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Applicant Info

◎ Name: Ashley
◎ Journal: invisiableair
◎ Contact: ashleywr @ plurk

Character Info

◎ Character's Name: Arturia Pendragon // Saber
◎ Character's Canon: Fate/Stay Night
◎ Character's Age: Unknown, appears to be in her late teens.
◎ Canon Point: Post-Good End Unlimited Blade Works
◎ Background/History: http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Saber_%28Fate/stay_night%29
◎ Is the character a hacker and/or do they have a sixth-sense? She has an A Rank Instinct, which is described as: “Refined sixth sense is now close to true precognition. Bonus effect of reducing by half the penalties caused by obstructed vision and hearing.”

◎ Personality:

While she may not look the part, Saber is a King and a knight, things she takes very seriously. From an early age she was raised as a knight, to hold chivalric values as the utmost important. To be honorable, in combat and in the rest of her life. At the same time she learned that her femininity was not important, that she needed no such thing in hew station. She knew that from the time of her birth that being a normal person was out of her reach, as she was to become the King of England.

Because of the upbringing she had, Saber ended up as a difficult to understand girl. When she appeared as a Servant to Shirou, she was not what he expected. She was strong, as a knight, and nothing like the girl she appeared to be, when she wasn’t fighting. Saber was stubborn, because Shirou’s path to winning the goal was not the way she wanted. She was cold to him, even when he tried to get her to open up, because she saw it as unnecessary to achieve her goal. She is also headstrong, confident in her abilities, and easily annoyed. She doesn’t like to be picked on by someone like Lancer, scowling and showing her contempt at him even though he’s playfully bullying her. But she will never back down from a fight, willing to lay down her life to protect others.

Saber lives with regret. She regrets becoming a King. She regrets the decisions she made while she was alive, that turned her knights and country against her. With her dying breath she wished she could do something to stop the country she loved from tearing itself apart, and that wish was what drove her to become a Servant. She made many mistakes in her life, because of her strict adherence to honor and chivalry duty. Sentencing her wife to death because she had an affair with Saber’s knight Lancelot was the epitome of her regret. She had to kill Guinevere because honor told her she must, even though she understood why Guinevere hadn’t loved her. When she died she could only think back on her regrets and made the wish to change them.

One of Saber’s weaknesses is her inflexibility. She always knew she would be King, and threw away her own feelings in order to be a good leader. She has a hard time adapting to the modern world’s social expectations, as well as even being treated like a woman. On the other hand, she is known for her high Charisma skill, which led others to believe in her as a King. It was not enough to keep her country from falling apart, but it did make her an ideal leader in combat, inspiring others to fight. When she first arrives in Japan under Shirou, this inflexibility is readily apparent. She has the ability to remember her times being summoned for the Holy Grail, and so she had been changed because of that process. She had focused on being a Servant, not wanting to be treated as a person, but instead as a tool or a weapon for her Master. This is likely because that was exactly how she was treated by Kiritsugu, Shirou’s father when she had been summoned before. It was all a facade she had, much like how she had been when she had been King, putting aside her personal feelings for the job. She thought the war was more important than herself, a common problem she has.

She is cold sometimes, chastising Shirou when he makes a mistake in his training with her, or upset when a fight isn’t an honorable duel. It is her time as a King, having to make difficult decisions and live with them no matter how poorly they turned out that made her like that. She didn’t have the easy life others had, so she grew cold, to protect herself. It’s only after being around Shirou and Rin that she starts to learn more about herself. While on a date with Rin and Shirou, she finds herself having fun watching them enjoying themselves, and she likes the batting cages where she can compete physically. Still, displaying emotions, speaking of them, or being shown kindness is still strange to her.

