This is a page about the human characters appearing in Fate/EXTRA, the Spin-Off RPG to Fate/stay night, and its sequel Fate/EXTRA CCC.
- For the Servants, see this page.
- For their appearances in Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star and Fate/Extella Link, please see here.
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Masters
Protagonist (Canon Name: Hakuno Kishinami)
Voiced by: Atsushi Abe (M)(Drama CD/Anime), Yui Ishikawa (F) (Anime) (Japanese), Billy Kametz (M, Anime), Ryan Bartley (F, Anime) (English), Miguel Angel Ruiz (M) (Latin American Spanish, Anime), Susana Moreno (F) (Latin American Spanish, Anime)
The Player Character of the game, who can be either male or female. He/she begins as a generic student at Tsukumihara Academy, but soon realises that they have no memories of their true identity. After becoming one of the 128 participants in the Holy Grail War, they can choose a Servant of the Saber, Archer or Caster class. They are known as "Hakuno Kishinami" (male in the Manga, Anime, and the drama CD) (In addition both genders are equally featured in promotional and side materials).
- Adaptation Name Change: Unlike manga and drama CD adaptations where Hakuno Kishinami's name is 岸波白野 in Kanji, Hakuno Kishinami's name in the anime is 岸浪ハクノ with a completely different first name and altered last name. This is Foreshadowing the fact that the audience has been following a copy of the original Hakuno and the real Hakuno has already died as seen in the first episode.
- Adaptation Personality Change: In the game, Hakuno is characterized as being fairly... well, plain - due in large part to The Reveal that they were an NPC given a human will, and their character arc is them becoming more emotional. In the anime, Hakuno starts off as aloof and distant, being filled with hatred for the Moon Cell and the way the system is run.
- Justified. Hakuno is not the true Hakuno of the anime, but an anthropomorphic personification of the hatred of all the masters who died in the Moon Cell and his appearance was based on one of them, the original Hakuno herself.
- Big Damn Heroes: To either Rani or Rin at the start of the fourth chapter.
- Break Them by Talking: A heroic example. In CCC, the Sentinels are obstructing the path to the bottom of Sakura Labyrinth with figurative and literal wall of ‘hearts’. To destroy that wall and proceed, the protagonist must gain access to the Secret Garden, essentially everything the Sentinels hides behind their ‘walls’ and bring those secrets into the open before the Punishment Time gives the final push to destroy the wall. More often than not, Punishment Time has the protagonist hurling insults at the respective Sentinels, all so they can make peace with those flaws. Though against the Alter Egos, who are made of pure personalities, the Punishment Time is unambiguously fatal.
- Canon Name: The official material, manga, anime, and drama CD names them "Hakuno Kishinami."
- Chekhov's Gunman: Take a good look at the students in the back of the classroom during the prologue cutscenes.
- Chick Magnet: For being as average as they are, they do pretty well for themselves, regardless of gender. The protagonist even wins the affections of both Aozaki sisters.
- Classic Anti Hero: Mediocre in almost every aspect apart from their dogged refusal to just roll over and die, Hakuno winds up killing other Masters with grander ambitions and characters than theirs simply because they want to live. Ultimately, it's only when they discover that they were never alive in the first place, that they relinquish their fear and initiate actions that have shades of true heroism.
- Clone Angst: In the anime Hakuno learns he's not even based on a person but is just the hatred of all the masters killed by Twice given form, he nearly gives on the war disgusted by his existence.
- Covert Pervert: The narration during the scene in which Caster chastises the protagonist for letting her take more than 300k damage implies the reason the protagonist allowed Caster to take that much damage is due to wanting to hear her yelps. Their reaction when they check Rin or Rani fixing their Servants’ magic circuit and heard that Kiara and Sakura need to get naked to install the program is to take a peek, all while playing it off as concern.
- Curtains Match the Window: Brown hair and brown eyes.
- Determinator:
- First seen when they refuse to accept their death during the prelims. That's the reason why their Servants answer their call.Talent: Mental fortitude (Male), Never giving up (Female)
- Also in Fate/EXTRA CCC, in the later chapters, things starts to get grimmer and darker when the protagonist is trapped in this dark realm by BB. But, he/she keeps crawling for a way out despite voices telling him/her to give up. Later, as the protagonist continues onward to the place where his/her Servant was sealed by BB, they keep on going despite being nearly disintegrated along the way.*The deletion reacting up to their chest* It seems my stomach has completely vanished, (...) That’s great; my body feels lighter, I should be able to walk faster now.
- First seen when they refuse to accept their death during the prelims. That's the reason why their Servants answer their call.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Their reaction to getting smothered by Kiara;Beautiful flesh, is the phrase that comes into my mind. It’s like when a carnivorous beast comes upon fresh meat, meat that makes its deliciousness known to all five senses, and the beast rejoices. It seems that there exists in this world flesh that can do much the same thing, flooding all the senses with nothing but its beauty.But — even so… Why am I finding it so hard to breathe?
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Averted. While you do get no respect in the beginning from most of the other Masters, as you take down more and more of some of the best Masters in the War, they certainly start respecting your skills. The Big Bad even calls you the most extraordinary Master of all. And by the end of CCC, Gilgamesh acknowledges you as a Master.
- Even the Girls Want Her: The protagonist is a hit with the ladies no matter what their gender.
- Everyone Has Standards: When a flirty Meltryllis offers to spare Archer in exchange for giving up the female protagonist, you can tell him to save you, save himself, or go to hell. Picking the last one won't cause the protagonist to say it, as she points out that would be an incredibly messed up thing to say.
- First-Person Smartass: At times.Rin goes from comatose to bitch in three seconds flat.
- Foreshadowing: In the localized version, during the first day of the war, a fellow Master refers to you as "the infamous ghost in the machine." It isn't quite clear why they do, so it is likely a translation error, as the JP version has the master with a different concern.
- Girly Run: The female protagonist runs like this. They way how she walks slowly is also lady-like.
- Hello, [Insert Name Here]: Despite having a canonical name, in the games themselves, the player may name them whatever they wish.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In the end, the protagonist sacrifices himself/herself to seal away the Moon Cell and end the Holy Grail War.
- Hidden Buxom: It is admittedly Depending on the Artist, but the times where the Female version of Hakuno shows up in the CCC manga shows that she's not small-chested
◊as you◊ would think◊. - Hidden Depths: If you choose Archer as your Servant in CCC and have him wear glasses, the female protagonist, in a unique monologue exclusive only to her, will end up internally expositing how great glasses are in long walls of text while giving an in-depth explanation over their appeal when worn by certain characters, implying that the female protagonist is turned on when she sees other characters wearing glasses.
- Human Popsicle: Their originals have been placed in cryogenic suspension.
- Identical Stranger: Material art and the Last Encore anime reveals that the Female Hakuno looks incredibly similar to Blackmore's late wife, Anne.
- Informed Ability: Played with. Hakuno is referred to as a terrible Master in the beginning, and their servants even tell them that they are not at their peak, but a check of their Servants' canon stats shows Archer with higher Strength, Luck, and Clairvoyance than under Rin Tohsaka, and Gilgamesh with stats equal to those under Tokiomi Tohsaka. It can be assumed that by the end of the war, they have grown into a stronger Master and their Servants have regained their former strength.
- In-Series Nickname: Goes hand-on-hand with Hello, [Insert Name Here]; you can also pick a personal nickname. But in general: Saber’s Praetor (in the translation of Extra)/Performer (in the translation of Last Encore), Archer’s Master, Caster’s Goshujin-sama(Master, doubles as Husband), Gilgamesh’s Mongrel, Red Lancer’s Pig (male protagonist) and Baby Squirrel (female protagonist), Sakura’s and BB’s Senpai, and after Leo’s death, Rani’s Chief/President.
- Interactive Narrator: Sometimes, it's hard to tell when the protagonist is thinking or actually talking. The only time we know they're talking is when someone replies.
- Non-Action Guy:
- Early on, it's mentioned that you're basically dead once your Servant gets KO'd.
- Averted in the adaptations of the game, as Hakuno is as active as any other normal Master would be, and does his best to aid his Servant in any way possible, such as (in one instance of the Drama CD) distracting Dan Blackmore by being a target themselves for Sir Dan's code cast, which allows Saber to cut down Archer's Noble Phantasm without the distraction from Sir Dan. As he still pales in strength in comparison to other, stronger Masters, he relies on his wits and intuition to win.
- Not So Above It All: While most of the time they are outwardly subdued and generally don't show a ton of strong emotions (due to being a literal blank slate), they do have a cheeky sense of humour that shines through every now and then, especially as the story goes on, and particularly in their internal monologue (see First-Person Smartass). They're not even above trolling themselves in a literal life-or-death situation. During the third week, Hakuno has to pre-emptively write their own name on their hand to escape Alice's Servant's Nameless Forest (which kills its victims by slowly erasing their memories and entire being, and can only be dispelled by speaking your own name aloud). Selecting the wrong option within the Forest reveals that Hakuno also wrote "Francis Xavier" on their hand for literally no other reason than to just mess with themselves for a few seconds (they had the sense to write their actual name just below it, they're not that crazy).
- Official Couple: Male with Saber (in Blossom Sensei Vol.3, manga, and drama CD), Female with Archer (in Blossom Sensei Vol.3 and the third volume of the official anthology comic). In Extella: The Umbral Star and Extella Link, it's indicated they've hooked up with Caster as well, as she refers to her realm as their "love nest" and comments that they're practically married.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Anime Hakuno is a Dead Face, someone who has died, but still lives. Rani declares that using his new The Power of Hate-based powers will result in Loss of Identity, and Rin basically cements the undead status two episodes later.
- Player Character: An interesting case where Hakuno's initial personality is that of a blank slate (due to their memory loss) just like any other player character, but as the story progresses, their narration makes it quite clear that they are developing their own motivations and traits, thus averting Featureless Protagonist. Even though dialogue choices are available to the player, the story and character interactions are linear and only change between silly or serious options. The Reveal only adds to the above.
