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François PrelatiWP (フランソワ・プレラーティ, Furansowa Purerāti?), Class Name True Caster (真キャスター, Shin Kyasutā?), is the "True" Caster-class Servant of Francesca Prelati in the True and False Holy Grail Wars of Fate/strange Fake. An Italian cleric in France during the time of Jeanne d'Arc.
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Francesca Prelati (フランチェスカ・プレラーティ, Furanchesuka Purerāti?) is the "True" Master of True Caster in the True and False Holy Grail Wars of Fate/strange Fake.
Background
Francesca is François Prelati, the friend of Gilles de Rais from the time of Jeanne d'Arc. As Gilles eventually strayed down a dark path that led him to try summoning a demon to relieve his financial difficulties, Prelati was the actual magus in their twisted relationship, with Gilles merely being the patron. Her past is shrouded in mystery, but what is known is that the spirits who taught her magecraft were themselves students of Merlin himself. Her masters and teachers are apparently still around, but there isn't enough Mystery left in the World to get them to leave their lake in Britain. It is revealed that Prelati is the child of the Greek Goddess Até, born as a unit of folly that is neither human or Nature Spirit. Originally male, Francesca has died numerous times and changed bodies, but the first death ended with her recorded as a Heroic Spirit. The Heroic Spirit version has no memories from after that first death. Of her numerous deaths, there are seven where she was left speechless or otherwise overwhelmed, including Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, Saint Germain, the "consoling witch that is eternally alive", Van-Fem, Satsuki Kurogiri, her teachers in magecraft, and Touko Aozaki. Specifically, with Touko, Francesca was killed 30 times by her after she called Touko by her nickname "Scarred Red", until Touko's family finally intervened due to Francesca asking help from them. Touko killed her one last time and told her to "never show your twisted Magic Circuits in front of me again". Francesca Prelati first became involved with the Holy Grail Wars of Fuyuki after an American organization commissioned her, male at the time, to analyze it in the midst of the Second World War, having ended up working with them due to a recommendation from a person she could never seem to cut ties with. She had not been enthusiastic at first, but once she actually observed the Holy Grail War in Fuyuki, through the use of Familiars, her attitude changed completely. During the Fourth Holy Grail War, the brutal murder of a Lord of the Clock Tower, the loss of fighter jets, the appearances of Ghost Liners, the involvement of spellcasters and schemes by the Holy Church, all caught her interest but two things in particular cemented it: The appearance of two familiar figures. First was the summoning of Artoria Pendragon, the king guided by her teachers' teacher that she had seen her in her teachers’ water-viewing whispers. But this did not interest her and paled compared to the second individual she knew: her dear friend Gilles. When she saw him, she dropped all her other projects to rush to the scene to meet her friend face-to-face, setting out on a trip from Antarctica to Japan with only the clothes on her back. But she paid for her lack of preparation, for her familiars had been found but deliberately overlooked by the insect familiars of Zouken Matou. Numerous insects had been stationed along her route, and Francesca had ultimately been forced to discard her body at the time after being intercepted by Zouken himself. She was thus too late, the Grail apparently destroyed before she had a chance to intervene and never got a chance to meet her sworn friend face-to-face. She had been determined to interfere in the Fifth Holy Grail War, but a number of factors coincided to prevent her: Zouken strengthened his wards against outsiders, meaning that she could not observe the War at all; the priest from the Holy Church was extraordinarily skilled at handling external threats; and, when she had tried to investigate Fuyuki during the preparatory period, she had sensed the uncanny presence of at least seven Mystic Eyes focused on the same line and could not afford to approach the city carelessly. The last straw was that she had been in the middle of having her bodies repeatedly murdered by Touko Aozaki. As a result, Francesca did not know how the Fifth Holy Grail War ended. However, Francesca had patiently observed the workings of the Grail, and brought together a variety of components, such a fragment of the Greater Grail's magical energy that she had barely managed to obtain before the start of the Fifth War, or the "mud" she had unearthed from the ruins of the Fuyuki disaster that had occurred during the Fourth, and constructed a fake Holy Grail in Snowfield. At some point prior to the War in Snowfield and after the Holy Grail War during Fate/Zero, Francesca had seemingly traveled to a ruined country after it was destroyed by the Mage's Association for attempting to weaponize Magecraft. Having appeared in the country's ruins while still possessing the body of a young boy. While contemplating and thinking of how weak the country was after its destruction, Francesca/François had come across a few surviving child soldiers coming out of a underground bunker and was thus spared from the destruction. Showing some courtesy, François told them that their country was over and all the "old men" forcing them to be soldiers are dead. One of the boys came to him and asked him that they were searching for their mother, taking a interest, François proceeded to gleefully show them the severed head of their "mother" and tell them that their mother is dead and proceeded to laugh merrily upon seeing their horrified reactions. However François saw that one of the boys was seemingly unconcerned and unbothered by the carnage or his showing of the severed head, taking an interest and noticing that he was "extremely and substantially thin" he decided to take a chance with the young boy and decided to tell him that his mother had died in a country called Japan while fighting in a Holy Grail War and thus then proceeded to take him under his wing. She has a need for the Grail, apparently needing something on its level to both find and deal with a particular "Great Labyrinth" whose entrance is even risky to look for, so that she may capture "the microcosm of the world" within. To do so, she is willing to rely on simple trial and error, relying on pure chance by repeating it thousands, tens of thousands of times until the human race goes extinct, all for her wish for the Grail, which is "the elimination of Magic through the advancement of human technology", though the wish of her "employers" must be achieved first before her own. Due to her long existence, she has great knowledge of the World of Magecraft and its people and events, as well as ties with many organizations, including the Scladio Family.
