

Basically, one must fully pretend to be someone or something so much that they basically help inspire or strengthen the person/thing they are imitating, at which point they become the very thing they were imitating.

The Pretender class was introduced in Chapter 6 of Cosmos in the Lostbelt, and was the second Original Generation class in Grand Order after the Foreigner class. For example, an author who secretly takes up the pen-name of one of their dead peers and subsequently makes their works famous, leading to all the acclaim being directed towards the wrong person. In other words, a deception so complete that it fools even the deceiver themselves. To qualify, a mere pseudonym (such as acting under a mask or alias) does not suffice: it must be a complete misattribution that destroys the ability to assert between the "real" and "fake" identities. Pretender is a class for those who became famous under the guise of someone else, to the point where all the deeds that would qualify them as Heroic Spirits are attributed to a different person, erasing the "individual" who was truly responsible.