- The Power of Hate: In the anime, Hakuno more or less admits to this. For some reason, he feels extreme hatred towards the Moon Cell, and it empowers him to Determinator levels. This is because he's a Dead Face, which is basically a walking personification of hatred.
- Psychic Dreams for Everyone: Shown Gil's past from the perspective of Enkidu, with Enkidu being the one giving them the visions.
- Punny Name: Hakuno Kishinami is an anagram for "kimi no na hakushi", meaning "your name's blank".
- Purely Aesthetic Gender: There are very few dialogue changes or differences in gameplay based on your chosen gender. For example, aside from one optional comment, Caster will still refer to the female protagonist as her husband, Issei will accuse you of talking to Rani out of lust, and random Masters will clearly act as though the protagonist is either male or a lesbian. On the other hand, the female protagonist has some bonus dialogue with Archer, which is quite funny.
- The Reveal:
- The protagonists are actually NPCs based off one of the previously living Humans, but somehow wound up developing his/her own will and becoming one of the Masters in the Holy Grail War.
- In the ending, it is additionally revealed that the originals are still alive, but have been placed in cryogenic suspension since the only doctor who can perform the procedure that can cure them died in the same attack. Until another one can repeat the procedure, they're going to stay there. And even if the original was to be revived, they would have no memories and be a different person from the AI copy that participated in the Grail War.
- Episode 8 of the anime reveals that the Hakuno we've been following isn't the real Hakuno, who died at the start with her servant Saber. He is just the hatred of all the masters killed by Twice formed around the original Hakuno.
- Ridiculously Average Guy: So much so that Rin mistakes them for a NPC instead of a participating Master. She is not totally wrong.
- Sailor Fuku: The female protagonist wears this in CCC.
- Schrödinger's Player Character:
- Both male and female protagonists can be seen in the background of the prologue. You only play as one of them per playthrough.
- In CCC, there’s a slight variation between female and male protagonist, most glaring is Meltryllis’s infatuation shifts to Archer if the protagonist is female and as a result, male protagonist can’t unlock Archer’s third SG. Different Servant and Gender combination choice also changes several of their relationship between their chosen Servant.
- Shounen Hair: The male protagonist's hairstyle.
- Staring Down Cthulhu: By the end of Week 5, the protagonist has become tough enough to no longer be affected by Julius's Death Glare.
- Sweet Tooth: CCC materials reveal that the Female Protagonist likes candy and the Male Protagonist himself favors anmitsu (a type of Japanese dessert).
- Tsundere: The protagonist's growing trust in their allies can be seen in their inner thoughts as they start to work with and form bonds with their Servants and the people around them. It's clearer with some of their more aloof companions (like Archer) as they become more aware of the true intent behind all the snarking and criticism, noting that it comes from a genuine wish to see them improve as a Master and that there's kindness in that... only to then backpedal and deny that they are starting to like them on a personal level or anything. Becomes especially apparent in CCC with Gilgamesh, who picks up on this trait and even starts to tease them for it. Of course, with Gilgamesh being something of a Tsundere himself, the protagonist can occasionally choose to tease them right back in turn.
- Unwanted Harem: While both genders wind up with tons of chicks after them, it seems to be the male protagonist that stands out in canon. It even carries into side materials for him.
- Virtual Ghost: Similar to Alice and Twice, they are basically a being that can only exist in the virtual world; the difference between them and Twice and Alice is that they are a digital ghost of a still-living human in cryogenic stasis back on Earth.
- The Voiceless: Played with; Hakuno is the narrator and thus speaks to other characters without the dialogue box, and in addition, they have not been voiced in the main games to allow the players to project their voice onto them. However, at multiple times, their Servants (especially Saber) mention that they have a very beautiful voice. Naturally, this is dropped in the anime.
- What Beautiful Eyes!: Both Saber and Rin note many times of their determined eyes when they have their goal set in mind. In CCC, BB's infatuation with the protagonist often revolves around the fact that she likes their glaring eyes, and her Secret Garden is the only one that has the "looking into each other's eyes" pose. Even Gilgamesh thinks that Hakuno's eyes are "pleasing" when he got sealed by BB and his "instinct" appears before them.
Shinji Matou
Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese), Kyle McCarley (English, Anime), Arturo Castañeda (Latin American Spanish, Anime)
The Master of Rider. Like his Fate/stay night counterpart, he is a "friend" to the Protagonist in the loosest sense of the word, behaving like an arrogant and childish bully. His objective in the Holy Grail War is simply to win for the prestige.
- Adaptational Heroism: While he's still a dick, he's less enough of one for fans to find him somewhat tolerable and likeable. CCC Fox Tail is this up to eleven admitting that he does see Hakuno as a friend and doing all that he can to save him from Kazuradrop. It's telling that he actually got Violet to respect him and call him her master.
- Adaptational Villainy: His anime counterpart turns on Hakuno and tried to kill him before the Grail War even starts, whereas his game version at least acted as though they were friends until they learned they were matched up against each other. Even then, his game counterpart only did so under the rules, and thought the whole thing was a game.
- And You Thought It Was a Game: He doesn't realize the Holy Grail War is not a game until he dies in the original game or killed someone in Last Encore.
- Artificial Human: Either he's a designer baby or a homunculus; his parents seem less to have "birthed" him and more to have "created" him. His genius while being 8 years old is because of that.
- Blood from the Mouth: After Meltryllis stabs him.
- Child Prodigy: In real life, he's actually an eight-year-old gaming prodigy.
- Death of a Child: In an unusual way, considering his death is the moment we find out he was a child.
- Disappeared Dad: Or rather, one he never met, since his mother used a sperm donor.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: Hacks the system to place a virus inside himself, and lets himself get absorbed by Meltryllis to nerf her absurdly high level.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- Really loves beating up weak players, but just cannot accept Meltryllis' insane game-breaking levels and thus, throws in his share of effort to take her out.
- His actions in Last Encore are all motivated by shock at learning he actually killed a real person.
- Expy: Looks pretty much identical to Fate/stay night's Shinji Matou, but with a lighter hair color and, according to the playable Archer, being actually good at heart.
- Face Death with Dignity: Subverted in EXTRA, but in CCC, he willingly sacrifices himself and makes peace with the Protagonist before dying. This trope also applies in Last Encore.
- Foreshadowing: He repeatedly references "prize money" like in any other online gaming tourney, even offering to split it if the Protagonist throws the match. With everyone else aiming for the Holy Grail, Shinji clearly has no idea what the War is actually about... which becomes clear when he loses.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: In CCC Foxtail, he's at first on Hakuno's side once they wake up in the far side of the Moon Cell due to both of them losing their memories, after Kazuradrop returns his memories he joins Kazuradrop but realizes that he doesn't hate Hakuno despite being killed by him. After Hakuno is on the verge of deletion, he turns against Kazuradrop to protect his friend.
- Heel Realization: After he got stabbed by Meltryllis and used as a virus along with Lancer to corrupt Sakura, he has a visible change of attitude close to Heroic BSoD. It seems he keeps watching the Grail War even after he died and plunged into the sea of imaginary number, as he notices the protagonist's cries and remembers him in the following weeks. When the student council members’ collective memories is back, he quickly shifts into a non-antagonistic role, even when still insisting that I Work Alone.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In CCC Fox Tail chapter 44, he protects Violet from being eaten by Kazuradrop at the cost of his life, reasoning that Leo, Gawain, and Violet are needed in the fight against her.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: By Meltryllis in CCC.
- In Fox Tail, He get impailed by Kazudrop's insect eater skill to protect Violet.
- It's All About Me: Justified. He thinks everything is a game during Extra and doesn't realize the danger he and the others face. He completely drops this and is a Nice Guy in CCC since he remembers what happened. There's also the fact that he's really only eight years old, and children at that age are still rather self-engaged.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
- According to the playable Archer, he's this. Considering that he thinks it's all a game and he's only eight years old, its very possible that he's sincere about his offer (which you cannot accept) before the Elimination Battle, rather than just being a condescending jerk.
- If the protagonist loses said battle, however, the emphasis is put on the Jerk part. He basically says he hates you for challenging him, still thinking it's a game. This is because all of your dialogue options before it starts have either you or your Servant throwing his offer back in his face.
- At the start of CCC, when he faced deletion, the protagonist tries to help him. But he tries to get them away by shouting abuses, because that's just the way 'friends' are.
- In Last Encore, he manages a nice and peaceful city built for people who don't want to keep fighting.
- Large Ham: "SHIIIIINIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIII TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!!!!!!!!"
- Loose Lips: He tends to brag (and drop info in the process) about his Servant a lot. Justified, since he's an eight-year-old kid, and kids at that age tend to brag a lot. His overconfidence doesn't help, either.
- Never My Fault: All the time. But let's face it, most people at eight years old do the same thing.
- Mythology Gag:
- He's arrogant, has quite a few female classmates fawning over him and is somehow friends with the main character, just like his Fate/stay night counterpart.
- In CCC Foxtail, he partners up with Violet who just so happens to look like Rider Medusa, one of his counterpart's servants.
- Spanner in the Works: Infects his body with a virus so that when Meltryllis absorbs him, it drops her level from 999 all the way back to 1.
- Taking the Bullet: In Fox Tail He jumps between Violet and Kazudrop right before the latter devours the former, saving Violet at the cost of his own life.
- Why Can't I Hate You?: In CCC Fox Tail, he turns on Hakuno after remembering he lost to him and thus was killed. But despite that Shinji doesn't hate Hakuno to his confusion. He realizes that as he was deleted he saw Hakuno crying over his deletion and thus he still sees Hakuno as his friend.
- Younger Than They Look: He's actually only eight years old, despite having the appearance of a teenager in the game.
Dan Blackmore
Voiced by: Mugihito (Japanese), Ian Alden (English, Anime), Santos Alberto (Latin American Spanish, Anime)
The Master of Archer, an elderly soldier who serves the Queen of England. His absolute adherence to chivalry puts him at extreme odds with his Servant, whose own method of fighting is incompatible with Blackmore's ideals.