Living as a King who hid her gender, there are a lot of things about being a woman that Saber has trouble with, though she is slowly learning about, love being the foremost thing. In Unlimited Blade Works her own feelings seem to be less focused on than in Fate, but she has the ability to fall in love, with someone who can help teach her that she can move on from her mistakes as a king, and live a new life. Similar feelings seem to appear in UBW, seeing how she decides to stay with Rin and Shirou. She is also embarrassed when she is treated as a woman, preferring simple clothes, with no real care on the style.

After her time in Japan, Saber has grown to be a bit of a glutton. Thanks to Shirou teaching her more about different cuisines, she has an almost insatiable appetite, likely as a means to fill her giant tank of prana. She now goes out of her way to try more foods, and regally accepts any offer of cooking for her, which is an easy way to her good side. At the same time, she has started to open up to more things, thanks to Shirou and Rin’s influence. She has seen that there’s things to live for other than fighting, and is interested in learning more about the world she has been thrust into.


◎ Powers/Abilities:

Saber is a Servant, summoned forth from her time in the Middle Ages to act as a warrior in a War over the Holy Grail. Because of the natural properties of the Grail she is imbued with strength, stamina, agility, toughness, and other abilities at a superhuman level. However, as a Servant, she is expected to form a contract with a Master, or a magus who can supply her with prana in order to keep her from returning to the Grail. In this way she cannot fight to her fullest ability unless she has a reserve from a Master to use, like she had in Shirou and then Rin in Unlimited Blade works.

As a knight Saber wears protective magical armor that she can summon and repair with her inner stored magic, or magic power given to her by the Master who she has a contract with. It cannot be destroyed, only damaged, as it is a part of her, and as long as she has the prana she can continuously repair it.

She has an incredible amount of prana because she was imbued with the blood of the dragon by Merlin. This gives her a giant reserve, but because she never had the willingness to learn magecraft, finding herself more comfortable in swordfighting than learning spells. The downside of her dragon blood is that she is weak to Servants and abilities that are made to kill dragons.

Because of her Class as Saber, and her dragon blood, Saber’s Magical Resistance is second to none. She is impervious to almost all direct magecraft, shrugging off magical blasts and spells. However, she is still susceptible to high levels of true magic, magic like the Holy Grail.

Saber is a Servant so she should be able to go invisible and then rematerialize like the other Servants, but because she was summoned by the Grail before she had died, she is unable to do so. The other side of that is that she can remember her previous attempts at being summoned for the Grail War where most Servants cannot, leading her personality to change in each war.

With the incredible amount of prana that Saber is able to store she can use it to “Prana Burst” releasing it in large amounts while fighting. Her secret is that she was never very physically strong, but her reinforcement of her body with her prana reserves made her into a legendary swordsman. She can use her prana to increase her reflexes, physical strength, and even reinforce her weapon, so much so that it is said she can wield a piece of wood as if it were a powerful sword. Her limit of course is her prana stores, as going all out for too long would drain them quickly, and if she were to use all of them she would most likely disappear and return to the Grail.

As most Servants and Masters would recognize a weapon like Excalibur, a spell was needed to hide its identity. This spell is called “Invisible Air: Bounded Field of the Wind King”. It is a barrier of multiple layers of wind that hides Excalibur from sight, making it completely invisible. This serves to hide Saber’s identity as King Arthur, as well as confuse opponents who do not know the length or even type of weapon that Saber uses. It can also be used to increase the cutting power of her sword, or released all at once in a giant burst, increasing her strength for a short time.

Fighting and training all her life, imbued with dragon’s blood, and becoming a Servant have all helped to increase Saber’s instincts. She has fought countless battles and survived, to the point that she can recognize the best course of personal action for her to take in combat. It allows her to know when she cannot win because of terrain, weapon matchup, magical abilities or otherwise. She can instinctively predict the movements of projectiles to where it is almost impossible to hit her at all. It alerts her to possible danger like a sixth sense, and allows her to fight at a level higher than she should be able to, like when she is able to dodge a sure-kill attack by Assassin, only because his sword had been bent a few degrees.

