Caster (Fate/Crossover - Tear Grants)

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

"*It's not easy to regain trust once you've lost it.*" - Tear Grants

## Profile

### Identity

Caster's true identity is **Tear Grants**, a Seventh Fonist in the military wing of the Order of Lorelei, the religion overseeing Yulia Jue's Score. She lost both parents when she was still an infant, and has been raised as a warrior ever since. She first went to the Outer Lands when she realized her brother, Van Grants was up to something that could endanger the Outer Lands. Which causes her to ran into Luke fon Fabre, and accompany him on his journey.

### Personality

Despite a typically cold and serious demeanor, Tear has a soft spot for cute things, particularly Mieu, the bearer of the Sorcerer's Ring. She also has a fear of ghosts, which initially becomes evident when the group is making their way through the Abandoned Factory and is later hinted at again at Mt. Roneal. Tear is modest about her appearance in spite of it often being a topic of conversation, becoming embarrassed easily and scolding the other group members for such talk. She cares deeply about Luke, an affection that builds as the story progresses. The two grow to support each other despite their similar stubborn attitudes, and Tear ultimately confesses her love for Luke near the end of the story, after the battle with Van in Eldrant.

## Abilities

Tear is a Seventh Fonist capable of casting unique spells known as Fonic Hymns. While Natalia's healing artes focus on single targets, Tears utilizes area-based healing artes such as Healing Circle and Revitalize. Apart from being one of the primary healers of the game, the aforementioned Fonic Hymns also grant powerful offensive spells such as Judgment and Grand Cross. Similar to Legretta, she can also make use of Eclair de Larmes, Holy Lance, and Resurrection. While she primarily remains a long-ranged caster, she is adept to fighting up close as well.

Tear wields various staves and wands typical of the healer class, but her regular attack is unique in that her weapon fires out small orbs of fonic light a short distance, allowing her to keep enemies away. Some of her close-ranged artes consist of Nocturnal Light, Severed Fate, and Banishing Sorrow, which can be altered via FOF Changes into Inlay Nocturne, Fatal Circle, and Searing Sorrow, respectively. Tear is the only character who possesses spells that solely create FOF Circles, namely Invoke Ground, Invoke Aqua, Invoke Flame, and Invoke Gale.

Her other long-ranged weapons she can also use are throwing knives that she carries hidden in her dress.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Fonic Hymns**

A Noble Phantasm which can be used to heal, protect, and attack. Fonic Hymns are a type of spell in Tales of the Abyss where magic effects are applied through the use of song. Though mentioned as relatively weak, the ones used by Tear Grants, as well as her brother, Van Grants, are the Fonic Hymns previously used by Yulia Jue, which Jade Curtiss mentions are on par with regular fonic artes in terms of strength. The six Fonic Hymns of Yulia compose the Grand Fonic Hymn.

In order to use a hymn to is fullest potential, the user must not only know the melody, but also the meaning and symbolism behind it. This is part of the reason why Tear is unable to use all of the hymns at first. The six hymns are as follows:

Nightmare - Represents the First Fonon, Darkness.
Force Field - Represents the Second Fonon, Earth.
Holy Song - Represents the Third Fonon, Wind.
Revitalize - Represents the Fourth Fonon, Water.
Judgment - Represents the Fifth Fonon, Fire.
Grand Cross - Represents the Sixth Fonon, Light.
The Grand Fonic Hymn is created when all seven of the hymns are combined into a single song. It is the proof of Yulia's pact with Lorelei, the aggregate sentience of the Seventh Fonon, Sound. The hymn is so powerful that the user does not need to understand its symbolism, unlike the separate six hymns. The Grand Fonic Hymn, when combined with the Key of Lorelei, can summon Lorelei itself. Van first uses the hymn to summon and trap Lorelei within himself after falling into the planet's core at the Absorption Gate.

Before the final battle with Van, Tear recalls the Grand Fonic Hymn; during the battle, she uses it to call Lorelei out of Van's body, fatally weakening him. Lorelei is freed when Luke uses the Key. Tear tells her brother that he used to sing the hymn to her when she was little, though she did not understand its meaning until their battle. She states the meaning of the Grand Fonic Hymn is Yulia's love for the world and its inhabitants, as well as her desire for the Score to be overturned.

#### **Innocent Shine**

Tear sends spirals of light from beneath her opponents into the sky. She then commands them to fall as a single wide-area ray of light that shines down, hitting her targets repeatedly for heavy damage.

## References

https://aselia.fandom.com/wiki/Tear\_Grants

https://talesoftheabyss.fandom.com/wiki/Tear\_Grants

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Tear\_Grants

https://asteria-grandvoyage.fandom.com/wiki/Tear\_Grants

https://incognitoinside.fandom.com/wiki/Tear\_Grants