Reika Rikudou

is the Master of Assassin of Black in the Great Holy Grail War of Fate/Apocrypha.
==Profile==
===Background===
When Reika was young, she was a highly cultivated young lady from a wealthy family, until her parents died in an accident. Young Reika then grew up without an actual family, and she suffered from abuse before being adopted. She was unable to do anything for herself during her childhood, and eventually became a prostitute simply because she needed money to survive. She becomes involved with the Holy Grail War at the age of twenty-three upon encountering Sagara Hyouma.
===Appearance===
Reika is 23 years old in the Great Holy Grail War. Reika is an alluring woman with long greyish-green hair who looks like she can "drive men mad with a single expression of melancholy."
===Personality===
She is a woman who finds inherent worth in neither her own life nor that of others, and has lived merely by allowing herself to be pushed along by the flow of things. Though she can be said to possess a morality becoming of a human being, the morality she possesses seems in some way flawed. After she begins their murdering spree, she has something close to madness in her eyes that drives others away.
She is a unique natural genius and natural monster, the only one of her kind. Her comprehension and observing eye towards everything is abnormal, and she continued to calmly slaughter magi while always maintaining Assassin’s superiority in a situation where the two of them had few weapons and little prana. Even before she left Japan, she turned the tables on and killed a squad of Yggdmillennia assassins with Jack’s help. In addition, she’s extremely proficient with learning languages, knowing English and even able to smoothly speak Latin.
She has no hesitation towards murder and possesses no unnecessary emotional attachment to survival, so once she decided to “steal the Holy Grail”, she simply strived undaunted towards that goal. Yet, her wish is nothing special. She simply acts following the optimal strategy, like an AI, for the sake of Jack, who saved her life.
Jack is the only one who she showers with human-like affection. This is because, in her entire two decades of life, Jack was the only one who saved her without asking for compensation. In a sense, Reika is certainly similar to Jack’s victims, but she differed from them in a single aspect. Her life was spent being stolen from and trodden upon by others, but she never tried to steal anything from anyone herself. Even though she lived her life going with the flow—spending an empty life that involved just beating her heart, she still tightly grasped onto her own life, at least.
==Role==
===Fate/Apocrypha Act1: Unbirth===
Reika is a prostitute living with Sagara Hyouma, a magus. Sagara wishes to summon Jack the Ripper as a Servant, but he fails to do so even with her six knives as the catalyst. He concludes that he needs to create the conditions where the blades were practically used in order to establish a better connection. He quickly decides to use Reika as a sacrifice. In his attempt summon Jack by killing her, her wish to live is what brings Jack into the world. While Sagara is the proper Master with Command Spells, she quickly shows that she has concluded that Reika is her Master instead. Before he can tell her to commit suicide after realizing something is wrong with the situation, she incapacitates him by cutting off his jaw and the hand with the Command Spells. She uses her skills to stitch up both their wounds while Reika is unconscious.Fate/Apocrypha: Act 1 Unbirth
She explains the nature of the Holy Grail War to Reika upon arriving at her apartment. She is able to transfer the Command Spells from Sagara's hand to Reika, but she is not a magus or a proper Master. This requires that she devour souls in place of being unable to restore magical energy from her Master. She uses Sagara at Reika's suggestion, and they decide to participate in the War together. Jack's memories appear in Reika's dream during that night, and she sees Jack cutting open a woman to return to where it was warm. They target a loan shark company full of "bad people" the next day in order to gather energy for Jack. She uses the Mist to kill them all, and then they return home for a meal afterward.
===Fate Apocrypha: Zugzwang===
After Assassin betrays and incapacitates Sagara, Reika gets information out of Sagara about the Holy Grail War before carving out his heart to feed Assassin. Three days later, after having studied magecraft through Sagara's grimoires, Reika calls the Romanian government’s tourist bureau, asking about visiting Trifas and goes as far as to request contacting the owner of the Fortress of Millennia to negotiate having a tour, purposefully hoping to lure the Black Faction into a trap. The Zugzwang shows up instead, with the mission to eliminate the possible intruder and obstacle to the Great Holy Grail War. Assassin swiftly eliminates the "Pawns", and declares that King will be killed by her mother. The King gets distracted attacking a shadowy figure with his blowpipe and dagger, mistaking it for Assassin's master, only to find the hanged corpse of Hyouma Sagara. Reika takes advantage of his distraction to come from behind him and states "checkmate" before cutting his trachea with a large razor. Afterwards, Reika takes Assassin to get new clothes.Fate Apocrypha: Zugzwang
===Fate/Apocrypha===
After the murder spree in Japan, she and Assassin arrive in Bucharest, Romania several days later. Searching out people to kill, they hear of the "children of Ceaușescu", and Reika compares it to her own situation, that it became like that before she even noticed. She speaks to Assassin openly while she is invisible, causing onlookers to be wary of her. Wandering alone at night makes her an easy target, so she is quickly attacked by two men looking to rob and murder her. While they looks for a place where her screams will not be heard, she has the same thought. Assassin maims one man and kills the other so as to obtain information from him. Reika asks him for the location of the man's friends, and resigned to do anything to save his life, the man gives exact directions on a map. To his dismay, she allows Assassin to eat him, carving out his heart. They go on to slaughter the man's comrades, leaving fifteen corpses in total before moving on to Trifas. Though the circumstances of the murders are strange, all of their hearts being ripped from their bodies, the authorities believe it to be from an internal struggle amongst the criminal groups, but one paper jokingly publishes the headline "The Return of Jack the Ripper?"Fate/Apocrypha Volume 1: Apocrypha: Great Holy Grail War - Chapter 1
===Fate/Grand Order===
During an unforeseen incident involving Chaldea's Training Simulator's residual data of the London Singularity attaining sentience and attempting to create a society for itself by drawing Jack into it to embed her into it as the "aggressor", she appears to Ritsuka Fujimaru and Amakusa Shirou Tokisada under the name of "Ms. London" and claims herself to be London's consisence. Following the Master of Chaldea defeating the false Nursery Rhyme and rescuing Jack, Jack recognizes her, but Ms. London cuts her off and refers to herself as "nobody".
When Jack refers to her as a 'mommy', she states that she's someone that Jack has dreamed about who loved and accepted her unconditionally. She alludes to her true identity by mentioning she could've perhaps been her Master in another Holy Grail War and may've even taken the bullet for her. After the two say their goodbyes, "Ms. London" sees Jack off and wishes her to be happy until her final breath.Fate/Grand Order - Jack the Ripper Interlude II - Dozing Träumerei
==Abilities==
Reika is an average person without any aptitude as a magus, but instead has an exceptional compatibility with Jack the Ripper. She is also not a formal Master, but rather made one through the transferral of Command Spells from Sagara. She is unable to provide Jack with magical energy, which forces Jack to devour souls regularly to keep herself from fading away. Reika uses a "ruby", a mineralized human heart, owned by Hyouma as their personal vessel for the Grail.
==Development==
===Creation and Conception===
Taketo Sanada has illustrated Reika in Fate/Apocrypha Act1: Unbirth.
==References==
Category:Characters in Fate/Apocrypha
Category:Masters
Category:Normal humans
vi:Rikudou Reika
Category:Introduced in 2011