- Adaptational Villainy: The corruption of the Moon Holy Grail War by Chakravartin in the anime adaptation has marooned him and Archer on the second ring of the Moon Cell. Having been trapped there for more than 50 years after having already lost 999 years ago but given a second chance with the possibility that Moon Cell never recorded his Honor Before Reason behavior, he has lost much of his honor and only strives to kill Masters and Servants as quickly as possible in the hopes that doing so enough (he has slain about 30 by the time Hakuno and Saber cross paths with him) will fix the system and finally allow him and his Servant to ascend. This can be seen in him attempting to snipe Hakuno the moment he enters the floor; the Dan Blackmore from the game would have been insulted at the thought of something so ruthless and unnecessary.
- Back from the Dead:
- Not Blackmore himself, but it's part of his motivation. He wants to claim the Holy Grail in order to bring back his wife.
- Played straight in the anime adaptation, where he is killed but brought back to serve as the second floor boss. He himself is surprised, since he died like he did in game.
- Cold Sniper: He used to be one.
- Cool Old Guy: He's a chilverous souilder and a powerful master, who's not above handicaping if he fealt that his servant wronged his enemy.
- The Fettered: Despite being a former sniper, he hold himself to chivalrous standards of behavior and refuses to fight dirty or attack the other Masters outside the designated time and place, even burning a Command Seal on it, despite it playing to his Servant’s strengths and being what Archer wants to do. Much like his Servant’s subconscious desire, it might be because he’s been a dirty fighter for so much of his life that he wants to fight honestly just once.
- Foreshadowing: He picks up on aspects of Saber's and Caster's identities well before you do.
- Go Out with a Smile: Even when he dies, he is happy because he was able to serve as a stepping stone for a bright new soul, the protagonist's, to take root.
- Honor Before Reason: Despite (or possibly because of) his background as an experienced sniper, he insists on following the rules of the War and more than once prevents his Servant from finishing you off because they did it outside the Arena.
- Face Death with Dignity: He even gives advice to the protagonist.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: In Last Encore, his aiming skill at first seems absurd when he is trying to snipe Hakuno from a clocktower miles away from the castle Hakuno appeared in with nothing more than an iron-sight. But then it turns ridiculous when it is revealed he was hiding in the castle all this time and was using the bells in the clocktower to deflect his shots to hit his targets.
- Necro Mantic: Wants to bring his wife back to life with the Grail.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted as he shares the same last name as Gransurg Blackmore, with no confirmation that he is related to him in any way.
- Retired Badass: Used to be a sniper in the military.
Alice
Voiced by: Ai Nonaka (Japanese), Xanthe Huynh (English), Pamela Mendoza (Latin American Spanish)
The Master of Caster, a mysterious young girl that supposedly haunts the third floor of the school. When she meets the protagonists, she's happy to finally have someone to play with.
- Abusive Parents: According to Alice, her "Daddy got mad if [she] said it hurts".
- Alice Allusion: Besides her name and appearance, she and her Servant drop other Alice's Adventures in Wonderland references, such as to the March Hare, as well as to Jabberwocky, another work by "Professor Dodgson".
- Assimilation Backfire: In the anime adaption, she absorbs the data from items located throughout the floor to sustain her physical form, but doing so begins to backfire when she takes in the mana of too many things, resulting in her body transforming into a disgusting Shapeshifter Mashup of the things she has drained of mana, that eventually loses any semblance of a human form.
- Blessed with Suck: In the anime adaption, due to her status as being already deceased, the Moon Cell couldn't kill her when she technically lost to Hakuno in their skirmish, allowing her to continue her existence. Unfortunately, it came with a whole new page of complications when the Moon Cell's other sets of programming tried to erase her on the foundation as a "ghost", causing her to suffer an endless groundhog day tug-of-war for a millennia instead.
- Cheerful Child: Just like Ilya, when she's not being a Creepy Child, she's this.
- Creepy Child: She tends to say some pretty unnerving things, and it gets more pronounced when she's around her Servant.
- Creepy Twins: Pulls it off with her Servant, who copies her form.
- Dead All Along: She was originally a girl who lived in England during World War II, when she was gravely injured during an air raid towards the end of the war. During her stay at the hospital, it was discovered that she had magic circuits and was kept alive for research purposes. After several years, her physical body died but her mind continued to live on in the cyber world.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: She wears blue and white in contrast to her Servant.
- Empty Shell: In Meltryllis’s dungeon. Caster was turned into a doll and torn apart by Meltryllis, and because Alice's connection with her Servant is like a mirror, this left Alice as helpless as the torn doll. She’s described as “the soul leaving from [her] eyes, even though she’s still alive,” after making her last words a plea to give Caster back. Only by returning the real Caster to Alice can she can finally pass on.
- Face Death with Dignity: She even comforts her Servant.
- Fate Worse than Death: In the anime she becomes a terrifying monster made up of items and objects that she drained the data of to sustain herself. In this state, she cannot speak or really control her actions, lashing out in fear and pain until she went mad. She only regains her sanity when she spots Hakuno with the book he read to her in the past, just in time for Saber and Rin to kill her..
- Foreshadowing:
- A lot of her dialogue during the tail-end of the 3rd week remarks on how she and the protagonist are similar, except that the protagonist still has somewhere to go back to.
- Also, look at her limbs. Those are ball-joint limbs.
- In the anime, look at the shadow of the monster.
- Hopeless Boss Fight: In the anime, because of Nursery Rhyme's Noble Phantasm, her monster form is unkillable since a decisive blow will cause time to reset to the beginning of the day. The only reason she's defeated is because she regains her sanity at the last moment and opts not to have Nursery Rhyme activate it.
- Mystical White Hair: She can use magic like any other Master. It also accentuates her mysteriousness.
- Nice Girl: Not counting her Creepy Child tendencies, Alice has a sweet and innocent personality. She even goes to the extent of comforting her servant when she's about to fade away.
- Third-Person Person: Made doubly confusing by her Servant also going by the name Alice. Thankfully, the in-game text is Color-Coded for Your Convenience.
- Virtual Ghost: Though her physical body died a long time ago, she still lives on as a ghost in the cyber world.
Lanrukun/Lil' Ronnie
Voiced by: Yuu Kobayashi
The Master of Lancer, a mentally unstable woman who constantly wears the clown mascot costume of a popular hamburger shop. She will only eat that which she loves, resulting in a bizarre eating disorder that resulted in her consuming her own parents, pet and child. Her wish is to obtain the Holy Grail and make all of humanity like her.
- Adapted Out: She does not appear in the anime adaptation.
- Cool Mask: Never seen without her clown mask.
- Hidden Eyes: According to the protagonist, only the black pupils are visible through the mask.
- Horror Hunger: She can only eat things or people she loves.
- I'm a Humanitarian: As a part of her eating disorder, she has eaten her parents and her baby. Unless, as Vlad III suggested in his interlude in another game, she instead just really wanted to but resisted. Her eventual Craft Essence description seems to confirm it.
- I Was Quite a Looker: In the Manga version, before the start of her disorder.
- Lean and Mean: She is rather thin while also being the second tallest female in the entire Nasuverse (and that's only because Meltryllis's height includes her fake legs), and she is insane.
- Monster Clown: She's a cannibal who dresses like a clown.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: The art book shows what she looks like without the clown mask◊ and she's gorgeous.
- Shout-Out: An obvious reference to the Japanese version of Ronald McDonald and his "RAN-RAN-RUUUU" catchphrase. Her English name is also a pun to 'Ronald'.Protagonist: Curly red hair. Clown make-up and costume. Awkward, gangly figure. Why does this ring a bell?
- Spell My Name With An S: Due to katakana ambiguity, her Japanese name could be Romanized either "Lanrukun" or "Ranruu-kun".
- The Unfought: In Rani's Route you never encounter her.
- Tragic Monster: It's not her fault she's crazy. Even her desire to make all humanity like her is rooted not in some sort of evil scheme, but in the fact that she's tired of being a lonely freak and genuinely believes humankind would be better off if they were like her.
Monji Gatou
Voiced by: Kentarō Itō
The Master of Berserker, a fanatic who ascribes to a number of different religions and worships his Servant as his god. He believes that he can save humanity through his self-made religion and strives to make his Servant into a true deity. Unfortunately, he is an incredibly poor Master and only serves to hinder his Servant's true potential.
- Adapted Out: He does not appear in the anime adaptation.
- The Anti-Nihilist: He really did go on a pilgrimage to study every single religion to get a better understanding of the world; it’s just the conclusion he reached is that humanity are such assholes they would create religions just to gain scapegoats for their own misery in form of the gods. Even so, he still thinks humanity has a chance simply because it’s just because of their luck that they suffer, and there’s always a next time.
- Ascended Extra: Plays a more important role in CCC as one of the former Masters who joins the student council to escape. He even offers help and advice several times and is involved in a few side quests.
- Back from the Dead: By nature of the fact that this happens to everyone you defeat in the first game and shows up again in CCC. Notable in that once he realizes this is the case in CCC, he comes to the conclusion that the most important thing he can do with his "life" is to die for the sake of others, and in doing so becomes one of the most important people in Jinako's outlook on life.
- Belief Makes You Stupid:
- It's not clear whether he would have been this nuts without religious belief, but it is noted that because of his incompetence, his Servant isn't capable of fighting at full power.
- Averted in CCC, where his beliefs and spirituality let him connect to Jinako, even managing to take her SG through his own enlightment rather than the program the protagonist borrowed. Gilgamesh notes the one reason he's fine with religion despite his own problems with the gods is because it occasionally creates a person like Gatou.
- Corrupt Church: He indicates that he has joined many religions, and expresses disgust at the "compromises and hypocrisies" that organized religion makes to survive in the world.
