Sakura Matou

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==Summary==
Sakura Matou is the Master of Rider in the Fifth Holy Grail War, though, as she dislikes conflict, her brother Shinji acts as Rider's master in her place in the Fate and Unlimited Blade Works routes. Originally the second daughter of Tokiomi and Aoi Tohsaka, and the younger sister of Rin, she was adopted into the Matou family to act as the successor of their mystic arts, as Shinji lacked any magical ability of his own.
Abused and mistreated by both her grandfather and brother, she was forcibly implanted with the Matou family's Crest Worms, which have assimilated into her body and magic circuits. These act as her Magic Crest, continually feeding on her energy when active and causing extreme pain. She is also turned into an incomplete, secondary Lesser Grail, the Black Grail. Going inactive throughout most of Fate/stay night, she becomes active as a Lesser Grail in Heaven's Feel due to Shirou's actions and Kirei's machinations.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , Unknown with the Black Shadow, with Shadow Giants | , Unknown with the Black Shadow, with Shadow Giants
Key: Dark Sakura | Post Heaven's Feel
Name: Sakura Matou
Origin: Fate/stay night
Age: 16 years old (18 in Heaven's Feel epilogue)
Gender: Female
Classification: Magus, Master, the Black Grail
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|-|Powers=Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Magecraft, Limited Information Analysis, Darkness Manipulation, Absorption (can absorb other's magical energy by shooting them with Matou magecraft, can take in and absorb others with the Black Shadow, which also breaks organic matter down into magical energy with a touch), can absorb others into a completely separate dimension of darkness, Corruption (The Black Shadow destroys the minds of those it affects, and can corrupt Servants and distort their mentality), Soul Manipulation, Conceptual Manipulation, Information Manipulation, limited Mind Manipulation and Memory Manipulation (A Lesser Grail created to absorb and collect souls, which she burns for magical energy), Teleportation (Can travel through shadows to travel between two points nearly instantaneously), Summoning (Can summon Shadow Giants and the servants she have corruptedFate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel II — Lost Butterfly), Intangibility, Incorporeality, and possibly Immortality (Type 5. Via Black Shadow), Regeneration (Low-Mid; her regeneration should be at least comparable to Saber Alter's, she regenerated from Gilgamesh destroying everything below her stomach, and was able to rip Zouken's Crest Worm out of her heart, which would usually kill her, before healing), Existence Erasure, Deconstruction, Information Manipulation, Data Manipulation (Have an natural affinity for the Void element, also know as Imaginary Numbers, which erases an object's existence from realityFate/Grand Order; Lostbelt Prologue; Chapter 8: On to an Unprecedented Journey, causes existential collapse and conversion into unfixed random numbersFate/Extra CCC; Chapter 1: Backyard of Eden; Entry 25: We have a plan, and deprives information and data of all meaningFate/EXTRA MATERIAL: Encyclopedia of Fate/EXTRA), Chaos Manipulation, Void Manipulation, Curse Manipulation, Illusion Creation (The Imaginary Number Space environment, which is made of Imaginary Numbers, is like the primordial chaosFate/Extra CCC; Chapter 1: Backyard of Eden; Entry 29: Rooming with the King of Heroes, a place where innumerable curses and delusions flourish and is misobserved through illusionsFate/Grand Order; Imaginary Scramble; Act One: The Unknowable Reef (1/2) by those existing in reality. Described as a void spaceFate/Grand Order; Lostbelt No.1: Permafrost Empire, Anastasia - The Grand Duchess of the Beast Nation; Section 1: Empire of Beasts, a nothingness where time is meaninglessLord El Melloi II Case Files; Volume 5; Chapter 2Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files: Rail Zeppelin Grace note; Episode 10), Status Effect Inducement, Paralysis Inducement, Mind Manipulation (Imaginary Numbers can induce paralysis, blindness, and the mind shutting downFate/Extra CCC; Prologue; Entry 14: Falling), Temperature Manipulation (Imaginary Numbers can change the temperature of the body to be cold), Subjective Reality, Immersion (Able to manipulate the boundary between Real Number (Reality) and Imaginary Number (Unreality), thus allowing her to evade attacks that are rooted in realityFate/Grand Order; Lostbelt No.5: Ancient Ocean of the Dreadnaught Gods, Atlantis - The Day to Bring Down Gods; Section 2: Impossibly Miraculous, can also imprison the target within the Imaginary Number SpaceFate/Extra CCC: Fox Tail Chapter 46), Physics Manipulation (Imaginary Number Space and Real Space have different physical lawsFate/Extra CCC; Chapter 6: Alter Ego / S; Entry 136: Desperate measures)
 
|-|Resistances=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 (Despite her virtually limitless mana, her output is only equal to Rin's), Unknown with the Black Shadow (Does not rely on physical power, instead of absorbing its foes and destroying their minds. Said to be capable of overwhelming any Servant summoned by the Grail, instantly shattered Lancer's runic barrier, which can block great Noble Phantasms, overcame and absorbed Berserker and even Gilgamesh, but couldn't pierce Shirou's skin when he was transforming into swords), Large Island level+ with Shadow Giants and corrupted servants (Their power matches a Noble Phantasm, and Gáe Bolg: Soaring Spear that Strikes with Death is said to be average in terms of power for a Noble Phantasm. Can summon the servants she corrupted to fight for her, like Saber Alter and Berserker), Ignores conventional durability with the Black Shadow (It breaks down and absorbs whatever it touches, consuming souls and destroying minds).
