Sessyoin Kiara (Moon Cancer)

ID285
Rarity★★★★★
ClassMoon Cancer
True NameYaobikuni, Sessoyin Lily, Sessyoin Kiara
GenderFemale
Source“FGO Abyssal Cyber Paradise, SE.RA.PH” · Mermaid legend · “Konjaku Hyakki Shuui”
RegionJapan · Somewhere under the sea
AlignmentLawful Evil
Height166cm / Lily: 136cm
Weight53kg? / Lily: 31kg
StrengthC
EnduranceA+
AgilityC
MagicA+
LuckB
Noble PhantasmA+
Character SettingNasu Kinoko
IllustratorWada Arco
Character VoiceTanaka Rie
Major AppearancesFate/EXTRA CCC, Fate/Grand Order
Related CharacterBeast III/R, Sessyoin Kiara

Class Skills #

Territory Creation: EX

She possesses the highest rank of Territory Creation once she has incorporated an abyssal aberration’s capacity to mirage.
Grants arts performance up.

Otherworldly Creation: EX

She possesses the ability to put up a phantom world atop the mundane one once she has incorporated an abyssal aberration’s capacity to mirage.
Grants Noble Phantasm performance up.

Independent Manifestation: E

Just like in her normal version she deliberately ranks down this skill. Downgraded as it may be, it still grants her resistance against effects such as Instant Death and Charm; it’s what allowed her to survive the mask’s Instant Death Hex.

Logos Eater: D

Her disposition as the Pleasure Heaven. A way of life dedicated to toy with any sentient lifeforms. Ranked down from her normal Kiara’s origins.

Personal Skills #

Mermaid’s Flesh: EX

Legend has it that those who ingest the flesh of a mermaid become immortal.
In Japan, mermaids are described as mere “human-shaped fishes” that lacks intelligence and cannot understand human language. In short, they’re soulless beings.
Since consume a soulless fish’s flesh cannot constitute murder, she hasn’t broken her vow at allー Even though the number of eaten mermaids has exceeded over an army, it doesn’t count as breaking, okay?
An author’s certain work portrays that mermaids do possess human intelligence, yet don’t carry souls as well. But let’s digress that.
Granted effects are HP Recovery (regen), Debuffs Removal, Guts, Noble Phantasm’s performance increase and the Mermaid’s Nourishment State that enhances the effect of the skills each turn after the activating. Summer Kiara’s greatest cheat skill that also buffs all her other ones.

Divine Power (Ink): B (B+~A with the Mermaid’s Flesh)

Maybe she was jealous, or is it just BB’s influence over her?
Originally a common Divine Power, it has been modified once Kiara’s witnessed Katsushika Hokusai (Saber)’s artistical Divine Power in action and decided to make her own version.
Entitle to the same effects; NP Charge and Star Gain.

Hamaguri Goten: A (A+~A++ with the Mermaid’s Flesh)

Clam Palace.
The breathing of the bottom-dwelling Divine Beast - Shen, that is said to surface a wondrous castle… in other words, that which can manifest mirages. Akin to Merlin’s Illusionism skill, this is a even viler illusion that completely corrupts people.
Inflicts the enemy with the state of Bewitchment, removes all of their defensive buffs, and grants Evade to all allies.
Those placed in Kiara’s Bewitchment cannot avoid her attacks, neither can do they attack her as they’re trapped into a illusion.

Noble Phantasms #

Nirmāṇarati Heaven’s Foam

RankA
TypeAnti-World Noble Phantasm
Range1~333
Maximum Number of Targets100 people

Heaven of Pleasure, the Clam Mandala.
It’s a subspecies of the Noble Phantasm of the shadow of Kiara Sessyoin that once ascended into a Demonic Bodhisattva and toyed with all sentient beings upon the palm of her hand.
Though she has yet to reach a Bodhisattva-scale Saint Graph, she can conversely exert a ultra-wide otherworldly zone once she has consumed the flesh of the top class illusionist-Divine Beast Shen.
In simple terms, she creates what you could call the Sessyoin Abyssal Demon Sea.
She leads her target towards depravity by casting them into the Illusory City of Shen, where the boundary between reality and illusion is blurredー To put it simply, once the target has found pleasure within it, in the spite of being an illusion (that’s to say, to lower themselves to an illusory existence) they are blended within it never to be considered a being of the mundane world again.
Once that happens, she will smile kindly to what was once human and dispel it along the Illusory City with a long breath, as there is no usefulness to preserve such a filthy illusion as that.

