Caster (Fate/Mythos - Shear)

*"I am Shear, yet also Lady Tessen. No matter who I am, my mission and desires stay the same. I will take what I want whenever I want to."* - Shear.

**Caster** (キャスター, *Kyasutā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

## Profile

### Identity

Caster's true identity is **Shear**, the only female member of the Spectral Space Pirates so is the one of three operatives that is sent out by Spectre to get the seven Cosmos Stones along with Foolscap and Gabbro. She has a beautiful semblance, but a ruthless heart. Shear uses a sharp-edged crescent boomerang-like object as a handheld or throwing weapon and to retrieve objects. Like her fellow pirates, she has many Dinosaur Cards to summon using the Dino-Card Activator on her necklace with her greatest being the altered dinosaur Maximus the Triceratops.

Due to an incident, she was mistaken to be Lady Tessen, aka Princess Iron Fan, from the story Journey to the West which would add some traits from the demon into the Alien, combining the two figures into one though Shear is still the one in control. Her Dinosaur, the Mapusaurus, was also mistaken to be the Demon Bull King, or just Bull King, creating one of her personal skils.

Shear's English name is a play on the word shear, a tool similar to scissors. It is also the Sign of her dinosaur, Maximus, and the large yellow bow in her hair resembles a pair of scissors, yellow also being the color for the Scissors Sign. A similar pattern exists with the other two Space Pirates. She also uses sharp-edged tools such as her signature crescent boomerang, plus a set of actual shears. Her Japanese name, Mihasa, is likewise an anagram of the pronunciation for the word meaning scissors, hasami.

#### History

##### Ancient Rome Arc

Shear first appears on the Space Pirates' Ship, when Spectre sends her to get the Yellow Cosmos Stone from Sofia after her comrades had both failed, and is "encouraged" not to do the same.

The next day, she attacks the D-Team with a Yangchuanosaurus nicknamed "Yang", recalling it away from a hit by Thunder Storm Bazooka after grabbing Sofia. She interrogates Sofia about the Stone and her brother Spartacus by dropping swords from the ceiling at her. She then confronts Spartacus in the Coliseum with Yang before the D-Team arrives. Her Piatnitzkysaurus through Venom Fang is quickly defeated by Chomp's Thunder Bazooka while Yang beats Ace and Paris with Burning Dash, but is eventually defeated after Chomp uses Dr. Z's newly completed Element Boosters to gain his DinoTector Form, using Ultimate Thunder. Shear losing its card (and the Venom Fang card). However, she ambushes Spartacus outside and snatches the Yellow Cosmos Stone.

##### Caribbean Arc

While searching for the next Cosmos Stone, she and the other Space Pirates form an alliance with Blackbeard, but Shear doesn't take her place in the rotation until much later on, when she attacks the D-Team with a Megaraptor nicknamed "Meg", but it was a distraction so that Blackbeard's ship could get ahead of them. She takes a backseat to the action until the D-Team and Jim locate the true treasure island, throwing Meg at them again, who used Hurricane Beat to keep Jim away, while she goes and grabs the Blue Cosmos Stone. She leaves Meg behind to keep battling, using Ninja Attack, but she is defeated by Ace's Ultimate Wind.

##### Ancient China Arc

While searching for Sanzo Hoshi, she takes a nap in a tree but is awoken by woodcutters, where she and her Mapusaurus are mistaken for the ancient spirits of Lady Tessen and the Bull King. Sanzo follows the story of Lady Tessen's return to Fire Mountain and finds Shear, fainting almost immediately. The D-Team arrive to save him and fight Mapusaurus, but when it used Heat Eruption, it accidentally makes the volcano erupt, forcing everyone to flee. Shear tries snatching Sanzo again at the foot of the mountain, but is stopped by Paris's sonic call; she leaves in frustration after Mapusaurus is defeated by Chomp's Gatling Spark, abandoning it.

She returns with the others as they finally force Sanzo to chant open the stone blockage over the Purple Cosmos Stone's cave with a quickly abandoned promise to return the D-Team's parents. Shear summons Lanzhousaurus when the D-Team follows them, using Power Drain against Chomp, but it quickly loses to Ace and Chomp, Shear losing its card. Shear and the Pirates leave after Foolscap grabs the Cosmos Stone.

##### Ancient Japan Arc

Spectre sends Shear to find the White Cosmos Stone, where she uses Gojirasaurus to scare Shogun Tokugawa away from his bodyguard and fight the D-Team, confirming to them that the Space Pirates are out to control all of time and space. She uses Defense Burst to counter Chomp's Plasma Anchor. However, when Gojirasaurus is defeated by Ace's Hurricane Beat (from her former Megaraptor), it is thrown back into her, slamming her into a tree and giving her amnesia; she is taken away by Takeda's Kunoichi.

