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[escardos]

Name: Tori
Age: 25
Contact info: tori#3410 @ discord | odasaku

Character: Flat Escardos
Canon: Fate/Strange Fake
Canon Point: vol 6 end
CRAU, Canon AU: N/A
Character age: 19


Canon Abilities/Powers: Oh boy.

• Magic Circuits: Flat's Magic Circuits run like capillaries in his body, high in number and all of them are very high quality--specifically, EX rank for both quantity and quality. Because of this, he has a high amount of Od (personal magical energy) and Mana (magical energy from the environment) which he can control expertly in order to perform an endless number of spells without running out of energy. In other words, he's similar to a nuclear battery that runs on Mana instead of nuclear fusion.



• Magic Resistance: Due to his excellent Magic Circuits, this also allows Flat to have a high passive defense against curses. In other words, most low level spells will happily bounce off of him without him even noticing it. It takes a great deal of magical energy for him to actually feel a spell.
  
  (That said, he is still a squishy human and actually very weak physically, so a good kick is more than enough to knock him out)



• Presence Detection: Flat is capable of sensing presences from far away with very high accuracy. People, magical beings, and even Mana can be detected by him to a level that only non-human beings such as vampires and very perceptive Servants such as Enkidu can compare.



• Chaos Magecraft: Based on the real Chaos Magic, Chaos Magecraft is a branch of Modern Magecraft that allows the user to take any spell and modify it to their preference, practically making it their own. In practice, this type of Magecraft is highly inefficient at best, and downright impossible at worst, but Flat is lucky enough to have an affinity with the element that makes up all of the current Mana in the world: Void. Between this and his excellent control of Mana, he is capable of taking any spell, old or new, and using it like his own, without regards to any other outside elements.
  
  Additional to this, the Foundations of his Magecraft are different than those of the rest. In traditional Magecraft, a user can only perform spells if it matches up with the Foundation of the World-- basically, you can't make a water spell if you're in the middle of the desert because there's no one that believes that they'll find enough water when they're surrounded by sand. Flat's spells work differently, in the sense that he creates his own Foundations. As long as he can conceive the idea and he believes that it's possible, then his Foundations will make it possible. As his own Servant explains it, he is not so much breaking the mold as it is that he lacks a mold entirely.
  
  Of course, this also makes all of his spells extremely unstable, and he can never replicate any of his spells-- only give you a close approximation. Also, because it works on his own belief, he can't do anything that he doesn't acknowledge as something that he can do. And he's one hell of an idiot, most of the time.



• "Hacking": Thanks to his Chaos Magecraft and his Void element affinity, Flat is capable of tapping into Mana and everything that it is used in. In other words, he can access almost anything that uses magical energy, including enemy spells, Workshops (aka large magical areas that belong to a single person), and even other's Magic Circuits. Basically the magical version of this



• "It": The source of Flat's grief for many years and also the true nature of Flat's existence as the final and greatest wish of the Escardos family. It is a second persoanlity/system that is fully activated at the moment of Flat's death, though they have been in a semi-active state all throughout the Grail War (as evidenced by sudden pronoun changes in Flat's lines). They are the reason that Flat is capable of doing all of those above feats, for they are the endpoint of 2000 years of maturation. They can survive through even death itself, recovering in seconds from getting their head blown up. Unlike Flat, who loves humanity, "It" is more than willing to wipe it off the face of the Earth in their path to fulfilling the goal that they were programmed with-- to live on.

What is their greatest negative emotion towards an object, situation, or person in their past?:

Their greatest negative emotion is a fear of himself.

Ever since he was a young child, Flat Escardos had always been able to see something that is dubbed in the books as "it". It was as normal as seeing color so, for the longest time, they had considered it to be normal. That everyone saw things the way he did.

He was only eight years old when he realized just how wrong he was. It was when his family told them about their history-- that they're Mages, you see? People that are above regular humans and whose sole purpose was to reach the Root. His parents had already realized that their child was gifted, with an innate ability for Magecraft and Magic Circuits that run through him like capillaries, so they believed that he might be the one. He might be the one to bring their family to the glory that they deserved. But the moment that Flat innocently mentioned his ability to see it was the moment they realized just how wrong they were as well. And that was also when Flat realized that no one could see what he saw.

