AVENGER (ANGRA MAINYU), ALL THE WORLD’S EVIL
( Fate/hollow ataraxia + Fate/Grand Order )
For those familiar with the name Angra Mainyu, no, he isn’t the actual evil god of Zoroastrianism, sorry to disappoint! This fella over here is but an ordinary human from a fucked up village whose religious beliefs brought them to choose a random villager and blame them for their misfortunes, sins, bad luck, whatever have ya. And jack pot! Guess who was the oh-so-lucky guy to be chosen? This future Avenger-class Servant over here.
Picture the most fucked up torture you can. This guy has probably gone through worse. His body was pretty much destroyed by the people in his village, and his own father, but his soul was left alive for way too long. They wouldn’t allow him to die.
You’d think after such a thing, he’d get to really hate those people, right? Well, you’re sort of right. For a while, yeah, he kinda did. But eventually that hatred turned into something natural of him to feel, like it’s part of him. And then he “forgave” humanity just like that. Avenger both likes and hates them, and is generally kind of neutral to the things they do, both good and evil. He glorifies part of that, while sort of also romanticizing the other one. Kinda messy.
After he died he became a normal human again, but since he was both hated and glorified by humanity for shouldering all their faults and evils, that kind of qualified him to Heroic Spirit status. Yay! Except he’s complete garbage as a Servant. Yay! But some hollow ataraxia shenanigans here and there, all those wishes and hopes that he’d shoulder humanity’s evils ended up turning him into the real thing after he died in his very first Holy Grail War and his soul went into the Grail. He’s still pretty much garbage as a Servant, so really, how bad of luck do you have to have to summon him as your Servant?!
All his super dramatic story aside, Angra is pretty much someone who nobody can stand interacting with. He’s crude, and sarcastic, and he will mock you if given the opportunity, also very pessimistic and hella lazy. Lots of problematic thoughts too, since he is All the World’s Evil, I guess. But he has been behaving better now, somewhat. All thanks to his time possessing Emiya Shirou’s body. Geez.
Even seemingly evil boys can dream of normalcy. After all, that’s how he had wanted to live his life originally.
Originally, he looks like this.
TL;DR: garbage both as a person and as a Servant. Tread with caution.