Assassin (Fate/Crossover - Bullet)

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

"*Stand in my way... I'll break your back.*" - Bullet

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's true identity is **Bullet**, a member of a mercenary troop who appears to be against the 7th Agency, due to an incident in the past involving 7th Agency which led to the deaths of her squad mates. Having been raised by mercenaries since she was young, she fights from one battlefield to another. The incident in question is the retrieval of the Arch-Enemy Event Weapon, Machine God: Nirvana from the 4th Hierarchical City of Naobi; an event orchestrated by Relius Clover. While originally thought that Nirvana was the one who decimated Bullet’s mercenary troop and the squad sent by 7th Agency, in reality, it was the Mad Dog; Azrael.

She dislikes Amane Nishiki as he was once brought in to the squad to teach them how to fight, but he had taught them how to dance instead, since he had mistaken the word “troop” (部隊 butai) for “troupe” (舞台 butai, dance stage).

### Personality

Likely due to her upbringing, Bullet behaves in a very militaristic and literal manner, taking an aggressive approach to almost everything. In Story Mode, she frequently becomes impatient when things aren’t progressing as quickly as she expected and becomes increasingly hostile as a result, threatening a civilian when he began panicking during her attempt to interrogate him for information. During her brief travel with Bang, he noted how she was rather solitary and constantly on alert. She even has trouble smiling or laughing, only able to do so when Bang tries to humor her, only for her to laugh due to how hard he’s trying instead of the joke itself; this is actually taken to its extremes in her gag scenario.

Underneath her icy and militaristic attitude, Bullet is actually good-hearted; being able to become relatively close with Bang Shishigami. However, since her usual demeanour is unusually ill-tempered and antisocial, most of the cast are generally unaware of her softer side. Also Bullet admires authority figures who show strong audacity, leadership and tough love (as seen by Litchi who temporarily mimicked being a drill sergeant).

Bullet has very little experience in anything that isn’t related to combat, warfare or her own personal history. She doesn’t feel ashamed of her outfit even when other characters consider her costume to be very revealing, this is mainly because Bullet doesn’t even know what is 'normal' attire and is loyal to wearing her military uniform (even rescuing her outfit from inside a garbage truck when Litchi stole it in a gag scenario). Bullet also seems unaware about her attractive figure, even when rude characters make direct references to her (Tao calling her “Butt Lady” and Ragna calling her “Butt Floss”). In “Teach Me, Miss Litchi”, she is oblivious to and confused by Kagura’s sexist and perverted comments throughout most of the episode. Yet while Bullet has no shame in her own appearance she has, in a hypocritical manner, criticized the sexual outfits of other characters like Makoto and Platinum.

Bullet is also shown to be slightly racist towards beastmen, this is shown in her Arcade battle against Valkenhayn, where she asks him if he knows where Kokonoe is due to the both of them being beastmen. As well as this, she also remarks how she won’t hold back against a non-human who smells of blood. However, in her win quote against Makoto Nanaya, she shows no real qualities of harboring racist tendencies, yet, this does not stop her antagonizing the race in her search for Kokonoe.

## Abilities

Bullet wields gauntlets on her arms named Smash Hell (スマッシュ・ヘル Sumasshu Heru), which she uses as armor to block attacks. But their main function is to create fireballs that she uses in some of her attacks. Yet these fireballs cannot act as projectiles unless Bullet fires them at the ground. Her Astral Heat shows that this weapon can expand into a larger mode, which acts like a piston: crushing down on her opponent with a full blast of heat.

Despite her powerful weapon, most of Bullet’s attacks involve her own physical strength. While she’s obviously weaker than characters like Tager or Azrael, she is strong enough to defeat other BlazBlue characters with her strength. This physical power is combined with her unique fighting style, which focuses on combos, agility, and brutality. Bullet is so vicious that she aims many of her strikes at an enemy’s face or neck. Because of her lack of projectiles, Bullet focuses on rushing at an enemy at close range and then thrashing them to submission. Yet despite her fast strikes, Bullet’s running speed isn’t as superhuman as other characters like Bang or Taokaka.

Bullet’s Drive is Lock On (ロックオン Rokku On). Drive attacks will allow her to quickly rush at her opponent and grab them, provided that she is close enough to the opponent; all her Drive attacks can be blocked however, as they are only command grabs. For every successful grab, Bullet can gain a Heat Up level which increases her Drive strength, her projectile distance and her movement speed; up to two Heat Up levels can be gained and each level is lost over a certain period of time; when she lands an unsuccessful Drive attack or when she uses a projectile.

During her Overdrive, Heat the Beat (ヒート・ザ・ビート Hīto za Bīto), Bullet is temporarily in an infinite “Heat Up” state.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Hard Kill Bringer; "Combusting Detonation of Fire"**

Bullet stuns the opponent with a punch and grabs them, using her Ars Magus gauntlets to shoot them with explosive attacks in the face three times. She then brings them to the ground, and a large mechanism protrudes from one of her gauntlets, acting as the finishing punch. The battlefield is now much more like a smokey wasteland, and the opponent lies in a large crater.

### Gallery

#### Fate/???

* Ascensions

1st Ascension2nd Ascension3rd AscensionFinal Ascension
* Craft Essence

Bond CE: Mercenary Squad of One
## References

https://blazblue.fandom.com/wiki/Bullet

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Bullet\_(BlazBlue)

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Bullet