Rani VIII

is the Master of Berserker in the Moon Holy Grail War of Fate/EXTRA. She appears as a Berserker-class Demi-Servant in Fate/EXTRA Last Encore.
==Profile==
===Background===
Sialim Eltnam Re-Atlasia created the homunculus known as Rani VIII with the intention to see if it was possible for not just alchemists but for humanity to continue existing in the cyber world, which would mean having to give up their physical bodies.
Rani the Eighth signifies “the eighth woman.” She is different from the homunculus created through DNA engineering that are popular on the black market. Rani’s design is based on old world Magus theory, and she was made with cutting edge science and technology developed by the Atlas Institute. She was made as a Magus so she could be sent to the cyber world. In other words, she is nothing short of being a new form of mankind. By using nano-sized fibers called Etherlite, Rani can directly send herself into to the cyber world without any direct physical connection. Her computational power is equivalent to the power required to generate all of the Holy Grail War's arena and schools. She can go head to head with the High Level AI who are in charge of managing the Holy Grail War.
===Appearance===
Rani is a young girl who appears to be of Indian descent with wavy light purple hair with part of it tied into a ponytail. She has purple eyes, a tan complexion, wears glasses and has a bindi on her forehead as worn in India. She wears a purple fable collar with a dark purple gem in the center. Under that she wears a white shirt with a deep V, leaving a portion of her chest bare, and black tight shorts. Over that, she wears a white lab coat with the emblem of Tsukimihara Academy on it. On her hands are multiple golden bracelets and small thin white gloves. On her legs she wears long white and purple socks and black shoes. She seems to be from southern part of India due to her complexion.
In Fate/EXTRA Last Encore, she wears a combined outfit of her original and parts of her Atlas Academy Uniform.
In Fate/EXTRA CCC, Rani is seen wearing the alternate navy sailors uniforms she wears black tights with her normal bracelets and wears black shoes.
She considers her height to be average height for a girl and her weight to be rather thin. Her three sizes are optimized for activity and portability. She wears no underwear because she considers wearing them as forbidden. Ironically enough, however, she is depicted as wearing one beneath her skirt and pantyhose in Fate/EXTRA CCC EXTRA Garden.
It is stated that Rani looks similar to Lu Bu's wife in his lifetime, which is why it is doubtful that Lu Bu would kill her.
 It is also worth noting that she bears huge resemblance to Chen Gong, with it being speculated to be one of the reasons Lu Bu is so attached to her. 
===Personality===
Rani is an intelligent, calm, polite, yet emotionless young girl. She doesn't seem to follow any will of her own, and instead refers herself as a tool of her professor. Depending on the situation, Rani can end up showing emotions such as rage, as Hakuno felt Rani's anger being directed at them when Hakuno interfered in the latter's fight with Rin. 
Because of her inhuman origins, Rani often speaks in riddles. 
====Relationships====
;Hakuno Kishinami
:Rani develops an immediate interest in Hakuno when the stars fail to provide Rani with an explanation as to what Hakuno is, and for the sake of finding the answer, Rani begins assisting Hakuno during the war. Rani becomes even more interested in Hakuno after they rescue her in the 4th round.
;Rin Tohsaka
:Rani and Rin are rivals as well as opponents in the Moon Cell Holy Grail War. Both girls are smart and pretty and both compete for Hakuno's affections. In Fate/EXTRA Last Encore, Rani and Rin form a truce after becoming trapped on the sixth floor.
==Role==
===Fate/EXTRA===
Rani and Berseker.jpg|Rani and Berserker.
Rani Hakuno.jpg|Rani talking to Hakuno
Rani is, like Sion, an Atlas alchemist, but also a homunculus like Illya. She was created specifically to take part in the Holy Grail War.
Her servant is Berserker. Like most of his class, he has barely any personality left, although he does seem to follow her orders without question and willingly protects Rani during the battle with Rin, even giving her a "gentle smile" before being destroyed if you choose to save her. If he weren't summoned as a Berserker, he would have the qualifications to be any other class besides Caster.
As noted during the game, a crisis will occur and the player is given the choice of coming to the aid of either Rani or Rin Tohsaka. While both will survive regardless, if you choose to save Rani, her Berserker will sacrifice himself and she will become their ally during the latter stages of the Holy Grail War. After recovering from the shock of being deprived of what she saw as her one purpose for existing, she comes to support and care for the main character.
If the player sides against her, she survives Lancer's Gáe Bolg attack. She hands over a knife-shaped pendant to help identify Hakuno, the knife absorbs residual magical energy while doing so, it puts phenomenal amount of stress to the brain. The feedback would normally be enough to kill someone if a magic circuit was not present. This confirms Rani's suspicion about Hakuno's existence as a self-aware NPC. They will also end up fighting Run Ru and her Lancer in the fourth round as a result. They must fight her and Berserker in the sixth round of the Holy Grail War. After her defeat, she slightly smiles, showing signs of sadness and says goodbye to Hakuno.
