Berserker (Fate/Crossover - Hank Henriette)

**Berserker** (バーサーカー, *Bāsākā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

*"Those who lose their humanity shall be laid to rest by his comrades."* - Hank Henriette

## Profile

### Identity

Berserker's true identity is **Hank Henriette**, a Werewolf Incarnate and the Captain of the Incarnate Solider Unit during the Civil War.

During the Civil War, Hank fought with many of his Incarnate allies. When the War "ended", Hank began to travel around the country to kill and redeem many of his Incarnate allies who had lost their humanity and violated the oaths they made to him.

### Appearance

Hank is a tall and lean man. He sports an unkempt hair that has portions of it that are jutting on the sides somewhat scruffy, has a dark color and covers his forehead. Hank also has thick eyebrows and slanted eyes. Hank is usually seen donning the hood of his coat.

Hanks attire is a coat that has an elaborate design in it. The center has a cloth in it that appears similar to a pentagon, but is elongated, inverted and rectangular in shape, which houses ten buttons, with five resting on each side. It is fastened with a dark-colored belt, which is also adorned with a suspenders that Hank lets loose. Several straps are seen on Hank's clothing; 2 that are resting on the collar area, a pair that is located on the shoulder area and 3, which can be found at the end of the sleeves that are placed on sideways. On the upper part of the sleeves in the bicep area and on the back, a hexagon-shaped insignia can be found. For footwear, Hank dons a light-colored boots. Hank also wears a scarf as well.

### Personality

Hank displays a rather relaxed personality. He even went as far as to fall asleep in a tavern and did not show any signs of hostility towards Nancy, despite being shot by her. Despite this, Hank is a man of his word and has strong sense of justice. Upon their disbandment, Hank made all of the members of the Incarnate Soldier Unit promise that they would eliminate or be eliminated by their allies if they ever succumbed to their condition and became monsters. Therefore, Hank shows no hesitation in killing any of his former subordinates should they become monsters.

Despite Hank's laid back nature and stoic resolve towards killing his comrades, his actions weigh on him emotionally. The idea that he will likely also lose his humanity from using his Incarnate abilities is ever-present in his mind, making him worry that he might fail to finish off his comrades before then.

Despite Hank's laid-back personality and determination to defeat all Incarnates of dehumanization, this puts an emotional strain on him. The thought that he might lose his humanity by using his Incarnate powers lingered in his mind, causing him to worry that he might not be able to fulfill the oath he once made to his comrades before then. When he accidentally fell into Cain's trap and was used by him under mental stimulation to trigger the "Whitechurch Tragedy", a major case that outraged both humans and gods, he was unable to control himself and lost himself in the excitement. Even when he was deep in fear, self-blame, regret and guilt, he couldn't bear the pain, sorrow and despair of hell and nightmare, and in a state of self-abandonment, he asked Nancy to understand himself personally. Later after receiving Nancy's understanding and comfort and making a promise to herself that she would kill him as long as he turned into a beast, he found himself again and cheered up again, and once again started the battle of atonement to redeem himself and his comrades. Fight to the end with Cain.

## Abilities

Hank once did work as a Union soldier gifted with monstrous powers, making him an ace in the hole against the Confederacy. His leadership and tactical knowledge of warfare made him a legend in the Civil War of both union sides the country of Patria. During his time at the church even before becoming an Incarnate, he learned about survival skills in war as he trained in using various tools and weapons to use in thr battlefield. With his talents as his time as a captain of the Incarnate Soldier Unity, his strength and intelligence helped turn the tide of against the South.

Hank's strength exceeds above-average human and allows him to tear through several Incarnates. Even if not transformed, he proves to be a durable person. Taking several attacks from several powerful beasts and surviving blows that would normally kill an average human. He also wears a metal plate under his clothes to block bullets. He is also very perceptive. As he can catch attacks from behind and dodging strikes from a Gandr Incarnate, whose speed far surpasses the Werewolf Incarnate.

Hank has three types of weapons that he carries with him during his crusade to eliminate every single Incarnates. His main weapon is a large spear, this bomb-lance is made of silver with it's tip resembling a harpoon and is connected to a lapisable rod. Due to how the spear is made it is also retractable which can increase it's range and comes with an explosive point from one the grenades he carries that can detonate the gunpowder to activate the explosive. his is strong enough to destroy stone and pierce through several Incarnates, striking deep within the skin to guarantee a kill. It's also collapsible during transportation.

He also carries revolver with Godkiller bullets. These special types of bullets were created to kill the Incarnates by destroying their mutated cells. Hank only carries replica versions of these bullets which were created due to the original bullets being scattered around the world. These inferior bullets used by Beast Hunters are meant to deliever a killing blow to a fatally-wounded Incarnate. Hank has survived a shot from a Godkiller bullet, one of the shots he took in his Werefolf form has caused his detransformation. Hank has also used various weapons such as a rifle, crossbow and a flare bombs.

