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Tanaka

Tanaka

Voiced by: Misato Fukuen (Japanese)

A mysterious girl from Miyu's world, she seeks to defeat the Ainsworth family, but remembers nothing else.

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• Amnesiac Hero: Her memories start when she first met Illya and her goal of destroying the Ainsworths. There's a reason for this: she only started existing when Illya arrived in her world.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: An excitable teenage girl that is in fact a manifestation of Gaia's Counter Force, one of the Powers That Be in the Nasuverse that is the functional soul of the planet Earth, and exerts all manner of godlike power to assure the planet's survival.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Being Gaia's Counter Force, She eventually admits that she doesn't really care if humanity gets destroyed, only that the world survives. If humanity gets saved in the process, that would certainly be nice though.
• Clothing Damage: After being struck by Mjölnir, her clothes vaporized, and she only suffered burnt wounds.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: She has no common sense at all as she's a construct of the planet's counter force who exists for no other purpose than to make sure Illya succeeds in stopping Darius's apocalyptic plans.
• The Dreaded: When Erika realizes what she is, she freaks out. Turns out she has a very good reason to be afraid of Tanaka. Tanaka is the manifestation of Gaia's Counter Force, the godlike will of the Earth that makes sure anything that becomes a threat to the planet's survival is wiped from existence.
• Exposed to the Elements: She only wears her gym outfit seen in the picture and is unaffected by snowy conditions. Justified as her body is extremely hot and can generate flames.
• Genki Girl: Pretty hyper most of the time.
• God Was My Copilot: Gaia's Counter Force, the soul of the planet's desire for survival expressed as a godlike power that can bend even fate itself... in the form of a teenage girl, as Gaia identified Illya as the key to the planet's survival the second she showed up, and created Tanaka to help her succeed.
• Godzilla Threshold: As Gaia's Counter Force, she is this trope incarnate. Normally, Gaia would have just caused an incident or summoned a regular Counter Guardian to kill all the Ainsworths before they could threaten the world. However, the problem is that the true threat of Pandora's Box will still exist even without the Ainsworths, and it can't be destroyed by any standard means Gaia might employ. So when Illya showed up presenting a possible means to eliminate the threat, the Counter Force went all-in and directly manifested itself as Tanaka to make sure Illya succeeded instead.
• Hate at First Sight: She hated Erika the moment she saw her. Possibly because she subconsciously realized that Erika is an Ainsworth and/or Pandora.
• Healing Factor: Even after receiving numerous fatal attacks that would count as overkill, she is just fine a few hours later.
• Inexplicably Awesome: Illya and company meet her without the slightest clue about her identity, yet she saves the the party from the Ainsworths on a whim more than once, all while being wishy washy how any of her insane abilities are possible. According to Erika after turning into a fake Grail, Tanaka is the world's "Truth" that passes judgement on counterfeits. Later, Tanaka finally reveals she is the incarnation of Gaia's Counter Force, one of the Powers That Be that exists to ensure the planet's survival.
• Mr. Smith: "Tanaka" is the fourth most common surname in Japan, and is unsurprisingly just a pseudonym for an Anthropomorphic Personification of Gaia, the soul of the planet Earth.
• Nice Girl: This is actually a bigger deal than one would think, especially after the reveal that she is the incarnation of Gaia (Gaia's Counter Force, to be more precise, but they're basically the same thing) which is normally depicted as having Blue-and-Orange Morality and being uncaring towards humanity at best and outright hostile to humans at worst. However, once she remembers her true identity, she explicitly subjects Illya to a Secret Test of Character, and is utterly thrilled that Illya is determined to save the world and its people despite the world already having ended, with only herself, Tanaka and Gil being the only survivors and Darius effectively having attained godhood. Even when she admits that she doesn't care if humanity goes extinct even if the world is saved, the fact that she considers humanity's survival to be a better outcome speaks volumes. Perhaps Illya's status as The Heart and an Ideal Hero has allowed Tanaka to understand humanity more than she otherwise would have...
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Beatrice's Mjölnir should have vaporized Tanaka, but Tanaka's body is completely intact.
• Playing with Fire: Shatters Darius's ice-based barrier with a ridiculously powerful blast of heat.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: She can detach her arm and turn it into a fiery sword that's powerful enough to vaporize the Heroic Spirits generated by Erika's mud cube form as well as damage it.
• Walking Spoiler: There is a great reason she is one as when we finally learn her origin. It was predicted early on by many readers that Tanaka had something to do with the Counter Force, but the big twist is that she's not just from Gaia's side rather than Alaya's, but that she is Gaia's Counter Force — a full-on Anthropomorphic Personification of Gaia itself rather than an agent.
• Womanchild: She behaves very childishly for a girl most probably in her teens, even compared to characters younger than her. Even when she remembers that she is the incarnation of Gaia, this doesn't stop, and is in fact given a justification because of it: she came into existence around the same time Illya arrived in her world. The reason she acts like she was born yesterday is because she actually was.

Ramen Shop Owner

Kirei Kotomine

Voiced by: Joji Nakata (Japanese)

^{Click here to see him as a priest}

The chef of a ramen shop seemingly specializing in hellishly spicy Mapo tofu, and the only store seemingly still open in the mostly-abandoned Fuyuki city. Definitely knows more than he first lets on about the circumstances surrounding the city's abandonment, as he's the overseer of this world's Holy Grail War.

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• Adam Smith Hates Your Guts:
  • The hellishly spicy Mapo tofu he sells is, as Illya puts it, a total rip-off.
  • Sold some of his Black Keys to Alternate Shirou, and they don't do him any good when tries to use them to break through Julian's barrier. Alternate Shirou bitterly complained that the priest charged him a lot of money for those toys.
• Adaptational Heroism: Compared to his FSN counterpart, this version of Kotomine is much less hostile, and even rescues Shirou, and later helps him by providing the information he needs to win the Holy Grail War. It helps that he refuses to partake in the Ainsworth's delusional plan in "saving" the world.
• Chekhov's Gunman: It's only a matter of time before he is more involved in the plot. He is. He knows Kiritsugu as the Magus Killer. And he saved Shirou after Jullian took Miyu away.
• Demoted to Extra: While he was one of the Big Bad Ensemble in the original Fate/stay night, here he's just an observer for the Ainsworth Holy Grail War, giving Shirou the vital information he needs.
• Mr. Exposition: He's the one who explained to Shirou about the Ainsworth family and the universe's version of the Holy Grail War.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: His reaction when the spell around the Ainsworths' mansion is dispelled. Whether or not he'll come back later is impossible to tell right now.
• Villain Respect: Saved Shirou and admires him for having the conviction and selfishness to doom the entire world on the off-chance it will ensure his sister's survivability and happiness.
• We Sell Everything: Inverted. He only sells hellishly spicy Mapo tofu and other ''very'' spicy food.

Miyu's Family (SPOILERS)

Miyu's Brother

Shirou Emiya

Voiced by: Noriaki Sugiyama

^{Click here to see him as a child}

^{Click here to see him before the Holy Grail War}

^{Click here to see his initial Archer Install}

^{His Archer Install after its initial appearance}

Miyu's elder brother and the adopted son of Kiritsugu Emiya. He's the parallel counterpart of Illya's brother and looks identical except for a few strands of white hair and some brown patches of skin from overusing his Projection magecraft.

Before the story began, he was a participant in the Ainsworth Holy Grail War. After defeating the other six participants and becoming the victor of the Holy Grail War, he freed Miyu from the Ainsworths and sent her to Illya's world.

He was the original owner of the Archer Card imbued in Chloe, summoning it using himself as a catalyst. The Card itself corresponds to Heroic Spirit EMIYA. Though he lost the card after the Grail War, he retains his other self's abilities, albeit with reduced power and a heavier mana drain due to the Class Card's lower parameters.

