you don't need to actually die

Kiritsugu directly stated that he would've worked better with a Caster or Assassin class servant

he did, and he saw it all fall as he docomented it

@@peynnep6483 Speaking of which, I wonder what happened to said documentations actually and if anyone ended up seeing them.

Enchant on Volumen Hydrargyrim? Oof.

Except Waver Velvet.

@@Paradox586 and Kariya Matou

Irishcrossing And Even then Astolfo is pretty weak compared to the others without the right conditions.

Don't forget Karna probably would require a massive amount of Mana to be as effective as he was, Assassin of Red was constantly flooding the room where the Masters of Red were with Mana replenishing poisons that made them ridiculously susceptible to suggestion. Honestly you'd need to be Rin, Kayneth/Sola-Ui, Illya, Sakura, or Waver to actually use him without killing yourself from Mana exhaustion (don't forget Waver kept Iskandar constantly manifested and constantly using the Gordius Wheel, despite being a weak mage he had surprisingly high Mana capacity).

Lancer Being in Romania only makes him Hercules in Greece tier (which is supposed to be obscenely broken). Being outside of Romania would still be an absurdly powerful Heroic spirit especially if he has time to claim land as his. Demonic Defender of the State lets him have his Romania buffs anywhere in the world so long as he can set up and mark ley lines. Lancer is still ridiculously strong. On Semiramis, they just have to hide long enough to build the Hanging Gardens. Plenty of heroic spirits have been summoned before the war to prepare. Hercules was summoned 2 months before the Fuyuki Grail war. I mean it isn't as if all servants know where other servants are and masters do summon servants early to prepare for the wars.

Llamma Pajama Semiramis required real world materials to make Hanging Gardens, most of which took between 2 weeks and 3 months to gather, and that was with both the Mage's Association and the Church providing supplies. Honestly the only Fuyuki Grail War viable Servants of Red were Mordred, Atlanta, and Shakespeare. Reasons why the others aren't viable: Karna's Mana requirements would kill you or slowly destroy your nerves. Achilles would put you in the same boat as Karna. Spartacus will kill you if you try to control him. And Semiramis requires to much prep time to be viable and even then you'd need to alter the summoning ritual to be able to summon her with her Caster abilities otherwise she's just a poison based Assassin. Reasons why Saber, Archer, and Caster are viable: Mordred doesn't require as much Mana as Karna or Achilles but is just as strong a fighter; however her Noble Phantasm is very costly. Atlanta is all around a pretty good pick, she's got okay skills, she's got decent attributes, her Noble Phantasm isn't that costly and so long as you aren't going after children or being a terrible person she'll be moderately okay with you. Shakespeare is where it gets fun he is a complete non-combatant but he has the skill Enchant which allows him to create Noble Phantasms, not Mystic Codes, you see he lacks the Item Creation skill which is a Caster's main way of empowering their Master, but this skill allows him to make anything a Noble Phantasm so long as he can write about it without "breaking" the story. His Noble Phantasm is actually quite strong, it's not meant to do damage it's meant to distract, this makes Shakespeare dangerous as his master could kill the enemy servant using one of his Enchant created Noble Phantasms while their unable to effectively fight back. If used by say a master like Shirou then Shakespeare would be the biggest threat on the field as he is empowering an already decent fighter with a Noble Phantasm of up to B+ quality. Be warned though Shakespeare will be writing your story as the war happens this will have an effect on the outcome, Amakusa tried to negate this by using a command seal and Shakespeare swapped who he was writing about to get around it he makes Amakusa's story a Tragedy by making Sieg the protagonist retro actively altering events so Sieg would escape the vat instead of dying.

Astolfo still has the advetage to be to have a variety of magic arsenal and he tries to help his master likely no masterkilling. and he is cheerful. he is better than most assasins and casters.

And that is why I grailed him to Lvl 80 in FGO... fave.

U like the Zero one

Close you cant beat gil de railles

I love Shakespeare in this as he has a personality and bring humour into the scenes he was in

@@jonsnor4313 gilles is the best along with shakespeare and merlin and medea

I did that in a recent campaign and tried to model him like the caster from fate. Now being a bard was to uninteresting so I decided to kill him. He's currently an undead necromancer who will try to play theatre with his corpses.

