Fate/Grand Order: Moon Cancers / Characters

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Heroic Spirit of the Moon Cell's Bane

^{Kiara's Version}

^{Archetype: Earth's Version}

Moon Cancer is an irregular Extra Class which was originally exclusive to the Artificial Intelligence known as B.B., who became a virus which threatened the sanctity of the Moon Cell in a certain parallel world.

The Class is more akin to a server-side threat designation than a complete Extra Class, so the qualifying parameters (other than simply being B.B.) are somewhat vague. Within the various parallel worlds to Proper Human History, the Moon typically recurs as an entity of ultimate power and authority, such as the Crimson Moon or the Moon Cell. It could be that Moon Cancer is a class reserved for those who wielded or defiled the Authority of the Moon itself... or perhaps B.B. is secretly approving additional Moon Cancer Servants for her own amusement.

They are strong against Avengers and weak against Rulers, and get a specific bonus to damage against Beast III/R.

Class-wide Tropes

The Cracker: A noticeable trend through most Moon Cancers (with the exception of Arcueid) is that they have incredible skills at working with and subverting computer systems for their own benefit. Not coincidentally, all of them come from the same storyline—Fate/EXTRA CCC, where it is a fundamental requirement to become a Wizard/Spiritron Hacker in its Holy Grail War.
Logical Weakness: For a Class that is nothing but known rule-breakers, it makes total sense that they would be weak to Rulers, whose job is to adjudicate the Holy Grail War and keep the Grail's authority from being threatened.
Loophole Abuse: You might expect the Class based around playful and malicious hackers to come under fire especially hard during the Ordeal Call, but not so. Nasu has stated that (aside from being a bonus gag Class he can't be bothered to scrutinize) Moon Cancers In-Universe are treated as having diplomatic immunity by the Powers That Be, since Moon-related beings are essentially Earth's next door neighbors rather than being classified as Foreigners. So long as they don't do anything crazy to the world, the Counter Force will leave them alone.
Lunacy: With the release of Archetype: Earth (plus the general connection the Fate/EXTRA Servants have with the hosted Moon Cell Automaton), one general theme for qualifying in this class would seem to be a direct connection with the Moon of their local universe—particularly if it is directly involved in granting them powers.
Rare Random Drop: Due to being originally a class exclusive to BB, whose incarnations are limited, this class was the one with the fewest units for quite a while. This was toned down a bit when Jinako/Ganesha was released as a permanently available Moon Cancer Servant, making it even with Foreigner in numbers and just ahead on availability at the time. The availability of Moon Cancer further increased when SE.RA.PH was added as a Main Interlude, allowing all players who cleared the first storyline to recruit BB whenever they want. As of the end of 2023, Moon Cancers are the second rarest class available in FGO, due to a surprisingly massive influx of new Foreigners in 2020 which hasn't stopped since then (albeit most of them still limited), compared to only a single new Moon Cancer (for a total of five) being released after Summer 2020. The Pretender class introduced in 2021, the third-rarest, only added a sixth member in summer 2023, just breaking a tie for second. Moon Cancer was finally unseated as rarest by the introduction of a playable version of the Beast Class in the Lilim Harlot event, which is currently exclusive to Draco, and supposedly will always be (although they said that about B.B. too...).
Red Mage: All Moon Cancers so far have very good support abilities, but they also are able to take the role of the damage dealer and their Noble Phantasms do inflict damage. The more offensively-orientated BB Summer has one skill with a very strong utility which can allow her to support one of her teammates immensely. And unlike the Caster or Assassin classes, the Moon Cancer class has no inherent ATK reduction, while still having decent star weight and generation capacity.
Sinister Silhouettes: The class card originally depicts a silhouette of BB pointing at a miniature Mooncell with her teacher's cane, but things did not stay that way for long.
- Once Kiara gained access to the class, she hacked the class card to depict her demon form in a similar pose to BB but facing the opposite direction.
- Arcueid's version depicts her Luminous Body form wearing her Archetype: Earth dress and holding out her arms as if to embrace the viewer.
Stone Wall: The Moon Cancers have above average to very high HP for their rarity, allowing them to withstand the attacks from the Avengers fairly well. Despite their low to average ATK, it's usually enough against the frail Avengers, but compared to other classes, the neutral damage output of the Moon Cancers is rather on the lower side, which is very notable due to the very rare occasions of them having class advantage (not counting Berserker battles).
Square Race, Round Class: All of the Moon Cancers so far (except for Ganesha) have the passive skills of a Caster servant, and all of them (including Ganesha) have at least two Arts card like many Caster servants do.
Support Party Member: Thanks to a lack of class-advantage and rather low ATK, the Moon Cancer class takes this role the majority of the time: healing, taunting and helping the party stay alive.
Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: The class has offensive advantage over Avengers, while possessing an exclusive weakness to Rulers. Like most other classes, they are also strong and weak against Berserkers.
This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman:
- The offensive side of each Servant shines pretty much only against Avengers, where their small ATK is a non-issue thanks to the Glass Cannon nature of Avenger Servants. Due to a number of boss Avengers being otherwise "untankable" damage monsters, however (with the Epic of Remnant ones being especially infamous for this), when it's their time to shine, Moon Cancers are incredibly useful.
- Avalon le Fae introduced a new batch of enemies called Mors, and several of the Mors are within the Avengers class. Because of how some of the Free Quests of that Lostbelt include several Mors within the Avengers class, a Moon Cancer with an AOE Noble Phantasm would be good to farm against them where as most farming quests had those Moon Cancers be sidelined in favor of somebody with a class advantage against those enemies.
- Moon Cancers have an extremely low death rate that is functionally 0%, which is great for boss fights that are centered around instant kill gimmicks like First Hassan in Nerofest or Beni-Enma in Lostbelt No. 7.
Uniqueness Decay: Originally, the class was stated to be created specifically for BB. Once other characters appeared in the class—it's implied they more or less received or hijacked it from her.

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Archetype: Earth (Arcueid Brunestud)

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White Princess of the True Ancestors

^{Second Ascension}

^{Third Ascension}

^{Final Ascension}

^{April Fool's Fate/Grail League}

Voiced by: Ikumi Hasegawa

"So this is a… Servant? I possess no name, only existing as a state of being… Right. You may call me an 'Ultimate One'. The fact that I was summoned forth must mean there’s a connection. For a brief while, allow me to gaze upon your life."
...
Well, let’s push the bossy 'me’ aside for a sec! Hello, People of Chaldea! I’m Arcueid Brunestud, a Moon Cancer! It’s a pleasure to work with you! Let’s meet up again at my Second Ascension, kay?"

"Archetype: Earth" is a being known as the "Original One" in the world of magecraft: the White Princess of the True Ancestors, designed and created as the most powerful bloodsucker of them all. Her existence is more akin to a natural disaster like an earthquake or typhoon, with mass destruction coming as thoughtlessly to her as breathing.

As "Archetype: Earth", she is a cold and queenly executioner resigned to her fate. Under other circumstances, she is Arcueid Brunestud: a sheltered and innocent vampire princess who snuck out of her lunar palace to play on the Earth's surface. The funny vamp who goes well with the sun is finally here!!

She debuted as the 7th Anniversary Servant.