Nirmāṇarati does not stand just for “godly” but also “worldly”.
So as the name implies, the Bodhisattva who consumed Shen personified the paradise of desires itself.

A metal debuffer supermod Noble Phantasm; the damage increases proportionally to the number of mental debuffs that are stacked. It also has - albeit of minimal probability - an Instant-Kill effect.

Stages 1 to 2 are extremely Kiara-like with some slight Little Mermaid’s visual touches. While Stage 3 is a malefic visual bringing out her qualities as Demonic Bodhisattva (shen ver).

Character #

Lily’s pronouns

First-person pronounwatashi
Second-person pronoun〇〇-san / sochira
Third-person pronounMister / miss / ano kata
MasterMaster-san / Master no onii-san / Master no onee-san

Adult Version’s pronouns

First-person pronounWatakushi
Second-person pronounanata / 〇〇-kun / 〇〇-san (if speaking to a godly being)
Third-person pronounano kata / minasama
Masteranata-sama / Master-san

Personality (lily)

A girl of docile disposition who takes joy in soothe those around her. A budding saint that seeks to listen and reassure the feelings of those who find themselves in situations of plight and vulnerability. Never mocking or looking down on others, she indiscriminately and wholeheartedly listens to whomever is confessing. Yet as a child, all she can do is listen to the sufferings and pains of those who come to her but she firmly believes that this act alone is of great help.
An earnest and considerate little girl. Isn’t she just like an angel? Though everything has it up and downs; since she’s embodiment of curiosity, proactivity and observability, she simply cannot overlook those who are troubled and runs to their aid as soon she spot them, even if no one asked for her help.
“Good morning, are you in trouble?”
“You’re? Okay, then please tell me everything about it.”
“Greetings, are you in a pinch?”
“Fufufu, I’ll counsel you, so please confess everything to me.”
With approaches like that getting commonplace some may see her as some sort of Sorrow Collector instead.

She fits more of a mascot-role, given her current case of amnesia (or that’s how she plays out). Thought there are at least two things Lily still remembers:
“I ate a mermaid and became a servant”
“My wish (vow) to help, even just a little bit, everyone who needs help.”
A glance was enough for her to understand the main character’s state of affairs who had arrived to repair the Singularity, and so she promptly teamed up with them to get to the root of the problem. As she has expressly sealed her own memories as Kiara, she had no idea she was one of the Horror Story’s masterminds opposed to Xu Fu. Lily was really trying to lift the Murder Rule governing the lake and prevent Mash from being deceived by the bad man (woman). Although she sporadically returned to her original self, her memories as Kiara weren’t yet passed on to her. She could only understand her true nature once she got to the source of everything by herself and understood her own truth.

In the end she unravels she will one day become the Demonic Bodhisattva but just sighs an okay with no hit of shock whatsoever.
Why do you ask? Well…
“No matter what version of me I’ll become, it seems I’ll be always helping those who need.” so she said.
Because Lily’s core part that lives to soothe others will remain her driving force (it’s not about save others from suffering but rather merely soothe them out from it).
“I love to make you guys feel better, but…it’s not like I can’t love to see you guys suffering because of that, right?”

Personality (Adult Version)

Although she has consumed mermaid meat and calls herself Yaobikuni, Kiara Sessyoin’s personality remains the same.
“I am sole within creation. Whether good or bad, insects are insects. Whoever it may be, I will care for them, heal them, and love them with all my being…”
However, such a “love” satisfies Kiara alone. This great love may be the salvation for some involved, but in reality she isn’t doing anything different than play in Hell with outsiders who gazes at her.
That’s Kiara Sessyoin’s true colors… a savior who uses all her dispositions as such to please no one but herself… However, many things have happened this time, so she is just a little more attentive of her surroundings than usual. Who knows, maybe her yaobikunization has made her a little more tamed.

As soon as she returned to her adult self, she grasped the entirety of the incident taking place in the Lake. So Kiara started to make villainous moves to draw the main character’s suffering. She was 200% having a good time there. However, since their relationship wasn’t originally that bad she ended up siding with Chaldea in the end.

Setting

“Summer Saint Graphs are quite a joy, aren’t they?” Kiara Sessyoin so easily acquired hers just like that.
Sensing the abnormality happening at the lake she urged and recklessly used her Independent Manifestation to tour there, but was suddenly eradicated by Xu Fu’s Immortal-Killer Mask’s ambush attack… Or should it have been. As Xu Fu’s mechanism was an Instant-Kill attack, Kiara wasn’t completely annihilated (her Independent Manifestation grants her Instant-Death Resistance) and so she respawned in her site of defeat, the Mariana Trench.
There she dug up the fossil of the Divine Beast - the great aberration Shen - and merged it with her through ingestion. While emerging to the surface from the seabed, she happened to also stumble upon a Mermaid Village and decided to add them to her attribute library as well.
“If I’m to revive, then I should make up for my childhood!”
So she had the great idea of reborn a High Servant as a little girl. Once in her Lily Form, she was bounded to not remember even her own name. Thus making Lily think that she was nothing more than a Pseudo-Servant of Yaobikuni.

