Assassin (Fate/Crossover - Pyke)

**Assassin** (アサシン, *Asashin*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

*"I remember the day I died... and those who betrayed me. Yes... i see them. I see the faces of all who were there. You... you look familiar."* - Pyke

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's true identity is **Pyke**, A renowned harpooner from the slaughter docks of Bilgewater Pyke should have met his death in the belly of a gigantic jaull-fish; and yet, he returned. Now, stalking the dank alleys and backways of his former hometown, he uses his new supernatural gifts to bring death to those who make their fortune by exploiting others—focusing mainly upon the captains that abuse their crewmen with no care to the consequences.

### Personality

Pyke itself has little personality to be spoken of. Being controlled by jaull's fish magic, Pyke sees everyone as guilty of his death despite not being actually on the ship who lead to his demise. Similar to Kalista, Pyke's hunger of vengeance combined with magic turned him on an amoral being with little to no human traits whatsoever, with jaull-fish magic being the malefactor instead of Shadow Isles' mist.

However, through Pyke's interactions with other characters in-game, we can see that Pyke has absolutely no problem working with team mates if the situation requires, despite working alone all the time, being somewhat affably at his own way and even being equitative to the ones who help him.

### Relationships

#### His Master

Maintains a cordial relationship with his master, treating them more as an asset to be used to eliminate his targets than someone to listen to. Is brusque and dismissive of anyone that doesn't aid him in hunting down his targets.

## Abilities

Utilizing his high mobility and damage to kill enemies quickly. He can use Bone Skewer to stab or pull enemies, Ghostwater Dive to turn invisible with increased movement speed, and Phantom Undertow to dash to and stun enemies.
His passive, Gift of the Drowned Ones, helps him regenerate damage while hidden from enemies.

### Skills

#### Class Skills

* Presence Concealment (B++ (A) Rank): Pyke is able to become invisible to anyone outside of around 5 meters away from him, and can move silently to strike his target from unexpected directions. Using this, it is possible for him to get the drop on other servants, though it is dispelled when in direct combat or against foes within 5 meters of Pyke. This ability gains increased effectiveness in areas with large amount of water, or in the rain, and increases in rank if Pyke himself is fully submerged in the depth he calls home.

#### Personal Skills

* Blessing of the Deep (A Rank): Pyke serves as an undead revenant who strikes against the captains who he used to serve under. With this skill, he gains a series of benefits when near large bodies of water. First, he gains additional increases to all his stats save endurance and his skill while near water sources or while coated in water. Second, he can mimic some parts of the skill [Mana Burst] by using water instead, and has a limited form of hydro-kinesis that allows him to coat himself in water and drag an echo of an attack behind him to strike a second time.

* Mental Pollution (B Rank): Pyke sees the world through the lens of two categories: you're on the List, or you're not on the List. His list that he carries with him everywhere is a set of names of people he needs to kill, and it never seems to run out. While his master is not on the List yet, should he betray or severely limit Pyke's actions he may find his name written down on it sooner or later. Pyke will attempt to kill anyone he finds whose name has been written down upon the List, and there is precious little that his master can do to stop him from doing so. This skill also reduces the effectiveness of mental control effects placed upon Pyke, keeping him from being fooled or suborned by others.

* Revenants Physique (C (++) Rank): Pyke is an animated corpse, a dead man walking so to speak, and this skill showcases this. This skill does not grant him any increased endurance or durability, but instead functions like a mutated version of Battle Continuation and Disengage. When damaged, Pyke can break line of sight, and so long as he is unseen by any enemies he will begin to quickly heal back a portion of the injuries dealt to him, not fully restoring him to health but certainly reducing his recovery period. This allows him to either fully retreat after a fight to recover faster than his opponent and then try again when they are weakened, or dive back in to fight more with a recovered body.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Death from Below: "A Timely but Grimly Demise"**

Pyke has an awareness of how close an enemy is to death at all times. When they become weak enough and/or their wounds have added up to bring them to the brink, Pyke can activate this Noble Phantasm to create a phantasmal "X" shape below them, an instant before it activates fully. When the ability hits, and the target is still near death, this Phantasm will instantly kill the target and cut apart anyone standing near them. When a target is killed by this, a portion of their Prana is plundered by it, adding a temporary store to both himself and his master that can be drawn upon like a command seal, though to a far lesser extent. More importantly, a portion of this temporary prana can be immediately used to chain into another use of this Noble Phantasm, depending on the amount of prana plundered. This leads to its classification as Anti-army as a weak enough enemy force exposed to a single instance of this attack may find far more members dying as X's appear across the battlefield and their lives are plundered.

This ability ignores the targets Endurance attribute, and the skill Battle Continuation Entirely, and can ignore up to certain level of invulnerability granted by other skills or phantasms, though skills that completely AVOID death or redirect it can still function, and any skills that activate after death will do so as well.

## References

https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Pyke

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/summon-a-servant-mark-vi-the-dark-six-f-sn-crossover-servants.370875/page-511?post=85507011#post-85507011