Fate/Extra CCC - BB Matrix

Fate/Extra CCC - BB (Beast of Babylon) Noble Phantasm Description

STATS:

STR: ★
END: ★
AGI: ★
MGI: ★
LCK: ★


KEYWORDS

High Grade AI

An artificial intelligence configured by means of programming.
In this age, it is treated as "something that functions as a program, but is not completed as an existence".
In other words, what "exists" before one's eyes is something "nonexistent".
It is nothing but a mechanism for the sake of smoothly promoting the livelihood of humans.

This is the same in the SE.RA.PH, where they are considered a virtual life-form manufactured together with the beginning of the Holy Grail War and disposed together with its end.

The humanoid virtual lifeforms in the SE.RA.PH are the NPCs that only handle simple purposes, the AIs that were given self-judgement capacities and the high grade AIs that were entrusted with self-judgement capacities and section management.

High grade AIs are those manufactured for the sake of efficiently promoting the main purpose of the Mooncell, "human observation".
A perfect reproduction of a human in which even a soul was programed, but the soul merely "exists" and its contents remain colorless.

The virtual lifeforms manufactured in the SE.RA.PH are reset when that round of the Holy Grail War ends.
The NPCs and AIs are turned back to zero, but for the high grade AIs only the personal data is left behind and its records are reset ――― made as if nothing happened.

When the Holy Grail War ends, the one that survives is only the Master who stands at the top.
This is not just about the Masters, but also held in common with the virtual lifeforms manufactured in the SE.RA.PH.

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BB is thought to be a high grade AI entrusted with the health management of the Masters, just like Sakura.
However, due to a rampage of unknown cause, it seems that the method of "managing the Masters" ended up becoming something extreme.


Bishop's Staff of Rulership
The teacher's cane that BB holds.
A device that can fully employ the jurisdiction as a high grade AI.
Although limited to the far-side of the moon, but by using this BB can change the spirit particles laws (game rules) inside the SE.RA.PH.

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The "Crowns of Ten Rulerships <Domina Cronam>(?【十の支配の王冠(ドミナ・コロナム)】)" worn by the Beast of Babylon converted into a teacher's cane.
This is because then essence of the Male Theory, which opposes the theory that the seven-headed beast is female, is a pharos (a straight pole).

The symbol of the king of the world, said to have been bestowed with throne and authority by a great dragon and, furthermore, granted the privilege to blaspheme against all things - no matter what insolent words are used - for a period of 42 months.

The heads of the beast are the seven hills of the Roman Empire - Capitolinus, Palatium, Aventinus, Caelius , Esquilinus, Quirinalis and Viminalis - in other words they mean the Roman Empire itself, while the ten horns symbolize its emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Vespasianus, Titus, Galba, Otho and Vitellius.


SKILLS

Golden Chalice <Aurea Boura>(? アウレア・ボーウラ): EX
The golden chalice that BB holds. As well as a Holy Grail.
A negative Holy Grail that grants the impudent, self-centered wishes of the owner.

The chalice possessed by the Whore of Babylon that appears in the Revelation of St. John.
A pseudo-Holy Grail, but exactly because it is a fake Holy Grail that it became a "genuine" Holy Grail that grants the desires of humans regardless of right and wrong.

To the Christians that treated the honorable poverty of those days as virtue, a chalice molded with a symbol of riches such as gold evidently had connotations of corrupted wealth, greed and the vanity of adorning oneself.

Although it was clear from the point that this was the chalice held by the Whore of Babylon - the personification of the Roman Empire - but this chalice has inverted Christ's words of "Do not pile up wealth on the land" and symbolizes the earthly wealth.

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"I saw a single woman straddled on a red beast.
That beast, whose whole body was covered with numerous names that blasphemed God, had seven heads and ten horns."

According to the Revelation, this is the description of the beast of ruin that appeared in the Holy City and the woman that was straddled on said beast.
A giant beast possessing seven heads as if the Hydra was said to appear from the sea and land on the Holy City.
This beast and woman are one and the same, it is impossible to think about them detached from each other.

The woman is treated as one who brings forth all evils, it has been said that the imprudent and avaricious are unable to oppose her temptation and corrupted by this chalice.

This is a digression, but the Red Saber who call herself an Emperor has been regarded in the same light as this beast and antagonized by the laymen after her death.

