The arrival of Archer , who claims that his own rule far exceeds their own, and Berserker , who takes an interest in Saber after battling Archer, confuses the situation even more. After Lancer is forced to battle alongside Berserker to kill Saber through a Command Spell, Rider interrupts that fight so that she and Lancer may properly finish their duel at a later time.
All of the Servants then retreat for the night without any further battle. Saber and Irisviel encounter the deranged Caster on their way to Fuyuki's Einzbern Castle, and he mistakes her for Jeanne d'Arc due to a slight resemblance in their appearances. While she manages to drive him off, she in unable to convince him of his mistake and he promises to save her soul from the curse of God. After Kiritsugu attempts to kill Lancer's Master, Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi , to remove the handicap caused by the wound left from Lancer, both he and Caster plan separate attacks on the Einzbern Castle.
Saber, while discussing strategies with Kiritsugu and Irisviel, starts to become disgusted with Kiritsugu's attitude toward the Holy Grail War, such as his action of attacking Kayneth when she already has a planned duel with Lancer and avoiding Caster so another Servant can kill him instead.
Caster shows up soon after, and he taunts Saber by slaughtering a number of children. Saber quickly goes to meet Caster in battle, and she finds that she cannot overcome his Noble Phantasm, Prelati's Spellbook , without the use of her hand.
While she slaughters a multitude of his monsters, she is unable to close the gap on him at all. She is eventually met by Lancer, Kayneth having sent him to deal with Saber while he deals with Kiritsugu, and he decides to help her out of the honor of their promised duel.
Acting as her "left hand", they eventually manage to drive Caster back using Invisible Air to create a slip stream for Lancer to make a direct charge through the horde. After Caster flees, Lancer senses that Kayneth in danger after his loss to Kiritsugu, and Saber lets him leave due to their chivalry. After the battle, Saber saves Irisviel by inadvertently providing Avalon with energy after she had received a fatal wound from Kirei Kotomine.
Kiritsugu goes out on his own after everything settles down, leaving Irisviel and Saber alone in the castle. Their peace is quickly interrupted once again by the arrival of Rider on Gordius Wheel , who, rather than fighting, proposes a "battle without bloodshed", one of words between kings, to see who is suitable of obtaining the Holy Grail.
Battling with wine, they, and Archer who Rider invited while on his way to the castle, discuss their methods of ruling and kingship. In the King's meeting, Saber expressed that she wanted the Holy Grail to change the history of her country's destruction. On the final day of the Holy Grail war, Saber encountered Berserker and fought against him. She realize that Berserker knows Saber's identity from their previous lives after catching Excalibur despite its invisibility.
Saber demanded Berserker to reveal himself, Berserker answered by drawing Arondight and canceling his black fog. Saber was devastated as she learns Berserker's identity was her trusted friend Sir Lancelot. Rider's words haunt Saber as Berserker attacks Saber, causing her to believe that Lancelot's hatred towards her has driven him into madness. As Kariya ran out of magical energy, Berserker stopped his attack and Saber used this opportunity to stab him. Saber apologizes as she desires the Holy grail to change the past including Lancelot part.
Berserker regained his sanity as his contract with Kariya ended, he wanted Saber to punish him because he was unable to forgive himself for falling in love with the Queen. As he fades away, Saber wanted to say that he was a loyal knight but could not find the right words. He felt that Saber was the greatest amongst king for those who served her.
After Berserker's defeat, she is determined to win the Holy Grail so she can save her people and Lancelot. Saber found the Holy Grail but she also meets Gilgamesh who was waiting for her. He proposes that she becomes his wife and easily incapacitates her.
Saber refuses as the Holy Grail is just in front of her. Kiritsugu arrives at this time and Saber asks him for the power of the command seal in order to defeat Gilgamesh and claim the Holy Grail.
Much to her despair, Kiritsugu uses his last two command seals for her to destroy the Grail. Excalibur is used to destroy the vessel of the Holy Grail, but its contents spill out onto the earth, razing the land permanently and killing almost everyone caught in its mud.
With the Grail gone and unable to maintain her form, Saber is sent back to the battlefield of Camlann, as she remembers the words of Lancelot and Rider.
