fuyuki / Misc characters

Scathach

スカサハ

The witch of the Land of Shadows. Cu Chulainn's teacher. A scarier version of Tohsaka Rin.

Became too skilled in the art of battle, too versed in the arcane, killed too many people, gods, and wraiths. By the time Cu Chulainn arrived, she had reached the point where she couldn't even take her own life.

Her realm would eventually be separated from this plane of existence and turned into a land of the dead.
The reward of a human being who came too close to the gods with a mortal body is exile (elevation) into a place that is neither the plane of the ethereal nor the plane of the living.

Probably the cost of becoming too powerful is to turn into a concept, something that Araya was beginning to experience.

She actually wanted to die as a human being. Her situation is paralleled to Bazett's situation in the looped world.

Merlin

マーリン

King Arthur's magus. An incubus hybrid.
Personality is awful and is said to be a prankster womanizer. An old guy with the personality of a kid. Probably the stereotypical old fart that goes around stealing women's underwear.

The cause of all sorts of trouble. The world would have been a little less crazy if he wasn't so fond of pulling pranks. Locked away because of that, but probably didn't regret it at all.

Also suspected of giving King Arthur a real penis.

Iskandar

イスカンダル

Al Sikandar, Iskandar, Eskander, etc. Persian and Central Asian names for Alexander the Great, the conqueror king. Participated in Heaven's Feel 4. Rival of Saber and had possession of a powerful Noble Phantasm (more than one). Defeated by Gilgamesh after being weakened from a battle with Saber. Big guy. Ambitious, big (in terms of character and foresight), and just does whatever he wants to do regardless of what common sense might say. To him, the real meaning behind "conquering" is to win without destroying, control without humiliating. Doesn't think that much about his own actions; sort of guy that lets history takes care of the rest and acts according to his own impulses. Despite that, things turn out all right in the end.

Irresponsible General Iskandar?

Pretty much can be characterized by the following:

Iskandar asks Waver show him where the book archives are and Waver directs him to a library. Iskandar then walks out of the building with some books (without paying for them).

Enter police sirens.

Later, Iskandar asks Waver to tell him where Macedonia, Persia, and Japan are on the map and gets excited when he comprehends how big the world really is.

So then he comes up with a plan which he directs to Waver.

"First, we will go half way around the world. West, straight west and conquer all the countries we pass. And thus upon my victorious return to Macedonia, I will make the people of my land celebrate my rebirth. HahahaHAHA. Is it not thrilling?"

After a moment of stupified silence, an angry and dizzied Waver screamed.

"WTF do you think you came here for! The GRAIL WAR! THE GRAIL!"

Later, Iskandar then asks what waver wants with the grail.
Waver stutters and says he wants to make the Clock Tower recognize his genius.
Iskandar slaps him with the force that a person would use to swat a fly and Waver gets knocked down flat because he's a wuss.
Iskandar goes on saying that's he a small-minded wuss and then decides that Waver will have his height increased by 30 cm with the power of the holy grail so he can get a bigger perspective.

And sometime later,

Waver starts going hysterical when he tells Iskandar that Assassin was killed, who doesn't seem to be listening at all or even doing anything even though he's materialized (just materializing a Servant drains maryoku).

Iskandar says who cares and tells him that he's more interested in this video about the history/records of air warfare. He spots a B2 and wants to buy 10 of these. Waver replies that it'd be faster to buy a country with that money, which causes Iskandar to groan and consider conquering a city as wealthy as Persepolis so he can get money for the B2s and then comments how Clinton seems to be the biggest threat he will have to deal with since Darius III.

And sometime later,

"Rider....why, did, you, bring, this kind, of book?"
"The Iliad is very profound. There are....the occasional times during a battle when one verse of a poem suddenly bothers me so much that I cannot stop thinking about it. When that happens, I must reread it at that very spot and time if I want to be free of that."
"..."
"At that spot, ....you mean where you're fighting?"
"Indeed."
"Where you're fighting....as in, while you're fighting? While you're swinging? Your sword?"
"Yes."
"....How?"
"When I am holding my sword with my right arm, then with the left arm. When my left hand is gripping the reigns, I had the page by me read it aloud."
"..."

Kotomine Kirei

言峰綺礼
The mediator dispatched by the two big organizations: the Association and the Church.
Worked behind the scenes as the Master of Archer in the previous battle and Lancer in the current.
In his early twenties, joined the holy grail war of Fuyuki, which had been mediated by his father Risei.

