Aoi Tohsaka (遠坂葵, Tohsaka Aoi?) is the wife of Tokiomi Tohsaka, and the mother of their two daughters, Rin and Sakura.
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Aoi about to marry Tokiomi in Fate/Zero, illustrated by Shinjirou.
Formerly known as Aoi Zenjou (禅城 葵, Zenjō Aoi?), she is the childhood friend of Kariya Matou. She is a descendant of the Zenjou family, every mothers of which gave birth to talented children because of some magical factor, though the Zenjou have since become a family of ordinary people and Aoi herself has no Magic Circuits. She became the wife of Tokiomi, adopting his surname, and gave birth to two daughters, Rin and Sakura, who both possessed great inherent potential as mages.[4]
She accepted Tokiomi's proposal with full knowledge of what it meant to marry a mage. While Kariya loved her as well, he peacefully gave up pursuing her affections because she seemed happy accepting Tokiomi's proposal. It is implied that Aoi and Kariya remained in touch, given that her daughters, especially Sakura, were fond of Kariya's company.[5] Tokiomi's sudden decision to give Sakura away to Zouken Matou comes as a shock to Aoi, though she does not openly oppose his decision. She leaves at the beginning of the Holy Grail War with Rin to live at her parents' home for the duration of the conflict.
Appearance[]
Aoi has long, dark green hair and eyes of the same color.
Personality[]
Aoi is a passive and loyal woman who does not interfere with her husband's affairs, described by Kirei Kotomine as the ideal version of a traditional wife.
She gives off the feeling of a well-raised young lady who became a mother, and she was designed to be a different type of "ideal mother" than Irisviel. Irisviel embodies a "fun mother", while Aoi is a "peaceful mother" who is better at using the "hidden power" that is inherent to mothers. She gives off the strong feeling of "That husband of mine, never taking care of himself", and while she looks like Rin at a glance, her behavior is more like that of Sakura.[1]
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Fate/Zero[]
During the Holy Grail War, when Rin ran away to find her friend Kotone, who had been kidnapped by Caster, Aoi is so anxious for her that she returns to Fuyuki City looking for her. Later on, Kariya gives Rin back to Aoi after he finds her, which is also how Aoi finds out about his condition and his resolve to kill Tokiomi.
On the final day of the war, Aoi finds her husband dead, with Kariya present in the room, however, being unaware that Kirei was responsible for Tokiomi's death and that Kariya had arrived to confront Tokiomi only after the man was dead. In her grief, she blames Kariya and the Matou family for taking away both Sakura and her husband and claims that Kariya never loved anyone. With both his resolve and heart crushed, he violently strangles Aoi.[6]
Aoi suffering from brain damage after being strangled by Kariya, in Fate/Zero
She survives the war, but is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from brain damage, not understanding that Tokiomi is dead and Sakura is gone. Rin takes care of her mother, but feels lonely as her mother's condition leaves her isolated.[7] While Aoi does not make an appearance in Fate/stay night, and Kotomine is shown as Rin's sole guardian, she and her husband do appear in a flashback of Rin in the prologue episode of the Ufotable animated adaptation,[8] as well as in Sakura's dream in the movie adaptation of the Heaven's Feel route.[9]
In accordance to Tokiomi's will, Aoi inherits the properties and the estates of the Tohsaka family, and, after her death, they were passed on once more to Rin.[10]
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- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10
[] Fate/Zero material - Characters: Aoi Tohsaka, p.040-041, 087 Aoi Tohsaka
Height: 160 cm
Weight: 50 kg
Blood type: O
Birthday: September 5
Three sizes: B78/W57/H82
Image color: Light yellow-green
Talents: Smoothing a situation over
Things she likes: Mysterious things, nighttime strolls
Things she hates: Swimming
Worst enemy: None
Comment for Aoi
Takeuchi: She has the feeling of a well-raised young lady who became a mother. She was supposed to be a different type of "ideal mother" than Iri.
Urobuchi: Iri is the fun mama while Aoi is the peaceful mama, huh? But I imagine Aoi is better at using that hidden power that mothers have.
Takeuchi: You also get a strong feeling of "That husband of mine, never taking care of himself" from her. Personally, I have the image that while she looks like Rin at a glance, her behavior is like that of Sakura.
Urobuchi:WoooW, that's a really high level fusion!
Takeuchi's comment遠坂葵
Comment for Aoi
武内：
虚淵：
武内：
虚淵：'
Takeuchi's comment
葵さん祭り。ページ内に入りきらなかったラフがまだこれだけ。どんだけ葵さんが好きなんだっていう。【武内】 - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Fate/Zero Anime Visual Guide I - Characters: Aoi Tohsaka entry, p.036
- ↑ Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel route - Normal End: Cherry Blossoms' Dream
- ↑
[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Tohsaka Aoi [Person's name], p.100-101 Aoi Tohsaka [Person's name]
Tohsaka Tokiomi's wife, and Rin and Sakura's mother. Her maiden name is Zenjou.
Though the Zenjou family had a magus ancestor many generations ago, now they are simple commoners with no connection to the magical world at all. Nevertheless, the blood flowing through their veins contains a very unique trait, which was noticed and pursued by Tohsaka Tokiomi. As a result of accepting this courtship, Aoi gave birth to two sisters with absolutely preposterous magical potential.
