Name: Emiya Sakura
Race: Human (Magus/Grail)
Age: 44
Height: 158 cm
Weight: 50 kg
Eyes: Purple
Hair: Purple
Appearance: Like her canon self, but older. However, due to use of life-extending magecraft and her natural healing factor, she actually looks like she is in her early 30s.
Still occasionally wears the red ribbon given her by Rin, but less so than she used to since it is now somewhat faded and tatty. However, she always keeps it in her possession as a reminder of her sister's love.
Alignment: Neutral Good
Charisma: A-
Strength: D
Agility: B
Speed: C
Endurance: C++++ (normal human endurance except that she can heal almost any wound).
Intelligence: A
Magic Resistance: A
Magic Ability: B++ (her training and natural abilities put her at B, but her very high prana regeneration means she can spam spells at a much faster rate).
Affinity: Imaginary numbers and water.
Magical attribute: Possesses the Matou family trait “binding”. Also has a small residual amount of her natural Tohsaka affinity, transfer of energy.
Magic crest: Possesses a pseudo magic crest that was burned into her body by Zouken, but it is of little use and much of it was lost when the worms were destroyed.
Spells:
Cursed Boundary Layer: Using a combination of her elemental affinity, the Matou magecraft and her connection to Angra Mainyu, Sakura can generate a cursed shadow which expands around her, and empowers her other magical abilities., However, since this ability draws on her connection to Angra Mainyu, it is weakened somewhat now she is no longer Dark. Additionally, use of it can put mental strain on her, although she has learnt to mitigate this.
She has, however, learnt to use a weaker and non-cursed version of this skill without tapping into Angra Mainyu's power. Due to the reduced danger and other advantages, this is the version she will usually use, except in emergencies. Additionally, she has taught herself to harness and control her connection to Angra Mainyu, making the skill generally much safer to use even when she does need to draw on Angra Mainyu.
Shadow dimension: Sakura's Cursed Boundary Layer allows her to absorb people and items into a shadow dimension. Whilst inside, the person or item is completely subject to Sakura's whims. She can control the environment they are in, project an avatar of herself into their mind and convert anything inside into prana.
Due to the connection with Angra Mainyu, her shadow dimension will naturally corrupt anything placed into it. However, through much training, Sakura has learnt to prevent this happening, and now she can safely store any item inside the shadow dimension without it becoming corrupted, unless she desires for it to be of course. As a result, she does sometimes use it as a hiding place for her family, and as a method of transportation. However, she dislikes doing so due to her past as Dark Sakura, and the fact that she doesn't fully trust herself with that much power over people.
Shadow tentacles: Using her natural affinity, Sakura is able to produce rudimentary magical tentacles. Through years of training and refinement, these tentacles have got considerably more powerful, and she can now use them to bind enemies in place, even quite powerful ones. Additionally, her Matou magecraft allows her to use the tentacles to drain prana from anything they touch.
Sakura has additionally learned to produce shadow tentacles which remain active even when not in contact with her. These draw prana from the surroundings or from the person they are in contact with, and can effectively be used as magical ropes to bind captives.
Shadow familiars: Using her shadow magic, Sakura can create semi-autonomous shadow familiars. These familiars will follow her basic intentions, but are capable of acting on their own to achieve those intentions, and have a rudimentary level of independent thought in this respect. To create them requires an initial prana input, followed by a small constant prana input to maintain them.
The shadows are of variable size, from very small shadows used for spying to massive shadow giants. Their size depends on how much prana Sakura puts into them, and they can grow or shrink depending on this. However, producing a shadow giant of the size of the ones seen in HF requires her entire prana supply, and thus she doesn't tend to do so very often.
These shadows are also all connected to her main shadow dimension, and can absorb things into it, although less effectively than she can do so with other magic. As well as using them for this purpose, she can use them and her cursed boundary layer like walls, to attempt to direct an opponent in a favourable direction or to entrap them.
Shadow transportation: Using her shadow dimension, Sakura is able to travel to any location with a shadow familiar. She is also able to use this ability to transport other people or items to her location or from her location to any other familiar.
Shadow Archery: Sakura can fire shadow arrows at enemies using a bow she also creates from her shadow. These arrows are highly corrosive to anything they hit, especially magical entities.
Other Abilities: Can regenerate from almost any wound due to her high prana supply and the effect of her connection with Angra Mainyu.
Background: Born Tohsaka Sakura, Sakura was adopted into the Matou family at age 4. She was in the care of the family head, Zouken, who tortured her mentally and physically on a daily basis in an attempt to turn her into a second Grail. Finally, after eleven years of torment, she was freed from his control by her sister, Rin, her servant, Rider and the guy she loved, Shirou, but not before the shadow that leaked out from her due to her imperfect nature as a Grail had killed hundreds of people.
After the Grail War, Shirou spent over a year with his soul trapped in the container Ilya placed him in, weak and unable to do much. During this time, Sakura spent every spare moment watching over him and tending to him, or working with her sister to try to find a way to bring him back, never allowing herself to despair so she would be ready for him when he returned. Finally, Rin managed to locate a puppet body to use, and Sakura sold the Matou magic books to the Association in order to pay for it, returning Shirou to his old self, and to her side.
Since then, she has been living as normal a life as possible, trying to overcome her past as best as she can, whilst trying to atone for all the people who died in order that she could survive. Married Shirou shortly after her 18th birthday, and they had their first child, Aoi, not long afterwards. They now have a total of four children. The first two are adults and have now moved out, and the third was recently adopted by Sakura's sister, Rin (on her own request), although Sakura still acknowledges her as her daughter and sees her regularly. The youngest child, Kiyoshi, is still living with them, and Sakura dotes on him.
