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painaltyPlayer: Auste
Character: Charles-Henri Sanson
Current Canon Point: Post-CCC
Updated Canon Point: Post-Salem
Updated Background: The next Pseudo-Singularity after Shinjuku takes the form of a country that materializes beneath the earth, where day and night somehow exist over a world where women reign supreme and men are treated like second-class citizens at best and chattel at worst. Ritsuka, with her Servants (particularly Chevalier d'Eon and Astolfo), set out to find the Grail that has caused this Pseudo-Singularity and defeat the Servants who rule over Agartha. They soon realize that one of their allies throughout their journey actually has his own agenda, and another ally has partnered up with the demon pillar Phenex. Chaldea manages to retrieve the Grail after fighting their way through all the cities to the mastermind of this game.
Shimousa is different in that Ritsuka wakes up in an alternate Japan, with only a female, world-crossing Miyamoto Musashi as her companion. Realizing that the demise of this world would have an impact on her own, she and Musashi team up to defeat the seven corrupted swordsmen who prowl the region and find a twisted version of Amakusa Shirou Tokisada as their final boss.
Salem. Ohhhh boy this is where it gets intense.
The town of Salem in Massachusetts has gone dark, and the people within can no longer be traced. After an investigation shows that the area has gone back in time to the Puritan era wherein the witch trials began, Chaldea sends a team to infiltrate Salem as traveling performers and to stamp out any remaining demon god within. This group includes Ritsuka, Mash Kyrielight, and Sanson, among others. Robin Hood, one of their companions, shows animosity for Sanson, taking every opportunity to insult him and never calling Sanson by his name (instead, it's always Dr. Frenchie, or Frenchie, or Frog Legs, you get the idea). Nevertheless, the two of them, along with the rest of the Chaldea brigade, work together anyway for the mission - which is made even more difficult by Salem dampening the Servants' abilities and making them incarnate. As a result, the Servants feel hunger like normal humans, and must be more careful about being injured or worse, killed. To top it all off, it becomes difficult, at first, to communicate with Chaldea.
They encounter a young girl named Abigail Williams who was seen in the forest teaching some girls a witch ritual, and stay with her and her uncle, Randolph Carter. During the course of their investigations, they also meet Lavinia Whateley, the daughter of a family of alchemists shunned by the rest of Salem. Sanson in particular tries to look out for Lavinia even though she only pushes him away and gives him dire warnings. They also meet Judge Hopkins, the man said to have begun the Salem witch trials and who is bent on ferreting out and executing anyone who would dare tarnish this town of integrity.
Even with the nightly ghoul attacks and the plays they must perform to keep up their act, Sanson is drawn to treating the sick of Salem, especially the children. Unfortunately, despite his charitable actions, some people, especially Judge Hopkins, continue to cast suspicion on him for being French (this is, after all, the late 1600's in America) and for being involved with the fishy acting company. During one ghoul attack, wherein Mata Hari fakes her death after being executed for allegedly promiscuous acts, Sanson opts to stay behind to defend the people from the monsters while the others flee into the forest. Back in Salem, Sanson manages to get onto Hopkins' good side and becomes his bodyguard, but he has an ulterior motive - to carry on the investigation into the whereabouts of the demon pillar and what was going on in Salem. But in doing so, he distances himself from the rest of Chaldea.
Sanson is reunited with them for only a short while when Lavinia, whose grandfather Hopkins executed, stabs Hopkins to death in full view of Sanson and Hopkins' other guards. Instead of apprehending her, Sanson even knocks out one of the guards and allows her, Abby and the others from Chaldea to flee, taking the full blame for the murder. Though Circe offers him a draught that can help him fake his death when he is executed, Sanson refuses it and sits through his farcical trial, admitting that he failed as Hopkins' bodyguard and accepting his sentence - death by hanging. Before he is hanged, he declares that this is his way of atoning for his work as an executioner, and marches voluntarily toward the gallows. Ritsuka tries to use a Command Seal on him, but Robin stops her, telling her that Sanson must have thought long and hard about this next move and was doing it for their mission. (Not only that, it is highly likely that they would've tried to stop Sanson if they knew what he was about to do.)
