Archer (Fate/Crossover - Ramlethal Valentine)

**Archer** (アーチャー, *Āchā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

*"The other side of the glass is dark and cold. From the dark world, I could see the warm one. I was so envious. But, even when I look outside this window, all I see are the happy people in this world."* - Ramlethal Valentine

## Profile

### Identity

Archer's true identity is **Ramlethal Valentine**, A servant of the Universal Will and Elphelt Valentine's older sister, and successor to the first-generation Valentine, Ramlethal's objective is the destruction of humanity. She is accompanied by Lucifero, split into white and black halves, who carries katana-styled greatswords on her behalf.

The Backyard is the origin of magic in the verse. It is a realm said to contain all the information that creates the world. It is also the origin of the limitless source of energy known as Magic. It is the codex or source of transferred information that comprises most of the world as physical manifested data; the source of what makes the real world exist. The world itself is said to be a virtual space, resulted from the information conveyed from the Backyard. Upon entry to the Backyard, the extremely restricted data pressure is immense and anyone who enters must be "tuned" to the frequency the Backyard emits in order not to be crushed by the dense information contained within it.

The Universal Will is the entity that the Valentines refer to as "Mother". She has attacked humanity on several occasions, explaining the Valentines' general disregard for human life. Not much else is known about her at the moment, though.

There were also several mentions of Ramlethal 'developing her personality', or similar things. This has to do with her role in the story of Guilty Gear Xrd. At the start of the story, she declares war on the world and promises to destroy the humans unworthy to stand upon it. However, she is defeated by Sol, has her powers sealed by her sister Elphelt, and is revealed to have been a distraction for what was really going on. Over the course of the story, Sin—one of the protagonists—tries to convince her to tell him what her superiors were planning. She refuses each time, with the explanation that she is a 'tool' who serves her 'Mother's' will.

This continues until Bedman, an agent of the people she worked with came to kill her. After he pulls her into a dream world and explains that it is her Mother's will for her to be killed, Ramlethal makes one last request—that if she has to go, she wants to bring the dog she had grown attached to with her. This startles Bedman, as he realizes that she is not a tool as the pair of them had believed but a person. He refuses to kill her, saying that he can't bring himself to murder a 'little girl'.

He later appears for real in the room she's held in and kills the dog. Though Ramlethal expects him to kill her, honoring her request to bring the dog with her, he creates a new one of the same breed. After asking her if it's the same dog, she's startled to realize that it isn't. He then explains to her the concept of 'replacement', after which she sees that she is unique. She begins to realize that she does have a personality and emotions, unlike what she a had thought before. This is reflected on the stat sheet here with the mentions of 'developing her personality'.

### Appearance

Ramlethal has a dark-skinned complexion, white hair, and golden eyes with bronze highlights. Her outfit in battle is comprised of a black and white cap styled after a pair of animal ears, and a large white cape with shoulder pads and holes for her arms to pass through. This cape seems to possess an organic nature: the underside is flesh-like, and its edge possesses retractable saw-like teeth. Underneath the cape, she wears the minimum article of clothing, which comprises of white shorts, a broad white strap with round buckle worn as a tube top, and smaller versions of the aforementioned straps on her thighs and arms.

In Strive, her attire has been altered slightly from the Xrd games. While her shorts are unchanged, she now wears a sleeveless, black and neon green shirt below a white, double-breasted waistcoat that only shows her midriff. She also wears a brand new cap with shortened ears. Continuing from the incident at Scandiva, she wears wraps on her arm and leg, which are now dark red.

Ramlethal has a secondary outfit, in which she wears a blouse with puffy sleeves with ribbons on her collar and lower back, a short folded skirt, and her white straps on her thighs with no footwear. The ensemble is dark gray, dark green, and white in color.

### Personality

As a Valentine, Ramlethal is devoid of emotions, having no conscience of her own. She doesn't grasp the concepts of right or wrong, like or dislike, and is unable to place any kind of value on anything other than her assigned target. She views the orders of her "Mother" as absolute, having a machine-like determination to see her mission completed. Unquestioning of her mother's directives, she views herself as a obedient "tool" to be used to achieve a goal, and believes herself to be disposable once she achieves her mission.

But like other Backyard life-forms, she inevitably starts learning emotions as she goes along. Ramlethal begins to become "unstable", showing confusion at Elphelt's rebellion, pride as a tool for her mother, and fondness for her magehound. Since tools don't need emotions, she denies having them, for her mother "only loves useful tools", which Sin interpreted as her being afraid of being abandoned if she didn't act like an emotionless machine. Yet, Ramlethal starts wondering about concepts like friendship, being "unique", others' motivations, what it feels to like someone, and happiness.

Her interactions with others lead Ramlethal to conclude that she nor Elphelt are tools, that emotions are important, and that her sister and Sin are "unique" to her. Even so, Ramlethal emotes little—having deadpan reactions to either pain or the antics of others—, and remains a rather quiet person. Nevertheless, she is bothered by others being treated coldly as "dolls", or tools.

## Abilities

As designed by her "Mother", Ramlethal has been given "extraordinary power and knowledge", as stated by Slayer. Powerful from the onset, it appears that gaining a drive beyond her Mother's orders has made her even stronger. Still, both Ky and Sol have observed that she relies too much on power in victory quotes.

Rather proficient in hand-to-hand combat, Ramlethal can fight barehanded with kicks and scratches, generate slashing claws or a barrier made of energy, and manipulate her organic cloak for offensive attacks. Her main attacks, however, involve the use of two greatswords that she can summon or dismiss at will, and which she can position to fire a beam of energy, or further extend their range with blades made of green light. These massive swords are carried by two balloon-styled familiars, the white "Venus" and the black "Velva", which can combine with each other to form Lucifero, and can thus move independently from Ramlethal. She is also capable of flight and levitation.

As a Valentine artificial life-form, Ramlethal may look human, but isn't, and possesses "control restraints", the same as Elphelt's, as well as a self-destruct ability. Via these restraints, Ramlethal can prevent her sister from using her powers, and viceversa.

As a soul candidate for Justice as well as a Copy of her, she is exceptionally powerful, as it has been stated by various characters, including Dizzy]],Ky and Sol. Haekyun's Tuning analysis states that of her Ki structure is like a "Wind Instrument", meaning that she has a vast amount of mana without a filter to regulate it. Uncovering her hidden emotions and gaining a drive beyond her Mother's orders has made her even stronger, as implied in -REVELATOR-.

In terms of design, Ramlethal isn't exceptional in her stats. While they are above average for an Archer and even comparable to some Sabers, they still aren't going to be the best in the war. However, her Counter Hero and Natural Body make her a frightening matchup for many Servants. Counter Hero reduces her opponent's stats by a rank, turning someone with flat B's into flat C's. Combined with Natural Body, which gives her strength a permanent '+' marker—doubling it to just over A—this lets her stand up against opponents that otherwise would have an advantage statwise.

This doesn't come without weaknesses though. To start with, she is an Archer—and therefore has Independant Action—with Mental Pollution. While this is a fairly minor example of this, it's still a worrisome combination. Her Counter Hero only works on 'Human' enemies, which would allow those who are 'Inhuman' to fight her without the stat drop; this can cause problems against Servants with a decent rank in Divinity, along with those such as F/SN Rider. Lastly, her only Noble Phantasm is ranked C, which puts her at a disadvantage against Servants like Heracles or Siegfried who can shrug off those attacks.

When she fights, she tends to control the distance between her and her opponents with her swords. By using her familiars to control them, she can make it difficult for her enemies to reach her or steer them to where she wants them to go. Her ability to recall the swords allows her to defend herself in the event that some does approach her, often to their suprise.

### Skills

#### Class Skills

* Independant Action (B- Rank): The ability to remain independent in the world even when rejecting the prana supply from the Master. Due to Servant Archer's lack of independent will, this skill is reduced in rank. As such, she can only remain in the world for twelve hours without a Master. If she were to realize the existance of her personality this skill would rise to its natural level and she would be able to remain in the world for two days instead.

* Magic Resistance (B Rank): As a native of the Backyard, Servant Archer is naturally highly resistant to the effects of magecraft. This differs from the Resistance effect in that instead of simply rejecting Prana it cancels the spell altogether. Servant Archer negates spells with a chant below three verses, and is difficult to affect even with Magecraft on the level of High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals.

#### Personal Skills

* Counter Hero (C- Rank): As the one born to exterminate humanity, Servant Archer reduces the ranks of any 'Human' that opposes her. However, this skill is reduced in rank due to her forsaking this task, reducing the ranks of the opponent by only one. In addtion, it is useless against any that could be considered 'Inhuman'.

* Mental Pollution (D (-) Rank): Servant Archer posesses a distorted mentality, making it possible to shut out mental interference Thaumaturgy. However, at the same time it is extraordinarily difficult to come to an understanding with her without posessing an equivalent rank. As she comes to develop her personality this skill will lower in rank until it vanishes.

* Natural Body (C Rank): As one born of the Universal Will of the Backyard, Servant Archer has been in possession of a perfect body as a living being since birth. Due to this, her strength will always be treated as if it is ranked up.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Velfa and Venus (Lucifero); "Familiars of the Backyard"**

The pair of balloon-like familiars that carry Servant Archer's twin greatswords. As natives of the Backyard, they possess a level of Magic Resistance similar to but smaller than Servant Archer. They possess a will of their own, though she is capable of issuing mental commands to them.

They are also capable of teleportation, and Servant Archer can send them to attack targets from a range while she stays behind. Additionally, she is capable of recalling them at will should she need to defent herself.

The two are also capable merging into the entity known as Lucifero. This combination has a great deal more intelligence than the pair that it is created from, and is capable of releasing burst of energy from its mouth. However, Servant Archer has a particular dislike it and often restrains from using it.

#### **Animo Estingi; "Soul Extinguish"**

While dashing in the air above a warren wasteland, Ramlethal rushes and slashes the opponent with her twin greatswords carried by Lucifero in all directions. Then she activates the swords, revealing hidden red blades, and slashes her foe in an x-motion cross, destroying them.

## References

https://guiltygear.fandom.com/wiki/Ramlethal\_Valentine

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Ramlethal\_Valentine

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Ramlethal\_Valentine