She was the sixth and final servant to perish in the fourth Holy Grail War. He had been having dreams of Excalibur in the days leading up to the start of the Holy Grail War after receiving his Command Spells due to the Grail having decided that Saber would be summoned. Avalon, reacting with Shirou's mana flow, caused the image of a "sword" to manifest in his subconscious.
With both the catalyst, Avalon inside Shirou, and the circle, the summoning is complete. After Saber quickly commences with the formalities of finalizing their contract, she engages Lancer. She manages to keep the upper hand with Invisible Air until he utilizes Gae Bolg.
She avoids his unavoidable attack allowing her to survive with a large wound and figure out his identity. He withdraws afterward due to orders from his Master, and Saber heals herself to the best of her ability with the lance's curse affecting the wound. Upon sensing more enemies, Rin and Archer , she quickly goes to engage them. At this point, the game splits into three routes, depending on previously cleared routes.
In the Fate scenario, she is the main heroine, servant protagonist and the love interest for Shirou. With their contract, they share visions of their past. Saber learns through them that Shirou is the adoptive son of Kiritsugu and his personality changed from the time she fought for him. It is eventually revealed that in the end of the Fourth Grail War, Saber only managed to destroy the physical form of the Grail.
Saber still had the view that Kiritsugu was a cold and selfish person regardless of anything and her perception of him only worsened after he forced her to destroy the Grail without bothering to explain beforehand. However, her opinion changes after realizing that after the fire Kiritsugu saved Shirou and taught him his philosophies and ideals.
Shirou convinces Saber that she should accept her life for what it is rather than wishing to change her life. Saber realizes that changing her fate is a cowardly wish unlike Shirou, who was brave to keep going after being on the verge of death. She decides to accept her past and move on and with the help of Shirou, she fights to destroy the Grail. She used Excalibur to destroy the Holy Grail and its contents. After the destruction of the Holy Grail, Saber professes her love for Shirou and they bid farewell to each other.
Saber vanishes to her original time, she finally accepts her past without the wish to change it thus breaking the contract with the world. She weakly smiles and tells Sir Bedivere:. After her death, she goes to Avalon rather than being removed from the cycle of transmigration to be placed on the Throne of Heroes like other Heroic Spirits.
She also defeated Berserker in their second duel with the assistance of Shirou. She also reunites with Gilgamesh, the Archer from the previous War, and ultimately defeats him near the end of the War by utilizing Avalon, which she finds out in this route was inside Shirou all along.
As a result of Archer not being injured, her fight with Berserker is more advantageous than in the other routes. However, before she can fight him further, Saber is saved by Shirou from Archer's Caladbolg.
The next morning after explaining the rules of the Holy Grail War to Shirou, Saber decides to investigate his school for any potential dangers, where she encounters Kuzuki. Saber later goes to Ryuudou Temple at night to save Shirou, but she is unable to enter temple due to Assassin. She then takes Shirou, who has been seriously injured by Archer, home while Assassin defends them from Archer after he decided to let them go.
However, She unexpectedly encounters Caster instead of Rider, and ends up arguing with Archer that Rider died with honor by protecting her Master. Saber later confronts Kuzuki and Caster when Shirou and Rin decide to ambush him to ascertain him as a Master. However, while Caster's spells are useless against her, she is surprisingly overhelmed by Kuzuki, who ends up defeating her. She later tags along on Shirou and Rin's date, where she participates in the activities during it. However, they come home to Taiga being held hostage by Caster, who Saber tries to cut down but is stopped by Shirou's Command Spell.
She is then commanded by Caster to kill Shirou and Rin, but she resists the command and tells them to run. Saber is then held captive in Caster's new base, the Church, where she resists Caster's constant torture. After Archer killed Caster and Kuzuki Souichirou , Archer claims he planned all this so he can be free to kill Shirou.
This prompts Rin to form a contract with Saber to protect Shirou from Archer, who ends capturing Rin. However, she ends up unexpectedly fighting a fading Assassin instead of Gilgamesh, as Rin had intially planned.
She is able defeat him, and arrives just in time to save Shirou from Gilgamesh. Saber then destroys the deformed Grail with Excalibur after Rin rescues Shinji. She entrusts Shirou with providing her an answer someday about whether her path was wrong or not.