In the Kunoichi's camp, she awakens knowing only her name, and the Kunoichi offer to let her join them. She takes up the offer and helps them attack Foolscap, who had captured Tokugawa, to take the Shogun themselves; Shear doesn't recognize him and they fight each other directly. Her Deinonychus trio easily defeat his Megalosaurus, but are beaten by Ace's Sonic Blast, Shear retrieving their card before retreating.

She briefly reports to Takeda with the Kunoichi before they attack Tokugawa and Hanzo in the next episode, who now possess the Cosmos Stone. She sends the Deinonychus trio out again, who focus on Hanzo when the D-Team's dinos are distracted by the other Space Pirates. She manages to grab the Stone, but Ace defeats the Deinonychus, Ninja Attack sending one flying into her again. They return to Takeda, where Shear's memories return; after Takeda holds the Cosmos Stone with his bare hand and collapses, she takes it and flees, returning to the Space Pirates.

##### Ancient Persia Arc

Shear then looks for the Red Cosmos Stone in Ancient Persia, scouring the desert without success before seeking out the D-Team to wait until they happen upon it. She tries to grab Zahrah, who might know where it is, sending out Lexovisaurus to occupy the 40 Thieves and D-Team. It defeats Chomp and traps Paris, Zoe and Zarah with Sand Trap, but gets defeated by Ace's Hurricane Beat and reclaimed by Rex, and when she goes for Zahrah, Aladdin tackles her until the others get away.

Instead of being given a new dinosaur, Seth suggests she make use of the Isisaurus, known as Genie, following Zahrah. Shear attacks the royal palace by taking control of Genie with Spectral Armor, gaining Hydro Cutter, having him face the Alpha Gang and D-Team. He easily knocks Spiny and Tank away and blocks Terry's Heat Eruption with Hydro Cutter. While Zahrah leads her to the red gemstone in the throne room tapestry, she defeats the Alpha Gang. However, the gemstone is just a normal jewel, and she puts Zahrah on a high ledge until she leads her to the real Cosmos Stone, but Aladdin lassos Shear in midair and she drops. She tries to wiggle after the Cosmos Stone dropped by Genie's defeat, but Helga takes it, and Zoe takes Genie's card and Move card. Shear retreats wondering who she can blame her defeat on.

##### Renaissance Paris Arc

Told they won't be going after the Red Cosmos Stone to force the D-Team to use it as their only bargaining chip for their parents after capturing the rest, Shear is sent after the next one coming across the Royal Mother and Chancellor Richelieu scheming to find the "Blue Eye of Gaia"; she uses Rajasaurus to assign herself to the mission. She was notably seen with handfuls of repeated Spectral Armor Dinosaur and Move Cards, but did not use those. She follows Richelieu to an orphanage and has Rajasaurus try to knock it down, but a battle with Chomp, where Rajasaurus is defeated by the falling orphanage's tower after being knocked into it with Lightning Strike, destroys the building anyway. Having lost her dinosaur to Max, she leaves when it becomes apparent the Stone isn't there, letting the other Pirates swap in.

She reappears at Vasasi Castle, letting Gabbro keep the Alpha Gang busy outside while she searches for the Cosmos Stone, attacking Zoe and the Teen Musketeers with her new altered Triceratops, Maximus, facing Paris. He defeats a brief appearance by Terry with Spectral Punisher, but Paris finds and swallows the Green Cosmos Stone to defeat him with Ultimate Leaf, scaring Shear away with his card. She and the other Pirates later try to reclaim the Cosmos Stone in a sneak attack but fail when Jonathan beams the D-Team and Alpha Gang back aboard the Backlander.

##### Finale Arc

After being berated for their failure, Shear stays on board the Ship for the next short stretch until she and the other Space Pirates attack a Stone Age village to get at the Black Cosmos Stone in the nearby volcano, but are blocked by the D-Team and soon forced to retreat when Brontikens accidentally causes the volcano to erupt. They then do a scam trade of the D-Team's parents for the Cosmos Stone, with both sides using fakes, but Seth breaks ranks with the Space Pirates, and Cryolophosaurus freezes the Space Pirates' dinosaurs with Blizzard Smash.

They eventually go to make a real trade, but Dr. Ancient has Jonathan make the Backlander break off and flee. The Space Pirates follow them and launch a sneak attack in present day, Maximus defeating Paris and Terry with Spectral Punisher. They steal and merge the Cosmos Stones, using the newly formed Dark Pterosaur to power up their dinosaurs, but its power begins to outpace their control. During the final battle, Shear and the other Pirates have been turned into giant floating images of extreme power inside the Dark Pterosaur. Maximus tries to defeat Terry, but ends up defeating Tank when she jumps in front of Terry. She also tries to attack the D-Team, but the attack is stopped by the good Pterosaur, letting them defeat Maximus and Armatus by the combined power of Chomp's Lightning Strike, Ace's Sonic Blast, and Paris's Emerald Garden, Shear likely finally losing Maximus. Her and the other Pirates' images try to stop Seth from crashing the Backlander into the Dark Pterosaur's core, but fail, and are stripped of the power it had granted them.

