Assassin (Fate/Crossover - Ophiuchus Shaina)

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

"S-Seiya... When a man sees a female saints face without her mask, she must either kill him... Or... Fall in love with him... But you wouldn't want that, would you, seiya? For someone like me to... To fall in love with you... Th-that's why... Unh... Seiya, i can feel your cosmo... Your cosmo holds the potential for incredible strength... But you must use it for right causes... For justice, understand that? Forgive me, seiya... For fall in love for... you." - Ophiuchus Shaina

## Profile

### Identity

Assassin's true identity is Ophiuchus Shaina, a Silver Saint of Athena in the twentieth century. Because of the decision to become a Saint of Athena, she was forced to follow strict rules due to being a woman. Because of these rules, Shaina had to wear a mask.
When wearing this mask, she must reject her femininity. As a result, she behaved like a man, and was in turn respected as one. Shaina was renowned as the most powerful female Saint. According to Shaina, a female Saint being seen by a man without her mask is much more worse than being seen naked. If such a situation were to happen, the female Saint would be forced to make a choice between either killing the man or falling in love with him.

### Personality

Shaina is tough, aggressive, passionate and imposing. After the defeat of her disciple to Pegasus Seiya, she becomes a more fierce enemy to the Bronze Saints, full of hatred and anger, especially after Seiya broke her mask and saw her face. The rule in such a situation is to kill the man who saw the face of an Amazon or fall in love with him.

She pursues Seiya a few times, determined to kill him, but Shaina really falls in love. Contrary to what her attitude suggests, her face is beautiful and soft, with big green eyes that express sweetness.

As of then, Shaina does all she can to protect her love interest, and is willing to die for him if that is what must be done for victory to be achieved in battle.

## Abilities

Shaina is an excellent fighter (Better than the Gold Saint Aiolia according to the Taizen Encyclopedia). Her intelligence is average otherwise.

### Noble Phantasm

#### **Ophiuchus Cloth**

The Ophiuchus Cloth is the cloth of the Saint Shaina in Saint Seiya and Saint Seiya: Next Dimension, and an unknown Saint in Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas. It is of the second class of the cloths that Athena's Saints wield, the Silver Cloths. In Next Dimension on Eighteenth Century the thirteenth Gold Saints wear the Ophiuchus Gold Cloth.

The Ophiuchus constellation can represent the healer Asclepius, a son of Apollo and the human princess Coronis. He was trained in medicine by the centaur Chiron, and was known for carrying a rod with a snake wrapped around it. He was a gifted healer, but was struck down by Zeus when Asclepius figured out how to bring the dead back to life, something the god Hades complained bitterly about. At Apollo's insistence, Asclepius was raised into the heavens as the Ophiuchus in tribute.

The Ophiuchus Silver Cloth, while having all of the strength and endurance of a Silver Cloth, has no special traits that make it stand out as a cloth aside from its snake-themed design.

#### **Thunder Claw**

An offensive technique. It is a fast strike that shocks the opponent as if it was made of lightning, appearing to be an electric cobra wrapping around the foe.

## References

https://saintseiya.fandom.com/wiki/Ophiuchus\_Shaina

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Ophiuchus\_Shaina

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Ophiuchus\_Shaina