@@PixelGamer05HD cool

@@PixelGamer05HD shit, that's amazing

But what if he was the DM?

ashmazyn brospeare!

HELL NO BWAHAHAHAHA

Yeetliam Shakespeare

you've got to forgive us muggles. Oh grand mage

Youjo4u forgive them, for they not know what they do wrong.

Its just fancy names for fictional stuff😂

Magic is for gay asses

@@Written_in_the_Starss Greetings Citizen, while you would be correct in most other forms of media Fate is an exception where magecraft is what is performed by servants/mages and magic is on a whole other level. At first I too thought it was like tomayto tomahto (Can't really get the saying across without misspelling it) but after I learned the difference it was like tomato to-nuclear warhead.

No because Apocrypha is garbage.

Manthe it’s not totally garbage but they need to stop making the honor of the stories into bulshit by making man into woman there’s enough woman in legend and they don’t show the real power of almost none of the servants

@@feritperliare2890 No, the issue is characters being boring. Except Mordred and her master, everyone was bland, especially the main character.

@@manthe3711 what makes them garbage is the main character and jeanne plot

@@socrates1796 Trying to find what went wrong in Apocrypha is the wrong way to look at things. It was ALL garbage, except Saber (Mordred) and her master. Those two were good, the rest though ? All trash, cliché or boring. Apocrypha was mediocre, like Stay night. Only Fate/zero is good.

I would kill to see the France Singularity get adapted

A Fate/grand order anime with all singularitys would be cool.

You know who be better then Mozart? Salrai with his sick piano skills...

On the flip side, Shakespear might be a big problem if Kiritsugu ever got caught in his NP.

Kiritsugu would probably commit suicide if he was entangled in Shakespere's NP

Well you can't fight servants unless you are a servant is what saber said once. But Shakespeare could make all Kerry's equipment to reach Np lvls, not too strongs but can you imagine if the contender could hit servants?

Maik that's absolute nonsense. Of course mages can fight servants, wether they can win or not is the obvious question that comes up, andfar more often than not, they lose. Rin kills Heracles once with a surprise attack Rin beats the shit out of Medea Shirou cut Gils arm off Etc etc etc Servants are definitely vulnerable to attacks from Mages, although there is only a handful of mages in the world that could stand up or surpass servants (the True Magic users, Aoko Aozaki and Kischur Zelretch) most of the time, for a servant to be beaten by a mage, it has to be played into a situation that heavily favours the mage.

you are talking about ancestors or mages with some connection to the root. Shirou get Gil's arm just because he refuses to fight him seriously. And Rin is a smart mage but not strong as Medea whom in all Fate routes doesnt have a magemaster who supplies mana, therefore she was fighting all alone.

I though he said "Don't write tragedy" as in don't document the war as if it had an bad ending(even though it kinda did)

That was more of a pride thing and the intent was " dont talk shit about me" of course being Shakespeare that is exactly what he would do and make sure everyone knows it far and wide. About how he failed or a fool or a deranged monster even a writing a martyr death would be unacceptable to him because it puts a bad twist in his story. Its not that it would have any real power anyway.

If u have seen in Shinjuku pseudo singularity , Moriarty binded Shakespeare n tried making him an alter n using Shakespeare's power he made various monsters .

Ryan Walters See Bazett and Angra Mainyu if you want to see how a strong master cooperates with a weaker servant, it's actually super deadly.

+Nathaniel Shaw, The Overclocked Thinker Tbh i was thinking that since frankenstein was technically only existed in literature, then wouldnt characters from shakespeare's works qualify to be summoned in the war as well if there's enough of a legend surrounding them. Just my thoughts haha

Well in fate grand order, Shakespeare can summon character in his play as phantom, weaker than servant. If there would any writer, author servant with another same type servant, they can combine their specialty like Shakespeare noble phantasm enchanted, Hans Christian Anderson noble phantasm which can change a person to their most powerful state that they can be, Alexandre Dumas skill that can create noble phantasm from scratch or Scheherazade noble phantasm to summon her character from 1001 Arabian Night, all of these can turn a human to powerful being or boost a servant greatly. These Caster type are somewhat weak but god their support skill can turn a sex crazy nun into a demon of lust that can kill servant(spoiler from fate extra ccc).