Unlike her daughter Rin, Aoi fully understood that Tokiomi possessed an inhuman sense of values, but she still blindly loved her husband anyway. Maybe she, too, bore some distortion within herself, just like Tokiomi did. If that's the case, she probably wouldn't have been able to build a happy home even if she had married Kariya…
By the way, the activation of Tokiomi's "Tohsaka family goof-up trait" only occurs in serious, life-threatening situations. In his normal family life at home, he was an utterly perfect superman, in the same way Rin would eventually be a perfect honors student at Homurahara Academy in Fate/stay night. I hear that both Aoi and Rin were huge fans of his "cool dad" style.遠坂葵【人名】
遠坂時臣の妻であり、凛と桜の母。旧姓は禅城。
数世代前に魔術師の先祖を持つ禅城家は、今でこそ魔道とは無縁の平民だが、その血に流れる魔術の因子には特筆すべきものがあった。そこに目をつけた遠坂時臣の求愛に応えた結果、葵は途方もない魔術的素養を備えた二姉妹を産み落とすことになる。
娘の凛と違い、時臣が非人間的な価値観の持ち主であることを充分に理解していた上で、なおも夫を盲愛していた葵という女性は、やはり時臣と同様に大きな歪みを抱えた人物だったのかもしれない。たぶん雁夜と結ばれていても幸せな家庭は作れなかったんじゃ……
ちなみに時臣の遠坂うっかりエフェクトが発動するのは、本当に命に関わるほど重大な局面であって、普段の家庭における彼はまさに非の打ち所のない完璧超人だった。後日の穂村原における凛の優等生ぶりを、時臣は家族との日常生活において発揮していたのである。そんなダディのクールっぷりに凛と葵は連日メロメロであったとさ。 - ↑ Fate/Zero Volume 1: The Untold Story of the Fourth Holy Grail War - Prologue III: 1 Year Ago
- ↑ Fate/Zero Volume 4: Flames of Purgatory - Act 14 Part 5 -30:02:45
- ↑ Fate/Zero Volume 4: Flames of Purgatory - Epilogue: Half a Year Later
- ↑ Fate/stay night [Unlimited Bladeworks] - Episode 0: "Prologue"
- ↑ Fate/stay night - Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly
- ↑
[] Fate/Zero material - Encyclopedia: Tohsaka Tokiomi [Person's name], p.101 Tokiomi Tohsaka [Person's name]
The fifth Tohsaka family head. Had everything gone according to plan, he would have been the man to finish the Holy Grail War once and for all.
He started making preparations for the Fourth Holy Grail War long before it ever began. But although he had set up everything perfectly in his favor, he was tragically killed by his trusted ally, Kotomine Kirei. Well, seeing as how the one who tempted Kirei into defecting in the first place was Gilgamesh, in a sense you could say Tokiomi died due to a lack of compatibility with his Servant.
Tokiomi and his predecessor made a conscious effort to commercialize their spiritual lands, and the unnatural economic success of every business situated there naturally led to exorbitant rental fees, which were collected by the Tohsaka. Of course, as far as Tokiomi was concerned, the fact that the "harvests of all the tenant farmers tilling the Tohsaka land" were protected from bad luck and natural disasters by the Tohsaka's careful management of the ley lines, meant that taxing them like this was his natural right. Truly, it was a 20th century feudal system made possible through sorcery.
Although, even among the Second Owners of other lands, very few have ever seen monetary returns like those made by the Tohsaka.
After Tokiomi's death, these assets were passed on to Aoi, and after Aoi's death they were passed on once more to Rin. Or at least, they should have been, but thanks to her legal guardian Kirei's naïve honesty and crude management, most of the valuable property was lost to other people. Then again, as a priest who values honest poverty, he probably thought it would be good for her from an educational standpoint. Just another thing for Rin to wallop him for, I guess.遠坂時臣【人名】
遠坂家五代目頭首。全てが順当であったなら聖杯戦争を終結させたであろう男。
第四次聖杯戦争より以前のかなり早い段階から下準備を費やし、万全の態勢で事に及んだものの、腹心と恃んだ言峰綺礼の造反によってあえなく脱落。ただし綺礼を唆した大元は時臣の契約したアーチャーであるだはに、結局はサーヴァントとの相性問題が敗因と言えるのかもしれない。
時臣とその先代は、霊脈上の要所として権利を押さえてあった地所を、積極的に商業用地として転用させたため、そのことごとくが「なぜか金運に恵まれて事業を成功させ、遠坂家に莫大なテナント料をもたらした。もちろん時臣としては、彼ら「遠坂の土地を耕す小作人たち」の収穫は、行き届いた霊脈管理によって悪運や災難、霊障の類から保護されていればこその恵みであり、当然の権利として租税を徴収していたにすぎない。まさに魔術あってこそ成立する二○世紀末の封建制度であり、他の土地のセカンドオーナーでも、ここまで金銭的な利潤を生み出した者はそう多くない。
それらの権益は、時臣の死後葵に相続され、さらに葵の死後に凛へと相続される段になって、後見人である綺礼が実に愚直かつ大雑把な管理をしてくれたため、実入りのいい物件は大方が他人の手に渡ってしまった。たぶん清貧を旨とする神父としては教育上宜しくないとでも思ったのだろう。凛は二重の意味で言峰神父に報復ぽんちをしていいと思う。