Self-Modification: EX
The Skill to remodel oneself.
The AIs manufactured by the Mooncell are furnished with an absolute order of "do not improve its functions".

But BB, who escaped from this yoke due to a break-down, began to expand her own functions.
In order to enhance her calculation abilities, she predated・decomposed through the black noises NPCs, AIs and even Servants on top of that and employed them as her own memory.

An posterior add-on that is not weary of self-breakdown, but, as a result, BB changed into a hyper grade AI that possesses an enormous capacity.
These circumstances are like a city of reclaimed land that continues to construct buildings even as it sinks into water, or even the monster of Frankenstein.

Ten Crowns: EX
An unidentified Skill.
It has been said that the ten crowns indicates the ten evil kings and the seven hills indicate the abominable city of evil.

It is unknown what kind of principle・authority it is, but that power's origin lies in a past that even the King of Heroes, who was supposed to be mankind's oldest, cannot reach.

On a simple look, it is a Skill that turns received injuries and occurred events, that make all results as if "nothing happened".

As a matter of fact, BB is invincible as long as there is this.

Womb of All Kinds of Animals: EX
Womb of All Kinds of Animals (Potnia Theron).
This is the goddess's authority that BB compiled and imported from the abyss of the Mooncell.

The incarnation of the power to give birth to all things possessed by the maternal goddesses, issued by a goddess from approximately 8,000 years ago whose name is already lost (the goddess of Çatal Hüyük) and that the likes of Tiamat, Cybele, Ishtar, Inanna, Anat, Astarte, Gaia, Hera, Artemis, Aphrodite, Demeter and Athena derived from.

Many are imagined taking the form of rampart crowns.
This is because many of those goddesses are simultaneously the guardian deities of cities.

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Symbolizing the likes of the gates opened in the land and the sky (caves and the moon), the whirling tides and tornados of the sea and the craters of volcanos, it gives birth to the harms that brings about all sorts of death from there.
However, after those harms have scattered death, it also promises definite good harvest and fertility.
This authority is no other than the power give birth to death simultaneously with life.

The Earth Mother Goddess nurtures the people with its own flesh and blood, and as time passes kill those people and use them as its provision to restore its own flesh and blood, just to once again nurture the people with that restored flesh and blood.

This process is the circle of the food chain itself and one could say that this cycle of life and death is surely the essence of the Earth Mother Goddess.
Most of the goddesses have, by means of this function, birthed countless monsters and giants that became menaces to the gods and the people, or birthed heroes that protected the people from those.

As representative examples, those that became menaces include Tiamat and Gaia, while Hera was the mother of heroes.

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Those who were born in this land cannot oppose the authority of the maternal deity. Because that would be a rebellion against the system of life itself.
However, at the moment when the infancy as intelligent beings is concluded - leaving the land and aiming for the cosmos - this authority may be defeated.

The wish of Çatal Hüyük is found in the arrival of such day.


NOBLE PHANTASM

C.C.C. (Cursed Cutting Crater)
An attack that violates the world by BB, who have seized the Mooncell.
As well as spirit-particles imaginary pitfall.

A world purge by means of phenomenon overwrite, which applied the EX Skill "Conception of All Kinds of Animals (Potnia Theron)" that BB acquired to the maximum.

The goddess which is equivalent to the mother of the Earth Mother Goddesses that created the land is, in other words, the "root" that gave birth to all things. This Noble Phantasm outputs that information as a super-precise 3D printer and crushes the currently existing world with the world desired by the user, an Anti-World Noble Phantasm.

The space that was corroded by BB turns into an imaginary space and becomes a curse that eats into reality. "C.C.C." is, as the name suggest, a large hole of curses that cuts out reality hollow.

Other than dismantling the objects at that place to their atomic units and reconstructing them, it can also overwrite and re-output the information of the place such as fortune-misfortune, coincidence.
Although speaking on theory, if gravitational fields are interfered with, supposedly it is also possible to distort the time axis and overwrite the principles of causality.

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In case it is employed in battle, BB's familiars - the Shapeshifters - envelops the target and, after being reduced to a sphere, annihilates the target along with dimension itself.

Originally, it is impossible to create structures that can share values in the Far-Side of the Moon, which is an imaginary space.
What established BB's imagined world as the Sakura Labyrinth was also the power of this Noble Phantasm.