It is after these events that the truth about Abby is revealed - she is possessed by an otherworldly god and used by the demon god Raum to further his plot. The folk from Chaldea must not only fight Raum, but also defeat Abby, whose powers cross over into universes apart from their own. Long story short, Chaldea garners victory, but at a great cost.
Following his death, Sanson encounters a shadowy figure vaguely hinted to be Abby, who asks him if he wants to return. He tells her that he has no reason to return, to which Abby responds that he already has the key for it. He is later seen stepping on Marie Antoinette's foot, apologizing and telling her that as an executioner, he never had many opportunities to learn to dance. Marie offers to teach him, and he is returned to Chaldea, as though he had finally found a reason to come back from the dead.
Sanson will be taken from the end, where he is conversing with Medea and Robin Hood, having no recollection of the events of Salem. (That won't stop Ritsuka from filling him in, though.)
Updated Personality: No updates per se, but the Salem chapter in particular showcases how Sanson works with other Servants in Chaldea on a mission and emphasizes his dedication to the preservation of human life in how he treats the sick of Salem and how he continues to look out for them even with the overarching mission of finding and destroying the demon pillar that has taken root in the town. He also has no qualms with going against the current when he feels that a decision he is about to make is the right one or would contribute to their cause, and above all, has no qualms with sacrificing himself for the greater good (or simply for what he perceives to be greater good, such as the atonement he constantly seeks).
It is in this chapter that Sanson, though snarky and deadpan in the face of arguments, intolerance or insults, shows that despite all of the above, he bears no real ill will. Robin always antagonized him for being rich and cultured, yet even though Sanson did fight back and blame him for starting these things, he does not show any signs of actually hating Robin and would even look out for the other man in his own way by offering to cure Robin's hangover, or offering him food.
Updated Abilities: No updated abilities, although this chapter seems to show that Sanson can quickly pinpoint some health problems just by observing their movements and habits despite not being licensed.
Other: N/A
Questions: N/A
Character: Charles-Henri Sanson
Current Canon Point: Post-CCC
Updated Canon Point: Post-Salem
Updated Background: The next Pseudo-Singularity after Shinjuku takes the form of a country that materializes beneath the earth, where day and night somehow exist over a world where women reign supreme and men are treated like second-class citizens at best and chattel at worst. Ritsuka, with her Servants (particularly Chevalier d'Eon and Astolfo), set out to find the Grail that has caused this Pseudo-Singularity and defeat the Servants who rule over Agartha. They soon realize that one of their allies throughout their journey actually has his own agenda, and another ally has partnered up with the demon pillar Phenex. Chaldea manages to retrieve the Grail after fighting their way through all the cities to the mastermind of this game.
Shimousa is different in that Ritsuka wakes up in an alternate Japan, with only a female, world-crossing Miyamoto Musashi as her companion. Realizing that the demise of this world would have an impact on her own, she and Musashi team up to defeat the seven corrupted swordsmen who prowl the region and find a twisted version of Amakusa Shirou Tokisada as their final boss.
Salem. Ohhhh boy this is where it gets intense.
The town of Salem in Massachusetts has gone dark, and the people within can no longer be traced. After an investigation shows that the area has gone back in time to the Puritan era wherein the witch trials began, Chaldea sends a team to infiltrate Salem as traveling performers and to stamp out any remaining demon god within. This group includes Ritsuka, Mash Kyrielight, and Sanson, among others. Robin Hood, one of their companions, shows animosity for Sanson, taking every opportunity to insult him and never calling Sanson by his name (instead, it's always Dr. Frenchie, or Frenchie, or Frog Legs, you get the idea). Nevertheless, the two of them, along with the rest of the Chaldea brigade, work together anyway for the mission - which is made even more difficult by Salem dampening the Servants' abilities and making them incarnate. As a result, the Servants feel hunger like normal humans, and must be more careful about being injured or worse, killed. To top it all off, it becomes difficult, at first, to communicate with Chaldea.
