Don Quixote

is a Lancer-class Servant summoned by Ritsuka Fujimaru in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.
==Profile==
===Identity===
Don Quixote's real name is , an old man from 17th century Spain who was so obsessed with tales of chivalry and knights that he became mad and decided to become a knight himself.
The woman accompanying him is , a fusion of Don Quixote's "squire" , his horse , Altisidora the prankster girl, and his imaginary princess .
In the 17th century, the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes wrote , which became the best-sold novel in the world. In 2002, it was elected the best work in the history of literature, influencing multiple pieces of music, painting, and other arts. Don Quixote's name became known around the world as a form of criticism for those who rejected reality in favor of fantasy and escapism.Fate/Grand Order - Don Quixote Profile - Translated by Comun
In the novel, Don Quixote is a poor 50-year-old hidalgoA hidalgo is a Spanish nobleman. that got so immersed in knightly romances that he becomes mad and sold his fields to pursue his dreams of becoming a knight. His madness gradually convinced him he was a knight-errant, throwing him on an adventure accompanied by his skinny and aged horse Rocinante and his squire Sancho, a man who he convinced to go along with his misadventures.
He dared to charge against windmills he assumed to be giants, was banned from farms for treating the farmhands' daughters like princesses, and defeated Sanson Carrasco when the bachiller disguised himself as a knight in an attempt to bring Quixote back to reality.
When Sanson Carrasco recovered from his wounds, he disguised himself as a different knight and defeated Don Quixote in another duel, making the old man promise to live a quiet year in his home village. As Carrasco predicted, Don Quixote tottered back to the village, but what healed his madness was a nearly fatal fever.
After 6 days of suffering, Don Quixote regained his sanity and was once again Alonso Quijano. Despite lamenting the silliness of his knightly tales, he preserved his human virtue until the day he died.
===Appearance===
Don Quixote is a squat man with a thick white beard and mustache that become smaller with each Ascension. In each Ascension, his face is overshadowed by his helmet. In his first Ascension, he wears golden armor with decorative lines, a golden helmet with a golden bird on top, and a white cape and wields a lance whose tip is connected to the shaft by a blue diamond. In the second Ascension, his armor becomes an ordinary steel plate armor, and his helmet is replaced with a morion-type helmet. His lance likewise becomes ordinary, though sports a golden tip, and his cape shrinks in size and changes to red. In his third Ascension, his armor becomes worn, featuring multiple cuts on the chest plate and helmet while the cape is torn and the lance's tip chipped.
Sancho appears as a pretty young woman with glasses, pink hair, horse ears, and a horsetail. In the first Ascension, she wears a maid uniform, an old-fashioned secretary outfit in the second, and a purple princess dress with a tiara in the third.
===Personality===
====Don Quixote====
He's not the type to listen to what others have to say, but he is still the archetypical kind and loyal knight despite this, always being courteous to women and always willing to protect the weak and challenge the strong.
In the 1st and 2nd Ascensions, he behaves as the knight of his dreams with a commanding bearing and vigorous dedication to Dulcinea del Toboso.
When in his 3rd Ascension, his aspect flips into that of a frail elder he is and gains a clear understanding of reality. Nonetheless, with Sancho's encouragement, Don Quixote of reality possesses the same courage as the knight he imagined himself to be and faces reality like any other enemy.
====Sancho Panza====
She follows Don Quixote happily and dutifully as an all-purpose maid, granting his every wish. That said, she does know when and how to gracefully refuse her lord's orders to prevent conflicts and other kinds of disadvantageous situations. While Quixote swears loyalty to his Master as their Servant and knight, Sancho's only loyal to Quixote.
Sancho Panza is a Phantom, formed as an amalgamation of Don Quixote's squire, princess, and many other characters in his story, and thus fills whatever role is convenient for her lord. When accompanying Don Quixote as his squire, she takes the character of the country farmer or the horse, and on all other occasions, she takes the character of noble and advises Princess Dulcinea, and the maid Altsidora, a girl who expresses her love for Don Quixote on the orders of her Duke.
====Relationships====
;Charlemagne
:"Quixote: Ooh, the great adventurer Lord Charlemagne… Being able to have an audience with him is the highest of honors!"
:"Sancho: Muuuu… Isn't there anything like a knight repellent spray? I see…"Fate/Grand Order Lines
;Astolfo / Roland / Bradamante
:"Quixote: Oooh! These are Charlemagne's Twelve Paladins…! Uum, what unique individuals~!"
:"Sancho: Honestly, wouldn't the expression "variety show" fit them better, my master?"
:"Quixote: Sshhh! Ssssshhhhh!"
;Marie Antoinette
:"Quixote: Ooh…! That dazzle, that beautiful face is indeed Lady Dulcinea… Ow?!"
:"Sancho: My apologies, it was easy to step on your foot… No, Marie-sama? This person is a knight completely unrelated to you so let's go home."
:"Quixote: No, at least let me greet her…?! …?! That pulling force is strong?!!"
;Red Hare
:"Sancho: Haaah~…"
:"Quixote: What's wrong, Sancho? Staring at that red horse… horse…?"
:"Sancho: No… I was just thankfully reflecting upon… how I'm realllly glad that my Rocinante components stopped just at the ears and tail…"
:"Quixote: I don't really understand but… What a relief, huh? Sancho."
;Zhang Jue
:"Quixote: Oh, I see Sir Zhang Jue. Fellow grandpas must band together."
:"Sancho: Milord, if he offers you a yellow cloth, watch out."
:"Quixote: Oh, but I already got mine."
:"Sancho': Dear me, I was beaten to the punch."
