Yukika Saegusa (三枝 由紀香, Saegusa Yukika?) is a student at Homurahara Academy in Fate/stay night.
Profile
Background
Yukika is a friend of Kane Himuro and Kaede Makidera, known together as Class 2-A's famed track girl trio. She is the gentle manager of the Track Team, warmly loved by the majority of her class, and the mascot girl of the trio. Originally she was supposed to join the Cooking Club, but she became the manager of the Cross-country Club at Makidera's insistence.[1]
Appearance
Studio DeenWP's character sheet of Kaede, Kane and Yukika in Fate/stay night. Studio DeenWP's character sheet lineart of Kaede, Kane and Yukika in Fate/stay night. Yukika in Fate/school life, illustrated by Eiichirou Mashin. Yukika in Today's Menu for Emiya Family, illustrated by TAa. Yukika Saegusa, Kane Himuro, Kaede Makidera, and Ciel for the Fate/stay night 20th Anniversary, illustrated by Eiichirou Mashin. |
Personality
Yukika is a shy, patient, and mature girl. Although she lives in poverty, her heart shines brighter than the most lustrous silk. Consequently, her smile heals those around her. While she is not an honor student, she respects and looks up to her classmate Rin Tohsaka in awe. She has several younger brothers of various ages. She's very affectionate towards her younger brothers and she spends a lot of her free time looking after them. She is extremely bad at sports.[1]
Role
Fate/stay night
Fate/hollow ataraxia
Fate/school life
Fate/Grand Order x Himuro's Universe: Seven Most Powerful Great Figures Chapter
In the special, during Ritsuka Fujimaru's summoning experiment, she acts as the vessel for an unknown Pseudo-Servant.[2]
Fate/Requiem
Makki is implied to be an older version of Yukika as her Servant Tsuda calls her Lady Yukika (由紀香殿, Yukika-dono?) and she is said to be a survivor of the Fuyuki Grail War.
Other appearances
In Fate/strange Fake, she along with Kane Himuro and Ayako Mitsuzuri were mentioned by Rin Tohsaka as people she thought Ayaka Sajyou might have met in Fuyuki.[3]
Abilities
Physically, Yukika is just a regular human, not being very athletic, although she is good at cooking.[4]
Yukika is one of the few people able to see Assassin at the Ryuudou Temple gate, and strikes up a conversation with him in Fate/hollow ataraxia.[5] This is because, although unaware of it herself, she has psychic abilities, allowing her to see Spirits (including Servants in spiritual form[5]) and sometimes she can't distinguish between real people and spirits because of how often she sees them.[4] Her ability to clearly visualize spirits is equivalent to A rank.
Forms and Alternate Versions
Yukika Lily
Yukika Lily (由紀香リリィ, Yukika Riryi?) is a magical girl. The Nyanya Gang that created her are very bad girls who are plotting to standardize the uniforms of Homurahara Academy to tracksuits. Yukika Lily defeats the Nyanya Gang so that people can sleep well.
In "Fate/school life", regular Yukika participates in the Fuyuki Citizen Marathon in this costume in order to win an award in the cosplay category to improve the reputation of the track and field club.
Abilities
She fight by loading HanafudaWP cards into a magical stick that can draw out the power of the cards. By matching certain types of cards, various special moves can be activated. The most powerful move is Five Lights (「五光」, Gokō?).
Bad Yukika
Bad Yukika (わるい由紀香, Warui Yukika?) is a reversed version of Yukika who appeared in "Toraburu Hanafuda Travel Journal", created accidentally by Kaede Makidera after bathing in the wish-granting hot spring and the leader of the Nyanya Gang.
She has a foul mouth and an extremely evil and aggressive personality, punishing the "beautiful Makidera" who appeared for the same reason with "Yukika Manager Slap (it looks like a drop kick)" and "Yukika Manager Slap 2 (it looks like an Argentine backbreaker)". Although she leaves Himuro and Makidera, who come face to face with her, feeling disheartened, for some reason the original Yukika herself gives her a high rating, saying "I'm glad she was brave".
In "Fate/school life", she appears in Himuro's dream. She hits the beautiful Makidera with "Yukika Manager Slap 3 (Flying Cross Chop)" and "Yukika Manager Slap 4 (Nemesis Driver)", and also tries to insert a leek into her body using the "Negi Sururi" tool that appears in the manga "Kuso Kagaku X" by saxyun, who was in charge of the character design for Bad Yukika.
Development
Creation and Conception
Yukika Lily was designed by Ryuji Higurashi (CAPCOM) in Fate/side material 4. Takashi Takeuchi suggested to think about Yukika as a fictional character, so Ryuji thought about using her in a fictional setting outside of the previously stabilished TYPE-MOON's shared setting. He also thought about using incorporating Sasaki Kojirou as he lent his powers to her to become a swordswoman, but dropped the idea in favor of a Magical Girl.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
[] Fate/side material - Encyclopedia: Saegusa Yukika [Person's name], p.061 [T] Yukika Saegusa [Person's name]
A female student of Second year Class A.
The mascot of the girl trio. She was quite personable, patient, and mature.
She was not an honour student, and she looked up to her classmate Tohsaka Rin in awe.
She had several younger brothers of various ages.
Although she lived in poverty, her heart shone brighter than the most lustrous silk.
Consequently, her smile healed those around her, and her rabbit-like awwww-inducing qualities really stirred the protective instinct in people.
Originally she supposed to join the Cooking Club, but she became the manager of the Cross-country Club at Makidera's insistence.
By the way, just like you thought, she was extremely bad at sports.三枝由紀香【人名】
さえぐさゆきか。2年A組の女生徒。
仲良し三人組のマスコット的人物だが、人間的にいちばん我慢強く大人なひと。
優等生とかは関係なしで、遠坂凛という同級生に憧れている。
歳の離れた弟たちがいっぱいいる。貧しくてもココロは錦。
ほにやっとした笑顔がまわりを癒し、うさぎのようなホワホワ感が保護欲を掻きたてる。
本当は料理同好会に人りたかったのだが、蒔寺に無理やり陸上部のマネージャーにさせられた。
ちなみに、みなさんの予想通り極度の運動オンチです。 - ↑ Fate/Grand Order x Himuro's Universe: Seven Most Powerful Great Figures Chapter
- ↑ Fate/strange Fake Volume 8 - Chapter 25: "The Shadow Brings an End to a Journey Out of the Ravine"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 TYPE-MOON Academy Chibichuki! - Chapter 7.5: "Let’s Investigate The TYPE-MOON Academy!"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Fate/hollow ataraxia - 10/10 - Temple - A samurai and a wild flower
- ↑ Fate/side material 4 p.131