When transforming in his Incarnate form, his abilities become more enhanced, as he is can tear through several beasts with pure strength. With a healing factor active in this transformation, recovering from inflicted wounds temporarely. Unlike any other known Incarnates, Hank is able transform back into his human appearance willingly, and would need the moonlight to transform into an Incarnate, which has helped him keep his sanity. Hank has three known forms. The first form of his is where his hair turns white and eyes changes into a yellow color under the moonlight as he gains a boost in physical abilities. His second form his Werewolf form which gives him a general increases of natural physical abilities. His third form is a giant wolf under experiencing duress and large emotion, a beast with enourmous amount of power that's capable of destroying a city block.

### Skills

#### Class Skills

* Madness Enhancement (A Rank): A raise in parameters and increasing the user's physical abilities for their mental capacities and/or in exchange for their sense of reason. Hank can retain his will to kill every Incarnate himself if they ever break their oath, despite feeling anguish from this and affecting his mental health. While he keeps capacity for reasoning, he fears that he'll lose that reasoning due to his Incarnate powers without fulfilling his promise as tries to retain his control. His lose that control can cause him great pain and fear as he wishes to seek atonement.

#### Personal Skills

* Monstrous Strength (B Rank): The increase of superhuman strength, possessed from the user's nature as a monster. Hank can amplifie his feats with this enhancement from his power as an Incarnate. As Incarnates are considered monsters in his time, it is a natural reason he has this skill.

* Military Tactics (A Rank): As he is a former war veteran and captain even before becoming an Incarnate, Hank has an intimate amount of military knowledge and strategies to turn the tides in the battlefield.

* Battle Continuation (B Rank): Even suffering from numerous wounds. Hank is able to refuse defeat and continue on fighting in desperate situations, reminiscing a promise to keep his promise to eliminate all Incarnates who lost their humanity even if risk losing his own.

* Oath of Humanity (B Rank): A skill to retains one's mental sanity in order to keep what is human of them.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Incarnated Fenrir; "Lord of Beasts in the Moonlight"**

Hank's Noble Phantasm is Anti-Self trump card, shedding his human form in exchange of turning into a beast known in his life as an Incarnate. He was experimented in order to continue his existence, as a being disguised as a human, but as beast with the power to equal that of the gods.

The Incarnates are various beasts whose forms are taken frpom mythological legends from the stories of past. Hank's transformation resembles that of Fenrir, a giant wolf-like beast from Norse mythology who was the son of Loki and foretold to kill Odin but was killed by his son, Víðarr. Meaning that Hank can transformed into an Incarnate that resembles a werewolf in the moonlight at night. He also can transform back into his human appearance so long as he retains his sanity. As Hank can risk losing his humanity and act more monsterous with this power, and if fully corrupted will act like a savage beast and go on a rampage, with knowing that his Madness Enhancement can also increase the risk of corruption of this Incarnate state. With this information it would take a command seal to help regain his sense of reason before he has reached the point were his humanity is long discarded.

He has increased superhuman strength under this transformation, along with amplified speed, endurance, and a self-heal from any normal attacks. They also can increase his Parameters.

Hank is a special type of Incarnate as he has three different forms from his Transformations.

* First Form: This first form has Hank's hair turn white and eyes turn yellow during the full moon at night. This form increases his general physical abilities.

* Second Form: The form that has him transform into a Werewolf Incarnate. Dawning silver fur and growing taller while still having human structure. This Werewolf form has given him superhuman strength, endurance, speed and other physical abilities. He also gains a healing factor that can restore him from normal attacks and injuries. Though he will grow more feral if this remains active for a long time without transforming back.

* Third Form: This deadly transformation reveals his true form as the Incarnate Fenrir, a giant wolf that is about 1-2 stories tall from the ground up on all fours. This transformation comes at cost of Hank's humanity and control over his stress, as he turns into a large beast that has become a god of the apocalypse as it leaves a path of destruction wherever it goes, sacrifying his mental state with the power to rival the gods.

## Trivia

* Hank is a war veteran as he served as field soldiers for Northern Union of Patria even before becoming an Incarnate.
* He was born on September 4 but his age wasn’t said.
* Hank was the first successful Incarnate to be created.

## References

https://totheabandonedsacredbeasts.fandom.com/wiki/Hank\_Henriette

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ToTheAbandonedSacredBeasts

https://www.reddit.com/r/respectthreads/comments/betrng/respect\_hank\_henriette\_to\_the\_abandoned\_sacred/

https://www.anisearch.com/character/87229,hank-henriette