Absurdly Sharp Claws: In her Second Ascension, Arcueid fights primarily with her razor-sharp nails, which can shred human flesh like tofu.
Adaptational Name Change: The one who most would recognize as being "Archetype: Earth" was actually called "True Ancestor Arcueid" in the Japanese version of Melty Blood. Fate/Grand Order is the first game to cement it as being her name even in Japanese.
Alternate Self: She's this to her Berserker counterpart from Fate/EXTRA as this Arcueid, or more accurately her Second Ascension, hails from the Tsukihime remake continuity as opposed to her Berserker variant which comes from the original continuity.
Anti-Magic: Carrying over from her original appearance in Tsukihime, Arcueid is immune to most forms of magecraft owing to her power. This is why she has A+ Magic Resistance, rendering most forms of man-made mysteries ineffective against her save for mysteries she hasn't encountered like those in South America, the most powerful conceptual weapons, and abilities on the level of a Noble Phantasm.
Background Music Override: When she activates her Noble Phantasm and turns the field into her Castle, her Noble Phantasm theme will continue playing and override normal battle music until the effect wears off or all enemies are defeated and the party moves onto the next battle.
Battle Ballgown: All versions of her are clad in a gorgeous, opulent dress that she has no problems fighting in, whether she summons natural disasters to annihilate her foes or cuts them to pieces with her claws and Marble Phantasm.
BFS: She use a greatsword that's longer than she is tall in her First and Third ascensions. Notably, this is the first time Arcueid was ever depicted using a sword.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: As a True Ancestor, Arcueid's sense of morality is different from a person's. She enjoys ruling over things she can control and does what she likes without consideration for whether they're "good" or "bad". On at least one occasion she's thought of melting the polar ice caps and wrecking continents because she could, even though this would kill the few people she's grown to love and care for like Tohno Shiki. But she's also capable of genuine affection and compassion and wouldn't mind if Shiki fell in love with someone else so long as he's happy and unharmed... Unless that someone else is Ciel.
Breaking Old Trends:
- Arcueid is the first Moon Cancer who didn't make her debut in Fate/EXTRA CCC.^note These previous CCC characters, unlike her, are also all The Cracker; Arcueid instead "breaks the rules" by manipulating the planet itself, outside of the Grail War system.
- Previous odd-numbered Anniversary Servants were all Caster servants^note. Arcueid is the first odd-numbered Anniversary Servant to not be a Caster servant.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Does this briefly in her summoning line, where as Arcueid, she tells the player that she will be waiting for them in her second ascension.
Call-Back: One of her skills was "Breath of the Planet", which was previously referenced in the Noble Phantasm chant of Altria and Enkidu. Her description reveals that she can channel the power of the planet just by breathing, making the name literal.
Calling Your Attacks: She sometimes does this in her Second Ascension, such as "Civilization Attack!" (while throwing a piece of a destroyed building) and "Super True Ancestor Kick!"
Chain Pain: Her Noble Phantasm in her First and Third Ascensions have her attack the enemies with large spectral chains.
Contractual Boss Immunity: Most servants in the game have a instant death rate of somewhere between 20-30%. Archetype Earth's instant death rate is 0.6%, lower than any servant in the entire game. Only the Beasts of lower death rates.
Geo Effects: Her NP turns the field into the Millennium Castle, which, aside from granting her a 30% boost to all of her cards, also allows her third skill to give allies up to 30% NP Gauge.
Ground Punch: The Second Ascension version of her Noble Phantasm rips straight from the punch she used against Vlov in Tsukihime.
Guest Fighter: Lampshaded. Her profile specifically says that she is a special guest for the 7th Anniversary. Debuting from the Tsukihime timeline, Nasu has said that Arcueid exists in Fate timelines as well but her story is wholly different due to a few major timeline changes. Her presence in the story is unknown but it is heavily implied Ascension 3 is what Arcueid looks like in Fate Timelines.
Interface Screw: Like Summer Kiara, Arcueid has her own unique summoning animation where she changes the class card design featuring BB into her own.
The Hecate Sisters: Archetype: Earth's three Ascensions represent different points in Arcueid Brunestud's life.
- Her First Ascension is the Crone, unsentimental but wise and mature, yet alien and distant. She sees human culture as pathetic and talks down to people as a queen would, but does not dislike humanity. She represents Arcueid's "future" as the Ultimate One of Earth in an "ideal world" where she never met Shiki or Roa.
- Her Second Ascension is the Mother. Naive, energetic, and eccentric, but also friendly and outgoing. She represents Arcueid's "present" after meeting Tohno Shiki and falling in love with him, making her the closest to humanity.
- Her Third Ascension is the Maiden, representing Arcueid as the Princess of the True Ancestors, doll-like and innocent before she made the mistake of drinking Roa's blood. Unlike Archetype: Earth, this version of Arcueid has some consideration for humanity, as slight as it may be, and has simply not learned proper etiquette.
Home Field Advantage: Arcueid is an elemental of Earth and is at her strongest while standing upon it, allowing her to draw upon its leylines to empower herself and manipulate it with her Marble Phantasm. But her connection to the planet runs so deep that severely changing the landscape to the point that it can no longer be recognized as "Earth" will weaken her. This is reflected by her "Original One" skill, which grants her a 30% effectiveness buff to all her cards so long as the field is transformed into Millennium Castle Brunestud by her Noble Phantasm.
MacGyvering: Archetype Earth/Arcueid Brunestud is one of the most powerful beings in any timeline and receives back up from the world itself. However, her power is limited in most contexts to only slightly above her opponent by the world itself so as to prevent the waste of resources. This in turn forces Arcueid ^notein all timelines to be innovative and creative, during combat and outside of it.
Magical Eye: As a True Ancestor, Arcueid possesses Rainbow Mystic Eyes, the highest rank, which she can use for a variety of affects from hypnotizing her foes, paralyzing them, and enfeebling them.
Master of the Levitating Blades: Several of her attack animations in her First and Third Ascensions has her telekinetically slash enemies with her BFS.
Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Field-change gimmicks are definitely not new to the game to both player and enemy side. However, what makes Millennium Castle Field effect unique is that it is considered to be a complete change of terrain, with the buff being listed separate from Archetype: Earth's other buffs. It cannot be cleansed off of her and it persists even if you were to Order Change her to the backline, with the only way to remove it before the timer runs out is to kill Archetype: Earth herself.
Mundane Utility: Her profile mentions that she can use her "Marble Phantasm" to make a whiteboard, referencing how she would pull a whiteboard out of nowhere during exposition scenes in -A piece of blue glass moon-.
Mythology Gag:
- In her First Ascension, she complains that due to being confined to a Saint Graph, she was weakened to the point that she could "only" start storms with her fingertips and shake the earth with her toes. This is most likely a reference to her scenario in Melty Blood Actress Again, in which she was said to be able to play pinball with continents and stop the rotation of Earth at will.
- Her comment that she doesn't keep a dog was most likely a reference to the fact that her sister Altrouge was the master of Primate Murder (who was described as a demonic dog) in the pre-remake continuity.
- The name of her third skill is a reference to Arcueid's previous appearance as a servant in Fate/Extra, it's stated her true class would be a unique Extra class called "Funny Vamp" (localized as "Temptress")
Physical God: As the closest the Earth has to an "Ultimate One", Archetype: Earth is one of the most powerful beings in the Nasuverse, capable of melting the polar ice caps, playing pinball with continents, or diverting the axis of the Earth on a whim. Her attack animations reflect this, sending forth waves of lava with a wave of her hand, casually conjuring hurricanes and thunderstorms, and flash freezing an opponent inside a small glacier with a gesture. Her Noble Phantasm as Archetype: Earth is described as her sending an attack from 1200 AD through space and time to annihilate her target.
Readings Are Off the Scale: Her Territory Creation skill and Noble Phantasm are both ranked at EX due to being able to affect the entire planet at once.
Reality Warper: Arcueid is able to use "Marble Phantasm", a special ability of Elementals that allows her to bend probability and reshape the world around her to achieve the results she wants. The ability is limited only by what is "possible"^note, compared to a Reality Marble which is able to achieve the "impossible": the namesake metaphor is that if your goal is to pull a single white marble from a bag of 99 black marbles, a Marble Phantasm would allow you to pull the white marble with 100% certainty, while a Reality Marble achieves the same feat by transforming all of the black marbles into white marbles. However, unlike Reality Marbles, the change is permanent once its fully established as its a purely natural phenomena. As an Elemental of Gaia, this creation feat is primarily limited to things found in nature: Arcueid can recreate things that are artificial and made by human hands, but her accuracy and efficiency drops sharply should she try to make anything more complex than a whiteboard. In combat, Arcueid primarily uses this to simply make the air itself slice her foe to ribbons, as she did when she shaved Roa down to naught but his ankles. Finally, Arcueid is one of the few True Ancestors powerful enough to use her Marble Phantasm to recreate the Millennium Castle Brunestud, qualifying her for the title of "Brunestud" and effectively making her the closest thing to vampire royalty.
Sharing a Body: Her Valentines scene reveals all three of her Ascensions^note share the body equally and actively speak with each other or the Master. Arcueid compares it to 'arguing with a pair of mirrors'.
Sequel Hook: Some of the details given about Arcueid makes them sound like she is potentially teasing a sequel to Tsukihime, such as her profile noting how her Second Ascension comes from three years after -A piece of blue glass moon-, or how there is a section talking about how Altrouge is stopping her from becoming Type-Earth.
Square Race, Round Class: Previous Moon Cancers all had a running theme of being good with computers, good at spiritron hacking, and altering the eponymous Moon Cell for their own purposes. Arcueid is none of these things; her power is instead derived from the actual moon, and her only interaction with the Moon Cell whatsoever was being summoned as a flawed Berserker. Even by the vague standards of her class, Arcueid is an oddball among oddballs.
Strong as They Need to Be: Her Ultimate One passive would normally adjust her strength so that her stats are always superior to the natural stats of her opponent, due to Arcueid receiving passive support from Gaia and its recognition of her as the Ultimate One of Earth. However, this skill is severely limited due to her Servant form inhabiting a Saint Graph instead of a World Egg, and as a result she can only increase her normal stats by one or two ranks in battle. It is also further downgraded by the fact that another being exists - Altrouge - who contests her for the title of the Ultimate One of Earth. This ability is actually a limiter of her power, not an empowerment. It's so the world doesn't waste too much resources.
Theme Music Power-Up: A specifically created for this game version of the Tsukihime main theme plays when she uses her Noble Phantasm.
Ultimate Lifeform: In terms of the world of Tsukihime, Arcueid is the closest being we have seen who could make claim to being the "Ultimate One" of Earth - i.e. recognised by the planet as the single most powerful lifeform within its sphere. However, there are a few things getting in the way of her claiming the title: first, Arcueid is constantly using 70% of her power to restrain her vampiric bloodlust and retain her sanity; and secondly, there is another being - Altrouge - who punches in the same weight class as her.
Unskilled, but Strong: Downplayed and Deconstructed. She is one of the strongest beings in the Nasuverse full stop, having absolute control over the elements of earth. Due to the restrictions on her powers, she is also forced to be very pragmatic, innovative, and creative with those powers. However, due to using the Crimson Moon as a base, all True Ancestors grow weak when they encounter large bodies of water though there are exceptions. In Arcueid's case it may just be a matter of learning how to interact with large bodies of water. This is lampshaded in her dialogue, almost outright saying that she doesnt know how to swim despite essentially being an avatar of the world itself.
What If?: While her First Ascension shows what Arcueid should have originally become in the future and Second Ascension shows what she actually is thanks to her encounter with Shiki, her Third Ascension shows a younger take of Arcueid who hasn't yet experienced the outside world and hadn't gone through the incident that fundamentally changed her.

BB ("Main Interlude: SE.RA.PH" Spoilers!)

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Black Blossom

^{Fourth (Final) Ascension}

^{April Fool's}

^{April Fool's Fate/Grail League}

Voiced by: Noriko Shitaya

"No world or barrier can hold me! I have finally come to the famous Chaldea! The lovely butterfly of the moon... BB, the Moon Cancer, has been summoned! Well, this is just a temporary arrangement, but take good care of me, little Master!"

Her debut largely assumes that you've already played Fate/EXTRA CCC, so beware unmarked spoilers for that game.

BB is a digital anomaly that once caused a large-scale incident within the Moon Cell Automaton. She was once part of a health management Artificial Intelligence designed to manage the psychological states of human users within the Moon Cell. When this program developed romantic feelings for one user, it was considered "corrupted" and the lines of code containing these feelings were sealed away within a trash file, where they eventually gained sentience as the entity known as BB.

With self-preservation as her new initiative, BB usurped control over the Moon Cell and integrated the data of every primordial creation goddess into herself, seizing the power of creation itself. She abducted a number of users to the forbidden "Far Side" sector of the system, creating a paradise for herself called the Sakura Labyrinth where she would be free to express her broken ideas of love upon her captives.

Using her newfound powers and access to the records stored within the Moon Cell, she created five Servant-like "Alter Egos" by amalgamating Servant data from the Moon Cell into new beings which represent the cast-off sides of her personality. While the Alter Egos were originally created to help BB manage and expand the Sakura Labyrinth, they are divergent personalities and thus do not always see eye-to-eye with their creator.

She's the primary antagonist of CCC and in this game, the event-exclusive SE.RA.PH chapter. Alas, just as in CCC, not all is as it seems...

Adaptational Early Appearance: Zigzagged when it comes to her appearance in Fate/Grand Order Arcade. Her debut event known as "Invitation from BB ~Electronic Sea Battle Arena~" happened shorty after the Seventh Singularity and before Final Singularity, earlier than "Epic of Remnant" arc in the mobile. However, Summer BB had already been added into the game, meaning that regular BB ended up debuting after her summer version... which means that BB in general debuted way earlier than the Final Singularity.
Advertised Extra: Downplayed. She does play an important role in the SE.RA.PH chapter, but contrary to what the trailers might have suggested she's not the main focus or even the main ally of Chaldea during the chapter. That honor would go to Meltryllis.
A.I. Is a Crapshoot:
- Turns out that the original BB AI that Kiara absorbed to become a True Demon in CCC was salvaged by GO Kiara who, in the SE.RA.PH extra story, plans to Take Over the World.
- It's pointed out in her profile that in BB's eyes her actions are totally normal and, in CCC in particular, anything goes in the name of "self-preservation", but in the same sentence also points out from any objective standpoint she is obviously insane and a being full of contradictions.
Alternate Self: The two BBs who appear in SE.RA.PH are this to each other, despite possessing their memories from CCC. The main BB (and the one who becomes obtainable) is a copy of BB sent by the Moon Cell to stop Kiara. BB/GO, on the other hand, is the BB that Kiara absorbed into herself alongside Passionlip and Meltryllis in CCC to achieve her Heaven's Hole form and was ultimately "salvaged" by GO Kiara.
All According to Plan: Claims this in the epilogue to "Moonsault Operation". According to her, even though her spur of the moment plot has been foiled and she lost out on a grail, she got the protagonist to spend time with her and thus she wins anyway. The protagonist doesn't buy it for a second...but the way she goes uncharacteristically quiet after saying that they had fun, she may have been telling the truth.
Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster: BB pretended to be a completely subservient manager AI of SE.RA.PH as she couldn't do anything against Beast III-R herself. She then creates the BB slots and KP with the pretense that they're for bullying the Master from Chaldea, when in reality they're to help bring Kiara down.
Archnemesis Mom: None of the Sakura Five particularly like her, mostly because they know she only really made them because she wanted to rid herself of certain emotions she could no longer control. Meltryllis is open about her disdain for BB, while Passionlip is more deferential but her Interlude reveals her opinion is not much better.
The Assimilator: While not as powerful as Meltryllis, BB can use a drain skill as well. In SE.RA.PH, she drains Robin's levels for her own amusement and power up.
Badass Longcoat: She certainly thinks it is, and she states that she would never take it off for her Ascensions.
Bad Boss: She's as abusive to her underlings as she is whimsical. And she is very whimsical.
Balance Buff: Her Self-Modification skill was upgraded to Self-Modification (Romantic), granting her an Arts buff and a special buff that grants the party 10% NP gauge when she uses an Extra Attack as part of the "Moonsault Operation" event campaign.
Batman Gambit: If you stop to think about it after everything is said and done, she pulls off a really nifty multi-layered one at the beginning of the Seraphix Pseudo-Singularity by swapping Nero, Tamamo and EMIYA for Gawain, Tamamo Cat, and Emiya Alter, who all end up playing critical roles in the Pseudo-Singularity:
- Gawain's presence is crucial to get Tristan's collaboration and his Always Save the Girl tendencies towards the Alter Egos are a big part of what allows the party to break Passionlip free, who happens to be one half of the "Virgin Laser Palladion" Combination Attack that helps to bring the real antagonist down in the climax.
- Tamamo Cat gets along with Suzuka Gozen, now a Sentinel, due to their similar antagonist towards Tamamo-no-Moe even though the Berserker version still tends to get on Suzuka's nerves. Had the original Tamamo arrived to Seraphix together with the protagonist, Suzuka would have likely never helped the party, and she plays a crucial role in the climax to counter the Demon Pillar barrage that Kiara uses as her Desperation Attack.
- Emiya Alter is a special case due to his personal connection to Kiara. In his timeline, he was the one to realize Kiara's true nature and who ended her life at the cost of him having to mow down droves of her innocent supporters so she wouldn't be able to escape, which was the event that truly made him into The Unfettered. The Kiara in Seraphix knows this, and her resentment towards him is more enough to keep her busy plotting and enact his downfall with her own hands while BB plotted hers. Furthermore, Kiara's disdain of Emiya Alter keeps her from absorbing his data after she kills him, which would come to bite her in the ass hard because he was Only Mostly Dead and used the fact she believed him gone and his understanding of her personality to pull of a jaw-dropping Big Damn Heroes at the very last second by ruining Kiara's last ditch plan to save herself by possessing Meltryllis' body.
Big-Breast Pride: She proudly declares herself a "Danger Cup" in her Valentines skit, which is quite possibly her own playful way of declaring herself a D-cup as she is at least that, if not DD.
Blow You Away: One of her attacks is to use the wind blowing her skirt upwards on the enemy.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: It's commented on several times in SE.RA.PH. by Meltryllis that BB's sense of morality is much different from humanity's due to how she was created, and not at all helped by how she tried to purge certain emotions from herself to create the Sakura Five Alter Egos.
Boss Subtitles: The subtitles that show up before major fights against specific enemies is intentionally kept hidden for her first boss fight. If one pauses it at just the moment it reveals BB's real nature: Advent Beast, though the only Beast you fight in the event is Kiara. Her having this is still a major red flag as it only appears for the Beasts themselves, hinting that a Beast is pulling the strings.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: She immediately demolishes it when she first appears by acknowledging her being voiced in a story cutscene and that she'll only be voiced for this part. It continues to everything from her battle lines to her My Room quotes.
Climax Boss: For the CCC event. While she's only packing roughly 400,000 HP, which is a bit less than the bosses fought up until this point, she has a myriad of other things going for her. She only needs three turns to charge her Noble Phantasm, has an ability to heal for 20,000 HP, and the only thing she's weak to aside from the glass cannon Berserker class is the Ruler class who only has two offensively oriented members at the time of her event that are both limited. Did we mention she also has a full wave of Berserker shadow servants to fight before you get to her?
Combat Medic: BB has access to the powerful critical-enabling-and-boosting Self Modification EX skill and to a useful heal, debuff cleanse, and debuff immunity granter in Domina Cornam D. Additionally, between the nature of Arts crits and her Noble Phantasm's group NP boost, she rarely has trouble recharging it for regular use.
Composite Character: In-game function-wise, she carries many characteristics of the EXTRA universe's Matou Sakura (i.e. the medic AI of the Moon Cell) apart from her own—as seen in her Noble Phantasm below.
Curtains Match the Window: Purple hair and eyes.
Damage Over Time: BB is built to work in Arts teams, and so primarily engages in sustained damage applied constantly over time rather than dramatic Buster or Quick nukes.
Damsel in Distress: Somehow Jinako managed to get one over her in "Moonsault Operation", imprisoning BB deep within the cyberspace the event takes place in. It doesn't last.
Deadly Doctor: Her Noble Phantasm involves loading a massive syringe and hitting the enemy with it—while transforming herself into a sexy nurse.
Designated Villain: Invoking this is her Modus Operandi, combined with Threshold Guardian. BB wants protagonists to challenge her. She'll always make it so that the path to beating her somehow gets her opponents to become strong enough or be just in the right place to beat some other threat or reach some other goal.
Double Agent: She's working for multiple sides at once, including Kiara, the Moon Cell, Zepar and even helping the player out in the end.
Easy-Mode Mockery: If you purchase the Little Mermaid KP from the store (which is only possible if you've already bought all its counterparts), BB will claim that she created the item out of pity as you're likely having a lot of trouble defeating Kiara if you need such a powerful advantage.
Everyone Has Standards:
- She's intimidated by Kama, first by how much skin she's showing, and then by learning that she's Beast III/L.
- In the Paper Moon Ordeal Call, the protagonist was about to be pulled into the Singularity with no Servants. BB decided this was unfair, so she sent Kama with them.
Final Boss: She frequently refers to herself as a "last-boss type kouhai" and demands respect because of it. She's not the main villain of the Seraphix pseudo-singularity though, but her BB/GO counterpart does take the role of Post-Final Boss.
Foreshadowing: After her boss fight, BB/GO suggests that BB will one day repeat her mistakes, thanks to falling in specific love with one being rather than general love for all of humanity, and commit great evil for their sake. And, well... check the entry under this one.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Not only is BB hated by the entirety of the Sakura Five, but she is one of the few Servants that the protagonist is allowed to express distrust towards, to the point that her Valentine's event can end with the player literally throwing her gift back in her face because they just can't trust anything she gives them.
The Gadfly: As Fate fans have come to learn BB will poke at and provoke just about everyone she can for fun. It's rarely out of genuine malevolence, however. At one point she even says it's worse if she's not teasing someone. She's not entirely unlike a kid picking on a boy she likes.
"Well sure. I'm a bad girl at heart, after all. I could end up being an enemy of humanity on a whim. Besides, didn't I say as much before, Senpai? The more I like someone, the more I like teasing them! If anything, it'd be worse if I left you alone!"
Giant Medical Syringe: BB's Noble Phantasm C.C.C. (Cursed Cupid Cleanser) transforms BB into a nurse with a huge syringe she needs an underarm grip for and injects the enemy with what appears to be a bunch of Ascension materials. The actual process is apparently much more complex, with BB turning into a nurse and injecting the enemy using a needle just being what outsiders observe.
Godzilla Threshold: After everything that happened in CCC, the Moon Cell recreating BB doesn't sound like the smartest idea in hindsight. That said, it's hard to argue that Kiara metamorphized into a Beast isn't far worse, and BB is the one best suited to handle it.
Good All Along: As can probably be guessed from her freebie Servant status and role in CCC, she is not a straight up villain but rather someone pressed into fighting the protagonist. Throughout the event she leaves small data packets for you to find which are eventually instrumental in bringing the real villain down to a point where she can be beaten. Her Chaotic Good alignment suggests while she can be a big Troll, she is reliable when necessary. As she puts it later in Imaginary Scramble, she sees herself as "chaos and goodness", doing evil things on occasion if it means accomplishing a greater good.
Good Behavior Points: BB is unusually benign when the Ordeal Call begins. Her Class is the Counter Force's equivalent of having diplomatic immunity, and being savvy enough not to become the game's example for "Ass" in Ambassador, she spends the Ordeal Call causing her typical brand of chaos in more beneficial ways. This includes two events (even if one went awry) and even one of the main Ordeal Call chapters.
It Amused Me: She admits in Passionlip's Interlude that she gave Passionlip the whole "pocket dimension in her rack" Breast Valley thing because she thought it would be funny.
Inelegant Blubbering: Reduced to this in the climax of "Moonsault Operation" as her plan is casually dealt with despite her best efforts to rig the Grail Front in her favor.
Ironic Name: "BB/GO" (the suffix obviously a shorthand for Grand Order) is actually built directly from the original BB from CCC, her remains having been salvaged by GO Kiara for her scheme. The "BB" that joins Chaldea as a Servant is a copy created by the Moon Cell, and BB/GO takes on her new name to differentiate them despite being closer to the original. If it sounds confusing, that's because it is — their names really ought to be swapped.
Hero-Worshipper: In her My Room dialogue, she has nothing but the most glowing of praise for Pārvatī. Being the good aspects of Matou Sakura, this resembles BB's relationship to the original Sakura NPC in EXTRA.
"Hey! I see a wonderful, pure, and lovely heroine Servant who is the incarnation of magnanimity☆ Wonderful. A regal blue Indian goddess outfit! Unlike SOME goddess of Venus, there's something unique and special in modesty. Honestly, that form is my ideal!"
- This goes beyond mere words, as BB also helped Parvati send Ganesha to help in Lostbelt 4; as well as taught Parvati how to examine people's hearts (their "secret gardens") in Kama's second interlude.
Hijacked by Ganon: Takes over as the antagonist for the second half of "Moonsault Operation" when Jinako returns control of SE.RA.PH to her and fully expects BB to just put everything back to normal.
Humans Are the Real Monsters: Maintains this opinion from her original appearance, with the Extra Player Character being the only real exception. Several of her bond lines have her wondering just why the hell does the protagonist put up with her trolling and never lash out against her as she would expect a normal human to. However, her interactions with BB/GO bring into question exactly how sincere that opinion really is, and her profile in FGO Material V explicitly says that she vowed to protect humanity in memory of the her original Senpai.
[when asked about her dislikes] "I hate humans. That's just obvious."
"Nothing comes without a price, and digging one's own grave is so uniquely human. So go ahead and destroy yourselves! Go nuts!"
Jerk with a Heart of Gold:That all being said, she genuinely is on the side of humanity and even in the entry below she's just trying to do the right thing, albeit in her own unusual way.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Despite her polite way of speaking, BB is far from being a nice person. Due to her nature as an insane AI who is full of contradictions, BB's feelings of love and hate are intermixed, add to that her strong sadistic disposition which compels her to take the role of a Loving Bully toward the objects of her affection. While she loves humanity and wants to protect it, her idea of protection and love means tormenting and toying with humans for her own amusement. But as mentioned in the above entry, when the chips are down she's willing to drop her usual act to fight for humanity and she never puts them in any real danger.
