Sakura Matou (Fate/EXTRA)

is an NPC character within the Moon Cell's virtual world.
==Profile==
===Background===
She is a NPC character based on the real Sakura Matou.
===Appearance===
Sakurider.jpg|Sakurider
Darksakuraextra.jpg|Dark Sakura
Sakura has long purple hair and matching eyes she wears a red ribbon on the left side of her head. She wears the standard Tsukumihara Academy female uniform with a few minor differences instead of a blue ribbon, Sakura wears a red ribbon with small white socks and a long matching lab coat.
In Fate/EXTRA CCC, she later wears the alternative navy sailor uniform with small white socks with a short length lab coat.
===Personality===
Sakura is very soft-spoken and caring; this personality is robotic and repetitive, as she was programmed to follow a specific role by the system of the Moon Cell. However, in certain situations, she can also display strange and out of character behaviors that creeps out Hakuno Kishinami.
==Role==
===Fate/EXTRA===
Sakura is first introduced as Shinji's younger sister who works in the nurse's office. As the end of the prologue approaches, Shinji realizes that, while he'd always wanted one, he'd never had a younger sister. Sakura's programming malfunctions during this revelation, exposing her as an NPC programmed to think she is related to Shinji.
During the Holy Grail War, Sakura resumes her position in the nurse's office, handing out weekly supplies to the participants and also tends to any injuries they may suffer during the War that are not a result of "standard" combat; it appears that if she were to leave the office too long, she could lose her job. She is well known among Masters and NPCs for her delicious lunches.
===Last Encore===
Sakura is first introduced in the infirmary, greeting Hakuno Kishinami and Rin Tohsaka when they carry in N.Amagi's body. After Sakura puts the body on a bed and covers it with a sheet, she remarks that the infirmary is running out of room. She asks Hakuno to carry another body to the incinerator, and he complies.
In a flashback, she treated a Master whom Dan Blackmore had injured. She looked on passively when Dan entered the infirmary to talk to him.
===Fate/EXTRA CCC===
sakuradepiction.jpg|White Sakura as depicted in Caster's book
whitesakurarelief.PNG|White Sakura's relief
SakuraCCCending.jpg|Sakura's ending
During Fate/EXTRA CCC, she has a vastly expanded role. During the preliminaries, Kiara Sessyoin removed Sakura's constraints to her free will, she was unable to control her status abnormality and went into overload. Because the NPCs cannot do anything but routine work, they ignored Sakura who began to disintegrate as something "nonexistent" and since the Moon Cell's check was performed only at the end of the day during the preliminaries, Sakura was in a crisis of being extinguished but was found by Hakuno, who managed to help her hold onto existence.
 She soon fell in love with Hakuno, and in an attempt to save them from their inevitable death in the Moon Holy Grail War she held them in a time loop for 69 days; however, she realized she was being selfish and ended the loop voluntarily. Unable to erase her own memories, she instead chose to seal them away within a backup body. She had hoped that this would allow her to function normally, but her unconscious memories of her love continued to influence her behavior; furthermore, the backup she had made to store those memories became self-aware, renaming herself BB and abducting Hakuno, Sakura, and several other Masters to the Far Side as her way of protecting Hakuno.
Her ending, the CCC route, has her utilize the power of the Moon Cell to grant Hakuno Kishinami a new human body on Earth. She is an AI, so she gives herself a body different from that of a human.
===Fate/EXTRA CCC Fox Tail===
Her role is similar to Fate/EXTRA CCC.
===Other appearances===
She appears in TYPE-MOON Ace Omake Theater:
* - Archer, Caster and Saber fights Sakura, in order to save Hakuno. Due to her long, purple hair, she poses as Rider in the third episode of the TYPE-MOON MOVIE Ace 2nd specials, which causes others to call her . Her role is also mixed with the regular Sakura of Fate/stay night, allowing her to become .
* - The Servants and Sakura celebrate Christmas.
==Development==
===Reception===
*In the Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary Character Poll, Sakura was ranked 229th.
==References==
Category:Characters in Fate/EXTRA
Category:NPCs and AIs
Category:Introduced in 2010
Category:Residents of SE.RA.PH
Category:Voice - Noriko Shitaya
Category:Sakura Matou (topic)