Berserker (Fate/Crossover - Nier)

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

*"I don't need anyone..."' - Nier*

## Profile

### Identity

Berserker's true identity is **Nier**, a young woman who had her existence denied at every turn, thus leading to an overwhelming desire for love and acceptance which gradually warped the very fabric of her being. As her sense of morality began to wane, she came upon the Arcarum grim reaper who grants death to all. The two now stand together like lovers, hell-bent on creating a new world that will fully acknowledge them.

Though born of a prestigious family of mages, Nier lacked magical talent herself. When her little sister Corrie's spellcasting prowess begins to blossom, Nier's parents and the servants begin distancing themselves from her. A desperate Nier enters the family's forbidden archive in search of a solution to her problems. Nier finds a magical tome in the archives and breaks the seal on it. Inside are instructions for casting spells to control life itself, along with a card. She later tests those spells on all the men who approach her. Once she has mastered the tome's contents, she gives her parents a demonstration. They have her make a copy, then banish her to an underground cell for dealing in the forbidden. Nier grows weaker with each passing day in her cell. Death emerges from her card so that they may form a pact and slip out of the cell. Nier surmises that killing Corrie might turn their parents' love toward her, but once she realizes they've never once loved her, in a violent outburst of emotion Nier unleashes Death's power and murders everyone in the mansion.

On their way back from a mission, the Captain and company rescue a girl from monsters in the forest. It turns out she was tailing the crew in hopes of asking them to save the world. She then takes out a card which shrouds their surroundings in darkness and transports them to a barren wasteland laden with primal beasts. After a brief clash, the crew find themselves back in the forest. The girl, Nier, explains that a primal beast seeking to destroy the world is sealed within her card. Only moments ago, the crew fought in that primal's memory of the War. If the Captain and company can continue besting the primal within the memory, the world may yet see salvation. Nier reflects on her past while watching the crew battle.

Nier and Death appear before the crew, who have completed their battle in the memory of the War. When the Captain and company learn that the pair is working together with The World to wipe out the skies and create a new universe, a battle ensues. After the Captain rejects her ideal world and was able to fend off Death, Nier was left into a saddened state to the point of that she would rather die than not be loved by everyone, eventually driven to suicide by ordering Death to kill her, as she decides the world would be better off without her. Lyria has also stated that her desire to remove anyone who didn't accept her from the world will eventually leave her and Death all alone in their new created world.

Months after Nier vanishes, the crew comes upon the mansion she once called home. They find her diary and learn of her tragic past. Just then, Nier shows up with the local town watch ready to kill her for her crimes. (Captain) and Death keep her safe, after which she agrees to search together with the crew for a way to be loved without destroying the world. It is revealed that Death later found Nier and revives her. However, this has caused Nier to lose all her memories, including her name and her meeting with the crew. She recovers them after reuniting with Death and reforging their pact.

### Personality

The eyes of this vulnerable young girl believed in a certain inner emptiness. Timid and introverted, she constantly defers to others. This personality could be why darkness never seems more than a step away from her.

She is also prone to unhandle rejection, acting on her darkest urges when scorned to or lied to about a promise not kept. It could also go horribly wrong, as she flies into a murderous rage if her rejection should be unbearable to her.

### Relationships

#### **Anila**

One of the few friends she was able to interact well with upon joining the crew.

#### **Seox**

Nier is a foil to Seox. Both have experienced similar tragic stories, but have different point of views of the world.

## Abilities

Nier dwells onto the forbidden arts, such as dark magic and life manipulation. She is able to grant life indefinitely, though the only to do this is to transfer another life onto the already deceased. She's capable of inflicting intolerable pain with the magic from the forbidden tome that she uses. Nier is capable of creating a portal that sends other people to another dimension and seals them away in her card.

Nier can summon the primal beast Death to fight alongside her in battle. When Death is present, her skill can be input ahead of time to play out in sequence at cost of Love's Redemption. Wielding scythes in an elegant manner. They can use a Death Card has the power to call forth the wailing souls of the dead to swallow up the target, and summon chains to ensare their target.

Death will become temporarily unusable when out of Love's Redemptions, but it won't stop this pair from posing a formidable threat.

### Skills

#### Class Skills

* Madness Enhancement (B Rank): Nier has developed an unstabled obession of love and desire for acception, even with the one she desires the most. This has been made worse due to the amount of reject she faced in her life, going into a murderous rage on those who refused to accept her.

* Magic Resistance (B Rank): As being an Evoker of Death, and born into magecraft while dabbling into forbidden magic between life in death. Nier has large magic tolerance and can resist the effects of most magic spells, even with the help of her primal beast.

* Territory Creation (B Rank): Nier can create a high level workshop protected by a strong bounded field. A high skill thanks to her capabilities of creating a reality marble. Her Double Summon skill also helps with crafting a capable workshop, as it can help enhance her magic powers.

#### Personal Skills

* Double Summon (B+ Rank): This skill grants Nier the skills of both Berserker and Caster classes. This trait comes from Nier's use of magic due to her heritage.

* Beloved (C Rank): Nier can use her status as "The Lovers" to delude herself into believing her target ally is her "true love" by using magic. The skill can also increase the chances of saving the target from fatal attacks, or it can revive her considered lover from near death if the spell isn't casted before the lethal attack lands. Though she can't use it on her lover if they are "zombified", as their wounds will be permanant and cannot be healed.

