Archer (Fate/Crossover - Homura Akemi)

**Archer** (アーチャー, *Āchā*) is a servant summoned by ... during the ??? Holy Grail War.

## Profile

### Identity

Archer's true identity is Homura Akemi. Once a meek, timid student at Mitakihara Middle School, Homura perceived herself as useless until she was rescued from a witch barrier by her school friend Madoka Kaname and upper-classman Mami Tomoe, who reveal themselves as Magical Girls. From that point on, Homura would cherish her friendship with them. When Mami died fighting the gigantic rampaging witch Walpurginacht, Madoka sacrificed her life to stop it. Homura, overcome with grief and uselessness, contracted with the alien being Kyubey in order to become a Magical Girl herself so that she could protect Madoka, just as Madoka protected her. Her wish was to be able to return to her original meeting with Madoka, leading Homura to receive the power to manipulate time to a certain extent. Caught in a time loop, she tries again and again to prevent Madoka from dying or making the contract with Kyubey, but she fails to save her each time.

### Appearance

Archer is a young girl with waist-length black hair , pale skin and violet eyes. She almost always presents herself with a stoic, emotionless expression on her face. When not transformed, she wears a Mitakihara Middle School uniform.

In her magical girl form, she wears a white, long-sleeve coat with a silver collar over a black, long-sleeve dress. The skirt is silver with white trim. She also wears black leggings with dark-gray diamonds that cover the sides of the legs, and black heels. The coat appears to have a flower-like pattern with 3 "petals," and has 2 ribbons attached to it.

### Personality

Archer appears very intelligent, athletic, distant, and cold. While she appears emotionless, it is only because she had grown used to the suffering around her in life. Because of this, she refused to let Madoka become a magical girl and tried to do anything in order to stop her from making a wish with Kyubey, going as far as to attempting to injure the cat-like creature. Despite her cold attitude towards others, she still cares for Madoka very deeply as she had made it her sole objective to protect her due to the countless amount blood, sweat, and tears she has shed over her jumps in time. Now as a Servant, her wish for the Grail is for a world where she and Madoka can live in safety and happiness.

### Relationships

#### **Madoka Kaname**

The first person to show Archer kindness in life, she had become the driving force behind all the time jumps Archer had gone through in life, risking everything for her sake. Now as Servants with the memories of Rebellion, their relationship is made extremely complicated by the knowledge of the lengths she would go to for her.

#### **Sayaka Miki**

Saber had regained memories of the reality where she had usurped Madoka to become the Devil to her God, all to give her a happy life in a new world of her making. While Archer as she was summoned had not yet experienced those events, she holds a deep level of self-loathing from the memories of them she had gained. Saber however, remains distrustful of her, and watches her with close eyes when in her presence.

#### **Mami Tomoe**

In the penultimate timeline to the new world, Mami was suspicious of Homura's motives in preventing Madoka from contracting with Kyubey. In spite of this, she attempted to resolve their differences, but failed. Now as Servants with the memories of Rebellion, Mami is one of the few Homura is willing to play nice with, if only to stay on her good side, knowing what she is capable of.

#### **Kyoko Sakura**

Lancer and Archer remained close behind their thick walls in life. In one of the timelines, Archer was the one to talk sense into Lancer. Now as Servants, their memories of Rebellion have been restored and the two remain on distrustful terms.

#### **Dalek Sec**

Archer and Berserker have an odd relationship, as Berserker had become stranded in her universe after a jump through time and space and ended up trapped with her in the time jumps. To break the cycle, Berserker was forced to align himself with her, which she was grateful for after all the loops of going about her mission alone. As Servants, the two reforge their alliance, knowing what they're both capable of. As part of an agreement for their renewed alliance, Berserker has agreed to help protect Madoka whenever he can.

## Abilities

Archer's shield grants her power over time itself. Her most notable usage of this is for stopping time, and time travel. However, anyone she touches while the time stop ability is under effect will not be stopped. The shield is also able summon magic barriers to protect herself and nearby allies, and can store a countless amount of weapons, as demonstrated by the many pistols, machineguns, shotguns, rocket launchers, and boxes of ammunition packed inside it.

From undergoing numerous time jumps in life to protect Madoka, Archer is a highly intelligent planner and fighter, able to fight against veteran Magical Girls like Mami Tomoe, and incapacitate Sayaka Miki with a well-placed pressure point strike despite Sayaka's superior regeneration and durability. She had plan for and survive fights with Walpurgisnacht for a hundred timelines despite being physically outclassed.

## References

https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Homura\_Akemi

https://madoka.fandom.com/wiki/Homura\_Akemi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homura\_Akemi

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Homura\_Akemi