Amakusa Shirou TokisadaWP (天草 四郎 時貞WP, Amakusa Shirō Tokisada?) is a Human appearing in the Shimosa Subcategory Singularity.
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Identity
An alternate version of Amakusa Shirou Tokisada from a Pruned World where he survived the Shimabara Rebellion. Similar to female Miyamoto Musashi, he is a Drifter capable of traveling between different Parallel Worlds.[1][2]
Appearance
Avenger Shirou appears identically to his Ruler counterpart in his third Ascension with the addition of sharp teeth and red eyes with cat-like pupils with blood dripping from them.
Personality
Due to his experiences in numerous parallel worlds, he has despaired of the human condition and his personality greatly differs than his counterpart. He viewed the defeat of his rebellion as a personal betrayal from God and wishes to destroy all of humanity to punish the Tokugawa.
Role
Fate/Grand Order
Subspecies Singularity III: Shimosa
Amakusa Shirou traveled across many worlds for twenty years until Satan called to him. Much like him, their brethren were slaughtered as well. They grant him a portion of its power to perform a ritual to achieve his goal of mankind's destruction in revenge against the Tokugawa.[2] They direct him to Shimosa,[3] where he meets Ashiya Douman. He also met Sasaki Kojirou there in the Hitachi mountains, and takes him as bodyguard.[4]
At Katori Shrine, he summoned Tomoe Gozen, Minamoto-no-Raikou, Shuten-douji, Mochizuki Chiyome, and Houzouin Inshun with the Holy Grail. Douman then infused them with the Curse of Annihilation to turn them into Heroic Spirit Swordmasters with unintended expection of Inshun.[5] Yagyuu Munenori joins them despite being human for a chance to duel Miyamoto Musashi again.[2]
They are instructed by Amakusa Shirou to kill everyone in Shimosa.[5] Both their souls and the grieving souls of those they slaughter will serve as the foundation of Onriedo Castle.[4] Once it is constructed, Amakusa Shirou will sacrifice one of Tokugawa blood to it. The sacrifice will serve as the perfect catalyst to cast a far-ranging multilayered curse on the Tokugawa regime. This will destroy any possible world where the Tokugawa exists.[3]
Later, Amakusa Shirou and Douman both note they're missing Inshun as the Swordmasters must number seven. Douman then turns day into the blood moon night on Amakusa Shirou's instruction.[5]
Douman later reports that Inshun is gone, blaming it on his incomplete summoning. However, he is pleased that he fulfilled his role as a Swordmaster. Munenori disagrees, considering Inshun a failure for failing to take even a hundred lives. Despite that though, Amakusa Shirou says Inshun still served as an excellent cornerstone for the Onriedo. Douma agrees with him and Munenori, saying the souls of Heroic Spirits are insufficient to manifest the Onriedo. Thus, the grieving souls slaughtered by the Swordmasters are also needed. Sasaski suddenly enters, so Amakusa Shirou explains why a mere human is amongst them. He then leaves, commanding the Swordmasters to continue killing while he prepares for the Onriedo’s arrival.[4]
He later orders Chiyome to deliver a letter to Toke Castle threatening to assassinate Kiyohime. Chiyome reports her success, expecting security around Kiyohime has increased by now, and rumors should be already circulating around town. Amakusa Shirou orders her to assassinate Kiyohime after letting panic about her assassination to spread throughout the population. Afterwards, the populace will be instilled utterly with fear, thus their souls will be better sacrifices. Amakusa Shirou then departs, telling Chiyome that she only needs to stay true to the serpent within.[6]
After Chiyome’s second attack on the castle, Amakusa Shirou commends her for killing forty-odd samurai stationed there. While that is not many, their deaths will terrorize the populace. With her role fulfilled, he declares she will be removed now. He then orders Shuten to connect Chiyome’s heart and brain to the power of Yamata-no-Orochi in herself, needing Ritsuka and Musashi eliminated.[7][8]
