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CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Shirou Emiya
CANON: Fate/Stay Night
AGE: ~17
APPEARANCE: Some sword nerd.
CANON POINT: Unlimited Blade Works True End. After Rin offers to take him to London, before actually leaving.
BACKGROUND: Long version here. Cliff notes, Shirou-focused version below.
Ten years before the events of Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Zero happened, and Shirou’s house was burnt down in the events of the Great Fuyuki Fire. He lost everything that day, including all of his memories from before the fire. He would be saved, and eventually adopted by the “winner” of that Holy Grail War, Kiritsugu Emiya and become Shirou Emiya. Kiritsugu would eventually pass away, but not before telling Shirou about his childhood dream of becoming a superhero, a dream Shirou took on for himself.
The Holy Grail War, as Shirou would find out, was supposed to be a magical ceremony where seven magi, known as Masters, summon seven heroes, known as Servants, from all across history and have them duke it out, the winner gaining access to the Holy Grail, a supposedly omnipotent wish-granting device. The heroes would be summoned to the seven classes: Saber, Archer, Lancer, Rider, Caster, Assassin, and Berserker.
In the prologue of Fate/Stay Night, Shirou happened to be in school that night when he spotted the battle between Archer and Lancer. As it was standard operating procedure not to leave witnesses, Lancer would break away from the battle to chase after Shirou, stabbing him in the chest. However, he did not die there, as Rin, Archer’s Master, did emergency magical surgery and rebuilt his destroyed heart.
Unfortunately, Lancer found out he wasn’t properly dead yet and attacked him at home, almost killing him yet again, but not before he summoned Saber, who successfully repelled Lancer and almost defeated Archer too, but not before Shirou used his Command Spell, one of three inviolable commands granted to each Master, to stop her. This would eventually lead to Shirou and Rin teaming up, but not before Rin antagonised him for his naivety for a few days.
The alliance between Shirou and Rin would be a difficult one though, as Archer, her Servant, seemed to hate Shirou, talking down to him whenever possible and eventually culminating in Archer attacking him. And when Saber got captured by Caster, Archer would betray them there, leaving the pair of teenage Masters without any Servants to fight with.
After a lot of sneaking around, fighting, and attempts at alliances, Archer would turn around and attack Caster from behind, revealing his true intentions: The reason why he hated Shirou was because Archer was an Emiya from one of many possible futures, who had grown disillusioned with the idea of superheroism and so hoped to destroy his existence by killing himself in the past, the paradox hopefully strong enough to erase him.
So Archer and Shirou agreed to fight, but the battle was less a clash of skill than a battle of ideals. Shirou endlessly battering against an impossible goal, that of defeating a version of himself that was plainly more powerful and experienced, much like his desire to become a superhero, and Archer fending that off. In the end, Archer would come to recognise the spark in Shirou that led them to want to become superheroes in the first place, and the inherent beauty in chasing impossible dreams, the moment of hesitation costing him the fight.
That battle would be witnessed by Gilgamesh, the Archer from the previous war, still alive, who was not terribly impressed by the battle between “Fakers,” and who would attempt to unleash a civilisation destroying curse upon mankind with the Holy Grail. (Which as it turns out was corrupted and could only cause destruction anyway.) So Shirou, Rin, and Saber, the last of which had entered a new contract with Rin, would go on to fight Gilgamesh.
Shirou managed to beat Gilgamesh with some assistance from an only mostly dead Archer, proving that the fake can overcome the original, Saber destroyed the Holy Grail, then both living Servants disappeared, and Shirou and Rin would go on to live happily ever after (not really) with Shirou still trying to become a superhero and Rin supporting him.
PERSONALITY: Shirou wants to be a superhero: somebody who can save everybody, almost to the exclusion of everything else. It forms the core of his conflicts in Unlimited Blade Works, and is an ideal he carries with him despite all the trials he’s forced to overcome in defense of it. Initially, he believed he was trying to continue his father’s legacy, causing it to be criticised as a “borrowed” ideal, but he would come to realise that he just really wants to help people because when Kiritsugu saved him from the fire, the man looked so happy that it left a deep impression on Shirou and the kind of person he wanted to be.
