Don Quixote

A noble knight-errant and great hero who travels the world to spread the word of the lovely Princess Dulcinea, alongside his trusty companion Sancho! He is a great elder knight who left his mark on the world in countless battles against giants and hostile knights.

...Is that to your liking, sir?

Height/Weight: 148cm, 50kg (Don Quixote)

169cm, 54kg (Sancho)

Origin: "Don Quixote"

Region: Europe

Alignment: Lawful-Good (Don Quixote)

Chaotic-Balanced (Sancho)

Sub-Attribute: Earth

Gender: Male (Don Quixote)

Female (Sancho)

"Think anyone would notice if we gave me an extra twenty centimeters?"

"I'm afraid so, sir."

Don Quixote is not particularly inclined to listen to what people have to say, but he is unfailingly polite to women, kind to the weak, and bold to the strong. This compassionate, earnest personality remains the same as ever, making him well-suited for knighthood.

Meanwhile, his faithful companion, Sancho, is as capable as maids come, doing everything in her power to grant her sir's wishes without losing her smile. She's also just as good at wrapping the knight around her little finger as she is at everything else. Although Don Quixote has sworn loyalty to his Master, and to conduct himself in a manner befitting a knight, Sancho's loyalties lie exclusively Don Quixote.

His First and Second Ascensions present him as the kind of ideal knight he always dreamed of becoming: proud, dignified, and with his beloved princess by his side. His Third Ascension, on the other hand, shows him for what he really is: a frail-looking old man who understands reality, yet still strives to be the knight he's so long aspired to become. But, unlike reality, Servants really do live in a world of dreams. And so, with Sancho prodding him along, he continues to summon up the courage in his old bones to face the giant we call "reality."

Strictly speaking, Sancho Panza on her own is more like a Phantom Spirit, but as a Servant, she encompasses Don Quixote's old horse, attendant, princess, and many other roles, all in a single ether body. As his attendant, she follows Don Quixote around like a country farmer or old horse. At other times, she gives him advice as the noble Princess Dulcinea, or expresses romantic feelings for him (or rather, pretends to, just like a certain Duchess ordered of Altisidora.)

Accompanying Attendant: B

A unique formation where two beings make up a single Servant. Although Sancho will also disappear if Don Quixote falls, the same does not hold not true for Don Quixote if Sancho should fall.

Seasoned Knight's Grand Adventure: EX

In Don Quixote's grand adventure, he traveled far and wide to proclaim the beauty of his beloved Princess Dulcinea to the world at large, spreading goodness and justice wherever he went...or so Sancho says.

Open Door of Dreams: EX

Opening this door transforms Don Quixote into his ideal knight, while closing it returns him to reality, thereby blurring the line between fantasy and reality. While technically a variant of Madness Enhancement, it does not make him go berserk. Instead, it simply makes him a braver knight. Unfortunately, this does also make him somewhat reckless... Reckless enough to, say...charge at a windmill.

Closed Book of Reality: E

A return to, well, reality. Needless to say, this also means returning to being a powerless old man, forcing him to give up his dreams. But even so, he must still fight within the confines of the real. As long as Don Quixote doesn't give up, this skill can keep his stats at their current C-rank, with the exception of Luck and his Noble Phantasm. But if he does give up and succumbs to the harsh truth of reality, this double-edged skill will lower each of his stats all the way to E-.

『Valiente Asalto Dedicado a la Princesa』

Rank: D++

NP Type: Anti-Giant

Range: 1 - 10 (Including charge distance)

Maximum Targets: 1

I Dedicate This Spear to My Beloved Princess!

This Noble Phantasm reproduces the most famous story about Don Quixote: his charge against a windmill he mistook for a giant. Even if he is in his Third Ascension, he temporarily reverts to his First Ascension until this Noble Phantasm is complete. Conversely, if he's already in his First Ascension, he will temporarily transform into his Third as a sign of how winded he is.

