Caster (Fate/Crossover - Tharja)

**Caster** (キャスター, *Kyasutā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

"*I have a bit of a rebellious streak, I'm afraid. A... dark side.*" - Tharja

## Profile

### Identity

Caster's true identity is **Tharja**, a Plegian Dark Mage who is caught up in the conflict between her home country and Ylisse. However, she is indifferent to Gangrel's plans, and questions why she has to fight for such a pointless reason and holds nothing but disdain for the Plegian King.

Chrom will ask her to join his cause since that is what his sister would do; Tharja, who is reluctant to fight in the first place, joins afterwards.

After she joins the Shepherds at Chrom's urging. It's a decision she doesn't regret, as she soon starts to have an obsession with the army's resident tactician, Robin, following them around regardless of their gender.

### Appearance

* Tharja in her regular outfit
* Tharja in her modern casual clothing
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Tharja is pale skinned with small eyes and long black hair with a small amount of it pulled up on the back of her head, worn with a golden circlet around her head.

Her outfit consists of a typical female dark mage outfit in Plegia. It is composed of a sheer black mesh bodysuit covering her torso, save for the top of her chest and hands. She wears a black cape with a yellow high-collar over her black crop top accented in gold, with a black and gold loincloth, gold rings on her lower thighs, wrists and golden sandals.

Her casual outfit worn during the Holy Grail War is a black sweater, with a yellow mesh scarf. She also wears blue short jeans with black mesh leggings and black heels.

### Personality

Tharja is most noted by her obsession with Robin, stalking both genders at all hours of the day from a distance. She keeps meticulous records of their every action down to the number of times they have tossed in bed compared to previous nights. Her deepest desire is to be of use to them and vies for their attention and possible affection as well, notably training to become "a normal girl" after they give her an anecdotal comment about her unusual behavior.

She is cold and moody around other people, especially when they interfere with her attempts to gain Robin's attention. She is not afraid to hex an individual if they are particularly intrusive. While Robin is her main priority, she is open to loving another person but still makes her intentions regarding Robin clear to her spouse. She has no particular attachment to Plegia, even noting that Gangrel was unworthy of his title in both her recruitment chapter and in some supports. She does, however, express regret over the lives lost for his cause.

While she may come off as uncaring, she does actually care a deal for her allies and even subtly telling Nowi that her parents are "far away" to spare her the grief of knowing that her parents have passed on. Her relationship with her daughter Noire is complicated as her future-self used her as a guinea pig for some of her curses and even taught her the dark arts. Deep down does not wish for her daughter to be plagued by the risks of dark magic and while having difficulty expressing it, she does love her daughter. Ultimately, her future self sacrificed her life to protect her as a testament to the actual love she holds for her. In The Future Past, she also shows a borderline overprotective streak towards the Noire of that particular world.

While having no idea of her own sex appeal due to her figure and outfit, she was quickly embarrassed when it was pointed out to her in her conversation with Cordelia in Xenologue 17, becoming more self-conscious of her appearance and developing a talisman to suppress this newfound feeling. In her conversations with Nowi in Xenologue 16, she was also embarrassed when Nowi said that she had the largest breasts out of the women of the army (silkiest hair in the European version).

## Abilities

Tharja is an adept Dark Mage who served as a powerful member of Chrom's Shepherds, who are all trained soldiers and guards to the Exalt. She is particularly skilled at doling out hexes and curses whenever she is agitated, a trait that has terrorized her friends and foes alike. However, she is obsessed with Robin and rarely thinks rationally when she's around them, stalking them for hours on end and recording their every move. Her support with Nowi reveals that she has the power to read fortunes using a Manakete's scales, and can divine the location of anyone or anything using one.

As a Dark Mage, she should be less durable than dedicated front-line fighters like Chrom, but is still able to withstand attacks of similar magnitude, Her power increases the more she takes damage, Her chances of dodging gradually increase over time. Tharja can wield powerful magic using several tomes. Her spells can generate sizable torrents of darkness comparable to the storms generated by Anima magic, Can fight and defeat characters powerful enough to threaten Manakete like Nowi and Tiki.

Tharja claims to also possess other type of magic that she could perform, such as disappear entirely or just from someone's perspective. It appearsshe could mess with people's mind with her magic. Stated that over the course of time, she could manipulate people's minds, such as Mind Control someone, can perform Body Puppetry, and Can erase memories, but she has to be knowledgeable of them first. Can drain the souls of those she damages and kills to heal herself.

