Lancer (Fate/Crossover - Melia)

**Lancer** (ランサー, *Ransā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

*"What trials await me, I wonder? I must not lose focus!"* — Melia

## Profile

### Identity

Lancer's true identity is **Melia Antiqua**, the current empress of the High Entia, a highly-advanced angel-like species who reside on the head of the Bionis and a powerful mage who lives in the Royal City of Alcamoth prior to the events of Xenoblade.

Melia is the daughter of the High Entia Emperor Sorean Antiqua and his second consort. Imperial tradition states that the emperor take two consorts; one a High Entia, and the other a Homs. Melia, daughter of the Homs second consort, is of mixed High Entia and Homs heritage. Melia's mother is never seen and is only alluded to in dialogue as, due to the difference in the rate of aging between Homs and High Entia, she died of old age sometime before the events of the game. There is a character in the imperial palace however does state that Melia has grown up to resemble the second consort as a young woman.

### Appearance

Melia is a 1.56 m (5'1") young lady with fair skin, silver hair braided on the back of her head with two large curls just above her shoulders, teal eyes, and a small pair of High Entia wings on her head. Initially she wears a cap to cover these. Her default outfit consists of a blue sleeveless dress with pastel purple, pink, and white detailing. She has a cape, crown, and large sleeves in the same colours, black and white gloves, black stockings, and white heeled dress shoes. Melia wields a long silver staff.

In Future Connected, Melia has a new outfit; it is a short white and blue dress with large shoulders and a wide waist, a white collar with a large pink bow, thigh-high black boots, and a blue headband with white flowers. She now wields the World Ender, a new staff that resembles the Monado rather than the more traditional designs in the main game.

In Xenoblade Chronicles 3, her hair has become much longer. As the Queen of Keves, Melia wears a black and grey dress. The dress has ropes on its skirt along with a feather. It has metallic, black stars embedded across the dress, and she wears long, black gloves. As a Hero, she wears a black and white dress and black leggings, and white shoes as well as gloves. She also has what appears to resemble Telethia wings behind her. Like in Future Connected, she wields her World Ender, now referred to as the Elemental Staff, as her Blade.

### Personality

Despite her status as the princess of the most advanced race on Bionis, Melia is a very humble, modest and kind person, never looking down on Homs as inferior (which pure-blooded High Entia often seem to), though this may be because she is half-Homs herself. When the party first meet her, Melia slaps Shulk for touching her, suggesting that she was brought up with traditional values. She instantly apologises and offers to help the Homs in exchange for saving her life. She eventually develops romantic feelings for Shulk, although she keeps them to herself. She is implied to be jealous of Fiora, but does not let these feelings impede their friendship. Eventually, Melia accepts that Shulk will never reciprocate her feelings and is content to remain friends.

Melia has a strong sense of duty and, due to her status, believes that she should be capable of doing tasks bequeathed to her alone. Initially, Melia is reluctant to accept the Homs' help to take down the Telethia she has been assigned to destroy in Makna Forest, insisting she can do it herself without assistance. However, she accepts their help after Chief Dunga provides the group with Riki, realising her limits. She is initially skeptical about the Monado, disbelieving Shulk's ability to see the future despite knowing a Seer in the employment of her father. Only after the party defeats the Telethia does she accept its power.

Being a princess and due to a fairly strict upbringing, Melia is partial to polite and formal behaviour, and is one of the most serious members of the group along with Dunban. Her lack of familiarity with others is also due to her isolation growing up - she was raised mostly alone in her living quarters until being sent to destroy the Telethia. In spite of this, she retains a sense of humour and does not seem to mind Riki calling her "Melly". However, when she jokes, she normally does so with a completely straight face, so people, particularly Reyn, usually think she is being serious, as shown in a Heart-to-Heart when she jokingly demands that Colony 9 pay Alcamoth for their use of Ether Cylinders from the Ancient Wreckage, which Melia deduces to be a crashed High Entia ship.

As the Queen of Keves, Melia acts calmer and is overall more mature. She greatly values the lessons she learned from her former companions, having learned to accept her own weaknesses and being able to open her heart to others. Despite this maturity, she gets embarrassed when it comes to personal things she doesn't want others to know, as shown when she prohibits the party from looking too closely in her bedroom, as well as when her fear of Rainbow Bugs is brought up. She also feels lonely from the absence of all her friends, and expresses the desire to sacrifice herself if it is needed to reclaim the future she and her friends fought for. Additionally, being trapped in Origin for so long has made Melia impatient to explore the world for herself rather than just hear about it from others.

Melia is also shown to be close friends with Riku, and has great trust in him, with Riku being the one Melia entrusted with passing along Lucky Seven to someone who can be trusted with its power. Their friendship is also displayed when Melia and Riku give each other a confident and friendly nod after Melia was rescued.

## Abilities

Melia's abilities are based upon Ether Arts, being a mage-like character with low health and physical strength, while excelling in ether combat and defense, making her very useful against enemies with high physical defense or specialize in ether attacks. Her main arts do not immediately damage opponents: rather, they produce an elemental summon, which float above her head with a specific spherical design, and give off an aura that increases the party's stats while they are in the vicinity of Melia. Up to three of these summons can be in play at the same time, including three of the same summons which will subsequently stack their effects (eg. 3 aqua summons for high health regeneration). Her Talent Art effectively uses the elementals she has summoned to attack, meaning that Melia's main form of dealing damage is to summon and then release these elements, while she can also keep the elements passively active to buff her party members. Every released summon that attacks an enemy fills her Talent Gauge, allowing her to enter Element Burst state when maxed, granting her access to some powerful abilities as well as doubling damage caused. Initially she can summon Flare (which buffs the strength of all around her), Aqua (which gives everyone the Regenerate Status) and Bolt (which gives everyone near her an Ether boost), but learns more as she gains levels. As a perk, due to Melia using her Talent Art in order to attack, she can be extremely useful during Chain Attacks as Talent arts can be categorized with any other Art type, allowing her to easily stack the Chain Attack art multiplier regardless of what Arts her other party members use.

Similarly, she also has a few spells that cause statuses on enemies. She can inflict Sleep using a special hypnosis spell, heal a party member at the cost of her own health, and even Topple a single target by herself at close range. Once she reaches Element Burst state, she gains a single-use ability to either Bind the foes' movement, or seal enemy Arts for a period of time, status ailments that other party members are unable to cause themselves.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **World Ender; "The Spear that Ends the Ancient and Begans Anew"**

A staff that Melia can summon, a weapon that has a resemblance to the Monado, also reffered to as the Elemental Staff. The World Ender is said by many to be; A staff that presages the end of an old age and heralds a new one. Melia can also uses it to control the Keves Castle Ferronis.

### Quotes

* *"I will use my power to protect my friends!"* - Melia
* *"Star searing flames of absolution!"* - Melia
* *"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Apparently." - Melia*
* *"Oppose me and your destruction is inevitable!"* - Melia
* *"I have been blessed with good friends! Thank you, Shulk." - Melia to Shulk*
* *"Shulk! It's been so long since we fought along side each other."* - Melia to Shulk
* *"Oh. Fiora is here too? Umm, she's also has the Mechon Armor? Still, I'm looking forward to fight with you again"* - Melia to Fiora

### Gallery

#### Fate/???

1st Ascension2nd Ascension3rd AscensionFinal Ascension
## References

https://xenoblade.fandom.com/wiki/Melia

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Melia\_Antiqua

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Melia

https://www.xenoserieswiki.org/wiki/Melia