Demon Saber (Fate/Mythos - Ghirahim)

*"I am the Demon Lord who once presided over a land very similar to this one. You may call me Ghirahim though I very much prefer to be indulged with my full title: Lord Ghirahim."* - Ghirahim.

**Demon Saber** (悪魔 . セイバー, *Akuma Seibā*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

## Profile

### Identity

Demon Saber's true identity is Ghirahim, the loyal demonic servant of Demise/Ganondorf who seeks the resurrection of his master. He is an extremely powerful and flamboyant Demon Lord who truly is the spirit of the Demon King Demise's sword and the evil counterpart to the Master Sword's spirit Fi. He is a figure of authority in the land below Skyloft, and he thinks quite highly of himself, preferring to be called Lord Ghirahim.

His main objective is continuously hunting for Zelda, in order to use her spirit as the reincarnation of the goddess Hylia for his plan to resurrect and free his master Demise from his current imprisonment. Although at first Ghirahim thinks little of Link and his presence, the Demon Lord grows frustrated and erratic as he realizes the young hero is an obstacle to his plans.

#### History

##### Beginnings

At some point in the past, Ghirahim existed solely as the sword belonging to its wielder, the great Demon King, Demise. After Demise was defeated and sealed away by the goddess, Hylia, Ghirahim took on his "human" appearance and proclaimed himself as a Demon Lord. He became obsessed with releasing his master from his confines by whatever means necessary while leading the remainder of his master's forces on the surface.

He then learns that Hylia had reincarnated herself as a mortal girl named Zelda who lives in Skyloft, and hatches a plan to kidnap her and use her lifeforce to restore his master to his full form.

##### Ghirahim Reveals Himself

After Link wins the Wing Ceremony, Ghirahim summons a tornado near Skyloft, which sucks up Zelda in an attempt to capture the Spirit Maiden. However, those plans fail to come to fruition due to Impa's intervention which greatly angers him.

Ghirahim and Link, both pursuing Zelda, initially meet in the Skyview Temple, where the young hero finds the Demon Lord attempting to open the door leading to the Skyview Spring. Angered by the turn of events, Ghirahim vents his irritation by engaging Link in combat. He promises to not murder the young hero, as it would be unfair, and instead decides to beat Link within an inch of his life. Despite the threats, Link defeats Ghirahim, who is surprised at Link's skills but reminds him that the Goddess Sword is the only reason he is still alive. With Zelda's presence gone, Ghirahim leaves, but not before warning Link that he would kill him if their paths crossed again.

##### Continuing the Pursuit

Ghirahim constantly pursues Zelda and nearly captures her on several occasions. In one instance, Zelda is captured by Bokoblin forces, but upon Ghirahim's arrival, he discovers that Impa has rescued her. After venting about the situation to Link, he summons Scaldera to take his frustration out on him and leaves.

Later, Ghirahim nearly reaches her at the Temple of Time at the edge of Lanayru Desert, where he interrupts Link and Zelda's reunion by making his way in through the debris. Creating a barrier to prevent Link from interfering, he goes after Zelda but is stopped by a protective barrier created by Impa. Ghirahim, however, is eventually able to break through Impa's defense and readies to deliver the final blow when Link, with Ghirahim's barrier fully vanished, intercedes by attacking the Demon Lord from behind. This gives enough time for Impa and Zelda to escape through the Gate of Time, with the former fully obliterating the gate to impede Ghirahim from following them. Blaming himself for not having reprimanded Link in their last encounter, Ghirahim vows to severely crush Link senseless next time they meet.

At the Ancient Cistern, Ghirahim is waiting for Link, once again expressing his frustration due to Link's constant interference. Before disappearing, he infuses the golden statue he was sitting on with dark energy, causing it to attack Link. Later, Ghirahim appears to Link again at the Fire Sanctuary, where he claims their frequent encounters are due to the "thread of fate" to which they are bound. The Demon Lord then explains his joy and relief at his discovery of a second Gate of Time and, although he had promised to violently punish Link, he decides to spare the young hero's life should he reveal the location of said gate. When Link refuses, Ghirahim reveals his second form and admires himself before the two engage in battle again, claiming that he will have no mercy on the young hero. However, Link emerges victorious in the end, irritating and humiliating Ghirahim since he, a Demon Lord, was unable to defeat him and keeps on being bested by a human child. Before retreating, he reminds Link that he is still nothing and will drag him into "an eternity of torment" at all costs.