Afterwards, changed affiliations to the Association under the form of being "dispatched" from the Church.
Carried on the role of the manager as one of the survivors of Heaven's Feel 4.

Has the qualifications of a Church Executor and specializes in healing by spiritual mediation.
1st class as an Executor, but still can't match the seventh of the Burial Agency.
But, attack power against spiritual bodies is superb (while twisted) and represents how unshaking his faith is.

Thought to love destruction, but just like Shirou, he's the "creator" type of magus. Skill at fixing the spiritual/mental body is at Bishop level.

Not a villain but an evil person. Not inhuman but deviant.
The biggest enemy in Fate.

If Archer is a light embossing of Shirou's defects, then Kotomine could be said to be the wall exposing those defects by darkness.

Initial concept was "the guy that you just knew the first time you him, to be the one pulling all the strings".

Holds mass all night on 12/31 at his church. That's the most enjoyable part of the year for him. Why? Because he can ruin both the past year and the coming year at the same time, in just half a day. But, the curious thing is that the assembled people, while being reduced to the state of "OMG, I'm sorry for even being born", they're all thankful to Father Kotomine. Well, it might give you the blues, but this guy will say stuff that's beneficial to you.

Hassan

ハサン

The true Heroic Spirit of assassins.
Summoned by Matou Zouken, using Sasaki Kojirou's body to stay in this plane.
White skull mask, black robe: yep, the stereotypical assassin.
Parameter-wise, not so flashy, but really handy. Despite looking the way he does, he's very loyal and will never betray the person he recognizes as his lord.
As he is a wraith (Heroic Spirit candidate) among a flock of those with the title of "Assassin", his parameters are low. To make up for that, he modifies his own body and is in opposition against the other Servants.

He has no face under his mask. He inherited the title of "Mountain King" by removing his skin and nose to become a "nobody". When he first was summoned, his intelligence was low, but by gaining Lancer's heart, he had a radical power up. Since then, he received the influence of Lancer's personality.

On another note, he has a certain attachment to his dirks, so he makes sure to pick them back up before going home after the battle's over.

Undisputed winner of the "least appearance in Hollow" competition (also the champion of the "least appearance in the Anime" competition).

And not relevant at all, but the name of all (the real) Assassins' Noble Phantasms is Zabaniya. There be 19 candidates for the head of the Assassins and each one of them are keeping to themselves a "special technique" with the name of Zabaniya. Hiding their ace to knock down the other 18, or so they say.

Sir Bedivere

サー・ベディヴィエール

AKA Sah Bedivere.

The knight who attended Arthur's death bed and the last of the knights of the round table. The one who returned the holy sword to the lady of the lake at the order of his king.

The usual image that pops up when people think of the knights of King Arthur, are Lancelot, Percival, and Galahad. But these guys were really newcomers that had originally been recruited for the Holy Grail expeditions. The oldest three and the most famous are Sir Kay, Sir Gawain, and Sir Bedivere.

Oh, and Sah didn't figure out that Arthur was a girl, you sah. (bad attempt at getting that pun done right).

Sir Kay

サー・ケー

Arthur's step brother. Up until a certain point, our heroine had thought he was her real brother until one day she learned the truth. But even then, they still loved each other as siblings. Position-wise, she acted more or less as his squire and also received training from him while also doing other chores (such as pulling along his horse, etc). In terms of swordsmanship, she was better than him but never actually beat him in a fight.

This is not so much because of skill but these fights always ended in arguments that he won. Stuff like "You lose since you threw away your sheath!" or "I'm still alive so don't act like you won!", etc.

Knew about Arthur's secret but was silenced by Merlin and kept it a secret for the rest of his life.

One day, he attended to his sick little sister and asked her if she wanted anything. She answered she'd like to have a dream of a lion running on a grass field. And when she woke up, she found a poorly carved wooden "lion". Or rather a combination between a dog and a cat. When she thanked him and said she had a pleasant dream of a young lion, he was shocked. He intended to make a decrepit old lion that was too puny to even hurt a rat. Probably was worried about the lion pouncing her in her dreams.

Mordred

"You must never remove that helmet."

The child of Arturia's sister, Morgan.
A masked knight that came to Camelot with only the recommendation of Morgan and by presenting his awesome swordsmanship became one of the knights of the round table. He was given his sword despite his unknown origins because of his abilities and his straightforward mental chivalry.

