Caster (Fate/Crossover - Giorno Giovanna)

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

*"I, Giorno Giovanna, have a dream."* - Giorno Giovanna

## Profile

### Identity

Caster's true identity is **Giorno Giovanna**, the illegitimate son of DIO, conceived with Jonathan Joestar's stolen body. He is introduced as Haruno Shiobana. He speaks of his intention to join the powerful gang Passione and his dream of becoming a "Gang-Star".

Giorno is a natural-born Stand User wielding the life-giving Gold Experience in battle.

### Personality

Giorno's childhood was filled with unhappiness and loneliness due to bullies and the abuse by his stepfather. During his early childhood, he was initially cold and uncaring towards anyone and believed himself to be scum just for the way people treated him. Those that knew him easily thought he'd grow up to become a twisted individual. This changed when he befriended an injured gangster he saved. As the man protected Giorno from those that did him wrong in return for his aid, he learned that he could trust people. Since then, he has become a more confident and solicitous person.

A defining characteristic of Giorno, and shared among his peers through him, is his resolve; something that can be described as his ability to make important decisions without hesitation and seeing them through to the very end, even in the face of pain, sorrow, and tragedy. Throughout Part 5, Giorno's resolve is such that in the heat of battle, he is frequently willing to allow himself to be injured if it leads to an advantageous situation. An ambitious individual, he readily takes any occasion to achieve his final goal of becoming a "Gang-Star". Upon beginning to cooperate with Passione gangster Bruno Bucciarati, Giorno wastes no time in infiltrating the gang, and steadily works his way up the ranks. His assassination of Polpo was partially a way to get a promotion for Bucciarati. Later, Giorno also tried to personally approach the Boss of Passione, and planned to plant a tracking device on him.

## Abilities

### Skills

#### Class Skills

* Territory Creation (E Rank): The skill to build a special terrain that is advantages to oneself magus. At this rank, Caster struggles at making even a basic magic circle. Caster received a low rank because he was not a magus in life, and only has this skill because of his class.

* Item Construction (A-- Rank): The skill to create magical items, such as mystic codes or golems. Caster gains this skill solely from his Noble Phantasm's ability to turn inanimate objects into living creatures, ropes into snakes, pebbles into beetles, etc. The creatures that it creates tend to be quite limited in function, as they are not under his control.

#### Personal Skills

Bravery (D Rank): The ability to block out mental interference such as pressure, confusion, and fascination. Caster went up against the incredibly powerful and mysterious leader of the gang “Passione” without backing down. Although, the rank of this skill has been severely reduced due to being summoned under the Caster class.

Charisma (E Rank): The power to lead people. Caster eventually took over Passion, the leading gang in Italy, and ruled for the remainder of his life.

Eye of the Mind (True) (C Rank): A heightened ability for observation, refined through experience. Caster, like others in his family, was quite talented in battle. However, he's skill in battle does not compare to other Heroic Spirits famous for battling.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Gold Experience: "Life Giver"**

Gold Experience is the “Stand” of Caster, or a supernatural manifestation that “stands by” its user. Stands have stats, much like servants, and its stats are listed above. Stands also have additional abilities too. Its main abilities are making inanimate objects into living creatures, (ropes into snakes, pebbles into beetles, etc) causing plants to grow very quickly, and causing people's thought process to go so fast that their bodies can't keep up with them. Gold Experience can also be used to heal people, via turning inanimate objects in their bodies into cells. As this process wasn't originally intended, it is very painful. All of Gold Experience’s abilities are tied to its touch, so its short range gives it a disadvantage.

#### **The Stand Arrow: "A Gift From Fate"**

Created from materials foreign to the world’s reality marble, the Stand Arrow has the ability to gift people Stand abilities; hence the name. The functions of the Stand Arrow are rather limited after that though, with nobody in the universe Caster is summoned into having the ability to have a Stand, along with it being a rather poor weapon. However, it has one function originally unknown even to the man that discovered it, the ability to upgrade a Stand to a Requiem Stand.

#### **Gold Experience Requiem: "The Nullification of Cause and Effect"**

Gold Experience Requiem is the evolved form of Gold Experience, that is activated by Caster stabbing his Stand with the Stand Arrow, with its stats and ability changing wildly along with new found sentience. Its ability changed from giving life to reducing actions and wills to a point of “zero”. Similar to how Gáe bulg reverses cause and effect, Gold Experience Requiem destroys them. It can essentially stop any action from ever occurring, so long as they are within its line of sight. Actions such as firing a gun, running away, and even the activation of a Noble Phantasm will simply not happen. It is for these reasons called “the strongest defense”. It can also trap its enemies in a infinite loop of death; by killing a person and returning that action back to zero.

Such a power comes at a cost though, as the Grail simply isn't powerful enough to maintain Gold Experience Requiem for longer than a minute. After the minute is up, Gold Experience Requiem will be forcefully returned back to the regular Gold Experience. It also uses an incredible amount of mana, forcing Caster to wait days in between activating it.

## References

https://jojo.fandom.com/wiki/Giorno\_Giovanna

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/summon-a-servant-mark-vi-the-dark-six-f-sn-crossover-servants.370875/page-14