##### Demise's Resurrection

Ghirahim is unsuccessful in reaching Zelda before Link can destroy Demise in their time; however, the sense of security brought on by Demise's destruction causes Zelda to awaken from her slumber. At this moment, Ghirahim strikes and finally abducts Zelda; he takes her back to the past where Demise is still sealed, but alive, and sacrifices her to his master. Link rushes to stop the ritual, but Ghirahim summons hordes of enemies and magical barriers to slow him down and buy Ghirahim time.

Defeating the horde, Link eventually reaches the Demon Lord, who, having grown tired of Link's persistent interventions, decides to finally finish the young hero off in a "humiliating death." Ghirahim reveals his true form as Demise's Sword and calls himself a fool for having shown mercy to Link in the first place. Although he is significantly more powerful in this form, Link still triumphs, much to Ghirahim's despair. Ghirahim, however, declares that the ritual continued during the fight, and Zelda's soul is consumed by Demise, who appears in humanoid form and promptly takes his sword back. Ghirahim laughs hysterically as he transforms back into his true form: a sword in Demise's hand.

When Demise suffers a fatal blow at Link's hand, the Ghirahim-sword disappears shortly before Demise dies and restores Zelda's soul. What this means for Ghirahim's ultimate fate is unknown.

### Appearance

Ghirahim is a tall and slender muscular fellow with pale gray skin and white, sleek medium length hair styled into an asymmetrical bob, with the longer half of it hiding the left side of his face. He has no eyebrows or eyelashes, purple eyes, one rounded ear and one pointed ear, perhaps his most distinguishing feature would be his alarmingly long and skinny tongue which is extremely flexible. Diamonds are a common motif in his design as his attire and most of his attacks are decorated with diamonds.

He wears a white, off-shoulder, spandex, sleeveless jumpsuit with diamond-shaped cut-outs all over with an even bigger diamond shaped hole at the chest, white opera style gloves with similar diamond cut outs running up them, two golden bangles on his upper arms a golden belt with a red gem around his waist, a red, forked high-collared cape with a black interior covered with golden diamond motifs closed via gold chain, and a blue diamond earring on his right ear. He also wears large amounts of makeup the most prominent of it being his heavy lilac eyeshadow, black eyeliner and white lipstick.

When Ghirahim strengthens his arms, his skin turns black and metallic, with black streaks on the rest of his body. At full power, he becomes much taller much more muscular, his clothes disappear, both of his ears become pointed, his hair and skin becomes metallic and the skin also turns reddish-black, with white lines covering his body, a diamond-like core on his chest and a smaller one on his forehead, and his eyes become glowing and pupil-less. In Ghirahim's first two forms, his right ear is pointed, whereas his left ear is round. However, in his final form, both ears are pointed.

Under such aspect, he looks similar to Link's sword spirit Fi, fitting his nature as Fi's evil counterpart. Indeed, it is revealed that like Fi, who is the spirit of the Master Sword, he is in fact Demise's sword given life. His sword form looks similar to the Master Sword, only black, spiked and a lot bulkier, with the Triforce motif pointing downwards. There is also a maroon aura coming from Ghirahim in this form.