In Fate, actually a clone created by Morgan from Arturia. A homunculus, but also a rather complete son of Arturia. Morgan used sorcery to enchant Arturia, who had become a pseudo male, extracted sperm and developed it in her own ovary.

"My son, you have the right to inherit the throne, but for now, hide your status and obey the King. And one day....you will defeat the King and take his place." He bore that obsession of his mother, but before that ambition, was Mordred's adoration of King Arthur.

Being a homunculus, his speed of growth was faster than a human being, and his life span far shorter. Feeling shame at his twisted birth, he was unconsciously jealous of normal people and due to the special innocence that children have, worshiped King Arthur, the "perfect king".

While hiding his dislike of others, he protected the way of the knights in such a way that could only be found in picture books and worked hard daily in being the ideal knight.

But, even that innocence was shattered by Morgan.
Not having the slightest feelings of rebellion on him, he was spurred on by Morgan who told him the truth of his birth.

That Mordred was a child born between Arturia and Morgan.

That King Arthur didn't know that Mordred was his own child and that even if he did, he would never accept such a filthy child.

While shocked by this, he was at the same time wrapped in joy.

Despite not being a proper human, he was a child having the same blood as the King. No, as the son of a king that was superior, he should be proud of the fact that he was not human. In name, reality, mind, and body, he was fit to be the successor of the King.

Mordred approached the King with delight. This was because to Mordred, who had no father, King Arthur was the very form of godlike "father".

However, Arturia rejected Mordred very clearly.

"I see. Even if you were born my sister's plotting, you were certainly born from me. However, I will not recognize you as my son nor will I give you the throne."

Arthur hated his sister Morgan. How could the son of that person be accepted.
"It makes sense.... I finally understand why my title was the weakest."

Despite how hard he tries. Even if he excels over anyone, the moment he was born from Morgan, the King would look down on him as a forever as a dirtied child.

Because of the love he had up until then had been so great, the hate of the rejected Mordred burned.

As a result, the distrust of the Round Table towards King Arthur spread and the reigns of power of Camelot were seized once Arthur departed for the Rome expedition.

He would become the leader of the rebellion representing the national discontent towards King Arthur, after finally returning after a long and tiresome battle.

Mordred raged, claiming that he hated King Arthur, that he was fit for the throne, but the truth was that he only wanted to be accepted by Arturia. He only wanted to be called "son" by the King.

The final fight.

With both armies dying, the two faced each other on a hill of swords.

"Look around you King Arthur. Your country has ended. Which ever one of us emerges the victor, it matters not. As you see before you, everything is gone. You should have known it would come to this. Had you given to me the crown, this would not have happened. Did you hate me, the son of Morgan, that much?!"

King Arthur emotionlessly replied back.
"Not once did I despise you.

There was only one reason I would not give you the throne.

You didn't have the capacity of a King."

Mordred ran forward, driven on by passion.

Defeated in single combat, Mordred collapsed while still impaled by a spear.

"Never remove it before other people."
Freed from that mask his mother forced on him, and with a face identical to Arturia exposed, he said,

"....Fa-ther,"

He reached out to touch the King with his blood-soaked hands at least once, but not even that wish was granted as he fell.

Stray Servant

はぐれサーヴァント

One of the heroine candidates back in the days when Shirou had a really big harem. A Servant with a shield that ended up killing her Master and was one of the "abandoned puppy" sort of heroines. Just like Gil, she stuck around since the last war. Would have been one of Saber's rivals.

Fuji-nee HS version

藤ねえ（高校生版）

Supposedly the idol of the kendou club. Uh huh? Started going over to Kiritsugu's house after he bought it. Love at first sight apparently? Didn't get along with Shirou at first, but they got along after a while.

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Unnamed. The spirit inside the golden fleece. I think Kinoko forgot this guy (girl, futanari?) existed.

Zel-jii

ゼル爺

Kishua Zelretch Schweinorg. Zelretch, the Kaleidoscope. Zelretch of the Gemstone. Father Time. The user of the 2nd of the 5 miracles and one of the 27 Ancestors. The Elminster of the Kinoko World.

A weird old fart whose known for being laughing at do-gooders and getting pissed off at evil. Well, he's ultimately on the side of good(?).

A long, long, long, loooong time ago he defeated the king of the vampires in a one on one fight (just because he didn't like the guy) and pushed back this reeeaaaaaaally big rock (the moon) that was falling down through pure force. 'course after that he aged quite a bit and can't do that kind of magic nowadays.