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• Alternate Self:
  • He's a parallel version of Shirou Emiya, Illya's adopted older brother in her universe. More specifically, he's the adopted son of Illya's biological father Kiritsugu Emiya in both universes, much like in Fate/stay night.
  • He's also a parallel version of Heroic Spirit EMIYA, whom he summons through the Archer Card.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: Miyu's brother is a lot more like his original incarnation (or even stronger) than Illya's more-or-less normal brother. He can even use his iconic Projection magecraft and invoke Unlimited Blade Works.
• Always Save the Girl: When forced to choose between saving the world or saving Miyu, he saves Miyu. He doesn't care if anyone calls him a "villain" for this reason. Miyu is worth it to him.
• Anti-Hero: He has no problem dooming the entire world if it means protecting his sister Miyu.
• Awesomeness by Analysis:
  • His fight against Angelica shows that he's a heavy strategist, planning moves ahead of his opponent and keeping track of his openings.
  • He finds out that Angelica is Julian's sister simply by comparing their similar expressions. Later, he breaks through Kuro's facade, revealing that she doesn't value her own life, and confronts her about her problems.
    Shirou: Sharpen your senses to their utmost. A single move can prove fatal. A single moment can spell death. Kill off any needless thoughts. The only thing we should be seeing for now is the boundary between life and death. Think ten steps ahead, and seize even five more seconds of survival!
  • He defeats Shinji by exploiting an off-hand fact that he revealed to him earlier. He later defeats Saber by taking advantage of the latter's missing arm to sidestep an Excalibur blast and fire off a Broken Phantasm.
• Badass Adorable: Unlike mainstream Shirou, Kiritsugu taught him magecraft properly and allowed Shirou to accompany him on his many excursions, including the job where they rescued Miyu.
• Badass Boast: Has a ton of them.
  Shirou: If you're willing to kill one person for the sake of the greater good, then I'm willing to accept all the evil that comes with stopping you. Do you have enough resolve, champion of justice?
  Shirou: I'm seriously done with this little play you guys are doing. Outta my way, you third-rate actor.
  Shirou: Fine by me. Bring it on, Saber. We've gone this far, so I'll keep playing your game... until one of us breaks.
• Badass Creed: He gets his own Unlimited Blade Works chant.
  Shirou: I am the bone of my sword. Steel is my body and fire is my blood. I have created over a thousand blades. Unaware of beginning nor aware of the end. Withstood pain with inconsistent weapons. My hands will never hold anything. Yet, my flame never ends. My whole body was still "Unlimited Blade Works." ^{Alternatively}My body is made of swords. My blood is iron, and my heart is glass. I have overcome countless battlefields. Never once retreating, nor attaining victory. The orphan is alone again, striking diamond dust on a hill of swords. But this life is not yet over. This false body was still made of swords!
• Badass in Distress: He is the one who freed Miyu from her captors in the past, which implies badassery. And he is currently their prisoner, getting captured in the process of doing it. Later, Gilgamesh breaks him out.
• BFS: The first two weapons he's shown projecting are Nine Lives and Ig-Alima.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • He's going to stop the Ainsworths even if it means dooming humanity, just to save his little sister, Miyu.
  • Shortly after meeting Kuro, he becomes something of a Big Brother Mentor by coaching her mid-battle against Angelica, as seen in this quote when they jointly project Rho Aias.
  Shirou: Read through her and seize with your own hands, your survival five seconds in the future!
• Call-Back: His apparent loss to Sakura is this all the way back to the UBW route and Fate/Zero. In the former, Shirou says that his Reality Marble would not allow him to beat a Servant, a 'wielder' of a weapon. Much like how Knight of Owner was a limited counter to Gate of Babylon in Zero, Shirou and his Weak, but Skilled pragmatism is simply overwhelmed by the Installed Sakura's Strong and Skilled, superior weapon usage.
• Combat Pragmatist: As he is fighting Sakura, he realizes that Knight of Owner makes utilizing his normal swordplay counterproductive. So Shirou resorts to Tracing modern-weapons to fight Sakura, were they grenades, landmines or even Kiritsugu's Calico M950. Anything to throw Sakura off-guard.
• Composite Character:
  • His characterization is a mixture between two of his incarnations from Fate/stay night. His personality is similar to his Heaven's Feel counterpart, in that he's abandoned his ideal for the sake of his loved one, while his power-set reflects his Unlimited Blade Works counterpart, including the ability to summon the eponymous Reality Marble.
  • His Archer Install takes inspiration from other versions of himself, mainly EMIYA, Avenger, and Limited / Over Zero.
  • His latest outfit, a full kimono and daikyu, recursively brings to mind Muramasa with its heavy Japanese lean.
• Deadpan Snarker: Unlike in Fate/stay night, he doesn't hold his tongue. He'll casually snark at anyone who isn't Miyu or Sakura, as Julian gets a taste of. He even snarks in the middle of battle.
• Deflector Shields: He has access to a seven petaled shield named Rho Aias. He uses it to No-Sell a Rain of Arrows fired from muddied Heroic Spirits.
• Determinator: For one, he spends three months hopelessly trying to bring back his sister.
• Didn't See That Coming: Shirou thought he had taken everything into account before facing Sakura, eventually putting her into an inescapable Tripe Crane Wings spot. Unfortunately for Shirou, he couldn't have known at all that Sakura had already copied Kanshou thanks to her previous fight with Chloe, allowing her to block the thrown swords and counter Shirou.
• The Dreaded: Even Angelica admits that the Archer Card and Shirou are dangerous.
• Dual Wielding: He wields Kanshou and Bakuya.
• Field of Blades: Unlimited Blade Works, a snow-covered world housing an unlimited number of blades and the greatest magecraft available to Shirou Emiya. He unleashes it against Angelica.
• The Gadfly: Back in the peaceful days, Shirou called Julian a siscon to get a reaction out of him.
• Good Is Not Soft: He's a nice guy and a great big brother, but unlike Fate/stay night where he tries to avoid killing other masters, this Shirou has no problem with killing other participants of the Holy Grail War.
  • He jams several copies of Kanshou and Bakuya inside Shinji's transformed state and Overedges them to try and impale him, and in the end of the fight, he doesn't hesitate to end his life after he's rendered defenseless. He only finds out Shinji isn't human after the fact.
  • He decides that the best way to ensure Miyu's happiness is to stop Julian. How? By killing him. He only fails because he's attacked by Sakura.
  • He disarms Saber, not by skillfully severing a tendon, but by cutting off his left arm.
• Heartbroken Badass: After Sakura is killed, he takes some time in the next chapter to silently grieve for her before refocusing on his fight with Shinji.
• The Hero: Of the flashback arc and its film adaptation Oath Under Snow.
• Hero of Another Story: Before the story began, he took on the Ainsworths and managed to send Miyu to Illya's universe by defeating all of the masters in the Holy Grail War and using his wish to transport Miyu. He also held off Angelica by utilizing Unlimited Blade Works. The flashback arc explores his past, wherein he takes over as the main protagonist.
• Heroic RRoD: While fighting Angelica, his heavy usage of Projection takes its toll after he tries and fails to invoke his reality marble, leaving him vulnerable to her Storm of Blades.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: A minor example when Shinji demands the identity of the Archer Card.
  Shirou: No one in particular. It's just a nameless wannabe of a Heroic Spirit.
• Human Pincushion: Turned into one by Julian when he took Miyu the first time. Kotomine saved him.
• Innocently Insensitive: Almost walks into the girls changing clothes with a completely straight face, having done so to help Miyu numerous times in the past much to her embarrassment.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite the Fourth Holy Grail War not happening in his universe, he still ends up in an accident that kills his family, is saved and then adopted by Kiritsugu.
• Irony: He abandons Kiritsugu's ideal of being an Ally of Justice in order to become a better brother. Yet the Card he summons corresponds to Heroic Spirit EMIYA, the very embodiment of those ideals.
• The Last Dance: While he promises others that he will not fight anymore due to the condition he is in, he admits that he was lying as he has one more thing he needs to do; Kill Sakura once and for all.
• Leitmotif: EMIYA, not to be confused with Kuro's Shoujo Shinka.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: After Shirou installs Heroic Spirit EMIYA, he starts kicking Shinji's ass. Presumably, it's this power that allowed him to save Miyu from Julian's clutches in the first place.
• Locked into Strangeness: Through prolonged exposure to his future self's Card, he obtains its powers and Sword origin, which he describes as his body "being invaded by Heroic Spirit EMIYA". Fortunately, the most it does is bleach some of his hair and tan segments of his skin, unlike the last time something like this happened in the series. At least at first.
• Not the Intended Use: The Heroic Spirit bound to the Archer Card is a Counter Guardian, an entity meant to protect mankind. By using its power to save Miyu, Shirou's actions are harmful to humanity as a whole, the opposite of what the power was intended for. Shirou himself acknowledges this. ^note However, the Heaven's Feel route implies that the remaining humanity and emotions in EMIYA would approve of that mindset on some level. This might have played some part.
  Shirou: The power meant for humanity's sake... I vowed to use it for a single person.
• Power Degeneration: Prolonged usage of the Archer Card's power finally catches up to him after his fight with Sakura. His mind deteriorates to the point where he no longer knows where he is or what he is doing, only recognizing that he doesn't have much time left to live. He doesn't even recognize Sakura despite dragging her corpse with him. However, he does manage to instinctively get to the place he needs to be to find Sakura's heart and release her from Imaginary Number Space.
• Powered by a Forsaken Child: Rare Protagonist Example. Miyu herself is the reason why Shirou can unleash Unlimited Blade Works, and project Divine Constructs, which are magical abilities that require a lot of prana to activate. Shirou himself was unaware of this connection until Miyu was safely teleported from his reality.
• Promotion to Parent: He takes over raising Miyu after Kiritsugu dies.
• Red Is Heroic: A red head on a one-man crusade to free his sister from the Ainsworths. This becomes more poignant once he installs the EMIYA Archer card and dones the Counter Guardian's crimson red mantle.
• Satellite Character: Spends the first half of 3rei giving the heroes info on Miyu's location and being the cause of Miyu's original escape to Illya's world. Subverted when he's freed by Gilgamesh.
• Selfless Wish: After managing to win the Holy Grail War he uses his wish to give Miyu a happy life.
• Snow Means Death: His version of Unlimited Blade Works is covered in a snowstorm and he views the blades as graves. Keep in mind that Sakura also died in the snow, so this was probably invoked.
• Spam Attack: He uses Nine Lives to kill several muddied Heroic Spirits.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: He has access to Projection, the same type of magecraft that the Archer card grants.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: After Miyu was freed from the Ainsworth's clutches, the perspective was taken away from Illya to focus on Shirou and Miyu's past and the circumstances that lead to the plot of the story. Namely Miyu's origins and the Holy Grail War. See Hero of Another Story. It's to the extent that Prisma Illya's movie is about his battle against the Ainsworths!
• Storm of Blades: He counters Angelica's Storm of Blades by launching his own. Takes it up to eleven in Unlimited Blade Works, creating a tsunami of blades in an attempt to counter Ea. It fails.
• Tears of Joy: After Illya tells him that she is Miyu's friend and she's come to save her, he starts crying from happiness, because half of his wish had been fulfilled.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: His defiant response towards Julian when he tells him that saving Miyu will result in the destruction to the world.
• Took a Level in Badass: He starts off as what amounts to everyone's punching bag with nothing more than Reinforcement magecraft. Then he summons the Archer Card and solos the six Ainsworth dolls with it, winning the fifth Holy Grail War. After he gives it up to save his sister, he reveals to be able to use Heroic Spirit EMIYA's powerset through assimilation and unlocks his own Unlimited Blade Works.
• Tragic Dream: He gives up his dream of becoming a hero of justice and decides to live a normal, happy life with his sister, which is soon interrupted by the Holy Grail War. When he wishes Miyu to Illya's world, he knows he'll probably never see her again, and the last thing he thinks about are his hopes that she'll be happy and his regrets that he couldn't teach her more as her brother. Later, the only reason he gets to meet her again is because a link is created between his world and Illya's world due to the Ainsworths forcibly bringing her back.
• Tranquil Fury: During his first Install and fight against Shinji, he remained decidedly calm while beating the tar out of him.
• Unique Protagonist Asset: He doesn't use a Card or rely on a Mystic Code, he's just an ordinary Magus relying on his own power. However, his Projection magecraft allows him to kill muddied servants with ease and fight the Ainsworths head-on. In the flashback arc, he's a participant of the Holy Grail War and the wielder of the Archer Card, but the unique nature of his summoning gives him an advantage over the other participants. See his Weak, but Skilled entry. The end of his flashback reveals that Miyu was providing him with prana during the Holy Grail War, a connection that is cut when she's transported to Illya's world.
• Viral Transformation: Like in Unlimited Blade Works, Shirou taking aspects of EMIYA into himself is causing his body to be overwritten. Invoking EMIYA'S power accelerates the process, and eventually it will kill him.
• We Used to Be Friends: Shirou considered Julian to be his friend prior to becoming aware that he had Miyu. Now they are bitter enemies.
• Weak, but Skilled: As acknowledged early in the series and in-canon, Archer is by no means the strongest Class Card. But unlike the Ainsworth dolls, Shirou is in complete sync with the Heroic Spirit imbued within it. This gives him a large enough advantage that he can defeat the other six participants of the Holy Grail War in spite of their power difference, though not without getting nearly killed multiple times.
• The Worf Effect: After killing a large number of Heroic Spirits and defeating Angelica with Chloe's help, something no one else in Illya's group could accomplish, he gets severely injured by Sakura, showing just how dangerous she is.