Following the demise of Shuten and Raikou, Amakusa Shirou prepares to materialize the Onriedo. On his order, Douman turns day into the blood moon night. Amakusa Shirou then uses the souls of five Swordmasters and their victims to transform Toke Castle into Onriedo Castle. He mocks the dead Sakon for having been horrified at the carnage unfolding, recounting how Sakon killed thousands of his comrades including women, elderly, and children without hesitation, and slaughtered Christians under the insistence they weren’t human. He delights that now marks the fall of the Tokugawa, believing Satan will be pleased. Despising this world for accepting the Tokugawa and forgetting Shimabara, Amakusa Shirou vows to avenge the atrocities of Shimabara through Onriedo Castle.[3]
Inside the castle, he has Kiyohime restrained, intending to sacrifice her as a catalyst to activate Onrideo Castle due to her Tokugawa hertiage.[3] He declares Onrideo Castle will destroy Chaldea after it destroys Shimosa. He confirms to a confused Kiyohime that he lost his sanity ever since Shimabara. However, if he is insane, then her family is hateful, cruel, and inhuman because in every world he visited they repeated their massacre of Christians. For that he will kill the Tokugawa despite knowing this Shimosa is cut off from the proper history. He then tells Sasaki that Musashi is in the castle. He declares he will kill her, believing it is the sole reason for his existence. She has yet to reach the pinnacle of her swordsmanship, while Sasaki already reached his. Sasaki is concerned he may not get the chance to duel her since she will be facing Munenori first. Amakusa Shirou replies nothing is certain except the destruction of this world by Onrideo Castle.[2]
He prepares to sacrifice Kiyohime when Senji Muramasa and Fuuma Kotarou arrive and rescue her. Hearing that Kotarou knows his Heroic Spirit counterpart, Amakusa Shirou declares he and his counterpart are nothing alike if his counterpart would stand with humanity. Amused that Muramasa realized his role is to stop him, he confirms the Counter Force reaches this far. He would’ve left him alone if he remained at his hermitage, calling him a fool for confronting him now. He then declares Muramasa can’t do anything to him, for his body is now equal to a Swordmaster. Kotarou and Muramasa attack him, but their attacks are useless. Amakusa Shirou is disappointed in Muramasa, having thought he’d have the means to defeat him since the Counter Force summoned him. However, his confidence in his assured victory is disrupted by Ritsuka and Musashi. He deduces this means Munenori is dead, saying he wouldn’t have lost if he fully embraced Satan. He insults him, but Musashi defends Munenori’s pride as a swordsman. She accuses Amakusa Shirou of being envious, saying he should’ve killed people rather than turning them into monsters if he truly hated the world. Amakusa Shirou calls her no longer human because she travelled across many worlds like himself. He calls her an unwanted outsider rejected by every world she visits, never able to return to her own world that was now gone. Musashi accepts she and he are similar in that they can no longer be considered human. But they differ in that he travelled out of hate while she travelled out of a desire to be free. The group then fights Amakusa Shirou until he traps them in Shimabara Hell. From outside the Reality Marble, he boasts that Onrideo Castle is ready to activate. Upon hearing this, Muramasa forges Tsumukari Muramasa, and bisects both the Reality Marble and Onrideo Castle.[2]
As the castle burns, Muramasa explains his sword could reach outside the Reality Marble because Onriedo Castle shares part of its name with Edo Castle. The name Muramasa is synomous with the Tokugawa's downfall, so Amakusa Shirou would have succeeded if he didn't rhyme the name of his castle with the Tokugawa's own. Kotarou then pierces Amakusa Shirou's heart with the kunai that Chiyome left behind. Amakusa Shirou is infuriated that his great works ends at the hands of a young ninja. Kotarou then finishes him off.[2]
Abilities
