Fate Shirou Emiya

Shirou Emiya - Destiny

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Shirou Emiya is the protagonist of Fate/Stay Night and Saber's master during the Fifth Holy Grail War. His adoptive father is Kiritsugu Emiya, who found him and saved his life after the fire at the end of the Fourth Holy Grail War killed hundreds of people. He is kind and caring, and has a strong sense of justice. His goal is to become a protector of justice, a promise he made to Kiritsugu before he died. Shirou has noble ideals and wants to protect everyone from the tragedy he survived by ending the Holy Grail War. He is selfless in protecting those he cares about, often putting himself in danger to keep them safe.

Appearance

In Fate/Stay Night, Shirou is a high school student with short, spiky, golden-brown hair. He often wears his school uniform or a casual outfit consisting of jeans and a baseball t-shirt. In the series "Heaven's Feel," his soul is placed in a puppet body that closely resembles his original body.

SKILLS

Shirou was informally trained in magic by Kiritsugu. Although his magic circuits were initially inactive, Kiritsugu taught him the basics of reinforcement and projection magic, which would become his specialty. However, even with Kiritsugu's training, he was quite incompetent and had a low success rate. His skills began to improve with the help of Rin, who unlocked his magic circuits and taught him how to harness his power.

Reinforcement magic allows him to analyze the internal structure of an object and modify it to make it stronger or more effective. He also possesses great skill in understanding the structure of objects, which is useful for manifesting objects using projection magic. He is later able to learn the ability Tracing, which allows him to create near-perfect replicas by imagining them. He is able to use this ability to create replicas of Noble Phantasms for use in battle, including Caliburn, Kanshou and Bakuya, and Avalon.

He is also able to regenerate his wounds thanks to Saber's Noble Phantasm Avalon inside him. This allows him to survive many fatal blows during the war that would have otherwise killed him.

In the "Unlimited Blade Works" route, he learns projection magic but is unable to use it in combat until, with Rin's help, he forms his reality marble, Unlimited Blade Works.

In the "Heaven's Feel" route, Shirou's skills develop differently from other routes. Instead of learning to master projection magic, he loses his arm in an early fight and receives Archer's arm, which grants him some of Archer's abilities as a Heroic Spirit that exceed his limitations as an ordinary human, augmenting his physical capabilities and allowing him to utilize Archer's combat experience. To counter the arm's effects, Kotomine gives him the Shroud of Martin, which keeps Archer's magic circuits separate from Shirou's.

Role

In the "Fate" route, Shirou struggles with his ideals of becoming a protector of justice and wanting to save everyone, while also being conflicted by his feelings for Saber and his desire to keep her in the world after the war ends. Unlike other masters who treat their servants as tools, he treats Saber as an equal and is always respectful of her. He is extremely protective of Saber and wants to fight on her behalf to keep her safe, which troubles her. He fights in the war with Rin's help and ultimately manages to stop Kotomine before he can fully manifest the Holy Grail through Illya. After the war, he continues to strive towards his goal of becoming a protector of justice and hopes to one day reunite with Saber.

In the "Unlimited Blade Works" route, Shirou explores his connection to Archer and learns that Archer's heroic spirit is itself from the future. The contradiction of their presence in the same time allows Shirou to glean Archer's knowledge and techniques as he spends time with him. However, their ideals begin to conflict. In this route, his love interest is Rin Tohsaka, and the two form an alliance from the beginning. In the end, Shirou and Archer face off in battle, but Archer ultimately sacrifices himself to save Shirou, who goes on to defeat Gilgamesh and destroy the Holy Grail.

In the "Heaven's Feel" route, Shirou's love interest is Sakura Matou. However, due to the influence of Zouken Matou, who uses Sakura as a vessel for Angra Mainyu, Sakura is corrupted and transforms into Dark Sakura. Shirou manages to save Sakura from the curse by destroying Avenger but loses his life in the process. In the true ending, Illya sacrifices herself to close the gate to the Holy Grail and implant Shirou's soul into a puppet body. He continues to live a normal life with Sakura and Rider.

Other appearances

Aside from Fate/Stay Night, Shirou has appeared in a number of other works in the Fate universe, including Fate/Hollow Ataraxia None Carnival Phantom None Fate/Unlimited Codes Fate/Tiger Colosseum Emiya Family Daily Menu Capsule Servant Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya , and Fate/Grand Order None