Therefore, Shirou finds the most joy in helping others, almost never refusing a request no matter how unreasonable as long as nobody gets hurt. It can be said that he used to be completely selfless, although that is now only mostly true. He used to do things like fix all the broken devices in school or clean up the archery dojo despite no longer being in the archery club without any promise of reward, just because he can. A complete lack of care for his own well-being that extends into battle, where he will gladly leap into the line of fire at any time to save others no matter how suicidal that may seem, to the extent that it weirds people out, calling it an emptiness within him.
Of course, trying to be a superhero also means Shirou has a strong sense of right and wrong. He has no patience for injustice, refusing to morally compromise himself at every turn, even though it would be expedient to do so, such as his refusal to even temporarily ally with Caster because she was hurting innocent people in order to power herself up, and his desire to save everyone extending to Shinji who up to this point had only been antagonistic and creepy to Shirou and Rin, even to criminal levels.
His determination, especially when it comes to being a superhero, but also in all other things, is ironclad. Faced with an impossible scenario, Shirou is more than happy to crash into it again and again until his body gives out, and sometimes not even then. Not even a future version of himself showing up, saying his dreams are impossible, and then trying to kill him will stop him. Even in perfectly mundane things, like trying to do a high jump just outside his reach, Shirou is happy to try until the sun sets and he’s made to leave school grounds.
But if there is one thing for which he might give up his dreams, it’s for those he considers his close family. After all, being a superhero means protecting everything within his reach, and if his family gets hurt, it means that his reach doesn’t extend very far, and it might just convince him to settle for a relatively ordinary life. (See: Heaven’s Feel.)
When not superheroing, Shirou enjoys an ordinary househusband life. His hobbies are cooking and cleaning, both of which he is very proficient at. It is one of the few things he is competitive at, and he takes great pride in his ability to cook. He’s only relatively recently learned how to enjoy himself in less productive ways, like messing around on dates.
On the other hand, one of Shirou’s big weaknesses can be said to be “pretty girls.” He can be easily embarrassed, much to the eternal joy of Rin who teased the poor boy endlessly, and he was starstruck when meeting Saber for the first time, to the point where it can be called love at first sight (although that eventually developed into a platonic relationship in this timeline). And while he is not nearly enough of a creep or cheater to do anything but look, he can’t help his eyes from straying at the worst of times, much to his distress. Basically a teenage boy dumbass.
ABILITIES: There’s only one ability allowed to Shirou Emiya. Its name is Unlimited Blade Works.
Unlimited Blade Works, when fully unleashed, is a Reality Marble, a world built on top of the actual world, and takes the form of an infinite field of blades which Shirou can freely control. He may call the swords to his hand instantly, or send hundreds of swords flying at whatever target happens to have been caught within.
The swords within Unlimited Blade Works are all the weapons Shirou has seen throughout his lifetime, many of which are legendary weapons wielded by heroes from eras past, such as Caladbolg or Hrunting. All it takes is a single look from Shirou, and he can reproduce the entirety of the weapon, understanding everything from how it was produced to how it was wielded. The only exceptions are weapons created from “alien” materials, not necessarily from outer space as he can create weapons made from meteorite iron, but rather those completely beyond human understanding, such as Ea which was made before even the heavens and earth split, or Excalibur which he can only partly reproduce as it was forged by fae-folk.
He does not need to fully manifest Unlimited Blade Works to make good use of it though. He can pull swords out of his Reality Marble without summoning it easily enough, though each blade created this way costs him prana so he doesn’t have the ability to throw hundreds of weapons at once.
Weapons created this way still possess a form of “muscle memory” as their entire history is reproduced, and Shirou does not have to swing them per se. They can swing themselves while Shirou hangs on for dear life. It is a technique that can allow Shirou to temporarily exceed human limits, but is not particularly useful against a true master of the weapon as a reproduction, no matter how close, cannot fully replicate the original.
Unlimited Blade Works also gives him some secondary powers, similar to the magecraft practiced by the proper magi of his world. They are: the ability to analyse the composition of whatever he touches, useful for delicate repairwork, the ability to reinforce and modify objects, and the ability to create non-sword objects out of thin air as well, although the further his creation is away from “sword,” the more prana that costs.
He’s also half-decent at swordplay anyway, really very good at archery, and is an excellent househusband great at all things cooking and cleaning.
INVENTORY: The clothes on his back.
WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE: TDM
LOG SAMPLE: Also from the TDM.
NAME: Ski
CONTACT:
CURRENT CHARACTERS: None
CHARACTER INFO.