Appearance
Francesca has ankle length light coloured hair that has skull patterns near the ends. She wears a dark ribbon in her hair and a vertically striped top with a short skirt. She also wears a visible garterbelt connected to stockings with bone patterns on them and boots with eye and teeth like designs adorning them. Finally, she wears a pair of fingerless gloves that go up to just below her shoulders and carries an umbrella with her. Orlando's insulting of her may imply she is older than she appears. Apparently, there is a zipper-like opening on her body made of teeth that extends from her ribs to below her navel. Years ago during his/her first meeting with Sigma, Francesca/François was shown at the time to have possessed and used the body of a young boy that greatly physically resembled the physical appearance and age of his Servant Self, True Caster.
Personality
Francesca is a seemingly friendly and cutesy, yet devious girl who is first introduced clapping in congratulations to Orlando Reeve's speech to his soldiers. She finds his serious attitude to be surprising and scoffs at him for believing his side to be the side of good in this Grail War, as she finds playing the role of a villain to be easier than that of a hero because she could use the excuse of being a villain to escape any moral boundaries. Indeed, she later introduces herself and her Servant to Ayaka and Saber as "the masterminds, the bookies, and the troublemakers all rolled into one". She claims to hate Dead Apostles and to be on the side of humanity, but Orlando replies she's just fighting with them over food. In truth, Francesca or François is shown to only have an interest in making things "interesting", with her explictly stated goal to be working towards making the world "a more fun place". Her "hobby" is observing places where interesting things seem likely to happen through her far-reaching information network and then hurling that information into events unfolding in other places to cause chaos. In addition, Prelati demonstrates that she has an extremely cruel side to her, taking immense pleasure in seeing others despair or suffer. This was fully seen during her/his time in Sigma's former country. When coming across a group of children who were used as the test subjects and who pleaded and asked him for their mother, François proceeded to giddily laugh at their anguish and conjure up a severed head of a woman and merrily tell them that all of their mothers are dead and later laughed happily at the majority of them due to them breaking down in tears. She also holds some interest in Jeanne d'Arc who she identifies as Ruler, but only seeking to defeat and defile her if given the chance, because she wishes to force Jeanne into some sort of despair after sabotaging her ability to perform as the Grail War's mediator. When she saw Ayaka being approached by Assassin and hearing that the planned servant to summon was the King of Knights, Francesca gleefully wondered what "Arty” would do if she were to be summoned only to find her Master dead.
Fate/strange Fake Other appearances
During the Saber Wars event of Fate/Grand Order, Edward Teach teases Gilles de Rais and mentions her name.
Prelati has also appeared in stories such as Thief of Souls by Ann Benson and Fate/strange fake by Ryōgo Narita., as well as a character referencing him in the anime Senki Zesshou Symphogear AXZ and Fate/Zero.
Jul 4, 2023 · Jester, the Master of False Assassin, is a Dead Apostle known as the Six-Hearts Revolver. Intrigued by the Holy Grail’s power to grant his wish, he joins the battle despite it being his first ...
- Tarun Mazumdar
To that end, she summoned Fake Caster as her Servant, True Name Francois Prelati, and actually herself, just back from when he was in his original body. Together, the two architects of horror and nightmare entered the fray. Thanks to u/rangernumberx for going through Volumes 1 and 2 of Fate/Strange Fake.
Primary franchise: Fate. Appears in: Fate/strange Fake. Characteristics. Species: Servant, Human, Magus. Gender: Unknown (Summoned Saint Graph is Male) [1] Height: 152cm [1] Weight: 38kg [1] Magecraft: Illusion magecraft, Alchemy, Black Magic. Servant stats. True Name: François Prelati WP. Type: Heroic Spirit. Source: Historical Fact. Region:
