“You're a surly bastard, aren't you? Men who don't laugh on the field of battle, may forget how to by the time they reach Elysium. This world is enough of a gloomy, festering pus as it is - you should at least try to get a laugh in... before you die. You know?” — Rider. Rider of "Red" ("赤"のライダー, "Aka" no Raidā?) is the Rider-class Servant of Shirou Kotomine of the Red Faction in the Great Holy Grail War of Fate/Apocrypha. Originally summoned by one of the Pentel brothers of the Red Faction, he later becomes one of the Servants of Shirou.