Shear is last seen in Spectre's throne capsule with the other Space Pirates floating through space, dreading the thought of listening to Spectre's singing forever.

### Appearance

Shear is a beautiful humanoid alien of unspecified species with pale white skin, red eyes, long black hair, and pointed elf-like ears. Physically, she is skinny, but among the more averagely human-like of her comrades. Whether biological or artificial, she has a pair of retractable slim pale yellow bat-like wings on her back. She wears a large and pointed yellow ribbon in her hair, a spiky purple dress with pink and dark purple trim, with long black sleeves underneath her dress, long black boots that go up to her thighs, as well as lipstick, nail polish, and a yellow belt and cuff. Shear is also never seen to be wearing a bra so it is likely she doesn't have one.

Her summoning device is small and located on her necklace.

### Personality

She seems to be the most successful and clever among the three operatives of the Spectral Space Pirates, collecting 3 out of the 4 of the Cosmos Stones that her group acquired. Shear is devious and sneaky, and does not care what she does, as long as she fulfills her task, having no qualms about threatening people with dinosaurs or dangling swords to get the information or cooperation she wants.

## Abilities

### Notable Skills and Techniques

* **Item Construction** (- Rank): Shear does not own an Item Construction Skill.
* **Magic Resistance** (D Rank):
* **Territory Creation** (C Rank):
* **Independent Action** (C Rank):
* **Outer Flying** (C Rank):
* **False Bull King** (B+ Rank): While Shear was mistaken as Lady Tessen, her dinosaur Mapusaurus was mistaken as the Bull King. This mistake gave Shear the ability to summon her own version of the Bull King though this one is completely servient to Shear and mostly mindless due to truly being the Mapusaurus.

