Kiritsugu Emiya

==Summary==
Kiritsugu Emiya is the true Master of Saber during the Fourth Holy Grail War, working with the Einzberns to secure the Grail. He is married to Irisviel von Einzbern and has a daughter with her, Illya. Kiritsugu wishes to be an Ally of Justice who would protect the weak ever since he was a child. However, in his pursuit of this ideal, he gradually became cold-blooded, using questionable methods to kill the few and save the many. Later, he became a mercenary who worked under his surrogate mother, Natalia Kaminski, and was labeled a Magus Killer for his skill in eliminating magic users.
He was initially planning to use the Holy Grail to bring salvation to humanity. However, after realizing its corrupted nature, he orders Saber to destroy it, causing the Fuyuki City fire. Overwhelmed by guilt and shock, he discarded his dreams and emotionless facade. He adopted Shirou, the sole survivor of the disaster. He passed his ideals onto him shortly before his death.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , at least with Preparation
Name: Kiritsugu Emiya, "Kerry," the Magus Killer
Origin: Fate/Zero
Gender: Male
Age: 29 years old (34 years old at the time of his death)
Classification: Assassin, Human / Master
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|-|Powers=Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Limited Information Analysis, Expert Marksman, Magecraft, Acrobatics (Can perform flips), Enhanced Senses (Can give himself night vision with magecraft, and can detect magi in pitch dark conditions with the Walther WA2000, tracking their Magic Circuits), Hypnosis, Time Manipulation (Can speed up or slow down his own time), Biological Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Information Manipulation and Soul Manipulation (His Origin Bullets cause necrosis and permanent nerve damage, on top of frying a magi's Magic Circuits, which are contained in the soul and expressed through the body, leaving them incapable of using magic. His Origin Bullets also attack with his Origins of "Severing" and "Binding" to induce their effects, and are considered Conceptual Armaments), Preparation, Regeneration (Low-Mid through Avalon; allows him to regenerate from lethal wounds, such as his bones and tendons being torn apart due to Triple and Square Accel, and from having his heart and lungs crushed by Kirei)
|-|Resistance=Resistance to Magic, including Power Nullification, Law Manipulation, Size Manipulation, Sealing, Fate Manipulation, Density Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Life Manipulation, Body Puppetry, Space-Time Manipulation, Time Stop, Petrification, Holy Manipulation, Purification, Memory Manipulation, Death Manipulation, Sleep Manipulation, Social Influencing, Fear Manipulation, Chaos Manipulation, Probability Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Information Manipulation, Absorption, Transmutation, Curse Manipulation, Dream Manipulation, Perception Manipulation, Sense Manipulation, Disease Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement, Illusion Creation, Madness Manipulation (Type 2), Deconstruction, Subjective Reality, Telepathy, BFR, Higher-Dimensional Manipulation (All magi and characters with Magic Circuits have resistance to magical effects that aim to control and create effects within others, by rejecting the effect with magical energy)
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Attack Potency: Small Building level (Can fight and wound Kirei), at least Large Building level with Preparation (Destroyed a skyscraper with C4). Ignores conventional durability with Origin Bullets (Against living beings, the Origin Bullets cause no visible wound or bleeding; instead, they cause necrosis and permanent nerve damage on impact and are even more effective against those using magecraft, causing their magical energy to go out of control and fry their body and Circuits).
Speed: Subsonic with FTL reactions (Should be comparable to other magi), FTL with Double, Triple, and Square Accel (Using Double Accel, he disappeared from Kayneth's view, and he can barely keep up with a Mantra-boosted Kirei Kotomine with Triple Accel, managing to outspeed him with Square Accel)
Lifting Strength: Unknown
Striking Strength: Small Building level (Stabbed Kirei in the knee)
Durability: Small Building level (Survived getting punched into a concrete wall by Kirei)
Stamina: High. Managed to survive All the World's Evil to live normally for years, even as it ate away at his mind and slowly killed him.
Range: Standard melee range, tens of meters to hundreds of meters with firearms (Can see and fire on a target from up to six hundred meters away with the Walther WA2000)
Standard Equipment: His firearms; a Calico M950, Walther WA2000, and the Thompson Contender. His Origin Bullets and Avalon. Hand grenades, stun grenades, smoke grenades, and C2 plastic explosives.
*Avalon: Excalibur's sheath, a Divine Construct of the same make. After using it to summon Saber, Kiritsugu implants it into his own body as a Master's Noble Phantasm, providing him with spectacular regenerative abilities that allow him to make full use of his Innate Time Control. It can heal even lethal wounds, quickly regenerating Kiritsugu's heart and lungs after being crushed by Kirei.
*Calico M950: A 50-round submachine gun that Kiritsugu uses as a reserved sidearm, carried at his side along with the Contender when going out on the field during the fourth Grail War.