Miyu's Father

Kiritsugu Emiya

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama

^{Click here to see him as the Magus Killer}

Shirou's adopted father, who rescued him from an accident and mentored him in magecraft and in being a hero of justice.. He had a dream of creating a world without conflict, and would use any means to accomplish it. This led him and Shirou to take great interest in the Children of God.

He adopts Miyu in hopes of using her as a tool to save humanity, but dies shortly after and passes the burden onto Shirou.

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• Abusive Dad: Downplayed. While he doesn't mistreat his adoptive children, Kiritsugu sure as hell had "less caring" reasons for adopting them in the first place and only focuses on raising them to be of use to fulfilling his ideals.
  • Averted in the latest chapter as his spirit later clarified some things.
  Kiritsugu: I should have made myself clear. You see... I never wanted you to follow in my footsteps. There was no need for you to take on the burden of a hero of justice. All I wanted... was for Miyu and you to live a regular life as siblings. That's why... you're different than me. It wasn't a mistake, Shirou.
• Adaptational Villainy: Unlike his Fate/stay night counterpart, he retains his ideals to Well-Intentioned Extremist levels (complete with Face Framed in Shadow) even after adopting Shirou. As a result, when he decides to adopt Miyu, he does so to use her as a tool to save the human race, rather than out of affection.
  • Downplayed in that it only lasts a single chapter. He gets a more sympathetic final talk with Shirou in chapter 32 of 3rei where he passes his ideals of heroism to Shirou.
• Alternate Self: He's an alternate version of Kiritsugu Emiya, Illya's father in her universe. More specifically, he acts as Miyu's and Shirou's stepfather until his death.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: To Illya and Kuro's biological father, a fact that does not go unnoticed.
• Death by Origin Story: He died when Shirou and Miyu were young.
• Famed In-Story: If Kotomine's to be believed, he was apparently notorious enough to be known as the "Magus Killer" in Miyu's universe, much like his Fate/Zero counterpart.
• Incurable Cough of Death: Like in Fate/stay night, this version of Kiritsugu died slowly over the years from sickness. What kills him is never explained, since it couldn't have been the curse he received in the F/SN timeline.
• In Spite of a Nail: Even though he didn't fight in the Fourth Holy Grail War and get cursed by the corrupted grail that doesn't even seem to exist in this universe, he still dies from a mysterious disease several years before the fifth Holy Grail War.
• Shadow Archetype: He's essentially Fate/stay night Kiritsugu and his Alternate Self if they never had someone like Irisviel in their lives.

The Ainsworth Family

In General

• Alternate Universe: Seem to be Miyu's verse equivalents to the Einzberns.
• Anti-Villain: Angelica and Darius outright state their goal is to save the world even if a few people need to be sacrificed.
• Big Bad: They are the ones who abused Miyu in the past and want to sacrifice her for the sake of the greater good. Their actions are also indirectly lead to the appearance of class cards in Illya's universe.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Flash Air was seen as a weak magecraft, but the Ainsworths figured out how to use it to overwrite the laws of the world and create their universe's version of the Holy Grail War.
• Original Generation: While everyone else in PRISMA☆ILLYA is a pre-existing Nasuverse character, the Ainsworths are entirely new.
• Space Master: The Ainsworth family's magecraft is Flash Air, a type of displacement magecraft. It can be used something as simple as grabbing things from a distance or creating mini-portals to something like morphing a mountain into a castle and hiding massive objects in plain sight. The caveat is that the objects they substitute will suffer some form of degradation each time.
• Spell My Name With An S: Alternatively romanized as "Einsworth/Einzworth", to stress the fact that they are Alternate Universe counterparts of the Einzberns.
• So Last Season: Compared to the original seven Class Cards that Illya has gotten comfortable with, the Class Cards that their creator employs are on a whole other level. Be it due to the wielder's skills or the Heroic Spirit itself, the ones the three major Ainsworth Dolls use are so fantastically busted that even proper high-tier Servants would have their work cut out against them.
  • Angelica's preferred Class Card Gilgamesh needs no introduction, but she takes its trademark Storm of Blades and augments it with her Displacement Magecraft in the form of Teleporters and Transporters that makes it infinitely worse. She's also not a slave to her ego like Gilgamesh is, and thus has no qualms going for overkill as soon as she feels the need.
  • Beatrice herself offers no extra tricks, but Thor, actually Magni, is a patently ridiculous Berserker even by the standards of the class. It's Resistant to Magic, wields the ungodly-powerful Mjölnir, does not have a conceptual weakness, and can survive one lethal hit in addition to already having monstrous strength.
  • Sakura has Lancelot du Lac. Lancelot was already a menace due to his Noble Phantasm stealing every weapon in sight, but Sakura herself makes it even worse not only by being a Dance Battler with unholy reflexes, but by invoking the Hollow Element both to void any magic attacks and give herself extra limbs to grab weapons with.
• Viler New Villain: Previous antagonists in the series, while still quite dangerous in scope, operated only out of instinct, ignorance, or amusement. These guys on the other hand are out for blood.

Angelica Ainsworth

Angelica Ainsworth

Voiced by: Ryōko Shiraishi (Japanese)

^{Click here to see her Gilgamesh Install}

One of the Ainsworths' dolls sent along with Beatrice to retrieve Miyu and guard the Ainsworth estate. She wields an Archer Card assigned to the Heroic Spirit Gilgamesh.

After being defeated by Chloe and Miyu's brother, she's taken a refuge in said brother's house, much to the other female characters' dismay.

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• Attack Reflector: Can warp enemy projectiles through space to send them back at the original owners. Which makes her perfect for Illya's snowball fight.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She' has a very large bust that is emphasized by the cleavage of her outfit. Rin even refers to her figure as being a "virgin killer".
• Co-Dragons: The no-nonsense enforcer who keeps the reckless and violent Beatrice focused on their mission.
• Combat Pragmatist: She will change methods if something doesn't work, such as during the fight with Gilgamesh when she realized she couldn't defeat him by spamming Gate of Babylon, and so resorted to also using Flash Air in combination. In a flashback, she fought Shirou in the Unlimited Blade Works, but unlike Fate/stay night's Gilgamesh, who didn't realize the danger until it was too late, she immediately resorted to Ea once she realized she couldn't win normally.
• The Comically Serious: After her Heel–Face Turn, her Emotionless Girl act starts being played for laughs.
• Cool Big Sis: She acts as one to Erika, making and fixing her stuffed animals. This may now include Julian as well, but remains completely speculative due to insufficient information. She even becomes one to Illya after her Heel–Face Turn.
• Dark Action Girl: She's a shining example in that she's ruthless and very straight to the point, making her extremely efficient compared to the rest of the cast.
• Emotionless Girl: Strictly speaking: over 90% emotionless, as a result of being turned into a doll by the Ainsworths. She learned to fake many of her emotional responses, but no longer sees the point in doing so. Partially averted, if the tears shed when expressing her desire for Illya to save her brother as part of 'both Miyu and the world', are in fact genuine.
• Foil: With chapter 44 revelations, to the Shirou from Miyu's world of all people. Older siblings, uses an Archer card, somewhat different to normal people -specifically, a stunted emotional response — due to events in their past, while everything in their power to make their sibling happy, even if it means going against the world.
• The Heavy: She's actually responsible for much of the game-changing plot twists in 3rei, mainly due to her ability to extract souls from their original body and putting emotionless dummies instead, which she does to Illya, Rin and Luvia.
• Heel–Face Turn: Not of her own choice. But after her defeat and Gilgamesh taking his card back, the Ainsworths abandoned her. She followed the protagonists' group as she had nowhere else to go.
• Head-Turning Beauty: After her Heel–Face Turn, Rin and Luvia buy her some more fashionable clothes. The change of clothes makes her so beautiful that the girls call her a "virgin killer". Later on, when everyone is discussing the Ainsworths plans, Miyu's brother is clearly checking her out.
• I Am Not Left-Handed: Invokes this midway through her fight against Gilgamesh when she claims she has not yet used her Card to its full potential. However, they are interrupted by Beatrice barging in with her own ''fight'' against Caster Illya.
  • Angelica used Ea in the flashback arc against Shirou when she realized that 1) She is in a disadvantage fighting in UBW and 2) Shirou's just stalling for time. She even used two giant blades to distract him while she prepares the weapon, so by the time he regained his composure, he couldn't do anything to stop her.
• In the Back: Shirou and Chloe defeat her this way. With Shirou's body too worn out from his imprisonment for him to use Unlimited Blade Works, he and Chloe distract her with a joint Kakuyoku Sanren, giving Chloe the opportunity to teleport behind Angelica and run her through. Though it doesn't quite bring her down, it surprises her long enough for Shirou to land the finishing blow and knock the Gilgamesh card out of her.
• Leitmotif: ANGELICA.
• Mundane Utility: Her Flash Air ability can be used rather effectively on snowball fights as Kuro and Tanaka find out the hard way.
• Modesty Bedsheet: Subverted. Angelica has no qualms about getting up and standing in her full, glorious nudity to talk to little Erika, who's about Illya's age.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's very pretty, and busty, too. Her Gilgamesh install leaves her with a pair of bras (that are clearly too small for her). After being defeated, the mangaka has way too much fun with her, what with showing her bathing and dressing her in provocative dresses that emphasized her bust. There is a reason that Illya and co. don't want her under the same roof as Miyu's brother.
• Sleeps in the Nude: By her own admission, she always sleeps in the buff. Even when she is living at the Emiya residence, her nightwear is merely a slightly larger shirt. Erika considers she's very "mature" for doing so.
• Space Master: She can use the Ainsworth's magecraft to deadly efficiency as shown in her fights against Gilgamesh and Shirou and Chloe. As she was originally Julian's older sister, being skilled in the Ainsworth family magecraft is rather obvious, in hindsight.
• Statuesque Stunner: Taller than even Bazett and beautiful enough in a "Male Virgin Killer" style to cause Illya, Miyu and Chloe to blush; flip Illya's 'Turn On-switch' and to have Miyu's brother checking her out.
• Storm of Blades: By installing Gilgamesh's Archer card on herself, she gains the hero's signature Gate of Babylon, allowing her to fire near-unlimited amounts of weapons at her opponents. Gilgamesh successfully gains some of his treasures back during his fight with Angelica.
• Used to Be More Social: Justified. The Oath Under Snow Materials describes her original personality as intelligent and gentle. However, after dying and becoming a doll, she lost a majority of her emotions and had to fake them from others. But she gave up the farce, believing it wasn't worth the effort of being a fake, and overall led her to being rather serious, strict and unapproachable.
• Weapon Specialization: She adamantly refuses to use any Class Card other than Gilgamesh. To her credit, Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon and her Displacement Magecraft are a busted combination... but this also means she fully intended to go to Illya's world without a Class Card. Unfortunately, she was lucky enough to reclaim it right after crossing over.