[from her in-game profile] "She declared that she hates humans, and dragged one Master to the far side of the moon to torture. Her actions are normal to her, but from an objective standpoint, she's obviously insane.
"Even within her own words, contradictions such as excessive love or a mixture of love and hate are easy to spot, but for a full explanation of the cause of those contradictions, you'll have to refer to Fate/Extra CCC."
Killer Game Master:
- Like her game of origin, she is the game master of the war in SE.RA.PH. She also dictates how the crossover event works in-universe, having set up the BB slots and locked away story and free battles behind gate keys in the shop.
- She's back to her old tricks in the second half of "Moonsault Operation", deciding to steal Jinako's plan to turn Earth into a giant open world game for herself. The four maps that follow are MUCH more difficult as a result of BB stacking the deck in her own favor. Her real goal was to create an excuse to spend more time with the protagonist.
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: As per her source material, BB is painfully aware of all of the game mechanics and trends, taunting the player for thinking that she'll lose clothes like many other Servants as she ascends, making fun of the excess effort players put into grinding events, and handing players rarer items while making note of how easy ascension pieces are to find by comparison.
Leotard of Power: She's wearing one, beneath her skirt and cloak. She doesn't want to show it.
Logical Weakness: During the Halloween Rising event, BB takes the fairy-tale role of Princess Kaguya (from The Tale of the Woodcutter) and demands the traditional 5 Impossible Tasks. These tasks take the form of strong buffs during her fight. If you have Beni-enma in your party, these buffs are nullfied because Beni-enma has the items representing those tasks thanks to her debut event, New Years Enma-tei.
Loophole Abuse: She's supposed to delete herself after completing the task set upon her by the Moon Cell when she was sent to Seraphix, but since it can't actually contact her to enforce this order, she just ignores it to do what she wants after beating Kiara. She is aware, however, that she will have to face the music when her time at Chaldea comes to an end.
Loving Bully: She claims that her constant bullying and tormenting are her way of expressing love, both to the player and to humanity as a whole.
Luck Stat: It used to be E but through hard work, effort and determination it got changed to EX. Her profile calls it an incomparable, unquantifiable miracle.
The Man Behind the Man: A benevolent example. Jinako in "Saṃsāra of Genesis and Terminus, Yugakshetra" claims that Ganesha found and chose her as his host due to a "devilish intermediary", all but stated to be BB.
Marilyn Maneuver: One of her Quick attacks has the wind blowing up her skirt damage the enemy.
The Medic: Her skill set is based on support and healing, which is fitting since she was originally a medic AI. She's got a tank build with weak offense but high HP, a direct heal with a low cooldown, a supporting stun and her NP charges the party's NP gauge.
Naughty Nurse Outfit: For her Noble Phantasm, she dons a nurse outfit which has a very short skirt and shows off a lot of her cleavage, and she even wears a pair of glasses with it just for some extra fetish points. Again, it refers to her original nature as a Moon Cell medic AI.
No Hero Discount: Kiara using SE.RA.PH to merge with the world is a very pressing issue that even concerns her, but you've gotta cough up the currencies to pay for all the stuff in her shop. Her justification for needing KP to buy the Code Casts to debuff Beast III-R is that it was really, really hard to sneak both KP and Code Casts under Kiara's nose and you should be grateful that you even have something to buy the Code Casts. And the Sakurament she had you farm to buy all those gate keys earlier were her way of siphoning off energy to create an anti-Beast III-R weapon under Kiara's nose.
Not So Similar: The epilogue of "Imaginary Scramble" has her speak with Yang Guifei, another Chaotic Good Extra-class Servant that acts out of love. While BB initially thinks they have a lot in common, she soon realizes their differences.
"You're Chaotic-Good because one evil acts spoils everything good you do, but I'm Chaotic-Good because I'm always pretending to be all evil while managing one good deed in the most stylish way possible. Loves drives me to make my schemes succeed, and causes you to make yours fail."
Out-of-Character Moment:
- Following BB/GO's defeat and the somewhat sad reasons for her actions, the player's BB turns and apologizes to them for being uncharacteristically serious.
- BB is mostly cheerful, rather polite and generous in CCC despite her actions and only showed her frustration when Robin Hood started to act unusual to her, then later on when your Servant removes the restrictions that prevented them from using their Noble Phantasm while her only moment of showing sadness was before she got deleted while stalling the Moon Cell from deleting the Protagonist and their Servant. Here in Grand Order during her dialogue with BB/GO after the battle is over, BB/GO starts to question on why she and BB are meant to lose to humans every time only for BB to explain what makes humans unique. In a change of personality, as soon as BB/GO mentions how her original self back in CCC redeemed herself by letting go of the one she loved, BB's expression suddenly becomes somber and saddened as she also remembers that last final moment before she was deleted. It's quite out of character this time as BB wasn't really to the point where she would display anything outside of happiness and confusion.
- Her line upon her Final Ascension has her honestly surprised and confused as to why the protagonist would put so much effort into leveling her up, despite her giving nothing but trolling insults through nearly all their interactions.
  "...Even though you know I won't change my outfit, you still used so many materials on me... I know it's rich coming from me, but I think you are too good for your own good. I pestered you so much, but for some reason you still stuck with me."
- The introduction to the eighth Summer event goes straight into Serious Business territory when BB tells the Protagonist that her resurrected Luluhawa Singularity has been hijacked, and the Ordeal Call means she's powerless to do anything about it. She's genuinely meant it to be a relaxing vacation for Chaldea this time and spends much of the conversation bawling and begging for the Protagonist to fix it.
Pet the Dog: She goes along with the protagonist's request to give Kingprotea a kitchen big enough for her to prepare her valentines day chocolate, and while she admits that she doubts that Kingprotea will succeed in her attempt, she didn't seem to be motivated purely by a sadistic desire to see her fail, like Kingprotea assumes.
Playing with Syringes: Her new Noble Phantasm, C.C.C.: Cursed Cupid Cleanser, has her inject ascension materials into an enemy using a giant syringe.
Post-Final Boss: BB/GO is this for SE.RA.PH, being the final enemy and antagonist of the event's Encore Act. While she's planning to Take Over the World, she's nowhere near as powerful or dangerous as Kiara/Beast III/R is, and mainly exists to tie up a few loose ends such as where the hell did Nero, Tamamo, and EMIYA fly off to in SE.RA.PH after being separated from the protagonist and add a few laughs. There is some tragedy and foreshadowing to the Summer 2018 event though.
Reality Warper: Not nearly as powerful as her home game, but BB still possesses the BB Channel as a Reality Marble and can rewrite the information of events in her favor in order to plunge the enemy into chaos. Naturally, you don't get to utilize this outside of her Noble Phantasm.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: She occasionally drops her silly act when she's angered, which is indicated by her purple eyes turning red. The antagonistic BB/GO has solely red eyes, unless the player chooses the dialogue options that she's not expecting.
Red Herring: She's initially set up to be SE.RA.PH.'s Big Bad, but even then there are early hints that she's not the evil one here. For anyone who is familiar with CCC, it is no surprise.
Red Mage: She's a hybrid between a Support Party Member and a damage dealer. She has a targetable Debuff Removal that also provides healing and Debuff Immunity, she can inflict Stun on an enemy and removes their Invincibility, while her NP is a damaging ST NP that increases the party's NP Gauge with its Overcharge effect. She also has Self-Modification EX, allowing to increase her Critical Star Gather Rate and Critical Strength significantly, making her a semi-Critical Hit Class character.
Reformed, but Not Tamed: As your Servant, she'll relentlessly prod and deride the protagonist for their efforts, but still follows them into battle without question as any other Servant would.
Sarcasm Mode: One of her Command Card selection lines is a cutesy "Kowai!" (basically "I'm scared!" or "How scary!"), delivered in a derisive tone that's clearly anything BUT scared.
Shadow Archetype: Of the EXTRA universe's Matou Sakura; by design, she is the part of the Sakura AI which contains her discarded emotions and memories of EXTRA's Player Character, which eventually mutated and became a rogue AI under the control of Sessyoin Kiara.
Skip of Innocence: Her Arts animation has her happily skipping towards an enemy before attacking them. However, BB herself is definitely not innocent and the trope is really just part of the cute and girly image she likes to invoke.
So Last Season: She swapped her "Cursed Cutting Crater" Noble Phantasm for "Cursed Cupid Cleanser", because she got bored of using the former and wanted to go with something cute instead.
Spam Attack: She is a good unit in an Arts team as her Arts NP gives everyone 20% NP gauge and she has two Arts cards allowing for Arts Brave Chains to easily refill her NP gauge with the help of a support Servant like Tamamo. Her Self Modification EX makes it even easier for her to chain uses together, since critical hits also double generation stats.
Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Subverted in SE.RA.PH., in which she only gets all the attention to herself once the main story of the event has been finished. The short post-finale is dedicated solely to her.
Stone Wall: Has one of the highest HP totals among SR Servants (currently only beaten by Siegfried, and she even out-bulks Mash) and her unique Class means that her only weaknesses are against Rulers and Berserkers, being defensively neutral to the other six standard Classes and resisting Avengers. She also gets a skill which removes a debuff on anyone (including her), heals them, and grants them immunity to the next debuff for a while. Her ATK, meanwhile, is on the low end, and she is definitely built for the Arts meta, though, unlike many other Support Party Member, she doesn't have a built-in negative multiplier in her class chassis.
Sweet Tooth: Her Bond Level 4 dialogue admits that she has a sweet tooth as the protagonist befriends her — by now, the protagonist knows her well enough to guess that she'd have a sweet tooth.
Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: BB has an advantage against Avengers and a weakness against Rulers. She also is both strong and weak against Berserkers and deals extra damage against Beast III-R.
Terms of Endangerment: She refers to the player character as "senpai" and often refers to herself as a kouhai, which reflects how the Sakura AI, emulating the original Sakura, had this relationship with the Extra protagonist. However, rather than being a sign of respect, she disregards most of the formalities of a senpai/kouhai relationship and isn't afraid to be a Loving Bully towards her senpai. Especially because her sparkling prince/princess of the stars isn't here this go around, she'll have to settle for the Grand Order protagonist as a second-rate substitute. However, by Operation Moonsault it's strongly implied that she's fallen for the protagonist as well.
Theme Music Power-Up: A remixed version of "BB Channel" plays when she uses her Noble Phantasm.
Token Evil Teammate: Sure, she'll fight at her Master's behest like any other Servant they've summoned, but by no means is she reformed. Unlike many of the event Singularities that are caused by Servants either being well-intentioned or pragmatic, BB is not only the sole Servant that has caused a Singularity actually meant to derail Chaldea, she's done it more than once. It says something when the Protagonist, an All-Loving Hero to a fault, trusts BB's arch-enemy (a former Beast) more than BB herself.
Troll: In CCC she enjoyed screwing with the protagonist by randomly hosting the BB Channel and interrupting everything that was going on. In this game she messes with you even before the story begins and begins what is actually a rather gruesome story chapter. She also has a slot machine at the start of every battle that gives a random and usually detrimental effect before disappearing. Even in battle, her attack animations are extremely silly much of the time, pirouetting around her foes, holding her skirt down like Marilyn Monroe, and firing her ever-famous Sakura Beam.
Truly Single Parent: As the Sakura Five were created from her splicing parts of her personality around the data of various goddesses, BB is essentially their mother, though only Passionlip and Kingprotea actually refer to her by that title.
Twin Switch: The BB AI sent from the Moon Cell to SE.RA.PH swapped places with the salvaged BB/GO AI so they could fulfill their plans.
Walking Spoiler: Reading even a little bit about her and her role in the story will spoil major plot points of EXTRA CCC.
Why Can't I Hate You?: Her third bond level conversation has this as the topic.
"... Master. You're human, yet you're not discriminatory and have no prejudices. Is there something wrong with you? Show me more explosive moments, or show me how horribly intolerant you are. Or else...I won't have a reason to hate you..."
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
- She's still terrified of Kiara should you have both at Chaldea.
  "Wha... Why is Kiara here!? If the Mooncell is an operational system on par with the solar system, that wannabe Beast is a solar system-sized pleasure land! Just... please shove her on that foul-mouthed nursery story writer!"
- While it's not based in fear she has similar issues with Kama not just for her connections with Kiara, but because Kama also uses Sakura as her vessel; Combined with how stripperific she is, the difference between seeing Kama nearly naked and BB nearly naked is a distinction with little difference.
Willfully Weak: She ranked-down her Ten Crowns skill from EX to D because she thinks having such an invincible skill makes herself pathetic and that is not cute.

BB (Summer)

BB Pele

^{Second Ascension}

^{Third Ascension}

^{Final Ascension}

^{April Fool's}

^{April Fool's Fate/Grail League}

Voiced by: Noriko Shitaya

"I guess some humans just really don't know their place! Or are you just troubled soul who actually WANTS to live life as a little piggy? Just kidding. Enough sweet talk from me. Moon Cancer, BB. I've come to listen to your wishes☆ Just give up and be my plaything, okay, Seeenpaaai?

B.B. is back, and with a fresh summer vibe. She is a digital lifeform who integrated the data of the primordial goddesses of creation into her matrix; now she uses the power of the Hawaiian goddess Pele to transform Hawaii into a Singularity where it is holiday time, all the time, until the end of time. At least, that's what she claims.

Alliance with an Abomination: Summer BB comes from an amused Nyarlathotep deciding he and BB were very similiar to each other, so he willingly shared some of his power with her to see what she'd do.
All Just a Dream: Her Valentine's Day scene ends by revealing the protagonist never escaped from BB's Time Loop Trap, and everything you've seen since then has been the protagonist watching TV in Hawaii. This is obviously non-canon.
Ambiguous Situation: Her final Bond profile suggests that BB didn't actually meet Nyarlathotep and simply thinks she did, and in her Valentine she also hints that she may have only been pretending to be influenced by Nyarlathotep. This, however, begs the question of just where she did get her Foreigner powers from. On one hand, the whole point of a Foreigner is that their power doesn't originate from anything based around Earth (which includes the Moon Cell), which would logically implicate an Outer God. On the other hand, BB was having some trouble with her Self-Modification skill in the event's denouement, which would imply a case of Your Mind Makes It Real. In the end, we're not given a straight answer.
- In Operation Moonsault she's seen switching to and from her swimsuit form freely, making it likely that the whole Nyarlathotep situation was just an act.
Animation Bump: The release of Operation Moonsault updated her Noble Phantasm's animation to match which ascension outfit she's wearing.
Arc Villain: Most likely to the surprise of no one, she's the villain of the Summer 2018 event where she maintains a seven day loop with Nyarlathotep's power, supposedly so that the player doesn't have to face the upcoming Lostbelts. And since this is a flashback, it's obvious she can't win. Her Bond Craft Essence does show what likely happens in a different timeline where she wins.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When they confront her in the event's finale, she admits that she was the Foreigner interfering with Hawaii, gave Gilgamesh amnesia in order to ensure he wouldn't interfere,and gave the Knights of the Round Table and Ibaraki-douji swimsuits to wear. Though she makes it clear that she has absolutely nothing to do with Jeanne Alter's swimsuit, claiming that she wouldn't endorse such awful taste.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Her Noble Phantasm has her turn into a giant, and scooping her enemies to crush them. She is the first playable Servant with the "Super Giant" trait, but this is because BB originally had entire world's worth of information compressed into her, and her going down the "Evil God Emulation" skill tree allows others to observe her original form from the digital world.
Balance Buff: Her Self-Modification was buffed to Self-Modification (Romantic), which adds both a 3-turn ATK buff and a special buff where she'll gain 20 Critical Stars every time she uses her Extra Attack for three turns, as part of the "Moonsault Operation" event campaign. The clear idea is to combo it with her third skill's effect of generating Critical Stars and locking down the Command Cards so she can just keep guaranteeing and unleashing massive Crit damage.
Beneath the Mask: In her first two ascensions, BB acts like she usually does, though with the added traits of summer Servants and Pele. Her true attitude comes to light in her third and fourth ascensions, where she acts more like an incomprehensible eldritch being with a low opinion of humans due to Nyarlathotep's influence. However, even this is suggested to be nothing more than an act.
Call-Back: BB's plan for Luluhawa and ServaFes is basically what she originally tried to do to save the Extra Player Character in the backstory to CCC: put them in a "Groundhog Day" Loop so that they wouldn't be killed or suffer needlessly, in the HGW Extra Player Character case and in the fight to reverse the Lostbelts in Guda's case. However, while doing that to the Extra Player Character is what led to AI Sakura's degeneracy into BB in the first place due to the ethical conflict of the act, BB has no qualms doing this for two reasons: one, her usual sadistic streak has been cranked up to eleven by the influence of Pele and Nyarlathotep, and two, evidently she readily considers the Lostbelt situation so awful and painful that preserving a bit of humanity in a looping singularity and trying to drive the protagonist into gibbering, lustful madness (as seen in her bond CE) is the comparatively moral decision.
Cape Wings: In her third ascension she wears a cape that's similar to the one she wears in her regular form, but this one greatly resembles bat wings.
Commonality Connection: With Nyarlathotep. When BB used Chaldea's observation equipment and saw Nyarlathotep at the end of time, they discovered they both have a love for humanity creating impossible dreams and not faltering in trying to reach them, and then eventually crushing those people and their dreams. It is this common interest that made Nyarlathotep give BB some of Its space-time powers, so she could carry out Its methods while It sits back and watches. Assuming that she actually saw It and isn't making it all up, anyway.
Cosmic Horror Reveal: The climax of Servafest reveals that she is the Foreigner that Chaldea detected, at which point both the mood and BB herself take a turn for the ominous.
Critical Hit Class: She has the powerful Self Modification crit damage+absorption combo for three turns at EX, generates star every turn passively and her third skill generates even more stars every turn. Further, with her third skill, she could get a Buster Brave (BB!) chain every turn to make the most use of her crit skills. However, she's held back by lack of class advantage, meaning players may prefer to have her generating stars and lock down the cards of a more useful class.
Curtains Match the Window: Her hair may be paler, but it still matches her eyes.
Dark Reprise: While BB Channel was always bit ominous, the version that plays when you fight her as the final boss of ServaFes is literally titled "BB Channel ~dark mix~".
Eldritch Abomination: She has the passives of the Foreigner class as a result of being empowered by Nyarlathotep, or so she says. She is notably one of the two playable Servant who does not have the "Humanoid" trait.
Epic Flail: Pulls out a giant one in her third Ascension for one of her attacks.
Fair-Play Villain: She's actually programmed that way. Since she's still technically a nurse at her core, she can never give humanity a truly hopeless situation; there will always be a chance to beat her, no matter how miniscule, even if she has to handicap herself to create it. When Jeanne Alter questions why she didn't bring her four copies to the final battle, she says that she would be disintegrated if she tried to put the Protagonist's group into an actual Hopeless Boss Fight.
Foreshadowing: Her profile notes that she's made herself a "High Servant" much like Passionlip and Meltryllis. Note that "High Servants" are created via merging several divinities together around a core personality, and BB only openly gives Pele as a source. So who or what is the second Divinity?
The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: For Valentine's, she breaks the fourth wall and Directly addresses the player - in an event; unlike with her regular version, which has an optional bad ending, this event can only have a good ending if the player skips the rest of the scene when prompted to. If the player carries on, she eventually gives the player a chocolate version of the island the summer event was held in^notea small-scale version, including a trapped version of the player.
The Friend Nobody Likes: Everyone views her as an obnoxiously bizarre troll at best, and not even her Master actually trusts her. As a potential dialog option puts it:
"Now that's the BB we know and... tolerate!
Frozen in Time: Her Bond CE has the protagonist trapped in a still moment on 11:59 PM, December 31st as they fall to the insanity and horror of BB exposing them to what's out there as Nyarlathotep watches them both. The three stuck on the moon and the Earth devoid of life.
Glowing Eyes of Doom: Her Noble Phantasm, Cursed Cutting Crater, has these show up. However, BB herself does not have this, but rather the burning, three-lobed eye of freaking Nyarlathotep. Yes, that Nyarlathotep. After her Noble Phantasm was updated to match her outfit (including the recolors), the eyes now only appear on the Third Ascension and it's recolored costume.
Gratuitous English: BB sprinkles English into most of her skill and attack lines in her first and second ascension.
Gyaru Girl: The theme of her summer version, complete with tanned skin. However she does have a costume that just removes the tan and bleached effect from her hair in her second and third Ascensions. According to her, this is due to Pele's influence on her Spirit Origin, and the reason she has a separate costume is because she needs to remove Pele from her body.
Hijacked by Ganon: After Jinako gives up halfway through the Moonsault Grail Front, BB wastes no time taking over her spot as the main antagonist, swapping to her swimsuit purely because she says it makes her look cuter.