* Last Love (B Rank): If Nier dies, she will activate this skill to protect her lover from any harm and effects as her last sacrifice. It also curses the enemy by preventing them from regenerating and healing and lowering their parameters of agility and endurance from one to a large amount.

* Will to Love (A Rank): A skill that represents the one thing Nier desires the most, and would live and die again and again for seeking this love, as it is the concept of the Lover. If Nier was able to find true love, she would be so devoted to meticulousy work for that love's happiness and will do anything for it. Even if it would sate her deepest and darkest urges from within.

* Death Reversed (EX Rank): The skill that allows Nier to control and sway the very concept between life and death. As she can bring back anything from the dead, though it would sometimes be imperfect as they could be brought back as an undead being. This magic feel equivalent to True Magic due to the conditions of this spell, despite not involving transfering souls from one to the other. Also bringing life to one thing would sometimes require the demise of the other in order for the spell to work. Even Death holds the power of life and death itself.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **The 13th Arcana - Death; "The Arcarum that Grants Demise to Everything"**

    *"I am Death... Harbinger of doom in a loveless world."* - *Death*

A Noble Phantasm that takes the form of a primal beast Arcarum known as Death, sealed inside a card that can released. It is a grim reaper-like entity that has the ability to grant death to all. Nier had contracted Death and forged a pack with it in her efforts for recgonition for family by dwelling into the forbidden dark arts. The primal beast is celestially bound to it's contracted Lover; who is essentially Nier.

Death can be stated as a seperate being, with it's own mind and will. It even has it's own parameters seperate from Nier's. Death was created without the same restrictions as other Arcarum Primal Beasts, so Nier can disobey The Inchoate World should the need arise, and as the Primal Beast that governs death, it is fully capable of killing him.

Death is best known as a harbinger of death itself, as it is able to grant anyone their demise with the swing of it's red stained weapons in an elegant motion. Be it as it may be fast and painless or slow and grueling, with the use of it's two scythes as a weapon. It's stats bear of a high knight class servant, even capable of killing Divine Servants.

#### **Klagen Totentanz; "Vandalizing Dance of the Dead"**

An Anti-Unit Noble Phantasm symbolizing Nier who holds sway over love and death, in her depths of finding acceptance. This has Death brutally massacre her enemy in a horrible swing with it's death scythes. In order to use this Noble Phantasm, it will cost one Beloved, because it costs a vary amount of mana to activate it. Enemy servants that have a high luck (B or higher) can be able withstand and survive this lethal attack (based on a dice roll).

#### **Drowned in an Exquisite and Eternal Adieu; "Departure of those who Reject Love and Death"**

A Noble Phantasm that requires the World of Love and Death to be active in order to be used. It is the embodiedment of Nier's resentment of the rejection and denial she faced in the world she lived in, unwilling to hande such things as she will rid anything that wont accept the love that she has been seeking.

Upon activation, Death will pull their victim into a darkened world similar to the World of Love and Death, except it is now drench in black darkness. Nier now in an unconditional emotional state orders Death to kill the target. With the swing of it's scythces, Death swiftly attacks with numerous fast strikes and will guarantee a painful bloody death, ignoring defenses. It can be survived if the servant has higher luck (B luck or higher).

### Quotes

* *"Why do you reject me?"* - Nier
* *"I don't need you..."* - Nier
* *"Death and I will handle all of Master's enemies... Teehee."* - Nier's Combat Start 1
* *"Get in my way, and I'll erase you..."* - Nier's Combat Start 2
* *"Now no one will bother us. Right, Death?"* - Nier's Battle Finish 1
* *"At this rate, we will be love and accepted."* - Nier's Battle Finish 2
* *"Yes."* - Nier's Attack Selected 1
* *"Let us do it, Death."* - Nier's Attack Selected 2
* *"Let's kill them."* - Nier's Attack Selected 3
* *"They all... They all can just go away!"* - Nier's Noble Phantasm Selected 1
* *"Death... Destroy... Destroy Them!"* - Nier's Noble Phantasm Selected 2
* *"Why...Why won't they accept us...?"* - Nier's Defeated Line 1
* *"Death... Please stay with me..."* - Nier's Defeated Line 2
* *"I don't like magic."* - Nier's Sklll Line 1
* *"Let's... kill them."* - Nier's Skill Line 2
* *"This is... This is the only place for me..."* - Nier
* *"I am Nier, I shall be your servant... I am a magician who holds the power of this card here. Oh, this is Death by the way, please don't be frightened. We shall get rid of those who try to harm our master."* - Nier after being summoned

### Gallery

#### Fate/Crossover

* Ascensions

1st Ascension2nd Ascension3rd AscensionFinal Ascension
* Craft Essence

Bond CE: Love and Death Tormented by Denial
## References

https://gbf.wiki/Nier

https://granblue.fandom.com/wiki/Nier

https://granblue-fantasy-versus.fandom.com/wiki/Nier

https://rising.granbluefantasy.jp/en/characters/detail?char=nier

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Nier\_(Granblue\_Fantasy)

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

https://fiction.live/stories/Fate-Granblue-Prototype/pR6NLeEfF3DYhLuov/Status-Menu-Caster-2/yRwGNRZapRptbS6zi