### Personality

At first glance, Ghirahim appears to be very calm, poised, equanimous, imperturbable, collected and flamboyant: He acts with grandiose gestures and over-the-top theatrics, he likes to dance and hum (his own theme tune) when happy, and he displays the disturbing habit of coming too close to people and invade their personal space, to toy with them or intimidate them. Ghirahim is extremely dedicated to his goal, he hates anything standing in his way, and he is abusive and unforgiving towards his underlings. He is very conceited and frequently evoking his high position of authority, which he describes as the reason behind his dignified manners and his "mercy" towards Link. He also exhibits strong narcissism, evident with all the praises he uses to speak of himself. Upon first encountering Link, he is very polite and formal, claiming to be uncivil as he had not properly introduced himself

Ghirahim acts in a polite, dignified, praiseworthy and well-mannered way. However, this phlegmatic exterior is but a façade he keeps to hide his cruel, violent, aggressive and sadistic temper. To his core, Ghirahim enjoys bloodshed: as seen when he licks his lips when facing the prospect of violence, when he licks his foe's blood off his blade, or when he relishes in his foes' torment. He describes someone's agony as a "great stress reliever". Ghirahim seems to be very self-absorbed as he states to Link "my preferred title is Lord Ghirahim." His behaviors are usually very exaggerated and dramatic as he often moves his hands in a very theatrical manner.

Ghirahim's mood can snap from relaxed and playful to focused and brooding to angry and violent at the drop of a hat. He is also easily angered, and vituperative, as he lashes out loudly, yet he most often keeps it at bay in favor of his refined façade. During their first encounters, he acts rather friendly (albeit in a creepy way) towards Link, but the more Link meddles with his goals, the more irked he gets, becoming increasingly furious each time he sees him, promising him gory punishment which he describes with much details.

Finally, Ghirahim is very haughty, arrogant, egocentric and presumptuous. He scorns humans too much to remember their names, instead giving deriding nicknames, and feeling outraged that a mere human could best him at every fight, no matter how hard he tries to take them down. He refuses to acknowledge Link's worth to the very end, claiming that all of his successes are due to his magic sword.

### Relationships

#### His Master

Unlike other servants, Ghirahim really doesn't hold much loyalty to the one who summoned him, especially due to them being mortal, assisting them as a means to the end to resurrect his true master. When he had succeeded in his goals, he is likely to just discard his "master" unless they can still prove useful to him.

Though he would happily follows orders if it includes violence and bloodshed, or if the master is dark enough themselves. However, if he has masters that are more noble, he has complete disdain towards them, hiding it under a mocking sense of "respect". He has nothing good to say to/about them and is more likely to disobey their orders.

### Fi

As sword spirits created by their respective masters, themselves opposing forces and enemies of each other, to say that either being dislike the other would be an understatement. Ghirahim loathes the holy sword spirit due to her (as the Master Sword) opposing him and slaying his master while being held by the first incarnation of Link, and this is acknowledged with equal animosity by Fi. Thinking her an emotionless puppet of the Goddess (ignoring the fact that he is the same with Demise), he holds no restraint in insulting her and her masters, and very much seeks to destroy her and her wielder. He was also very happy when the Master Sword was heavily damaged by the most recent incarnation of his master's hatred during the Tears of the Kingdom event.

However, he does respect Fi as a weapon of the goddess (like how Demise respects the magnificence of Hylia) and treats her as a worthy adversary in comparison to his utter disdain towards Link due to being a mortal that constantly defeats him.

## Abilities

### Notable Skills and Techniques

* **Magic Resistance** (A+ Rank): By the virtue of being a demon lord, Ghirahim boasts exceptionally high magic resistance, able to resist, if not nullify, effects of almost every harmful magic.
* **Independent Action** (A Rank):
* **Harden Body** (A+ Rank):
* **Barrier Creation** (A Rank):
* **Dark Summoning** (A+ Rank):
* **Sword Mastery** (EX Rank):

