-Name: Genghis Khan/Temujin -Gender: 9000% Male -Approximate apparent age: Like. 30? Died at 65 but that'd make him look 112 by today's standards so fuck it, animeing it up.
-Personality: He's stoic and manly and kind of an asshole. He's also kind of not an asshole; it's ambiguous whether he's a Heroic Spirit or an Anti-Hero. He has a strong belief in hard work and in rewarding merit, and he is in no way without empathy; he likes the idea of everyone being happy, sure, but he's a pragmatist. If he has to kill and/or rape a few trillion men and women and children to get there then big deal. HARSH REALITIES OF WAR. He treats friends and allies well, and if his enemies surrender willingly them too. A persistent foe, though, is going to be slaughtered pretty brutally.
-Class: Rider -Fighting Style: Has a longbow, a sword, and a horse. Uses them as appropriate but is generally very rough-and-tumble and savage and brutal when it comes to style in a one-on-one duel. -Attitude towards the Holy Grail War: "I wonder if I get the Holy Grail I can make Mongolia rule the world again. Let's kill some bitches."
-Noble Phantasm: He can't summon his army proper, but rather for one giant round of attacks at a time. The upshot of this is that it saves energy comparably. The main use of Transient Ghost Mongols is raining a ridiculous 300-style sun-blotting-out wave of arrows on an area; every arrow is reinforced Shirou-style, so they're armor-piercing.
Strength: B+ Endurance: B Agility: B Magical Energy: C Luck: C Noble Phantasm: A
-Angst-filled AU historical backstory: Born Temujin, son of the leader of one of the warring nomadic tribes that made up what would soon be Mongolia. As a boy, he and another young warrior from another tribe, Jamuqa, became close friends and agreed to become blood brothers. As they both reached adulthood, though, they became leaders of rival tribes, both aiming to conquer all the others and unite the people into a true nation as its ruler. Genghis Khan, as he called himself by then, had to kill Jamuqa in battle in order to unite the Mongols.
With an empire established, he was a largely benevolent ruler, and he had two things in mind: stabilize the country, as it had always been made up of groups of people who hated each other, and to rule the world (because hey, he was better at Kinging than all his pussy neighbors who grew up in castles, right? It's for their own good). To accomplish both of these things, he set the united Mongolian Empire to the task of waging war on absolutely everyone but people who were already on their side.
He wasn't a ruler who considered himself a god or thought he deserved the world; he took pride in living comparably like One of the Guys, albeit the one in charge and demanding loyalty, and dedicated himself to ensuring the lasting welfare of his people, making careful provisions for the responsible management of the empire after his death. His two biggest regrets are having to break an oath of brotherhood and kill a man close to him, and that his empire eventually fell, as do they all.
EDIT and class switch
-Gender: 9000% Male
-Approximate apparent age: Like. 30? Died at 65 but that'd make him look 112 by today's standards so fuck it, animeing it up.
-Personality: He's stoic and manly and kind of an asshole. He's also kind of not an asshole; it's ambiguous whether he's a Heroic Spirit or an Anti-Hero. He has a strong belief in hard work and in rewarding merit, and he is in no way without empathy; he likes the idea of everyone being happy, sure, but he's a pragmatist. If he has to kill and/or rape a few trillion men and women and children to get there then big deal. HARSH REALITIES OF WAR. He treats friends and allies well, and if his enemies surrender willingly them too. A persistent foe, though, is going to be slaughtered pretty brutally.
-Class: Rider
-Fighting Style: Has a longbow, a sword, and a horse. Uses them as appropriate but is generally very rough-and-tumble and savage and brutal when it comes to style in a one-on-one duel.
-Attitude towards the Holy Grail War: "I wonder if I get the Holy Grail I can make Mongolia rule the world again. Let's kill some bitches."
-Noble Phantasm: He can't summon his army proper, but rather for one giant round of attacks at a time. The upshot of this is that it saves energy comparably. The main use of Transient Ghost Mongols is raining a ridiculous 300-style sun-blotting-out wave of arrows on an area; every arrow is reinforced Shirou-style, so they're armor-piercing.
Strength: B+
Endurance: B
Agility: B
Magical Energy: C
Luck: C
Noble Phantasm: A
-Angst-filled AU historical backstory: Born Temujin, son of the leader of one of the warring nomadic tribes that made up what would soon be Mongolia. As a boy, he and another young warrior from another tribe, Jamuqa, became close friends and agreed to become blood brothers. As they both reached adulthood, though, they became leaders of rival tribes, both aiming to conquer all the others and unite the people into a true nation as its ruler. Genghis Khan, as he called himself by then, had to kill Jamuqa in battle in order to unite the Mongols.
With an empire established, he was a largely benevolent ruler, and he had two things in mind: stabilize the country, as it had always been made up of groups of people who hated each other, and to rule the world (because hey, he was better at Kinging than all his pussy neighbors who grew up in castles, right? It's for their own good). To accomplish both of these things, he set the united Mongolian Empire to the task of waging war on absolutely everyone but people who were already on their side.
He wasn't a ruler who considered himself a god or thought he deserved the world; he took pride in living comparably like One of the Guys, albeit the one in charge and demanding loyalty, and dedicated himself to ensuring the lasting welfare of his people, making careful provisions for the responsible management of the empire after his death. His two biggest regrets are having to break an oath of brotherhood and kill a man close to him, and that his empire eventually fell, as do they all.