Caster (Fate/Crossover - Doctor Doom)

**Caster** (キャスター, *Kyasutā*)

"*I am Doom. Destroyer of worlds... What gods dare stand against me?*" - Dr. Doom, FF Vol#1 13

## Profile

Caster's true identity is **Doctor Victor Von Doom**, arch-nemesis of the Fantastic Four and the supreme ruler of Latveria.

Victor was born to a Latverian Romani tribe as the son of Cynthia and Werner Von Doom. Cynthia had her soul claimed by the demon lord Mephisto when Victor was young, and Werner died of frostbite while on the run from Latverian authorities. Victor would dedicate his life to mastering both science and magic to honor his family and rescue his mother from Mephisto's clutches.

Accepting a scholarship to the United States, Victor met his peer, rival, and future archenemy Reed Richards, who aided him in constructing a machine to communicate with the dead, specifically his mother. The machine malfunctioned and horrifically scarred Victor's face. Blaming Richards for his failures, Victor was expelled for his unethical experiments and left to travel the world, where he ended up in the Tibetan mountains. Taken in by the local monks, he quickly mastered their disciplines and the monks themselves. They helped him in constructing his iconic armor, but before the mask could finish cooling, Victor impatiently put it on, fusing it to his already damaged face. He would go on to successfully seize control of his home country Latveria and become one of the greatest villains of his world.

### Personality

Caster's most defining qualities are his immeasurable pride and obsessive need to be the best. Frequently addressing himself in the third person, Caster is extremely arrogant, willful and overconfident, which while becoming his downfall time and time again, has made his will utterly immovable, as even telepaths who have had the entire world under mind control were unable to control him.

Caster also has a rigid code of honor that he adheres to almost religiously. His code means that he will not attack respected opponents when they are weakened or at a severe disadvantage, as he regards victories from such circumstances as hollow and meaningless. He also cares very deeply for the welfare of his people, wishing to build a utopia for them, albeit one where he is naturally in power.

## Role

### Infinite Paths

In an alternate reality, Caster was summoned by Medea under the Assassin class due to the corruption in the Grail. Displeased with the class he was summoned as, he refused his master's orders. Angered, Medea tried using hexes and her command spells to force him to kneel before her, but his sheer willpower resisted all of her efforts with seemingly little effort. He declared "*Doom does not kneel*" before killing her.

Doom turned the Ryuudo Temple into his new embassy and would greet Saber and Archer outside the Temple, where their initial attacks were repelled by his force fields. When his mystic blasts were unable to harm Saber due to her magic resistance, Doom struck her with a lightning blast, the blast harming her as it wasn't magical in nature. With their regular attacks incapable of penetrating his force field, they resorted to *Caladbolg* and *Hammer of the Wind King* to seemingly destroy him.

However, during Saber and Archer's confrontation with Gilgamesh, Doom returned, revealing they had merely fought one of his Doombots. When Gilgamesh demanded to know who he was, Doom declared such a gesture beneath him as Gilgamesh would not acknowledge his magnificence. As their egos clashed, Gligamesh, angered by Doom's audacity, ensnared him in the Enkidu Chains, only for Doom to erase them with the power of the Infinity Gauntlets.

## Abilities

Easily one of the most brilliant polymaths of his time, Caster is a super-genius of extremely few equal. His specialties lie in physics, robotics, cybernetics, genetics, weapons technology, biochemistry, and time travel. Even in his college years, he surpassed his college professors and he and Reed revolutionized computer science because the computers of the time failed to keep up with them.

Over his life, he has created many inventions that surpass anything modern man is capable of, from his armor, to a working time machine, to many different types of robots; his most notable and frequently used types being his Doombots. His knowledge of magic and sorcery have even made him a strong contender for the title of Sorcerer Supreme.

His armor in particular grants him super strength and durability, flight, force fields, self-supporting recycling systems, multiple forms of enhanced vision, and electric and concussive blasts, among many other systems and functionalities. All of which, have allowed him to contend with many of his world's heaviest hitters.

From his time under the Tibetan monks, Caster is also a master of martial arts, able to hold his own against some of the greatest fighters of his world, and even killed a lion with a single punch, all without the aid of his tech or magic.

With his natural talents in leadership, strategy, politics, and manipulation, he is also a highly charismatic ruler. Through sheer force of personality, he is able to inspire the loyalty and adoration of his countrymen. This has also served him well when he led his own groups, such as the Cabal.

His sheer willpower has allowed him to resist telepathy and mind control form the likes of the Purple Man, who at the time had the entire world under his power when Caster confronted him. Because of this, not even Command Spells can restrain him.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Doombot**

Robotic body doubles used by Caster that wield a fraction of his power and appear indistinguishable from the real thing, to the point that not even Servants can discern their true nature. He can use these to scout out dangerous situations and fight as his proxies. In life he has faked his death with these mechanical decoys countless times.

#### **Infinite Lives' Work**

Allows Caster to summon the many inventions, artifacts and scientific breakthroughs he has obtained throughout his life, across multiple existences. These last for a certain amount of time, depending on their power. Objects of reality-altering power like the Infinity Gauntlets can only be wielded for up to a few minutes, whereas other, lesser items may be held longer, if not indefinitely.

## References

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8865268/27/Infinite-Paths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor\_Doom

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Victor\_von\_Doom\_(Earth-616)