- Foil: To Kiara. As he shows in his conversation with Jinako, for all of his quirkiness, Gatou had achievemed genuine enlightenment in life long ago and thus was content with the nature of existence. As strange as it may sound, he's actually an idealized embodiment of some Buddhist values. Kiara is the opposite of this, she is a buddhist monk who, upon reaching enlightenment, rejected it and became an inversion of buddhism, an anti-enlightened Mara who trades eternity for an instant. And she has decided to subject all to the lusts and desires she has embraced because she has denied her impermenant mind and accepted the concept of the self, which in Buddhism doesn't exist.
- Foreshadowing: He mentions Kiara Sessyoin as a religious figure of import in one of his rants, setting up for her presence in CCC.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Walks into a barrier set up by Jinako which will delete anyone who enters.
- Last Request: When he loses and starts fading away, he begs Berserker to let him hear her voice. His wish is granted, because Berserker loses her Mad Enhancement and regains her ability to speak. She explains that she is not a god and bids him farewell, promising to meet him again when he is reincarnated.
- Not What It Looks Like: When you visit the girl you saved in the Nurse's Office, he'll think you're "seeing her" in a different manner:I did not want to believe it, but a clandestine tryst is being held! Young man/lady, follow the path of abstinence and righteousness!
- No Indoor Voice: You can even point it out.
- Religious Bruiser: All his jumbled mess of religious talk is not just for show. When he’s facing someone with strong religious background, he can hold a conversation about obscure supernatural references like taunting Caster with aburaage and explaining what the jhanas are when Kiara speaks of it.
- The Unfought: In Rin’s Route you never encounter him.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: It's revealed in the material book that even Kiara, who has seduced countless people under her sway, couldn't stand his religious zealotry.
- Warrior Poet: See Religious Bruiser. When comparing the Far Side of the Moon with Shangri-la or the Dragon King’s Palace because its beauty is eternal unlike the Near Side’s day-to-day slaughter, you cannot help but to agree that he, in some way, is right.
Julius Berkisk Harway
Voiced by: Wataru Hatano (Japanese), Jordan Reynolds (English, Anime), Gerardo Alonso (Latin American Spanish, Anime)
The Master of Assassin, who initially appears as a teacher.
- Animal Motifs: He is frequently referrred to as a scorpion which symbolizes his role as an assassin working for the Harways. Assassin's crippling of your servant's magic circuits during the beginning of Week 5 can even be likened to a scorpion sting.
- Artificial Limbs: Comes back in Week 5 with an arm he repurposed from a Master he killed earlier to replace the one that got deleted. He even took the Command Seals on it to keep ordering around his Servant.
- Back from the Dead:
- He becomes a cyber ghost after his defeat, and appears in the Arena on the first day of the 7th week.
- In the anime, he became a Dead Face when the cast meets him in Episode 8 and is determined to kill Hakuno.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: In CCC, he saves the protagonist after BB tries to have them deleted because he remembers their acts of kindness to him as a Virtual Ghost in the first game.
- Dark and Troubled Past: He's been an assassin from a young age, was rejected by his father to the point where he wasn't even permitted to call him 'father' and was forced to kill the only person who ever showed him any love. It's a surprise that he's as restrained as he is.
- Death Glare: He stares at the protagonist in a very unnerving manner, and its effects are described well enough to be considered In-Universe Nightmare Fuel and Paranoia Fuel.
- Death Seeker: After he grants his mother's last wish, to protect Leo, he planned to join her in death.
- Dissonant Serenity: When you face him the second time, at least at first.
- Even Evil Has Standards; He's rather disturbed by the implications of Kiara's hacking, which could easily be seen as mind raping the target to get their secrets and break them psychologically. Given his Dark and Troubled Past, it makes sense why he'd be against it.
- Face Death with Dignity: Averted the first time you beat him, played straight the second time.
- Icy Gray Eyes: Described as steel-gray, and very menacing.
- Mythology Gag: He's a stoic teacher/assassin who is very dark and brooding.
- Only Sane Man: As the only ‘adult’ in the Student Council, he becomes the only one who grounds the rest to their mission while they often got sidetracked.
- Playing with Syringes: When he was a kid, he had his liver removed without anesthesia just to see how he reacted to pain.
- Red Baron: His reputation as an assassin earned him the nickname "Black Scorpion".
- Self-Made Orphan: Under orders from the Harway family he assassinated his mother in order to secure Leo's inheritance. As the only person to have treated him with kindness, this experience rattled him and the only thing keeping him going was fulfilling her Last Request of protecting Leo.
- Sympathy for the Devil: To the point where the protagonist actually cries for him or tries to hold his hand. The protagonist feels some deep empathy with his lack of identity given their own issues with amnesia.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: A female student mentions this trope word for word, but also put emphasis on the Dark part.
- The Unfavorite: He wasn't born with "that which was needed to lead the Harways", which meant he was treated very poorly.
- Virtual Ghost: After his first defeat.
- Younger Than They Look: Implied in the series of visions preceding the second battle with him. Outright stated so by Leo in CCC when he says both him and Julius are in a same age, and Leo is about 15.
Rin Tousaka
Voiced by: Kana Ueda (Japanese), Mela Lee (English, Anime), Jocelyn Robles (Latin American Spanish, Anime)
The Master of Lancer. She is a descendant of the Tousaka lineage of magi and one of the most famous spirit hackers in the world. Despite looking and acting the same as her Fate/stay night counterpart, she is a different person. An honors student and the idol of Tsukimihara Academy.
- Costume Evolution: The first trailer for EXTRA Record show that her skirt and sweater have swapped colors with a black top and red skirt to differentiate her further from her stay night counterpart.
- Expy: Looks and behaves almost identically to Fate/stay night's Rin Tohsaka and even has the same name, though Archer notes that they're not the same person. Rather, she is apparently the original Tohsaka's niece. Since magecraft in the world of Extra works is based in hacking, she's much more talented with technology than her predecessor. Also, in the real world she's actually blonde.
- Face Death with Dignity: Calm about it when you defeat Lancer on Rani's route and says she's glad, since she's sure that the protagonist will defeat Leo.
- Forgotten First Meeting: Something about Archer reminds her a lot of a teacher she had back during resistance training. It's him, though he never tells her.
- Fusion Dance: She fused with her servant in the anime and can use his powers whenever she wants to.
- Go Out with a Smile: One more gentle than the protagonist has ever seen her give.
- Girlish Pigtails: The "two side up" variant that the original Rin from Fate/stay night also had.
- Heroic Bastard: Hinted at in the original game and various stories since but a Craft Essence in Grand Order named "Dreams of the Crimson Illegitimate Daughter" confirms she descends from Tokiomi's illegitimate daughter, making her this.
- Graceful Loser: She's genuinely happy when the protagonist beats her and wishes the best for her.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: If questioned about school or her dreams before the match, she admits that after everything is done she'd like to just quit all this terrorism stuff, head back to Japan and go to a normal school without having to worry about anything anymore.
- I Was Just Passing Through: According to her, she just wanted to say hello to Julius, saving your life was an unintended side effect. Could be true: She really hates the Harways.
- La Résistance: She's a member of one such group in the real world, fighting against the Western European Plutocracy.
- Leg Focus: Especially with her legwear. If you choose her as your prefered type in CCC your Servant is quick to assume you have a thing for legs.
- Loving Bully: In CCC, she admits that she's the type who likes teasing the person she loves. It's also why she's the very first character to realize BB's in love with the protagonist since they're essentially doing the same thing.
- Male Gaze: In the official art.
- Money Fetish: She hacked a 5M worth of Ruby into the commissary. She's noted by many as 'money-worshipper'. Because the circumstances of her birth are harsh even though she's from a notable family, money is equal to power for her. But as this is Rin we're talking about, she of course denies it... at least until the protagonist calls her out for being a capitalistic bitch in CCC.
- Not What It Looks Like: She feels up the protagonist on their first meeting, thinking they're a regular NPC. She does this regardless of their gender, and they have
identical reactions. - Order Versus Chaos: The Chaos to Leo's Order. She's willing to struggle for freedom, even if it means disrupting the Harway's peace.
- Spell My Name With An S: Referred to as "Rin Tousaka" in the translation, instead of "Tohsaka" as in Fate/stay night.
- Stocking Filler: Wears one garter.
- Shout-Out: During the lunch scene on her route:
- Tsundere: A Harsh type, just like the original Rin.
- Worthy Opponent: By the time her match comes around, should you be on the proper route for it, she admits to the protagonist's ability and rather wistfully admits that she rather likes them and that they could have been friends if they'd met in the real world.
Rani VIII
Voiced by: Asami Sanada (Japanese), Christine Marie Cabanos (English, Anime), Verania Ortiz (Latin American Spanish, Anime)
The Master of Berserker and an alchemist from the Atlas Institute in Egypt. Because she is a homunculus created specifically to participate in the Holy Grail War, she does not appear to follow her own will and considers herself a tool of her teacher. Word of God states her creator was Sialim Eltnam Re-Atlasia, Sion Eltnam's younger twin sister, the original having died in this universe.
- Alchemy Is Magic: She is an alchemist of the Atlas Institution, and practices astrology as well as spirit hacking.
- Ambiguously Brown: In her lunch scene, she cooks Egyptian food, and in the 5th Week's Magic Circuit Repair scene Archer wonders whether she's Egyptian or Babylonian. The presence of a bindi on her forehead also suggests an Indian influence in her design. In CCC she clarifies that she's Egyptian, but her creator enjoyed Indian culture and that influenced her design somewhat.
- Astrologer: She can also do this, uses this talent to divine information about you and several of your enemies.
- Become a Real Boy: Her goal and what happens on her route.
- Covert Pervert: Her third SG dwells in the fact that she's too dependent to outside figure, hating that, but doesn't really know what to do to rebel. When noted that her contradiction of the reason why she's Going Commando is because she can't make differences between rational thought and personal preferences, she has a revelation of her own freedom by embracing her inner perversion and becomes a shameless exhibitionist. It's as ridiculous as it sounds.
