Mali Brooks

(For the Sub-Servant version appearing in Fate/Maelstrom, please see Mali Brooks (Maelstrom).)Mali Brooks is a character appearing in Fate/Supernova. She is the Master of Grail Assassin during the First Eclipse Holy Grail War in Wyndarton and one of the Overseers.

Background
Mali is the youngest child, but only daughter, of her family, hailing from Lancashire, England. Although her three older brothers have also taken on roles within the Holy Church, Mali serves as the family’s pride and joy. Or rather, she would, were she not the only surviving member of her immediate family.

As the family’s Sorcery Trait makes the women close to ideal for the extermination of unholy beings, Mali was groomed to become an Executor from a very early age, which resulted in the personality split that’s come to work to her advantage in her work. At 12, she achieved the title of Executor as intended. At 14, one of the targets she was hunting succeeded in escaping unbeknownst to the girl, and in an act of vengeance slaughtered her family. At this news, although Mali had primarily focused on the elimination of demons while occasionally accompanying mage or vampire hunts, she opted to change course and target mages, beginning with her family’s murderer, although seemingly he had vanished into thin air afterwards.

Two years later, now 16, she caught wind of rumors that the mage she sought retribution from had resurfaced in Wales and opted to make her move. She’d deemed this job a personal matter, neglecting to inform anyone of her destination, which should have been her fatal mistake. Outgunned and outclassed, she’d found herself backed into a corner staring down death’s door, until a woman had appeared and killed the man - although nearly Mali as well in the process.

Understanding that she owed this woman for her life and discovering the intentions of the Servant claiming to have come from another timeline, Mali agreed to form a contract with her to help the woman - dubbed Grail Assassin - pursue her goal. After all, before her unplanned trip, she had received a request to station in Australia as an additional unit to assist the Overseer of an upcoming Holy Grail War.

Appearance
Mali is a young woman with dusty rose pink hair and eyes that are a blend of lilac and rose. Her casual attire consists of a short black sweater dress paired with thigh-high stockings and simple black dress shoes. On more official business, she wears her usual church attire - a black cassock with a clerical collar, with black stockings beneath and plain black dress shoes. Her hair is generally held in a loose, fat braid over her right shoulder. The Command Seal on the back of her right hand takes the form of a cross with a crescent moon above it, with the vertical bar of the cross appearing as a spear and the horizontal bar a sword.

Personality
To the general public, Mali could be perceived as a bit of a ditz who tries to make friends with everyone. She styles herself as a sweet young woman who’s willing to try anything once, as well as being something of a flirt. That said, this is simply a guise she’s created for herself for the ease of getting in close to her targets since she specializes in hunting mages.

Beneath the surface, Mali is extremely cunning. She is careful in her planning and even in a fight, she still does her best to calculate each move, preferring to taunt her opponent into making the first strike and open themselves up. With the appearance of Grail Assassin and Mali’s agreement to partner with the Servant, this nature has only become more bold and the taunting less subtle with her placing her full trust in Grail Assassin to come to her aid and finish the job. She’s no stranger to blood, and has no qualms about torturing or even killing a person in cold blood for the sake of her mission.

However, left to her own devices, she can be fairly carefree. She’s known to drop her guard and kick back no matter where she is, something Grail Assassin has taken to scolding her for. To her, jobs are meant to be handled on a schedule at her leisure, rather than her Servant’s way of feeling as if one should always be prepared to take on an enemy.

Fate/Supernova
During her mission to get revenge on her family's murderer in Llandudnum, Wales, Mali was rescued by a mysterious Servant - a woman in armor introducing themselves as Grail Assassin. Having been ordered to travel to Wyndarton to assist in overseeing the First Eclipse Holy Grail War, she formed a contract with the Servant upon learning that she was seeking to retrieve a Holy Grail.

The day prior to leaving for Australia, she was given Assassin's lance to wield and began training with the Servant. The lance itself is the ◼◼◼◼◼ ◼◼ ◼◼◼◼◼◼◼◼ and a Noble Phantasm.

Holy Sacraments
Sacraments are the exclusive right of the Church, used to fight spiritual beings. Black Keys are one of their many charms used against demons and vampires.


 * Baptism Sacrament - The sole mystery that is freely taught to all members of the Church. A simple ritual with an aria that falls on the Ten-Count category, it is capable of exorcising Daemons and sending Wraiths back to the world of the dead. Possess weak capacities of physical interference, but its power is overwhelming against spiritual bodies. It is ineffective against spirits on the level of Servants, though.
 * Black Keys - A sacrament of the Church, one of their many charms used against demons and vampires. As Keys of Providence, they are able to call forth the original laws of nature vampires were subject to as humans, thus preventing them through purification from healing the wounds made with this weapon. Emphasized on the ability to intervene spiritually against "evil", they focus less on physical attack power, even affecting powerful spirits like Servants to some degree should they be struck. It is not enough to inflict any sort of fatal injury to them no matter how much energy is put into them, but they can be used to distract or pin them for a brief moment under the right circumstances.
 * Iron Plate Effect - A "secret throwing technique" of the Burial Agency, strengthening the Black Keys through pure martial arts. it is possible to utilize the technique to throw them more effectively, increasing the force of impact dozens of times to allow them to bore through even reinforced concrete walls and hit an enemy with enough force to be likened to being struck by a car.

Legacy
Mali’s Origin, Legacy, allows her to take on a Demi-Servant like state, although at a lesser level, known as a Sub-Servant. This allows her to use a Noble Phantasm’s full potential, as well as giving her the ability to partially fuse the Spirit Origin of a Servant with her own body to achieve the Sub-Servant state. However, during the events of Fate/Supernova, this Origin is still dormant.

Maiden's Hand
A Sorcery Trait passed down through Mali’s family but only usable by the female members. Maiden’s Hand allows for Mali to wield holy weapons with ease and retain the effects of their base form, including Noble Phantasms if granted permission from the Servant. However, she cannot activate a weapon’s ultimate attack, and weapons that require additional criteria to be met cannot be wielded by her unless she meets the additional criteria. Currently, she is in possession of the Grail Assassin’s ◼◼◼◼◼ ◼◼ ◼◼◼◼◼◼◼◼.

Other
Mali, thanks to Assassin’s training and her Sorcery Trait, is fairly adept at wielding melee weapons such as swords or spears, and often in fact will participate in battle herself using Assassin’s spear. She is also an expert at tracking people due to her training as an Executor and has knowledge of various torture techniques. She also has some skill with firearms, generally in possession of a pair of .45 Magnum handguns and a .22 Colt revolver.