Assassin (Fate/Crossover - Kagero)

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

"*As Lord Ryoma’s retainer, it is my duty to follow his every order. He wishes to take you back to Hoshido, and so it must be done.*" — Kagero

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's true identity is **Kagero**, One of Ryoma's personal retainers, Kagero is a Hoshidan kunoichi who is loyal and serious to a fault. She is known to have been best friends with the Diviner Orochi since childhood.

### Personality

Kagero is predominantly defined by her fierce loyalty to Ryoma, where she will not hesitate to sacrifice herself in order to preserve his life. According to her supports with Kaze, this loyalty of hers sees her devoting the bulk of her time to training or fulfilling missions, leaving her with little time for leisure.

Compared to Saizo, however, the extent of her loyalty is less extreme; through her supports with him, she blandly chastises him for instilling unnecessary fear into the new recruits of the Hoshidan army by insisting that they be prepared to sacrifice their lives to protect their lieges.

Kagero often presents herself as a calm, confident individual, befitting of one who acts as a personal bodyguard of the Hoshidan high prince. This sense of collectedness is consistently maintained even when she is faced with tense situations. One such example may be observed in Kagero's B support with Takumi, where, in response to him demanding her to explain what is lacking in his sense of patience, she remains calm enough to carefully craft a reply without offending him.

Despite the serious demeanour that Kagero commonly presents, she is still able to form meaningful relationships with others and take up hobbies for amusement. Her supports with other characters often portray her as being receptive to conversation; through her supports with Rinkah, for one, she initiates conversation in a bid to strike up a friendship with her.

Kagero is also known to harbour an interest in painting, a fact that sees her spending much of her free time engaging in the art. Though she lacks the aptitude for painting, it is through this medium of art that she has established a steadfast friendship with Orochi, one that has remained strong since her childhood. Through their supports, it is evident that Orochi is the only known person to appreciate Kagero's eccentric style of art, to the point where she regards a card featuring a brook-and-water drawing as a symbol of their friendship. Though this is also shared by Odin, who admired Kagero's art of a silkwyrm as a stroke of genius in their supports, and attempted to summon it, with Kagero eager to help out, showing a desire to have her art come to life.

Kagero is said to be the best diary-keeper in the army.

## Abilities

Kagero is a skilled Ninja, dedicated to protecting her master, as she was to dedicated to being Ryoma's retainer. Her daggers show different effectiveness against some servants, she special daggers that target infantry servants and others that are most effective against servants who are heavily armored.
She is known to be most skilled with a Shuriken as part of her main skill and is skilled in hand to hand combat thanks to her training. She can also inflict poison onto enemies with little notice.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Sting Shuriken**

A Shuriken imbued with the special property of inflicting effective damage against armoured units, but is weak against non-armoured foes. The Sting Shuriken is also capable of reducing the Skill, Defense and Resistance of enemy units post-battle, alongside raising its wielder's Speed by 2.

#### **Shurikenfaire**

a Skill introduced in Fire Emblem Fates. It increases damage by 5 when the user is equipped with a Shuriken or a Dagger and is learned by Master Ninja at Level 15 or higher.
As a Noble Phantasm, Kagero can enhance her Shurikens and Daggers and stun her opponents when at a direct hit. If sucessful, Kagero will take the opportunity to strike her enemy down to their weakness and cause damage to them.

## References

https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Kagero