NAME: Shirou Emiya
CANON: Fate/Stay Night
AGE: ~17
APPEARANCE: Some sword nerd.
CANON POINT: Unlimited Blade Works True End. After Rin offers to take him to London, before actually leaving.
BACKGROUND: Long version here. Cliff notes, Shirou-focused version below.
Ten years before the events of Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Zero happened, and Shirou’s house was burnt down in the events of the Great Fuyuki Fire. He lost everything that day, including all of his memories from before the fire. He would be saved, and eventually adopted by the “winner” of that Holy Grail War, Kiritsugu Emiya and become Shirou Emiya. Kiritsugu would eventually pass away, but not before telling Shirou about his childhood dream of becoming a superhero, a dream Shirou took on for himself.
The Holy Grail War, as Shirou would find out, was supposed to be a magical ceremony where seven magi, known as Masters, summon seven heroes, known as Servants, from all across history and have them duke it out, the winner gaining access to the Holy Grail, a supposedly omnipotent wish-granting device. The heroes would be summoned to the seven classes: Saber, Archer, Lancer, Rider, Caster, Assassin, and Berserker.
In the prologue of Fate/Stay Night, Shirou happened to be in school that night when he spotted the battle between Archer and Lancer. As it was standard operating procedure not to leave witnesses, Lancer would break away from the battle to chase after Shirou, stabbing him in the chest. However, he did not die there, as Rin, Archer’s Master, did emergency magical surgery and rebuilt his destroyed heart.
Unfortunately, Lancer found out he wasn’t properly dead yet and attacked him at home, almost killing him yet again, but not before he summoned Saber, who successfully repelled Lancer and almost defeated Archer too, but not before Shirou used his Command Spell, one of three inviolable commands granted to each Master, to stop her. This would eventually lead to Shirou and Rin teaming up, but not before Rin antagonised him for his naivety for a few days.
The alliance between Shirou and Rin would be a difficult one though, as Archer, her Servant, seemed to hate Shirou, talking down to him whenever possible and eventually culminating in Archer attacking him. And when Saber got captured by Caster, Archer would betray them there, leaving the pair of teenage Masters without any Servants to fight with.
After a lot of sneaking around, fighting, and attempts at alliances, Archer would turn around and attack Caster from behind, revealing his true intentions: The reason why he hated Shirou was because Archer was an Emiya from one of many possible futures, who had grown disillusioned with the idea of superheroism and so hoped to destroy his existence by killing himself in the past, the paradox hopefully strong enough to erase him.
So Archer and Shirou agreed to fight, but the battle was less a clash of skill than a battle of ideals. Shirou endlessly battering against an impossible goal, that of defeating a version of himself that was plainly more powerful and experienced, much like his desire to become a superhero, and Archer fending that off. In the end, Archer would come to recognise the spark in Shirou that led them to want to become superheroes in the first place, and the inherent beauty in chasing impossible dreams, the moment of hesitation costing him the fight.
That battle would be witnessed by Gilgamesh, the Archer from the previous war, still alive, who was not terribly impressed by the battle between “Fakers,” and who would attempt to unleash a civilisation destroying curse upon mankind with the Holy Grail. (Which as it turns out was corrupted and could only cause destruction anyway.) So Shirou, Rin, and Saber, the last of which had entered a new contract with Rin, would go on to fight Gilgamesh.
Shirou managed to beat Gilgamesh with some assistance from an only mostly dead Archer, proving that the fake can overcome the original, Saber destroyed the Holy Grail, then both living Servants disappeared, and Shirou and Rin would go on to live happily ever after (not really) with Shirou still trying to become a superhero and Rin supporting him.
PERSONALITY: Shirou wants to be a superhero: somebody who can save everybody, almost to the exclusion of everything else. It forms the core of his conflicts in Unlimited Blade Works, and is an ideal he carries with him despite all the trials he’s forced to overcome in defense of it. Initially, he believed he was trying to continue his father’s legacy, causing it to be criticised as a “borrowed” ideal, but he would come to realise that he just really wants to help people because when Kiritsugu saved him from the fire, the man looked so happy that it left a deep impression on Shirou and the kind of person he wanted to be.
