Assassin (Fate/Crossover - Raven/Guilty Gear)

**Assassin** (アサシン, *Asashin*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

"Can you really keep me alive?" - Raven

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's true identity is **Raven**, one of three servants of That Man, and his right-hand man. With an immortal body that cannot die of natural causes, Raven has lived about a thousand years, and nothing stimulates him anymore, except pain.

His immortality is claimed to be a glitch upon the world, for millenia he wandered in despair, but eventually met the man who would become his Master and gained the motivation to become a 'Watcher of History' and be its protector. In essence he does not desire humanity to become something like him, something that became near apapthetic to the World.

### Appearance

Raven's most defining trait is the silver-colored metal spike driven through his head, which protrudes from his forehead like a horn.

In XX, Raven's skin is a light cold blue, and his long, waist-lenght hair a medium gray. A ragged vertical scar runs across the right side of his face and eye, which emanates a silver light, and a series of small needle piercings run parallel to the scar. He wears a black body suit with a bird-shaped breastplate and long boots. His shoulders, forearms, and calves are pierced with long needles, and his forearms are loosely wrapped in bandages.

Prior to Overture, his skin fades into a more natural pale white hue and his—now shoulder-length—hair fades into white. His right eye is no longer damaged, but the pupil of his left eye is replaced with a golden coin. He dons a black wing-shaped cloak with a collar that resembles feathers; when closed, it covers his entire body. Its back bears the kanji 鴉 (karasu?, lit. crow), and his chest, a green bird emblem. Beneath the mantle he wears a black body suit, and a kilt with hanging leather straps. Raven wears an mask with a cross-shaped visor and a golden coin on its left side, as well as rings with long needles affixed to them on the index and middle fingers of both hands.

In Revelator, with his face now entirely visible, Raven retains his needle rings and black wing-shaped mantle, but it now has a hood with six white protrusions instead, and his shoulders are draped with water green straps with cross-shaped silver buckles. A silver wing design is emblazoned on the back of the mantle. Beneath, he wears a black V-shaped sleeveless vest with crisscrossed white bands, and black pants with baggy chaps attached to his waist with oversized buckles.

### Personality

Raven has a mature personality, being stern but also calm and level-headed, that others can calmly communicate with because he isn't swayed by emotions. Although he has good intentions, Raven has grown incredibly jaded with the world, and has lost interest in life, having forgotten what it is like to be a normal "human". Even so, he remains capable of gentleness and empathy. Why he fights for That Man is a mystery, but he agrees with his actions, and his loyalty is absolute. It seems that, in his immortal life overriden by boredom, That Man was able to inspire Raven and offer new stimulation, for which he is extremely grateful.

After living for close to a thousand years, in a constant state of perpetual life, Raven can no longer be moved by any of his five senses. In fact, being in agony and pain have become his only source of pleasure. An unapologetic masochist, the closer Raven comes to death, the more he feels alive, for which he relishes imminent pain with anticipation.

## Abilities

Raven's weapons of choice are four rings that have long needles affixed to them. Wearing them on the index and middle fingers of both hands, he uses them as if they were claws.

Raven's most defining ability is that he is ageless and undying, and can regenerate his entire body, even if ground into dust, almost instantly. It is unknown if there is anything that can kill him, as piercing his own brain stem did not kill him, and decapitation is likely to be ineffective as well. He postulates in his win quote to Bedman that destroying his soul could be the only viable means to kill him permanently, but is uncertain. Because he has seemingly become desensitized to pain after centuries of many a death and injury, he is able to contort and dislocate his limbs for unpredictable, long-range attacks. He is also seems to be abnormally strong in spite of his lean and seemingly emaciated physique, able to block Sol's attack with only his index and forefinger.

Excelling at combat, due in no small part to his immortality, Raven possesses a variety of abilities at his disposal. He is able to teleport himself and others by dissipating into a cloud of feathers, or simply fade away. He also seems to have a certain mastery over Spatial Deformation magic, beating Faust. Another techniques at his disposal are Slow Field needles, which reduce his opponent's movement speed via time manipulation, summoning crows, and energy orbs. Raven is also well-versed in the art of healing magic, able to heal wounds and illnesses. He has yet to exhibit his full strength as he rarely engages in battles due to his role as an observer and his masochistic nature.

If discovered in the middle of scouting or attempting to assassinate a enemy his personaltiy will do a 180. A complete sadomasochist he recklessly attack his opponent as if mimicking a Berserker instead of the famed assassins, however there is clearly a level of skill and inteligence behind his attacks. They do seem inhuman because of how suicidal the fighting style is, however paired with his NP it makes Raven a insanely dangerous opponent near impossible to defeat.

### Skills

#### Class Skills

* Presence Concealment (A+ Rank): It is possible to disappear completely and become almost impossible to be detected. However, efficiency will decrease once preparations to attack are taken. Given Raven's combat methods once he prepares to attack this skill becomes utterly useless, its not in his nature to ambush or assassinate seems like

#### Personal Skills

* Masochistic Constitution (A Rank): The more the attacking party attacks, the more they will lose their composure until the holder of this skill is all they can think of. Raven only feels 'alive' while fighting and suffering wounds as such it explains this high rank.

* Sadistic Constitution (C Rank): The more one attacks, the stronger one becomes, but on the other hand, one's defensive abilities drop. With the added disadvantage of unconsciously lowering one's chances of escape. Even thought his sadism is a huge part of his personality Raven is focused on a greater goal and does not allow his 'hobbies' to distract him.

* Reduced Earth (A- Rank): Born from his magecraft rather than a natural skill of his body so with right preparations its possible to seal this skill.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **King of Dust: "As Worthless as the Sun Above Clouds"**

Raven's entire existence is a glitch upon the Universe itself, warping time and space, in life it was impossible to kill him and he could regenerate from anything. To functioning without problems even with a huge spike throught his brain or regenerating from ashes Raven was a eternal existence. As a servant his usual level of regeneration is impossible to maintain and such 'Servant-Killing' attacks can end his existence....however this noble phantasm continously treats Raven as if under the effects of constant Restructuring at A++ Rank and Battle Continuation EX

Mimicking his restoration from Ashes is possible and if the master has enough mana Raven can even survive Anti World Attacks. In essence its best to kill the Master and be done with it

Perhaps its luck but Raven is unequipped to deal with groups and as such ganging up on him while others hunt the master is a valid tactic.

#### **Sehnsucht: "Yearning from Ashes"**

Glowing with dark energy, Raven tells his opponent there is not need to be afraid as he advances slowly. He grabs the enemy's face, and consumes them both inside a large purple energy pillar. Both Raven and his target are reduced to ashes, but Raven survives as his arm quickly comes out of the ashes.

## References

https://guiltygear.fandom.com/wiki/Raven

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/summon-a-servant-mark-vi-the-dark-six-f-sn-crossover-servants.370875/page-80#post-22667648