Cassandra

Name Cassandra / Kassandra

• Nickname Cass
• Species Servant, Human
• Titles Princess of Troy, Doomed Prophet

Occupation Servant

Class Caster (primary), Berserker (Alt)

• STR. C 
• END. B 
• AGI. D
• MANA. C 
• LCK. E- 
• NP. A

Source Trojan War

Region Greece

Alignment Lawful Good

Traits Humanoid, Female, Servant, Weak to Enuma Elish

SKILLS. 

• Instinct (A). The ability to instantly identify “the best personal course of action” during combat. Because this Skill allows for the prediction of trajectory, it is possible to avoid attacks from projectiles. (Gains critical stars.)
• Clairvoyance (A). At higher ranks, it is possible that the bearers of this Skill have acquired abilities such as precognition ("future vision"). (Increases own critical star generation rate, charges own NP gauge.)
• Mental Pollution (Curse) (C). Because their words seem impossible to believe and they are dismissed at every opportunity, the bearer now acts of their own accord regardless of the judgement or input of others, to the point of seeming Mad. (Increases own debuff success rate, plus a chance of removing a random buff from all party members.)

PASSIVE SKILLS.

• Territory Creation (D). Her territory is a small room she can turn into a temple. It doesn't really help her abilities in any way, but it makes her feel safer there. (Increases own Arts performance)
• Item Construction (E). (Increases own debuff success rate)

NOBLE PHANTASMS.

• CASSANDRA’S PREMONITION. Anti-fate noble phantasm. Cassandra stops biting her tongue and predicts what she's seen of the future, cursing all enemy targets - which, while disbelieved by those who hear it, ultimately comes to be true.
  • (Enemy’s NP gauge decreases at the end of the turn, and takes curse damage for three turns.)
• CURSED CHEST. Anti-mind noble phantasm. In the event of Cassandra’s death, a chest was prepared to be left behind. The first person to open it gets inflicted with berserker-like  madness, sending them on a rampage. Inflicts Madness enhancement.
  • (Inflicts Madness Enhancement (A) on everyone..)

Cassandra is the prophetess who was cursed to always have her prophecies be discredited and disbelieved. She was born to King Priam and Queen Hecabe, and both foresaw many incidents leading up to and during the Trojan War, most importantly the true nature of the Trojan Horse.

• (She actually bum-rushed the Horse with an axe and a torch when the other Trojans wouldn’t believe her about it’s false nature, and the citizens had to hold her back. She absolutely almost ruined and exposed the entire facade.)

Cassandra was also a priestess of Apollo, marked as an oracle. It was Apollo who gave her and her brother their divination abilities, and it was Apollo who cursed her when she wouldn’t sleep with him. While Cassandra herself states that she broke a promise, that’s honestly debatable - whether it was her upholding her temple oaths or accidental denial, it does seem a lot more like another incident of Greek God pettiness at play.

She’s had multiple incidents with her brothers, and holds grudges or sorrows accordingly:

• She predicted that Paris would bring Troy’s fall, and wanted him killed. Hilariously, she was also the one who wound up being the one to welcome him back as a brother without truly knowing who he was. 
• She was the first to see Hector’s body.
• Her brother, Helenus, may or may not have been a traitor who gave the greek forces the intel for how to get into Troy. She was the one who taught him prophecy.

The fall of Troy was not kind to her. She was a victim of the ransacking (won’t go into it), and was ultimately taken as a prize and slave by Agamemnon. This lead to Cassandra's death, as she was killed alongside Agamemnon by his legal wife, once they arrived back at his palace. She foresaw this happening, and when the Elders wouldn’t believe her warnings, decided to face death with dignity and quietly let Clytemnestra kill her, rather than run away and delay the inevitable. 

• As a loser in the war and having freshly become a slave, It’s safe to say that she decided it was ultimately better to die than to keep suffering misfortunes brought on by her curse. That death was a better alternative to whatever else Apollo had in store for her, should she try to avoid it. 