Due to Sakura's condition, she and Shirou are required to have regular sex for her to get rid of excess prana. For a while, this had become something of a chore, but, with the help of some suggestions and advice from Rider, they added some variety and kinkiness to their sexual activities, and this returned the spark to their sex life. Even now, after over 25 years of marriage, they are still enjoying theirselves and, further, are in love as much as they ever were.
As the heir to the Matou family, Sakura is rather wealthy, owning a large number of properties she inherited from Zouken on his death. As a result, she has no need to work for a living, and instead does a mixture of caring for her children, voluntary work for various charities and practicing magecraft.
Due to use of magic, she is able to age more slowly and, thus, despite being in her mid-forties, looks only around 30. By transferring prana to Shirou, she's able to allow him to age at a similar rate.
Personality: Sakura is a kind, loving, gentle and caring person, who usually gives off the impression that she wouldn't hurt a fly. However, underneath her gentle exterior is a core of pure steel, and a surprisingly aggressive nature. Whilst she would never cause genuine harm to anyone without good reason, she can be very assertive if she needs to be, and if you get on her wrong side you will regret it, just like with her sister Rin.
As a result of her past, she has a strong dislike of seeing people suffer, especially children. Anyone harming a child will feel her wrath. She is also extremely protective of her own family, especially her younger children. Due to her past, she wants to give them the happiest childhood possible, and therefore she finds it very difficult to discipline them in any way, or to deny them anything. Further, anyone who even threatens to harm them will find theirselves on the receiving end of her wrath. In situations like that, Shirou often has to calm her down to prevent her doing something she might regret.
Whilst Sakura is wealthy, she dislikes spending her inheritance on herself, feeling she doesn't deserve it, and thus rarely spends more on herself than she has to in order to live (since she’s aware that she can do more good doing charity work than working for a living). This frugality does not, however, extend to her children, whom she tends to spend money on like it was water, even when they don't ask for it. Similarly, she is inclined towards spoiling Shirou, although he does tend to insist on equal treatment for the two of them.
Even beyond her own family Sakura is still generous,, especially towards anyone she sees herself as owning anything to (which includes most of Fuyuki). She is also still prone to blaming herself for things she is not responsible for, particularly with regard to the Grail War, although she has improved massively relative to how she once was. An aspect of this is her desire to atone for everything she did and this, coupled with her generous nature, results in her performing a large amount of charity work and providing considerable amounts of funding for charitable causes, especially those related to children.
She works at an orphanage which she also provides much of the funding for, and is also the patron of several children's charities, especially ones related to helping abused children. Shirou has persuaded her to pay herself a salary for the work she does at the orphanage (which comes out of her own funding), and to use that for spending on luxuries without feeling like she hasn't earnt the right to do so. She also assists Rin in carrying out her duties as the Second Owner of Fuyuki, as well as deputising for her when she's away, in London or elsewhere.
Due to her nature as a magus, she has to keep her distance somewhat from the orphans in the orphanage she works at and funds, to ensure they are not drawn into the magical world, and as a result cannot foster them as she would like. Even so, she does care deeply for them, and does sometimes invite them over to her house to meet her family and eat a delicious home-cooked meal. She also does cook for them at the orphanage (although less often than she would like, due to her own family commitments), bringing Kiyoshi over to meet the orphans. She sees them as almost part of her family, and is known to be rather generous towards them, both whilst at the orphanage and afterwards.
She's also generally very tolerant, particularly of abnormal beings who are usually feared (e.g. Dead Apostles), due to the fact that she herself is abnormal, as is her servant. Gets very upset if people judge them by what they are rather than how they act.
Sakura is a very loving mother, but is also extremely overprotective of her children, and does not like them being out of her sight for too long. She also finds it extremely difficult to discipline or punish them, due to the nature of her own upbringing, although she does have the ability to scare them straight with a smile, like her big sister does. Further, due to the controlled nature of her own childhood, she tends to prefer to leave her children to live their own life as far as possible, and dislikes telling them what to do. She also wants them to be happy, and as a result has a tendency to spoil them. This is worsened by the fact that Sakura is very wealthy due to Zouken's investments and ownership of land. Whilst she does not like to spend much on herself, she is far happier to spend money on her children, paying for them to fly first-class and the like even when she dislikes doing so for herself. She is especially protective of Kiyoshi, her baby, and anyone who even thinks of hurting him is in serious trouble.
As a result of her inability to discipline them and tendancy to spoil them, the children are often rude and disrespectful towards her, although rarely in a nasty or hurtful way. She doesn't really mind this, though, because they do love her dearly, and she is always the first person they will come to when they need emotional or practical support. Additionally, the children trust her absolutely, and will happily confide in her (particularly her eldest children), treating her like a close friend as well as a beloved mother. They also tend to get into trouble quite a lot due to her unwillingness to discipline or control them, although Shirou does temper this somewhat.
However, whilst she is generally very soft towards her children, she is capable of being extremely scary if she needs to be, just like her big sister. This tends to come out more when dealing with Shirou, Rider and Rin, but if necessary she will use her power to exert pressure with a smile on her children too. She mainly does this when it is really in their best interests for them to do something.
Weakness: Very attached to her family and friends, and still a little emotionally unstable. Harming (or even threatening) any of them will anger and upset her, although this might not be a good idea....
Likes: Cooking, Shirou, her children, Rin, Rider, looking after children, pretty flowers, gardening, Kyuudo.
Dislikes: Seeing children hurt/suffering (especially her own).