AniNews whether the author or the characters of his work would be summoned should depend on who is more famous. Shakespear is the author of many famous works, his fame is more than any one of his works. One other hand, frankenstein's monster has been recast and retold in many ways and mediums. His fame is higher than his author's whom I do not know

Shakespeare's power is more towards reenacting events than powering up a target. He has his skill to enchance but it's pretty limited in it's capabilities. If you want to see another Author Servant that can actually do what you described, just look up Hans Christian Anderson. Much like Shakespeare, that guy is completly useless, more so than Shakespeare cause he has no defensive skills like Shakespeare. What's insane is his Noble Phantasm which literally makes his master into a Main Character, with plot armor and etc... It's a Noble Phantasm that can make a perverted nun into a literal God. It's only setback being that being storylines are progressive, making the target a MC, doesnt do much early into the war, but as the war goes forward and the climax is near it's power increases.

Nathaniel Shaw, The Overclocked Thinker curb stomping never does good to any story

+Aquil Hudson Thanks bud I appreciate it. And right now Im not too certain yet, since I havent thought about it too much, but Im thinking maybe fate extra last encore. I may do FGO but not making any promises now haha XD

AniNews already because I would love to see you do a video on Altera or scáthach

+Aquil Hudson Hmmm Ill keep that in mind. Thanks for the suggestion bud

+Aquil Hudson Well, Altera is an Extra timeline servant so if he does cover the Extra Servants, she has chances to be in there.

He`s too situational to stand a chance in a normal grail war, unless his master is as clever as him. he can be really effective in the right conditions tho, just like jack the ripper noble phantasm, in the fifth grail war almost half of the masters and servants were female (saber, rin, sakura, rider, caster, ilya, bazett) while in the fourth one only saber is present, and even then she has high magic resistance for "maria the ripper" to be performed properly.

He did actually manage to strengthen his Master to a point where they defeated a Servant, in one of the Subcategory Grail Wars of the Apocrypha world, so he does have some merit. But even then, you are pretty much right that he requires a really good Master to stand a chance of winning.

I think if shakespeare were to be summoned by Kiritsugu Emiya in the fourth holy grail war or even Kotomine Kirie, he would have been one of the most useful servants around, since they didn't care all that much about fighting dirty. Shakespeare isn't meant to be a powerhouse I think, but rather a support servant for capable masters, or in FGO, a support servant to make your powerhouse servants even better.

In theory Shakespeare could be used to target the Master himself to cause breakdowns of communications and target their loved ones into acting for Caster and his Master by proxy. Many of Shakespeare plays revolve around character flaws and deception be they in Julius Caesar, Othello, or many other plays of his. It would makes sense that a Master of Shakespeare would have to think similarly to one of his characters: Honest Iago to use him and his talents effectively in a war.

Mitchell Alexander yes, exactly! His Noble Phantasm isn’t meant for combat; it breaks someone’s will. Given the right motivation, he could probably use it to, as you said, make opposing masters/their loved ones/random people act for you by proxy. Shakespeare and his Master would win the war not through direct conflict, but by continuously assaulting the enemy masters’ mental and emotional health through his Noble Phantasm, only participating in combat long enough to get away. It would be a slow grind kind of thing, and it would definitely require a master who is very good at using Shakespeare effectively (and more importantly makes Shakespeare WANT to do what he’s being told to) but it would be a very viable way to win, IMO.

Just Some Guy with a Mustache yet we meet again over and over again

Egads so sad

I absolutelly understand this, I felt this too when I saw, although I must admit it's mostly the adaptation to blame. If you look back at when Jeanne first showed up, she took the body of a living girl, this is the reason why Jeanne cannot go into spirit form and as to walk around to whatever destination she wants. If this was regular Jeanne without the girl Laticia, she would not even bat an eye at seeing Sieg burn or head. The one in love with Sieg is Laticia and it's her emotions that are fucking with Jeanne, ence why there's the weirdly placed look-a-like crying and begging to Jeanne. In the end though, it's just a mediocre scene that runs as cliche, but at least the novel made it passable. The anime's scene only saving graces were Shakespeare and Gilles.

jorgiguel that does make sense however does that mean Latricia also felt nothing for children being murder ?

well, I guess you could say that. To be honest, I don't think the author thought that much about the hole thing other than "love is stronger than other emotion" cliche. But yeah, it does make it look like Latricia cares more about Seig than children dieing.