He's known to take pupils on a whim but there have yet to be any lines that have produced his successor. Of course, becoming a pupil of his almost always means the guy is going to come out the experience as a cripple. Back during the end of the Sakura route, the department heads at the Association were thinking something along the lines of:
"Oh no, if we don't send the most promising students he won't leave, but if we do, they'll become completely worthless."

He's off in some other parallel world most of the time.

Barthomeloi Lorelei

バルトメロイ・ローレライ

The boasted "Queen" (One of the Greatest Modern Magi) of London's Clock Tower, the central institute of the Association.

Assistant Director of the Clock Tower. Current Wizard Marshall commanding the Chelon Canticle Brigade. Element is wind.

In the past, destroyed two Ancestors and is also a vampire hunter lended to the Church.

An orthodox magus without any unique thaumaturgy, but because her own abilities are among the highest, she has produced brilliant results in all situations.

Simple is best. An archetypical and perfectionist type: as long as the base is strong, no special powers are needed.

While she herself is a brilliant magus, she takes with her 50 elite magi that she personally handpicked to annihilate her enemies. Sort of like a young emperor leading an orchestra.

While the members of her band are first-rate magi, even without them, it's said that she could co face to face with 27 level Apostles on her own.

As with the whole upbringing of Barthomeloi children, after becoming the head of the family, the given name is just a insignificant name stuck on. To all Barthomelois and Lorelei herself, the tone of "Barthomeloi" is what their names are.

Has an abnormal obsession with the White Wing Lord Ortenrosse and is part of a unit working in stopping the Aylesbury ritual that had been prepared by Ortenrosse for tens of years.

Why she didn't work at interfering before said Aylesbury event was because she wanted to lure the White Wing Lord and stop him during the ritual so as to see the miserable looks on the face of the despairing vampires.

Tohsaka Nagato

遠坂永人

The head of the Tohsaka line back some 200 years ago when the Heaven's Feel ritual began.

At the request of Justica and Machiri Zolken (Matou Zouken), he took part in the ritual.
He was really a secret follower of a certain foreign faith, but one day, a strange old fart showed up and led him astray. And so, from that time on, he became devoted to the world of thaumaturgy.

So as a result, the Tohsaka line has some influence in the Church and has gotten some pretty fine treatment in the Association. The reason the family's managing Fuyuki is because they have pipelines with both organizations.

Nagato saw both thaumaturgy and the martial arts as being equal. As such he had the idea of grasping Akasha by passing through the state of nothingness (from bujutsu). Which would be the point recruited by the Einzberns and Machiri.

Just by being Rin's ancestor, he's quite the goof-up (it must be the genes). Nagato was also the least promising of Zelretch's apprentices. Apparently, the magus potential was really in his daughter. She was also more helpful in the construction of the Greater Grail it seems.

Emiya Kiritsugu

衛宮切嗣

A freelance (hitman) magus. Died at the age of 34 due to Angra Mainyu.
The guy who is responsible for Shirou's way of living, for better or worse. Emiya Shirou's adoptive father.

Weapons of choice were guns and had this special type of thaumaturgy called Innate Time Control.

Not really that well-suited as a Master (in fact, he was only normal in comparison to say someone like Ilya) but he was a superb magus killer, which is why the Einzbern hired him. During the war, he tricked other Masters, took one of their lovers as a hostage, blew up buildings, etc.

Ilya's father. Had a wife in addition to a lover. Threw away his emotions to accomplish his objectives. The complete opposite of Kotomine, in a way.

Buried in the cemetery behind Ryuudouji.

Lizleihi Justica von Einzbern

リズライヒ・ユスティーツァ・フォン・アインツベルン

(In the game, it's Lizleihi Justica von Einzbern, while in the side materials, it's Justica Lizleihi von Einzbern; she's usually just going to be referred to as Justica regardless). The archmagus lauded as the Holy Maiden of Winter that designed the Heaven's Feel system and commanded Machiri Zouken and Tohsaka Nagato. The lordess of the Einzbern some 200 years ago as well as a powerful homunculus, essentially an enormous walking set of circuits. Personality-wise, cold and aloof. Gave her "life" to become the core of the Greater Grail and even now still lies in its core.