*Thompson Contender: Kiritsugu's Mystic Code, a weapon used to fire his Origin Bullets. Aside from the Origin Bullets, which can effectively eliminate magic users, its sheer power of the large caliber is also outstanding.
*Walther WA2000: A heavyweight sniper rifle produced one of only 176 units. It employs a digital camera with night vision and a thermal scanner. It can also detect the Magic Circuits of a magus from hundreds of meters away.
Intelligence: Kiritsugu is a professional assassin who, true to his title, specializes in eliminating other magic-wielders. He is skilled in every manner of modern combat, from knife work to the use of firearms and explosives. He is also known for his extensive planning and extreme pragmatism, evacuating a building before collapsing it with some well-placed explosions rather than risk his life by facing Kayneth's traps personally. With Avalon's help, he can fight Executors like Kirei Kotomine, the Church's elite heretic hunters, on equal ground.
Weaknesses: Kiritsugu's Innate Time Control takes a toll on his body; Double Accel pushes his body to its limits, while Triple and Square Accel would be lethal without Avalon. His Origin Bullets won't work against purely physical protections, such as military-grade armor; they can be rendered ineffective by using an external source of magical energy instead of the user's supply. Avalon is useless without his connection to Saber. Kiritsugu is always plagued with guilt over the people he's killed and his decisions to save many. He finally suffered a mental breakdown due to failing to save Fuyuki City citizens during the crisis of the Holy Grail War. After Angra Mainyu cursed him, he slowly deteriorated over several years and could no longer use magic. The affliction finally claimed his life at the age of thirty-four, five years after the end of the war.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Magecraft: Kiritsugu is an average magus whose abilities mostly lie in his pragmatism and use of modern tactics and weaponry. The Emiya crest is carved into his back. However, due to his father's Sealing Designation, most of it was confiscated. He possesses less than half of the original amount. He possesses rudimentary hypnotic skills that only work on individuals with no magical resistance and can see in the darkest settings by channeling magical energy into his eyes. Due to his research, he is knowledgeable on Bounded Fields and can penetrate them with incredible skill. He has two elemental affinities, Fire and Earth, which reflect his dual Origins, Severing and Binding.
These Origins are different from the concept of "destruction and rebirth"; there is no chance of recovery with binding. Even if someone ties together a cut string, it will still be cut. It affects his entire life, making him incompetent when it comes to handling delicate machinery. Regardless, he makes full use of his Origins with Origin Bullets, unique weapons made from two of his ribs, ground into dust, with his soul preserved through magecraft, before they were sealed into sixty-six bullets. By the time of the Fourth Holy Grail War, he's used thirty-seven of them, and he brings twelve for use during the war.
These Origin Bullets carry on his Origins and actualize them within the target, which can cripple living creatures with ease. It doesn't leave any trace of a wound in the form of a bullet hole, but the affected body part will suffer from necrosis. Even though it may appear to heal on the outside, the nerves and capillaries underneath never recover. The limb's function is lost forever. It is even more effective against magi, affecting them even if they block with barriers by traveling through to the source of their magical energy - their Magic Circuits. Denser magical power for a sturdier boundary will only cause more harm. "Severing" causes the target's magical energy to ignore their pathways, violently flowing through their body and causing severe damage. Simultaneously, "Binding" binds together their Magic Circuits in a useless arrangement, incapacitating them; moreover, the victims can no longer perform any magic.
The only way a magus can adequately defend against his Origin Bullets is to either abandon all magical barriers and use physical protections instead or use magical defense from anywhere other than their own Magic Circuits. During their fight, Kirei uses both methods, first protecting himself with Command Seal boosted Black Keys and then swatting aside the second bullet. However, it nearly tears his arm off. 
*Innate Time Control: The Emiya family magecraft, researched by his family over generations, reaches the High-Thaumaturgy level, a Bounded Field that can be used for time adjustment. It is usually applied to a wide area and requires a large amount of magical energy and complex rituals. However, Kiritsugu applies it to himself only, chanting "Time Alter," followed by the degree of speed he wants to use. He can use accel to speed up his time and stagnate to slow it down. He mostly uses Double Accel for a quick burst of speed boost, while he uses Triple Stagnate to reduce his biological processes to a third of their rate. It slows his metabolism down to be near room temperature. His breathing and heartbeat become so slow that they can hardly be detected. The "incorrect" time results in his body being pushed to his limits, bursting blood vessels, and fracturing bones. Without Avalon, Double Accel would be his limit, and Triple or Square Accel would kill him; however, Avalon's healing power allows him to use them effectively and for extended periods.
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Guido Mista (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) Mista's Profile (Kiritsugu without Avalon or prep was used)
Losses:
Waxillium Ladrian (Mistborn) Wax's Profile (Base Wax and Kerry with Avalon were used. Speed was Equalized)
Inconclusive:
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