Her sanity was slowly whittled away over the course of the war, to the point where her increasingly frantic behavior got her compared multiple times to a wild beast. She is noted in some depictions to have been gleefully looking forward to all of her predictions coming true in the aftermath of the war, due to pure spite for her treatment.

She did go to the Elysium Fields after her death, the best afterlife outcome, due to upholding her oaths religiously and for her peity. It's almost as if she was given the best after life in some turn of apology for what happened to her.... but the entirety of her life really was just one series of misfortunes after another.

She may have left a cursed chest in Troy, as a middle finger to her city’s attackers, containing a picture of Dionysus created by Hephaestus. The first greek who opened it got inflicted with Madness.

Cassandra had a reputation for being a fierce, Mad, and unruly person, as well as being considered a pathological liar due to her curse making her prophecies always be disbelieved - as such, this combination of her personality and her Curse shows up as a variant of Madness Enhancement. It’s safe to say that if she had an Alt class, it would be Berserker. 

Her personality absolutely comes off as somewhat punk-ish, stubborn, and unruly. It’s not brought about by any sense of rebellion, but more because she does not hold a lot of trust in others - and for very good reasons. Her stressed and disgruntled  personality is due to being constantly shafted by anyone she reaches out to, as a byproduct of her curse.

A high luck check will see through the curse and bring the truth of her predictions into full clarity for the observer.

Cass is not a strong servant - she’s got little to no actual physical combat ability, she can’t go toe-to-toe against other servants and expect to win. She is however, clever, and most of her use comes from both her predictions and her planning around there-of her tactics.

• This makes her a hard servant to pin down or catch, as her typical battleplan is absolutely to survive first and foremost, and then to back-stab the last surviving opposing servant or master in the back.
• It is entirely possible for her to get pretty far in a Grail War just by playing it smart with any scenarios she’s foreseen. The real issue is getting her Master to go along with her plans, or believe that anything she’s foreseen will happen. 
• It is crucial that she is with a Master who can work around her curse, if they want to have any chance of winning a war. Cass herself will say that they pulled the short straw by summoning her.

Cass WILL be at odds with her master - it’s hard to work with a Master who won't believe a word she says. She will more likely than not decide to act on her own accord, especially if she thinks that following her master’s orders isn’t going to be the best course of action. 

• She will absolutely be an unruly servant and may require command seals to keep in line. But whether or not that’s a good idea is another story.

While it is technically possible for her to see the outcome of the war she’s been summoned into - or the final circumstances of herself or her master - she will not share or reveal them. 

• She does believe that the outcome of her predictions can be changed, and will try to change them if she doesn’t like the outcome she’s seen, but for the most part she won’t share anything game-changing like that. Oracle’s oath is what she’d say regarding it - private divinations remain private.
• Her predictions may not seem like proper ‘oracle’ predictions, and may be more like statements or opinions to be easily dismissed. She’s the epitome of foreshadowing.

She does have a wish, but believes herself to be too weak to obtain it. She wants that curse on her predictions gone, and preferably, to go back to the Elysian Fields and never get summoned back into a Grail War.

As Cassandra is written to be in a more standard Fate grail war rather than a summonable servant in FGO, she’s written accordingly. However, if put in that position, she would be a 2* available in the friend point summon. I do not have full gameplay stats set for things like skills or hp/atk, outside of general ‘what outward effect this would have’ ideas.

A support caster who focuses on removing charges from the enemy NP bar, and stacking debuffs. Best used in a stall team, with other staller servants like Eurayle or Archer Artoria.

- HECTOR. Older brother, killed by Achilles. She was the first to see his body dishonored.

- PARIS. Stupid little brother who started the Trojan War.

- HELENUS. Twin brother, also prophetic (she taught him). Unlike her, he wasn’t cursed so his prophecies were believed.

- AGAMEMNON. Master/husband, given to as a slave in the aftermath of the Trojan war.

- CLYTEMNESTRA. Agamemnon’s wife, ultimately killed both him and Cassandra.

- APOLLO. Horrible sheep. Horrible. Get out of Paris this instant.