Successive models of her type, Ilya and her mother, carry on bits of her personality and memories, which is how Shirou was able to see the record of what happened during the construction of the Greater Grail when his mind was taken inside Ilya during the Heaven's Feel route. There's probably also a Justica persona within them that seems to occasionally be active, particularly during scenes with Zouken.

Abe-san

安部さん

AKA Avenger. Angra Mainyu.
Real name is unknown. Or more like it was stripped away from him back in the days when he was alive.

A human that was freed from the confines Order by having his name expelled from the Avesta.

He was just a normal young guy with a normal father and mother and a little sister. One day, when he woke up, people started treated him differently. Then WHAM, a couple of villagers he'd never seen before knocked him down, pulled out his tongue, poked out an eye, cut his tendons, etc, etc, etc. Wouldn't kill him because he belonged to the village.

So they dragged him where he was exposed to the wrath of the people around him. Apparently he was a demon. Or rather a scapegoat for all the bad stuff that goes on on this little planet.

See, people back in that little closed-off part of the world wanted to make everybody in the world good. But since it was impossible to make everyone do good, they figured they could just prove the goodness of humanity.....by forcing all the evils of the world on one person and making it his responsibility or rather....fault. That way, no matter what, it would be impossible for anybody else to do "evil".

And so the ritual proceeded. They carved on him all of the words that curse mankind, gave him all the sins that they could muster, took out bits and pieces of him slowly. So he had this really big curse put on him as a result.

He was shocked at first at the senselessness of it at all. Eventually he started wondering who it was he should hate. Even his own father clipped off one of his toes. He realized that at that point it was useless to beg for mercy so he asked them one last question. Why him?

Alas, they didn't answer him. And finally he understood. The people in charge just wanted any plain old Joe they didn't know. It could have been anybody else.

And so, the object of his hatred was decided and that's when he became a real demon.

So they left him up on top of a mountain with his one remaining eye fixed open so he can gaze at that village forever and forever. By that point in time, he'd already sort of gone insane, which would be why he still sort of managed to survive up there. Of course he only despised mankind during the first few years on his own free will, but after that that hate became a natural function for him and not an emotion. By that time, he forgave and tolerated humanity for whatever their sins they may cause while hating them. The world is worth hating. Imbalances are evened out by my hatred, so do whatever the hell you want. But that kind of "forgiveness" is also the same type that validates any evils that humans may perform, essentially might makes right.

Of course, the people that put him up there, his family, his loved ones, the people he hated, died before he did. The village changed over the generations, expanded, declined, people hated him, people were thankful to him, people worshiped him, etc, etc. And he couldn't do anything but hate it since that was the only way he could communicate with the world.

A strange woman that was sort of like Bazett also popped along and confessed to save him from his suffering while crying... Angra Mainyu didn't really hate her, but he didn't really agree with it since she was had the same misunderstanding that Bazett made; that he was still alive. Well, he was kind of alive, but his mind was dead. She stayed up on the mountain for several days but, she finally realized that she was just talking to a corpse and returned to the surface.

And one day that village was gone, ending its place in history for good. Even hatred itself had left him behind. After that he should have faded away too...except for some reason he's still bound to that barren wasteland. 'pparently all of that hatred became marked in the history forever. Immortal and everlasting hatred and he can't do anything about it.

See, evil isn't born. It's made as a result of the distortions in society, a fault in the design of the system itself. Incompetent rulers cause shifts in the tides, the people below them become ambivalent to it, etc, etc. As a result, as long as mankind exists, he'll be condemned with having to fulfill the role of THE adversary forever. Can't do anything but hate and eat his own loved ones because that's the way how he was made. He's that kind of tragic character.

Or something like that.

So that's the story of Angra Mainyu.

This is where the story of Abe-san begins.

Back during the 3rd war, the Einzbern summoned a Servant that they hoped would kill all the other Masters. What got was of a sickening void that got shaped in the form of a human being without any special abilities or Noble Phantasms other than his soul itself is evil. Since normally defeated Heroic Spirits lose their Servant shells and hence their personalities and abilities, they're just reduced to pure power. Abe-san, though? He's more or less just a wish that other people shoved onto him, unlike other Heroic Spirits. Or unlike his compatriots, his own soul (the records of his existence) no longer exists. So even without a personality, the Grail processed his soul/power as a wish.

And so, being stuck in a pot of wishes for all that time eventually would turn him into an honest-to-goodness wish-granting Heroic Spirit/demon. (That still doesn't have a physical form).