That was the first time that he felt fear. And it would be a fear that would follow him for some of the most formative years of his life, only increasing with every attempted murder from his parents and every rejection letter from his teachers. Everyone he met was afraid of him and, because of that, everyone he met pushed him away. So he, too, did the same. Because he was afraid of himself, he began to reject what he could see. He saw himself as a failure, as someone that was sick and wrong, and this instability would have become something with the potential to end the world...

If a certain teacher hadn't stepped in at the right moment.

How strongly do they feel about the negative subject matter, on the scale of one to ten?:

As of now, at nineteen, I would say that Flat is at a five. Being accepted into the El Melloi classroom was a pivotal moment in his life and one that did wonders for his self-esteem, simply because he was not immediately rejected by his teacher, who decided to see him as something closer to a troublesome student rather than a bad omen.

And while Flat does wear the badge of 'class idiot' with relative pride, it's because he prefers to be seen as a fool rather than being feared. While he still doesn't understand what he is exactly, he knows that there is a large gap between himself and the rest of humanity, both Mage and non-Mage alike. He understands that he is an outcast, and this troubles him quite a bit-- the book describes the expressions that he makes as nervous or even lonely. So I would say that, while he still carries some negative feelings towards himself and the puzzling nature of his being, they have been reduced to...ambivalence.

What is their greatest virtue?:

Loyalty.

While Flat may have a very visible lack of human-like morals and human-like understanding, the one thing that truly defines them is the intense loyalty that he holds towards his professor Lord El Melloi II--Waver Velvet. The man that has not only treated him like a person, but has never given up on him, even after ten years of repeating his class because he just can't seem to be ready to graduate. As mentioned previously, Waver entered Flat's life at a pivotal point, right when he believed that he would break under the pressure of being hated by everyone and everything he knew--to the point that he was using Magecraft to force himself to smile.

And yet this man saw through his facade like it was made of paper, accepting him into a classroom that would soon be filled with misfists just like him. Not only that, but the professor has gone and saved his life in numerous occasions, which is far more than any professor at the Clock Tower would do.

How aware are they of their virtue, on a scale from one to ten?:

Without a doubt, Flat's awareness of his "virtue" is at a ten. He is fully aware that it is Waver's existence that has made him the way he is, to the point that the personality of "Flat Escardos" that we know was most likely created because of his time in the classroom. Flat was never supposed to learn things such as "emotions" or "morals". Those things are a hindrance to their purpose, as the other Flat so coldly mentions in their narration.

But as Flat says to his servant at one point: "Before I'm a mage of the Escardos family, I am a mage of the El Melloi School." Saying such a thing in a world where bloodline defines your position and where you are expected to sacrifice everything for the sake of your family is almost like heresy. But, to Flat, his family is the El-Melloi classroom, with Waver Velvet as the pillar that holds it all together. That is why everything he does is because he believes that it is what his professor would do. Perhaps Flat would murder a child if it were the most optimal thing to do--all humans are parts, after all--and the other Flat will declares that it will go as far as eliminating all of humanity if it is necessary for them to reach their "destination".

But Waver would not kill someone if there was a way to save them. Waver would put his entire life on the line if it means helping someone in need, and would waste all his options before even beginning to consider something like murder. So Flat will push all of his amoral tendencies aside, and do as Waver does. All his emotions and all of his morals, have been lifted straight from Waver's own, in a strange example of Monkey See, Monkey Do.

And all because Waver treated him like an actual person.

Items:
- Cellphone
- Plastic knife
- Earrings (magical in nature, they help keep his face safe from small injuries)

Samples: tdm thread and other tdm thread

Special notes: "Flat" is not his real name. What it is we've yet to know, but we know that he is intentionally hiding it to "protect himself from curses". Which, considering the above abilities, sounds like absolute bullshit.

I'm really sorry for how stupid his powers are. Nerf him at your discretion.