## Quotes

* *"Oh, but listen to me. I'm being positively uncivil. Allow me to introduce myself."* - Ghirahim to Link before introducing himself.
* *"I am the Demon Lord who presides over this land you look down upon, this world you call the surface. You may call me Ghirahim. In truth, I very much prefer to be indulged with my full title: Lord Ghirahim. But I'm not fussy."* - Ghirahim introducing himself to Link.
* *"Do you have any idea how that made me feel inside? Furious! Outraged! Sick with anger! This turn of events has left me with a strong appetite for bloodshed."* - Ghirahim to Link or an unnamed human Servant.
* *"Still... it hardly seems fair, being of my position, to take all my anger out on you. Which is why I promise up front not to murder you... No, I'll just beat you within an inch of your life!"* - Ghirahim to Link or an unnamed human Servant.
* *"Next time I will do more than beat you senseless. I'll make the affair so excruciating you'll deafen yourself with the shrill sound of your own screams."* - Ghirahim to Link or an unnamed human Servant, promising torment to them should they meet again.
* *"...Enough of this foolishness... I am Ghirahim, Demon Lord! It shouldn't matter how powerful your sword is, you are still nothing... Not just a human... A human child! And yet you prevail! You filthy scamp! You have awakened a wrath that will burn for eons! I swear to you, whatever it takes, I will drag you into an eternity of torment!"* - Ghirahim on his second loss to Link.
* *"Who dares interfere in the works of Lord Ghirahim? I must punish you most... deliciously."* - Ghirahim.
* *"Ah, finally! An opponent worthy of a real challenge!"* - Ghirahim.
* *"Your chances against someone as powerful as myself are slim, so don't fool yourself."* - Ghirahim to an unnamed human Servant.
* *"Oh my, it's been a long time since anyone have made it this far. Right on time. I was feeling queasy, a massacre will make a good appetizer."* - Ghirahim.
* *"I can sense your energy, goddess. Such powerful divine energy you have there. Perfect to use for my master's resurrection. But don't worry Ishtar, I won't kill you to get it. Rather, I will beat you to an inch of your life and drag your broken body towards where it is needed."* - Ghirahim to Ishtar.
* *"Ohhh, how interesting... Here comes a former hero that has became a puppet to the will of humanity. How positively... **pathetic**."* - Ghirahim to EMIYA (Archer).
* *"Green clothing, bright-coloured hair, even a bow. Your entire appearance, I hate it. I hate it. I HATE IT! You remind me of that damn boy who stood against me for way too long! And for that, I shall give you a long and painful death!"* - Ghirahim to Robin Hood.

### Crossover Quotes

* *"Hahaha! Don't try to hide it girl, I can smell the darkness deep within you. It is intoxicating. I will make sure it is all let out."* - Ghirahim to Pyrrha Alexandra.
* *"A new ally for Hyrule's champion? Give him my regards when I send you to him in pieces."* - Ghirahim to Pit.
* *"You have faced that hero before, haven't you. Well, if you have trouble with him than you stand no chance against me."'* - Ghirahim to Cloud Strife.
* *"Oh my. Here's the puppet who believes himself to be the puppet master. How positively **pathetic**."* - Ghirahim to Sephiroth.
* *"You... wretched beast. Back from whence you came, monster!"* - Ghirahim to the Doom Slayer.
* *"It will take more than a mere gaze from you to vanquish me, Mephisto's puppet."* - Ghirahim to the Ghost Rider.
* *"Oh? Malebolgia's attack dog has gone off his leash. Time to put you down."* - Ghirahim to Spawn.
* *"This divine energy... It's beyond anything I've ever seen! With it, my master will be invincible!"* - Ghirahim to Madoka Kaname.
* *"I must admit. I'm impressed, wizard. But you will soon see I will not be vanquished so easily!"* - Ghirahim to Gandalf.

## Gallery

*Ghirahim strengthening his body**True Ghirahim*
## Trivia

* Ghirahim acts as the counterpart of Fi, as they are both the humanoid forms of swords. Ghirahim's weapon form resembles a dark version of the Master Sword. In addition, Fi is generally regarded as calculating and emotionless, while Ghirahim is very open and dramatic about his emotions.
* It has been theorized that Ghirahim may have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a personality disorder characterized by attention seeking behavior and mannerisms and a feeling of superiority to others.
* According to some sources, Ghirahim is supposedly the same age as Link. However, this is very likely false as Ghirahim is meant to be same age as Fi, due to being counterparts.

## References

* https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Ghirahim
* https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Ghirahim
* https://zelda-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Ghirahim
* https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Ghirahim
* https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Ghirahim
	+ https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Ghirahim\_(Hyrule\_Warriors)
* https://koei.fandom.com/wiki/Ghirahim