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Arjuna

True Name: Arjuna
Class: Archer
Source: Mahabharata
Region: India
Gender: Male
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Height: 177cm
Weight: 72kg

Scenario Writer: Yuuichirou Higashide
Character Illustrator: pako
Character Voice: Nobunaga Shimazaki
Appearance in Main Works: Fate/Grand Order

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Parameters	Values
Strength	A
Endurance	B
Agility	B
Mana	B
Luck	A++
Noble Phantasm	EX

Class Skills

Magic Resistance: C
Cancels the use of spells with a chant that is two verses or below. Cannot defend against large-scale magecraft such as High-Thaumaturgy and Greater Rituals.

Independent Action: A
Allows one’s actions even in the absence of their Master. However, in a situation where one decides to use Noble Phantasms and the likes that requires an enormous amount of magical energy to consume, backup from their Master is necessary.

Divinity: B
Whether one has Divine Spirit aptitude or not. The higher the rank, the more one is treated as a mixed-race being of a physical Divine Spirit.

Arjuna is the son of Thunder God Indra.

Personal Skills

Clairvoyance: C+
Connotes the good quality of one’s visual acuity. It allows one to capture distant targets and improves their dynamic vision. Also, it is possible for one to acquire clairvoyant abilities.

By extremely concentrating at the time of shooting his arrows from his bow, he can manipulate his own sense of time. He is certainly able to shoot what he is aiming at, all while at ease and without being flustered.

Awarded Hero: A

The great hero Arjuna was born to be loved by everyone, and sometimes he would be given the necessary things he requires from anyone. As long as he doesn’t have an active cause like a curse, Arjuna will not lack in anything.

Mana Burst (Flame): A

A Skill granted to him by his Noble Phantasm “Angi Gandiva: Roar of the Flame God”, which was handed over to him by Agni, the God of Flames. Jet propulsion by means of Mana Burst is utilized not for his body, but for the acceleration of his arrows. Arjuna’s arrows reaches his enemies faster than a fired rifle bullet.

Noble Phantasms

Pashupata: Raised Hand of the Destruction God
Rank: A+
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1~100
Maximum Number of Targets: 1000 people

A weapon granted to him by Shiva, one of the Three Greater Gods in Hinduism and the one who governs over destruction and creation in that religion. It is an Anti-“Unit” Noble Phantasm, but that is from its nature of “not because it is exterminating all humans in its surroundings altogether, but conducting a check towards the enemies within its range one by one, and allowing one to attain 'Moksha' should they have failed their check.” Attaining Moksha, in other words, is instant death.

The higher one’s Divinity is, the greater the probability it becomes for one attaining Moksha. On the contrary, Servants that are commonly called anti-heroes will result in their probability of attaining Moksha being lowered.

Angi Gandiva: Roar of the Flame God
Rank: A
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1~50
Maximum Number of Targets: 1 person

A bow of flames that cannot be essentially handled by humans (those with a predetermined period of life), awarded to Arjuna by Flame God Agni. Although it is generally an ordinary bow, by invoking its True Name, it changes the arrows into missiles coiled around with flames. Although they are not homing missiles, because Arjuna is gifted in archery to begin with, they have a precision almost equivalent to a homing missile when further combined with his Clairvoyance Skill.

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First Pronoun: watashi
Second Pronoun: anata / kijo / kisama (to the likes of his opponents as well as Karna)
Third Pronoun: kare / kanojo

Personality

Extremely diligent, integrous, just and upright, Arjuna has a flawless personality with no faults to point out and hit on. The perfect person in the manner of a superman, he is on a standard where he is compelled to say “I came” for the aid of others like a certain Knight of the Sun. He has no interest in wealth, whether the battle is an honorable one or not. And whether there is honour in battle or not, that however, is whether it was all in accordance with his sense of values (of which they are the ancient Indian values) as a warrior.

… However, when the opportunity has come, Arjuna will wonder and carry out all kinds of cowardly schemes. Although he is extremely hesitant in the preliminary stages, when he wonders if he can carry them out at that time, he lets a wicked smile show. That should not be seen by anyone——suppose someone sees it, he warns himself that he has no choice but to kill that person.

##Motivation/Attitude towards the Master

Fundamentally quiet, Arjuna openly follows his Master like a butler, and most Masters would view him as someone without the slightest display of pride and the likes when he was actually of royalty. However, if the Master tries to take a grip to the point of attaining the Servant’s true nature like some ordinary Masters for instance, there is a likelihood where Arjuna is willing to murder his Master as well. “Trust” is not the only thing gained when grasping the true nature of a partner. There is also a possibility of losing “trust” surely from “grasping the true nature of a partner.” For example, even if his partner accepts that darkness, the way Arjuna carries that dark side is all the more something he feels ashamed of.

