Alcides

Appearances

Parameters

Skills

• Avenger (A): Hatred crystallized as a class skill. The mud of Fuyuki discarded divinity and left a man who collects grudges against the gods.
• Independent Action (C): An Archer leftover. He can operate apart from a Master for a time, hunting on his own terms.
• Magic Resistance (A): High resistance after distortion. Magecraft that would slow a lesser hero fails against a demigod who tore his own godhood out.
• Distortion (A): The Saint Graph is warped from Archer toward Avenger. Class containers bleed; the mud wrote a new creed over the bowman.
• Eye of the Mind (True) (B): Combat insight earned by surviving every kind of death except peace. He reads a fight the way a laborer reads a monster's tell.
• Bravery (E): Courage remains, but the mud gutted its rank. What was a hero's roar is now a remnant on an Avenger sheet.
• Battle Continuation (A+): He does not stop. Labors taught him to keep walking after the world has already called the fight over.

Noble Phantasms

• King's Order (Twelve Glories) · Anti-Unit (C~A++): The Twelve Labors spent as twelve Noble Phantasms instead of twelve lives. Nemean pelt, War God's sash, Cerberus, Diomedes' mares, and the rest of the glories become tools—not God Hand's extra lives.
• Nine Lives · Anti-Unit (C~A+): The slaying technique born of the Hydra: a storm of strikes that can be a bow volley or a massacre at close range, scaled to the labor at hand.
• Reincarnation Pandora · Anti-Unit (EX): A theft of legends. He can seize another's Noble Phantasm; in Snowfield he rips From Hell out of Jack the Ripper.

Personality

Chaotic Evil in the precise sense of a man who has decided the gods are the enemy and Masters are prey. He is still Heracles' will, not a mindless Berserker: speech, tactics, and a hunter's patience. He hates Olympus, hunts magi, and will fight Gilgamesh as a king worth breaking.

Story in Fate

True Archer of Snowfield is Heracles after Fuyuki's mud: he discarded divinity, warped from Archer into Avenger, and took the mortal name Alcides (Alkeides) as a banner against the gods. Bound to Bazdilot Cordelion, he hunts Masters, duels Hippolyta over the sash that killed her in myth, fights Gilgamesh, and steals From Hell from Jack. King's Order trades God Hand's twelve lives for twelve labor-weapons. This is not stay night's silent giant. This is the hero who would rather be human and furious than divine and owned.

Relationships

• Bazdilot Cordelion — Master; a magus who fed him mud and a creed of vengeance.
• Hippolyta — Queen whose sash he took in life; they duel again in Snowfield.
• Gilgamesh — King of Heroes; an enemy Alcides will meet with labor-weapons, not worship.
• Jack the Ripper (False Berserker) — Victim of Reincarnation Pandora; From Hell becomes Alcides's stolen calamity.
• Huwawa — Cedar Forest guardian he clashes with; Humbaba is Enkidu's myth, not Heracles'—the fight is Grail War collision, not Greek canon.

Trivia

• Alcides / Alkeides was Heracles' name before the 'glory of Hera' theonym.
• God Hand's twelve lives are gone; the labors return as King's Order Noble Phantasms.
• Humbaba/Huwawa is Mesopotamian, not a Greek labor—Strange Fake stages that clash anyway.
• Tadahisa Saizen also voices stay night's Berserker Heracles; Chris Jai Alex voices Alcides in English contexts.