[hider=Hey Phil-...Wait, Wrong Phil Guys (Archer)] [center][h1][b][color=40FD14]Philoctetes[/color][/b][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/NC71kHE.jpeg[/img][/center] [b][color=40FD14]Name[/color][/b]: Philoctetes [b][color=40FD14]Titles[/color][/b]: “Friend of Heracles”, “The Slayer of Paris” [b][color=40FD14]Class[/color][/b]: Archer [b][color=40FD14]Gender[/color][/b]: Male [b][color=40FD14]Era[/color][/b]: Trojan War [b][color=40FD14]Alignment[/color][/b]: Lawful Neutral [b][color=40FD14]Attribute[/color][/b]: Earth [center][b][color=40FD14]History[/color][/b][/center] The son of the Argonaut and king of Meliboea, Poeas, and out of everyone present at the funeral of Heracles was the only one to light it for the Greatest Hero of Greece. It was this boldness and bravery on his part, and kindness in ending the great hero’s agony, that earned the young Philoctetes the favor and affections of the now-deified Heracles proper. For this Heracles granted him both his bow and hydra arrows, as well as granted the youth tutelage in his fighting technique known as “Nine Lives”. The younger prince would grow with these things in hand in his life, not only becoming able to draw the huge bow of the deified hero but likewise able to produce a variant of his fighting technique in due time. Philoctetes was also one of the many suitors who sought the hand of Helen, a daughter of Zeus, and was sworn to the same Oath of Tyndareus that would push him and many others into participating in the Trojan War on behalf of getting her back for Menellaus. Yet it would be along the way, as the Greeks stopped at the sacred Isle of Lemnos, that the goddess Hera sent a poisonous serpent to (as punishment for his service to Heracles) bite the heel of the now-older but great archer. Such was the pains and wailing of agony for Philoctetes that disturbed the Greeks, and so badly did the festering and incurable wound stink in the literal sense to those about him, that Odysseus convinced Menelaus and Agamemnon and the other leaders of the Greeks to abandon the now-crippled Philoctetes on Lemnos after he eventually slept. Thus when he awoke, not only was he suffering yet still but was abandoned for dead on the island. Here the hero lived for ten long, agonizing years in suffering and pain as he hunted game with the Bow of Heracles and meted out his survival as the war against Troy raged on without him. For ten long years, his wound and grudge against those who had abandoned him (especially and including Odysseus) festered alike. Yet after the capture of the Trojan prince Helenus, the Greeks would return for the bow and arrows after being told they were necessary for the fall of the city of Troy. It was also here that the group of Greeks sent to retrieve said bow and arrows, led by Odysseus and Diomedes, would, most surprisingly, find that Philoctetes was still very much alive….and able to draw an arrow pointed at Odysseus out of pure spite for the man. Ultimately being tricked out of the bow and arrows by Odysseus, however, Diomedes would intervene and refuse to take the weapons without taking Philoctetes with them as well. Ultimately, the defied Heracles himself would descend from Olympus to Lemnos, all just to talk Philoctetes into going with the Greeks by promising that he would be healed by a son of Ascelipus and win great honor and glory as a hero of the Achaean forces. Thus, consenting to his friend, Philoctetes would return with the Greeks and be healed before finally getting to fight in the latter end of the Trojan War. Not only would he battle and fight for the Greeks, then, but the hero would famously kill the Trojan prince Paris in turn. He would then be chosen as one of the heroes to hide within the famous Trojan Horse, and would slay many Trojans as he participated in the sack of the city itself. After the war was over, Philoctetes would leave to go to the city of Macalla to settle down again instead of returning to Meliboea. He would also go on to found, and be accredited for the founding of at least, the cities of Thurii, Petilia, Krimisa, and Chone, and ultimately to deposit and dedicate the legendary Bow of Heracles and the Learnean Hydra arrows themselves to the temple of Apollo Halius in Macalla proper. Upon his death, not only would a bronze shrine to him be erected on a barren island near Lemnos but he would have a great shrine built above his grave in Macalla and become venerated as a god with libations and sacrifices of oxen. [center][b][color=40FD14]Personality[/color][/b][/center] A magnanimous man who is hospitable and generous to guests, and a brave warrior who doesn’t hesitate to engage in battle and combat with his foes or to encourage allies to do the same. A hero who remains stubborn to enough of an extent when he sets his mind to something, but one who humbled himself after speaking with the deified Heracles and has also finally let go of the