In the Heaven's Feel route , the first three days are the same as the Fate route , but the damage Saber receives from Berserker does not weigh heavily on Shirou's mind. After Saber gives her the explanation of the basics of the Holy Grail War , the topic of Illya and the Einzberns is brought up. Saber contemplates on explaining due to Shirou's confusion over Illya's hostility, instead telling Shirou to seek out the answers from Kotomine Kirei even though she wishes to have little contact with the priest.
This line of conversation leads to the revelation of her connection to Kiritsugu in the previous war and her reason for disliking Kirei as a former enemy Master.
Despite her dislike, she firmly believes Kirei is someone who will answer any questions clearly asked of him. As they head to the church, she suggests that Shirou not reveal the same Servant was summoned twice.
After he comes back out after learning the answers, Shirou finds Saber's worried reaction funny, and also causes him to wish to reaffirm their contract as allies. In the movie adaptation, Shirou isn't carried back home following the encounter with Berserker, instead he's lied on a park bench while he heals.
Saber doesn't explain the basics of the war, only convincing Shirou not to endanger his life again. Shirou and Saber's visitation to the church occurs after their encounter with Rider, which follows their encounter with Berserker. There Shirou learns from Saber of her connection to Kiritsugu in the previous war, and Kiritsugu's role in said war from Kirei. After he comes back out learning the answers, Shirou and Saber properly introduce themselves, and affirm their contract as allies.
Shirou and Saber decide to patrol together at night, and then give a false explanation to Taiga and Sakura about why Saber is staying at the Emiya Residence. They begin their patrols that night, and Saber senses that someone is being drained by a Servant. They come upon Rider and Shinji Matou preying upon a woman for energy.
Saber quickly engages and dispatches Rider easily, but Zouken Matou appears before they can deal with Shinji. Shirou is eventually appeased with Zouken taking charge of Shinji, although Saber is reluctant to let Shirou near him due to him being inhuman.
Although she wishes to continue fighting, she stays her hand to help save the woman's life, and they bring her to the church for healing. As they discuss the situation, Shirou makes a clear resolution to end the war, and Saber says that she will never betray his trust. In the movie adaptation, the encounter with Rider occurs after Shirou and Saber's encounter with Berserker while they're heading home.
The woman that Rider is feeding on is Ayako Mitsuzuri. Saber doesn't say anything following Rider's defeat when Shinji is torturing Rider. She doesn't say anything about Zouken, only keeping Shirou away from him. After Shinji and Zouken leave, Shirou becomes curious about Illya's hostility, to which Saber responds that Kirei could provide the answers. Shirou decides to do just that as he carries the unconscious Ayako with him. The next morning, Saber and Shirou argue about where she should sleep and him continuing to go to school normally despite the potential danger without her being able to be by his side due to being unable to enter spiritual form.
After Shirou returns home, he finds Saber with Taiga, and the discussion of their sleeping arrangements leads to a misunderstanding. They continue their patrols that night, planning to check Ryuudou Temple due to information about a Master and Servant being there from Rin Tohsaka. Saber agrees with a direct attack, but they find little upon arriving at the mountain other than Saber briefly seeing the katana of the recently killed Assassin before it fades away. As they make their way into the temple, they find Caster standing over the body of Souichirou Kuzuki.
Before Saber can charge, Shirou warns her of the ominous feeling he gets from Rule Breaker , but she attacks in anger after believing Caster to have killed her own Master. Caster then regains her composure and attacks Saber, only to be easily cut down as Saber negates her spells. They decide to contact Kotomine to heal the residents of the temple and return home for the night.
In the movie adaptation, Shirou and Saber do not investigate Ryuudou Temple until the movie's climax. As such Saber doesn't see Assassin's disappearing katana nor does she kill Caster as punishment for killing her own Master.
The killing of both Kuzuki and Caster is instead done by True Assassin. Shirou is left sick the next day due to Rider, as Sakura's Servant, using Breaker Gorgon on him and taking his energy. She spends most of her time at Shirou's house or wandering Fuyuki, but Rider berates her for it by calling her a freeloader.
Saber participates in various activities with the others in the numerous loops; Helping and spending time with Shirou, playing soccer with children, and having a contest between herself, Illya, and Sakura over who's the best little sister.