Beatrice Flowerchild

Beatrice Flowerchild

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (Japanese)

^{Click her to see her Thor Include}

^{Click her to see her Thor Install}

One of the Ainsworth's dolls. She is the user of a Berserker Card corresponding to Thor and is the previous wielder of the Heracles Card.

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• Aborted Declaration of Love: She tried to confess to Julian again, but stopped when she began to doubt if her love for him was real since it was meant to have been erased when she became a Doll.
• Amnesiac Lover: Becoming a Doll made her lose two things: her memories of her family and name, and her love for Julian. But after spending five years serving him, she falls in love with Julian all over again.
• Amnesia Missed a Spot: After Illya has performed her Ret-Gone, Beatrice has holes in all her memories involving her — until the feelings Illya left with her react with the Magni Card, restoring those memories. She uses this to help the others remember.
• Ax-Crazy: Beatrice has a very sadistic streak when fighting against Illya, and has no remorse in pummeling her even after Illya lost the fight.
• Bolt of Divine Retribution: The Thor Card can make these.
• Boobs-and-Butt Pose: While she never does it in the Manga or the Anime (most likely because of her frilly/heavy skirts), supplementary material would have her do this◊ (Warning: NSFW). Also a good example of Male Gaze; a very good example.
• Brought Down to Badass: Any Divine Spirit would ordinarily be far too powerful to summon into a Holy Grail War, so whatever version of Thor the Ainsworths contained in the Class Card must have suffered a significant De-power. The power that remains is still enough to grant Beatrice tremendous Super-Strength, No-Sell Caster!Illya's magic, and when Julian orders/allows her to cut loose she calls down a dozen massive pillars of electricity from the heavens, each strong enough to rip through Rho Aius like tissue paper and leave a streaking crater in their wake.
  • Later happens to Beatrice herself after Thor's Divine Core is destroyed: while she retains Magni's card, she can no longer wield Mjölnir.
• The Brute: Super-Strength, not too bright, and Likes to hurt people.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: A powerful doll wielding the power of the Berserker card who also happens to be an idol Otaku. Turns out the idol is her master, but still an otaku.
• Catchphrase: "Scatter into elemental dust!" Typically used as a Pre-Mortem One-Liner, whether it be before atomizing someone with Mjölnir, getting ready to release a Bolt of Divine Retribution, or tearing the head off a teddy bear.
• Co-Dragons: The wild, vulgar, and violent muscle to compliment the composed, calculating, and ruthlessly focused Angelica.
• Combat Sadomasochist: OH so very much.
• Curbstomp Battle: As part of establishing the Ainsworth dolls' dominance over the protagonists, she mops the floor with her Berserker card against Caster!Illya.
• Discard and Draw: Beatrice originally used the Heracles Card in the Fifth Holy Grail War. When Shirou defeated her, Heracles' God Hand Noble Phantasm saved her life, but the card was still ejected as a result and subsequently taken. Beatrice would later be given the Thor/Magni card for the Sixth War.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Dresses as such when not using her Thor Card.
• Fighting Down Memory Lane: Using Mjölnir Ragnarök resulted in her memories being used as lightning to attack the surrounding area, which allowed Illya and Bazett to see her past and how she came to know Julian and become a Doll.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Unknowingly expresses to Illya (a stuffed animal at the time) that she feels neglected and alone in the Ainsworth house, and stuffed animals are her only real friends. Even Illya can't help but feel sorry for her. Downplayed, since this certainly isn't an explanation or excuse for how insane or sadistic she is, and is immediately followed by the reveal of another, far more ridiculous aspect of her character.
  • Her character initially comes off as loudly obnoxious, but it's later revealed she used to be a quieter girl who was picked on for her red hair. She became this way after Julian saved her from bullies during elementary school to stand up for herself. Beatrice Flowerchild isn't even her real name, but something she chose to stand out.
• Humongous-Headed Hammer: Beatrice wields a Berserker card giving her access to the powers of Thor's son Magni, and with them Mjolnir. Here it's portrayed as looking like a giant version of a traditional Mjolnir pendant, with a head several times the size of her entire person.
• Identity Amnesia: Being turned into a Doll made her forget her love for Julian, her family and her real name, with Julian giving her the name Beatrice Flowerchild as that was what she told him to call her in the past. She was left with only vague memories of her past life, and using Mjölnir makes her lose more, with the usage of Mjölnir Ragnarök making her forget everything else of her past life.
• Interrupted Declaration of Love: Tried to give one to Julian. Then she died by debris from the ending of the Fourth War.
• Line-of-Sight Name: A minor and not direct version of the trope. It is revealed in a flashback that Beatrice Flowerchild isn't her real name, having changed it because it was one of the things she was bullied for. When called by her supposed real name by Julian, the dialogue is censored to reflect her Identity Amnesia. Next to the panel is a shot of some flowers, before the next page has Beatrice telling Julian to not call her that and decides to call herself Beatrice; Beatrice Flowerchild.
• Rescue Romance: She constantly states this is why she follows Julian, because he rescued Beatrice from debris by resurrecting her as a Doll. However, she reveals this was a lie as when she was made a Doll, she had lost her past love for Julian and she fears the new love she developed for him is fake because of this, believing herself to be a disposable pawn and an empty Doll. Illya convincing her otherwise is how she ends their final fight.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Despite being apparently teenaged, she dresses in Elegant Gothic Lolita fashion, complete with parasol, and goes out of her way to act cutesy on several occasions. Her main hobby (aside from lusting over Julian) is collecting stuffed animals (some, if not all, of which are stolen from Erika, a girl half her age) that she calls her "friends," despite commonly ripping their heads off. She also holds some childlike vulnerabilities related to the loneliness she feels in Ainsworth household.
• Sadist: She openly enjoys hurting her opponents.
• Sarashi: She wears a small one in her Card Install, which side material reveals is actually the belt Megingjörð. Surprisingly it doesn't have the ability to double the wearer's strength like told in legend in-and-out of universe, just that Beatrice believes it does; it's just an old belt.
• Scary Teeth: She's got evil fangs in place of regular teeth, which helps to show just how unhinged she is.
  • What's odd is that her flashback reveals that her teeth were always like this, even when she was a timid, bullied girl.
• Sex Is Violence: Aside from her Blood Knight tendencies, she enjoys herself a little TOO much when Julian allows her to release Mjölnir's full power.
• Slasher Smile: A very noticeable one in nearly all of her fight scenes.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Beatrice, of all people, is the one to start unravelling Illya's Ret-Gone. As Miyu, Julian, and Bazett are struggling to figure out what they've forgotten, Beatrice connects the dots because her Rider-transformed Magni Card restored those missing memories — all she does is say Illya's name and their memories come surging back.
• Tsundere: Parodied when she drools over "Julian" (which Illya found out later, is her master).
  Beatrice: N... Not that I really... missed you or anything!... Ohhhhhh! Julian-sama's tough guy act is so moeeeeee!
  Illya: What the hell is she doing?
• The Reveal: The identity of her Berserker card. It's not Thor, but Magni, one of his sons that inherited Thor's Divine Core along with Mjölnir — which also means Beatrice has two Divine Cores. The heroes don't realize this until Thor's core destroys itself taking what would've been a lethal hit for Beatrice, but this still causes Mjölnir to self-destruct, giving Illya the chance to end the fight non-lethally.
• The Unfought: She was the owner of the Berserker Card in the Fifth Holy Grail War, but her fight is never shown on-screen. The material books confirm that Miyu's brother beat her by fighting her at long range, ultimately sniping her. Thankfully (or not), this means Illya gets a proper fight with her.
• Unknown Rival: She absolutely hates the Archer Card's wielder. Subverted in that its current holder, Chloe, is someone else entirely. As for why she hates the original wielder so much, see the previous entry.
• Wham Line: See the Second Berserker's entry.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Illya saves Beatrice by reminding her that, despite being a doll with scant memories of her past life (which Mjölnir's self-destruction finished off), she still fell in love with Julian all over again.