Speed: Subsonic with FTL Reactions and combat speed (Kept up with Rin and can tag Servants, confident that she could beat Rider)
Lifting Strength: Unknown, Class M with shadows (Can bind servants like Berserker)
Striking Strength: Human level (Comparable to her Attack Power), Unknown with the Black Shadow (Shattered Lancer's runic barrier but couldn't harm Shirou), Large Island level+ with Shadow Giants (Comparable to a Noble Phantasm, can effortlessly kill Servants like True Assassin)
Durability: Human level (Comparable to her Attack Power), Unknown with the Black Shadow (Potentially lacks a concept of death and is intangible, making it incredibly difficult to harm and destroy), Large Island level+ with Shadow Giants
Stamina: Virtually limitless. She has almost a trillion units of magical energy, as compared to the 25 - 100 for average magi. Through her connection to the Grail, she is also connected to the "other side" of the Grail, the Swirl of the Root.
Range: Melee range, further with magic, Tens of Meters with the Black Shadow and Shadow Giants (The Black Shadow can swallow an area of fifty meters all at once)
Standard Equipment: The servants she have corrupted like Saber Alter and Berserker | None notable
Intelligence: Average (Sakura is a relatively ordinary high school girl, and though she is a magus, she lacks adequate knowledge of magic and warfare. Additionally, the corruption of the Grail affect her psyche) | Likely Above Average (Received training from Rider to learn how to use magic and the Void element, something that lead to her eventually become a full fledge mage who mastered the Void element)
Weaknesses: Sakura lacks fighting experience and is an incompetent magus. The crest worms constantly consume her magical energy; thus, without the Holy Grail, she barely has the energy to cast spells. The Grail gradually corrupts her psyche and overwrites her soul with the data of absorbed Servants as they die. As Dark Sakura, she is overconfident and shortsighted. Moreover, she cannot retain her composure while at a disadvantage | None notable
Notable Attacks / Techniques:
Magecraft: While Sakura's potential as a magus is comparable to Rin's, the harsh, torturous process of becoming a Matou magus, and Zouken's uncaring actions have squandered it. She has an affinity of Void or Imaginary Numbers, but she is forced to utilize the Matou's traditional element of Water instead. Sakura has little knowledge of magic, lacking any formal education in its proper use. When her Magic Crest (the Crest Worms assimilated into her body) is active, her energy is drained continuously to the point that she can't even cast spells.
Under duress, and when supported by her connection to the Grail, she can use magecraft. She can use the Matou's spell of absorption to drain the magical energy of others, and her Void affinity makes the magic she casts with it extremely effective against spiritual entities. By combining both, and with the support of the Tainted Grail, she can easily affect physical beings and imprison others in a separate dimension made of shadows.
*Shadow Giants: Simple familiars made out of Sakura's Void element. Usually, they are incredibly small, small enough to fit in her hands. Still, with the augmented power provided to her by the Holy Grail, they are immense and possess strength comparable to that of an average Noble Phantasm, making them more than a match for most Servants, and she can summon many at once.
Shadow Giant.jpg|A Shadow Giant, looming over the Einzbern Castle
Sakura Shadow.jpg|Sakura's Shadow
 The Black Grail: Sakura has been implanted with the shards of the destroyed Grail by Zouken, transforming her into an incomplete, secondary Lesser Grail, the Black Grail. These shards have been combined with the Crest Worms inside of her, allowing her to act generally under normal conditions. Initially, just an experiment in creating something to collect souls, one that wasn't meant to see any real use, the events of Heaven's Feel allow her to become active. She adapts quickly to her new role, capable of remaining active even as she absorbs more and more Servants.
The contents of the Grail, a Black Shadow, come into the world and acts as Sakura's shadow, roaming Fuyuki at night to drain magical energy from others, ultimately consuming them entirely. Initially only feeling slight aftereffects from its feedings, she later begins to have uncontrollable visions of it acting, and eventually becomes able to see and hear through it directly.
It is a Cursed Boundary Layer, something incapable of taking shape usually, but given form by Sakura's negative emotions and her Void element, and pursues those she hates. It is intangible and incorporeal, incapable of being affected by conventional attacks, and potentially lacks even a concept of death. Its touch corrodes all it comes into contact with, carrying on the curse of All the World's Evil, dissolving organic matter and breaking it down into magical power, consuming their souls as well. It can spread out over an area like mud, or absorb all the energy in an area to explode and swallow everything around it. It can also be used to repair the damage done to Sakura's body, teleport her, and restrain others with tentacles so that they can be easily consumed.
The Servants that come into contact with the Shadow are instantly affected and are incapable of even opposing it. They rot everywhere it touches them, losing sensation as their body ceases to exist and is absorbed into the Shadow. While Heroic Spirits are greatly affected and lose consciousness quickly if not instantly, Servants that are closer to it in nature (such as Antiheroes) can resist its effects somewhat, but their energy is still drained.
When Sakura rejects Zouken's control and becomes Dark Sakura, a monstrous distortion of her usual self, the Shadow takes the form of the Command Spell that drapes her body. She is corrupted by All the World's Evil, losing her reasoning and causing her emotions to spiral out of control. She is unpredictable and violent, and despite her overwhelming power, she is still unused to combat and quite unstable. Her strength is such that she could turn into a threat that would require the Counter Force itself to step in, and using All the World's Evil, she could drown the world in a tainted mud and eradicate humanity.
==Notable Matchups==
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Kamijou Touma (Toaru Majutsu no Index) Touma's Profile
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