anger and resentment he pent up within himself at Lemnos. A warrior of the Acheans who was not worn too weary with the ten years of war that preceded his eventual arrival at Troy, and at first encouraged them to storm the city due to his lack of war-weariness, but was a sensible sort of person who went along with the scheme of the Trojan Horse and saw the value in it. A fighter who with pride avenged the slain Achilles by slaying the Trojan hero/prince Paris and participated in the sacking of the city after being chosen to hide in the Trojan Horse. A leader who, at the end of his journey, held the wisdom and skill to found a number of cities and remained pious to the gods (including his deified friend Heracles, to whom he dedicated some of his plunder from Troy) for the rest of his days. Were he summoned as a Berserker, one would get a far different version of Philoctetes. Indeed, Philoctetes the Archer is a reflection of Philoctetes at his best, aka “Philoctetes the wielder of Heracles’ bow and arrows, the slayer of Paris, and a glory-achieving pillager of Troy who went on to found a number of cities”. In turn, then, Philoctetes the Berserker would inevitably be “Philoctetes the ever furiously angry, one who is filled with pent-up grudges against the Acheans, the abandoned man suffering from a maddeningly painful wound, he who would explode in anger upon merely seeing those who vexed and abandoned him so, and who is willing to kill Odysseus and anyone merely with him on-sight all while going about dressed in animals skins from the prey he hunted over the past ten years”. [center][b][color=40FD14]Parameters[/color][/b][/center] [list] [i]Strength[/i]: B [i]Endurance[/i]: A [i]Agility[/i]: C [i]Mana[/i]: D [i]Luck[/i]: D [/list] [center][b][color=40FD14]Class Skills[/color][/b][/center] [list] [*][i]Independent Action[/i]: A - The ability to remain independent even when rejecting the Magical Energy supply from one's Master; the ability that allows for action even in the absence of the Master. At higher ranks, it is also possible to remain for extended periods of time in this world without an established contract. At this rank it is possible to take action even without a Master. However, to use Noble Phantasms of great magical energy consumption, backup from the Master is necessary. At Rank A, it is possible for a Servant to stay in the world for about a week without a Master. Philoctetes spent ten years, abandoned and alone, on the Isle of Lemnos, all with a festering incurable wound on his foot and afflicted with the poison of a divine serpent and while hunting to survive using the Bow of Heracles. And, once the Greeks returned and were surprised to find him alive, he could still draw the Bow of Heracles to aim a shot at Odysseus out of anger. [*][i]Magic Resistance[/i]: C - Grants protection against magical effects. Differing from the Resistance effect that merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels the spells altogether. Gains this rank due to living within the Age of Gods, where spells and weapons and such alike were present during the Trojan War. Cancel spells with a chant below two verses. Cannot defend against magecraft on the level of greater magecraft and Greater Rituals. [/list] [center][b][color=40FD14]Personal Skills[/color][/b][/center] [list] [*][i]Affection of the God[/i]: C - A skill that denotes one being loved by a god. In the case of Philoctetes, this affection originates from the deified Heracles. This skill provides Philoctetes with an automatic passive recovery ability, healing him of injuries and status conditions alike over time, as well as helps him continue fighting even underneath the effects of conditions such as very paninful injuries, poison effects, or other such negative status conditions. It is overall an embodiment of Heracles' promise that he would be healed in life after returning to Troy with the Greeks. The affection and favor of the deified Heracles that was gained by Philoctetes for his friend’s service in lighting the great hero’s funeral pyre, an act that none other would perform for the suffering hero save for Philoctetes himself and for which Hera would later punish Philoctetes by sending a divine serpent to bite him. Whilst Philoctetes did receive Heracles’ bow and arrows as gifts for his act of lighting the hero’s pyre as well, the god continued to watch over him from then on. It would even be the deified Heracles personally coming down from Olympus to persuade Philoctetes personally to go fight against Troy once the Greeks came back for the bow and arrows, promising that he would be healed at the Greeks’ camp if he went with them. [*][i]Unyielding Will[/i]: A - A skill that represents one's extremely firm will that never yields to any sort of agony, despair or circumstances. At this rank, Philoctetes possesses resistance against physical and mental damage. However, said resistance will not hold