Heracles (Archer)

, Class Name , is the "True" Archer-class Servant of Bazdilot Cordelion in the False Holy Grail War of Fate/strange Fake. Shortly after summoning, Bazdilot utilizes Command Spells, Holy Grail Mud, and a great amount of magical energy to blacken Heracles into the Archer/Avenger Servant Alcides.
==Profile==
===Identity===
Archer's True Name is , the great and noble hero of Ancient Greece. A demigod hero of Greek Mythology, he was born between the King of Gods Zeus and a (who herself, was the granddaughter of Perseus, a demigod son of Zeus). He received the violent hatred of Zeus' wife because of his origins and was tormented by the goddess at every turn. However, he entirely overcame the difficulties he had been given and was enshrined as a god in the end.
Heracles had an extremely violent temperament as an infant and grew up as a shepherd in order to obtain a gentle heart. Having grown into a fine adult, Heracles was recognized for several feats and gained two children as well as the right of succession to the throne. However, Hera made Heracles go temporarily insane and he killed his wife and children, ending up in the role of a slave to the king to atone for his sins. Here the jealous king gave him a challenge, the famous Twelve Labors. The Labors were all things that a human could not achieve but Heracles completed them safely, and at the same time he was freed from slavery, he received an immortal body.
However, the adventures of Heracles and Hera's hatred did not end there. Despite his many great achievements, Hera's numerous artifices eventually resulted in Heracles' poisoning by his own wife from his second marriage. In his final moments, Heracles cremated himself, surrendering to Zeus's judgment. The gods after consulting recognize Heracles' feats, and he was recruited as a god-like his father, becoming a constellation.
===Appearance===
Archer was mentioned being more than two and a half meters tall, with an immensely muscular body. His appearance was said to be beyond human, as he looked more like a statue of a god. Since he isn't under the influence of Mad Enhancement, he no longer has the projections on his arms, his muscles are slightly softer, and his face shows more humanity than his Berserker counterpart.
Actual Archer Heracles.jpg|Archer Heracles using his Hydra bow in life in Fate/Apocrypha.
===Personality===
True Archer, his mind being free of madness or the hate against the gods, is an extremely heroic individual. He holds strong morals, even going against the orders of his Master to preserve his heroism. Being summoned as one of the Three Knight Classes (Saber, Lancer and Archer) his status as a "faultless hero" is all the more apparent and everpresent. Had he been summoned as Rider or Assassin, he would have smashed or sent his master's head flying.
==Role==
===Fate/strange Fake===
Archer is summoned by Bazdilot Cordelion, a ruthless member of the Scladio criminal family. Bazdilot questions Archer if he can kill a child, with the noble hero refuses to commit such an inhumane deed. He even makes it clear that anyone who gives him such an order will become his enemy. Displeased, Bazdilot prepares his Command Seals. Archer is confident that any command Bazdilot gives him will only be momentary obedience, and even if he was ordered to commit suicide three times, he would be fine, instead deciding to use the experience to teach his Master a lesson on trying to control him. He muses that if he were summoned as Rider or Assassin, he would have probably killed Bazdilot for trying to control him. Instead, Bazdilot uses all of his Command Seals (telling him not to make excuses, to remember all the humans he had seen, and to accept human nature) and covers him with the mud of the Grail. As Archer writhes in agony and realizes the commands and mud are twisting his personality, he tries to kill Bazdilot, but is too late and is converted into his mortal form of Avenger, where he holds incredible contempt against the gods.Fate/strange Fake Volume 3, Prologue VIII: "The Star Performers' Feast (Part 1)"
==Abilities==
Being close to the strongest Heroic Spirit, even when he is Berserker, and therefore restricted to simple direct melee, Heracles is without a doubt a first-rate Servant. Due to no longer being under the influence of Mad Enhancement, a variety of techniques and skills, and a part of his Noble Phantasms are no longer lost. An excellent warrior, Heracles possesses the qualifications corresponding to six classes excluding Caster. As an Archer Class Servant he is able to demonstrate his true power the most, thanks to it being a pretty comfortable class to someone who overcame many trials with knowledge and resourcefulness and having specialized with the bow. Even among the Servants from Greek legend, he is a hero among heroes who boasts fame and power that ranks next if not above Achilles'.
Even including past Holy Grail Wars, Heracles' Magical Energy is top class. His body exerts a great pressure and magical energy, causing Bazdilot's men to break out in cold sweats and their magical circuits to tremble. One look is all it takes to make them understand that the entity that had just manifested before them belonged on a different plane from themselves. When upset, his pure might is capable of releasing a great pressure so heavy that an ordinary human could hardly help losing their life from suffering it head-on and that robbed the mages of their freedom of movement. After Bazdilot spent his second Command Spell trying to restrain Heracles, he released his own magical energy to oppose it, blowing away more than half the magical barriers around the workshop. Being bombarded by more magical energy than they could handle, Bazdilot's men collapsed twitching.
===Skills===
====Class Skills====
*Magic Resistance: Just seeing him standing gave Bazdilot's men the impression that his body alone would be sufficient to easily dispel even large-scale magecraft that required a group to cast, not to mention their mediocre spells. Thanks to his wall of magic resistance, Heracles is capable of holding back Bazdilot's own magical energy from worning its way through him, however, the mage ended up managing to cut his way through said resistance thanks to his primitive sorcery.
*Independent Action: In compensation for obtaining an Avenger Class Skill due to the Distortion, True Archer's Independent Action skill was ranked down to C. 
====Personal Skills====
*Divinity: Being a mixed-race child of the King of Gods Zeus and a human, and becoming a god after death, Heracles possesses Divinity due to not possessing Avenger Class attributes. Even Bazdilot's men noted that the sheer amount and purity of the Od flowing from his body seemed divine. In fact, every fiber of his muscles, and every drop of blood in his veins, is overflowing with Od so pure it could be called divine.
*Valor: It is noted that Alcides' Valor skill was ranked down considerably to E due to his nature. A skill that brushes aside mental interference and increases melee damage. The witches of the Age of Gods would be one thing, but no modern mage should be capable of interfering with his mind. As such, Heracles considers that even if his master tryied to impose his dominance by means of a Command Spell it'd be futile, as those restraints are merely momentary and he could easily shake them off with his own magical energy. However, Bazdilot is able to force his own potent magical energy into Heracles' brain thanks to its corrupting nature. Although the mental pollution passed a point that would have likely driven most Servants mad, Heracles managed to endure it until Bazdilot spent his final Command Spell, pouring an unnatural volume of magical energy that finally managed to completely corrupt him.
===Noble Phantasms===
HeraclesFirstLabour.png|First Labour: Nemean Lion
HeraclesSecondLabour.png|Second Labour: Lernaean Hydra
HeraclesThirdLabour.png|Third Labour: Ceryneian Hind
HeraclesFourthLabour.png|Fourth Labour: Erymanthian Boar
HeraclesFifthLabour.png|Fifth Labour: Augean stables
HeraclesSixthLabour.png|Sixth Labour: Stymphalian birds
HeraclesSeventhLabour.png|Seventh Labour: Cretan Bull
HeraclesEightLabour.png|Eight Labour: Mares of Diomedes
HeraclesNinthLabour.png|Ninth Labour: Belt of Hippolyta
HeraclesTenthLabour.png|Tenth Labour: Cattle of Geryon
HeraclesEleventhLabour.png|Eleventh Labour: Golden Apples of the Hesperides
HeraclesTwelfthLabour.png|Twelfth Labour: Cerberus
Due to not being blackened, Heracles possesses God Hand as a Noble Phantasm, the immortality he received after death thanks to completing the Twelve Labours. Although he has a resistance to Command Spells thanks to his Valor skill, he muses that he could probably safely obey three commands to commit suicide due to God Hand.
He also possesses Nine Lives as his most trusted Noble Phantasm. It is an adaptable attack that can be used with any weapon and draws out its maximum potential regardless of weapon type or classification. Since he isn't summoned as a Berserker, he possesses the motor skills to actually use it.
Rin Tohsaka conjectures that Heracles would normally be summoned holding the .Fate/stay night - Fate route - Day 11: DragonSlay - Twelve Labors
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