Caster (Fate/Crossover - Candyman)

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

*"They will say that I have shed innocent blood… What's blood for, if not for shedding?"* - Candyman

## Profile

### Identity

Caster's true identity is **Daniel Robitaille**, later known as Candyman, was the son of a slave, the lover to Caroline Sullivan, and the father of Isobel Sullivan. He is also the ancestor to Annie Tarrant and Caroline Mckeever.

His father had him sent to many great schools across America, which lead to him becoming a well-known painter.
After he fell in love with a woman he was commissioned to paint a portrait of and got her pregnant, the woman's father furiously had Daniel murdered by a lynch mob.

However, Daniel still existed beyond the grave as a wrathful spirit now known as the Candyman, who will kill anyone that mentions his name 5 times in front of a mirror, in order to keep him and his legend alive.

### Appearance

The Candyman is usually portrayed as a lean, tall, African-American man, six feet and five inches, usually towering over the other characters in the Candyman movies.

His attire consists of a large, brown fur trench coat, a white cravat around his neck, gray pants, a pair of polished leather shoes, and a bloody hook in place of his right hand, which he uses to mutilate his victims. His trench coat is used to conceal his grotesque mutilations — the product of the torture that he suffered shortly before his death. Underneath it is his skinless ribcage and hollowed-out abdomen, which forms a hive infested with live honey bees. His hair is jet-black and curly, but kept very short.

### Personality

Because of the unjust tragedy surrounding his death, having been murdered under false pretenses as an act of revenge, Candyman arose from the grave and became a wrath-driven specter, haunting the land where he had been executed. But, rather than render the land of Cabrini Green, or the Sullivan household (depending on which movie we follow) uninhabited, Candyman preferred to keep the denizens in the dark, unaware of his existence until they made the mistake of summoning him. Candyman, while well-spoken and articulate, is portrayed as being incredibly self-absorbed, narcissistic and vain, valuing his reputation over human life. His sole motivation is to keep the rumors and stories surrounding his death alive, as he believes that the longer people talk and fear him, the more he will continue to haunt the land — which is later shown to be true.

Candyman is also shown to possess a severe god complex. He implies self-omnipresence by identifying himself with the rumors and imagery based around his name and likeness, further claiming that without such things he is "nothing", making it clear that he enjoys hearing people talk about him. Candyman takes his role as a god to quite literal religious lengths. He refers to the denizens of his burial grounds as his "followers" and "congregation". Furthermore, Candyman does not kill his believers if they abandon their faith in him; instead, he chooses to murder the people who have called him out as being superstition (such as Helen Lyle, who in the first Candyman movie told a young boy from Cabrini Green that "Candyman" had merely been an alias used by serial killers in order for them to get away with their crimes).

The people who worship Candyman, i.e. the residents of Cabrini Green and New Orleans, have a habit of participating in offerings to the vengeful apparition.

During the first film, a run-down apartment flat houses a sort of altar in Candyman's name; a pile of chocolate sweets with razor blades inside their packages is placed in front of a large graffiti mural depicting Candyman's screaming head. Also, during the events of the first film, the Cabrini Green's African-American community created a make-shift pyre which they set ablaze, an obvious ritual used to appease the spirit.

In the second film, the people of New Orleans had created an actual altar in the attic of the Sullivan mansion, the shrine having skulls, candles and a large wall painting depicting Candyman in a crucifix stance.

It is also noted that in the second film, his bloodlust and arrogance seem to hide his inner torment at being denied the right to be with the woman he loved, and the anguish he feels at never being able to hold or see the child that he and Caroline had made together. His features contort with obvious pain as he tells his story, his memories of Caroline clearly something he holds precious. The fact that her grieving face when she saw the atrocities committed against him was the last thing he saw, and the knowledge that her pain was greater than his is embedded in his memory, showed how much they had both meant to each other; when she saw his face in the mirror she held after he breathed his last breath, she didn't toss the mirror away in fear; she clutched it tightly to her breast, sobbing at the loss of her love.

## Abilities

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Be My Victim; "Relfected Passage of the Boogeyman"**

This Noble Phantasm serves as a connection of Candyman's boundries between the human world and the mirror world. A source that contains his soul as he is stuck between this world after the time of his death.

The myth of Candyman says that if his name is called five times in the mirror, he would then appear behind the person and murder them with a bloody hook which has replaced his hand that was cut off by Caroline's father. This Noble Phantasm allows Candyman to move freely as he pleases and appear once contacted with a mirror is in process. He can even take his victim and drag them into the mirror, as if it were his own Reality Marble. This realm can cause illusions, nightmares and decrease of sanity for onces who wander in his realm for long periods of time.

Mirrors that contain Candyman's soul are the secret of his power. If mirrors are destroyed, he will cease to exist.

## References

https://candyman.fandom.com/wiki/Candyman/Daniel\_Robitaille

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman\_(character)

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Candyman\_(Candyman)

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Candyman