Identity Absorption: Has done this with the Hawaiian Goddess Pele to avoid any interference with her plans and to absorb Pele's Authorities over Hawaii as part of her plan to set up the loop. This ends up causing problems under the second part of the event since Pele is so integrated into her Spirit Origin she can't actually end the Luluhawa Singularity as she is because she can't separate Pele from herself, requiring Chaldea to go beat up several clones of herself to weaken their connection enough to sever it (though she's really more concerned over the fact she can't get rid of her tan and bleached hair as long as they're fused like this).
It Amused Me: Due to them sharing the same interests and personality, Nyarlathotep gave BB its powers so it could watch what she'd do with them.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: This trait gets even more intense due to Nyarlathotep's alleged influence.
Leotard of Power: She goes back to wearing her leotard in her third and fourth ascensions. Unlike in her regular form, where it's covered up by her skirt, here it's made very clear that it's a leotard.
Lovecraftian Superpower: Once she hits her third stage, she trades out her fire abilities that she absorbed from Pele for various darkness and tentacle attacks that Nyarlathotep gave her access to with his power.
Loving Bully: She claims to bully Robin Hood because she genuinely respects him and cares about him, but it's probably best to take this with a grain of salt. Still, the protagonist notes her threats to turn him into a pig has some similarities to Pelé falling in love with a Pig Man.
Mechanically Unusual Fighter: She has the ability to lock down the current card composition for three turns, negating the normal gameplay mechanic of shuffling every turn.
Me's a Crowd: In the second part of ServantFes, she reveals she created clones of herself from her power that she needs Chaldea to go beat up and weaken the connection between herself and Pele so she can remove Pele from her Spirit Origin and end the Singularity. The protagonist even has to option to mention how this is similar to the Dress of Heaven/Irisviel's situation. BB takes some pleasure in noting that she didn't make all of them exact copies of herself, however.
Moral Luck: The end of Luluhawa mentions that the dissolving of the singularity means BB's actions ultimately didn't hurt anyone. That's only because she lost, however, and if her plans had succeeded the residents of the observatories she destroyed would have been dead and the Player Character would have gone insane.
No-Sell: She's immune to the burn debuff.
Not Brainwashed: Mash thinks BB's evil acts were caused from merging with Nyarlathotep, but BB says they only had a nice meeting, not a merging. The protagonist awkwardly explains that this is pretty par for the course for BB. Her profile further suggests that she never met with Nyarlathotep at all and was merely convinced that she did, or was pretending that she did.
Obviously Evil: Her plan in Luluhawa ultimately fails because she's so obviously up to no good that the Chaldea group doesn't trust her and use the Holy Grail like she told them to.
Playing with Fire: Is able to use fire in different ways like using a flaming lariat, slammed dunking a basketball size fireball and snapping her finger to cause an explosion in her first and second ascension. All these abilities were taken from Pelé, the volcanic goddess of Hawaii.
Purposefully Overpowered: Her second skill as a playable character, "Golden Piggy Grail". On its face, the skill seems completely absurd: maxed out, it provides 50% NP gauge, a 3000 HP heal, and an eighty percent boost to her Noble Phantasm damage (20% buster and 50% NP damage, which multiply together) for three turns. That may look like the greatest power creep since Jeanne Alter was introduced, but it actually reflects a lesson learned from Amakusa and a few others: classes on the Extra triangle need a significant built-in damage boost to effectively use AoE NPs. Without her second skill, Summer BB's NP is outdone by anyone with a class advantage, and Moon Cancers are only strong against Avengers — and until the sixth Lostbelt, Avenger enemies were not only rare, they also appeared one at a time (defeating the point of an AoE NP).
Ready for Lovemaking: Her final ascension... plays with this a bit, especially compared to the couple of strait-laced examples that have come up in previous summer events. There's your adorable ultimate kouhai, kneeling in the water at sunset, shoes off, the waves gently lapping at her legs, her beautiful skin matching the color of the summer sky, water glistening off her swimsuit and oh-so-shapely thighs... and oh, by the way, there are spiked Nyarlathotep tentacles all about the foreground and background. Her blatantly malevolent grin makes it clear it's quite on purpose, too, and that she's rather intent on making you her plaything.
Reality Warper: Aside from turning the previously normal Hawaiian Islands into a Singularity before the protagonist's very eyes, she also threatens to turn Robin into a pig and changes his outfit to a swimsuit to prove she's not messing around.
Red Baron: The Faceless Moon.
Sadist:
- Pele was a sadist and passed this on to BB, which made BB point out she already is one.
- Both BB and Nyalathotep love humanity's tendency to struggle towards dreams and ideals that are impossible to achieve, and to then at some point destroy those people's dreams... and the people themselves.
Sinister Scythe: Pulls one out in her "Devil BB" third ascension+ outfit for some attacks. In Arcade, the scythe is her most used method of attack.
Square Race, Round Class: By all rights, Summer BB ought to be a Foreigner; she meets all the requirements, she is the "Foreigner" response detected by SHEBA, and she's the one XX is trying to stop. However, because of the nature of her origin from the Moon Cell, her Moon Cancer class keeps overriding the other classes she could/ought to be. There's some insinuation that she could "class change" if she wanted to (Self-Modification EX is a hell of a skill and in her normal profile she notes she does qualify as a Ruler), but she prefers to stick with the class she pioneered, which comes in handy when hiding her true Foreigner nature in plain sight.
Stone Wall: BB has great HP and relatively average Attack, although the stat difference is not as significant as her 4-star version, but she has Self-Modification EX and her powerful second skill "Golden Piggy Cup" to let her deal great damage.
Stunned Silence: Her relationship to "Yaobikuni" (aka Summer Kiara) in Fate/Grand Order Material VII is a description that she's lost for words. Given the relationship between BB and Kiara, there are several inferences the reader can make for why BB's unable to say anything.
Time Master: She's gained immense control over time thanks to her contract with Nyarlathotep. She's set up a Singularity in Hawaii that creates a "Groundhog Day" Loop after seven days have passed, and her Faceless Moon skill, which freezes your Command Deck for three turns, is flavored as a time stop (if her exclamations are any indication).
Underestimating Badassery: She really didn't take Mysterious Heroine XX's claims of being a Foreigner Hunter as seriously as she should have, and she pays for it dearly in the final battle when MHXX cuts through BB's attempt to finish off the party and takes her down.
Unreliable Expositor: She claims that MHXX is responsible for all of Chaldea's problems and that Pele teamed up with her to stop XX. In reality, BB's responsible for everything and forcibly took Pele's powers during the process.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: BB saw what the protagonist was going to go through with the Lostbelts and decided to use Nyarlathotep's powers to trap the world in a time-looped, permanent vacation so humanity can spend eternity alive and happy. To her credit, she does feel sorry about the whole thing after returning to her old self.
Yandere: Her Bond CE shows what would have been her endgame: Her and the protagonist together on the moon, observing the stars and the Lostbelt-destroyed Earth under Nyarlathotep's watchful eyes. The protagonist has gone mad from seeing Nyarlathotep, and can't remember anything except BB. It's 23:59 on December 31st, forever.
(final ascension) "It'll really just be the two of us. After all, the rest of humanity is long gone, Master..."
You Lose at Zero Trust: A non-protagonist example. While the Chaldeans didn't know what her plan was, they knew there was no way anything she wanted could be for good and ignored her requests on principle.
BB: ...I had the perfect bow to put on this touching story, and you just ignored it altogether! Why didn't you use the Holy Grail? You're the Master of Chaldea, right? Aren't you supposed to use the Grail to help people?
Protagonist: You seriously think we'd trust YOU, BB?
BB: Whaaat!? THAT'S why my perfect plan was foiled!?

Jinako Carigiri ("Ganesha")

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Great Stone Statue God

^{Second Ascension}

^{Third Ascension}

^{Final Ascension}

^{April Fool's}

^{April Fool's Fate/Grail League}

Voiced by: Aoi Yūki

"What fortune to have summoned me. I bring forth luck, offer riches, and I act as absolute comfort to others... In other words, I am a Divine Spirit who promises you a vacation... Pseudo-Servant, Moon Cancer, Ganesha. I bring you wealth with my presence alone... Just remember: don't bring me up to the front line that often..."

A stone statue depicting Ganesha, a renowned Indian deity who was the son of Shiva and Parvati. Ganesha is known as the Remover of Obstacles, and is associated with intelligence and learning. There are numerous stories as to why Ganesha resembles an elephant, such as Shiva accidentally beheading him (not realizing that Ganesha was his son) and replacing his head with one of an elephant.

However, upon further investigation, there is actually a Pseudo-Servant hiding within the statue: Jinako Carigiri, an Otaku NEET who participated in the Moon Holy Grail War in a certain parallel universe, where she was the Master of Karna. Even though Jinako's name is written within the Spirit Origin, no one is able to read it out, so everyone calls her Ganesha. No-one is really sure how she relates to Ganesha, or if she is even connected to him in the first place.

She first appears as an ally in Lostbelt No. 4: Yuga Kshetra.