- Curtains Match the Window: Purple eyes and hair
- Deadpan Snarker: She seems to grow into this in CCC. When Rin's insensitive about Sakura's embarrassment of the Double Entendre she said about the protagonist's dive inside Sakura's internal working, Rani comforts Sakura by making a jab at Rin."I am still studying emotions myself, but Miss Tohsaka is a truly excellent teacher. Of what not to do, that is."
- Emotionless Girl: Due to being a homunculus. A major part of her route is her coming to terms with her feelings for the protagonist.
- Face Death with Dignity: If you're on Rin's route, this is what happens after you beat her in the 6th week Elimination Battle. Also happens in the anime, staying in the dying Second Floor while wishing Hakuno good luck.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: Her stockings are different colors, and she ties part of her hair in a right-sidetail.
- Flat Character: While Rin is pretty round on both "routes," Rani doesn't really develop much on Rin's. It's only on her own route that she grows and develops as a person into an individual.
- Identical Stranger: Fate/Extra material mentions that she looks a lot like Berserker's wife Diaochan. It is later revealed that Berserker's tactician Chen Gong looks like a male version of Rani, which raises questions if he just happens to have a type.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: She wears a blouse with a V-shaped neckline that plunges half way down to her navel.
- Not Quite Dead: She somehow survives both her own self-destruction and being stabbed by Gae Bolg regardless of which girl is saved.
- Our Homunculi Are Different: Unlike other homunculi featured in the Nasuverse, it's shown that at least some of her internal organs are made of opal or at least something that looks like it. Her heart is made of both etherlite and opal and has Hermes as her core. She's also designed with a self-destruct mechanism.
- Taking You with Me: During her battle with Rin, she notices that she's likely to lose, and due to a directive, she is to destroy herself and the Moon Cell in case of failure. It doesn't work due to the protagonist's intervention, regardless of who you choose to save.
- Unskilled, but Strong: She's an excellent hacker and a powerful Master, but in battle she is noted to display much less skill than Tousaka, which gives the latter the edge when the are paired during the third round. Rani knows it as well as it turns what would have been an even fight into one in Tousaka's favor, causing her to attempt to destroy the Moon Cell itself.
- Vapor Wear: The CCC Fox Tail manga shows that she doesn't wear panties and is apparently not bothered or upset when a gust of wind reveals this to Hakuno and Caster.
Leonard Bistario Harway
Voiced by: Romi Park (Japanese), Laura Stahl (English), Emiliano Ugarte (Latin American Spanish)
The Master of Saber. Leo is the heir to the Harway family that controls a third of the world's land and two thirds of its wealth. He seeks the Holy Grail to expand the influence of the Harways to the entire world, sincerely believing that it is in humanity's best interest.
He is supremely confident in his ability, having never known defeat or failure. Because of this, he does not even bother to hide the identity of his Servant as Gawain, one of the Knights of the Round Table. However, this means he has never experienced normal human emotions such as despair or courage.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Along with Characterization Marches On, even. Leo is far friendlier in CCC than he was in the first Extra game. Considering that he is making up time for being unable to have a chance for a normal high school life and made up to it with friendly banter and teen like shenanigans.
- Adaptational Villainy: Due to being saved from death in the anime, Leo is swayed to Twice's side and ends up becoming more cruel then he was in game. Instead of believing himself to be the hope of mankind, he no longer cares for mankind, happy to let it wash away. He is also much more condescending towards people, even treating his Servant as a mere tool instead of an ally like in game.
- Affably Evil: He's pretty nice throughout the game to the protagonists, even after they kill his brother.
- Dark Messiah: As explained in Well-Intentioned Extremist. If wiping out a continent for the future is for the best, then so be it.
- Evil Debt Collector: Played for laughs in CCC; after the protagonist borrows his money to buy something for Sakura, he immediately sics Gawain on them to collect the debt. According to
Word of God, the male protagonist hates him for that. - Experimented in College: Outright says he did so (in high school) in Foxtail, when Rin accuses him of not being bisexual.
- Fatal Flaw: Not his pride, which is largely justified. Rather, he lacks perspective and the emotions and traits associated with overcoming adversity such as determination and ambition.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Surprisingly, he's foolish to Julius' responsible. He always drags the reluctant Julius along for some perverted hijinks. From his monologue after Gawain finally got curbstomped by BB, he seems to want to make up the time of not being a normal high school student before he was defeated in the Grail War.
- Gentleman and a Scholar: He is very charming and brilliant, and honestly believes he will win the Holy Grail Tournament. What keeps him from being an Insufferable Genius is his mannerisms and innocent outlook of the world's state of affairs.
- Heel Realization: After his defeat at the hands of the protagonist.
- Informed Attribute: He's referred to as the strongest Master, but it's not exactly difficult to win when your Servant is literally invincible. He has a simplistic world view, little emotional depth or understanding, and generally fails to use any sort of actual tactics. Some of this is intentional, but it can become difficult to see why he's taken so seriously. He is bright enough not to fall for obvious traps, but Gawain is easy enough to provoke, which allows the protagonist to disable Gawain's abilities enough to have a chance at winning.
- Irony: What he truly needed to be able to become a king was to know defeat. But in learning defeat, he is immediately doomed thanks to the rules of the Holy Grail War.
- Light Is Not Good: Closely associated with the Sun.
- Not So Stoic: Gets really excited at the prospect of fighting the protagonist. Also, when he's defeated. He even cries.
- Order Versus Chaos: The Order to Rin's Chaos. He promotes peace at the cost of individual freedom.
- Playing with Syringes: He had extensive surgery when he was only three years old.
- The Stoic: Responds to everything very calmly, even the prospect of his brother dying.
- Spell My Name With An S: Is it Leonard or Leonardo? The official translation uses both at times.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: One of the proposed in-universe theories on the World's future demise is called "Overcount 1999". In this scenario, the very soul of the Earth is hurt and causes its natural resources to die and ultimately an inability to continue living on the planet. For a while such a cause was considered unknown. But in Last Encore, Twice reveals who was responsible for the ritual that caused Overcount 1999 and the ensuring resource crisis that the whole of Fate/EXTRA's Earth suffers: the Harways.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: He's fine with letting the world stagnate as long as peace is maintained in the process.
- Visionary Villain: He truly believes that his taking control of the human race will lead to an era of peace and stability. The protagonist often states that they sense no animosity or maliciousness in Leo, just an unwavering conviction.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He believes that what humanity desires most is comfort and stability, and if it takes wiping out all of Asia to create that stability, so be it. He also considers restricting the use of technology, and hence of Magitek, to the elite - that is, his family and their allies - to be in the best interest of everyone. The masses could never use such power wisely, so Leo and the Harways will do it for them.
- Would Be Rude to Say "Genocide": The population of Asia is viewed as '...expendable' should it come to that.
Twice H. Pieceman
Voiced by: Hiroki Tochi (Japanese), Greg Chun (English, Anime), Jose Gilberto Vilchis (Latin American Spanish, Anime)
A prominent scientist who pioneered the science of digital hacking and a number of advanced medical techniques.
- Adaptation Expansion: His role and influence are given more focus in the anime, having him appear as early as the first episode to set him up better in the story. He also appears a few times after when Hakuno is often unsure of himself.
- The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: His reason for wanting to start an endless war despite hating it very greatly.Protagonist: This man, while despising war and violence, could not ignore the immediate results that war brings.
- Apocalypse How: A version that takes a little of every Class. Before Last Encore, Twice got his wish, but Humanity still lacked the ability to change or advance sufficiently. So he lost faith in Humanity and decided that it would be better to wipe them out, using the Noble Phantasm left behind by Saver to command the Moon Cell to not only wipe out the past thousand years of his failure, but to wipe out all potential timelines, universes and possibilities; destroying whatever future Humanity could have.
- Atop a Mountain of Corpses: Those pillars he's sitting on? They're all gravestones representing the countless Masters he's killed so far.
- Big Bad: He's the one who came up with the current Moon Cell Holy Grail War and its There Can Only Be One system. He is also the final enemy faced in the game.
- The Bad Guy Wins: At least in the anime, and there's the possibility of Be Careful What You Wish For. He and Saver defeat Saber and her (original) Master, and take control over the Moon Cell with Saver's Noble Phantasm.
- Chekhov's Gunman: His name is mentioned in the prologue during Taiga's lecture, and his cyber ghost pops up on the third week. Also, after the route split, Tohsaka compares the protagonist to him, though it isn't explained why. He's also the narrator for the monologues given before each round.
- Dark Messiah: Identified as such in the Extra Materials.
- Determinator: Died countless times in his attempt to reach the core of the Moon Cell, only to be resurrected due to his NPC status. He continuously tried again until he succeeded.
- Dead All Along: The real Twice is long dead. In the anime, the NPC version of Twice is likewise gone, having sacrificed himself to trigger his wish. Unfortunately, in the anime, his regrets forms a Dead Face determined to annihilate humanity. In the game proper, we only meet the NPC version.
- Dirty Coward: The NPC version of Twice never gets his wish because he was too scared to sacrifice himself to the Moon Cell. As an NPC, any wish made would theoretically destroy him on the spot. He had to get a real Master to make his wish, and none of the candidates so far were foolish enough to do so.
- Dissonant Serenity: When he mentions his dream is, in his own words:Twice: "To see mankind engage in a grand war of mutual extinction."Protagonist: There's no hint of insanity visible in his eyes. Naturally, and with obvious sincerity he can somehow utter such a statement of absolute madness.
- Dystopia Justifies the Means/Utopia Justifies the Means: Decides that endless war is the best way to get humanity out of the rut it's in, and is willing to murder countless people indirectly (through the Holy Grail War) and directly (the previous winners before the protagonist) to start one.
- Evil Counterpart: To the protagonists. He died in the same incident, started out as a NPC who became self-aware, and fought until he became strong enough to win and reach the Moon Cell, just like the protagonists did. Their intentions, however, are very different.
- Forever War: What he wants to bring about.