Motivated to get revenge on Xu Fu, Kiara used her mirage powers to hijack the B Mountain and create an a fun environment for her while preserving the Death-Game’s rules. Side B’s False Main Character (Xu Fu) promptly scrambled to get to their feet; when they stated to “get to the bottom of it” as a priority, it was actually to “defeat as quickly as possible whatever had dug its claws here”.

Kiara’s lily transformation wasn’t simply a whim, but a way of getting off Xu Fu’s radar. Lily was trying to wholeheartedly help the main character every time, so when into a plight she would use her magical compactor (clamshell) to transform into Officer Kiara (Second Ascension) and beat up the evil guys. But as you may guess, Office Kiara is fully aware of the incident circumstances, so she gets extremely spiteful and sour towards the (Fake) Main Character.

Lily-Kiara Transformation’s Timing

Lily can transforms into her adult self through her magical compactor (clamshell).
She’s unable to remember any of her adulthood’s records, so once she reverts her transformation back she doesn’t remember a thing anymore. On the other hand, her adult self has full access to Lily’s memories.

First Ascension: the chaste and candid Kiara, often spotted at the lake area. Ask are you Lily’s mother? and you will get a bloodlust-laded smile from her.
Second Ascension: Night-Part. Lily’s ace in the hole from when she’s on pinch - Officer Kiara.
Third Ascension: The scenario climax; Kiara once she displays her true colors and background. One of the final bosses.

Incorporated Legends, Mythical Components

Yaobikuni

She calls herself Yaobikuni; a certain nun who acquired immortality after consuming mermaid flesh.

Shen

Shen is a Divine Beast hailed on ancient China and Japan as the causer of the illusions (mirages) that permeate the surface. Stories has it that it’s a colossal clam that dwells in the sea bottom, and when its bubbles (breath) surface out they cast out such phenomenon.
One of the components in the Japanese word for “mirage” is the “tower” character, which refers to an excerpt present in one of the books within the Sessoyin Bookshelf saying the follow: sowaka sowaka; thus, a meretricious-castle on the surface emerged. An Illusory City, which men bewitched with its illusory pleasures.
Superficially the component most present in Kiara appears to be that of the Mermaid, but in reality it’s that of Shen.

Motivation · Attitude towards Master

Kiara Sessyoin’s personality is an unchanging factor, however the composition of her Summer Saint Graph and the fun of the never-experienced Summer Vacation made her change her alignment from Chaotic Evil to Lawful Evil. Her current policy is not to immediately lead all those she spots to desire, but to gently guide to desire preferentially those who are experiencing pain and suffering. But that’s six of one and half a dozen of another, she will end up destroying their lives anyway; it’s like exchanging an immediate poison for a slow one.
Normal Kiara doesn’t move a hair from her Master once they’re not dependent on her, but Summer Kiara takes agency to seduce them. Once succumbed to the mirages of this woman all that awaits one is surely a dead end. However, as she is somehow gentler, more endearing and of a more eccentric palate, a misstep or two may be spared from be plunged into a end of line like that. Apparently she has become charitable enough to give them a chance to retrace their steps even after succumbing once.

An Otherworldly Utopia. A mortar-shaped spiral trench.
The deepest, most abyssal sea bed, innermost as the Dragon Palace Castle.

“Fufu, I welcome you to my bed. I take that instead of the surface where you’re lost in pain and agony, have you chosen this Hell where you’re enticed in phantasmagoria?”

A graceful voice akin to wind, akin to dreams, akin to the heavens is chanted.
What for the woman was but an infinitesimal room, for that measly insect was an endless castle town.
A castle with no way back to the surface, because it had no need to.

“Now then, would you lean at my pinkie? I shall guide you to the pagoda where lies the joy and the dreams you so longed for.”

In a mirage that melts the edge of the body and mind, painless and freedomless, the woman thoroughly feast upon the emotions of the insect there.

You pleasure me, I want to stay here.
You fooled me, get me out of here.
You scare me, give me more here.
Please, I beg you. Let me go away from here.
A palm-top Land of Bliss where all is allowed.

