Mina Hakuba (Fate/Mythos)

*"Right, I should introduce myself. My name is Mina Hakuba, a Miko of the Hakuba Clan."* - Mina Hakuba.

**Mina Hakuba** is the master of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

## Profile

Mina Hakuba is the childhood friend and likely romantic interest of Soma Cruz. Her family, a branch of the Hakuba Clan, resides at the Hakuba Shrine and was previously responsible for the sealing of Castlevania within the darkness of a solar eclipse in the battle of 1999, which achieved the true death of Dracula himself.

Mina is an extremely sociable lady who has come to know everyone around the shrine prior to the events of the reincarnation of Dracula's awakening, including government agent Genya Arikado and the witch Yoko Belnades, who she treats as an older sister, and gets along comfortably with Soma Cruz in spite of his apparent intimidating personality.

Mina's relationship with Soma parallels that of Dracula and Elisabetha Cronqvist and Lisa Tepes (the former whose death had brought Mathias to initially stand against the name of God and the latter's pushing Dracula to wage war on humanity, on two separate occasions), in part due to Soma's status as the reincarnation of Dracula and when he nearly succumbs to evil upon witnessing Mina's apparent death. It is even implied that Mina may be the reincarnation of Lisa, who herself is the reincarnation of Elisabetha.

### History

In the 2035 solar eclipse, at age 18, Mina and Soma were transported to Castlevania, and she agrees to stay behind in the safety of the castle's front courtyard as Soma travels through for a way out. Later, she finds out Soma's apparent fate as the inheritor of the powers of the Dark Lord Dracula, and though frightened initially, she sends him moral support telepathically when Soma prepares to confront the powers of Chaos and therefore reject the role of Dark Lord. Soma was successful in part due to her influence, and they escape Castlevania together as the place is drawn back into the eclipse. Soma and Mina become closer immediately after the adventure.

In 2036, when Soma was forced to confront Celia's cult, Mina stays behind at the safety of her home and was not physically involved in Soma's quest for the most part. She sends him moral support through a letter during Soma's journey along with her personal talisman. This proves to be vital in preventing the Dark Lord from emerging out from Soma's body when Celia kills a doppelganger made to resemble a captive Mina and Soma's emotions overflow; the darkness-suppressive nature of the talisman holds off the dark influence within Soma long enough for Arikado to arrive and save him. After Soma returns to normal, he was able to defeat Celia and Dmitrii at length and escape the crumbling location, where at the outskirts he reunites with Mina and their relationship becomes something of a romantic joke among their other friends, much to both their embarrassment.

### Appearance

Mina is a beautiful, fair-skinned teenage girl with short brown hair, with her eyes being the same color as her hair. She has two red ribbons in her hair. As a Miko, she usually wears her white-and-red Miko clothing but outsides of it, wears more casual clothing of a pink shirt, beige skirt and white stockings.

### Personality

Mina is an extremely sociable yet stoic and patient young lady who enjoys speaking with people. She usually thinks the best of people, no matter the image she sees of them though she is still able to be cautious around strangers. She is however also a bit phlegmatic and melancholic, having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition and is able to express pensive sadness. She is also a little possessive over Soma as she usually stops other women from flirting with him, usually by pulling him away from them.

She is also very intelligent, able to patiently stop arguments from going too far.

### Relationships

#### Vlad III

Vlad III is Mina's Lancer-Class servant in the ??? Holy Grail War in an alternate universe. While finding the irony of having a version of Dracula as her servant while having the reincarnation of Dracula as her boyfriend, she still treats the holy king with respect and attempts not to talk about Dracula in his presence. She is both awed as well as fearful of his history due to his actions but realizes that he is not as evil as the history books picture him.

However, unlike one of his masters, she still makes it clear to him that she is his master so refuses to indulge him. Even so, she tries not to push beyond her boundaries when commanding him, treating Vlad as a partner than a slave. Because of all of this, Vlad has great admiration towards the Miko, impressed in her unwavering will to what she needs to, no matter the situation she is in.

## Abilities

### Equipment

* Mina's Talisman: Mina's Talisman is a special Shinto talisman that is able to stop inner darkness of one's being from corrupting the soul.

## Quotes

* *"Hey, looks like he's coming to."* - Mina.
* *"It's OK, Soma. His name is Genya Arikado..."* - Mina to Soma about Genya Arikado.
* *"Soma! Listen to him, he's telling you the truth!"* - Mina to Soma.
* *"Come on Soma, I doubt it would that bad. I hope."* - Mina.
* *"Oh right. I never told you about her. This is Yoko Belnades, she is a old friend of my family. I know her for a long time that I actually started treat like an older sister some time ago."* - Mina to Soma about Yoko Belnades.
* *"No. It can't be..."* - Mina to Death.

### Crossover Quotes

* *"Sorry sir, but you smell... well, like alcohol."* - Mina to the Angry Video Game Nerd.
* *"Is that... Dracula? No. You just look like him."* - Mina to Count Dooku.

## Trivia

* Mina's full name, Mina Hakuba, seems to be patterned after Mina Harker, a character from the original 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

## References

* https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Mina\_Hakuba
* https://castlevania.neoseeker.com/wiki/Mina\_Hakuba