- For Want Of A Nail: His Last Encore counterpart is this, as the whole anime is what would happen if Hakuno lost to Twice in the end and he got his wish. However, despite making his wish, Humanity didn't progress like he thought it would and his Dead Face that resulted from using Moon Cell eventually tried to wipe it all out.
- Hypocrite: Despite his claims of hating stagnation and war, he created a horrible rigged tournament with countless deaths and pointless tragedies for a pipe dream he can never have. Secondly, he hides in the Moon Cell core next to the Holy Grail and waits for the next Master to show up and demand they be his patsy. In effect, he's doing nothing and not improving himself at all.
- Post-Historical Trauma: His hatred of war comes from a combination of this and his own experiences of it, but he also noticed that it brought out the best in people, leading to his plan to start an endless war.
- The Power of Hate: In the anime, Twice using Moon Cell to start his wish resulted in his deletion just like Hakuno. However, it left behind a Dead Face that had command of Saver's Noble Phantasm.
- Pronoun Trouble: In-universe, he tends to rapidly shift back and fourth between the third and first persons, sometimes within the same sentence.
- Renaissance Man: Pioneered spirit hacking, specialized in cybernetics to improve prosthetics, also did significant work in brain and neurosurgery, electric engineering and network development. All of this before he died at the age of 29.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: From childhood. It was so bad, just seeing images depicting war gave him really bad panic attacks.
- Third-Person Person: When he describes his backstory. To be more accurate, his original's backstory.
- Trauma-Induced Amnesia: He was orphaned in a war in the '70s, and only remembered it as he lay dying after the terrorist attack in 1999.
- Virtual Ghost: He is a NPC based on the record of the original Twice Pieceman who somehow became sentient.
- Villain Respect: Considers the main character to be the embodiment of his belief that conflict makes people stronger, sincerely hailing them as the strongest master.
- Walking Spoiler: His very existence is itself a spoiler.
- War Is Hell: He strongly believes this, but he also believes it brings out the best in people.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He hates war, but sees that is the only way for humanity to progress.
- We Used to Be Friends: Twice's Servant was the playable Caster when he first fought in the Holy Grail War.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist:
- No matter what horrors he witnessed, he continues to believe in humanity's potential to become more. According to Extra Materials, his faith in humanity is such that it elevated him to the level of a messiah.
- Double Subverted in the anime, where he's a Dead Face that loses faith in humanity when they keep killing themselves without advancing despite attaining his wish.
Misao Amari
Misao Amari
Voiced by: Ayaka Imamura (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English), Erika Langarica (Latin American Spanish)
A student at Tsukumihara Academy who is Shinji's girlfriend and Hakuno's friend. She is a brand new character made for the anime. According to the tie-in drama CD her she has a Rider class Servant Vánagandr, aka Fenir
- Ambiguous Situation: Her fate at the end of the first episode is left vague. Shinji mentions hiding her in a safe place, but her name appears later on the tower in the school, indicating she might have been deemed worthy of becoming a Master. Shinji's brutal stabbing of Hakuno, and the Moon Cell itself massacring the students and NPCs left also leaves her fate very up in the air, until Episode 6, when she's revealed to have made it to the third floor, but even still its not clear if she is still on the floor, dead, or moved on, as the floor messes with people's minds, and by the end of the next episode, her fate is left completely unresolved.
- The Drama CD reveals that she returned to the first floor when Chakravartin took over the Moon Cell, and was working with Shinji as commander over the Berserker servants and police force to hunt for Rin. Rin ends up killing her right before the floor ends up flooded.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: While initially acting nice and friendly in Episode 1, when she reappears later in Episode 6, her personality is much more hostile and cold, making it clear her friendliness was a cover.
- Canon Foreigner: A brand new character introduced in Last Encore without any connection to any NPC in the games or past characters.
- Curtains Match the Window: She has bright pink hair that matches her eyes.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Amari appears to be doing this in Episode 6. As she muses over her failure to find anyone weaker than her on the third floor, and her self-admittedly meager reasons to compete in the Holy Grail War, she's seen lying on a bed, surrounded by several empty bottles, and she gulps down a full wineglass during the scene.
- I Just Want to Be Special: Due to the circumstances around her birth, Misao wants to win the Grail as a "screw you" to those who saw her as nothing more than a Designer Baby, and show the world she has reasons for existing.
- Irony: Her goal was to find the weakest Master and beat them, only for her to realize she was the weakest Master she could find. The irony is not lost on her.
- Proper Tights with a Skirt: She wears white pantyhose with her school uniform.
- Super Breeding Program: By her own admission she was the result of one. Her mother was not able to make it far enough in her plans, so she conceived Misao as a way to solidify her power. Misao is not happy about it one bit.
- The Unfettered: She declares she will throw away everything and sacrifice as many lives as necessary to win the Holy Grail War.
- Unfortunate Names: She had been mocked in the past because "Amari" means "scraps" or "leftovers" in Japanese.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Her fate is left completely vague by the end of episode 7, and the closest thing the audience is given is the implication she might have been beaten by Rin. Still, by the time the group moves on to the next floor, her status is not mentioned.
- The Drama CD reveals she was working off screen for Shinji during during Hakuno's visit, running the police force, all in order to hunt down Rin. She's also the one commanding the various servants that attack Rin while Hakuno and Shinji fight. Rin ends up killing her right before the floor ends up flooded.
NPC
The NPCs are virtual constructs created by the Moon Cell to help facilitate the Holy Grail War. Their appearance and personalities are based upon the data of real people, living and dead, but they are bound to the service of the Moon Cell and possess no free will of their own. Father Kotomine
Voiced by: Joji Nakata (Drama CD and Fate/EXTRA CCC) (Japanese), Armen Taylor (Last Encore) (English, Anime), Daniel del Roble (Latin American Spanish, Anime)
A man dressed in the robes of a priest. He acts as the overseer of the Holy Grail War, providing information to the Masters, enforcing the rules and occasionally providing challenges. In sharp contrast with his priestly attire, he has a very abrasive personality and almost seems to enjoy the death and destruction caused by the Holy Grail War. It is said that he is based on the data of a previous Master who competed in the Holy Grail War.
- Ascended Extra: He plays a slightly more important role in CCC. It's not so much of being more important as being talkative and seeable everyday and providing insight on what is going on. He even gains a Servant, Lancer, and becomes an optional boss.
- Expy: Of Kirei Kotomine in Fate/stay night. He's snide, a former Master turned overseer of the Holy Grail War and loves mapo tofu.
- No Hero Discount: Even though he opposes BB for rebelling against Moon Cell and putting him behind the clerk desk, he still charges for his wares because of pure sadism. Some things never change...
- Sinister Minister: The protagonist notes that his "snide demeanor" contrasts his appearance as a priest.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Mapo tofu, like in Fate/stay night.
Taiga Fujimura
Voiced by: Miki Itō (Drama CD)
The protagonist's homeroom teacher, an Expy of her counterpart in Fate/stay night. She often makes requests of the Protagonist and rewards them with decorations for their personal room.
- Berserk Button: Don't call her "Tiger".
- Cute Clumsy Girl: She trips and falls every time she enters the classroom.
- Expy: Of Taiga Fujimura from Fate/stay night.
- In-Series Nickname: Just like in Fate/stay night, it's "Tiger". Don't say it around her, though.
- Mythology Gag: Her entrance into the classroom is taken straight from the Fate anime and visual novel.
- Quest Giver: Gives out side quests and in exchange gives you decorations for your room. Completing all of them in a New Game Plus lets you fight the Superboss.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: Oh no, she didn't need that tangerine for a magic sigil, not at all.
Sakura Matou
Voiced by: Noriko Shitaya (Japanese), Cristina Vee (English, Anime), Dulce Chino (Latin American Spanish, Anime)
An AI created by the Moon Cell who works in the Nurse's Office. She provides medical care and healing supplies to Masters, and her homemade lunches are some of the most valuable and effective healing items in the game. Unlike her Fate/stay night counterpart, Sakura has long hair reaching down to her knees and is a lot more assertive. Despite sharing the same surname as Shinji, they are not related; though she plays the role of his little sister in the Lotus-Eater Machine prologue.
CCC greatly expands her role, making her one of the central characters in the plot.
- Almighty Janitor: CCC reveals that she eventually takes charge of the entire Moon Cell. However, she only has a certain amount of control and the one in charge is still the Moon Cell.
- Artificial Intelligence: Designed as one by the Moon Cell in order to have her properly take care of patients. It leads her to falling in love with the Protagonist and eventually to the events of CCC.
- Ascended Extra: In CCC, she has a much larger role.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: The entire plot of CCC happens because she falls in love with the protagonist because s/he's the only one who visit her in the infirmary not only because to get her weekly item in Extra. When she grows feverish in the shoes locker as the Moon Cell tries to delete that "alien" emotion and no one helps her, the protagonist is the only one who who says "Are you okay?" and that one act anchors her grip on her own consciousness, and drives her to save the protagonist from their inevitable fate of deletion at the end of Extra.
- Become a Real Boy: In the CCC Route Ending. Where she also gains a human body by using the Moon Cell.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She seems a bit eager to punish the offender who messed with the bulletin board in the 6th week.
- Butt-Monkey: In the Teach Me Blossom-sensei omake series where not only is her status as a side character in the original game mercilessly lampshaded to heck here, but even after it was revealed in the final omake that she upgraded herself to a "boss character", orchestrated Archer's amnesia from the start, and even went as far as to kidnap both main characters in an attempt to usurp their position as protagonist, the three playable Servants still ended up kicking her ass anyway with little effort. It's so bad that even Saber and Archer couldn't help but feel only pity for her (and even then, along with Caster, would always end up ignoring her anyway for the most part), and Sakura goes so far to admit that she's practically given up trying to surpass Rin in terms of popularity. Girl just can't catch a break.
- Covert Pervert: After the Magic Circuit Repair scene.
- Declaration of Protection: She gives a private one to lock you onto the CCC route, vowing that she'll protect the protagonist no matter what. She makes good on that promise by weakening Kiara's divine form while she fights the protagonist even after being absorbed, giving the protagonist a fighting chance at someone who should otherwise be invincible.
