Sajou, Ayaka

沙条綾香/アヤカ・サジョウ

Ayaka is the archetype version of Shirou Emiya, intended to be the protagonist of the original Fate/stay night novel that was never completed. She would have possessed an insecure personality and held a negative view of herself. Unlike her older sister Manaka, who was regarded as a genius at magecraft, she would have had only mediocre skills, causing her to develop an inferiority complex toward her. She would have come from a line of magi and been aware of the upcoming Holy Grail War and her expected participation in it, as opposed to Shirou, who was orphaned and largely unaware of the world of magecraft. However, she would have refused to take part in the War due to the deaths of both her father and sister in the previous War.
Much in the same way as Shirou, she would have ended up joining the War, summoning Saber (a male archetype of Fate/stay night's Saber) to protect herself just as Lancer was making the killing blow against her. At some point during the War, she would have caught the eye of Archer (himself an archetype of Gilgamesh) and been proposed to, causing him to view Saber as his rival. She would eventually have lost Saber as her Servant to Sancraid Phahn, Master of Berserker. Lancer, who at this point would have lost his Master to a curse on her, would have formed a contract with Ayaka to save Saber. She would also have been poisoned, with Archer taunting Saber with the cure, leading to a climactic fight between the two.
As the story was left incomplete to be rewritten as Fate/stay night, the fate of Lancer is unknown, as well as what took place with her inevitable encounter with her now resurrected sister Manaka, 1st Master of the War and Master of the Beast.
While not to the obsessive degree of her sister, she views her Servant Saber as her Prince and ideal protector.
She has a cameo in Fate/school life as an ordinary student at Shirou's school.

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