Assassin (Fate/Grand Order - EMIYA)

Assassin (アサシン) is the Assassin-class Servant able to be summoned by the Protagonist in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order.

Identity
Assassin's True Name is EMIYA (エミヤ), Kiritsugu Emiya. He is an assassin incarnated as an agent of the Counter Force, but his original self is not a Heroic Spirit. Although he was an assassin who killed many people, his existence is not engraved in the Throne of Heroes. He is one of the “imitation Heroic Spirits” referred to as Counter Guardians, and never would have existed in proper human history. Yet, something now threatens to destroy the foundation of human history itself. His soul was called out to the circle of deterrence.

Personality
His personality is close to how he was when he was a young man. Consequentially, his heart of steel remained as steel, his emotions eventually withering away completely.

Fate/Grand Order
He exists as a hypothetical possibility only in Grand Order. As a result of the Einzbern House not adopting the strategy of hiring an outside Master, he did not meet with his supposing wife, and thus did not separated from said wife nor suffer from the frustration from such separation.

Fate/Accel Zero Order
EMIYA was deployed by the Counter Force to fix the singularity of the Fourth Holy Grail War. The Protagonist, Lord El-Melloi II and Mash Kyrielight teams up with Kayneth El-Melloi Archibald and Lancer, they assaulted Caster's lair in Fuyuki's sewers. As Kayneth and Lancer went to the Church to claim their Command Spells reward, Lord El-Melloi II suggest to the Protagonist to look for Ryuunosuke Uryuu. However, EMIYA has already assassinated Ryuunosuke with his knife.

ACT-8
The Protagonist, Lord El-Melloi II and Mash found Ryuunosuke corpse and Lord El-Melloi II detection spell has detected EMIYA. EMIYA reveals himself, he claims to have no reason to fight and insists the team to turn back and leave. Romani Archaman thinks he might be related to the source of the distortion as he was a foreign element. Lord El-Melloi II wants to capture EMIYA to learn more him, however this forces him to treat the team as enemy. After the fight, Mash claims that his presence feels different to the other Fourth Holy Grail War Servants, but he is similar to Archer. Mean while, Rider and Waver Velvet barged into their fight and destroyed Lord El-Melloi II's Bounded Field, which EMIYA decided to use this opportunity to escape.

ACT-10
During the fight between the team of Irisviel von Einzbern and Saber against the Chaldea group. EMIYA's ambush attack on Irisviel was unsuccessful, when Mash blocked his attack. He specifically targets Irisviel as she is the grail vessel, there is no-ill will but killing her is the quickest way of dismantling the Grail. Saber attacks him at once, Lord El-Melloi II says that regardless of the Assassin's goals, they can't risk Saber dying, so he orders the Chaldea group to assist Saber.

After the fight, EMIYA complains that the Chaldea group aren't even participants of the Fourth Holy Grail war and they shouldn't interfere with his mission. Lord El-Melloi II demands to know the reason behind the assassination attempt. EMIYA's reply was cryptic but nevertheless he retreats.

ACT-18
After the defeat of Black Iri, Assassin decided to stay in the cavern because he claims that as a Counter Guardian he will fade away and return to the Throne of Heroes. His true reason was to confront Angra Mainyu so he could take him out without involving anybody else because people from other worlds shouldn't be forced to solve this world's problems.

Abilities
Affections of the Holy Grail (聖杯の寵愛) is his personal skill. He is deeply loved by a Holy Grail from a certain time and place. One could call it the greatest curse in the world. This skill boosts the rank of his Luck. Under special circumstances, he can even break out of enemy Servant abilities that would normally be impossible to escape from. However, this good fortune comes at the merciless expense of others’ happiness.

His Noble Phantasm is Chronos Rose. He has been shown using a much more advanced version of his specialized Bounded Field, Time Alter, and wielding various weapons, including Combat Knives, his Calico M950, as well as his Thompson Contender.

Creation and Conception
AKIRA is the character illustrator for EMIYA.