They encounter a young girl named Abigail Williams who was seen in the forest teaching some girls a witch ritual, and stay with her and her uncle, Randolph Carter. During the course of their investigations, they also meet Lavinia Whateley, the daughter of a family of alchemists shunned by the rest of Salem. Sanson in particular tries to look out for Lavinia even though she only pushes him away and gives him dire warnings. They also meet Judge Hopkins, the man said to have begun the Salem witch trials and who is bent on ferreting out and executing anyone who would dare tarnish this town of integrity.
Even with the nightly ghoul attacks and the plays they must perform to keep up their act, Sanson is drawn to treating the sick of Salem, especially the children. Unfortunately, despite his charitable actions, some people, especially Judge Hopkins, continue to cast suspicion on him for being French (this is, after all, the late 1600's in America) and for being involved with the fishy acting company. During one ghoul attack, wherein Mata Hari fakes her death after being executed for allegedly promiscuous acts, Sanson opts to stay behind to defend the people from the monsters while the others flee into the forest. Back in Salem, Sanson manages to get onto Hopkins' good side and becomes his bodyguard, but he has an ulterior motive - to carry on the investigation into the whereabouts of the demon pillar and what was going on in Salem. But in doing so, he distances himself from the rest of Chaldea.
Sanson is reunited with them for only a short while when Lavinia, whose grandfather Hopkins executed, stabs Hopkins to death in full view of Sanson and Hopkins' other guards. Instead of apprehending her, Sanson even knocks out one of the guards and allows her, Abby and the others from Chaldea to flee, taking the full blame for the murder. Though Circe offers him a draught that can help him fake his death when he is executed, Sanson refuses it and sits through his farcical trial, admitting that he failed as Hopkins' bodyguard and accepting his sentence - death by hanging. Before he is hanged, he declares that this is his way of atoning for his work as an executioner, and marches voluntarily toward the gallows. Ritsuka tries to use a Command Seal on him, but Robin stops her, telling her that Sanson must have thought long and hard about this next move and was doing it for their mission. (Not only that, it is highly likely that they would've tried to stop Sanson if they knew what he was about to do.)
It is after these events that the truth about Abby is revealed - she is possessed by an otherworldly god and used by the demon god Raum to further his plot. The folk from Chaldea must not only fight Raum, but also defeat Abby, whose powers cross over into universes apart from their own. Long story short, Chaldea garners victory, but at a great cost.
Following his death, Sanson encounters a shadowy figure vaguely hinted to be Abby, who asks him if he wants to return. He tells her that he has no reason to return, to which Abby responds that he already has the key for it. He is later seen stepping on Marie Antoinette's foot, apologizing and telling her that as an executioner, he never had many opportunities to learn to dance. Marie offers to teach him, and he is returned to Chaldea, as though he had finally found a reason to come back from the dead.
Sanson will be taken from the end, where he is conversing with Medea and Robin Hood, having no recollection of the events of Salem. (That won't stop Ritsuka from filling him in, though.)
Updated Personality: No updates per se, but the Salem chapter in particular showcases how Sanson works with other Servants in Chaldea on a mission and emphasizes his dedication to the preservation of human life in how he treats the sick of Salem and how he continues to look out for them even with the overarching mission of finding and destroying the demon pillar that has taken root in the town. He also has no qualms with going against the current when he feels that a decision he is about to make is the right one or would contribute to their cause, and above all, has no qualms with sacrificing himself for the greater good (or simply for what he perceives to be greater good, such as the atonement he constantly seeks).
It is in this chapter that Sanson, though snarky and deadpan in the face of arguments, intolerance or insults, shows that despite all of the above, he bears no real ill will. Robin always antagonized him for being rich and cultured, yet even though Sanson did fight back and blame him for starting these things, he does not show any signs of actually hating Robin and would even look out for the other man in his own way by offering to cure Robin's hangover, or offering him food.
Updated Abilities: No updated abilities, although this chapter seems to show that Sanson can quickly pinpoint some health problems just by observing their movements and habits despite not being licensed.
Other: N/A
Questions: N/A