As the original story resulted in the windmill knocking him away, this Noble Phantasm is certainly not without its drawbacks. However, the important part of the story is that he charged at what he believed to be a fearsome giant, knowing as he did so that he was terribly outmatched. For the purposes of this Noble Phantasm, this translates to both damaging those nearby and providing them with powerful buffs.

Incidentally, when he charges, you can see Sancho cheer him on by waving a flag.

『Triste Gentil Alonso Quixano』

Rank: EX

NP Type: Anti-Personnel

Range: 1

Maximum Targets: Less than 10

I Offer You Kind, Miserable Reality.

Sancho Panza's Noble Phantasm that returns the world to the way it was, replacing any and all nearby fantasies with the reality of seventeenth-century Spain. No matter what manner of Mystics the affected target may possess, they will be diluted down to the level of real 17th century Spanish society. It usually functions as a powerful debuffing Noble Phantasm, but since it's tied to Don Quixote's Closed Book of Reality, it can also grant realistic wishes for myriad impossibilities.

Penned by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century, "Don Quixote" is said to have sold more copies than any other novel in the world. In 2002, a group of writers from all across the world named it as the greatest work of fiction ever written. Its influence can be felt in countless works of art and music throughout history, and the name of its titular character has become widely understood shorthand for people with big, delusional dreams.

In the original book, Don Quixote is a poor fifty-year-old farmer who becomes so enamored with the idea of knighthood that he sells off the very land on which he's made his living for so long. In his madness, he truly believes he is the knight-errant he claims to be, which prompts him to set off on an adventure with his emaciated old horse, Rocinante, and his attendant, Sancho.

Over the course of his adventure, he famously charges at a windmill he mistakes for a giant and finds himself chased off a farmer's land after treating the farmer's daughters as royalty. Later, a scholar and friend of his, Samson Carrasco, pretends to be a knight himself in hopes of bringing Don Quixote back to reality, only to have Don Quixote challenge him to a duel and win. But then, after Carrasco's wounds are healed, he comes back to his friend posing as a different knight and this time wins their duel. For the next year, Carrasco then brings Don Quixote back to their hometown so he may live a peaceful life.

As Carrasco predicted, Don Quixote reluctantly returns to their village. Unfortunately, the illness that cures him of his madness also gives him a fever that brings him to the brink of death. After suffering for six days, Don Quixote regains his original identity as Alonso Quixano, curses his attempt at knighthood as foolish nonsense, and dies without ever losing his most precious knightly possession: his innate humane goodness. And that is why, even to this very day, the world knows and loves this old knight.

In Traum

At first, Don Quixote claimed to have been summoned to the large-scale Singularity, Traum, as one of the few Servants on the side of Proper Human History, but in fact, he was actually first summoned to the Lostbelt in Atlantis. Though he initially did his best to make his way through Atlantis and reach Olympus alongside other heroic Servants, seeing Heracles vaporized robbed him of his will to fight. Sancho, seeing her sir terrified for his life, decided to use her Noble Phantasm to escape from Atlantis, only for them both to wind up in the Traum Singularity.

Upon seeing the vast army of Servants revolting against humanity, Sancho then came up with a plan for them to survive by pretending to be Charles the Great and establishing the Righteous Realm. They then attempted to secretly gather like-minded Servants on Proper Human History's side and fight back against the other two realms. But, circumstances being what they were, gathering other Servants proved difficult, and it was clear that their current disadvantageous position was untenable. It was then that they found new allies in the Master of Chaldea and the Servants accompanying them, which helped them to renew their efforts to fight back against the Revenge and Reinstatement Realms.

Incidentally, Don Quixote tried several times to apologize to the Master of Chaldea, but never found the time or the words, right up until he disappeared. Although Sancho believed, correctly, that there was nothing more they could have done on their own no matter how hard they tried, he still couldn't help but feel guilty for his actions, which contradicted the oaths of knighthood he swore. In the end, though, Don Quixote the Servant died in Traum as he lived: fighting side by side with Sancho, and holding always to his innate human goodness.