Shinji Matou (間桐 慎二, Matō Shinji?) is the Shinji Matou of the alternate reality from which Miyu Edelfelt and the Ainsworth originate. He is the Card User of the Assassin Class Card of the Fifth Ainsworth Holy Grail War. He has been placed into a Doll body after dying.
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Background[]
In Miyu's universe, unlike his counterpart, Shinji had no relation with Shirou Emiya, but was still Sakura's step brother like his counterpart. Over five years ago, before the current storyline, Shinji was killed during the Fourth Ainsworth Holy Grail War due to the erosion incident.[1] As it can be seen he’s similar to a cripple, so he appears to usually be sheltered at the Ainsworth castle without coming outside.[2]
Personality[]
The resurrected Shinji notably had amnesiac moments, where he can't even remember his given name though he can still remember his surname. His memories and morals are missing on a large scale due to having been replaced with a puppet.[2] Like his counterpart, Shinji is arrogant and can be very abusive towards Sakura, who he talks to in an ostentatious manner, and had no qualms in killing her where he claimed in feeling gratification in ending Sakura’s life for betraying the Ainsworth family.
Role[]
Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA 3rei!![]
Shinji is later revived by Julian who imputed Shinji's personality into a doll where Shinji became a loyal soldier to the Ainsworth family; he was given the Assassin Class Card. He kills Sakura using the Noble Phantasm, Zabaniya: Dead Heartbeat Melody when she attempted to fight him using the Archer Class Card. After being defeated by Shirou Emiya, Shinji later remembered everything and began to regret his actions. Being tired from everything, Shinji implored Shirou to end his life. As Shirou killed Shinji, Shinji told his killer to never forget the feeling of killing someone, because of how Shirou will need to continue to kill people in order to save Miyu. Shinji's last words were that he will pass on and wait in hell for Shirou, though Shirou replied, to the soulless doll, that he may not be able to go there.
Abilities[]
Assassin Class Card[]
He was the user of the Assassin Class Card before being defeated by Shirou Emiya. Even though he didn't know how to use it properly, he displayed some skill in its usage, both in Include and Install, being able to create a tentacle monster. But like the Shinji of Fate/EXTRA he was careless in terms of detail, as he allowed Shirou to deduce that the formed monster was a decoy going off of what he said, "My arm still moves even if you cut it off".
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[] PRISMA material/pre - Encyclopedia: Sakura Matou [Person], p.35 Sakura Matou [Person]
A kouhai-type heroine. In Priya, it’s not quite unusual that girls in this age group are treated as heroines…
She was a girl that had some various circumstances at home, wore a depressed expression in the past, and didn’t utter many words. However due to the erosion incident five years ago, her old brother, uncle, father, mother, grandfather, and ■, they all died all at once. She suddenly became a person without a single relative. But, putting it the other way around, that means that “what restrained Sakura” was mostly gone. After meeting Shirou, she embraced her first love, and the little girl finally learnt to laugh like a little girl.
In a state with no rivals, she expressed her affection to Shirou so directly that it’s embarrassing to see, but alas Shirou’s consciousness was stuck to Kiritsugu and Miyu so it didn’t have quite the effect. Now that she can finally point her heart to the outside, Sakura’s approaches might reach Shirou.間桐桜【人名】
後輩系ヒロイン。プリヤにおいて、この年齢層の子がヒロイン扱いされるのは大変珍しいのではなかろうか……。
何やら色々と内に抱えた事情があり、かつては表情も暗く、言葉もあまり発さない子であった。しかし五年前の侵食事故により、兄も叔父も父も母もお爺様も■も、皆まとめて死亡。いきなり天涯孤独となってしまった。が、逆に言えばそれは「桜を抑圧するもの」があらかたいなくなったということでもある。士郎と出会い、初めての恋心を抱き、ようやく少女は少女らしく笑うことを知った。
ライバルもいない状況で、見てるこっちが恥ずかしいくらいに真っ直ぐと士郎へ好意をぶつけているのだが、悲しいかな士郎の意識は切嗣やら美遊やらに囚われていたのでイマイチ効果がないのであった。ようやく心を外へ向けられるようになった今ならば、桜のアプローチも士郎に届くかもしれない。 - ↑ 2.0 2.1
[] PRISMA material/pre - Encyclopedia: User of the Assassin Card [Character], p.22 User of the Assassin Card [Character]
This wakame proliferated a lot.
His memories and morals are missing on a large scale due to having been replaced with a puppet.
His own name and objectives are in a vague state so loyalty was imprinted on him by Julian, and thereafter he has been used as a pawn in the Holy Grail War. As it can be seen he’s similar to a cripple, so he appears to usually be sheltered at the Ainsworth castle without coming outside. Julian-kun’s stress is horrible.
The Assassin Card, unlike the others, is a Card tied not to a specific Heroic Spirit, but to a certain group of assassins. A different assassin will respectively turn up according to the user of the Card. Those relatively close to the personality and nature of the user, or those with some ties or another are said to be chosen. Inside, the natures of the assassins could have been mixed and altered as well.
The one he drew was an assassin who implanted a malignant Elemental into his right arm. Traces of further surgical and industrial processes having been performed after the witchcraft-like implant can be seen. The arm can multiply by feeding on mana, and can automatically move to a certain degree even if it’s detached. In this work, he made a monster with the multiplied arms, and demonstrated a style of assassination that one can’t really know if it’s Assassin-like or not, quietly sneaking away and going around the enemy’s back to stab them with a poisoned knife.
The concept is “The weakest Assassin I could think of.” Like it or not, I think he worked dramatically quite well.アサシンカードの使用者【人物】
このワカメすっごい増えるよ。
人形に置換されたことで記憶と倫理感が大きく欠落している。自分の名前や目的すら曖昧な状態でジュリアンによる忠誠心の刷り込みをされ、以降聖杯戦争の駒として使われることになる。見ての通りの廃人っぷりなので、普段は表に出ることなく、エインズワース城にて匿われているらしい。ジュリアン君のストレスがやばい。
アサシンのカードは他と違い、特定の英霊ではなく、とある暗殺者集団と繋がっているカードである。カードの使用者によってそれぞれ別の暗殺者が顔を出す。使用者の性格、性質に比較的近いもの、あるいは何かしらの縁があるものが選ばれるという。中には、暗殺者の性質が混じったり、変質したりすることもあるとか。
彼が引き寄せたのは、悪性の精霊を右腕に移植した暗殺者。呪術的な移植ののち、さらに外科的、工業的な手を加えられている痕跡が見られる。腕は魔力を糧に増殖可能で、切り離されてもある程度自動で機動する。作中では、増殖した腕の怪物を作り出し、戦ってるうちにこっそり抜け出して敵の背後に回り込んで毒ナイフをぶっ刺すという、アサシンらしいんだからしくないんだかよく分からない暗殺っぷりを披露してくれた。
コンセプトは「ぼくの考えた最弱のアサシン」。いやでも、彼はドラマ的に大変よく働いてくれたと思う。