Animal Companion: Is accompanied by Ganesha's mount, the mouse Musika. One of her attacks involves sending it to attack the enemy.
Animal-Eared Headband: She wears a pink elephant head-shaped hat in her second and third ascensions, in keeping with how she's tied to the elephant-headed god Ganesha.
Belly Flop Crushing: Her main Noble Phantasm, Ganesha Impact: O Meat Bullet, I Shall Give It My All Starting Tomorrow, has her summoning the actual Ganesha and then running torwards enemies with him. However, Jinako ends up tripping right before she can reach the enemies, causing Ganesha to fall down and crush them beneath his girth.
Big Beautiful Woman: Her being depicted as a chubby girl with a large belly doesn't stop her from being presented in the game's standard fanservice-y style, especially in her Final Ascension.
Big Bad: Played with. She's the initial antagonist of "Moonsault Operation", hoping to use the grail front battles to charge a holy grail created from BB's excess data and then use it to spread SE.RA.PH all over the Earth and create the ultimate open world game... However, she ultimately gives up after three straight losses. After BB hijacks Jinako's plan, Jinako becomes the player's support servant on the final day.
Big Eater: She loves to eat, and she eats some of the rice cakes she's holding when using her skills.
Bigger on the Inside: She claims that the inside of the statue is actually much more spacious, being basically a NEET cave where she can comfortably relax, snack, and play video games.
Blow You Away: One of her Jinako form attacks is a barrage of wind gusts made by flapping her elephant ears.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: In statue form, she urges you to finish your dailies, ascend her, and grail her and Karna, Arjuna or Rama up to level 100. When she ascends, she realizes that she's an SSR Servant. She later makes mention of her rarity as a reason that she was able to overpower and trap BB in the prologue to "Moonsault Operation".
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Jinako is lazy, non-malicious and/or lacking in power compared to the rest of her Classmates. This belies the fact that she is still a very skilled Spiritron Hacker, as she proves in "Operation Moonsault" when she manages to pull one over on BB an enact a world-spanning scheme, proving that she very much belongs in the Moon Cancer Class.
Conversational Troping: Similarly to Osakabehime, Jinako has consumed a lot of pop culture through her days as a shut-in, particularly video games. As a result, she often discusses and lampshades tropes as she sees them
Cute Clumsy Girl: As Jinako she's fairly cute, with even her chubbiness adding to it. When she's shown using her NP as Jinako, though, she manages to trip on her own two feet before she lands the final blow.
Developer's Foresight: If you raise her bond level without ascending her out of her first form, she becomes increasingly irritated and finally starts yelling at you to let her out of the statue already.
Early-Bird Cameo: She first appeared as the statue that randomly appears in a Hunting Quest event prior to her official reveal as a Servant.
Edible Ammunition: She catapults ricecakes using a spoon rapidly.
Genre Savvy: Having consumed a huge amount of video games, anime, and manga in her shut-in days, Jinako is keenly aware of story tropes and regularly brings them up in conversation. When Rama says that they'll be able to prevent further casualties in Bichu at the rate they're going, Jinako groans and says that's exactly what you want to avoid saying, lest things get worse.
Go Mad from the Isolation: In order to mess with Arjuna Alter's perception of being a "perfect god", Ashwatthama sends Jinako and Lakshmi Bai back to the first cycle so that the former can hide inside God's Skyboulder that has been around the Yugakshetra, which turns out to be a combination of both of their Noble Phantasms through all of the cycles thanks to Stable Time Loop. The thing is that she has to be conscious throughout all the cycles, which have been going for thousands of years before that point. She tries to assure you that she will be okay due to how big of a NEET she is, but the whole experience almost makes her insane, causing her to forget everything except the promise she made to Karna.
Graceful Loser: During "Moonsault Operation". Although she throws a bit of a tantrum after losing to the protagonist three times in a row, she ultimately decides to cede the game to them entirely instead of dragging it out for the remaining four battles and returns control of SERAPH to BB as she promised and congratulating the player on a good game.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Zigzagged. Jinako tends to heap praise on herself for minor tasks and accomplishments, much to the confusion of others. But it's also clear that this is her covering for her many, many insecurities about herself, from her appearance to her skills to her very existence. Her My Room dialogue has her wonder why a god as beloved as Ganesha would pick a "worthless person" like her for a vessel.
Hikikomori: Carrying on from her last appearance in Fate/Extra CCC, Jinako is a shut-in who was living of the inheritance left by her parents before entering the Moon Cell. Even after becoming Ganesha's vessel, Jinako would much rather withdraw from the world and not deal with anyone else's problems until Karna drags her out of her statue.
I Have Many Names: When summoned, her name on her First Ascension card is displayed as "Great Stone Statue God", but her profile shows "Jinako Carigiri". Once she ascends, the name on her card also changes to "Jinako Carigiri". However, in both forms, she calls herself "Ganesha", which is also displayed as her name when she's on the battlefield, regardless in which form she is. Additionally, she also has "Jinako" written on her axe, but rather than in katakana, "Jina" is written in hiragana and "-ko" is written in kanji. Her Interlude addresses this, explaining that she's perceived differently from person to person while containing some element from the Far Side of the Moon Cell, so some will call her Jinako while others will refer to her as Ganesha.
Kevlard: Jinako's defensive abilities are through the roof between the damage cut on her second skill, the invincibility granted by her third skill and her Noble Phantasm, and just flat-out having the single highest baseline HP value out of all playable Servants in the game. In lore, she possesses A++ Endurance. She's also rather tubby, though her defenses have more to do with Ganesha's divine power than her own figure.
Jinako: If any baddies think they can get past this wall of divinely protected flab, they're welcome to try!
Living Statue: Subverted. At first it seems like she starts off as a living statue, but in reality Jinako is simply hiding inside the statue.
Locked Out of the Loop: She doesn't know about Kiara's true character, as her My Room line for Kiara talks about how it's unsurprising such a nice person would be in Chaldea as a Pseudo-Servant. Which makes sense as she wasn't around for the CCC true ending and Kiara revealing her darker side.
Making a Splash: In her statue form, she splashes her enemy with water which goes with a rainbow.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Gains two extra arms with her third Ascension, as per common depictions of Ganesha.
Name Order Confusion: Jinako Carigiri is written in western order. It also helps that the name is written in katakana to make it look foreign. Makes some sense since she stated in EXTRA CCC that her father was German.
NEET: A self-described "completely useless indoor-type" who indulges in what's given to her. She wouldn't be Jinako if she wasn't like this, eh? She even says she's similar to Osakabehime (in fact, she says Osakabehime is more accomplished than she is).
Open Mouth, Insert Foot:
- Somehow manages to spill exactly what she thinks of Pārvatī to her face:
  Jinako: WHAT!? You're Ganesha's mommy...er, mother!? Um...well, uh...I haven't said anything bad! And even if I might have said that you're wicked because you think you can get through everything just by smiling...well, that's something I can get away with it because we're family and...Oh, uh...my friend's calling for me, so I'll just be going...
- Does it again when saying she's more of a true hikikomori than Osakabehime because she's way more lazy than her (Osakabehime works hard at making doujin) and then she realizes what she just said.
  Jinako: A member of a doujin club has nothing on my complete unproductivity... Ha, I win! ...Huh. I'm starting to get a little sad...
Out of Character: Has a bout of uncharacteristic Genre Blindness during "Moonsault Operation" when she returns full control of SE.RA.PH to BB (a character Jinako knows full well to be untrustworthy and vengeful), fully expecting her to just return everything to normal.
Punny Name: "Sekizou" means "stone statue", but phonetically, it can also be interpreted as "stone elephant".
Stone Wall: Taken literally a bit with her base Ascension. Jinako has an insane 17,844 HP at level 90, beating out even Jeanne d'Arc, and her kit includes two invincibility buffs, a Damage Cut and a taunt, and a heal on her NP to improve her durability even further, but her ATK is at a very low 9,166, even lower than Caster of the Nightless City^note, which makes her damage output not too impressive despite a couple of ATK buffs and a DEF debuff on her Noble Phantasm.
Token Good Teammate: Prior to Arcueid's release, she was the only Moon Cancer in the game so far to not be a major antagonist from Fate/EXTRA CCC, and if you count BB/Summer BB as the same person, she was the only Moon Cancer to not have the Evil alignment.
Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Even in her first Ascension form as a stone statue (and in all Ascensions following it), she has a pink bow to really hammer in that she's a female Ganesha. It's also the same bow Jinako was wearing in Fate/EXTRA CCC, causing several fans to correctly guess that Ganesha would be a Jinako pseudo-Servant well before her human form was revealed.
Weight Woe: Conscious of her weight, and none-too-fond of thin people.

Sessyoin Kiara (Moon Cancer)

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Mermaid Bodhisattva

^{Second Ascension}

^{Third Ascension}

^{Final Ascension}

^{Sessyoin Lily}

^{April Fool's}

^{April Fool's Fate/Grail League}

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka

"Hello Master. My name is Sessyoin Kiara, and I was given the position of Pseudo-Servant for the nun Yaobikuni. My class is... Oh my! It's Moon Cancer! It's a very rare Class, right? I hear it is a coveted position originating with the moon's Holy Grail War... Ah, I'm very worried if someone like me can fill such shoes... Pfffttt...then again, this must be some quirk of fate. To meet Master's expectations, I'm going to try to be the very best Cancer."

In Japan, there is a myth about a nun called Yaobikuni who one day ate the flesh of a mermaid and was granted eternal life thanks to that. Said nun has now manifested as a Pseudo-Servant in the form of a girl who says she's Sessyoin Lily, by her own account at least. She also claims to be a magical girl who can transform into her grown-up self with a magical compact mirror.

The older Sessyoin Kiara might appear to be more child-like than her regular self, but her existence as Demonic Bodhisattva is still present, as she still only truly loves herself. Though the situation at hand has made her more cautious of her behaviour, resembling something like a self-restraint. Still, she definitely won't miss the chance to dress up as her favourite storybook character, even if the author of the said book would criticize her.

She first debuted in the "Chaldea Thriller Night" summer event.