Darius Ainsworth

Darius Ainsworth

The head of the Ainsworths and the "true enemy" according to Gil. The creator of the Class Cards, he seeks to use Miyu to complete his "legend" and save his Earth from a Angel Notes-esque apocalypse. He does not fight with an Installed Class Card, instead using nameless Noble Phantasms from failed Class Cards in combination with his practiced Displacement Magecraft, the art of swapping one thing with another.

He is in fact the founder of the Ainswoth family, who has been performing a form of Demonic Possession on his descendants by overwriting the current head of the Ainsworth family with Displacement Magecraft, keeping himself alive for a thousand years.

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• Achilles' Heel: Darius' Displacement Magecraft is on levels comparable to a Reality Warper, but it is still magecraft and is completely neutralized by anything Anti-Magic. One stab from the Caster Card's Rule Breaker is enough to bring him to his knees and undo a lot of his magic. An Origin Bullet is even worse because of how Darius' Demonic Possession works, as the magic circuits of his descendants are what possesses the concept of "Darius" and need to be at least somewhat active at all times. One poke from the bullet is all it takes to completely obliterate the magus. That is, if it wasn't for how his vines can act as a backup system.
• Alchemy Is Magic: Darius originally specialized in alchemy magecraft. He specifically specialized in elixir making from ancient China, with him being interested with the elixir of immortality.
• And Show It to You: Darius uses Displacement to reach out and crush Class Cards that are already installed — the girls can feel them shattering within their bodies. Bonus points for when he does it to Chloe, since the Archer Card is her heart — she makes sure he regrets it.
• An Ice Person: His Noble Phantasm, Apneic Beauty: 301 Second Ice Shrine of Eternity, is able to erect a massive ice dome to prevent Chloe and Bazett from interrupting his conversation with Illya. The ice is so tough it is unaffected by Bazett's punches and Chloe's Caladbolg. That is, until Tanaka shatters it with a powerful blast of heat.
• Bare-Handed Blade Block: Performs one against Saber Install's Excalibur, with the excuse that it would hurt Erika if swung around recklessly.
• Big Bad: The one responsible for just about everything bad in the story. He's the Head of the Ainsworth Family, the person responsible for the appearance of the servant cards earlier in the story, the person who wanted to kidnap Miyu to use her to open the Pithos, the one whose growing insanity over multiple lives drove Pandora towards Jumping Off the Slippery Slope, and the one attempting to destroy his world early essentially because he wants to ascend to godhood.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Presents himself to Illya as the Demon King who needs to be taken down, from her perspective.
• Casting a Shadow: His Noble Phantasm, Shadow Hand of Code: Right Hand of the Coexistence Spiral, allows him to create hands of darkness to bind his opponents.
• Composite Character: Darius is essentially a mixture of Jubstacheit von Einzbern (Illya's "grandfather", also known as "Old Man Acht", who briefly appeared at the beginning of Fate/Zero and is centuries old due his obsession with attaining the Third Magic), Zouken Matou (being obscenely old and has an obsession) and Roa (due to using reincarnation to possess people and evade death, though Darius is using his own descendants).
• Control Freak: Darius is obsessed with theatrics, treating everyone beneath him like actors on a stage in his grand "legend" to save his world, whether they're his allies or not. He gets mad when something behaves outside of the "role" he projected.
• Create Your Own Hero: Twice over, the second instance more literal than most. He created an 8th Class Card that was supposed to be junk just to spite Miyuverse Shirou. Not only does Shirou end up epically derailing his plans using the card, said card would also go on to become the heart of Chloe von Einzbern.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • Darius' Blood Magic ritual involving Miyu's "legend" in 3rei, specifically climbing on top of her and stabbing through her hands to make her bleed and scream, is depicted in a manner that evokes rape imagery.
  • When Darius first takes over his body he is straddling Julian from behind while Julian is writhing in agony and clawing at the dirt begging him to stop.
• Face Framed in Shadow: Used to great effect during his appearances just to show how sinister his character is.
• Faux Affably Evil: At first he appears to genuinely care for Erika, and holds back Angelica and Beatrice from killing the cast, but at the same time he's totally unrepentant about his abuse of Miyu and was willing to kill Tanaka just for being someone he didn't know about. Then its revealed he regularly beats up Erika, and is generally the reason she is so ill adjusted. At least before we learn that Erika was always like that.
• Final Boss Preview: Shows up to pick up Erika and show Team Illya exactly what kind of power they're trying to challenge.
• Godhood Seeker: What Darius' plan ultimately entails is to become "The Creator", the being who is believed to have created the beginning of the Human History. By replacing the current, dying Human History with the one in Pandora's Box, he aims to become the New Creator and therefore become God. Gil-kun considers the sheer scale of this feat to be worthy of his praise, declaring that Darius' sheer arrogance rivals the gods.
• Gravity Master: His Noble Phantasm, Authoritarian Personalism: Faceless Jet-black Sovereign, allows him to greatly increase gravity in an area. He can choose who it affects, so he and his allies can move freely while his enemies are pinned to the ground.
• Hate Sink: Darius is much more openly despicable, frequently indulging in Kick the Dog moments and having an end goal of erasing the world to replace it with another.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Darius practices Displacement Magecraft, which is the art of swapping one thing with another thing of similar shape and size. Like Shirou's Projection, this magecraft was often seen as weak and worthless... until Darius mastered it and became capable of absurdities like replacing a mountain with a castle. While his family does some amazing things with Displacement, once Darius takes to the field himself, there is no comparison; he can displace parts of himself to become faux-intangibile, invert the surface area of incoming attacks to make them block themselves, and even displace light and sound to throw his appearance and voice wherever he wants. Like Archer mastered Projection to become an incredibly powerful Servant, Darius' master of Displacement has turned him into a truly terrifying magus.
• Hero Killer: As the Rule Master of the Ainsworth Holy Grail War, Darius (and Julian by extension) has the ability to destroy Class Cards — and they demonstrate it with the Caster Card to avoid any more Rule Breaker stabs. Once Darius is confronted by the heroines for the final time, he goes on a Class Card killing spree, using his Displacement Magecraft to retrieve and destroy installed cards from inside their bodies until only the Archer Card inside Chloe is left. When destroys it too — mortally wounding Chloe — she hits him with an anti-magic bullet as he destroys the Archer Card.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Played for Laughs, as he comments how the air is getting thinner while his ice barrier is still up and he is starting to freeze along with his daughter.
• I Have Your Wife: After Miyu starts resisting Darius' rituals, he starts threatening to hurt her brother to ensure further cooperation.
• King Incognito: Visits Team Illya after she befriends Erika. No one learns about his identity until prompted to, after which he engages Illya in a fight.
• Knight of Cerebus: The story takes a massive turn once his identity is revealed.
• Large Ham: He breaks into a bombastic speech when asserting Illya's motives. Later goes on to lecture Shirou about what a faker and thief he is and for "messing" up the world and his plans.
• Logical Weakness: Two, one Downplayed and one actual:
  • If a Class Card user is moving too fast and in an unpredictable manner, he can't use his Magecraft to destroy their Card, as the space the Card occupies is rapidly changing. However, this is Downplayed because the act is at most a delaying tactic; the Card User can't harm him due to his Displacement Magecraft, and even if they did they are most likely attacking a Displaced illusion of him, making it only a matter of time before Darius gets them.
  • Played Straight here. Although his utter mastery of Displacement Magecraft makes him basically untouchable, when he destroys Class Cards he needs to physically touch them; even if he uses Displacement to reach the Cards inside a person, he still needs to actually touch them to grab and destroy them. Chloe uses this chance to stab his hand with an Origin Bullet, and since he's using magecraft to Conceptually override a body, this destroys the Magic Circuits that keep Darius manifested in his descendants, in this case Julian.
• Motive Decay: When Darius first met Pandora, all what he wanted to do was to find a way to open the pithos so that she can finally die. However, after spending his natural lifespan trying to open it no avail, he realizes that Pandora's fear is that everything in the world will die before she does, making him promise in his dying breaths that he will overwrite the world and its rules to stay with her, using displacement magecraft to place himself in the pithos and then be reborn in the world as a magical construct again and again. But with each reincarnation, his memories started to slowly deteriorate, leading to him gaining a new motive that involves the same goal. By the time he is at the verge of creating a new world with the pithos, he has completely forgotten why he wanted to do so in the first place.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He created a 'junk Archer card'.^note The idea being that Sakura would give it to Shirou, only for Shinji to kill them both after an engineered Hope Spot, this plan being apparently engineered by Julian out of spite. Which Shirou used to summon EMIYA and completely derail his plans by first winning the Holy Grail War and thus being able to send Miyu to another universe, ruining Julian's chance to use her. And as a result of his wish, when Miyu is captured and brought back, Julian ends up having to contend with her friends and allies who are determined to rescue her and ruin his plans, one of which was born from that 'junk Archer card' (Chloe). Shirou himself notes that creating the card and letting it get into Shirou's hands was a massive blunder on Julian's part, which he later acknowledges with the creation of Doll Sakura to deal with the card should it ever resurface.
• Nightmare Face: Occasionally flares creepy expressions when interacting with Illya. Also has when he beats up Erika. Again when he berates Shirou for his constant interferences.
• Rainbow Speak: When Darius and Julian are revealed as separate existences, when both are on panel and it's not clear who is speaking, Julius gets white speech bubbles while Darius gets black.
• Sadist: Darius is shown in several panels with a sick twisted smile as he's torturing poor Miyu. Later as he corners all the heroes and urges Miyu to go back to being just his "puppet", he's smiling sadistically.
• Restart the World: Darius seeks to open Pandora's Box under the belief that it contains a whole other world "brimming with potential, untouched by human history", seeking to overwrite his current dying one with it — and damn those who still live. ^{Fun fact!}If anyone up to date with Fate/Grand Order just did a double take, then no, you did not misread: Darius essentially wants to create a Lostbelt. Julian is less optimistic, believing the Box contains a dead world that spills out its ruined potential as corruptive mud, and was hoping to destroy the Pithos after it was opened and Pandora gained mortality.
• Sharing a Body: The true nature of the relationship between Julian and Darius, the latter possessing the former as he is the last living Ainsworth. This makes their relationship with Pandora especially complicated, as Julian wants to keep Pandora away from Darius, but being both people at once makes this... difficult. This is a large part of why Julian wants to Mercy Kill her.
• Space Master: As part of the displacement magic he practices.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: In his original incarnation he was a truly well-meaning person, just like Julian, just like Shirou, who sought to give everything he had to helping a single person (in his case Pandora). However, his use of Displacement Magecraft to extend his life was imperfect, causing more and more pieces of his memory and identity to be lost over the centuries until nothing but megalomania remained.
• Visionary Villain: Darius claims he wants to save the world, specifically making it so that humanity would survive the eventual depletion of Mana on Earth, the latter scenario suspiciously similar to the situation in Angel Notes.
• Would Hurt a Child: Tries to kill Illya and her friends on multiple occasions, tries to sacrifice Miyu, routinely abuses Erika through Corporal Punishment, uses his descendant Julian as a meat puppet... and that's only listing what's seen on-screen.