In the manga adaption, both Rani and Rin survived and they both help support Hakuno. However, it is later revealed that her Berserker survived. In Chapter 26, Rani and her Servant later attack Hakuno and Saber, but they defeat her. The scene that later plays out after is similar to that of the game when she is defeated. In Chapter 28, a grave was made for her and both Rin and Saber pay their respects.
====Last Encore====
Rani was the Master of Berserker. On the sixth floor, Berserker battled Rin's Servant Lancer, but the two ended up killing each other and leaving behind no clear victor. 
Shortly afterwards, the Moon Cell was shut down by Twice H. Pieceman, forcing the Moon Cell to go into preservation mode. Rani and Rin were put to sleep and copies of them were made to act as a part of the sixth floor itself. These copies possessed the power of their respective Servants, making Rani a Berserker-class Demi-Servant.
Rani and Rin fought each other in hopes of finding a clear victor between them, but as with their Servants, they too only ended up in a draw. Their only solution to escaping their miserable existence was to find a Master from the lower floors and bring them up to the sixth floor. The original plan was to defeat said Master, but the two decided to leave a recording which explained their situation in case the Master could find another solution.
After a thousand years, Rani and Rin found a potential savior in HAKUNO Kishinami. The two sent various copies down to HAKUNO to assist him in his various battles. On one floor, a copy of Rani chose to stay behind to mourn fallen Masters. She also revealed to a bewildered HAKUNO that they weren't living in the 21st century.Fate/EXTRA Last Encore - Episode 04: "No Face May King"
As planned, HAKUNO and his Servant Saber arrived on the sixth floor, shocked to discover numerous copies of Rani and Rin attacking them and each other. A copy of Rin led the pair to the dome at the center of the floor, where the recording was and where their real bodies were. HAKUNO attempted to free both of them, but Rani died almost immediately after she woke up. 
Rin created a memorial for Rani and promised to live on and help HAKUNO for Rani's sake.
===Fate/EXTRA CCC===
Image:RaniSG.jpg|Rani's Secret Garden
Image:Ranipunishment.jpg|Rani's punishment
Rani appears in Fate/EXTRA CCC and is the boss of Chapter 2. Like the majority of the Masters on the Far Side, Rani has lost her original Servant, Berserker.
After her defeat, Rani joins the Student Council and remains there until the end. 
In this timeline, Rani was the one Hakuno had chosen to rescue during Rani's battle with Rin Tohsaka. She is thus an ally of Hakuno in the Near Side. 
===Melty Blood Back Alley Alliance Nightmare===
===Other appearances===
In the backstory of Fate/EXTELLA, Rani was defeated in the 6th-7th round.
==Abilities==
She is an Atlas Alchemist, Rani claims that she possesses the knowledge of the Atlas Alchemist but it pales compared to her professor. She is also skilled in Astrology that surpasses even Caster, she uses her Astrology to help Hakuno learn more about Archer's identity.
She can create the Vorpal Blade with her alchemy but she requires a Malachite as the catalyst to recreate the blade. The Vorpal Blade has an effect on types of monstrosity such as the Jabberwock. Even with her skills, the blade would shatter when it is used and she can only transmute it once.
Rani also created , an all-purpose Mystic Code that Rani develops for Hakuno to use in your battle against Passionlip. Hakuno uses this in order to avoid instant death from Lip’s cube compression attack. This Mystic Code is a raging sand storm that blocks anything that would try to affect/change your status. It blocks Robin Hood’s poison, and even Karna’s meteorite attack.
Rani's pure computational ability surpasses Leonardo B. Harwey.
At her core is Hermes, which is a 6th generation spiritron computer that shouldn’t even be completed and exist in this world yet. She has a self-destruct mode called "Helm to the Northern sky: Mode Osiris", it is a last resort move in the case of her mission failure. It was intended to destroy the Moon Cell. Her body was design to have her Magic Circuits overload and her Etherlite heart would explode causing meltdown to the arena and causing shockwaves of data corruptions.
*gain_con(128); - A Codecast that strengthens her Servant's defense.
*gain_mgi(128); - A Codecast that raises her Servant's magic.
In the Fate/EXTRA Manga, Rani had the ability to observe others remotely from mirrored surfaces, such as the water in a fountain.
==Forms and Alternate Versions==
===Demi-Servant===
Within the world of Fate/EXTRA Last Encore, Rani VIII's various bodies created during the Unlimited Raise Dead phenomenon have become Berserker-class Demi-Servants. Fused with Lu Bu, she has access to God Force, can increase her size to where people are only as tall as her shins, or even so she towers over buildings and skyscrapers, increase God Force's size to match her, and create two massive gauntlets to crush her enemies with overwhelming strength. She can also manifest a pair of black googles with small, round, orange visor windows, though their function is unknown beyond their relation to her Demi-Servant form. Rin later shows that the gauntlets can turn into Gatling guns that rapid-fire purple magical projectiles, as well as become an explosive homing rocket that continues to fire projectiles as it flies at its target until it hits or is destroyed.
==Development==
===Reception===
*In the Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary Character Poll, Rani was ranked 160th.
==References==
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Category:Homunculi
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