;Percival
;Lancelot (Saber)
;Tristan
;Mordred
==Role==
===Fate/Grand Order===
====Atlantis: Ancient Ocean of the Dreadnought Gods====
Don Quixote was a part of Nikola Tesla's Servant army fighting the Olympians before Chaldea arrived. He was excited to be among heroes like the kind he had always wanted to be. However when Heracles was killed by Artemis, Don Quixote lost the will to fight. He and Sancho escaped the Lostbelt using Triste Suave Alonso Quijano.
====Traum: Realm of the Thanatos Impulse====
Don Quixote pretends to be Karl der Große as one of the warring three kings of the Traum Singularity. He is supposed to only hold the position until the real Karl appears, but Karl has yet to show up.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Traum: Realm of the Thanatos Impulse, Section 1: My Only Friend Is the Coffin Maker Astolfo and Roland are in on his charade, though the army thinks he's the real Karl.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Traum: Realm of the Thanatos Impulse, Section 7: I Don't Want Your HeadFate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Traum: Realm of the Thanatos Impulse, Section 10: Don Quixote de la Macha's DepartureFate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Traum: Realm of the Thanatos Impulse, Section 11: Vlad III's Triumphant Return
Haunted by guilt for what he did in Atlantis, Don Quixote chooses to stay and fight this time and battles Constantine XI. He is easily overpowered, but even so does not give up. When he is about to die, Charlemagne arrives to save him.Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Traum: Realm of the Thanatos Impulse, Section 16: The King and His Brave KnightsFate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Traum: Realm of the Thanatos Impulse, Section 19: Glorious Knights, Secret EscapadesFate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Traum: Realm of the Thanatos Impulse, Section 20: Vengeance Unrequited
==Abilities==
Don Quixote is arguably the most famous knight in the World, perhaps even surpassing King Arthur. However, he is far from strong. The story of Don Quixote is replete with tales of his exploits, but each focuses upon his very Human limitations. Furthermore, Servants are usually summoned in their prime. But for some reason, he has been summoned as a 50 year old farmer close to the age of retirement.
===Combat===
====Holy Grail====
During the Traum Singularity, Sherlock Holmes is surprised by how strong Don Quixote is and claims that his Fame alone can't justify it. It is then explained that his power comes from being the holder of the Righteous Realm's Holy Grail. This is enough to transform an ordinary soldier like him into a warrior worthy of being sent to Valhalla. Due to this, Sancho claims that, at long last, his true power as a knight has awakened.
Don Quixote is able to endure multiple attacks from Constantine XI, the holder of the Revenge Realm's Holy Grail. Due to this, Constantine recognizes him as a formidable foe that brings him joy. While Constantine eventually overpowers and gravely injures him, Quixote refuses to back down and keeps fighting him regardless. However, Constantine would have killed him had Charlemagne not intervened.
Don Quixote is tasked with protecting Johanna.
===Skills===
====Class Skills====
*Magic Resistance (E Rank): A Skill that protects Don Quixote from Magecraft, but it can only reduce the damage inflicted upon him due to its low rank.
*Riding (E Rank): The ability to ride mounts and vehicles.
*Travelling Attendant (B Rank): A Skill that allows Sancho Panza to be at Don Quixote's side. She will disappear if Don Quixote is defeated, but Quixote will remain if Sancho is defeated.
====Personal Skills====
*The Great Adventure of the Travelling Knight (EX Rank): A Skill that symbolizes Don Quixote's quest to spread the word of Princess Dulcinea's beauty, which Sancho narrates.
*Opening the Door of Fantasy (EX Rank): A Skill that symbolizes Don Quixote's delusion. While using this Skill, Don Quixote becomes delusional and assumes the identity of the knight he is in his dreams. Despite being a subspecies of Mad Enhancement, it doesn't turn him savage, but does give him the bravery of a knight and turns him foolhardy.
*Closing the Curtain of Reality (E→EX Rank (Upgrade)): A Skill that symbolizes Don Quixote's return to reality. When activated, he returns to being a powerless elder and abandoning his dreams.
===Noble Phantasms===
Don Quixote's main Noble Phantasm is Valiente Asalto Dedicado a la Princesa, a recreation of the episode where charged against the windmills he believed to be Giants. Since the punchline in the story is that he was knocked away by the windmills, he also takes heavy demerits. But the important part is that he had the courage to rush in against what he assumed to be giants, and that inflicts damage while also giving powerful buffs to those around him. Even while powered by the Rigtheous Realm's Holy Grail, this Noble Phantasm is considerably weak and can't hope to break Vlad III's stakes.
Don Quixote's second Noble Phantasm is Triste Suave Alonso Quijano. It is a support-type ability that dilutes and weakens whatever Mystery and Magical Energy the target may have to the level of reality in 17th-century Spain. It's fundamentally used to severely weaken an enemy, it also has a major flaw: it works on Don Quixote and Sancho as well. Using it once will weaken Quxiote so much that even Sherlock Holmes can easily stop his charge with a single hand despite the former being powered by a Holy Grail. Furthermore, if kept active for too long, Quixote and Sancho will vanish away too. Quxiote has used it to escape the Atlantic Lostbelt, neutralize James Moriarty's brainwashing, and weaken Zhang Jue.
==Development==
===Creation and Conception===
Don Quixote was designed by Ryota Murayama in Fate/Grand Order.
==Notes==
*Nobuo Tobita who voices Don Quixote and Satomi Arai who voices Sancho are possibily a reference to the characters Kamille Bidan and Fa Yuiry from the film trilogy. In this series, Fa is also a support character for Kamille. 
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