Medusa Alter[1] (メドゥーサWP・オルタ, Medūsa Oruta?), Class Name Lancer (ランサー, Ransā?), is a Lancer-class Servant who appears in the Fuyuki Singularity of Fate/Grand Order: First Order.
Profile
Identity
Appearance
She is the future adult version of Lancer.[2]
Personality
Lancer, like most of the Blackened Servants at the Singularity, appears to be mostly insane. She behaves psychopathically, killing people with her eyes, including her Master, and fighting like a vicious beast. She taunts her enemies and has some sense of sarcasm, being very cruel. She has a garden of statues, her victims turned to stone.[3]
Role
Fate/Grand Order
Fate/Grand Order: First Order
Lancer was summoned as part of Fuyuki Holy Grail War in Fuyuki's singularity. She was defeated by Saber and Blackened.[3]
Lancer appears in the destroyed Fuyuki, having used her eyes to make herself a garden full of statues of people she killed with her petrifying gaze. She is the first enemy Servant that Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight find.[3]
After finding them, she shows herself and traps them with her chains, before beginning a fight with Mash after introducing herself. She vastly overpowers Mash and almost kills them before Caster interrupts their battle. He breaks her trap and assumes the fight, and the two begin a fierce clash. When Lancer looks like the one with the upper-hand, Mash pushes Lancer backward with a surprise attack, to which Caster uses his runes to burn Lancer to death.[3]
Abilities
Lancer wields the scythe Harpe. Her fighting style consists mainly of brutally slashing and stabbing at her opponent to wear them out and forcefully break through their defenses. And as shown in Turas Realta can kick Mash to the wall heavily injurying her.
She also possesses her trademark Mystic Eyes of Petrification. She seems not to actively use this ability in battle. although in Turas Realta she uses them to try and petrify Ritsuka.
Aside from these abilities, she also seems to have the ability to transform her hair into both snakes and chains at will. She uses the chains to trap and contain her opponents and transforms them into snakes to attack her adversaries when they try to escape.[3] The dagger and chains are magically manifested from her hair, without any limit such as how much hair on her head of which she remains the same despite manifesting dozens of chains. She seems to be able to control them not only through sheer skill, but through a telekinetic ability, allowing her to call to them to either try and trap targets, or coil together into multiple metal tentacles to try and and attack her enemies. She displays the ability to phase her Nameless Daggers into and out of spirit form due to her weapons being an extension of her hair. This ability is extremely valuable in combat because it allows her to stealthily restrain and or trap her enemies.[3]
Development
Creation and Conception
Blackened Medusa's design.
Medusa was designed by Takashi Takeuchi in Fate/Grand Order: First Order.
References
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Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel III Animation Material: Kinoko and Takashi's Questions and Answers, p.036
Q: If Sakura were to absorb Rider, would that lead to Rider's monstrous side becoming stronger? I'd be curious to hear hear how Sakura absorbing her would affect her stats as well. [T]
Q: If Sakura were to absorb Rider, would that lead to Rider's monstrous side becoming stronger? I'd be curious to hear hear how Sakura absorbing her would affect her stats as well.
Kinoko Nasu: It's not like Rider chose to become a monster, so I think she would still be Medusa, but darkened. Her attacks would definitely be stronger, but I don't think she would turn into a serpent or grow any bigger or anything. She only becomes Gorgon the hero-killer from Greek mythology when she starts to eat human flesh, regardless of whether she did so by choice or mistake.
Takashi Takeuchi: She'd be like Medusa Alter from the FGO prologue anime. Basically, when a Servant undergoes a class change, they end up either becoming an Alter or a monster. - ↑ Fate/Grand Order material IV - Medusa (Lancer), p.342-351
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Fate/Grand Order: First Order