Charles-Henri Sanson

AKA: Sanson Class: Assassin Attribute: Man Height: 178 cm Weight: 68 kg Origin: History Region: France Alignment: Lawful-Evil Gender: Male

Stats: Strength: D Endurance: D Agility: C Mana: D Luck: A NP: B

Charles-Henri Sanson was the fourth head of the Sanson family, hereditary executioners who had served Paris for generations. Though trained in medicine and deeply troubled by the profession forced upon him, he inherited the office and carried out sentences throughout the French Revolution. The introduction of the guillotine greatly increased the number of executions placed in his hands, and the upheaval eventually forced him to execute people he had once served, including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. To Sanson, an executioner was not a murderer but an official responsible for carrying out judgment cleanly and without needless suffering, a distinction that remained central to him even after death. Fate/Grand Order

Summoned during the distortion in Orleans, Sanson entered the service of Jeanne d’Arc Alter and participated in the slaughter spreading across France. His obsession with Marie drove him to confront her personally, convinced that executing her once more would somehow settle the guilt he still carried. Marie defeated him and told him that his indiscriminate killing had made him better at murder while destroying what had once made him an executioner. Sanson could not reconcile that judgment with what he had become and fell after realizing that Marie had never hated him or required his forgiveness.

Sanson later entered Salem with Chaldea and became increasingly disturbed by the town’s executions, accusations, and distorted interpretation of justice. While investigating the strange events surrounding Abigail Williams and Lavinia Whateley, he opposed the persecution of children accused of witchcraft and protected Lavinia after she killed Matthew Hopkins. Sanson deliberately accepted responsibility for what had happened and allowed Salem’s court to condemn him, refusing an opportunity to escape because his execution would protect the others from becoming entangled in the accusation. After Salem’s collapse, he encountered Abigail beyond the broken world and rejected the chance to erase what had happened. His path instead brought him before Marie once more, where he finally asked her to teach him how to dance rather than approaching her as her executioner.

Appearance: Charles-Henri Sanson has very fair ivory skin and a tall, slender build with narrow shoulders, long limbs, and a lean frame. His eyes are pale icy blue beneath fine white brows. His hair is snow white, short and heavily layered, with uneven pointed strands spreading across the crown and longer bangs sweeping across his forehead. He wears a long dark brown-black coat with a high, rigid collar and sharply structured shoulders. White geometric trim runs vertically down the front of the coat, forms cross-shaped markings across the chest, and repeats as rectangular line patterns around the cuffs. A large muted crimson-pink cravat hangs from his throat over a white central shirt panel. The coat reaches below the knees and opens down the front, revealing dark fitted trousers with segmented wrappings around the thighs and calves. The lower sides of the coat carry large white circular line motifs intersected by straight bars, while the inner lining shows a deep magenta tone near the legs. His footwear consists of dark brown knee-high boots with fitted shafts and low heels.

Behind his shoulders rise four enormous metallic blade-like structures arranged in paired clusters, each built from dark charcoal sections and pale silver cutting edges. Their long pointed tips extend well above his head, with angular black housings and layered mechanical joints connecting them close to his upper back. Smaller segmented plates and sharp projections fill the spaces between the larger blades. His weapon is an immense execution-style sword nearly as long as his body, with a broad dark steel blade containing a long recessed groove through the center. The tip is blunt and heavy, while the base expands into a massive crescent-shaped chopping head with pale silver cutting edges and dark reinforced metal between them. A large silver crossguard separates the blade from a dark wrapped grip, with additional metallic rings and fittings clustered around the handle.

Personality: Sanson is gentle, restrained, deeply conscientious, and burdened by the contradiction between loving humanity and having spent his life ending human lives. He believes execution must be treated as a solemn duty rather than an act of hatred, and he despises cruelty, false accusations, and needless suffering. His medical knowledge reflects the same concern for human life that makes his profession so painful to him. Sanson accepts law and judgment more readily than many Servants, but Salem forces him to confront the point at which obedience to law becomes participation in injustice. He carries considerable guilt over his past without wanting sympathy for it, and his willingness to accept punishment himself is closely tied to that need for atonement.

Marie Antoinette occupies the deepest and most painful place in Sanson’s heart. He reveres her, remains tormented by his connection to her execution, and initially mistakes his guilt for a need to receive forgiveness before finally understanding that Marie never regarded him with hatred. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart frequently irritates him, particularly through his irreverence toward Marie, yet Sanson also recognizes the composer as someone who genuinely understood her. Ritsuka Fujimaru gradually earns Sanson’s loyalty because Sanson sees the Master’s choices as fundamentally just, while Robin Hood becomes an important companion during Salem despite their sharp disagreements over law and morality. Sanson is protective of Abigail Williams and Lavinia Whateley, refusing to allow Salem’s hysteria to condemn them without cause, and his clash with Matthew Hopkins reflects his absolute disgust toward executions founded on accusation rather than legitimate judgment.

Noble Phantasm: La Mort Espoir La Mort Espoir: Death is Hope for Tomorrow manifests an enormous spectral guillotine around Sanson’s target, enclosing them beneath its raised blade before it crashes down a moment later. Rather than overcoming ordinary physical defenses, the execution tests whether the victim possesses the strength of will to defy the fate of being condemned; those who fail are simply beheaded when the blade falls.

Noble Phantasm Quote: "This pain shall be the final salvation. La Mort Espoir!"

"Evil is neither punishment nor redemption. La Mort Espoir!"

"The human heart is what judges evil. And that will never change, no matter what repulsive weapon is used!"

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