Julian Ainsworth

Julian Ainsworth

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (Japanese)

The oldest son of the Ainsworth's who was once a friend of Shiro before the Ainsworth's grail war. He desperately seeks to realize Erika's dream, and has willingly joined forces with Darius, despite Darius's Displacement Magecraft slowly overwriting his existance with Darius's, in order to do so.

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• Composite Character: He serves as the parallel universe equivalent to Issei Ryoudou, taking his place as Shirou's best friend and student council president. He also shares traits with Shinji, acting as an enemy to Shirou and even having a little sister. Not that he considers her such or are related by blood.
• Evil Counterpart: Julian is this to Shirou. Both were students who attended the same school, and both practiced seemingly-weak magecrafts (Displacement for Julian, Projection for Shirou), but Julian's ideals and goals are opposite to Shirou's. Darius is also this to Archer, both having developed their magecrafts to levels that would make high-tier Servants blush, but Archer would give everything to protect the world while Darius wants to erase it.
• Expy: Julian looks and acts like Issei during Shirou's flashback. When they become enemies, he drops Issei's noble qualities and straight up becomes unpleasant.
• False Friend: To Shirou. Even if they were really friends, that ended the moment he took Miyu and left him for dead.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: Beneath all his ceaseless anger and apparent desire to kill Erika, while Julian doesn't think she can be happy in this world, he secretly hates Darius's plan. His only real wish is to see Erika smile.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: When Darius is incapacitated by Illya's Rule Breaker, Julian's first act upon being revealed is to throw everything at the heroes, from his Class Card-wielding minions to the blackened Servant armies of Pandora's Box. Were it not for Tanaka's intervention, Julian would've won right then and there.
• Perpetual Frowner: After the reveal, Julian almost always has a frown on his face. The only time he breaks it is when someone manages to get under his skin. That someone is usually Shirou.
• Tragic Villain: Julius Used to Be a Sweet Kid before an accident involving Erika and later Darius' possession considerably soured his mood.
• Tsundere: He's got a dirty mouth and he's prone to insulting others. He shared a complicated relation with Shirou, who he constantly berated at the cost of being the target of Shirou's snarkier side, but hinted that he valued their friendship. He also treated Beatrice the same, but it's much clearer that he cared about her as we're shown in her memories of dying in front of him.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Julian used to have a heart of gold and was as idealistic as Illya. Becoming embroiled in Darius' schemes and eventually becoming his unwilling Soul Jar caused him to bury that heart of gold deep, and his optimism is all but gone.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Julian unsurprisingly hates working with Darius, the man who is trying to literally take over his life. The only time they're shown to agree on anything is their shared enmity for Illya. Julian doesn't even care about opening Pandora's Box beyond letting him give Pandora her Mercy Kill, but opening the box is Darius' entire endgame, so he's forced to help with the scheme anyway and hates every second of it. They don't even have a consensus on what the box might contain.

Erika Ainsworth

Erika Ainsworth / Pandora

Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi (Japanese)

^{Click here to see her true form}

Darius' daughter. A Cheerful Child and a bit of a goofball, her tone sharply contrasts the rest of the Ainsworth family. Her Class Card is Pandora corresponding to an as-of-yet unknown class... or that's the story she and Darius tell everyone, at least. It quickly becomes clear that Erika is not as innocent as she seems, and her true identity and purpose are the Ainsworths' greatest kept secret.

Heavy Spoilers below.

The reason no one can identify Pandora's class is because the Class Card doesn't exist — after all, you wouldn't need it when you are the being in question. "Erika" is one of many aliases for Pandora, the genuine being from myth responsible for watching over her namesake Box that holds all of the world's evils. History has diverged in Miyu's world because this Pandora didn't peek in the box like in the original myth, and thus she has been an undying existence for over 6,000 years because her purpose is unfulfilled.