Of course, since he's still technically a Servant, he's going to need a Master to stick around if his container's bust. Which leads us to hollow ataraxia, don don don.

Basically, he's a really weird guy who laughs at the miseries of other times but accepts their flaws.....while still hating them.

Of course, nothingness itself can only have an attitude if it has a human form, so he used Emiya Shirou as a base, since he won Heaven's Feel 5. Unfortunately, since he's really nothing, most of what he is is going to be exactly how Emiya Shirou would act... which would be limited to the daytime. Back at night, he can be himself, except yup, that personality is still really just a twisted version of Emiya Shirou. Basically the only person that he could be really be himself was with Caren, since she's able to draw that evil out.

Weak-ass Servant, but still can kill ANY human being.

Since he's really just void itself, unlike everybody else, he'll just go back to being void. But he doesn't mind that at all. He ended the loop because he wanted to see a new possibility, even if it meant returning to nothingness. A really philosophical and hopeful guy despite being the incarnation of all evil. Probably would make a good rockstar.

King of Carelessness

油断王

A Servant with the titles of King of Vanity, King of Blundering, Gold Pika, ORESAMA/WARESAMA.
Gilgamesh, without mistake, the strongest of the Servants. If he only wasn't so damned careless and cocky.
Special skill is the "word of the King" - the ability to use a 1st person pronoun that is written as "ware" and said as "ore". Basically the "I'm the king of the world, foolish mongrels" kind of pronoun.
If Tohsaka makes stupid mistakes, this guy screws up just because of his vanity.
The one that showed up in the broad bridge scene in hollow ataraxia, AKA GILGAMESH NAKED (like how Naked Jehuty is the strongest of the Jehuty versions), was one of the few times where he fought seriously (in the once in a lifetime serious mode kind of way).
An asshole but everybody still loves him, just like they love Raymond. Also popular among the kiddies and has golden fishing rods. Currently a gag character. Reads Shounen Jump too. Probably the weekly one.

EMIYA

エミヤ

Back sometime after his version of Heaven's Feel V, the Emiya Shirou that later became Archer got involved in all sorts of things that went over his head. As far as the people who witnessed him, he was just a nameless guy. Not particularly gifted, in terms of talent he was all too mundane as a hero. To realize his paradise, he killed killed killed and killed, even innocent people as well, up until the point, it numbed him. He accepted this at point and just focused on saving the people that he could see, thinking that with each person he killed would actually be the final sacrifice... The end result was that he killed perhaps a thousand times the amount of people he saved.
Eventually made a contract with the world and gained power in exchange for his afterlife; all for the purpose of saving just a measly few hundred lives that had been destined to die no matter what.
Also saved the world at one point.
Desperately tried to end a war, but the crime of starting the war was pushed onto him by a man he saved and in the end, he was put on the gallows. But he accepted his fate gracefully, thinking that in his afterlife he would be used to save people.
The chances of the Shirou appearing in Fate/stay night becoming EMIYA are very low or not possible at all.

Lord El-Melloi II

ロード・エルメロイII世

Professor Charisma.
Master V.
Great Big Ben Londonster.
The man that female students named as the #1 man they'd like to get laid by, and so on.
A famous lecturer in the Clock Tower with many nicknames.
He doesn't have any problems in declaring he's an archmagus, but he's hopelessly average as a magus.
But, his skill as a lecturer dominates the rest, and is the best person at detecting the hidden talent of others and training it.
There are no magi that were his students that hadn't obtained the rank of Grand, and it's even been said that if he gathered his students together, the power chart in the Clock Tower would change.

But he himself isn't the ambitious sort and has said,
"What a load of codswallop. Why should I, stuck at the 4th tier I still be, have to bloody look after other people?"
Well, so, in that sense, he doesn't really want to get involved with his students.
Back when he was an apprentice, he'd been the very embodiment of the "narcissist that doesn't doubt he's a genius", but an incident some ten years ago had led him to change his attitude, and since then, the result of persistent effort for a spoiled brat led him to be called the professor.

As far as being a talent production, his works are regarded as the greatest masterpieces of their time, but El-Melloi II doesn't really seem to care about that, probably because he's more interested in being a successful magus himself.
So anyhow, as a lecturer, he has zip interest in his mega popularity.
...Rather, he's irritated by that fact and so has for several years has been walking inside the institute with a constantly cranky look to him. Or so they say.

Speaking of which, El-Melloi II isn't his real name but a name given to him by the current head of the Archibald house.