Her other types of uses to her magic are that she can force people to tell the truth or otherwise "die in a horribly painful manner", Can give people a cold, Can curse someone's eyes to make them cry uncontrollably, Can boost the stamina and mood of a target (requires prep, was performed on accident), Can paralyze and control a target.

Her Notable Techniques are listed above:

* Anathema: Tharja is constantly cursing her foes, dulling their senses with her mere presence.

* Hex: Tharja's mastery of hexes allows her to dull her opponents reflexes should they attempt to approach her, lowering their ability to dodge.

* Lifetaker: Tharja drains the very souls of those she defeats, rapidly healing her wounds in the process.

* Slow Burn: Tharja excels at drawn out fights, studying her opponents and allowing her to increase her accuracy and evasion rates the longer the fight lasts.

* Tomebreaker: Tharja is trained specifically to counter other magic wielders, allowing her to dodge and counterattack with ease.

* Vengeance: Tharja's curses allow her to fuel her magic with the pent up rage and anguish she incurs over the course of a fight, increasing their potency as she sustains injury.

* Spiritual Orbs: Tharja sends forth a lot of small purple orbs to blitz around the enemies in mid-air. She then converges all the orbs behind her, then commands them to fire forward purple energy beams that converge in front of her, combing into a single large beam to blast enemies away. It can also give her Clarivoyance when summoned, though it requires prep.

### Tomes

Elthunder: A second-tier Anima tome that allows Tharja to call down bursts of destructive lightning.

Nosferatu: A Dark Magic tome that allows Tharja to drain the life force of her foes to heal herself.

### Skills

#### Class Skills

* Item Construction (A Rank): As a Dark Mage, she spends alot of time creating curses, potions and other types of magic. She often performs rituals and uses ingredients to create a type of new hex experiment with.

* Magic Resistance (B Rank): Her time as a Sorcerous has gifted her a good Resistance to magical attacks. While still not capable of defending against higher tiered magic, it still is beneficial.

* Independent Action (B Rank): Tharja has been given this ability purely because of her obsession with her master. She will most likely do whatever she feels like doing, be it watching over her master or conducting curses to random passerby’s.

#### Personal Skills

* Curse (EX Rank): Her signature personal skill that has Tharja curse her anyone in range. This can affect anyone's status who's within her range, this is able to ignore Magic Resistance. Her Curses can have a positive and negative effect of which she chooses to target. Can deflect curses and can remove curses from herself, Can increase the effectiveness of curses by reading the darkness inside of someone. Tharja can even curse souls. However she needs to know the target to inflict curses, but the true name of her target will cause more negative effects of the curses. Is possibly unable to curse people with higher willpower.

* Magecraft (B Rank): This skill represents her knowledge of magic she experiments in her lifetime. This magic requires her to use a tome to cast a spell she so wishes.

* Vengeance (B Rank): Another unique skill that allows Tharja to inflict more damage the more damaged she is. This further improvises a glass cannon. To make up for low endurance, she makes up for magical damage. Her personal skill Nosferatu can be upped from B to A if she is heavily damaged.

* Nosferatu (B Rank): The tome of dark magic has allowed Tharja to sap the life essence of anyone caught by this spell. While it does little damage to the body of the target, it will drain their mana, and half of it will be transferred to Tharja as the rest is destroyed. This tome requires a small charge up in order to use every time however.

* Devoted Lover (A Rank): A special unique personal skill that shows Tharja’s devotion to her true love. She instantly gains a fully Wide stats buff if her master is a male. This however has a flaw... Such as only receiving some limited buffs if her master is female.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Tome of Hexes: "Dark Mage's Grimoire of Hexes"**

A noble phantasm that is a personal tome used by Tharja. The tome is used to cast powerful dark magic and create hexes, which are different types of curses casted upon the target. It can lower her opponent's ability to dodge.

#### **Vengeance in Black Darkness: "Dark Magic Formed of Curses"**

The Anti-Army Noble Phantasm fueled by dark magic, Vengeance is required for this to be activated.
Tharja summons several large shadowy hands to appear out of the ground, and commands them to slap the ground wildly, damaging enemies in a large area. She finishes by summoning a single large hand out of the ground to close its fist and explode, blasting enemies away. The hands can left a large effect on the enemy, causing hexes to increase.

## Gallery

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## References

https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Tharja

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https://koei.fandom.com/wiki/Tharja

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Tharja

https://yandere-girls.fandom.com/wiki/Tharja

https://all-worlds-alliance.fandom.com/wiki/Tharja

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