Assassin (Fate/Crossover - Hitobashira Arisu)

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

"*Death is a distorted dream.*" - Note found with Kai Sakura's corpse written, by Hitobashira Arisu, the Alice Killer.

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's true identity is **Hitobashira Arisu**, also known as the Alice Killer, is the main antagonist of the Creepypasta mystery story "The Alice Killings". He is a violent serial killer that murders victims based off the stories of Alice in Wonderland.

The Alice Killings remain, to this day, one of the strangest and unsolvable serial killings in Japan. From 1999–2005, a series of five killings took place. The five killings might have been completely different, if not for the "calling card" that the killer left at each crime scene. He would leave a playing card (it varied from killing to killing) at each scene, in an obvious location, that had "Alice" written on it in the victim's blood.

A mentally ill and homeless man by the name of Suzuki Yuuto was suspected in the murders, and was even found wearing Akio's bloodstained coat. He was arrested, but he claimed a "demon black man with no face" had given him the coat, and the homeless shelter where he lived had records and witnesses of him being there on the nights of the murders.

Very few clues were found at each crime scene, and eventually, the case went cold. The identity of the Alice Killer remains a mystery, and it is unknown if he would strike again.

It is unknown that Hitobashira Arisu is the killer's real name, as that's what he decided to call himself.

### Personality

Hitobashira Arisu is described as cold-blooded cruel, egotistical and persuasive killer. He wishes for nothing more than to carry out his dark fantasy, even if it involves killing anyone or anything that crosses his path and interferes.

He seems to have no regard for anyone else for the matter of what he's doing, as he is calm and logical for most of his personality, fitting to calculative the perfect scheme for a murder. He's also narcissistic about the concept of madness and on how it influences a human being.

Arisu can also show mannerisms in some rare occassions, such as properly setting up equipment. But he even can show a sadistic side such as the way he mutilated his victims for instince. His bizzare mind full of dark thoughts and insanity can go above that reflected in his personality and behavior around everything.

## Abilities

The Alice Killer himself is very skilled at his work of murdering his victims. When he lacks in brute strength, he excels at stealth due to him not being caught for the murders by authorities, and is surprisingly athletic to keep up with his target.

He mostly wields knives and guns in his arsenal, but can use any other source as a weapon. His skills with a blade are shown when he swiftly kills a victim and disfiguring and dissecting one another to remove limbs or organs.

He can also perform surgery to reattach limbs in order to put back together or disfigure them into a part of the body. He also comes equip with needles that he can sneak up and stab someone with, infecting them with a lethal poison just as he did to the fourth and fifth victim.

He then finally uses cards to throw at people. These cards actually can be enhanced as sharp as steal and used like throwing knives.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Wonderland Dream**

This Noble Phantasm is Hitobashira Arisu's Reality Marble. It is, quite literally, a sentient and living dream that He can use at will to find it's victim in order to form it's world and live forever.

The dream is Wonderland, a surreal place full of mad creatures and mad people. Every aspect of it from its appearance to those that reside in it are taken from the lives it claims and traps, They are all formed by four different "Alices". Theses "Alices" represent the victims that the killer has murdered and that the five lives having been claimed by the dream, forever trapped and turned into aspects of the dream's world.

The first "Alice" likely contributed the theme of red and the darker side and may have even been turned into a beast such as The Jabberwock. The second "Alice" helped form the madness and randomness. The third "Alice" inspired the idea of endless youth and a monarchy, and may have later been formed into the Queen of Hearts. The fourth "Alice" twins were the closest to bringing innocence back to the dream, but the dream killed them.

The dream came alive one day, dreamed by an unknown person. After dreams are dreamt, they vanish and "die". However, this particular dream wanted to survive, and wanted to continue on as immortal. Before fading, it thought that it would do something no other dream had done before: it would not be dreamt once, but eternally.

It planned to come to people and trap them inside it, inside their own minds, until they died and could not dream it again. Then it would travel to the next person and repeat the process. For each person that became lost in it, they would help form it into a new reality, a new world, constantly growing and evolving.

#### **Alice of Human Sacrifice**

This Noble Phantasm is an indirect to the murders caused by the Alice Killer himself in his urban legend.
Hitobashira Arisu retreats into the shadows in his own personal dream, surrounding the area around the target, trapping them into his world of nightmare madness. He toys with them relentlessly and mentally until he decides to go in for the kill, and slash them into ribbons, revealing rose petals in blood. A card revealed with the name Alice appears next to them, showing that the killer claimed his next "Alice".

## References

https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Alice\_Killings

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Alice\_Killer

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Wonderland\_Dream

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/First\_Alice

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Third\_Alice