Assassin (Fate/Crossover - Lina)

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

"*I will be the best thief in the world!*" - Lina

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's true identity is **Lina**, she is a Thief who joins D on his quest. She uses daggers in battle. She works as a mercenary at Mercenary Inc, under Old Tristam.
A noble thief that hates bandits, and aspires to be the leader of the thief guild.

### Appearance

Lina is an adult or teenage woman with blonde, silky hair and sky blue eyes. She wear a jade green crop top and shorts along with a small black cape, hand wraps and puttee. She wears brown boots and adorns two satchels around the sides of her belt, which is where she stores her daggers.

### Personality

Lina has a daring, optimistic personality. Whenever she encounters danger, she tends to make jokes while other party members react with seriousness or shock. She often teases her party members such as D on various subjects, like when she called him Mr. Meteor as he crashed into the human realm. She also has a soft-spoken side, such as when she tearfully thanked D and the other for rescuing her from Rita. Despite being a thief, Lina discriminates people who steal other's belongings, saying "They give a bad name of being a thief", which contradicts Lina's reputation as a thief to begin with.

### Relationships

#### D

Assassin first met Saber when he crashed into the human realm from the sky, and she decides to accompany him on his quest. The two have become really close friends from the time they spent together, even as Servants.

## Abilities

Lina uses daggers. Her starting weapon is Light I, the dagger that focuses on Speed. Her weapon skills are Cursed Dagger, Lucky Strike, and Cyclone Dance. She also comes equipped with grenades that she can chuck at the enemy for damage. She favors swift attacks rather than brute force, trying to outsmart the enemy with tactics.

Lina repeatedly uses anachronisms, with references to things such as hackers, crackers, computers, and even an electronic hacking device for locked chests (rather than the typical lock-picking skill).

### Hackpick 2000

A device owned by Lina. It is used to open Locked Chests in a game of Hackpicker. It is shaped like a video game controller with a screen in the center, and a key sticking out of the top. It first appears when Lina shows it to D when he finds the first locked chest in Evil Cave.

According to Lina, the Hackpick 2000 "uses a Visual Basic GUI interface to track down the IP address of the treasure lock". Meaning it uses a graphical user interface coded using the Visual Basic computer language to find the internet protocol address that the locked chest has, in order to hack the chest and open it. However it is not explained how or why the locked chests and the Hackpick 2000 are connected to the internet. This is likely a reference to a CSI episode, where the writers tried to use computer lingo, but failed epically.

As a Noble Phantasm, it can be used to cancel out any other servant's skills, and it can also be used to hack into any Robotic-type servants.

#### **Cyclone Dance**

Lina spins into a hurricane that surrounds her and lands Mutliple cuts (max 5) inflicting physical damage to opponents at random.

## References

https://crystal-story-ii.fandom.com/wiki/Lina