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[/PTab] [PTab=Profile] Miscellaneous Height: 5' 9'' | 191 cm Weight: 165 lbs | 75 Kg Gender: Male Birthday: 26th April Blood-Type: B+ Likes: Extraordinary events, exceptional people, applause, praise, affection. Dislikes: Boring people, quiet lives, discontentment. Talents: Writing, Pranking, Acting, Singing, Playing instruments. Natural Enemies: Writer's Block, Boredom. Origin: History Place of Origin: Stratford, England, United Kingdom Tier of Fame: 3 Armament: Knife, Pen. Servant Classes: None others. Personality Caster's true identity is that of William Shakespeare, legendary playwright of Elizabethan England. Seemingly a gentlemanly and soft-spoken individual, Shakespeare seems to be a strange figure to become a servant, drawing confusion from his fellow heroic spirits. Shakespeare is, however, what one could refer to as a wolf in sheep's clothing. Obviously weaker than most, he thrives by lying, cheating and conducting himself in any way that ensures he survives to see the grand tale of the grail war unfold. One could compare Shakespeare's mentality to that of a narrator character, preferring to distance himself from any unnecessary conflict and instead acting as someone writing the tale of these battles. Still, as Chaldea's enemies are often undiscerning about who they attack, he often doesn't have a choice. His regard for others depend heavily on who he sees them as - those without any discerning figure are seen as little more than background characters, getting snubbed and ignored in most cases. On the other hand, those he finds fascinating for some reason (whether that be for what they have or for what they lack) are seen by him as protagonists and thus people worthy of documentation. In slight narcissism, he frequently drops such self-authored quotes as, "Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill." Yet, despite this, he took a strong liking to certain modern terms during Apocrypha, and thus has a strange blend of modern and ancient terms. Lastly, it should be noted how Shakespeare feels about his legacy. His narcissism is evident here as he is obsessed with keeping up with it, and tends to carry around several copies of his works to throw at people should they profess to never having read his works. That being said, due to slight irritation at their ignorance, these tend to be thrown rather than passed, turning his bag into more of a quiver of literary-themed missiles. The Life of a Playwright William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in English history. For this lofty title, he is referred to as "England's National Poet", and was sponsored by two separate British monarchs. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire as the son of an alderman and his wife. Born the third of eight children, he unfortunately became the eldest living child when his two brothers died during their childhood. Marrying Anne Hathaway at 18, he had three children with her: Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. Leaving them in Stratford, he began a successful career in London as an actor in 1592. First financing this by maintaining a job as a schoolteacher for the wealthy of London, his wit and charm quickly found him backers and he was soon able to quit this job and instead flourish on the stage as the part-owner of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the group that would later become known as the King's Men. Throughout his career, he wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems and a few other small works. At first, he started off writing almost entirely comedies, but after the loss of his child Hamnet he moved into writing tragedies to get out his grief. This trend continued as he wrote some of his best works; Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear just to name a few. However, as if finally moving past it, during his final stages he wrote tragicomedies which have become famed throughout history as great romances. However, he retired to Stratford in 1613, at age 48, and died three years later. With the scandal of his many lovers, it has been hinted that he caught something from one of his male lovers and died from it. However, this was likely simple slander, due to his varying levels of popularity in the king's court. In 1623, Shakespeare's friends John Heminges and Henry Condell published the "first folio", a posthumous collected edition of all but two of his works. In this folio, he was declared as "not of an age, but for all time", and that appears to have been proven true by his popularity during the 21st century. Despite how many servants regret how they lived their life, Shakespeare claims not to have regretted a single instant of it, living and loving as any great man should. Truly, there's nothing about his life that he would change. The Great Holy Grail War | Apocrypha [SPOILERS] Shakespeare has only been summoned in one other holy grail war - that of the Great Holy Grail War, which happened in Romania in 2004. Summoned as part of the Red faction, the faction sent by the Clocktower to stop the Yggsdemillenia from stealing the holy grail. In that war, he was summoned as a caster, being deployed by a meager mage from the Mage's Association that could apparently turn himself into a reptile. Despite the weirdness of such a master, William was extremely disappointed in them - for someone with such a unique power, their personality was so dull. Thus, he was more than happy when he was taken out of the picture by Shirou Amakusa, his second master. Nonetheless, despite having such a fun master, he was command sealed to stop himself from using the First Folio at whim since Shirou feared that he would use it on him. Little did the man know that Shakespeare wouldn't have - there were no interesting points for when his master's suffering would have spiced up the plot. Waiting for a moment to affect the plot of the war, Shakespeare joined the assault on the Black faction's base. Breaking Berserker of Black's mind worse than it already had been simply by being a berserker, he somehow survived the war until the very final day. Crippling Jeanne D'arc's mind by making her witness what she'd caused Gilles to do in her absence, he simply watched as the final minutes of the war resolved themselves. Whilst it was perhaps wrong of him not to intervene to protect his master, Shakespeare grew to resent Shirou in those final moments. From his perspective, making humans immortal would remove any form of conflict. Thus, how could there be an interesting conflict any more? When Shirou failed and the Hanging Gardens fell apart, Shakespeare went out laughing. This... this was the perfect ending. Dying from the fall, Shakespeare left the world contented with the story that he had taken part in. In fact, Shakespeare was the only servant who died smiling in that war. Thus, he has no resentment against anyone except Shirou. Not even those servants of black who caused his death. Grail Wish It is believed by many of the people that partake in a grail war that every single servant has a grail wish - something that would draw 7 legendary figures to fight for the divine chalice. This is, indeed, the case in almost every situation - some little desire needing to be fulfilled, some mistake needing to be rectified, or anything at all. However, in Shakespeare's case, this is simply not true. He lived his life without allowing for a single regret. He lived with misery but accepted it as part of the beauty of life, and the one major loss that he suffered (that of his son, Hamnet) is not one that he would make a wish over - Not only did it inspire some of his greatest work, but it would also be an insult to Ham's memory. If anything, this grail war could be considered to be Shakespeare's wish. He wants nothing more than to be able to rub shoulders with legendary figures, to be able to witness protagonists and to write chronicles about their exploits. |