Assassin (Fate/Crossover - Sub-Zero)

Assassin (アサシン, *Asashin*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

"*Machine or man, you have a warrior's soul. As long as I am Grandmaster, the Lin Kuei will welcome you.*" - Sub-Zero

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's true identity is Kuai Liang, best known as Sub Zero. The Grandmaster of the Lin Kuei, and formerly known as Tundra and briefly as the cyborg LK-52O, is a Lin Kuei assassin in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. He is the younger brother of Bi-Han, who was the original Sub-Zero.

### Personality

Sub-Zero is extraordinarily resistant to fear which together with his ice powers have given him the artist name Sub-Zero. He had the guts to quit his ninja clan, which marked him for death, and has even gone public about his criminal past (no Dark Secret).

Apparently he is driven only by his own motivations with no fear of any outside interference. Being a ninja he is cautious, quiet and sure not to draw too much attention on himself. While showing the world that he's one of the good guys he, at the same time, takes care not to make himself an easy target for his clan enemies. For other individuals he appears to be a person of great bravery and self-knowledge.

Being a former ninja he still does what he then did best; he kills his opponents having no qualms about it. Also being hunted constantly has put his senses into a state of constant alertness but being cool about it he wouldn't appear paranoid about it.

### Relationships

#### **Scorpion**

Once heated rivals due to them being from opposing clans, Scorpion moved on to serve as his guardian after learning he was not like his brother. By the time of the 25 Year Prophecy, they both agreed to make peace between their clans after learning the truth of Quan Chi's manipulations.

#### **Noob Saibot**

Kuai Liang's brother turned enemy. After he was reborn as a wraith by Quan Chi, neither of them regard each other as family anymore.

## Abilities

Being descended from a race of Outworld inhabitants known as Cryomancers, Kuai Liang has the innate ability to control ice in many forms. Throughout the span of the series, Sub-Zero's powers have continued to evolve. His deadly ability to freeze comes from the process of him absorbing the air around him and storing it before releasing it as a cold substance or simply lowering the temperature of the surrounding air to create ice constructs. He is naturally used to the cold temperatures of his turf and is able to resist other Cryomancers' freezing abilities as shown in the Mortal Kombat X comic series where Frost fails to freeze Sub-Zero's arms. His ability to freeze is strong enough to turn the body's water content, flesh and bone into brittle ice with just a single tap of his fingers. He has even surpassed his (late) brother Bi-Han's freezing ability, whose ice can reach temperatures up to -500° Fahrenheit which is way below absolute zero.

He is one of the few combatants who can manipulate chi, the life energy of a martial artist. By channeling his chi, Sub-Zero can use it to enhance the power behind his physical strikes and make them strong enough to send other combatants flying with each strike he lands on them. The Dragon Medallion has not just increased the power of his freezing ability, but it has also given him another source of chi to channel power from. Sub-Zero is one of the many combatants capable of teleporting by turning his body into ice and reforming his physical form of flesh and blood in another location. He has also been shown to control and influence the cold aspects of the weather, although this aspect of his powers seems to be tied to his emotional state.

Aside from flash-freezing opponents, Sub-Zero also has the ability to instantly conjure up an ice statue of himself to act as both a scapegoat and a 'landmine' of sorts as any who touch it instantly flash freeze. He has created many different kinds of ice constructs for offense and defense. Such ice constructs include swords, daggers, hammers, axes, spears, shields, walls, spikes, statues and more. He is one of the characters that are more oriented on defense thanks to his ability to counter attacks by freezing melee attackers who come into contact with him and being able to create several defensive ice constructs that usually freeze on contact such as icy orb traps, ice clones, ice barriers and ice armor.

Ever since he takes possession of the Dragon Medallion, the scope of Sub-Zero's powers and abilities has increased significantly. As a member of the Lin Kuei, Sub-Zero has attained a great degree of skill in many forms of hand-to-hand combat. The Dragon Medallion and his ancestral armor increased and amplified his martial arts and ice-related abilities, as shown in his Deception Arcade ending. Throughout the Mortal Kombat series, Sub-Zero's abilities have grown more powerful; he was capable of killing an entire city's population while amplified by Blood Magik and was able to freeze a large building and shattered it with one punch.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Frozen Aura**

Sub-Zero can create an aura of ice that makes him the equivalent of Absolute Zero itself. His body can become so cold that he can freeze an opponent in a single touch, granting him immunity to chip damage for some time. While encased in ice, the properties of some of Sub-Zero's specials change.

## References

https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Kuai\_Liang

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Sub-Zero

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Sub-Zero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Zero\_(Mortal\_Kombat)]]