Avenger is the main source of the endless loops, the loops are based on the Third Holy Grail War so he used the participants of the 5th grail war to recreate the scenes. In the beginning, Saber greets Shirou when he enters the house after he woke up. Although she admires his work ethic, Saber shows due concern for Shirou's health for sleeping in the shed. After coercing Shirou to sleep in his room from now on, Saber goes with him to have breakfast with the others.
After breakfast Saber discusses the restarted Heaven's Feel with the others, then afterwards decides with Shirou to patrol Fuyuki for any potential threats to their now peaceful lives. In one loop, Saber is patrolling Fuyuki with Shirou at night, and as they cross the bridge into Shinto, she reminiscenes about the first time she crossed the bridge to Shinto with Shirou and Rin.
After expressing her displeasure at the poor disguise Shirou gave her at the time, The pair are suddenly fired upon by Archer. Saber deflects the first shot at Shirou's warning, which shocks he as she should've sensed it first. Deflecting a couple more shots, Saber reluctantly lets Shirou use his Command Spell to boost her abilities so she can quickly get to and kill Archer before he kills Shirou.
After exchanging a few words with Archer before he dies then Shirou, Saber goes home with Shirou. In another loop, Saber takes a tour of the school, which Taiga helped set up, with Shirou as her guide. Upon entering the school grounds she is almost immediately noticed by the boys in the track team, but Kaede, Kane, and Yukika arrive to drive off the boys.
After conversing with the trio, Saber has lunch at the archery range with Shirou, Sakura, and Ayako, who asks for Saber's help with Cultural Festival. Continuing the tour, Shirou and Saber run into Kuzuki, who thanks her for helping Caster with her dress-making business.
Afterwards, the two arrive at the student council room, where Saber and Issei talk at length as he shares stories about Shirou's school days. At the end of the tour, the pair arrive at Shirou's homeroom, which Saber examines contently. After being asked by Shirou about why she wanted to visit his school, Saber expresses that she wished to see what sort of life Shirou led at school.
She becomes overjoyed when Shirou suggests that she transfer to his school, which he affirms as something that both Rin and Taiga would help with. Walking home, Saber tells Shirou that she is proud that he is ending the restarted war, for he sees the value of what is gone. Continuing saying that she'll protect him until the end, Saber tells Shirou not to be sad and that no matter the end, it will not be farewell for them as they'll arrive at the future they desire.
In another loop, Saber goes to the church with Shirou, where they encounter Bazett and Avenger. Though disturbed by Avenger's very existence, Saber fights him defensively to get a feel for his wild fighting style. She then breaks his blades with ease and deals what should be a fatal blow. However, Saber then feels the pain of Avenger's wound due to his use of Verg Avesta , but she able to resist it. Wishing to end the fight, Saber, with Shirou's permission, uses Excalibur against Bazett and Avenger.
Unfortunately though, Bazett's Fragarach reverts Excalibur and kills Saber. In another loop, Saber decides to stay home instead of going to Ryuudou Temple with Shirou and the others to prepare for the cultural festival due to believing she would be unhelpful, despite Shirou's insistence otherwise.
Eventually though she does come to the temple, much to Shirou's delight, along with Rin, Archer, and Lancer. Saber then participates in the play rehearsal for the festival, afterwards she celebrates with everyone before leaving with the other Servants. She stands as the last defense against the shades, having enveloped the entire Central Building in Invisible Air to bar any entry except through the front door, which she now guards.
Saber warns the monsters of their impending demise, then, after recalling visting Shirou's school, she obliterates them all with Excalibur. In her Eclipse scenario Golden bathtub Saber arrives into the bathroom completely naked, while Shirou is bathing. She join in the bath and express her intention to repay everything nice that Shirou did for her until now.
After little temptation they have passionate sex. Saber is summoned by Shirou, and she explains the nature of the Holy Grail War. He, having nothing to wish for, finds it meaningless, and he only wishes to stop the other Masters.
Saber is confused, but offers not objections to his goal. She briefly explains her own goal of selecting a new king to replace her, not caring about her own fate afterward. Shirou cannot believe such a wish is correct, but she rebukes him by saying only the Holy Grail can decide upon the worthiness of the wish. She eventually encounters Berserker, and Ilya, having knowledge of Saber's wish, says that it is not bad to cling to impossible wishes, but questions if her wish is actually just.
