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In the 2014 Fate Stay Night anime, Saber was under the control of Caster and
was posed like this:

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PNoQj.jpg)

Was there any actual reason for this or was it merely fanservice? How was this
explained in the original Visual Novel?


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Why is Saber wearing a white wedding dress and why was she posed like that?


The reasons are twofold. The original visual novel, which is what the anime
was based on, was an eroge. Naturally, scenes like these would appear. This
scene came straight from the visual novel with minor differences.

The second reason has to do with Caster's identity.

> [Caster's real identity is
> Medea.](http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Caster_\(Fate/stay_night\)) Her life
> was full of betrayal and her innocence was taken away from her when she was
> young. Her backstory indicates that the reason why she put Saber in such an
> embarrassing position with the dress was because she essentially wanted to
> do the things that was done to her to Saber. The difference is that she
> wanted to make Saber her slave and make Saber betray Shirou out of her own
> free will. She didn't want to control her forcibly with the Command Spell,
> an analogue to how Aphrodite forced her to become Jason's lover with her
> powers. [The dialogue in the Visual
> Novel](https://i.stack.imgur.com/VGYjc.jpg) also shows why she put her in
> such a dress and why she had taken a liking to Saber. She wanted the white
> dress to represent Saber's virginity, and she wanted her to succumb to
> sexual pleasure while staying a virgin forever.

Without spoiling, the scene was not mere fanservice. Rather, it has to do with
Caster's past. The things that Caster did to Saber were the things that
happened to her in her past life.


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