Ayaka Sajyou

* Human
* Dead Apostle

**Ayaka Sajyou** (沙条 綾香, *Sajō Ayaka*?) is the main female protagonist of *Fate/chaos divergence*. She is the Master of Saber in the Second Holy Grail War. She later became the Master of Lancer, as per the request of Lancer's Master, and another Saber near the end of the conflict.

Following the Holy Grail War, she disappears off the face of the world until she reappears as a neutral party along with the two Saber-class Servants (who are given new names to differentiate them from the Servants already in the conflict) she commanded and participates in the Great Holy Grail War of *Fate/chaos revival*. She also forms a temporary contract with Ruler, further cementing her position as a neutral party.

## Profile

### Background

Hiroki Sayjou and Honoka Sajyou's second daughter, Ayaka was only eight years old when the First Holy Grail War exploded. Her older sister, Manaka, was an absolute monster in the conflict, easily winning against all the other Masters and Servants. However, she turned the ritual into a massive genocide, throwing in young maidens into the Holy Grail as sacrifices in order to summon Beast. However, Saber betrayed her at the last second before she could throw the crying Ayaka inside. Using the last of his strength, Saber carries the unconscious Ayaka (who had most likely passed out from shock) and dropped her off at the Reiroukan house, imploring them to care for her.

From this point onwards, Ayaka grew up as a Reiroukan house member much to the dismay of the Reiroukans. Despite these differences, she and Misaya were very close siblings, who loved each other. Their life together was sunshine and daisies...

...Until the Second Holy Grail War erupted.

### Appearance

Ayaka is a young teenager having medium-length brown hair and blue eyes, she appears to be very beautiful without her glasses, which attracts the attention of Saber and Archer. She typically wears her uniform but her casual attire is of a purple-blue jacket, white blouse with shorts and stockings.

As a child, she wears a pink cardigan and a white dress.

Upon awakening to her vampiric blood, Ayaka became a Dead Apostle. In this form, her originally brown hair discolors to a shade of rose pink and her right eye is stained crimson. She also grows fangs, looking like a clone of her mother, a Dead Apostle Ancestor.

### Personality

Ayaka appears to be a very insecure person, traumatized after the previous Holy Grail War after her father and sister died because of it, and not willing to join the current war. Unlike Shirou, she seems to come from a line of Magi and is more adapted to such a lifestyle, although she is also orphaned.

Her sister had been a genius in Magecraft, while she had been mediocre, despite having a far higher quantity of Magic Circuits in comparison to her sister, leading to the development of a complex. Eight years prior during the previous War, her father had told her that sooner or later she too would be a participant in the Grail War, to which she would later scream to herself that she wouldn't do it and would run away.

She had been directed by her father to perform a ritual sacrifice every morning, but due to her past trauma, she has trouble killing living animals. Unable to kill pigeons, she uses her own blood as a substitute. Because of this, the Sajyou's Garden Workshop has gradually become a pigeon nest that keeps growing. Also in part due to this, her cooking comes only from ready-made ingredients.

She has an attachment to crows. It is also said that removing and putting on her glasses changes her personality. In her eyes, Saber is the ideal prince along with his station as her protector.

She is hinted to have feelings for Saber which is confirmed in the later portions of the story. She has harbored some feelings for Caster as well but decided that they were too different in personality to match.

Upon awakening as a Dead Apostle, Ayaka's personality changed drastically. **TBA**

### Relationships

Arthur Pendragon

Caster

Charlemagne

Sancraid Phahn

Manaka Sajyou

Kotomi Shiratsuyu

Elias Padraig Wirth

## Role

### *Fate/Intercession*

Ayaka is present for when her older sister summons her Servant, Saber. She doesn't have much of a role in the Holy Grail War itself, mostly staying behind in the Sajyou residence while her sister and her father goes out to fight.