Dialogue Examples

“I was summoned as Servant Archer. Treat me well please.”
“It is not pleasant to worry about me. You and I, we should simply do what must be done. Is that good?”
“My True Name is Arjuna. Similarly, like the times of battle, I will show my Master the way to victory, even now.”
“——You saw, my, smile?”

Historical Image and Character

If Karna is the “Hero of Charity”, Arjuna is indeed the “Awarded Hero”. He was born as the son of the King of Kuru, the third of the five Pandava brothers, and is also simultaneously the son of Indra.

And his destined rival was Karna, his older brother from a different father. Arjuna, who was certainly a hero where every aspect of him, from his caliber to his personality, has no faults to point out and hit on, was expelled from his country due to his older brother being defeated in a gamble. Already at this moment, he had a premonition inside him where there will be an inevitable confrontation with Karna. Because one can see that Karna looks up to Duryodhana, who scowls at the five Pandava brothers as his archenemies, as his father.

Every time Arjuna thinks of Karna, he shudders as if it appears that he was seeing himself reflected in a mirror. And then, with that being plain to see————he became frightened; furthermore, the reflected expression might have been similar to one seeing through everything about him completely.

“In my heart, resides ‘Black (Krishna)’.”

He loved his brothers, and was loved in return. He loved both his father and mother, and was loved in return. He loved the people, and was loved in return. And yet, Arjuna finds himself staring at some place with those eyes that had grew cold.

How terrifying.

“My darkness is terrifying. I differ from Karna. He, while cool-headed, is the warmth that believes in the people. I, while quiet, has a resignation that is so far as desperate.”

Since when was it that Arjuna had resolved to kill Karna no matter what? Probably, it was from the moment they had faced each other in the beginning. That time, why did Arjuna not remonstrate by even expressing a single word when his brothers were speaking ill will of Karna in their loud voices? Was it not because he envied Karna who displayed martial arts that actually surpasses his own? What an ugly, petty emotion. This Arjuna must not harbour such a thing, for that is supposed to be the way he is. Thus, Karna must not become aware of that reason.

“That discernment, if it exposes me————surely, I would die in shame, without a doubt. I regulated myself. Thoroughly, I continued to regulate, regulate, regulate. Therefore, the gods, my father, my mother, my wife, my brothers, they all love Arjuna. If I am not loved, I am not worth anything.”

Karna fell out of his chariot by the hands of his charioteer, who was his betrayer. Arjuna pierced through him while Karna was struggling to budge the wheels of his chariot, and that is a deed that should not be done in the way of the warrior. Cowardly, heretical, it is a conduct not unusual to others and even really spoken ill of.

However. Opportunities, they aren’t allowed to be restricted. And above all, Karna, who was nocking arrows to his bow————was smiling. Of course, it was not as a sneer to Arjuna. Although it was a smile of various emotions and reasons, to Arjuna however, that could not be seen as such. At that moment, Arjuna abandoned being a warrior (Kshatriya) and held great joy in battle, but that became a mechanism with the purpose of finishing the war.

Sure enough, Arjuna’s bow shot down the sun.

Thus, the role of Arjuna also came to an end. Heroes behaved as heroes up to the end; they were heroes up to the moment they died out. Brilliant heroic tales, they finished in brilliance up to the conclusion. Afterwards, Arjuna as a holy man that perceived everything is still Arjuna, but his heart as a warrior was in a state of disorderly pieces.

————“Sure enough, that one arrow shot down the sun.”
————“Am I probably going to shoot it at him once more?”

General Armaments

Gandiva

… The bow that Arjuna always uses. A bow granted by the Flame God Angi. It is also the bow that brought down Karna.

Connection with Characters

Karna

As already explained in accordance with the passage of his Historical Image and Character section. No doubt his destined rival.

Rama

The protagonist of the Ramayana. The manner of that refreshing boy is dazzling.

“Though unpleasant, can you not touch on the subject regarding my wife? Because there were various circumstances too!”

Comment from Illustrator

Although I said that I will probably decide to draw Nobu of the FGO world first for the time being, of these two characters, I ended up drawing this one first, and in some respects, he is royalty performing like a butler. However, given that he is a flawless child, he performs flawlessly regardless. Still, my recollection of him was designed with such an image.

Despite the tips of the arrows not being sharp, because they have so much power behind them, there was something like an image where the arrows are cleanly gouging and removing something as they are from the targets, and watching him launch attacks with a wonderful sound within the game, I thought ‘Ah! Hey, it suits them; it’s fantastic.’ Truthfully, his hand during the moment of employing his Noble Phantasm is erotic, is it not?

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