Suzuka Gozen (Santa)

Rarity★★★★
ClassLancer
True NameSuzuka Gozen
GenderFemale
SourceSuzuka no Soushi · Tamura no Soushi · Tamura Sandaiki · etc.
RegionJapan
AlignmentNeutral Evil
Height164cm
Weight51kg
StrengthD
EnduranceC
AgilityA
MagicA
LuckC
Noble PhantasmA
Character SettingTakenoko Seijin
IllustratorTakenoko Seijin
Character VoiceTouyama Nao
Major AppearancesFate/Grand Order Arcade
Related CharacterSuzuka Gozen

Class Skills #

Magic Resistance: C

Nullifies any magecraft with incantation below two verses.

Unable to defend against more sophisticated spells, such as greater magecraft or ritual curses.

Riding: B

Talent for riding.

She can effortlessly drive most of the average mounts, save for phantasmal species.

Her skills in reindeer riding are particularly superior compared to her Saber Saint Graph.

As of effect, she bears some nonsensical confidence that her outstanding abilities would shine even more should the Master play the reindeer role.

Divinity: A

The aptitude of one’s body for divine qualities.

“I’ve gotta up my godhood way more if I wanna confer benefits (reads: present) to everyone, right?!”, she so happily explained.

She already possesses natural high divinity, so its rank would hardly change upon the class swapping.

Personal Skills #

Abhijñā: B (A)

The portion of a God’s power.

It is manifested through the power to telekinetically manipulate any objects in the vicinity at one’s will; its original capacities have been downgraded from its original rank due to her current manifestation within a Servant container.

Given its suitability for the mass delivery of presents, it has great potential for her Santa duties if wisely applied.

However, since what Suzuka wants to grant is not presents, but love, such application will never see the light of day.

That said, she thinks it’d be nice to hand out sweets and toys to the children, but she wouldn’t accept any other way than doing so personally.

Love Confiserie: A

A variant on the Mystic Eyes Skill.

The pair of Mystic Eyes held by Suzuka Gozen were ones originally endowed with the effect to charm the target into fostering romantic feelings towards her. However, this time, what they spur upon the target is an intense yearn for the very idea of romance itself.

Rather than directing the target’s feelings of love, it instead magnifies the spellbound target’s current romantic feelings.

While the Nosy Suzuka recognises that love can at times be bittersweet, she suggests that it should be usually sweet, sparkly, and flowery.

Due to the increased rank of this skill, avoiding the effects of her Mystic Eyes is now a difficult task to accomplish.

Blessings of the Holy Night: C

The range of her Blessings of Wisdom forcibly spreads to encompass the entire party, except for herself.

“A Santa that isn’t spreading joy for everyone else is major fake vibes!”, it’s her proclaimed symbol of pride.

Noble Phantasms #

Trichiliovesickosm

RankA
TypeAnti-Army Noble Phantasm
Range1~50
Maximum Number of Targets100 people

A variant of Suzuka Gozen’s threefold swordplay technique made specially to match the Christmas holidays.

The Daitouren and Shoutouren were both merged to be reborn as “Ryoutsuren-that-sparkles-with-brilliance” and Kenmyouren remodeled - after the twinkling stars motif - into the “Kenpouren”.

Trichiliovesickosm is the combined technique of these paired spears.

When she deploys this Noble Phantasm, Suzuka materialises her feelings of cheering for those that love in the form of a so-called Loveroom, causing the area around her to be affected by a field of effects.

To be more specific, Kenpouren’s ability serves to make the stars glide around, and Ryoutsuren’s ability is to bring about the snowfall. Basically setting up the most Christmas-like atmosphere ever.

Not distinguishing between friend and foe, all within her Loveroom are subject to Suzuka’s influence; those supported by her will be granted a morale and stamina boost, while those that aren’t will end up having their abilities constrained, as they will be seen as homewreckers.

It’s also worth noting that in exchange for being able to employ it during the night and enacting its effects upon others, the potential originally possessed by the Noble Phantasm Kenpouren has been greatly reduced.

On the bright side, she can now deploy it with without depending on her Blessings of Wisdom, so everything is fine.

Character #

First-person pronounwatashi
Second-person pronounanta / 〇〇 (without honorifics, whether she uses her first or last name depends on her mood) / 〇〇-kun / 〇〇-chan
Third-person pronounaitsu / anoko / when it comes to her Master she just casually refers to them as such.

Personality

Originally the overserious and thoughtful type of girl, she would be more than satisfied masking herself with the self-centered and shortsighted high schoolgirl pretense.

She is constantly busy, committed to honing her girliness for her yet-to-be-seen soulmate.

But, since she is a giver at heart, those self-centred gestures were, in most of the cases, actually backed up by a desire to help out those around her.

Santa Suzuka is Suzuka’s, aforementioned, selfless nature brought to the surface.

A Suzuka who puts other people’s love before her own and supports them wholeheartedly.

There might be some instances where you will see her conflating Santa with the Angel of Love, but that’s because there is really no distinction between the two roles from her perspective.

To make everyone happy and make them learn about their own feelings is to kill two birds with one stone.

However, this does not mean that Suzuka will jump into any and all love affairs that ask for her assistance. Though they’re friends, Kiyohime’s love-hate issue is one of the cases she wrinkles her nose about. That is something she doesn’t want to shoulder any responsibility for or have the slightest involvement with.

…Don’t get it wrong, Suzuka is taking her Santa role pretty seriously, but she is a bit of a klutz when it comes to love, so don’t expect any meaningful support coming from her.

To summarise, that’s a much happier Suzuka than what would normally be seen in her Saber Saint Graph.