Servants have different skills they are rated on, with Riding being one of them. Though obviously the Rider class is the best at this particular skill, Saber ranks highly as well. She cannot use magical beasts as a mount, but because knights were proficient at mounted combat she can control horses, cars, motorcycles and other similar machinery. She doesn’t have to know how they work, she intrinsically understands their usage and limits, while also able to use her prana to increase their max efficiency.

Blessed by the Lady of the Lake and given Excalibur, Saber has the ability to walk on water as if it were solid ground. She can also use her immense strength as a Servant to run up completely vertical surfaces like the side of a building. Her maneuverability thanks to her Invisible Air and Prana Burst are such that she can practically double jump or change direction in midair.

Saber will be coming into the game without a contract, and thus no prana reserves save her own. If she runs out then she will not die or return to the Grail, instead she will become sluggish and weak instead for the sake of RP.

◎ Weapons & Other Special Inventory:

Excalibur: Sword of Promised Victory - The legendary sword of King Arthur, given to her by the Lady of the Lake. A Divine Construct, a sword of the gods that belongs only to King Arthur, and given back to the planet after she died. Incredibly powerful, if she gathers up enough prana she can use her weapon to summon a giant beam of holy light that can cut through almost anything.

As a Divine Construct, it is considered one of the strongest weapons ever created, and as long as Saber has the prana to use it, it makes her nearly unbeatable. However, due to its overwhelming power with fully unleashing it, if she has too little prana stored it can cause her to disappear, or she could kill innocent people if they are in the way of her attack.

She does not have Avalon, the magical scabbard that houses Excalibur, because it is instead still inside Shirou in her canon point.

CEREALIA-Specific

◎ Element: Wind.
◎ Sense: Touch. Because of her ability to feel the air around her, she can dodge projectiles and predict attacks.

◎ Seven Character Traits: ( Loyal + Courageous + Curious ) + ( Stubborn + Distant + Regretful ) + Chivalric

Samples

◎ First-Person Sample: Test Drive (http://ioculus.dreamwidth.org/3446.html?thread=1142646#cmt1142646)

◎ Third-Person Sample:

Some things just didn’t quite make sense to Saber. She could try to understand, wanting to feel more comfortable in this new world of hers, but it wasn’t so simple. She had all the knowledge she needed to function in the modern world, but it didn’t mean she understood ‘why’. For instance, take the CereVice in her hand. She looked it over, amazed that they could fit so much into one tiny device. It could send video, voice, and written messages instantly to another person no matter how far away they were. She knew that it had to do with radio waves and circuits, but it didn’t stop her from understanding it completely. Why would someone use the device to line up three pieces of candy? What was the point in that? Why would they prefer to interact in 180 letters when they could fully express themselves with no artificial limitation on messages. As a soldier and a commander she knew that ambiguity could be a dangerous thing in a message of import.

All that aside, she still knew how to use it. She could simply navigate to the phone app, and then press Shirou’s picture to be talking with him in moments. The sheer ingenuity of it made her regret not being able to use such a thing during her time at war. If she could contact a commander of her’s in an instant to tell them to begin the attack simultaneously there would be no danger of her message being intercepted, or showing up to a battle with only half her force, not knowing when reinforcements would arrive.

The phone was just one of the things that she didn’t understand, but at the same time understood all too well. Chewing on a strange thing called a ‘churro’ she was amazing at how far culinary arts had come. She was used to living on potatoes and barely spiced meats, but now there was an entire world in front of her of things she hadn’t tried before. For the first time in her life she had no war to win, no battle to fight, and no country to run. It gave her these strange moments of inner reflection where she could sit on a park bench, eating a churro, and playing games on her phone.

Soon enough she would return back to Shirou or Rin and see if there was anyway she could help them, unable to completely divorce herself from her role as a Servant, but it was strangely freeing to get an afternoon to herself like this.

◎ Is your character retaining any previous game memories? No.