I think it's more of an "subjective and objective" opposition in the matter of the children Jack is made out of. Chances are Jeanne and Laeticia are influencing each other, so despite the fact that Laeticia, the person, would indeed feel, the fact is that she's directly connected to Jeanne. So, feeling what Jeanne feels and seeing what she sees, it does make sense that, in the end, sharing knowledge of what was happening and what exacty Jack is, she would in the end let Jeanne put them to rest, since it was the objective best thing to do for all parties involved.

zzmukurosamazz in the original book, she felt disgusted by the children being murdered though

I bet sooner or later Steve will be summoned as eighter a Saber/Archer/Caster and his NP would be creative mode for 1 minute with spamming enderdragon mobs

Never mind. I'll come back after episode 23. Thanks for the warning.

+Lincoln Beckett-Scott Lol I was almost not gonna put it in but then I thought to myself, the episode only aired yesterday so odds are ppl havent seen it yet.

AniNews And literally as soon as I typed that comment, I found the new episode was out. Talk about good timing.

So granted if the master isn't capable to take on a servant William Shakespeare would be considered useless 2 a Master with no creativity or imagination

+Yuu Homura Looks like its gonna be karna next haha

24kam48 NP apache helicopter NP rocket launcher NP exo suit

The problem is that, by essence, Masters are so much incredibly weaker than Servants that they couldn't hold their own. Sure, in a grail war like that of Apocrypha where Servants are fighting in factions, he has his uses, but in a classical one, well... Since, realistcaly speaking, HGW are battle to the death between individuals, forming an alliance with another Master is something that could be done, but incredibly risky, and once again, save very few exceptions, normal humans can't compete against Servants, so even empowering his Master with Noble Phantasms wouldn't give any real advantage, save for a momentary element of surprise. You'd still have to be able to match the speed and strenght of a Servant to fight on equal grounds. Even with an invicible armor, your bones would break upon impact, and your organs wouldn't whistand the shocks. Even with accelerated self-regeneration, pain would quickly drive you mad or render you unconscious, etc etc...

Lancelot already did an np jet in zero

No, not really. The weapon need to have potential to become a relic first and need to be very old. Something like Rocket launcher and AK-47 can't be transformed into NP unless you're lancelot

Lord Dri That is in the case of traditional Noble Phantasms. Shakespeare's ability might full well allow modern objects that aren't relics to be Phantasms since they're created.

Imagine Prospero got summoned in FGO like other literary figures.

He is mine :)

nah emiya wouldnt like him because shakespeare is a manipulative and dirty servant kiritsugu is more of a match

prob because he were summoned to the holy grail war and stayed there making fun of today's leaders

I mean, Jeanne was pretty much at peace with her life as well, that's the main reason why she accepted her fate without waving, even if she did get to think she could have a better/peaceful life she never cared since her fatih and devotion gave her peace at her end, but she was tareted by it as well. Shakespare's noble phantasm basically just triggers their past. It doesn't take account on wether the opponent has accepted or not their past mistakes or tragic lifes, it just uses their past, the greater the regret/sin/despair the target felt in that phase of their live, the greater the effect. Like, for Jeanne he used her "unfair" life, the effects her death left on Gilles and her blooming love for Sieg to torment her. By canon description, the only ones that COULD survive First Folio easily would be the heroes that never really had a "breaking point", heroes that never really suffered tragic lives or that never really cared about their fate, something almost impossible to find. For Heroes, they see their tragic past, for Anti-heroes and villains, they see their breaking moment that turned them into less "good" individuals. It's an anti-hear attack that will always have an effect of the opponent, werher they can escape it or not its something else. Maybe nihilistic heroes like Andersen, Chen Gong, etc. Would survive First Folio easily, but the point is that even them would be affected at some extent by it.

Book was amazing don’t get the fate comparison though