- Demoted to Extra: In Fate/stay night, she was one of the main heroines, now, she's just a NPC.
- Disease Bleach: Her hair slowly starts getting whiter and whiter in the CCC route as she slowly breaks down. It goes back to its usual purple in the CCC ending.
- It's All My Fault: After regaining her memories in CCC she feels horrible that her hoisting her memories onto BB is what caused this situation. It's to the point that she feels that sacrificing herself on the Far Side is her only form of redemption. Notably, Rin and Rani really don't care about her hand in causing the situation since she's clearly trying to fix it, and the protagonist points out it's really Kiara's fault at the end of the day and refuses to let her die in the CCC route.
- Supreme Chef: Her food's so good, they're some of the best healing items in the game, and one of her homemade lunches is considered a fair trade for a very valuable ruby.
- Unknowingly in Love: In CCC, she writes off her flushed face around the protagonist as errors and her desire to protect them above all others - something directly against her programing - as her subconsciously prioritizing the person best equipped to save the Moon Cell. Perfectly rational. The fact that these things make her incredibly happy is probably nothing.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: She has no relation to Shinji in this universe, they just coincidentally share the same last name. By that same token, she also isn't Rin's biological sister either.
- What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: "Science denies love." To Sakura, love is some weird contradiction exclusive to humans. Even as she begins to fall for the protagonist in the CCC route, she can't really tell where her programming ends and her feelings begin. She finally accepts it when the protagonist convinces her that love is something to be felt rather than questioned.
Issei Ryuudo
Voiced by: Mitsuaki Madono (Drama CD)
The Class President of the protagonist's school, as well as the protagonist's friend. He plays a similar role to his counterpart in Fate/stay night.
- Expy: Of Issei Ryuudo from Fate/stay night, though he doesn't seem to have his counterpart's hatred of Rin or his general discomfort around women.
Chishiki Mame/Sharon Tips
Ikuya Arina/Arina Savoy
Other
Aoko Aozaki
A woman who speaks frivolously, she arrived in the SE.RA.PH to examine an abnormality in the future, though she has not been given the authority to interfere beyond the chapel walls. She is responsible for increasing the strength of the protagonist's Servant through the "Alteration of the Soul" process. The only escape from SE.RA.PH, as she learns, is for a Master to obtain the Holy Grail.
- Foreshadowing: She name-drops the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception in Week 6, which combines with Touko's purpose being there to hint at the Superboss.
- In the Hood: Wears a black hoodie.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With Touko. The two of them absolutely hate each other, though it's toned down here compared to the other Nasuverse works. They're in the same room without trying to kill each other, after all.
Touko Aozaki
The older sister of Aoko Aozaki, who tends to speak carelessly. Despite warnings to the contrary, she continues to tamper with SE.RA.PH to find ways of escaping, though she concludes that the most efficient way to leave is for a Master to obtain the Holy Grail. She's apparently looking for a friend of a friend inside the Moon Cell. Her physical appearance is a throwback to Type-Moon's original design for Tōko in The Garden of Sinners.
- Artificial Human: Her dialogue implies that she's in one of her doll bodies, and if there is no other way out, she can just terminate her current body and reawaken in a body outside the SE.RA.PH.
- Chekhov M.I.A.: She's looking for a "friend of a friend" who got lost in this virtual world. Guess who she means.
- Smoking Is Cool: Is never seen without an e-cigarette.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: With Aoko. They never pass up a chance to snipe at each other, though it's pretty mild compared to what they normally do.
Monster
Voiced by: Maaya Sakamoto
If certain conditions are met, Shiki Ryougi appears as a non-Servant participant who has killed 99 participants in the Holy Grail War and seeks to kill one more to return to her world. Her Noble Phantasm is Boundary of the Void.
- Alternate Universe: She's from one, namely the Kara no Kyoukai timeline.
- Blood Knight: If you manage to beat her, she says she'll be happy to fight someone as strong as you again.
- Instant-Win Condition: If she Seals all your actions, she'll One-Hit Kill you.
- Luck-Based Mission: Her fight has a strong luck component to it, which isn't helped by the sheer length of it. In particular, she has two skills that basically cause a Caster to lose instantly by either dealing well over your max HP in a single hit with Twin Towers or sealing all your skills for the rest of the match with Suspended Esoterica. Because there is no guaranteed indication of when she will use either, if you're unlucky you can easily lose at any time. Furthermore, Caster's stunning attacks do not work consistently on Ryougi, forcing the player to use a different and more SP intensive playstyle to avoid poor luck.
- Magical Eye: The Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, of course.
- Mythology Gag: Boundary of the Void is a viable English translation of The Garden of Sinners.
- Nothing Personal: She says this word for word if you decide to fight her. She only wants to return home and has to kill 100 Servants to do it. She leaves the Masters alone, though they're unlikely to last long.
- Out of Character: Ryougi Shiki is not okay with killing at all despite her constant desire to do it. However, she has killed close to two hundred people considering the death of the Servant kills the Master as well. She would despise a person who committed this kind of slaughter.
- Superboss: Only fought in a New Game Plus playthrough, and she is entirely optional for a good reason.
- Took a Level in Badass: From just being able to fight Servants defensively at her strongest to being able to kill almost a hundred of them.
- Status Effects: Unlike every other opponent in the game, her Seals are permanent and cannot be healed, though Archer's 7 Rings of Heaven can nullify the attacks. She's probably killing your ability to use them.
Prologue Master Candidate
A nameless student you control in the Prologue. A friend of Shinji and is known as the Ace of the Newspaper Club. However, he begins to lose his memories and even his identity. He stumbles upon the Arena on the Last Day of the prelims, but he failed to qualify and died.
- Decoy Protagonist: The prologue is told from his perspective, and you control him throughout it... only to have him die at the end and control switch over to the real main character.
- School Newspaper News Hound: He's part of the Journalism Club, and spends his time researching for articles.
Other Participating Masters
Various other Masters who qualified for the Holy Grail War and are going through their own trials at the same time.
- And You Thought It Was a Game: Many of them are hit hard by this after the first round ends and they all get to witness (or experience) the effects of losing firsthand.
- Battle Couple: One girl entered along with her boyfriend in hopes of becoming this. Even after learning that the rules prevented this, they found ways to support each other - well, the guy did anyway - until they're pitted against each other.
- Break the Cutie: The female member of the Battle Couple does not cope well with being forced to kill her boyfriend.
- Contemplate Our Navels: One girl spends a great deal of time by the fountain, reflecting upon recent events. She acknowledges this and adds that the peaceful surroundings of the garden lead to her introspection.
- Despair Event Horizon: As the game continues, some wind up crossing this."...I can kill anyone now."
- Flower Motifs: The Master in the garden keeps pointing out various flowers and their meaning in hanakotoba, the language of flowers. These invariably have some connection to current events.
- Friendly Enemy: Some of them acknowledge they could potentially end up fighting you at some point, yet remain friendly. One particular classmate keeps wishing you luck and encouraging you to do your best.
- I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Others, however, are not so open. One fellow standing near the Library bluntly shuts down your attempts to talk to him, as you and everyone else are potential enemies.
- Jerkass: Quite a few tend to be rather rude to the protagonist, like the aforementioned fellow near the Library.
- Mad Love: The girl on the first floor absolutely adores her Servant, and over the course of the War, she progresses from squealing about his cool looks and special moves to giggling creepily and saying that anyone who gets in their way will be torn into pieces.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Affects several other Masters after the first Elimination Match.
- News Travels Fast: Everybody seems to have already heard what's recently happened to you by the time you talk to them. Justified in that intel on other Masters is very important in the Holy Grail War, and typically the only chance you get to talk to everyone is in the Evening, giving a fair amount of time for yesterday's news to spread.
- Loose Lips: Despite the conflict being partly a war of information, a few participants can't help bragging about their Servants. Some of them last surprisingly long, though, which probably means their Servants are that strong.
- Properly Paranoid: While the Master found outside the Library is a stand-offish jerk, he ends up succeeding as one of the final four participants of the war.
- Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: While the male member of the would-be Battle Couple quickly realizes exactly what they've gotten themselves into, his girlfriend remains cheery, eager to battle, and optimistic about their chances.
- Take Care of the Kids: The Savvy Guy above asks the protagonist to look after his girlfriend if anything happens to him. He makes this Last Request knowing that they've been pitted against one another.
- Tempting Fate: Several make comments along these lines.
- Underestimating Badassery: The guy who gets matched against Rin in the first round completely blows her off as a non-threat, despite all evidence to the contrary. He doesn't make it out, of course. Another female Master is repeatedly shocked to see that the protagonist survived each round.
- What the Hell, Hero?: As news and rumors of their exploits spread around campus, the protagonist can get called out on seemingly wasting time or playing with Alice when they should be preparing for battle instead.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: The standoffish Master outside the Library accuses the protagonist of Playing the Victim Card after being attacked outside the Arena by Archer.
- You ALL Look Familiar: Justified; most of them weren't able to customize their Digital Avatars.
CCC Characters
Jinako Karigiri
Voiced by Aoi Yūki
The Master of Karna, Jinako is an internet addict and slobbish Otaku who was somehow sucked into the Moon Cell and became a Master in the Holy Grail War.
- But Not Too Foreign: Though a Japanese, she notes that her father is German.
- Buxom Beauty Standard: As the protagonist notes, "That chest seems to be struggling against the pressure of that (bag’s) belt."
- Chekhov's Skill: Against Rani, who beats everyone (except Gilgamesh) in a game of chess, she wins several games out of 200 rounds of mahjong through luck and willpower alone. (Because mahjong sometimes relies on the Random Number God to get a good hand, even a novice playing against an expert can win a few games through luck. If they keep playing, the novice's wins might outweigh the losses.)
- Dirty Coward: She hides away in the janitor's closet rather than fight back or assist anyone in any way. She won't even let Karna help anyone.
