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  • Name: Saotome Hana
  • Age: 24
  • Appearance: "Y-You mean I have to do something?"
  • Personality: There are those who don't achieve great things because they don't have the ability or the opportunity to. Then there are those, like Hana, who wouldn't do great things simply because that would require work. It's fair to say that it probably hasn't always been that way and in the end, Hana has no confidence in her abilities to do much of anything, but at this point the ingrained laziness is itself a habit and way of life. Unnecessarily exerting herself when she could sleep in then maybe watch some TV, or think really hard about what to have for dinner?
    Really, from that perspective, summoning a Servant is the worst mistake of her life... famous historical figures aren't likely to be content with Hana's desire to just stay home and avoid trouble, or squandering of the talent and intelligence that she has.
  • Abilities: Hana would like to pretend that she has no abilities and is the dead end for what was once a proud magus family and the crest on her arm is a tacky tattoo. But, this place... people just love to throw out terms like "average one", whatever the hell that means, or if it's important. It's way nicer to pretend that the tattoo on your arm is just a tattoo, not a library of impressive ways to kill people when you're the battery.
  • History: As her name indicates, Hana's family is hardly the most prestigious of magus families--their distant routes lost and barely distinguishable from the general populace of Japan, even though she's pretty sure her father said something about west Asia. Only the eyes really stand out as odd. Of course, such a loss of the past could only be expected with a gradual decline of magical talent through the generations, to parents that could barely count as mages at all, working office jobs of all things...
    And Hana? Never really good at work, let alone the pressures of entrance exams, wound up in the position of doing pretty much nothing. As certain as her parents that she was about as magical as kelp, the offer to stay in a nice, new city--at their expense! Though not the priciest, but definitely cheaper than home...--for the small cost of trying to do that "Servant summoning" thing? Yeah, that seemed great. Do something that would never work and she'd at least have some time not being bothered to get into a university, or find a job, or get married, or...
    It didn't quite go to plan.
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(though it makes one wonder how she beats out Sabers older than her but meh)

The simple explanation is that there is no linear scale of younger = more skilled to offset older generally being more powerful (because there are weak older Servants and some more recent outliers). Consequently, simply removing NPs from the equation doesn't guarantee an even fight; you'd have to remove some skills (mana burst breaking everything), physical strength, and possibly equalise the weapons--and depending on who it is, then it's still only even when reduced to a pure contest of skill.

Top Servants are dangerous regardless of how they come out. External factors like trickery or some overall strategy need to come in.
Retrofitting. Anything that would go in Ultimate would look janky as hell whilst this way it goes gun gun gun. And because the X version exists as stronger, it can take the Mega slot.
Not guns.
Fortunately she is in spearland for the foreseeable future!
I am sure that Silvia will be totally successful in avoiding giving in to sinful desires and a love of fighting.
Okay I don't know how to break it down but with exactly no NPs or magical assistance at all, against Taiga who is literally one of the best living swordsmen, Arturia won in like 10s. In a friendly match. Being modern doesn't mean the benefit of skill--better teachers is really questionable when there are people legendary for being awesome teachers (hi Chiron) and the techniques refined are often for sports... or to deal with armour and equipment that existed way earlier in the Nasuverse too.

This is quite ignoring the absurdity of claiming
Lock their phantasms away, leaving only their skill with the blade, it'd be an even fight.
that against Lancelot.
Arturia has repeatedly been stated, and never contradicted, as the strongest Saber all around. On top of that actually blocking her attacks flat-out breaks non-NP weapons and even if you're strong enough to hold it off starts breaking the scenery around you. This is entirely without releasing Invisible Air in the slightest.

I like Julie d'Aubigny, but there's no way that her duelling ability is going to even remotely compensate for the straight power gulf for people who can happily fight dragons. They're skilled and have way more brute force.
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