| “ | That Crypter, Kirschtaria Wodime, is not merely an ordinary human. In the Proper Human History, the mammals known as humans are compared to sentient reeds. Indeed, Kirschtaria is among them, but... but to think he's such a stoic reed. | „ |
| ~ Zeus expressing his impression on Kirschtaria |
| “ | Proper Human History, all the sentient reeds... Now it's time... to rest in peace. | „ |
| ~ Zeus in his boss battle intro |
Zeus in the Nasuverse and Fate franchise, is a Divine Spirit and a type of deity called a Machine God of Olympus based on his mythology counterpart. His Lostbelt version is one of the seven Lostbelt Kings, being a major antagonist of Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt.
He is the overarching antagonist of Atlantis: Ocean in the Age of Titans and the secondary antagonist of Olympus: Interstellar City Mountains, both being parts of the two-part fifth chapter.
He is voiced by Hiroyuki Kinoshita.
Overview[]
Proper Human History Version[]
Like the other Gods of Olympus in the Nasuverse, Zeus is depicted as an advanced alien mechanical spacecraft called a Machine God that originated from a fleet in deep space. Among the Machine Gods, Zeus is called the Space Combat Annihilator-Type Mobile Fortress, one of many spacecraft created to colonize the Earth for a lost alien civilization.
Their landing in ancient Greek civilization upon Earth had earned them worship from humanity and made them gods with human forms. Nevertheless, in the Pan-Human History, the Olympians were defeated by another alien entity Sefar around 12,000 B.C. after they deserted their mechanical forms to become more human in their identities.
The normal version of Pan-Human History had humanity defeating Sefar in the end, causing Zeus to peacefully acknowledge the humanity's power and retreat from godhood alongside the other Olympians, thus ending the Age of Gods in Greece. The remnants of the Twelve Machine Gods would soon gain human forms and became whom humanity later knew in mythology as the Twelve Olympians.
According to Europa after she arrived in Chaldea, even after the Olympians had retired from being worshipped deities, the Proper Human History version of Zeus still shows concern over Ritsuka and Mash, and viewed humanity as his distant great-grandchildren. Through Europa, Zeus delivered his best wishes to the Chaldea crew on their quest to save humanity.
Lostbelt Version[]
Nevertheless, in the Lostbelt version of Olympus, the Machine Gods instead managed to survived after Zeus and the other gods fused together into a single omnipotent mechanical entity to defeat Sefar, allowing them to keep their machine bodies and continue improving themselves and the world.
After Sefar's defeat, the Gods of Olympus began to vote for keeping the Age of God active and expand or coexist with humanity instead. Zeus alone attempts to expand the Age of Gods, but was opposed by the other Gods of Olympus. As a result, Zeus brainwashed Demeter, Hera and Aphrodite to agree with him, then destroyed Athena, Hades, Hephaestus, Hestia, Apollo and Ares while banishing Poseidon to keep guarding the gate of Atlantis as punishment for turning against him.
Afterwards, the surviving Machine Gods of Olympus under Zeus's tyrannical leadership advanced for another 14,000 years until humanity had become immortalized, living in an almost utopian technologically-advanced civilization, and having mystics become superior to the laws of physics. However, the gods' own advancement soon caused them to reach a dead end in this timeline and have their existence pruned by the universe, only to be brought back by the Alien God later on using the Fantasy Trees, placing them in conflict against Chaldea and the rest of Pan-Human History.
Personality[]
Being the Chief God of the Machine God pantheon, Zeus is an extremely prideful being. Once a sentient mechanical spacecraft, his only concern was fulfilling the directive given to him by the lost alien civilization that created him.
After arriving on Earth and being praised as a god, Zeus started to see himself as more than just a spaceship. To his own admittance, he was delighted by humanity’s praise of him and developed an almost parental love for them.
In truth, however, his love is the same love one shows to their pets, since as an all-powerful God he was incapable of telling the humans of Olympus apart. This false love then caused Zeus to have no hesitation in abandoning humanity to die as he planned to leave Earth with Olympus, believing that he will honor humanity only by remembering their sacrifice and legacy afterward.
Zeus can also make very rush decisions such as when he forcibly took the functionalities of his fellow Machine Gods onto himself to combat Sefar, an act that he has been reflecting on even thousands of years later.
Despite admitting to being at fault, it didn’t stop him from mistreating his fellow Machine Gods when they wanted to coexist with humanity while he desired to continue ruling over them, which culminated into him becoming an all-powerful tyrant for over 14,000 years.
However, despite all his power and personality, Zeus himself could not resist his original function given to him by the mothership of the Machine God fleet, Chaos, to harvest the planet’s resources and transform Olympus into a space colony in the end, which was the secret factor that directed all his actions in the story.
Despite seeing humanity as nothing more than sentient reeds, Zeus holds some surprise to Kirschtaria Wodime (the only human he shows respect to) due to the latter's stoicism, saying that was an unexpected quality, especially for a "reed". Eventually, Zeus has some respect and friendship towards Kirschtaria, and vice versa.
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- It is mentioned by Europa that Zeus from the Proper Human History still watches the world, and he actually sees humanity as his grandchildren and even shows concern about Ritsuka's adventure.
- Zeus is the first Lostbelt King who befriends the Crypter in his Lostbelt, whilst previous Crypters before Kirschtaria holds different types and rages of grudge against the previous Lostbelt Kings.
- Zeus is mentioned by Nicolas Tesla in his monologue, with the latter frequently stating he had surpassed Zeus. However, it became ironic when Tesla had became one of the first casualities obliterated by the Olympus army in Lostbelt No. 5. It had spawned memes and mockery to Tesla, which stated, "Boasting has consequences."
- Zeus is the first and, thus far, the only Lostbelt King who hasn't been made playable yet after the initial release his corresponding chapter, with all four Lostbelt Kings become playable and summonable at least one week after their chapter's release, and Morgan was made playable immediately after the release of Lostbelt No.6. However, Azusa (who serves as the character designer of Zeus' humanoid form) claims on Twitter that Zeus is set to be summonable in future.
- As a result of this, Zeus is the first and thus far the only Lostbelt King that is yet to be redeemed, neither story-wise nor gameplay-wise.
- Considering that there was already a deity (Artemis through the hijacking of Orion's Saint Graph) being made playable without taking a human host, as well as the Olympians' nature in this version, it is speculated that Zeus is going to be made playable in future. As the result, whether the playable version is closer to his Lostbelt counterpart or his Proper Human History counterpart remains uncertain.
- It was originally speculated by some fans that Zeus would have been summonable as the main Servant of an event story based on 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games (considering the ancient Olympic Games was originated from Ancient Greece and was meant to be a event tributing to Zeus and the gods), but was cancelled after the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games was postponed to Summer 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such speculation remains unproven yet, even though Nasu hinted in an interview that there are events that are postponed because of the pandemic.
- As of current events, Zeus is the only Lostbelt King that can't be summoned as a Playable Servant yet.
- Story and characterization-wise, Zeus is currently the most powerful Lostbelt King as of his presence, and the first one to be truly a deity inside out (even with his mechanical true form).
- All other Lostbelt Kings are associated with human beings directly, as Ivan the Terrible is a monster transformed from a human, Scathach-Skadi is a deity taking a human host, Qin Shi Huang's humanoid form is more like a human-turned-mystic instead of a god, and Arjuna Alter is more like a hybrid between Arjuna and most of the Hindu deities, being a former human ascended into godhood. However, it is later revealed that Morgan of the Avalon Lostbelt may rival or surpass Zeus in power.
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