Saber simply believes that the result of the War will decided if it is just. Ilya calls her goals purely selfish in nature, citing that the justness she had protected all that time made the world as it is in its current state. Telling Saber that there is nothing in her past to be ashamed of as Shirou has said many times, that she lived it the best way possible, Saber cuts her off and challenges them to battle.
Saber emerges victorious, she contemplates Ilya and Shirou's words, wondering about if that which she seeks is truly just. She later encounters Gilgamesh, claiming that he will give her the Holy Grail and her miracle by becoming his queen. She no longer needs the Holy Grail, and her wish now has nothing to do with it. Rejecting his offer, she has only come to defeat him, citing that Shirou risked everything to teach her that she did the best with her life.
He also taught her to destroy the Holy Grail, as people do not require magic to make their dreams come true. Gilgamesh pledges to cleanse her of such simple views, and the two engage in battle. After destroying the Holy Grail, she will no longer be a Heroic Spirit. Believing there was no such reason to have done so in the first place, she ruminates on not seeing the simple fact that she stood by her country while her countrymen did not stand by her.
She begins to fade without the blessing of the Grail, finally returning to the hill. She tell Shirou that she is grateful and that she cares for him deeply. Though her country was far from a utopia and that she could not save everyone, he told her to be proud of her accomplishments.
She decides to move on from the hill with those words in her heart, bidding him farewell and hoping that his dreams will come true. Her role is very similar to Fate route in Shirou's story, Saber and Shirou discuss about their situation together. Shirou understands that he became Saber's Master, he explains to her that he has no use with the Holy Grail and his only wish was to keep innocent people from getting caught up in the war.
Saber finds his plan honorable and follows his orders. In Shirou's ending, Saber destroyed the Holy Grail and fades away. In Gilgamesh's ending, Saber is slowly corrupted by the Holy Grail blackened mud when Gilgamesh forces her to submit to him. Artoria appears under the name Uesugi Artoria. She appears after Ritsuka's party defeated Takeda Darius and Sanada Medusa , the former of whom is her rival.
Okita Souji informs her that Takeda was just killed, disappointing Artoria that she wasted a journey from Kasugayama since she planned to gorge herself on Kai's food. She then decides to attack the group for their rations. She is defeated and complains she only lost because she only had three bowls of rice this morning. Before disappearing, she asks if her shadow is getting thinner. Unfortunately, Artoria and Irisviel arrive there to find Ritsuka's party instead. Later, Artoria confronts the group after Mash establishes a summoning circle near the Fuyuki River.
She challenges them to a fair fight, which El-Melloi II is unconvinced of due to his knowledge of her serving as a decoy while Kiritsugu ambushes the enemy. She and Irisviel then learn that the group only wishes to keep her safe to achieve their goal, which El-Melloi II doesn't divulge. She also recognizes Mash's true identity but decides not to divulge it, believing Mash should discover it on her own. With the group having saved Irisviel, Artoria is convinced they aren't enemies.
Artoria encounters the group again when they invade her discussion with Iskandar and Gilgamesh to kill Gigamesh with Lancelot's help. The group helps her fight Lancelot, but Iskandar soon stops the fight. He warns her and Diarmuid who joined the group earlier that they'll be his enemies if they ally with El-Melloi II, whom he now considers an enemy, before leaving. They further learn that the activation of the Greater Grail will end the world and that the Einzbern's highly certain victory in this 4th Grail War prompted the Counter Force's activation.
However, the plan was changed to destroying the Grail directly with the failure to recruit Iskandar. After defeating Hassan of the Hundred Faces [38] , the group moves on to Grail's chamber, where they defeat Iskandar. Zouken uses Irisviel's magical energy to hasten the process.
She then goes to devour the group, saying five Heroic Spirits aren't enough to fill her. Artoria and Diarmuid hold her off while the others escape. Unfortunately, she and Diarmuid struggle against Black Iri, but thankfully the others return to assist.
She recognizes Waver Velvet who joined the group has become a Servant, which unbeknownst to her resulted from becoming Zhuge Liang's temporary vessel. After the group destroys Black Iri, Artoria bids the others farewell, glad the battle ended well before disappearing due to the Grail's destruction.