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• Akashic Records: What Pandora's Box really is: a replica of the Starlog (the universe's proper record) reverse-engineered by the gods. The replica is called Pandōrā or Pandōrae^*pronounced "Pan-Doo-Ray", and Pandora the person based her name off of it.
• Actually, I Am Him: Pandora's Class Card doesn't exist. Erika actually is Pandora, the Original Woman and an immortal of 6,000 years that's lived to the present day. This understandably blindsides the heroes not just because of how absurd it is to have a true being of myth walking among them, but because it also torpedoes their plan to stop Pandora's Box since they can't invoke No Ontological Inertia.
• And I Must Scream: The humans who feared her immortality burned her, cremated her and then buried her deep underground to keep her away, with her being very well aware of everything being done to her and then some. Her biggest fear in not being able to open the pithos and thus die is that she will keep on living even after the end of the world has happened, with her being the only person left in the universe.
• Animal Motifs: Bats.
• Apocalypse Maiden: She is one due to Darius' plan and her original purpose from the gods to open Pandora's Box.
• Army of The Ages: She can use Pandora's Box to summon blackened versions of all the Heroic Spirits who sought the Holy Grail and failed to claim it.
• Beneath the Mask: She originally seems to be a cheerful, if a bit creepy, spoiled child who just wants to explore and have friends. But in reality she is a nihilistic, emotionless Death Seeker who is solely focused on completing her task, dooming the world that hates her and finally dying.
• Break the Cutie: Getting rejected by her only friend ever and then being drenched in the mud from Pandora's Box seems to have completely broken her. Somewhat subverted: the mud was hers and the Erika that emerged from it was her true form. She really was just that mad at Miyu, as her rejection opened up old wounds.
• Broken Bird: As an immortal, she was rejected and called a monster whenever people found out about it, with many actually attempting to kill her. After enduring thousands of years of this, it broke her spirit so completely that it also broke her function as a Key and thus she can't open the Pithos even though Humanity is on the brink of destruction. Now she believes that any attempt of friendship with her is futile and that she just wants to open the Pithos, not to complete her function per say, but just so she can die.
• Cheerful Child: She's quite the happy child but...
• Creepy Child: ...She doesn't bit an eye at the idea of erasing someone's memories, or sealing their mind into a stuffed animal.
• Complete Immortality: An indestructible being whose concept of death is sealed within the equally-indestructible Pandora's Box, which she has lost the ability to open and can still only be emptied after all of humanity has perished, and her lack of historical record in Miyu's world leaves no myths that could be used against her. This level of immortality is notable even in the Fate series, where immortals the likes of Scáthach and Tiamat were kicked out of Earth and Yu Mei-ren could choose a method of non-existence; Pandora is just straight up unable to die until her Box has fulfilled its purpose, regenerating from nothing even in a world where mana is dying. Not even the Powers That Be can get rid of her, and they have apparently tried more than once.
• Death Seeker: When she meets Illya again after being bathed in the mud of the "cube", Erika tells her that her wish is to die and asks Illya if she will kill her. This is because she can't die since her death is in Pandora's Box.
• Distaff Counterpart: Royally screwed in the head, hated by an irrationally high number of people, fake name, and corrupts Heroic Spirits. Erika is pretty much Angra Mainyu from the original Fate/stay night. It's even reflected in their titles, having very little change in English or Japanese: where Angra Mainyu is called "The Evil of All the World", Pandora is referred to as "The Gift of All the World".
• Driven to Suicide: Millennia of being hated by those she just wished to be friends with has driven her to wishing for death. Though since she's immortal, she can't actually die and she's was forced to deal with more and more rejection instead, with the final nail in the coffin being when Miyu, who she considered her first friend, declared that they weren't friends either.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: After her Overnight Age-Up, her eyes lose all of the shine they previously had.
• Expy:
  • Since Chloe doesn't quite fit the bill, Erika serves as a more proper expy of Creepy Child Illya from the original Fate/stay night. Complete with turning the object of her affection literally into a doll. Her Mud Doll form is similar to Dark Sakura in that she is corrupted into an evil version of herself by a cursed artefact and can summon blackened Heroic Spirits.
  • Speaking of the cursed artefact, Pandora's Box is revealed to function akin to a cube-shaped Akashic Records capable of maintaining an entire world inside of it and rewriting reality — much like the Moon Cell in Fate/EXTRA.
• Eyes Never Lie: Despite having a completely justified reason and function for wanting to die, Miyu is able to point out that Pandora is actually lying to even herself by how sad a face she makes when saying that, as well as her own remembrance of her Brother's wish to give Miyu happiness despite him losing everything. This leads Miyu to believe that Pandora is secretly hiding her "true" wish.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Well it makes sense considering she's 7.
• Hope Spot: She reveals that she hoped Miyu would be her very first friend, and that she was happy when they talked. But it got crushed when Miyu was freed and refused Erika's friendship, leading to a rekindling of her Death Seeker desires.
• I Have Many Names: She has accumulated countless names over the millennia^note Erika, Emilia, Isabella, Christina, Leona, Monica, Sylvie, Vanessa, Victoria, Julia and Vlastimila to name a few. as she constantly shifted identities waiting for the end of Humanity and seeking for someone to open Pandora's Box.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Pandora is just so desperate for companionship and to have friends like everyone else in the world. However, everyone that ever got close ends up rejecting her due to being unable to accept that she is immortal. In her entire six thousand years of existence, she considered Miyu to be her first ever friend. Then Miyu got free and rejected her too, which crushed whatever hopes she had and returned her to her Death Seeker persona.
• Irony: In Classical Mythology, the box is named after Pandora. In Fate's retelling, Pandora is named after the box.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Promotional material regarding the Licht - The Nameless Girl film was not coy about the big twist involving Erika. Despite being the very thing that turns the whole series on its head, any advertising specifically targeting her refers to her as Pandora and not by her alias.
• Monster Progenitor: For lack of a proper Holy Grail, the mud from her giant black cube (Pandora's Box) is the new source of Blackened Servants in this continuity. These Servants are summoned in the mud, and Darius takes advantage of their suppressed wills to easily bind them into Class Cards.
• Never Given a Name: While her "True Name" might be Pandora, in reality she was never given a name by the gods. "Pandōrae" was always the name of the pithos itself rather than the girl who looked after it. The first person who actually called her "Pandora" was the time-travelling Illya.
• Never Grew Up: Despite having lived for 6,000 years, 5,000 of which were before Darius kept "resetting" her, she has never physically aged into her teen years.
• No Ontological Inertia: Defied. The initial plan to stop the Ainsworths was to relieve Erika of her Class Card, since they figure that's what is generating the mud cube. It fails because there is no Class Card. Erika is Pandora and the mud cube is her titular Box, and their existence in the world is very real and not the product of any sort of summoning.
• Obliviously Evil: She truly doesn't seem to understand why Team Illya is trying to rescue Miyu, or why Miyu was horrified when Erika turned Illya into a soulless 'doll' — she was genuinely just trying to make Miyu happy by bringing her friend to her. Illya and Miyu both describe her as "warped".
• Older Alter Ego: After being submerged in the black mud of Julian's "cube", she comes out a few years older, jumping from 7 to somewhere around Illya's age of 11.
• Original Woman: She is the original woman made by the gods thousands of years ago.
• Outside-Context Problem: Rin and Illya are almost spot on in their theory of Erika's purpose in Darius' plan and why Julian goes so far for her sake, but they lack one piece of critical information: they have no way of knowing that Erika is Pandora, rather than someone using Pandora's Class Card. She is neither human nor Heroic Spirit and has lived over 6,000 years, having no myths to shape her existence as it has yet to actually end. She's a new flavor of problem not just to the Prillya continuity, but the Fate series as a whole — for a sense of scale, the Counter Force itself is actively trying to get rid of her and failing!
• Point of Divergence: This character, her backstory, and the current decaying state of her world can be summed up with one spoilerific question: What if Pandora was a good little girl and didn't curiously peek inside her box like in the myth?
• Purpose-Driven Immortality: As Pandora, she was made by the gods to open Pandora's Box and release all the potential of the world against whatever would cause the destruction of Humanity. This version of her spent so long being rejected and attacked by Humans for her Immortality that it broke her spirit and thus her function as a Key, so she couldn't open the Pithos. As a result she is unable to die as her purpose was unfulfilled, with her 'Death' still contained within the Pithos, hence why Julian didn't simply kill her himself. She can only die if she opens the Pithos, yet she is unable to do it on her own.
• Put Them All Out of My Misery: An invoked Type 5. Pandora is so miserable after her treatment at the hands of humanity that she just wants to die, but her concept of death is stored within her box — which can only activate after every last human life has ended.
• Really 700 Years Old: She has lived for six thousand years, constantly changing identities and unable to die until Pandora's Box is opened. She will live as long as her legend continues, which is eternal as it is still going on.
• Raise Him Right This Time: Horribly, horribly deconstructed. Pandora hasn't stuck with Darius for the last 1,000 years by her own choosing. Using some perverted application of Displacement Magecraft and Pandora's Box, Darius forces Pandora to literally vomit out aspects of herself as black mud — age, memories, sense of self, everything — and store it in the Box (though she is never reverted to an infant, only losing a couple of years appearance-wise). This act "resets" Pandora, and Darius raises her under a new name until she starts to question his motives, whereupon he resets her again, a cycle that has repeated with every new identity she's had. Only after being submerged in the mud of the Box does Pandora regain her true self.
• Shown Their Work: Pandora's Box is correctly referred to as a "Pithos" instead of a box, as the detail of it being a box wasn't invented until much later, something Rin points out. People understandably still call it a box since that's what it appears to be, but the box is more like an outer shell; the true pithos is the formless black void contained within the box.
• The Watcher: Her role is to watch Humanity until the time of their destruction, then open the Box on the fateful day to save the world.
• Time Abyss: As the Original Woman made by the gods, she's 6,000 years old and even after Darius's magic that makes her look like a child is undone still looks like a young woman in her teens or twenties.
• Walking Spoiler: Can't say much without revealing she's Pandora — the actual person, not a Heroic Spirit or a magus wielding one through a Class Card, and is in fact the catalyst for the entire series.

The Holy Grail War Dolls

The Holy Grail War Dolls

^{Click here to see Lancer}

^{Click here to see Saber}

^{Click here to see Saber's true identity}

Seven dolls that served as masters in the Ainsworth's Fifth Holy Grail War, six of whom were defeated and killed by Miyu's brother. Before the ritual that sent Miyu and the Class Cards to Illya's world, they were the original wielders of the Cards.

In order of Assassin, Caster, Rider, Berserker, Lancer, Saber, and Archer, their identities are Shinji Matou, Atrum Galliasta, Kariya Matou, Beatrice Flowerchild, Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald, Zachary Ainsworth, and Angelica Ainsworth.

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• Artificial Human: They look human, but upon dying, they revert back to their doll form.
• Body Horror:
  • You only see it briefly, but the Kariya doll still has the scarred face from the crest worms like his counterpart.
  • The left half of Kayneth's body is covered in his Mystic Code.
• Deadly Gaze: Thanks to the Rider card, Kariya possesses "Cybele". He uses this on Shirou during their fight.
• Dramatic Irony:
  • Shirou is the adoptive son of Kiritsugu Emiya, an enemy of Kariya and Kayneth in the Fourth Holy Grail war, and all involved parties are unaware of the others connection to Kiritsugu.
  • Atrum was a would be enemy of Shirou's in the Fifth Holy Grail war before Medea killed him. Naturally, Atrum and Shirou are completely unaware of this.
  • On a more tragic note, Shirou and Kariya would ordinarily be allies, thanks to their protectiveness of Sakura and Rin. But Kariya being turned into a Doll forces them to fight each other instead.
• Eye Scream: Saber loses an eye after he takes a point-blank Broken Phantasm.
• Fatal Flaw: Like his counterpart, Kayneth's is his pride and over reliance on his Mystic Code. He insists on using his Mystic Code over his Noble Phantasm, as he believes his magic is superior and the spear just gets in his way. The authors note that if he used the spears power, he probably would've killed Shirou.
• Handicapped Badass: Saber, the final doll that Miyu's brother faces and the strongest of the initial six. He loses an arm in his fight against the latter, but it doesn't impede him at all. He only loses the fight because he tries to fire Excalibur with only one hand, allowing Miyu's brother to evade the blast and hit him with a Broken Phantasm.
• In Spite of a Nail: Like in Zero, Kariya entered the Holy Grail War on behalf of Zouken, presumably to save Sakura from him and got implanted by Crest Worms to fight in the war. Just like his counterpart, he failed and was killed in the process.
• Mythology Gag: Their true form looks like the automata enemies from Fate/Grand Order.
• Self-Serving Memory: After using the Caster Card for the first time, Atrum convinced himself that Medea's power was actually his own, unable to accept she was stronger than him.
• The Unseen: Initially, of the first six, only Assassin and Saber are given proper introductions, being Shinji Matou and Zachary Ainsworth respectively. Lancer who resembles Kayneth from Fate/Zero gets a face view while Caster and Rider are seen from a distance, but Berserker is completely absent and is only confirmed to be part of the death toll. The movie shows the fights between Caster, Rider, and Lancer, while Beatrice confirms in a later chapter that she was Berserker.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Miyu's brother refers to them as "deranged", but they're still dangerous enough to nearly kill him in all of their fights. Despite Shirou's synergy with EMIYA, they were not curb-stomps.

The Matou Family

Sakura Matou

Sakura Matou

Voiced by: Noriko Shitaya (Japanese)

^{Click here to see her Lancelot Install}

^{Click here to see her "Imaginary Numbers" form}

One of Julian's "allies", who is initially presented as being dangerously obsessed with Miyu's brother. As revealed in the flashback arc, she was one of Shirou Emiya's few friends and his main love interest. She was killed by Shinji after betraying Julian to help Shirou, and presumably, was revived as an Ainsworth doll.

She uses the power of the Berserker Card, Lancelot.

