Assassin (Fate/Crossover - Morrigan Aensland)

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

"Living an eternity where nothing ever changes.. that's more terrifying than death itself, don't you think?" — Morrigan Aensland

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's true identity is Morrigan Aensland, she is a succubus and a powerful princess (later queen) of the demon realm Makai, who is very vain and lives for little more than the excitement of battle, but slowly takes more of her royal responsibilities seriously despite her obsessive fascination with the human world. She has a sister-like split part named Lilith and a rival named Demitri Maximoff. In 1678 in a region of Scotland during a power struggle among the supernatural creatures, adopted by Belial Aensland who saw her essential in the preservation of the Aensland family and the Makai. To keep Morrigan's full power from consuming her, Belial split her soul in three and absorbed one fragment in his body while sealing the other away. Morrigan grew up ignorant her father's act to protect her from herself until she was of age to use her full potential, visiting the human world frequently for fun. One night, she was drawn to the strange power permeating from Pyron and ventured into the human world again.

After Morrigan returned to the Makai, she learned of Belial's death while regaining the soul fragment he kept from her. Although the rightful ruler of the Makai, Morrigan shirks her duties to maintain her lifestyle. But when Morrigan ends up in the Majigen dimension created by Jedah Dohma, she sensed Lilith, the now sentient remainder of her soul, and their eventual meeting would lead to Morrigan regaining her full potential.

### Personality

Beautiful, sexy, confident, conceited, and playful, Morrigan may be called many things given that she is a succubus, but she is not truly evil despite her heritage as a demon of the Makai realm. Instead she is friendly and approachable, perhaps in part due to her frequent visits t the material world to pursue her hedonistic tendencies and has found herself willingly aligned with the forces of good on many occasions. Morrigan is always out to satisfy her hunger and will often shirk her responsibilities as the current head of the Aensland estate to find something more engaging.

## Abilities

Morrigan is one of the strongest beings in the Darkstalkers universe. In addition to traditional punches and kicks, she can reshape her wings into spikes, tentacles, and blades when attacking her enemies, as well as using them to shield herself from enemy attacks. She can also channel her own ki energy into her attacks, making them much stronger. Her wings can also separate from her, and form into a cloud of bats. During her dashing manuevers, her wings can boost like a rocket booster and give off visible thrust. She can increase this thrust by expelling a large amount of ki during her Valkyrie Turn and rebound her opponent by forming her wings into a drill. Her hair can also be used as a weapon, as seen in her basic punch. She is best known for her Soul Fist, a blast of ki from her fists. If she uses it with regular power, it will appear as a large glowing yellow bat but if used with more power in an EX move, it will appear as a beam with a ghostly skull at the apex. She can also create a temporary doppelganger in her Darkness Illusion spell who will mimic her movements and attacks. In her Finishing Shower move, her wings form cannon-like protrusions and expel multiple ki blasts. Her body can also be a lethal weapon, as when she performs double Deep Crescendo as her finishing attack in Darkness Illusion hyper combo; her kicks appear with a blade-like afterimage, implying her extremely powerful kick.

She can also change her costume instantly into whatever she desires at the moment. When doing this, she will always hide her wings. Presumably, this is for when she travels into the human world to avoid attention. She may also be the only Darkstalker that is capable of crossing into the human dimension without the use of the "Gate", simply relying on her own translocation ability. She can also change herself into a cloud of bats to avoid enemies' attack which is performed when she fights against Iron Man in the Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds intro. She is also quite athletic and flexible which is visible in some of her attacks as she retains flexibility, doing rolling kicks in midair.

Being a succubus, she can draw out the life force of a human (unknown if it is through sex like traditional succubi or through some other means), but Aensland succubi are said to be a unique strain of their own kind, as they are able to also mainly subsist purely on an internal fluid created by physical and mental stimulation alone. They can also feed on dreams, through which the substance is also found in the dreams of others. These traits are said to make succubi of Morrigan's line less threatening as a whole, but also more weary, as a lack of stimulus is able to kill them over the course of two days.

It's implied that if she were to combine with Lilith, her powers would be much stronger. While this has not been seen in the Darkstalkers games, this incarnation has appeared in the Vs. series. In this form, some of Morrigan's attacks look different and she's also much faster (though this could also be due to the game's engine). Her Finish Shower attack is replaced with the Soul Eraser, where her wings form a giant laser cannon and she also gains the Silhoutte Blade, where she creates multiple Lilith clones that all use Lilith's Shining Blade attack. In Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars, when Morrigan uses Darkness Illusion Hyper Combo, instead of a mirror image of herself appearing and attacking the enemy from the other side, Lilith appears instead.

Morrigan's power reaches a new higher level, when Belial's portion of her powers return back to her following his demise and when she assimilates Lilith into her body. Fully fused with her powers that were once locked away, it is assumed that Morrigan eventually takes over as the head of the Aensland family and rules over the Makai.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Darkness Illusion**

Morrigan casts a clone of herself to surround the enemy, she brutally beats them and unleashes a final blow to them, which in turns causes major damage.

#### **Astral Vision**

Morrigan creates a double which mirrors her moves. This is used to deceive her opponents, giving her opportunities to counter.

## References

https://darkstalkers.fandom.com/wiki/Morrigan\_Aensland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrigan\_Aensland

https://capcom.fandom.com/wiki/Morrigan\_Aensland

https://projectxzone.fandom.com/wiki/Morrigan\_Aensland

http://wiki.mizuumi.net/w/Vampire\_Savior/Morrigan

https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Morrigan\_Aensland

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Morrigan\_Aensland