- Horrible Judge of Character: She says that she wants to trade Karna for Kiara's Caster, thinking that he's an Adorably Precocious Child with an adorable voice. He is not.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Her Secret Garden reveals that for all her peppiness, Jinako is actually a very depressed, lonely woman who feels like in the 15 years since her parents died, she's wasted her life. Her wish from the Grail is to go back to when she was 15 and start over, living "what I thought was normal at 15". This secret is so painful to her that she's the only girl to break into crying and screaming before you defeat her servant in battle. She suffers a complete breakdown by the time you fight her, culminating in her screaming, "Karna! Make them go away! Crush them so that I don't have to face this anymore!"
- Jerkass: She's incredibly selfish and rather unpleasant, including treating her Servant like crap without having the faintest idea of how stupidly powerful he is.
- Loophole Abuse: Completely unintentional on her part. On the Near Side Grail War, she just hung out in the Janitor's closet without ever setting foot in the arena. As a result, her opponent won that round by default, but because she never did anything to engage in the game and stayed in one room the whole time, the system never marked her as an active participant and thus she wasn't deleted upon losing the round as she should have been. However this has a massive downside as the second she steps out of the janitor's closet, she'll be marked for deletion and cease to exist.
- NEET: When he notices who she is, Shinji calls her out for being unfair by having more than 6k hours of playtime in an MMO that's less than a year old, which means she plays the game 18 hours per day. She then proudly boasts that she only needs the rest for sleeping. There's a Freudian Excuse for that, though.
- Nerds Are Sexy: Her official art has her being rather cute and shapely for a 30-year-old fujoshi. Oddly enough, fanart tends to portray her more realistically.
- Older Than They Look: She's thirty years old.
- Otaku: A deconstruction, as noted under This Loser Is You.
- Small Name, Big Ego: She's a perfect mirror of Shinji, often boasting about her skill and calling herself the "Great Jinako". Though somewhat skilled, she's no match for either Rin and Rani when they go to their post as the Mission Control. She's surprisingly ignorant about the Grail War and its system, and it seems she never goes to the Arena at all. It's implied that's the reason why no one saw her in the Holy Grail War; she chickens out of the war when she realizes the entire war isn't a game and hides, getting eliminated without fighting a single match. The only reason why she survives is because Karna gave her his armor.
- This Loser Is You:
- She’s basically a giant deconstruction of anything to do with otaku. She's a loner who deludes herself by believing she has friends and an important status as a champion gamer, and thinks her life is full of freedom because her parents are dead and her finances are supported without work because of her parents' insurance. In reality, her view of the world is so jaded, she doesn't want anything to do with it and as a result lives an ultimately meaningless life.
- Gilgamesh does not hide what he thinks of her when they first meet.Gilgamesh: Has human life finally become this easy? That one may simply disappear, cared for by no one, criticized by no one, hated by no one — like a living ghost. Kishinami. Did you sacrifice your command spells to me that you could show me such unsightly things? If that is the case, leave that would-be ghost in there to die. Rethink that desire to save what no one cares for.
- Underestimating Badassery: She's thinks her Servant, Karna, is weak and worthless. It's only after seeing him fight the protagonist that she finally understands she's struck gold.
- Unreliable Expositor: Unlike the other SG, hers are told from her point-of-view, which wouldn't be so bad if she didn't admit that she's such an unashamed liar in the same SG...
- Yaoi Fangirl: A parody of the fujoshi archetype.
- You Are Fat: It's probably easier to find scenes where someone isn't commenting on her weight.
Kiara Sessyoin
Voiced by Rie Tanaka
The Master of Caster, Kiara is a Buddhist nun who took the identity and teaching position of Taiga Fujimura in the Prologue. There is rather more to her than is immediately apparent.
Her Noble Phantasm is Angra Mainyu/CCC: All the World's Desire, in which she absorbs the collective souls of mankind and envelops them in a whirlwind of orgasmic pleasure intense enough to literally melt and reform their beings in an instant.
- Ascended Fanboy: Summons her favorite author as her Servant. They don't get along.
- Assimilation Backfire: She assimilated BB, Sakura, and the Alter Egos to gain both power and authority over the Moon Cell, but combining with four people all completely dedicated to protecting the protagonist gave even her divine form a fatal weakness against our hero as the girls resisted her from within.
- Big Bad: Revealed to be this in the CCC route and is the one indirectly responsible for BB.
- Bodyguarding a Badass: In the true final battle of CCC, though Andersen is technically her Servant and is listed as such, in gameplay their positions are flipped; Andersen supplies the support magic, and Kiara herself is the boss.
- Clipped-Wing Angel: It is implied that she is restrained from her using her full potential as a demon by numerous factors: she absorbed the Sakura A.I.s who loved the Protagonist, she lacks the capacity to fully understand her newfound power, and Caster's "author's spirit" does not allow her to reach her "ideal self" so easily. Fate/Grand Order's CCC crossover event gives us a bit of a glimpse at what she might be capable of when properly unchained, and it's both awe-inspiring and terrifying.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: To Stay/Night's Kirei Kotomine. Both are religious leaders responsible for providing exposition about the early game circumstance, only to take mastermind and final boss roles later down the line. While Kotomine still maintains his shades of a moral compass while fully believing himself to be evil, Kiara is much more morally unshackled while unwavering believing herself to be good.
- Dark Messiah: She saw that the only way for the world to gain salvation is through her teaching, which is basically having humanity go into wild orgies of sex to ascend spiritually. As the world itself is so full of suffering, her real-life counterpart is hailed as the ‘Last Prophet’ for bringing salvation through hedonism and causing thousands of suicides. She becomes Angra Mainyu, but instead of evil, she becomes an embodiment of lust by being an idol of lust and an object of humanity's lewd desire.
- Didn't See That Coming: She dies in the normal CCC story mode at the hands of Meltryllis, foiling any plans she had.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Her class "Heaven's Hole" and her Noble Phantasm.
- Grand Theft Me: She can use both Meltryllis and Passionlip as "backup" bodies if her original self is killed. In the Normal routes, her backups get killed off before she can do this, but in the CCC Route she does successfully evade death by possessing Passionlip instead.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: By Meltryllis. A decoy is used in the CCC Route.
- Lack of Empathy: Considers herself the only person to be truly human.
- Mad Love: Her love for all humanity.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast:
- Naughty Nuns: You can't get much naughtier than being part of a sect of Buddhism that focuses on gaining enlightenment through sexual pleasure. Her nun habit also has a very long slit on one side that shows off her legs.
- One-Winged Angel: She uses the power of the Moon Cell and Caster's Noble Phantasm to become a powerful demon: a counterpart to Avenger (Angra Mainyu), except one created from all the desires in the world instead of all of the evils. And much like with Angra himself in stay night, Grand Order reveals there was even more going on here, which you can pick up some foreshadowing of in CCC itself if you pay attention.
- Our Demons Are Different: Transforms into a demon comparable to Angra Mainyu, but failed to achieve the rank of a true God and true demon. She does have the power of a true demon, which is the ability to harm beings Not of This Earth.
- Painful Transformation: Her transformation into her demonic form is both the height of pain and the height of pleasure, though whether the latter is actually a part of it or just Kiara being Too Kinky to Torture is unclear.
- Spell My Name With An S: In EXTRA, her name is spelled as "Kiala" as opposed to "Kiara" when Gatou mentions her during one of his rants. Her last name can be spelled Sesshouin or Sessyoin depending on the romanization system used; there isn't a ton of agreement about which to use among the fanbase. As of Fate/Grand Order, her name's been officially romanized as Kiara Sessyoin.
- The Tease: Her Establishing Character Moment is basically smothering the protagonist with her chest after falling from the stairs, then seeming to deliberately prolong their suffering (?) for a moment with an absurdly fake innocence. Then she has the gall to call the accident “heated tryst” right in front of the class later.
- Too Kinky to Torture: Her desire to save the world through her sect is so incomprehensibly self-torturing, everyone’s wondering just how much she likes being used. In the final battle, she keeps saying "More!" when a Servant gets a good hit on her.
- True Final Boss: The final boss of the CCC route.
- Walking Spoiler: She passes herself off as a harmless Master with a worthless Servant. Her motivations and indeed story itself are guarded secrets only unlocked by following steps that are not apparent and generally speaking not even possible on your first playthrough.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Since the beginning, she’s dismissive of Sakura’s capability to feel emotion because AI shouldn’t have that kind of anomalous programs, and only true humans can. That’s the reason why she can’t comprehend that Sakura’s and BB's love is real, and also the reason why Sakura Labyrinth exists. For her, the AIs exist for her to manipulate.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: She likens her ambitions and metamorphosis to those of The Little Mermaid, the protagonist of her favorite story. However, her intended similarities are ultimately superficial, with BB ultimately resembling the lovelorn heroine and the siren's bittersweet quest for humanity more than her.
CCC Fox Tail Characters
Kazuhito Sakagami
A Master working for BB, he and Saber are constantly opposing Hakuno and Caster in Fox Tail.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Downplayed. Kazuradrop did brainwash him but his general personality seems to be intact, only that he's more open to work with Kazuradrop.
- Marshmallow Hell: Suzaka ends up inflicting this on him when she ends up falling on him during the group's trip to the hotsprings and her plans to peep on him ends up with her slipping off a cliff.
- Mirror Character: A hilarious moment happens when Saber first meets Caster and they go on a massive argument about love and who is the better couple with their respective master. Kazuhito and Hakuno share an empty stare as they mentally communicate the other knows their suffering.
- My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction when he used a command seal to force Suzuka to use her final Noble Phantasm when she was losing against Minamoto-No-Raikou after he saw Raikou's master decided to respect her servant's wishes. This feeling intensified when Suzuka collapsed due to her power overwhelming her servant container.
- Self-Made Orphan: He accidentally murdered his parents when his attempt to use magecraft after getting the family crest backfired.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: In regards to Saber.Kazuhito: I don't remember becoming your boyfriend.
- Straight Man: To Saber's assorted shenanigans.