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• Adapted Out: Her older sister, Rin Tohsaka, is nowhere to be seen or heard of in Miyu's world. Likely justified since Rin doesn't attend the same school with her and Shirou, as the academy has very few students left. It's later revealed that her sister died five years before the start of the story.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Inverted and downplayed and later played straight. While her origins are still similar to her Fate/stay night counterpart, she was the Sole Survivor of her adoptive family at the age of 12, thus had five years free of their abuse. However, this version never reconciles with Rin and she ends up getting killed by Shinji and resurrected as one of the Ainsworth Family's many puppets.
• Alternate Self: To Illya's version of Sakura.
• Ambiguously Christian: "Dark Sakura's Room" takes the form of a church atrium, complete with stained-glass images of saints. It's unclear whether the room is part of her psyche or a meta plane of reality.
• And Show It to You: She died from Shinji ripping her heart out. Its absence is reflected by her doll body, for better or for worse; Miyu stabs Sakura's chest with Gae Bolg, only to discover that she has no heart to pierce.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Gives one to Shirou, offering to abandon everything with him if he decides to run away from the Holy Grail War.
  Sakura: There's one thing, if it's possible, if it can be granted... Please run away instead. Whether it's magic or Miyu, forget all of that and run away from this town. Senpai, if senpai would do that... I would give up everything together with you...!
• Ax-Crazy: Miyu calls her "broken" as soon as she hears her long Yandere rant. It's the apparent result of having a Berserker's Mad Enhancement perpetually active for two months.
• "Back to Camera" Pose: During "Dark Sakura's Room", the movie's bonus scene, the camera doesn't show her face when she gets very angry.
• Bad Mood Retreat: Rin theorizes that Sakura uses the void of Imaginary Numbers as this, it being a safe, unchanging place that nobody without her rare magical Affinity can get to.
• The Berserker: After killing her, Julian turns her into one via the Lancelot Berserker card. As shown in her first appearance, she can and will target anyone nearby without any restraint, including Julian, though he is able to get around this by posing as Shirou in front of her.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Julian is able to put her under his control by impersonating Shirou and talking about mundane activities like her club.
• Brick Joke: In a bonus scene of the movie adaptation, Sakura complains about her lack of screentime- complaints that were apparently heard by the manga's writer, who resurrected her normal self five years later.
• Broken Smile: Sports one when she presents the Gilgamesh Card to Shirou, stating that their peaceful days are at an end.
• Combat Tentacles: When sufficiently incensed, she summons ribbons that behave this way, capable of rapidly draining the mana of anything they touch.
• Dance Battler: Despite looking crooked and unhinged when standing still, her movements in the heat of battle are limber and graceful like a ballet dancer.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Downplayed in comparison to her FSN counterpart; Miyuverse Sakura's training under the Matous was cut short by the death of her family in fourth Holy Grail War and she retains a much stronger personality as a result. She was clearly still violated in her childhood, but she's had more time to get over it.
  Shirou: As a kid... I just can't see it. What you were like back then... Sakura?
  Sakura: I don't... enjoy remembering the past.
• Declaration of Protection: Gives one to Shirou shortly before trying to Install the Archer Card.
  Sakura: You didn't choose me, but I love you. So, I'll protect you.
• Elopement: Sakura wants to do this with Shirou, to run away from the Holy Grail War with him and go live in peace. But he refuses to leave Miyu alone and then, her brother attacks her.
• Fate Worse than Death: Poor Sakura is killed by her asshole brother Shinji and is later forced by Julian to attack her former lover by pretending to be him using his appearance. It doesn't help when the Class Card she's forced to use drives her insane.
• Hero Killer: Grievously injures Shirou upon introduction, leading the latter to warn Miyu she's no match for Sakura.
• How Dare You Die on Me!: After she and a dying Shirou emerge from water, she begs him to wake up and yells at him for accepting his own death. Fortunately for everyone, she then remembers she has a copy of Rule Breaker.
• Insanity Immunity: Because her mind is already very, very gone, the corruptive mud of Pandora's Box does nothing to her. Julian usually summons her from it for a surprise attack.
• Last of Her Kind: She was the last remaining member of the Matou bloodline at the start of the fifth Holy Grail War
• Logical Weakness: Through Lancelot's Noble Phantasm, Knight of Owner, Sakura can steal and wield any weapon she can touch, even right out of someone's hands — but she still needs to be able to grab it. She has no problem catching and returning arrows, but this doesn't work with live bullets and explosives used from a distance, and she doesn't have the Mystery-induced protection that Servants usually get due to still being part human. Shirou takes advantage of this by fighting her with guns and explosives and very nearly defeats her on his own.
• Mana Drain: As per Matou family tradition, this is one of Sakura's abilities.
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places: In a movie omake framed as her holding a talk show, she suggests that she provide mana for Shirou's ability right then and there. He's not into it.
• Meta Twist: We already know that in the present Sakura is being controlled by Julian, so Shirou's story will tell us how she was kidnapped and brainwashed just like Rin and Luvia were earlier, leaving the door open to save her later with The Power of Friendship, right? Nope; Sakura dies and we soon find out that "Ainsworth dolls" are not simple Meat Puppets, but literal marionettes that the Ainsworths stuff people's souls into to take on their appearance and use their abilities as a means to their ends. The best thing Sakura has to look forward to is a few fleeting moments of dying as herself, and Shirou is sadly aware of it.
• Murder-Suicide: Subverted. In her last moments of sanity and life, she yanks Shirou into an Imaginary Number void. Rin worries that Sakura was attempting this trope, but it's more likely she predicted what actually happens; Shirou survives the void (because of Sakura's protection, Archer's, or both) and reunites Sakura's unconscious body with her heart, enabling her to then save them both.
• No One Should Survive That!: She comes out of everything pretty well, both physically and psychologically. It's semi-justified by Imaginary Number magecraft being OP.
• No-Sell: True to her Card, she can steal and master any of her enemies' Noble Phantasms, making her the perfect counter against Gilgamesh, Shirou, and Chloe.
• Not Quite Dead: It turns out that before her heart could be destroyed, she teleported it into Imaginary Number space. This- and several other characters' efforts- means she's able to come back.
• One-Winged Angel: As if the Lancelot Install wasn't bad enough, she takes a page out of the original Dark Sakura's book as a pseudo-Class Succession, donning a dress of ribbons made out of the Hollow Element that double as Combat Tentacles.
• Reforged into a Minion: Julian's resurrecting her as a doll was with this purpose in mind.
• Sacrificial Lion: She's killed trying to protect Shirou from Shinji, leading to the former summoning his Class Card. It also explains why he's so surprised to see her in her current state.
• Super-Reflexes: Part and parcel for Berserkers, especially Lancelot in particular (to better use his stolen weapons), and enhanced by the fact that Sakura's doll body can bend in speeds and directions that a normal person can't.
• Stripperiffic: Wears Lancelot's suit of armour except for the chestpiece, baring her midriff, cleavage and backside.
• Tragic Monster: She's Shirou's love interest, killed and turned into his enemy by his former friend.
• The Power of the Void: Apparently Hollow magecraft includes the ability to drain mana and survive cryopreserving your own organs.
• Woman of Kryptonite: The combination of Lancelot Install's Power Copying and Super-Reflexes, and Sakura's own Mana Drain, makes her a perfect counter to the Archer Class Card. Chloe is not pleased to learn this and spends her entire fight with her getting Worfed, nearly getting killed by a stolen Rule Breaker copy before Miyu stops Sakura with a lucky Gae Bolg stab.
• Yandere: Goes on a long rant about how the alternate world's Shirou is hers and hers only; that she would be the only one to love him... and kill him.

Shinji Matou

Shinji Matou

Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya

^{Click here to see his Assassin Install}

^{Click here to see his true form}

Sakura's Brother and a competitor in the Holy Grail War, he arrives and attacks both Sakura and Shirou at his home.

He uses the power of the Assassin Card. While the Hassan he channels is nominally similar to Hassan of the Cursed Arm, it possesses different abilities from him.

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• Actually a Doombot: Shinji's Body Horror transformation can be thrown away and used as a distraction. Too bad for him that Shirou is keen enough to perceive it.
• Adaptational Badass: In the original Fate/stay night, Shinji was a Non-Action Guy who preferred to rely on more powerful allies to do his work. Here? He manages to challenge Shirou head-on using the Assassin card. It probably helps that he was turned into a doll by the Ainsworths beforehand.
• Artificial Human: He's actually a doll implanted with a Shinji Matou's personality. The real Shinji died five years before the story began.
• Ax-Crazy: Shinji's pretty far gone by the time we first see him, in a similar state to how Sakura was when she appeared in the story.
• Better than Sex: When Shirou asks him what it felt like killing Sakura, Shinji says it was "better than ejaculating a hundred times". Prisma☆Phantasm turns it into a Running Gag where he compares all of the feelings he got from doing various chores with ejaculation.
• Big Brother Bully: His dialogue with Shirou while beating the snot out of him regarding Sakura implies such.
• Body Horror: His Assassin Install has the blades sown on his feet.
  • When he goes completely apeshit, his arm begins to consume him, turning him into a berserk mass. It's a decoy.
• Combat Tentacles: How his arms take form, a bunch of tentacles with spikes on the end.
• Dying as Yourself: He regains his memories after suffering a fatal wound, realizing that he and his grandfather had been killed five years ago.
• Expy: Not him, but his Assassin Card. It takes elements from True Assassin, but it seems to be a different Hassan entirely.
• Face Death with Dignity: Regains his composure and calmly asks for Emiya to kill him after regaining his memories.
• Foreshadowing: In chapter 37, Sakura tells Shirou that her brother has been dead for a long time. Turns out she meant it in a more literal sense.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: His power has him gain tentacles for arms and when he goes berserk they swell and cover him entirely as a form of Hulking Out.
• Good Feels Good: Gets this opinion in the OVA, further referencing Cursed Arm. Not that this stops Sakura from pummeling him.
• See You in Hell: Tells Emiya he'll wait for him in Hell somewhat sympathetically after he regains his memories.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Shirou beats the crap out of Shinji when he starts ranting about how "pathetic" Sakura was.
• Smug Snake: Is extremely smug and conceited while wailing on the defenseless Shirou and Sakura, but when Shirou actually fights back after installing the Archer card, he freaks out.
• Starter Villain: For Alternate Shirou's one man war against the Ainsworths.
• Tomato in the Mirror: He's a doll with the personality of the real, dead Shinji. The realization that he had been killed and then made to serve the person who did it leads to him to asking to be killed again.
• Torso with a View: The version of Zabaniya he acquires, Dead Heartbeat Melody, has him punching a clover-shaped^note similar to Sakura's Command Seal hole into the target's chest by holding his hand at it.
• Villainous Breakdown: Shinji starts losing it after Shirou puts him on the receiving end of the Curbstomp Battle. The final nail in the coffin being his pity. He calms down once his memories return.

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