Amakusa is a Drifter, a person from the Pruned Event capable of travelling between Parallel Worlds just like Miyamoto Musashi.[2] In his travels, his grude grew and evolved until he became a living embodiment of hate.[1] Eventually, his Karma as a Vengeful Spirit transformed him into a Mobile Singularity endangering the entire World, which triggered the Counter Force to summon Senji Muramasa to take him down.[2] On the other hand, all the power he accumulated over time eventually allowed him to surpass the realm of Humanity.[1][2] Despite being a Human without a Saint Graph,[1] he now possesses a body equal to the Heroic Spirit Swordmasters.[2]
Combat
Amakusa's capabilities in close range combat surpass the combined efforts of Senji Muramasa and Fuuma Kotarou, who he considers second-rate Heroic Spirits. It wasn't until Miyamoto Musashi joined them that they were able to match him, forcing him to summon Shimabara Hell to finish them off. This is a Reality Marble, a closed-off World where not even Lady Kannon's blessing can protect Musashi. Furthermore, the air is highly poisonous, capable of burning someone's lungs to ash if they took a careless breath. The smoke is also so thick that not even Muramasa or Kotarou can see a thing, although the latter is able to feel other's presence. Not even Musashi was able to escape from it, as there's nothing for her to cut inside the Reality Marble. It took Senji Muramasa using Tsumukari Muramasa, which cuts through bonds, fate, and Karma, to destroy it.[2]
Dark Jesuit Sorcery
Amakusa was bestowed with dark JesuitWP Magecraft by the Alien God.[1][2] During the Shimosa Subcategory Singularity, Ashiya Douman and him created the Heroic Spirit Swordmasters, Servants embedded with Amakusa's sorcery and Douman's Curse of Annihilation.[5] Then, they used them to spread fear, regret, and loathing across the Singularity.[7][8] By the time they slaughtered the people in Hitachi, Shimosa, the army at Araka River, and Sagami, Amakusa had finally indirectly caused the death of ten thousands humans.[8] Thanks to the great pentagram they had drawn in Katori ShrineWP,[5] Amakusa was able to transform Toke Castle into a Pseudo-Fantasy Tree he called Onriedo Castle.[citation needed] Onriedo in Buddhism refers to someone distancing themself from the impure world and its earthly desires.[7] Amakusa twisted this concept, planning to purge not only Shimosa, but all Proper Human History, from everything related to the Tokugawa Clan. To accomplish this, he used Onriedo Castle as a Holy Grail to collect all the Souls of the Heroic Spirit Swordmasters. His plan was to then sacrifice Kiyohime, someone with a strong connection to the Tokugawa, as a Catalyst. Doing so would have activated a strong Curse capable of destroying not only Shimosa, but many other Parallel Worlds, including Ritsuka Fujimaru's. However, this was prevented by Senji Muramasa. Amakusa had rhymed the name of the Fantasy Tree with Edo Castle, so Muramasa's Anti-Tokugawa abilities strengthened him to the point where he was able to completely destroy it with a single blow from Tsumukari Muramasa. Muramasa claims that had Amakusa not done so, he might have succeeded.[2]
Development
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa: The Stage of Carnage, Section 13: Ultima Cantica: The Stage of Carnage, Onriedo (Beginning)
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa: The Stage of Carnage, Section 15: Ultima Cantica: The Stage of Carnage, Onriedo (Ending)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa: The Stage of Carnage, Section 14: Ultima Cantica: The Stage of Carnage, Onriedo (Middle)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa: The Stage of Carnage, Section 5: Seconda Cantica: Inferno (Middle)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa: The Stage of Carnage, Section 2: Prima Cantica: Purgatorio (Middle)
- ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa: The Stage of Carnage, Section 7: Terza Cantica: Paraiso (Beginning)
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa: The Stage of Carnage, Section 9: Terza Cantica: Paraiso (Ending)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa: The Stage of Carnage, Section 12: Quarta Cantica: Kalasutra Hell (Ending)