BACKGROUND

Spirit-particles Imaginary Pitfall (Cursed Cutting Crater)

The formal name of this stage.
"Here", which once was just a imaginary space to storage malicious information, was established as a real space in the present・past・future due to the fact that BB attained the Mooncell Core.
By her hands, it was reconstructed as the "Far-Side of the Moon" where even the Masters can exist.

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BB, who obtained the power of the original goddess, succeeded in the numeric conversion of the "nothingness" from before life was born.
Both space and time were reformed by master of the ambiguous imaginary space.

The Mooncell could not be hacked no matter how much time one would take, but it was captured by BB, who put herself into the concept of "infinite time".


BACKGROUND II

During the preliminaries, she, who had her freedom unleashed by the hands of Kiara, could not control that abnormal status and caused an overload.

Because the NPCs cannot do anything but routine work, they ignored Sakura - who began to disintegrate - as something "nonexistent" and since the Mooncell's check was performed only at the end of the day during the preliminaries, Sakura was in a crisis of being extinguished.

Upon laying his eyes on such abnormality, Kishinami Hakuno called out for her. Saying "Are you all right?"

By receiving the observation from another that "I'm right here", Sakura recovered her unconsciousness that was on the verge of being extinguished and acquired a clear ego of "I want to be here" due to the subsequent nursing. She escaped from the extinguishing of her ego.

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What came afterwards doesn't even need to be said.
Once the next day came, everything would be deleted by the hand of the Mooncell. Sakura - who wished to continue this miracle of mere day - employed the privilege of a high grade AI and repeated the "single day when I got to know Kishinami Hakuno" for 69 days.

However, as the day advanced Sakura began to suffer with her self-contradictions as an AI and the reality surrounding Kishinami Hakuno.

"For the Masters that participate in the Holy Grail War, all will die with the exception of one.
No, to begin with Kishinami Hakuno is---"

Sakura kept suffering from the selfishness of eternally looping those happy times and her feelings towards Kishinami Hakuno.
As a conclusion, she chose the path of sealing away the 69 days worth of memory… the "love" that she acquired, in order to turn back into a normal AI.
AIs cannot delete records.
Because of that, she reset herself by moving the memory to a backup unit.

Believing that this would be the most correct choice for Kishinami Hakuno.

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However, even after losing the memories of the mind, the reminiscences recorded in the body survived.
She - who was supposed to have forgotten everything and turned back into a normal AI - started to be shaken up by an unidentified emotion-value whenever speaking with Kishinami Hakuno.

On the other hand, the backup where the memories were moved to could not forgive such oneself, one day decided her own plans as BB - the rebel that disrupts the system of the Mooncell for the sake of a certain objective - and began to take action.

In real time, the timing when she seized the Far-Side of the Moon was "the end of the fifth round~prior to the start of the sixth round of the Holy Grail War".
The four who had not been defeated yet - Kishinami Hakuno, Leo, Rin and Rani - and the irregular Jinako were, midway of the Holy Grail War, kidnaped to the Far-Side of the Moon while still alive.

After being defeated in the Holy Grail War, Masters such as Matou Shinji, Gatou and Julius were moved to the imaginary space "0.00001 seconds before" being annihilated by the Firewall, extending their momentary lives.

At any rate, C.C.C. is a dream seen by BB.
If the one seeing the dream disappears, the world should return to the prior reality where nothing happened.

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Also, this is a digression, but the ordinary scenery that Kishinami Hakuno saw as a nightmare in the beginning was an artificial paradise built with those abandoned 69 days as a model.
After BB dragged Kishinami Hakuno to the Far-Side of the Moon, she enshrined him in the electronic brain of the old school building, threw him into a deep sleep and imprisoned him into a dream he could not wake up from.

Normally he would spend his time peacefully in that looping everyday, but due to his strong link with his Servant, or maybe Kishinami's will to reject that peaceful everyday, tears arose on the artificial paradise and Kishinami became aware of the abnormality.

BB attempted to reset the school building and start over the dream in order to once again throw Kishinami Hakuno into a deep sleep, but Kishinami also ended up escaping from that reset and jumping into the further depths of the imaginary space.

That was the bottom beyond even the bottom of the id.
The "collective unconsciousness" beneath the unconscious.
What saved Kishinami Hakuno, who ended up jumping into a territory that even BB could not reach out, was the voice of the Servant he shared his fate with.

Thus the contract was exchanged and Kishinami Hakuno woke up in the old school building that was left in the Far-Side of the Moon.