#percival(fate)

Reasoning: Himbo tries to fight a dragon. Fucking dies

Percival

Left - FGO

The idea of Sir Percival is a pure, maybe foolish knight that can accomplish anything he puts his mind to, and the truth is while he does embody that ideal, he himself doesn’t respect himself on the level that other people do. He’s surrounded by knights that see him as the pinnacle of heroism, like Bradamante and Gareth, but he just sees himself as someone who got lucky.

In both his Valentine and his Interlude, he’s constantly denying any sense of purity that he had, and emphasizing his own foolishness. In his mind, he’s someone that got lucky. He resisted Kundry’s kiss because he was too much of a fool to truly fall under her spell. He only managed to win against Klingsor because he was too stupid to know when to quit, and too dense to listen to Klingsor’s threats. But he’s not stupid, far from it. His dialogue shows a staggering amount of self-awareness and introspection from a ‘fool’, and yet his capability to be so introspective is also causing him to blatantly miss the point and be blind to how other’s see him.

He admits during his own Valentine’s scene that he wasn’t proud of the short life that he lived, and that while he appreciates the affection and praise given to him by others, it doesn’t ring true for him.

And this isn’t new for the Knights of the Round Table in Fate. They all look back at their lives with regret, but the key difference is that while the others see their own failings as knights, Percival sees his failings as a human being. And yet, despite his personal cynicism, it doesn’t infect the world around him. 

He’s proud of others, he wants others to become better than him, stronger than him. Despite his genuine bravery, might, and purity, he believes that other’s have the capability of becoming much, much better than him. Watching Galahad do what he couldn’t and receive the Grail was a happy moment to him. His Extra Bond profile emphasizes how he wants to raise an even greater generation of heroes, and specifically focuses on how he cried after Gareth’s death.

Galahad’s main skillset is centered towards simply protecting people to the point where they never get hurt, needing someone else to push forward and make progress for him. As seen by Mash’s constant ability to generate NP and stack defense buff over defensive buff at the expense of a total lack of attacking skills.

However, Percival’s skillset is centered around rallying others to fight and allowing his teammates to get hurt, because he’ll be able to heal them and pick them up along the way so they can continue forward, as seen by his targetable invul having a healing added on, and the fact that his NP heals the weakest member of his party so that everyone can get back on track and fight for just a bit longer.

It fits both of them, because while Galahad did gain the Grail, he did it by doing each step with painstaking precision and doing everything perfectly (there were even stories where Sir Gareth was made to look bad in comparison), but while Percival failed to get the Grail- he didn’t give up. He simply learned from his mistake and swore to try again and do better the next time.