@DelusionalKing all the information I got are from the typemoon fandom page about Iskandar's Shadow. And no, there is nothing that would allow to make her Pretender. Go check yourself if you want

@NitoFanboi did you even read what happens in the actual story? Like... lmfao she definitely fits.

Also tf other class would she be in? Like I said, they literally just made the pretender class and don't want to rebalance everything within only 6 months. Be realistic.

If they introduced another class to FGO, they would have to make another class to counter that, which is just too much honestly

A little surprising they released a permanent pretender so soon after Oberon when there's still no permanent foreigner yet.

The design is pretty meh (at least to me, she looked cooler in the anime TBH), and the meme is dead, she's a Pretender instead of what litteraly EVERYONE FOR YEARS EVEN HERSELF HAS CALLED HER, FAKER. M'ok. Guess it makes sense, creating a whole new class which would have almost the same characteristic as a Pretender would be dumb.

But to clarify, she DOES absolutely qualify for the class.

She IS the source of the false rumors that spreaded about Alexander (height, hair color, etc...). She did it on purpose (I mean, it was her job), to blur the ennemies vision, to create a false image (ressembling hers) in the mind of others so that any ill will, curse, assassination attempt, would befall on her and let him be the king and ruler they were all following. (Hence why most informations in history books and such on Iskandar are wrong, why Waver in F/Zero was so shocked at the discrepancies between what he'd learn and the actual Iskandar)

So I'd argue she litteraly fits the bill:

She gave false representation (of Iskandar), deceiving and misleading others (ennemies) to do great deeds (allow Iskandar to continue his conquests unharmed)

The second part... Well from what I've red, she kinda does that (don't wanna spoil), becoming even greater than Iskandar in a way...

The reason why she's not summoned by Hetaroi... Het... Iskandar's NP, is cause she REFUSES the summoning. Apparently, she's super bitter about what happened after he died and the war that Iskandar's generals battled to decide who would be the next ruler. When the NP is activated, she hears the plea of summoning, but at the same time, as a (possible) Servant, she get's infodumped by the Grail, remembers the Wars of the Diadochi (Iskandar's generals), get's super pissed, and just nope the shit out of it. She loves Iskandar but she fucking HATES his army.

God I wrote a wall, oups, my bad.

I play this game for the story and the lore, sometimes I get excited when I can talk about it, sorry ^^

@Kelosine don't worry about your wall of text! Everything you said was spot on and she's honestly perfect for the class. And yeah, making a whole new class for 1 servant that's basically the same as Pretender would be... silly.

I was kinda hoping it would be Melvin, but I figured they would go the waifu route...anyways, congrats Faker fans!

Oh I didn't hear the NP voiceline...

"My name is Hephaistion"...

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Well she used her brother's name a lot... and doesn't have one of her own... So I guess that's ok lmao