The group arrives on an unknown island unable to contact Chaldea. Artoria assures it isn't Britain due to the tropical plants. She reconfirms this to Mordred while the others discuss the same subject. He was the one that guessed at her age Something along the line, "She's about my age". May piece be upon you. Yeah, it was just speculation, but the story did say that she didn't age since she pulled the sword.
I don't think they give you a year, but they tell you how many years pass from the "prophecy" from Merlin and the pulling of the sword. User Info: agesboy. Her appearance never really mattered when she was King Arthur, since she never let others see her face. Which I've already had partially spoiled for me, so I don't have to wonder. User Info: Socialism. Ilya is a fake little girl. User Info: IonRax. If i recall correctly she pulled the sword out at 15 and stopped aging.
It was mentioned that she ruled for 10 years at some point. Saber was created by Kinoko Nasu after the series main illustrator suggested having an armored woman as a protagonist for the visual novel; writer Gen Urobuchi commented on her character becoming darker depending on the scenarios. Urobuchi created his own scenario involving interactions between Saber and Kiritsugu because their relationship was little explored in the original visual novel.
Saber has been voiced by Ayako Kawasumi in her Japanese appearances and multiple actors took the role in English-language dubs of the series animated adaptations. Critical reception to Sabers characterization and role in the series, and especially her relationship with Shirou, has been generally positive.
Some critics, however, have expressed their dislike of Sabers lack of character development and relevance in other routes adapted by anime series. Her characterization in Zero, and her lack of screen-time in other anime adaptations was also met with negative response. Nevertheless, Saber has been popular within the Fate series and anime in general. The character was inspired by the legends of King Arthur.
At her birth, Uther decides to not publicly announce Altrias birth or gender, fearing his subjects will never accept a woman as a legitimate ruler. Merlin entrusts Altria to Sir Ector, a loyal knight who raises her as a surrogate son.
When Altria is fifteen, King Uther dies, leaving no known, eligible heir to the throne. Britain enters a period of turmoil following the growing threat of invasion by the Saxons. Merlin approaches Altria, explaining that the British people will recognize her as a destined ruler if she draws Caliburn, a ceremonial sword, from the rock in which it is embedded.
Pulling this sword, however, means accepting the hardships of a monarch; Altria will be responsible for preserving the welfare of her people. Without hesitation and despite her gender, she draws Caliburn and becomes king of Britain. Altria is plagued by feelings of guilt and inferiority throughout her reign; she sacrifices her emotions for the good of Britain but many of her subjects and knights become critical of her lack of humanity and cold calculation.
After Caster is killed by Archer, Rin then forges a contract with her, becoming her new Master. Saber, Shirou and Rin remain conflicted in how to deal with Gilgamesh. Eventually they decide that Shirou should fight their enemy as he possess the same powers as the missing Archer while Saber and Rin go to stop the Holy Grail, facing the Servant Assassin in the process.
In the Good End of this scenario, Saber lives on as one of Rins familiars along with Shirou in a polyamorous relationship with the two. In the True End, she disappears after destroying the Holy Grail. While Shirou is on his way to seek an alliance with Ilya and Berserker, Saber appears in her Alter form and defeats Berserker, making herself known to Shirou while nearly killing her former allies.
Shirou returns to Illyas home and defeats Berserker, who is now working for Sakura. Saber approaches the weakened Shirou but refuses to kill him, feel honored by his recent fight. However, the duo manages to overpower Saber, with Shirou killing his former comrade. She kills Archer when he attacks Shirou in one loop. When the stray hair on Sabers head is pulled, she reverts to her Alter form.
Saber Alter is portrayed here as crude and obsessed with fast food in direct opposition to Sabers love of Shirous cooking. To prepare for the war, Kiritsugu persuades his wife Irisviel von Einzbern to act as Sabers guide while he aids her in secret.
Death Seeker : Saber Alter is implied to be one in the last Bad End , when she curses Shirou for not landing the final blow, though this may also be because of her philosophy that heroes are obliged to cut down their opponents without hesitation or restraint.
Depending on the Writer : In most spinoffs, she is merely Saber's Superpowered Evil Side , while Grand Order makes her an alternate entity to the normal Saber with her own unique storyline.
