Character

Sei Shounagon

清少納言

Sei Shōnagon, also known as Glittering Archer, is an Archer-class Servant able to be summoned by Ritsuka Fujimaru in the Grand Orders of Fate/Grand Order. The daughter of Kiyohara no Motosuke, one of the “Five men of the Pear Chamber” accredited with compiling the readings for the oldest collection of Japanese poetry in existence, the Man'yōshū. A woman who lived in a society revolved around men, however, through her own power and initiative she was able to show the world her amazing talent. She stayed close by the side of Empress Teishi who was the wife of Emperor Ichijō until Teishi's passing. After the Empress’ death, her musings and observations of court life surrounding Teishi were compiled into a book called “The Pillow Book”. As soon as you think she’s always running around having a blast in a great mood, you notice that there are times where she suddenly feels down. Similar to a cat she can be fickle to her surroundings, however, for the most part she focuses on having fun more than anything else. She’s a party girl servant. Sei was a girl that was ahead of the times and lit up her surroundings while musing about her love for the beauty of things around her. Though there is the question of where exactly her poet-like appearance has gone to, in her case due to having such a strong connection with the culture of today’s young people she ended up being summoned in her current appearance. As there is the historical fact that when she was within Teishi’s inner circle she was concerned about her age, her current appearance as a high school girl isn't that unexpected.