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▶ Flat Escardos

INFO

name: Flat Escardos
age: 19
birthday: Dec 1
gender: Male
canon: Fate/Strange Fake alignment: Chaotic Good
likes: Humans, non-humans, the El-Melloi Classroom, Magecraft, all sorts of sub-cultures
dislikes: exercise
crystal: lapis lazuli

TRAITS

friendly, curious, impulsive, genius, loyal, amoral

< isopods >

SUMMARY

The most senior student of the El-Melloi Classroom, known by monikers such as "The Idiot Genius" or "The Unwanted Blessing". Considered to be a "mage without malice" and known for his superabundance of curiosity, Flat Escardos is infamous across the Clock Tower for both his genius and his absolute lack of common sense, both which get him and the people around him into trouble all the time. It's this which lands him in Snowfield, Nevada, USA, as he takes part in the False and True Holy Grail Wars out of a desire to simply see the vessel that makes mages want to participate in this bizarre magical Battle Royale.

In the Holy Grail War, Flat is the Master of Berserker, Jack the Ripper. But instead of fighting to the death with other mages and Servants, Flat has a different idea on how to win the war: by befriending the other factions. Because why would you fight when befriending your opponents is a far simpler way to solve things? And that sort of strategy is more or less the essence of Flat Escardos in a nutshell.

ABILITIES (spoilers)

• Magic sense:

  Dweller of the Manasphere: Rank A A skill that represents being able to perceive the real world by its magical structure and interact (analyze, modify, absorb, etc) directly with its flows and sediments. He sees all forms of magical energy flow overlapped with his physical vision, similar to how it is with the phenomenon that makes electromagnetic waves visible. It's not Mystic Eyes, as it also affects his hearing and other senses. It's impossible to even walk appropriately for someone who didn't obtain this Skill from birth and didn't grow up accustomed to this kind of scenery.

  
  As stated by the text, Flat has the innate ability to sense magic with all of his five senses and interact directly with it. He can use this to interact with the flow of the leylines to either analyze it, modify it or other people's spells, or create spells of his own. His ability to absorb magical energy from around him is also the reason why he seems to have a near inexhaustible reserve of Mana, as he is freely taking it from the world around him, efficiently converting it into magical energy for his spells.



• Chaos Magecraft: Flat's calling card is a variation on Chaos Magecraft, a New Age form of Magecraft that involves taking pieces from different spells and mixing and matching them into an entirely new spell that fulfills the user's wishes. While it is hypothetically an overpowered cheat code that would allow its user to do everything and anything that he can think up, in reality the Magecraft is extremely inefficient as it requires extensive knowledge on all the spells that are being employed. Flat can cheat his way into using it thanks to his void affinity, intuition, and the above Manasphere skill, however, which is why he's able to use this to create impromptu spells that change depending on what he needs at the moment.
  
  He is not omnipotent, however. Because his spells lack a solid foundation, they are both unstable and unable to be reproduced. His spells are brittle by nature and can fall apart even with the slightest of interruptions or changes, so the fact that any of them work at all is testament to Flat's ability to manipulate magical energy to his benefit and his intuition. He specializes in spell analysis and interference, as that allows him to stay farther back where he's less likely to be caught in the fray of a fight.



• Curse resistance: Due to the high quality and high quantity of his Magic Circuits, his ability to interfere with magical energy, and the fact that he doesn't disclose his real name to anyone, Flat has a rather powerful resistance to curses from other parties.



• Void/Ether affinity: Flat's elemental affinity: void, otherwise known as ether. While it by itself is useless, it's the most basic building block of all modern magical energy and therefore compatible with all other 4 elemental types

Thia Escardos: An 1800 year old being that lives inside Flat. No need to worry about him unless Flat dies.

IC PERMISSIONS

Abilities: Due to Flat's magic sight, he's able to sense the magical energy of...well, everything! He may not be able to recognize it all, but he can discern if something is human, non-human (youkai, fairies, etc), or some sort of hybrid. If he finds a novelty, you might catch him staring. This isn't any sort of probing magic, it's just how he sees the world. Due to this, please feel free to give some information about your character's energy make up by commenting down below. Comments will be screened.
<b>Character name and username:</b> <b>Can Flat see your character's magical energy signature?:</b> Yes/no <b>If yes, what does it look like?:</b> A small description of said energy's characteristics. Add anything that you think would be relevant, such as species, attribute/affinity or physical/magical health. Feel free to add any information that you also think is relevant. Flat won't recognize everything with one glance, so the amount of detail is also up to you.

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Not the type to initiate it, but sure.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Sure. Flat's not very good at hand to hand fights, so he's easy to knock out. With his magecraft, however, he's rather slippery, so feel free to hash out details with me oocly.

RELATIONSHIPS: I'm open to it, but it'll take a lot of work. Good luck!

PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: Ask first, because Flat has trained himself to resist any sort of mental interference, along with [spoilers].

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Child abuse and attempted filicide are unavoidable in Flat's past. These will be tagged.