General Description

Name

"For today, you may call me Elsewise, Master."

Appearance

A Tall, Male, Bland and Featureless Mannequin in a flowing dark robe.

Personality

Elsewise is aloof yet understanding. He carries a clear and absolutist observance of the world around him to a far too natural-to-him degree. He always speaks to his Master or others about things that aren't transpiring. While he holds no deep emotion or attachment to anything in particular, this detachment shares an aura of inevitability. Enigmatic, Poetic, and oddly sentimental in a distant manner.

Class

Archer
He's always just out of reach, a good master of the long game.

Equipment

Armor
Dark silk robes that flow around his form giving him an off putting presence.
Weapon
A corroded floating sword that may fall at any time. It is always in motion, slowly storing the potential energy much like Elsewise's mana as it exists as a physical presence of his Noble Phantasm, The Great Journey**

"Thrown in desperation. The one who called it down died before it could land, as they always do. I hold onto it, my Master, as a token of what can be unless one were to enact it. Whether it lands, or never does, even I cannot be sure. Perhaps the next dawn will hold the answer."
Attire
Chosen by Master

Alignment

True Neutral
"I have no allegiances. Only to moving onward, my Master. All things must."

Parameters

Upkeep

High
"I'm quite sorry, Master, the burden of it is immeasurable, isn't it?"
+20 for every A rank, +10 for every B

Noble Phantasm

Momento Dies

Custom
E Rank
Anti-World
Reality Marble
Passive

Elsewise tells the time of day. Counting it down. Second by second. The Sword can be often seen 'ticking' at times when he does this.

"Moment by Moment."
+0

The Great Journey

Custom
EX Rank
Anti-World
Reality Marble
Debuff

The sword finally falls on the target, showing them the unreachable.

An area of varying size mostly targeted on and around whomever the Great Journey is focused on. Elsewise shows the inexorable march of the person(s) Character Arc. Scenes play by in blurred instances as he moves that person(s) forward. Moments of strength, weakness, loss, acceptance, grief, and peace all flow by as the target's Parameters and Skills are debuffed to E-, as they reach the natural conclusion of their stories and are left in a brittle and final state. In all but an instant, the weight of battles won, battles lost, their memory forgotten by time, suddenly mantle upon their shoulders. For some there will be peace, and others, it is the one thing they feared the most.

Luck affects how well or how bad one's Arc goes before The Sword touches the ground. This possible variance grants possibility to fight the march of time. Beware, however, the effects persist none the less.

"All things change. All things lurch forward until there's nothing left. Men, Gods, and even History itself fear the passage of time, my Master. Watch them now. Withering away. It makes you think, my Master, could they have changed anything to avoid this outcome? Could you?"

-35-130-250+20

Class Skills

Independent Action | A- Gains the limitation of C rank, only a single day. But still has the magical power to be autonomous
(-35+1/2(18)+20)
Independent Manifestation | B
(-150+10)
Self Replenishment | A
(-75+20)

Unique Skills

Wish

"A mere ball of flaming gas will rise on the dawn. My only wish, my Master. Is that it be the Sun that does."

Fighting Style & Tactics

Elsewise as an eccentric poet has an unreasonable methodology for combat and tactics. Although his parameters are specifically his most subpar addition to the kit, he has no trouble fighting when requires. Hits never seem to land against Elsewise easily, the strongest, the fastest, Elsewise is seemingly just always out of proper reach. The Sword floats by his side, able to be flown through the air into his targets. Exploiting the weaknesses in defenses and leveraging his movements of opportunity carefully.

While a Passive Noble Phantasm, Elsewise will still announce Momento Dies at random, as he begins to count aloud.

Utilization of The Great Journey requires a lot of magical power and is used with specific plans in mind. Showing someone how it ends is not taken lightly by Elsewise.

Notes

Because of Innocent Monster, he holds a resemblance to the Grim Reaper, though his true nature remains more conceptual, he is not an entity of death.

Mental Pollution causes him to semi-frequently wax and wane about the possibilities while he considers different plans, different methods. He has an odd and out-of-touch understanding of how someone or something will end, though it may not manifest clearly.

True Nature

If we get people with True Name Discernment, they will learn the truth of Elsewise's nature.

In truth, Elsewise is a manifestation of Tomorrow. An unreachable, unobtainable, yet inevitable state of being called backward one single day by the Grail War fueled by humanities collective fear of the future. Of change. This intense collective belief is why the black cloak of death and ever-falling sword manifested alongside the blank mannequin.

Always out of reach. No matter how many days pass, Tomorrow never comes. As it shall always be today.