Archer (Fate/Mythos - Gabriel Van Helsing)

*"My name is Van Helsing, and I fear no man nor beast."* - Gabriel Van Helsing.

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

## Profile

### Identity

Archer's true identity is **Gabriel Van Helsing**, or just **Van Helsing**, the legendary and immortal supernatural hunter of the secrets organization known as the Knights of the Holy Order. An amnesiac monster hunter sent from Vatican City, he has lost his memory, and has only clues to his history and true identity. Van Helsing is already an accomplished monster hunter whose reputation precedes him even in the distant and remote Transylvania. He is the arch-enemy of and the man who finally slain the dreaded vampire Count Vladislaus Dracula.

Van Helsing has devoted his life in killing monsters and is also a very holy person. He is said to be the most wanted man in Europe, due to his destructive savior tendencies and the fact that many of the creatures he takes out revert back to human upon death. Dracula claims that it was a younger Van Helsing who murdered him centuries before, thus beginning the cycle which resulted in Dracula becoming a vampire.

Unknown to all people but Dracula, including Van Helsing himself, the hunter is actually the human yet still immortal incarnation of the Archangel Gabriel, being referred by Dracula as the "Left-Hand of God", being either sent or banished to Earth by God for unknown reasons. Also, Van Helsing had mentioned to Carl that he remembered fighting Romans at Masada in 72 AD, showing that he kept his immortality while on Earth.

### Appearance

Gabriel is a tall man, standing at about 187.96 cm, with a muscular physique. He has neck-length messy dark-brown hair and has black eyes. He normally wears a long billowing black duster over a black buttoned shirt and black turtleneck, black pants, boots and a hat resembling either a fedora or a cowboy hat. He occasionally wears a red mask covering his mouth.

As a werewolf, Van Helsing has dark brown fur, though it may look black in the right light. He stands at about 213.36 cm tall, and is extremely muscular, even by werewolf standards. In this wolf form, Van Helsing is usually topless, wearing only the tattered remains of a pair of black pants.

Van Helsing is also mentioned as having two large disfiguring scars between his shoulder blades, right where wings could be. The scars would seem to imply that something was forcibly torn out of those stops, like perhaps angel wings.

## Abilities

### Notable Skills and Techniques

* **Independent Action** (B Rank):
* **Magic Resistance** (C Rank):
* **Monster Hunting Mastery** (A Rank):
* **Holy Order** (C+ Rank):
* **Curse of the Werewolf** (B Rank):

## Quotes

* *"Vampires, gargoyles, warlocks, they're all the same — best when cooked well."* - Gabriel Van Helsing to Carl.
* *"I'll find you. I'll get you back, I'll set you free! I swear to God!"* - Gabriel Van Helsing.
* *"To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories at all."* - Gabriel Van Helsing.
* *"To you, these monsters are just evil beings to be vanquished. I'm the one standing there when they die... and become the men they once were." - Gabriel Van Helsing.*
* *"My life, my job is to vanquish evil. I can... I can sense evil. This thing, man, whatever it is - evil may have created it, may have left its mark on it, but evil does not rule it. So I cannot kill it."* - Gabriel Van Helsing about Frankenstein's Monster.
* *"Another day to hunt, another vampire to slay."* - Gabriel Van Helsing to Carmilla.

### Crossover Quotes

* *"Your Dracula may not be the same as mine, but he's going down just the same."* - Gabriel Van Helsing to Death.
* *"You may be different compared to other vampires but I will hunt you down the same."* - Gabriel Van Helsing to Bloodless
* *"You feel like a vampire yet I sense no evil from you, only regret behind your sense of duty. I don't know what your story is but if you wish to fight, I will give you one."* - Gabriel Van Helsing to Lady Maria.
* *"Something about you seems very... familiar..."* - Gabriel Van Helsing to Wolverine.
* *"Dracula fighting for humanity? Definitely not something you see every day. Just know that if you step out of line, you'll answer to me."* - Gabriel Van Helsing to Alucard.

## Trivia

* One of the points in making Van Helsing was to reinvent the Van Helsing character into a younger, action hero type. For those who know Stoker's Dracula novel: The original Abraham van Helsing was an omni-disciplinary scientist who spoke comically broken English. He was well built, but getting on in years, and did not perform any notable act of physical skill; he was purely the wise mentor to his allies.

## References

* https://vanhelsingmovie.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriel\_Van\_Helsing
* https://vanhelsing.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriel\_Van\_Helsing
* https://all-worlds-alliance.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriel\_Van\_Helsing
* https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Gabriel\_Van\_Helsing