### *Fate/chaos divergence*

#### Day 0

On the evening of Sunday, July 18, 1999, Ayaka is suddenly approached by a man in blue who introduces himself as the Lancer-class Servant. While her retainer defends her, she orders her master to run to the Garden where the summoning circle sat ready. However, Ayaka still did not want to participate even with the Master Degree on her chest throbbing ever more painfully. The spark that triggered her was when Lancer arrived at the Garden, using the shaft of his spear to slam Kotomi's body into the other wall. Her battered and bruised form finally caused Ayaka to snap and she began the incantation but Lancer managed to stab her before she could finish. This did not stop Ayaka, however, who forced out the final line, culminating in Saber's summoning who then proceeded to repel Lancer. After that was done, Ayaka lost consciousness.

#### Week 1

##### Day 1

Upon her awakening, she immediately orders Saber to fill her in on the most recent happenings after he had revealed that he had done some patrolling while she was asleep. Ayaka rises out of bed and heads to the cemetery where she prays over her family's gravestone, resigning herself to her fate as a Master and apologizing to them for her balking which led to the death of her one and only friend.

## Abilities

Per the history of her lineage, Ayaka practices her family's magecraft of black magic. As her older sister had a far more stellar quality in terms of her Magic Circuits, Ayaka, while she did receive formal training, fell behind her sister due to her innate talent. She, of course, developed quite the complex over this. Due to being a member of a Far Eastern family, she does not have any particular ties to the Mage's Association outside of a short and temporary alliance she formed with Waver Velvet and Reines Sutlynn Archisorte. Her family, however, has ties with the Exorcist Union.

### Combat

Although unknown to her, Ayaka is considered a Spellcaster, according to Waver, as she, unlike other magi, treats her magecraft as just a tool to help in her everyday life. Ayaka isn't much of a combat magus, however, through the tips of her mother and despite the inheritance of her blood not activating until near to the climax of the Holy Grail War, Ayaka could easily manage to draw on the innate capabilities of her blood. One of these is innate swordsmanship, although it is definitely not at the level where one can call her a master. She is at least capable enough to properly utilize Joyeuse (obtained from the Sajyou family's tendency to look for lost items connected to Heroic Spirits to serve as potential catalysts or just treasures to hold on to) as both a sword and a Master's Noble Phantasm in battle.

About halfway through the war, Ayaka awakens to her vampiric instincts. As the daughter of a Dead Apostle Ancestor, she had inherited extremely strong blood but through the machinations of her mother, she was born human with her blood dormant. However, with her life in imminent danger, the shock factor was enough to break the seal on her blood and allowed her to awaken to her inner monster. However, Ayaka still remains relatively human despite becoming a vampire. As a result of this, upon her return a few weeks prior to the Great Holy Grail War, she was branded a Dead Apostle and a target for elimination were it not for her necessary presence in the aforementioned Holy Grail War.

### Magecraft

Ayaka's specific brand of magecraft is a rather old form of black magic rarely seen around in modern times. It is a type of dark magic where she is capable of enchanting any feathers she touches to behave like sharp darts to attack her enemies. She could also create feathers out of thin air. She is capable enough in her magecraft to even force Lancer to guard against them, impressing him, although he then easily brushed them aside.

She also has the capacity to control plants, which is part of the seal of the Garden her mother left behind. She is also a practitioner of Witchcraft, however, she finds herself unskilled in it. She is bad at cultivating medicinal plants, and, strangely, is close with crows. During the course of the war, Saber suggested to his Master that she try her hand at using Formalcraft. Though not seen as very useful by common Magi, she finds she has an amazing affinity and talent for it that normal Magi cannot use to the same degree.

Ayaka possesses the Origin of **Buoyancy** (浮力, *Furyoku*?) as well as a triple Elemental Affinity to Ether, Wind, and Water. In terms of what effects her Origin has on her magecraft... **TBA**

#### Fourth Magic

During the blank period, while she was "missing" after the conclusion of the Second Holy Grail War, she had properly met her mother and was taught True Magic, specifically, the Fourth Magic Laplace's Demon.

**TBA**