Unlimited Codes strikes a compromise by making her Saber's Enemy Without. Dragon Ancestry : Her corruption activated the dragon blood within her, turning her irises yellow and giving her a dragon-shaped Animal Battle Aura. Shirou manages to beat Saber Alter by himself at the cost of Death of Personality , she compliments him on his strength in a warm way.
Elegant Gothic Lolita : Her civilian clothes are a black and white gothic dress. Emotionless Girl : Saber Alter is callous and apathetic, only caring about upholding her duty to follow Dark Sakura's orders. Evil Costume Switch : Saber Alter's armor, dress, and sword are black and red ; her irises turn yellow , her hair becomes much lighter without her Idiot Hair , and her skin becomes like that of a corpse.
Evil Makeover : Her clothes, armor, and sword turn black and red ; her eyes turn yellow ; her skin and hair become deathly pale; and her prana turns black, purple, and red. She takes her duties as a ruler seriously out of obligation to those whose lives were lost because of her, but is nihilistic and believes her past self was a naive, idealistic fool. Fighting from the Inside : Saber Alter's comments to Shirou during their final battle imply that some remnant of her past self wants him to put her out of her misery and save Sakura.
She lets Rin pass to confront her sister because that's what Sakura wants to, but challenges Shirou to a duel to the death.
Healing Factor : Due to her limitless supply of prana from Dark Sakura, she can recover from almost anything, even mortal wounds. Infinite Supplies : The secret behind her power. Normally, Saber is limited in that her Mana Burst is very energy-inefficient, as she has to balance between using up all her Mana to secure a win or play it low and slow and wait for an opportunity.
Because Alter is hooked up to an almost literally bottomless source of Mana, she can expend more energy than her normal self has in total on every single attack , rendering her reduced agility and dulled instincts and skills moot because she can just throw enough mana at the problem until it goes away. Instant Armor : She can summon her armor just like her regular self, though it's only seen in the movies.
Invincible Villain : Saber Alter is practically immortal, strong enough to nearly send Archer flying from a successful parry, and her Excalibur Morgan completely shames the un-tainted version of the same Noble Phantasm. Even Berserker doesn't stand a chance against her despite the fact that he is normally stronger than her uncorrupted self.
Shirou is only able to beat her by himself at the cost of using so much power he turns himself into a vegetable and she's still alive at the end, just slowly regenerating , and even with Rider's help he barely edges out the win against her. Irony : Saber Alter's ruthlessness and almost-omnipotence would be what Kiritsugu Emiya and Archer in Unlimited Blade Works would probably hail to high heavens, something which she detests very much during the Fourth Holy Grail War.
She takes her duties as a king seriously out of obligation to her fallen servants, but considers a hero's duty to be hated and ostracized, cutting down their opponents without mercy and with the full extent of their power. Mighty Glacier : In comparison to her normal self. After being blackened she has a greater physical presence, making her slower and vastly stronger, and she's sacrificed some of her ancillary skills such as charisma and instinct due to having to suppress the bloodlust foisted on her by her corruption.
Noble Demon : A potential interpretation in Alter-Saber's Bond Villain Stupidity is her repeatedly letting Shirou live and escape comes down to her not wanting to actually kill him. Each time she has him dead to rights, she gets flexible with Sakura's orders to avoid finishing the job. Another bad end involved her defeating Shirou by cutting off his arm. Even though she knows Dark Sakura wants him taken alive, she wasn't actually ordered to bring him in. Knowing that sparing him would be Cruel Mercy and lead to a Fate Worse than Death , she offers him, on her own volition, to kill him if he's inclined to take her offer.
It's subtle, but telling, that despite supposedly having no emotions left other than hate, she tries to help Shirou in the only way she can. Normally, I Would Be Dead Now : The series of incredible attacks Berserker pulls off on her after breaking out of the Grail Mud would've killed the normal Saber ten times over, but because she can infuse her armor and otherwise protect herself with her absolutely stupid amount of mana, she's barely scratched.
This lets Saber Alter — whose mana reactor is raging out of control due to her blackening — surpass what she was capable of in-life in terms of raw power, shrug off blows that would have severely injured her uncorrupted self, and heal from just about anything. Paint It Black : Her armor turns black and red as a result of her blackening. Perpetual Frowner : Saber Alter's expression is a constant disapproving scowl.
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