Therefore, Shirou finds the most joy in helping others, almost never refusing a request no matter how unreasonable as long as nobody gets hurt. It can be said that he used to be completely selfless, although that is now only mostly true. He used to do things like fix all the broken devices in school or clean up the archery dojo despite no longer being in the archery club without any promise of reward, just because he can. A complete lack of care for his own well-being that extends into battle, where he will gladly leap into the line of fire at any time to save others no matter how suicidal that may seem, to the extent that it weirds people out, calling it an emptiness within him.
Of course, trying to be a superhero also means Shirou has a strong sense of right and wrong. He has no patience for injustice, refusing to morally compromise himself at every turn, even though it would be expedient to do so, such as his refusal to even temporarily ally with Caster because she was hurting innocent people in order to power herself up, and his desire to save everyone extending to Shinji who up to this point had only been antagonistic and creepy to Shirou and Rin, even to criminal levels.
His determination, especially when it comes to being a superhero, but also in all other things, is ironclad. Faced with an impossible scenario, Shirou is more than happy to crash into it again and again until his body gives out, and sometimes not even then. Not even a future version of himself showing up, saying his dreams are impossible, and then trying to kill him will stop him. Even in perfectly mundane things, like trying to do a high jump just outside his reach, Shirou is happy to try until the sun sets and he’s made to leave school grounds.
But if there is one thing for which he might give up his dreams, it’s for those he considers his close family. After all, being a superhero means protecting everything within his reach, and if his family gets hurt, it means that his reach doesn’t extend very far, and it might just convince him to settle for a relatively ordinary life. (See: Heaven’s Feel.)
When not superheroing, Shirou enjoys an ordinary househusband life. His hobbies are cooking and cleaning, both of which he is very proficient at. It is one of the few things he is competitive at, and he takes great pride in his ability to cook. He’s only relatively recently learned how to enjoy himself in less productive ways, like messing around on dates.
On the other hand, one of Shirou’s big weaknesses can be said to be “pretty girls.” He can be easily embarrassed, much to the eternal joy of Rin who teased the poor boy endlessly, and he was starstruck when meeting Saber for the first time, to the point where it can be called love at first sight (although that eventually developed into a platonic relationship in this timeline). And while he is not nearly enough of a creep or cheater to do anything but look, he can’t help his eyes from straying at the worst of times, much to his distress. Basically a teenage boy dumbass.
ABILITIES: There’s only one ability allowed to Shirou Emiya. Its name is Unlimited Blade Works.
Unlimited Blade Works, when fully unleashed, is a Reality Marble, a world built on top of the actual world, and takes the form of an infinite field of blades which Shirou can freely control. He may call the swords to his hand instantly, or send hundreds of swords flying at whatever target happens to have been caught within.
The swords within Unlimited Blade Works are all the weapons Shirou has seen throughout his lifetime, many of which are legendary weapons wielded by heroes from eras past, such as Caladbolg or Hrunting. All it takes is a single look from Shirou, and he can reproduce the entirety of the weapon, understanding everything from how it was produced to how it was wielded. The only exceptions are weapons created from “alien” materials, not necessarily from outer space as he can create weapons made from meteorite iron, but rather those completely beyond human understanding, such as Ea which was made before even the heavens and earth split, or Excalibur which he can only partly reproduce as it was forged by fae-folk.
He does not need to fully manifest Unlimited Blade Works to make good use of it though. He can pull swords out of his Reality Marble without summoning it easily enough, though each blade created this way costs him prana so he doesn’t have the ability to throw hundreds of weapons at once.
Weapons created this way still possess a form of “muscle memory” as their entire history is reproduced, and Shirou does not have to swing them per se. They can swing themselves while Shirou hangs on for dear life. It is a technique that can allow Shirou to temporarily exceed human limits, but is not particularly useful against a true master of the weapon as a reproduction, no matter how close, cannot fully replicate the original.
Unlimited Blade Works also gives him some secondary powers, similar to the magecraft practiced by the proper magi of his world. They are: the ability to analyse the composition of whatever he touches, useful for delicate repairwork, the ability to reinforce and modify objects, and the ability to create non-sword objects out of thin air as well, although the further his creation is away from “sword,” the more prana that costs.
He’s also half-decent at swordplay anyway, really very good at archery, and is an excellent househusband great at all things cooking and cleaning.
INVENTORY: The clothes on his back.
WRITING SAMPLES.
NETWORK SAMPLE: TDM
LOG SAMPLE: Also from the TDM.
