Chloe von Einzbern

**Chloe von Einzbern** is one of the main characters from the *Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA* anime and manga.

Illya's cousin, recently transferred in from Germany. Or at least that's the story Illya, and later Irisviel, tells everyone. In truth she's a sort of a magical clone created by accident when Illya was helping Rin in stabilizing the dragon pulse beneath Fuyuki City, with the core of her being based around the Archer card (which in turn is based on a certain Heroic Spirit).

Her personality however comes from the suppressed memories of Illya's original purpose as the Holy Grail conduit, and she's rather bitter at the fact that Illya's been able to live a normal life ignorant of this.

In the AWA fics, Chloe is a student at the AWA Academy.

## **Appearance**

Chloe is a young girl with tanned skin color and white-rose like hair. Her Archer form her clothing consists of a feminine version of EMIYA's servant clothing. While at school she wear the typical school uniform. Generally speaking she looks like a palette swapped version of Illya.

Despite having an overall similar appearance with Illya (except her eye and hair colors), Chloe often styles her hair differently from her.

## **Personality**

Kuro is generally much calmer and more nonchalant than Illya. She is devious and manipulative, picking up on subtleties about people and using them to her advantage, and she can be very brazen and unrestrained in her actions. She has experienced all of the same events as Illya, allowing her to recall events before she manifested.

Kuro is deeply bitter as a result of having been sealed, both towards her parents for sealing her, and toward Illya for wishing to be 'normal'. She believes Illya is indirectly wishing for her, the manifestation of her past as part of a Magus clan, to not exist. She places pride in the reason she was born, and wishes to follow it if she can. The idea of being called a second hand clone infuriates her, for the name 'Illya' originally belongs to her.

Kuro easily gets into conflicts with Illya, fighting over any minuscule insult. Funnily, when Illya is unable to stop Kuro in some of these conflicts, she uses the effect of a curse to inflict pain on Kuro by hurting herself. Due to Kuro's appearance and her tendency to drain energy through kissing, it creates certain comedic situations and misunderstandings.

Despite these problematic aspects of her personality, underneath it all is a caring, sweet, and even timid girl fitting of her age. This reflects her vulnerable side on how despite everything, what she truly desires is a family, a normal life, and above all, to live with a purpose. When she was finally granted these wishes, she becomes more well behave but still mischievous.

Kuro is straight-forward such as stating that one should face a problem instead of avoiding them, and immediately choosing her friend Miyu over saving the world. This also shows her deep devotion towards those she desires and deeply cares about.

Kuro also shares Illya's affection towards their brother. However, she is more forthright with Shirou (similar to the Fate/stay night counterpart of Illya), allowing herself to express the feelings Illya has not been able to express. Kuro became jubilant when learning that the identity of the Archer Class Card, that was used to manifest her body, is EMIYA.

## **Abilities**

Kuro originally did not know the identity of the Heroic Spirit whose form she has borrowed, but later learned of it after meeting Miyu's brother. She has only inherited the fighting skills that he refined. She wields her formidable combat powers with reckless abandon. Rin saw this as a threat, and inflicted on Kuro a curse of shared pain perception. Kuro’s shared pain with Illya was meant to deter her from targeting her twin, but the trifling curse meant nothing to the little devil.

Having received most of Illya's magical power, Kuro is extremely powerful, capable of using all of the Archer class' abilities to a high degree, and easily able to overpower magical girls and even Miyu's Saber class change. She has physical strength equal to that of a magical girl, allowing her to damage a wall with a towel. She is much more analytical than Illya, allowing her to read her opponent's strategy. She can utilize basic magic like a ball of magical energy that breaks apart the ground and reversing binding magic on the caster.

Kuro also possesses the ability to teleport as shown when she escaped being locked up by Luvia and Rin, fighting Miyu Installed with Saber, and fighting Angelica with Shirou (Miyu's brother). The range of this is still unknown. Kuro explains this comes from the ability into achieving the result/answer while bypassing the process. This ability is how she was able to Install Archer for the first time.

She generally fights with Kanshou and Bakuya in close combat, and makes use of metastasis and Projection to create other Noble Phantasms. She can create mundane objects like a chair, or more powerful objects like Fake Nine Lives, Berserker's axe-sword, using it as a shield in front of her and running at the opponent. She fires Caladbolg II as an arrow.

She has the ability to drain people of their natural energy through the act of kissing, leaving them weakened and unable to act. As a result it makes her seem a succubus. She has to replenish herself often, but normal people are not  enough . While draining several normal people still leaves her weakened, as demonstrated when she drains the entire school of their mana, magi like Rin and Luvia or someone powerful like Miyu or Illya can provide her with enough energy alone through kissing.

She mentioned she has other ways to get mana but she prefered kissing Illya because was more effective and Illya would prefer that instead of Kuro going to town and recover mana with unknown persons,normally she can replenish mana through sexual intercourse or swallowing semen which Illya was against,she learned this after the fight with Illya when she disappeared into town naked.

She was given a seal formed from Illya's blood that connects replicates all physical sensations caused to Illya onto her. It replicates all injuries caused to Illya of them, no matter how slight the sensation, and reproduces even effects like having a cheek pulled. If Illya, her "master", were to die, the same would happen to her. Kuro has analyzed the curse for a long time and can easily dispel it, but she still kept it until she needed to teach Illya a lesson.

## **Trivia**

* As the Grail Conduit of Illya gained sentience, she starts out as vicious and resentful towards Illya for wanting to go back to a normal life, namely because it means she would cease to exist because of rejecting her original purpose as the Conduit. Once Illya makes it clear she doesn't want Chloe to disappear though, she slowly but surely comes around, and aside from "sisterly" spats and teasing becomes one of Illya's most loyal allies. She later returns the favor by helping Illya with her own character development.