Her Summer Saint Graph would be the most carefree compared of all her versions, by the way. Due to some miscalculations on her part, she becomes just a little more self-servicing compared to her original self.

Attitude towards Master

She becomes much more of a busybody towards her Master than ever.

Constantly forcing them into girls’ talk and dragging them into sessions of love counseling.

Just like in her Saber version, she will not develop any romantic feelings towards her Master. They may further their bond, but the little step just before “love” will be their max level.

Dialogue Examples

“Isn’t Christmas, like, the biggest holiday for lovebirds?”

“Hm? The tan gal is just for looks, though.”

“girl’s-fidelity-talk!”

“Love tips? That’s totally on me, I’m like super good at it! No worries, I’ve got everything covered!”

“May the yuletide stars steer the way and the heartbeat hue the wintry night with sweetness. Christmas is the Day-Z, so lemme give you a push! Thrichiliolovesickcosm!”

“O Stars, cast your radiance upon the inner depths of one’s heart. Can you hear itーKonkonn? The snow’s inspiring whisper? Well, that’s mine… yuletide crystals of snow that harbingers love! Thrichiliolovesickcosm!”

“Merry Christmas, Master. Say, how about I give you some sweet love too… Nah, no way!”

Character Image in “FateGO”

Your Heavenly Princess fully awakened to her truth.

No way… Am I, like, really pulling the JK Santa off?!

Anyway, yeah. It’s hella hard give up on summer like that, especially when it’s totes calling for me. Plus, I’d hate giving the lamefox something to laugh about.

However, Christmas is a super big event for lovebirds! So no way I’m gonna bail on that!

Anyway, did you know? Suzuka Gozen became a Santa.

Namely, a Love Deliverer.

Chaldea Suzuka’s worldview is one that considers the act of martyr yourself in devotion to love to be the supreme bliss one could attain within their lifetime.

With that in mind, it’s only natural that she would want to share her treasured happiness with her beloved friends.

While she claims that her intention is to distribute love, that doesn’t mean she will resort to any dirty tricks, such as brainwashing two people into intimacy.

Because of that, one of the methods utilised by this Santa of Love is the subspecies of her charming-type mystic eyes, the Love Confiserie skill.

Just a sweet guidance that, by merely enhancing the sentiments of love that they already had within themselves, temporarily alters the intensity in which the target yearns for love on itself.

“Like, you gotta be the one putting your feelings out there, otherwise there’s no meaning, yes? I only stick my nose to set up the mood and stuff!”

That’s basically Suzuka’s view on romance.

Although she is quite the annoying girl, she is, more or less, an earnest one deep down.

General Armaments

Ryoutsuren/Kenmyouren.

The paired spears wielded by her, actually wielded by her abhijñā.

Ryoutsuren’s shiny edges leave the prettiest trails of light when swung around, and it even has some writings to show. Sparkle is the soul of Christmas, after all.

Also, since this version of Suzuka doesn’t make use of her Blessings of Wisdom, her fighting style is much sloppier and flashier than usual.

Connections with Characters

Katsushika Hokusai (Saber)

I always try to get her to have some girls’ talk with me, but she keeps running from me.

Well, no biggie! Not gonna hold back just because she’s a Saber now! Gotta use all my Lancer-smooth moves to stick on her and definitely get some girls’ talk to bloom between us!

Tamamo Cat

Even I am not that clueless. Never gonna ask that Dumb cat to do girls’ talk with me.

…maybe I should gift her a carrot instead?

Benienmma

Ah, Bennie!

I’d totally accept some Christmas snacks to liven up the mood andーHm? Then how about I attend to Chaldea’s cookery lessons? Ah nono, I didn’t mean I wanna LEARN how to cook I justーHuh?

Hell’s Kitchen?… Wait a sec, Teach… Please no! Teach Beni, no!

Tamamo no Mae

…Will not waste my breath on the lamefox.

Kiyohime

Kiyohi? In her case it’s way past love, it’s love-hate for real. She’s more like flaring than sparkling.

Sei Shounagon / Oda Nobunaga / Okita Souji

Everytime my gal gang is up, the xmas mood skyrockets! They’re the best!

Well, they do get a bit cray when they get too hyped, but they’re still cool.

Georgius

One day he came up to me for some selfie tips. He’s super sweet.

Queen Medb

Mebby is totes girlboss but I really worry about the way she doesn’t take care of herself?

I do wanna be friends with her and all, but I’m still kinda torn about it.

By the way, every time I see her I go like “Medb! MEDBY! MEBBBYYYYY” and she shoots me back the nastiest look. I just love when she does that.

Child Servants

Line up, line up! It’s gift time!

It’s just the best to see the little ones’ smiles! I’m basically the Hero of Benefaction now! Wait that didn’t come out right. Huh…

Comment from Illustrator #

Originally I was instructed to design a trendy tan gal-santa with traditional Japanese arrange, but I thought that if we’d go with a schoolgirl fashion, we might as well go for something a bit more modern-like… so I proposed a chunk of designs that’d lean a bit more to Western or Japanese fashion and Takeuchi, surprisingly, counterproposed with something that combined both in an East-meets-West style! The guy’s a genius! By the way, Suzuka is commonly known as the type of character who doesn’t like to wear underwear, right? Well, you see, her concern is more that she hates VPL showing up, but that she can brush that off if it’s looking good enough. I also suggested some summoning and Noble Phantasm animations that I thought it’d look cool in 3D models, but I didn’t expect all of it to be implemented like that. The 3D modeling and motions were just adorable! It was super cool, thank you so much! (Takenoko Seijin)