## Quotes

* *"My name is Shear, and I'm doing exactly what I want."* - Shear to the D-Team or unnamed servants.
* *"You want to play games? Fine. I'm very good at games."* - Shear to Sofia or an unnamed master.
* *"I've got one I know you'll enjoy. It's called chicken and what we do is see how fast I can make you squawk like one."* - Shear to Sofia.
* *"I've been a pirate in fifteen galaxies and over a hundred centuries so listen up when I talk."* - Shear to a group of pirates.
* *"This is all Foolscap's fault! He should've never lost the monk in the first place! \*Yawns\* Well, I'm not falling behind on my beauty rest because of his mistake. A quick little nap won't hurt."* - Shear before sleeping on a tree.
* *"You two interrupted the beast dream ever! And now I'll repay you with a nightmare!"* - Shear to two Chinese woodcutters before sending out a Mapusaurus, resulting in her being mistaken as Lady Tessen.
* *"Not you, too. Why does everyone keep on saying that? I'm more of an egg-and-cheese sandwich girl. [Notices Sanzo Hoshi's chanting] Is that some kind of dance?"* - Shear to Sanzo Hoshi after being mistaken as Lady Tessen.
* *"Gimme a break, the monk's lame chants were scarier than you are!"* - Shear to the D-Team when they attempt to rescue Sanzo Hoshi.
* *"Aaaaah! I didn't mean a Heat Eruption this hot!"* - Shear after Heat Eruption caused a volcano to erupt.
* *"Have you guys seen any glowing, powerful jewels around here by any chance?"* - Shear to the Shogun and his soldiers and enemy ninjas.
* *"Hmm, you look familiar. Well, it doesn't matter. If you don't have the jewel, you're just a waste of space."* - Shear to the Shogun before sending out a Gojirasaurus.
* *"What's the matter, ninja bodyguard? You act like you've never seen a Gojirasaurus before. Oh, that's right, you haven't."* - Shear to Hanzo.
* *"You barely have a chance now. And after I activate Spectral Armor, you'll have no chance at all."* - Shear to the D-Team or an unnamed servant.
* *"I... I think... Shear? But..."* - Shear trying to remember her name while having amnesia.
* *"I don't think so whoever you are. Deinonychus!"* - Shear in her Amnesia to Foolscap before attacking him.
* *"Oh, my head. Ever since that fall. Everything's starting to come back to me. Who I am, and why I'm here."* - Shear after her amnesia was knocked out of her.
* *"Spectre's nuts if he thinks I'm gonna search this entire desert. Those kids seem to have a knack for stumbling onto the Cosmos Stones. I think maybe I'll go back to that city and see if they have a better idea of where this thing is."* - Shear before seeking out the D-Team.
* *"It's simple, that girl may know where the Cosmos Stone is. So if anyone's going to take her, it's gonna be me."* - Shear before summoning a Lexovisaurus.
* *"What are trying to pull on me, girlie. I don't know what this cheap ornament is, but it's certainly not the Cosmos Stone!"* - Shear while smashing the red jewel after being 'tricked' by Zahrah.
* *"Enough of your games! Tell me where the real stone is or I'll see to it you never see your father again!"* - Shear to Zahrah.
* *"Hope your not afraid of heights, girlie. If you try to run away from me now, you'll find it's a long way down! [Watches Zahrah back up to the edge] Of course, if you don't tell me where the real Cosmos Stone is, I might just have to give you a little push!"* - Shear's final warning to Zahrah.
* *"Wait! No, stop! I'm afraid of heights!"* - Shear before falling from a great height.
* *"Spectre's not going to like this! Maybe I can blame it on Gabbro somehow."* - Shear realizing she failed her mission.
* *"I'm on it! One Cosmos Stone, coming up! Wait, this isn't a precise location, but should be close enough."* - Shear while looking at the Cosmos Stone Detector.
* *"No guards, let's just keep this between us. Now, about this Blue Eye of Gaia you mentioned. How do I go about finding it?"* Shear to the Royal Mother and Chancellor Richelieu.
* *"If you cooperate, I could be a valuable ally. [Summons Rajasaurus for a second] And if you don't, it could get real messy around here."* - Shear threating the Royal Mother.
* *"Then step aside so I can reduce to place to rubble and find out where it's hidden!"* - Shear to Zoe and the Teen Musketeers.
* *"Yes, but I'm not alone. Isn't that right, Maximus!"* - Shear before summoning Maximus.
* *"A, B, maybe even C, but the point is we really did try our very hardest, Spectre."* - Shear trying to lessen their failure.
* *"Hold it, you too! Let's just get them to come to us. We have their parents after all."* - Shear stopping her fellow operatives from chasing the Backlander.
* *"They always seem to find some way of showing up and being a pain."* - Shear after gaining ultimate power from the Cosmos Stones and being corrupted by the Dark Pterosaur as result.
* *"I am Lady Tessen, also known as Princess Iron Fan, though my true identity is Shear! So fall before me!"* - Shear to an unnamed servant.
* *"Ah, Spartacus was it? You certainly have let yourself go since our last encounter in Ancient Rome. How have lived since losing the Yellow Cosmos Stone? What, you don't know who I am? How can that be.... unless you are not the same Spartacus that I met before. No matter, you failed to stop me before, you won't succeed now."* - Shear to Spartacus.
* *"The pirate Blackbeard, or at least another version of him. You seem to more stable than your counterpart yet apparently just as stupid as him. No matter, I shall deal all problems the same way, through battle."* - Shear to Edward Teach.
* *"Um... I don't remember you being female. I guess Sanzo Hoshi's counterpart is female in this... world. Well, I have seen many weird things in my lifetime that a man turning into a woman isn't the strangest thing I see. Anyway, I give you this warning monk. Don't get in my way, I have a job to do and I will not have you interfere with it."* - Sheer to Xuanzang Sanzang.
* *"A clone of a man who died early on.... Ok, this is the definitely in the top of the strangest things I have seen. You are undoubtedly not a version of the Shogun I have met."* - Shear to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
* *"A kunoichi? I have seen kunoichi before, even apart of the same Takeda Clan. Tell me ninja, would the names Ofuu and Orin mean anything to you?"* - Shear to Mochizuki Chiyome.
* *"Another musketeer, such a pain. And you are fully grown and very well-trained unlike those brats I dealt with the before. But, you still can't beat my dinosaurs."* - Shear to Chevalier d'Eon.

### Crossover Quotes

* *"All brawn, no brain. Typical Dinobot."* - Shear to Slash/Grimlock.
* *"I'll be making you wish you were facing Lord Zedd."* - Shear to Jason Lee Scott/Tommy Oliver.

## Gallery

*Shear's full body**Sheer with her wings out**Maximus, Shear's ultimate dinosaur**Shear and Maximus*
## Trivia

* Shear will occasionally ends her sentences with "-kamo ne", which means "maybe".
* Shear is one of several summoners to nickname her dinosaurs, but the only Space Pirate (other than Spectre) to do so.
* She is afraid of heights, despite having wings and constantly flying, though it is possible that she isn't so much afraid of heights as she is of falling from those heights.
* She summoned at least one dinosaur of every Element (including Normal Move and Secret) except for Water. Though she controlled Genie, she only took control of him after his card was activated, and so never actually "summoned" him.
	+ She is also the only Space Pirate to control all Elements of dinosaurs.

## References

* https://dinosaurking.fandom.com/wiki/Shear
* https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Shear\_(Dinosaur\_King)