Lancer (Fate/Crossover - Darth Maul)

**Lancer** (ランサー, *Ransā*) is the servant of Ladd Russo in the ??? Holy Grail War.

## Profile

### Identity

Lancer's true identity is **Darth** **Maul**, a Sith lord and the first apprentice of Darth Sidious. Taken from his family at an early age by Sidious, he was trained and molded into a weapon of the Sith. He became a master duelist and assassin empowered by the Dark side of the Force who yearned for the rise of the Sith and fall of the Jedi.

When Sidious secretly orchestrated an invasion of his own home world of Naboo to garner enough sympathy to be voted in as Chancellor of the Galactic Republic, he sent Maul to capture Queen Amidala, who had escaped from signing the treaty legitimizing the occupation of Naboo to the remote desert planet Tatooine with the help of Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Tracking them down, he would engage Qui-Gon in lightsaber combat. Despite catching the Jedi by surprise and nearly overwhelming him, Qui-Gon escaped with the Queen. After revealing the existence of the Sith to the Jedi for the first time in a millennium, Maul returned to Naboo. When Queen Amidala returned to retake her home with the Jedi Knights in tow after failing to persuade the Senate to aid her and inadvertently aiding Sidious into becoming Chancellor, Maul would engage the two Jedi Knights in an intense and lengthy lightsaber duel. Though he succeeds in killing Qui-Gon and gets the upper hand against Obi-Wan, the Jedi manages to slice the Sith Lord in half at the last moment, seemingly killing him.

However, Maul survived through sheer hatred and drive to survive and went into exile on the wasteland world of Lotho Minor where he rebuilt himself with a cyborg spider-like lower half, though the experiences of his defeat had drove him to insanity. Over a decade after he was presumed dead, amidst the Clone Wars, his brother Savage Oppress found him and restored his mind with the help of Mother Talzin, and had new legs fashioned for him. Learning what had happened in his absence, he felt cheated of his place in galactic history and began his quest for revenge against all those who wronged him. He and his brother would form the Shadow Collective by assembling the Mandalorian splinter faction known as the Death Watch along with other criminal syndicates under his flag to stage a coup of Mandalore and torment Kenobi. Sidious caught wind of Maul's reemergence and rise to power and recognized it as a threat to his plans. Maul found himself faced with his former master on Mandalore and he and Savage Oppress dueled him, only for Oppress to die in his brother's arms and Maul handily defeated and captured. He escaped, only to lose most of his forces and even his own mother to Sidious and his allies. His hold over Mandalore was then lost to the Republic's Clone Armies in final days of the War.

Exiled to the desolate planet Malachor after losing hold of the last vestiges of his criminal empire, Maul hoped to defeat the Sith with an ancient superweapon left at the heart of a Sith Temple. His plans were thwarted by the arrival of two Jedi, Ezra Bridger and Kanan Jarrus, the former Maul took an interest in as a potential apprentice. After escaping Malachor and continuing to tempt Ezra to the Dark side, Maul learned Kenobi had survived the Jedi Purge and has hidden away on Tatooine. Following his old nemesis there, Maul revealed himself and challenged Kenobi to one final duel. Maul is quickly struck down and dies in his old enemy's arms. In his last moments, he finally found peace with Kenobi, realizing he was guarding the Chosen One who would avenge both of them.

### Appearance

* Lancer in his prime
* Lancer during the Clone Wars
* Lancer during the Age of the Empire
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### Personality

As a former Sith Lord, Lancer grew to embody the Siths' obsessive hatred for all things, particularly the Jedi and especially Obi-Wan Kenobi after his defeat on Naboo. He sought revenge against the Jedi for their defeat of the Sith and longed for their return to power. He will even gladly slaughter civilians and thrust Mandalore into chaos to lure Kenobi to him. He has shown to also be very cunning, using various means to draw his enemies to him.

After being discarded by Darth Sidious, the very same Master who he loyally served for most of his life, he grew to hate his old master and the Sith order as well, but also realized first hand he was too powerful and sadistic for him to defeat. By the time of the Imperial Era, Lancer was left a broken man, a shell of the ruthless Sith warrior he once was, having lost everything to his former master.

