Saber (Fate/Crossover - Sayaka Miki)

Saber (セイバー, *Seiba*) is the servant of ??? in the ??? Holy Grail War.

"For all the happiness you wish for someone, someone else gets cursed with equal misery." - Sayaka Miki

## Profile

### Identity

Saber's true identity is Sayaka Miki, the best friend of Madoka Kaname and Hitomi, Sayaka was bound to inevitably become a magical girl; even if she had the least potential. Despite being regarded as the weakest magical girl, her regeneration and later ability to control her witch form (as well as others), allowed her to take on witches and magical girls of incredible power and ability. In short, she is not to be underestimated.

### Personality

Sayaka is shown to act slightly tomboyish and heroic. She cares a lot for her friends, made clear by her immediately making the contract to become a magical girl just so she could save Madoka.

Despite acting tomboyish, she does have a girly side, shown by her interest in romance and classical music. However, her vision of love is very unrealistic.

She rarely thinks twice before acting on something and comes into conflict with others easily. When combined with her kindness and courage, those two traits make her ignorant and careless.

Throughout the anime, she and Kyoko Sakura often argued with one another, and their first encounter was even an attempted fight to the death. If it hadn't been for Homura's interventions, Sayaka would have died at least twice.

She evidently has some love for anime and games, since she called Homura 'moe' when taunting, "She's so moe, it makes me sick!". It's also hinted that Sayaka likes cosplaying as well.

She hates the idea of being rejected by people that she loves. When Kyousuke started dating Hitomi, Sayaka felt hurt and rejected. This showed that she wanted to get praise for her wish and even to get the chance to date him but, to her dismay, that did not happen.

In the Rebellion Movie, it is implied that she may have developed admiration or maybe even romantic feelings for Kyoko.

### Relationships

#### **Madoka Kaname**

Saber's best friend since childhood, the two remain very good friends even as Servants.

#### **Kyoko Sakura**

Once enemies due to their opposing personalities, morals, and ideologies, the both of them gained an understanding of each other and eventually resolve their broken relationship later after Homura Akemi and Madoka talked with them. Eventually, Lancer would sacrifice herself to defeat Sayaka's Witch form in the hopes of reviving her. The two of them have since become very close to each other.

#### **Mami Tomoe**

Saber's mentor, upper-classman and older sister figure, both Saber and Archer have been very good friends in life. Archer in particular is proud of Saber for coming into her own as a Magical Girl.

#### **Homura Akemi**

Due to her regained memories as a Servant, Sayaka and Archer are on very uneasy terms at best. While the two have always been tenuous around each other, after the Rebellion, that relationship would only worsen. Now that they're Servants, Sayaka knows Archer is no longer the Devil, but remains ever vigilant in her presence.

#### **Dalek Sec**

Sayaka and Berserker have met in one of the many alternate timelines in her world; one in which he was trapped in and forced to join with Homura to break the time loop. Sayaka finds him very odd due to his incredibly inhuman nature, especially his robotic looking appearance and loud, staccato voice. When escorting her on an errand, she was greatly annoyed by his loud voice, constant monitoring of her as though she were a small child, and general lack of human concepts of subtlety or privacy. As Servants, they have a rather tentative relationship, though not to the same extent as with Archer.

## Abilities

Regenerative Abilities: Kyubey stated that Sayaka, due to her healing-type wish, could control her reactions to pain and could regenerate her health faster in some cases.
As an example of this, during her battle with Kyoko, Sayaka was able to take a hit that Kyoko stated should have put Sayaka in the hospital for three months, quickly healing up and standing to attack Kyoko again.

Sword Skill: Sayaka's magical summoning weapon seems to be a sword, which she shows high proficiency in. For example, using only a single sword, she was able to battle Kyoko evenly for some time, despite Kyoko using her diamond fence skill and the whip version of her spear. Sayaka was also able to quickly defeat the witch Kirsten, summoning multiple swords in a row similar to Mami's gun summoning skill.

Speed: Sayaka displays an incredible speed, both in terms of movement speed and attack speed. During her battle with the witch Kirsten while rescuing Madoka, Sayaka displays incredible speed, dispatching the witch within moments. Her path of movement is indicated by a stream of blue. She also shows immense speed while fighting Kyoko.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Prestissimo Agitato**

Slashes at her opponent several times over before taking a step back and proceeding with a finishing blow.

#### **Doppel Witch Transformation**

In the light of a new miracle, magical girls have now gained the ability to become a half-witch whenever their soul gem reaches maximum corruption, resulting in a Doppel Witch. Unlike normal witches, both the witch and the magical girl are in control of their respective bodies and in a short time will revert back into a magical girl. However, older magical girls have been stated to keep traits of their Doppel form even after reverting, and the same for magical girls who use the transformation for too long.

## References

https://madoka.fandom.com/wiki/Sayaka\_Miki

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Sayaka\_Miki

https://wiki.puella-magi.net/Sayaka\_Miki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayaka\_Miki