Dialogue Examples

“May flowers be thrown in the Abhiṣeka of Pleasure… All is but a feeble illusion. Come, surrender yourself to me in body and soul… Sluggishly drown into the depths of tranquility. Nirmāṇarati Heaven’s Foam.”
“Summer is finally upon us, isn’t it? Fufufu, poor thing… Fruits of labor, future and lovers are, just like that, within here. Now, thenー shall we head towards my castle?”
“Fufufu, you’re mine. Her hands tower beyond the mist as the grand palms join together in prayerー You shall no longer return to the mundane world.”
“You’re seeking for the guides of a Bodhisattva? Fufu…fufufu…fufufufufufu! What awaits you is the Pleasure Heaven; the Hell in which She pursues her prey who runs amok (fuh, a insect atop Her palm that She must blow out)… This pagoda is your-all’s Pure Land.”

Character Image in “FateGO”

A character featured in the 2022’s summer event, Servant Summer Camp! Chaldea decided to do a group mountain camp this year, but the mountain was a cursed Horror Mountain Movie. During the day a crystal clear shining lake; at night an unparalleled terror and anxiety-triggering where even servants will die if murdered. The first victim - Yu Mei-ren (also this year’s welfare) was immediately killed, but being a True Ancestor of immortal characteristics she revived as a jiangshi and helped the main character to get through the seven days of horror.

“It’s impossible to leave the lake in this seven days”
“At night it transforms into a reproduction of the classics of serial killer genre”
“I always see summer runaway figures of Ilya, Abby and Lily. Although only one of them is truly scared.”
“Abby is a bad girl, she is getting closer and closer to being one with The Abyss.”
“Who is the culprit? And what will become of Sigurd and Brynhildr who have been delegated the role of the university student’s love birds?”

“Make sure reviving me is your top priority! Are we clear, Kouhai?”
Thinking back now, it these Yu-paisen’s Paisen Moves that were Chaldea’s pivotal hope…!

Connections with Characters

BB

“Well, if it isn’t Miss BB. I’m a greenhorn Moon Cancer, so I’ll look forward to your helping from now on. I’ve no idea why, but if it’s the one that encroaches the Moon, I suppose I might fit the criteria somehow. I really, really have no idea why, though (giggles). Cyberbrain or Phantasmagoria; both have different specialties but undoubtedly share the ability to infinitely expand one’s consciousness. I wonder which of us will be the first to cross beyond the Milky Way?”

Abigail

“I shouldn’t be saying that, but about that… Foreigner, right? I don’t think you should beckon that type of servant. Among them, Abigail especially harbors something sinister. The Outer Universe that not even Buddha can reach… Not that I have any interest myself, but… That aside, could we speak of that cute thing! I’m, by no means, envying that perfect swimsuit of course…”

Kama

“Fufu. Her face of astonishment was so adorable that I couldn’t help but laugh. Apparently she thought she was the only one capable of switching between girl and adulthood. We’re the two sides of the Beast that loves mankind, so shouldn’t be that uncommon for one do what the other does, right?”

The Little Mermaid’s Author

“I can’t clearly record of Lily’s affairs unless I assume that form myself. No, that is not even necessary, I can clearly picture how the whole thing must have unfolded out. Not only did he act with complete inconsideration in a Singularity to which he wasn’t even called, but he mustn’t have accomplished anything in particular, right? For better or worse, it’s in his nature to completely captivate the readers’ hearts but not grant them what they want even at the very end ー that is the kind of fiend he is.”

Otohime

“A small good deed on a foreshore that befell misery upon a young man’s life… I’ve nothing but sympathy towards that. The Utopia and the Inhuman Demonic Realm are but two sides of a coin, cruelty of such beauty that it renders impossible to depict. I’m eagerly waiting for our Dragon Palace Castle duo one day. ☆”

Comment from Illustrator #

Adult Version

I like to think that Kiara is someone who would need to have all the reasons in the world forcing her to put on cute clothes. Isn’t the shell-pearl bikini just the right size? Have the flowers by chance stuck to her pareo? The braids maybe for the heat? Isn’t it summer? Isn’t she on the beach? Then how about spreading the wings a little once in a while? All for this First Ascension. (Wada Arco)

Lily

When I compared her to Adult Andersen my feeling was that she looked so tiny and fail that I had no choice but to mentally adopt her. But when I compared her with Child Andersen my feeling was that it would be nice to give her some vibe where she’d be the type to brag about being the older sister since she’s slightly taller, and so they could start to lock horns at any moment! About her bottoms, I think I managed to pull off something really cute for a swimsuit. (Wada Arco)