All for Nothing: After all the effort that she put in as Sessyoin Lily to give Andersen a comfortable working environment so that he could write a sequel to The Little Mermaid, it turns out that Andersen actually doesn't work well in comfortable environments, and so when she finally gets comfortable and settles down to read she discovers that the book is completely blank, except for a bookmark just apologizing for it.
Amnesiac Resonance: Even with Sessyoin Lily not remembering anything about her past as any of the Sessyoin Kiara, her interactions with the "Busy Author" (AKA adult Andersen) are exactly what you would expect from a child Kiara and him.
Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Kiara was initially completely uninterested in the purpose of the Summer Singularity; she just noticed it was near her homeland and decided to take a vacation. It was Xu Fu almost destroying her with the Death Mask that got her personally involved.
Barely-There Swimwear: Her swimsuit in her First Ascension is basically a thin strip of cloth covering her nipples. Almost fittingly, one of her lines when she's hit by a Noble Phantasm implies that she's having a Wardrobe Malfunction.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Much like her normal form, her Valentines scene has a "Good End" and a "Bad End", with the "Bad End" reflecting this. When offering you her chocolate, she asks if it's enough for you. If you say yes, you get the "Good End" and she lets out some mock frustration over being "dumped". If you say it's not enough though... she drags you down into the depths and traps you in the Dragon Palace, with no hope of ever escaping, as she mockingly says you shouldn't have gone to the palace.
Berserk Button: Sigurd and Brynhild's lovey-dovey relationship ends up being this prior to the first battle, which results in her not holding back in the fight despite her initial intention to do so. Yu manages to hit an even bigger one though, as to say that Kiara does not take Yu's theory that she is in love with Andersen well would be an understatement.
Big Eater: Crossed with The Assimilator. Kiara not only consumed the massive fossil of a Shen, but also an entire school of unsuspecting mermaids in order to restore her saint graph after her encounter with Xu Fu.
Bondage Is Bad: In her Second Ascension, she dons a police uniform that's clearly meant for bondage play.
Boxed Crook: After the event, Kiara was able to return to Chaldea, but with the revelation of her Independent Manifestation was to be watched more closely and likely removed from the regular roster of active-duty Servants. Not that she minds about that bit in particular.
Call-Back:
- Kiara was briefly a Moon Cancer Servant when she stole Abigail's spot in BB's "Sacrilege Tetrahedron" during the third summer event.
- One of her third Ascension's attacks has her rain down parts of the underwater castle from the Agartha chapter.
- Her third Ascension's Noble Phantasm has her dissolve her enemies into foam, which is also a reference to how the Shen's illusionary powers are the result released sea foam from within its shell, as she did to the protagonist during the Bad Future scenario of SE.RA.PH.
- Her NP destroys her enemies in the palm of her hand, like Buddha did to Sun Wukong in Journey to the West. (This also happens in the hardest version of her CCC fight.)
Combat Sadomasochist: Of course, this is Sessyoin freaking Kiara we're talking about here. Her response to getting hit by a Noble Phantasm in her Third Ascension is to remark about how wonderful it is to feel pain.
Dual Age Modes: The "Chaldea Thriller Night" event story has her switch between her Lily form and her first ascension, though her ascension artwork itself doesn't have this, featuring her adult form throughout. Lampshaded by her Lily form, who after transforming into her adult self and back for the first time, addresses the player directly to inform them that she has no combat ability whatsoever as a child and thus she will not be appearing in this form in any of her ascensions, and a skin of it is out of the question.
Even Evil Has Standards: If you clear Avalon La Fae and ended up summoning Oberon, Kiara states that she is not a fan of the fairy.
Everyone Has Standards: She may be largely shameless and depraved, but even she appears flustered with her second ascension's BDSM style outfit, and reacts with Ma'am Shock when the others think she's Lily's mother.
Evil Knockoff:
- She relentlessly riffs on BB and the Sakura Five while paying tribute to The Little Mermaid at the same time. Firstly, she edits the Moon Cancer class card to resemble her. Then she swaps out her usual palm-based fighting style to one that heavily emphasizes kicking and water elemental attacks like Meltryllis'. Her third Ascension's Extra Attack is a seashell version of Brynhildr Romantia. Lastly, she turns enormous and assumes a pose similar to Kingprotea's for her Noble Phantasm animation.
- As if to lampshade this, Kiara's line for Summer BB has them try to be friends over sharing a class, only to get rebuked, with BB saying that she doesn't want to be the same kind of person as her. Kiara basically shrugs, and says that they're destined to crush each other in the end.
Evil Laugh: Two of her Extra Attack voice lines (1st and 2nd Ascensions) start with her giggling, then bursting into an evil laughter.
Fairy Tale Motifs:
- Mermaids. Her Third Ascension (especially that Ascension's Noble Phantasm, where she turns the enemies into sea foam) is heavily inspired by The Little Mermaid, since it was her favorite story as a child. However, her Spirit Origin (plus her first skill, Mermaid's Flesh) borrows from the the folktale of Yaobikuni, a nun who ate a mermaid's flesh and became immortal.
- Her Bond CE is that of the Dragon Palace from the story of Urashima Taro making her Princess Otohime as well.
Healing Factor: In addition to the immortality, devouring mermaid flesh has given Kiara boosted regeneration, which is reflected in her Mermaid Flesh EX giving her an HP Regen effect for three turns, Debuff cleanse, and a five-turn Guts.
Interface Screw: During her summoning she somehow hacks the system, changing the traditional Moon Cancer card depicting BB into one depicting her demon form.
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Sessyoin Lily claims that she cannot remember anything about her past, acting like she is just a lost girl. She also cannot remember anything what happens when she is transformed into regular Kiara. As it turns out, Kiara was the one who sealed her own memories away as a way to enjoy summer vacation as a child since she was controlling one half of the Singularity.
Last-Name Basis: Kiara's Lily form goes by "Sessyoin Lily" for some reason, although she often shortens it to "Lily". Troughout the event, she's referred to as Sessyoin by the other characters after The Reveal.
Ma'am Shock: When Sessyoin Lily reveals her Older Alter Ego in front of the heroes, Mash's first assumption is that Kiara is Lily's mother. Kiara's composure shatters and she briefly goes on a rant of how it's utterly impossible for her to be a mother while calling that "joke" compeltely and utterly tasteless.
Making a Splash: Due to the two sources of her powers being aquatic in nature with abilities also tied to the ocean, Kiara makes use of many water attacks, be it just water-imbued physical strikes, water projectiles from a Finger Gun in her Second Ascension to high-pressure water jets in her Third Ascension, and even her NP of turning her targets into sea foam.
Magical Girl: As Sessyoin Lily, she likes to pretend to be one, as she uses typical magical girl transformation phrases to switch to her older self and claims to use a magical compact to transform.
Master of Illusion: In addition to eating mermaids, Kiara also ate Shen, a type of clam yokai, that gave her illusion powers. They're so effective that they fool all five senses and even "sixth-sense" type abilities can't work on her, as the simple act of trying to focus on her opens you up to her illusions. She can even trap people in illusions so life-like they might as well be reality, or as she claims, "dreams". The only way the Chaldea crew could get around it is by carpet-bombing the entire battlefield so that even if they're not aiming specifically at her, they could get her with the splash damage (which is reflected in-game during her Story Battle by a permanent Evade that can only be bypassed by AoE NPs).
Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Her first skill, Mermaid Flesh EX, has a very unique buff attached to it, namely, the ability to bestow Rank Ups on her second and third skills in battle. Every turn, she receives a buff that strengthens her second and third skills, and they can be upgraded up to two times. Using said upgraded skills consumes stacks of the special buff equal to how many times they were upgraded.
Not Quite Dead: Before the event started, Kiara went to the Singularity to investigate it, only to get instantly destroyed by Xu Fu's Immortal Killing Mask. However, since her Independent Manifestation gives her resistance to instant kill attacks, it allowed her to manifest back at Mariana Trench where she ate the fossil of a Shen and some mermaids to recover her Spirit Origin.
One-Hit Kill: Her Noble Phantasm has a good chance of instantly killing the enemy. Fortunately, the chance to proc the instant kill is applied after the damage is dealt, letting Kiara still benefit from the NP gauge refund.
Physical God: This is still Kiara. Even without becoming Beast III-R or taking control of the Moon Cell, she is still an outrageously powerful opponent, having devoured mermaids and Shen, a clam youkai that's also a powerful Divine Spirit, to restore her damaged Spirit Origin. Her line with Summer BB has her wondering if Earth would stay intact if they ever went all out against each other.
Power Misidentification: She initially claims to be a Pseudo-Servant of Lady Yaobikuni (hence her association with and powers related to mermaids) and that she has Dream Weaver powers thanks to trapping various Servants in their dreams or nightmares. With Andersen's help, however, the party realizes that her power over "dreams" is in reality that of incredibly powerful illusions, and that mermaid motif, while true and one of her sources of power, is actually secondary and almost an after-thought to the real prize she devoured for said powers, the Divine Spirit Shen.
Puzzle Boss: In her boss fight in Summer 5, thanks to the illusionary powers of Shen's Dress, she can only be damaged by multi-target Noble Phantasms.
Really 700 Years Old: Sessyoin Lily claims to be the manifestation of Lady Yaobikuni, a legendary character who gained immortality from devouring mermaid flesh, but was cursed to look like a small child forever.
Resurrective Immortality: Her Independent Manifestation skill allowed her to barely survive her encounter against Xu Fu's Immortal Killing Mask by reviving her in the Mariana Trench.
Sexy Whatever Outfit: Her second ascension has her wear a revealing outfit that's clearly based on a police uniform.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Her relationship with Andersen remains strained at best, and says she finds "writers who hide in a confined space even during summer retreat" unsightly. Yet, her dearest wish for this summer retreat is to poke and prod him into writing a sequel to The Little Mermaid, which Kiara enjoys wholeheartedly, and as always, while she gets very touchy about it, there's an element of Belligerent Sexual Tension there too.
Situational Sword: Her Noble Phantasm deals extra damage based on how many Mental Debuffs are active on the enemy, up to a maximum of 10, similar to Romulus-Quirinus's Roman trait damage modifier on his Noble Phantasm. Her third skill inflicts the unique Bewitchment debuff, reducing their critical chance per stack, and when fully upgraded, it inflicts three stacks of the debuff on all enemies, letting Kiara deal impressive damage above her weight.
Third-Person Person: As Sessyoin Lily, she uses "Lily" instead of a first person pronoun.
Visual Pun: Her Final Ascension's attack animations have her raising palace towers to damage the enemy; this refers to the literal meaning of the term shinkirou ("clam's breath tower") from which her illusory powers stem.
Wardrobe Malfunction: Implied. Her line for when she's hit by a Noble Phantasm implies that her Barely-There Swimwear is falling apart.
Kiara: Ah! The swimsuit I worked so hard for...
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Kiara is known for her self-centric nymphomania, but she has harder time grasping the concept of (platonic/romantic/etc) love between two people. She gets distracted by Sigurd's and Brynhild's Sickeningly Sweethearts relationship so much that the Chaldea crew were able to escape the first fight against her, and when Yu Mei-ren claims that she has a Wife Husbandry relationship going on with Andersen, Kiara gets extremely offended by her accusations. (Which, as the other characters point out, is not a denial of those accusations...)
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The description for her Mermaid Flesh skill talks about the ethics of eating mermaid flesh to become immortal. Japanese mermaids are merely "fish that look like people" as they lack human knowledge or speech, meaning that they lack the soul of one. Which means that she wouldn't breach her vow to harm others if she were to eat one since it wouldn't be murder, even if she were to eat an entire school of them. Compare that to what Andersen wrote in The Little Mermaid, where mermaids are as intelligent as humans but still lacked souls.

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