against deceptions and attacks that aim at beguiling others such as illusions. Philoctetes gains this rank for his survival on an, at the time deserted, isle of Lemnos. For ten long years, with a festering, stinking wound and body coursing with the poison of a divine serpent sent by Hera to punish him for what he did for Heracles years ago, he not only survived but used the Bow of Heracles to hunt game to survive at that. He then went to Troy when the Greeks came to retrieve him, as the Bow of Heracles was required to win against the Trojans, and was finally healed after being brought to the Greek camp. [*][i]Clairvoyance[/i]: C - connotes superior visual perception and dynamic occipital capture, such as to supplement the long-range aiming of projectile weapons. At higher ranks, it is possible that the bearers of this Skill have acquired abilities such as precognition ("future vision") and other forms of perception beyond standard eyesight (X-ray vision and so forth). It is a skill furnished on the flesh. At this rank, Philoctetes is able to precisely snipe even enemies moving at high speeds as long as they are within a 4km range. Not only did his skills as an archer surpass those of his father, Poeas, but was known as a famed archer of the Trojan War. Combined with his ability to use the Bow of Heracles to hunt game after being abandoned on Lemnos. Likewise he was a superior archer who killed the Trojan prince Paris in battle. Then, later on in the Odyssey, even Odysseus himself would admit that only Philoctetes was superior to him in the use of a bow at that. [*] [/list] [center][b][color=40FD14]Noble Phantasms[/color][/b][/center] [b]Name[/b]: Τόξο του Ηρακλή (Tóxo tou Iraklí - “Bow of Heracles”) [b]Title[/b]: [i]“The Venomous Greatbow of the Hero”[/i] [b]Rank[/b]: A+ [b]NP Type[/b]: Anti-Unit [b]Range[/b]: 1-99 [b]Maximum Number of Targets[/b]: - [b]Description[/b]: The huge bow and poisoned arrows of the Greatest Hero of Greece, granted to Philoctetes as a gift for being the only one brave enough to light his friend’s funeral pyre. A weapon that, as a weapon, is a Continuously Active-Type Noble Phantasm whose ranged attacks are always passively/inherently imbued and suffused with the rather deadly poison of the Learnean Hydra. It normally acts as just a rather solid Noble-Phantasm-grade weapon for the wielder, one whose attacks are sufficiently dangerous enough in their own right. ((The poison of the Learnean Hydra, as with that of its kin, easily kills humans outright. Simply being in the presence of the poison, though, an adult one a human’s lungs will begin to rot. Yet while it cannot outright kill a servant, it remains harmful to them all the same. The pain and suffering caused by this poison is so incredible, however, that it both pushed the Divine Spirit Chiron to abandon his divinity and immortality to escape the pain, and pushed even the Greatest Hero of Greece to be in so much suffering he built his own funeral pyre and threw himself upon it in order to die and escape the unbearable pain it caused him.)) [b]Name[/b]: Πέντε Ζωές (Pénte Zoés/Five Lives) [b]Title[/b]: [i]“Πυροβολώντας τα εκατό κεφάλια” (Pyrovolóntas ta Ekató Kefália - “Shooting the Hundred Heads”)[/i] [b]Rank[/b]: B [b]NP Type[/b]: Anti-Unit, Anti-Army [b]Range[/b]: - [b]Maximum Number of Targets[/b]: 5 [b]Description[/b]: Along with being given the bow and arrows of Heracles, Philocetetes would likewise, in gaining the affections of the deified Heracles, be blessed with his fighting style as well. In receiving this second gift, he would forge his own variation of it in turn. This use of it by Philocetetes is best depicted in his slaying of the Trojan prince Paris. The first arrow was meant to seemingly "always miss" in order to corral the Trojan prince into place, and was meant to force the enemy’s movement and position so that the others strikes are guaranteed to land. The second blow then struck the leading hand of the prince that held his crossbow. The third struck him in the right eye. The fourth, finally, struck him in the heel. From there, it was noted that there was no need for a ‘fifth shot’ despite Philoctetes possessing the skill to have launched one in this situation. However, this technique's capabilities remain intact at their very root as well. Regardless of whether it is delivered with a bow, large sword, shield, spear, axe, or possibly even unarmed, the technique is a "variable attack" that both changes form depending on the target and boasts power on the level of Noble Phantasms by drawing out the maximum power of the weapon being used. It further remains a martial art technique that was originated from Heracles' slaying of the immortal Learnean Hydra, and still inherently "exterminates [the target] no matter how many times his opponent resurrects" and is “a high speed attack consisting consecutive strikes, as swift as if the attacks are overlapping.” [/hider]