Rider (Fate/Crossover - Fright Knight)

**Rider** (ライダー, *Raidā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

"*FOOL! You have released me! Return to me my sword so my reign of terror can begin anew!*" - Fright Knight

## Profile

### Identity

Rider's true identity is **Fright Knight**, an ancient and powerful ghost, self-described as the spirit of Halloween and both the Ghost King's minion and second-in-command.

### Personality

A ruthless knight, Fright Knight lives to strike fear into the hearts of anyone he's against. If that doesn't work, he prefers to fight his way, using his skills to proclaim his superiority.

It seems he either teams up or works for anyone whom might be of potential benefit to him. This ranges from Pariah Dark, a ghost capable of subduing others with his power, to Plasmius, who suggests making a deal between the two of them.

He also appears to have a flair for dramatics, likes to do poetry, and does nearly everything in a dramatic way, like bellowing his warning to Danny and Vlad in the form of a poem.

## Abilities

The Fright Knight is quite powerful and possesses superhuman strength and durability, able to take most physical attacks without flinching. He can turn intangible, shoot beams from his eyes, teleport by disappearing, leaving behind a cloud of bats, and fly, but usually relies on his fearsome steed, Nightmare, for this.

His main weakness is that if someone puts his sword inside a pumpkin and recites the following verse he is sent back to the Ghost Zone. The poem is as follows:

*To cease the storm*

*to end the fear*

*the sword must sheath*

*in pumpkin near.*
If the Soul Shredder is placed inside of a pumpkin, everything it altered will return to normal, everyone it has cut will return back to the real world and the Fright Knight will be sucked back into the Ghost Zone and sealed within the pumpkin.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Nightmare**

Nightmare is Fright Knight's horse, a giant bat-winged Alicorn, with sharp fangs and teeth, red eyes, a horn on the top of his head, and a flaming green mane, with a tail and hooves (similar to Fright Knight's own cape).

Nightmare is also presumably male according to the lack of eyelashes and the sound of his neighing. He also has armor around his head and neck with an insignia of a pumpkin with bones going through it (Like the skull and crossbones of a pirate's flag).

As shown in "Fright Night," he and his master are trapped in a pumpkin, but Nightmare has to be released separately.

#### *Soul Shredder*

In addition to his powers, he also gets others from his sword, which is the container of most of his powers. It is both the Fright Knight's greatest power and his main weakness. The sword can be used by everyone. However, only the Fright Knight knows how to use all of its powers, while other users can only use those powers that require physical contact with the edge of the sword.

Soul Shredder possesses its own ecto energy which the Fright Knight can use to fire beams of energy from the blade, create barriers large enough to cover a whole town and release a storm cloud which will eventually cover the entire planet and anything its lighting touches will be turned into a ghost. Soul Shredder has the power to send anyone cut by it to another dimension where their worst fears come to life.

## References

https://dannyphantom.fandom.com/wiki/Fright\_Knight

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Fright\_Knight

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Fright\_Knight