Chiemon (地右衛門?) is the Master of Lancer in the Waxing Moon Ritual of Fate/Samurai Remnant.
Profile
Background
Chiemon is a survivor of the Shimabara Rebellion led by Amakusa Shirou Tokisada.[2] If the Edo period can be defined as a time of peace after the Warring States period, Chiemon is someone discarded by that era.[3]
Chiemon was taught magecraft by Mori Souiken.[3] While he is a survivor of Shimabara, Chiemon was in fact not a soldier in the rebellion. He was far too young to fight, being only a young child at the time.[4] He saw his mother be captured by soldiers while his father was viciously struck down trying to protect him.[5]
Appearance
Personality
Chiemon is filled with resentment and hatred for the Tokugawa because of the massacre at Shimabara. This event heavily traumatized Chiemon, and he constantly has nightmares about it. However his wish for the Waxing Moon is not to get revenge, but rather to open the gates of hell and reunite with his dead family. He willingly walks a bloody path in pursuit of his long-held desire.[1] Chiemon does not approve of Lancer's efforts to save him from his path of vengeance, feeling that there’s no point in trying to help or protect him as he is already bound for hell. It is also for this reason that he hates being shown any kind of kindness or affection.
He also has a deep personal hatred for Miyamoto Iori because of their similarities. While neither he nor Iori are suited for the peace of the era, Chiemon embraces his desire for violence and conflict while Iori suppresses his own similar desires. It is specifically this disguise that Iori put on that disgusts Chiemon.
Role
Fate/Samurai Remnant
Keian Command Championship
Chiemon participates in the Keian Command Championship alongside Lancer. Upon victory, Chiemon finds himself wishing for a proper burial sight for those who had fallen in the Shimabara Rebellion. Standing in front of a grave, uncertain of his wish, upon witnessing the flowers in the sky Chiemon accepts his role and simply prays with Lancer overlooking him.
Fate/Grand Order
- Main article: Chiemon (Lancer)
Abilities
Chiemon was taught the basics of magecraft by Mori Souiken. Despite only being a single-generation magus, he's quite effective, so either he has natural talent or one of his ancestors was a Magus.[3] He uses fire magecraft and fights with a ruined flag.
In the Entreat the Darkness route, Chiemon uses Lancer's Noble Phantasm La Pucelle himself, the flames manifesting from his Command Spells while Lancer is nowhere near him. Its suicide effect kills him and Lancer together.
Forms and Alternate Versions
Waxing Moon Monster
Waxing Moon Monster is the god that Chiemon became by merging with the Waxing Moon when trying to bring hell to Edo. The screams reverberating from the gates behind it belong to the men and women, young and old, who died at Shimabara. There is nothing divine about this creature, with its burnt and puckered guise born from the corruption of the Waxing Moon.[6]
Development
Creation and Conception
Chiemon was designed by Rei Wataru in Fate/Samurai Remnant. He was designed to be a character who would never work as a protagonist but still shines brighter than anyone else.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3
[] Fate/Samurai Remnant Logbook - Biographies: Chiemon[T] Remnants of Shimabara
Apparently, he managed to survive the arrival of the Shogun's forces when they quelled the tumultuous rebellion at Amakusa-Shimabara. He confronted Miyamoto Iori's party at his base in Koishikawa. When a Rogue Servant intervened in the conflict, he allowed Lancer to unleash her Noble Phantasm. An ecstatic look spread across his face as the area went up in flames.
Abduction
He attacked Iori's house and kidnapped Kaya. His intention for doing so is unknown.
A Warped Alliance
Not long after the Ritual began, he formed an alliance with Rider's party. He did not, however, place any trust in the serious and dutiful Shousetsu. He simply wanted a pawn that could be used to achieve his own goals.
Waxing Moon Monster
His true objective was not to take revenge on the Tokugawa family for razing his homeland, but to open this world to hell, thereby allowing him to reunite with his dead family.
He used Lancer and Kaya to transform himself into the Waxing Moon Monster and attempt to open the gates of hell, but was destroyed along with the Waxing Moon's Vessel by Saber's Noble Phantasm.
This fallen man willingly walked a bloody path in pursuit of his long-held desire. No one knows what he realized in his final moments; he did not take the hand that was offered to him.
An Unceremonious End
To Chiemon's eyes, Iori was a cold-blooded beast in the guise of a man, a demon much like himself. But because Iori conducted himself as though he were a man of virtue, Chiemon found him repugnant.
That same hatred drove him to attack Iori when he reached for the Waxing Moon, but Shousetsu stood in his way. While caught off guard, a single sword stroke ended his life.
Mutual Destruction
He moved to attack Iori as he reached for the Waxing Moon in Senso-ji, but upon seeing Iori's menacing expression, one of a true sword demon, he fled.
After escaping, he happened across Caster, with whom he engaged in battle. Under normal circumstances, a human could never overwhelm a Servant, but Chiemon's iron will brought about a once-in-a-lifetime miracle. He summoned the hellish flames that once burned a maiden to ash in a far-off land. Though he managed to fell Caster, Chiemon was also consumed by the fire.
- ↑ Fate/Samurai Remnant - Official Website: Characters
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3
[] Fate/Samurai Remnant material - Character Profile: Chiemon, p.016-017[T] Chiemon
Character Profile
If the Edo Period is to be defined as the era of peace achieved through overcoming the Warring States, Chiemon is the one discarded by the era. He was blueprinted to be a character that would never work as the protagonist but still shines brighter than anyone else.
Fate/Samurai Remnant has him as an independent agent who never sides with either Iori or the masterminds.
He is one of the very few survivors of the Shimabara Rebellion and learned the basics of magecraft from Mori Souiken. His lineage as a mage lasted only one short-lived generation, but he was quite effective in combat. Either he was naturally talented or he had an unknown mage ancestor.
His wish for the Holy Grail is revealed late into the story. Wholesale salvation to the abandoned ones. Even if that salvation is pointless.地右衛門
人物像
戦国時代を経て平和を獲得したのが江戸時代ならば、 地右衛門はその時代に切り捨てられた者。 決して主人公にはなれない存在だが、 その一方で誰より鮮烈な輝きを持つキャラクターになればいい・・・・・・という設計。
本作においては、伊織側にも幕府側にも与することなく、 独自の行動を取ることになる。
なお、島原の乱の数少ない生き残りであり、 魔術は森宗意軒に手ほどきを受けた。 一代限りのインスタント魔術師だが、 元々の才能があったのか、あるいは先祖に魔術師がいたのか、それなりに戦術として機能しているようだ。
彼が聖杯に望むものは、物語で明らかになる通り。 切り捨てられた者に、一抹の救いを。 たとえそれが、無意味なものであろうとも。 - ↑ Fate/Samurai Remnant - Chapter 6 ("Flames of Resentment" Route)
- ↑ Fate/Samurai Remnant - Digression: The Flames of War Burn On
- ↑ Fate/Samurai Remnant - Logbook: Terminology