The custodian (sponsor) of Rin after she went to study in London. The condition being "I will not give you one ounce of instruction. Eh well, I will at least send letters of recommendation to the other departments".
He really hates Japan and Japanese, but his sole pleasures are Japanese games. A petit bourgeois that you really can't hate.
And so, while being internally excited, he tried to bring this up to the complete game dunce Rin,
"Maybe you might..... You know, you should be familiar with that town. That place right between Ueno and Asakusa...."
Only to be given an instant answer from Rin that not only did she have no interest in Akihabara, but she had no interest in even Nihonbashi.
And so he got pissed off instead.
"Fuck! You're the worst Japanese in the world."

The person that took down the Fuyuki Holy Grail war.

Alice Kuonji

久遠寺有珠 - Kuonji Arisu

A magus in hiding in the present. A witch. Lady of eternity.
Solitary, restrained, and stubbornly protective of her pride; a girl left behind by time.

Not rich in emotion and sees the way of living of a magus as absolute. Everyday life is only being continued because witches "hide their identities to practice sorcery".

Friend of Aoko. To Aoko, her teacher and partner. ...But to Alice, Aoko is the same thing.

As she was bound to be a witch before she was born, she's already a perfected magus by the age of 16.

While Aoko attends an average high school, Alice goes to a wealthy all-girls school. (The 3rd room mate also attends the same school as Aoko, but regarding that matter, Alice herself has some confusing feelings about him (read: love)).

Fundamentally doesn't like others. Initially developed a relationship with Aoko due to duty rather than personal initiative, but before they knew it, Aoko became Alice's one friend.

As a magus dwelling in town, repels any external threats together with Aoko, but normally locks herself up in the Kuonji vacation home, a memento of her father (and also the mansion where Aoko and that other guy are staying at) and rarely goes outside.

A wonderland type of witch specializing in the type of witchcraft and medicines found in fairy tales.

Kuonji was originally not a magus lineage. The one who had the blood of magi running in her was Alice's mother. The elder son of the Kuonji tycoons had met and fallen in love with a witch while studying abroad. He loved her and she accepted that love with some confusion, but as the same time, she was also afraid. No matter how blessed their wedding may be, the daughter to be born will be a witch. Just as she herself was one, the child of a witch will bear the destiny of inheriting the blood and history of their line, without any exceptions.

A witch must not fall in love with the male that becomes the father. The more they love each other, the sadder the conclusion. Knowing and accepting this, the Kuonji boy married her and returned to Japan to build a happy family.

However, after Alice was born, her mother died, as if she fulfilled her duty.

Her father, while suffering from the criticism of those around him, deeply loved his daughter and several years later, passed away. All alone, Alice only kept the mansion her parents lived in and chose to live the same path as her mother did.

Also, had formed relationships with the Aozakis when her mother became a naturalized citizen of Japan. Alice and Touko had been associated with each other for no less than 10 years while Alice had only been living together with Aoko for just one year.
To Alice, Aoko is her friend. Touko, on the other hand, is somebody that can understand her. Friendly with both, but doesn't seem to be willing to stop them from killing each other.

The story of a princess that locked herself in a castle. A tale of 3 people living together. Enlightened both in human matters and in capability, and hence the strongest of the characters appearing, but this also makes her the frailest of them.

At a glance, might appear to be a "modern magus" just like Aoko, but she's actually the opposite. Fixated on the one memento of her family. Actually, surprisingly psychologically unstable and self-abusive (Yandere - the new phenomenon in the Tsundere type - girl might appear to have the loving of a Tsundere, but she also happens to have a darker aspect to her that goes beyond just being cold; Kaede, Kotonoha, Yoppi for example....).

Aoko does age but Alice can't.
Had completely ignored the third person that tumbled into her mansion and tried to get him to leave as soon as possible but....

The Gil Brigade

Led by their hero, Gilgamesh.
Consisting of:
Jirou - Bland kid.
Mimi - The one girl member of the group. Went over to Lancer and asked if he was fishing anything when the rest of the brigade was watching the Gil vs. Archer fishing fight.
Imahisa - Was dissing Lancer's cheap-looking fishing rod. Probably also the same kid that was making fun of Lancer for only being able to pick up octopus.
Kanta - Wanted to read one of Gil's Jumps. Gil didn't finish reading yet, so he wasn't able to.
Kouta - Wanted to toss some fish to Lancer.