Despite his extremely vicious and vindictive nature, Lancer is not completely heartless. He has shown genuine care for his family. He took his brother in as his apprentice and mourned his death at Sidious' hand before flying into a rage attempting to avenge him, and was extremely loyal to his mother, refusing to leave her and was devastated by her sacrifice.

### Relationships

#### **Ladd Russo**

Lancer and Ladd's relationship is the complete reversal of a traditional Master/Servant relationship. To Lancer, Ladd is simply a pawn. Ladd and his crew believe he is Satan, due to them not being aware of his true origins. Something which he uses to his advantage by keeping him and his gang in line. To keep him on his side, he appeals to his rabid sadism. However, this sometimes becomes an issue for Lancer, as his master's difficulty with impulse control and dislike of planning would compromise his plans, meaning that he had to be kept on a short leash.

Ladd serves as both his inside man in the criminal underworld and his personal attack dog, though his role in maintaining Lancer's connection to the physical world has limited him to setting him on human foes and is kept away from Servants.

#### **Obi-Wan Kenobi**

"*Kenobi. I see we continue this dance yet again.*"

#### **Darth Vader**

"*So, you're Sidious' last apprentice...*"

#### **Boba Fett**

"*Hmm... So what clan do you hail from, Mandalorian?*"

#### **General Grievous**

"*And here I hoped I wouldn't have had the displeasure of seeing* you *again, General.*"

#### **Kyoko Sakura**

"*You seem much like me in quite a few ways. Perhaps you would make for a worthy apprentice.*"

#### **Doomguy** / **Dalek Sec**

*"Such anger. Such rage. I have not felt anything like it in a long time."*

#### **Snake Eyes**

*"I sense something about you. Something familiar..."*

## Role

Lancer is summoned as the Servant of Ladd Russo when he was chosen by the Grail to be Master of the Lancer-class Servant. Lad mistakes him for the devil which Maul quickly uses to his advantage by exerting his power over him and his gang. Through Ladd, Lancer establishes himself in the criminal underworld as a ruthless crime lord, rallying other gangs to his cause as he had done with the Shadow Collective, brutally executing those that opposed him. He uses his newly established network to gain resources and intelligence on the other masters.

## Abilities

Trained as a Sith assassin, Lancer is extremely skilled in combat. He is an accomplished lightsaber duelist, skilled enough to hold his own and even gain the upper hand against multiple armed opponents. Even unarmed, he was able to defeat the Mandalorian warrior and Death Watch leader Pre Vizsla without using the force. His primary fighting style is that of Form VII, Juyo, or the Way of the Vornskr. It is the most aggressive and unpredictable of the seven lightsaber forms, drawing on the user's emotions for chaotically ferocious offense to overwhelm and catch opponents off-guard.

Lancer is strong in the Dark side of the Force. With it, he can use telekinesis strong enough to lift Starships, probe minds, enhance his speed and strength, and endure tremendous amounts of physical pain. As a Servant, this can be considered a style of magecraft. However, his power is dwarfed by that of his master.

In addition to his martial skills and prowess in the Force, Lancer is a dangerously cunning manipulator and strategist. In life, he formed his own criminal empire from numerous different gangs in a very short amount of time and used it to seize control of the entire planet of Mandalore. He was also able to successfully trick and capture both General Grievous and Darth Tyranus in one fell swoop during the Battle of Ord Mantell.

### Noble Phantasm

Lancer's signature weapon is a metal sword which, when called, can produce two crimson blades of rotating plasma on each end. It requires no energy beyond the cost to activate, and can cut through almost any material that lack sufficient Reinforcement or enchantment, and pierce any and all defenses once it gets close enough to physically touch the target (or touch something physically touching the target); it can be blocked by energy and mystic shielding with a space between the shield and the defended.

## References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth\_Maul

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Maul

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/summon-a-servant-fate-stay-night-crossover-ideas.196067/page-62#post-6567594