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Name: Chris
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Timezone: EDT (GMT -4 or -5 when DST is over)
Current Characters in Route: Athrun Zala
Character
Name: Shirou Emiya
Series: Fate/Stay Night
Timeline: Unlimited Blade Works True End
Canon Resource Links: http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Emiya_Shirou
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fate/stay_night_characters#Main_characters
Affiliation: Trainer
Personality: The first thing that needs to be mentioned in a discussion of Shirou as a character is his ideal. Shirou's greatest desire is to become a "hero of justice" and save anyone and everyone that needs to be saved. While this is a borrowed ideal -- which originally came from Kiritsugu -- Shirou has completely and utterly embraced it as his own ideal. In Shirou's mind, there is nothing more beautiful.
This, in turn, leads to some pretty self-destructive behavior. You see, because of his ideal, he's focused on saving everyone except one person -- himself. Shirou has no sense of self. All too often this leads to Shirou pushing himself past his limits, only to get himself severely wounded or clinging onto life by a mere thread in the process. If he has to give up his life to save even one person, he'll do it without hesitation.
Naturally, this leads to Shirou doing some pretty stupid stuff. Two such examples can be found in the first battle in Berserker. In the Fate and Heaven's Feel scenarios, Archer isn't there to back Saber up, so Saber is taking a pounding. Shirou then runs in to protect her and nearly gets cut in half as a result. Now, keep in mind that, if Shirou, the Master, dies, Saber, as his Servant, will disappear. Both Shirou and Saber were fortunate that Shirou had managed to survive. In Unlimited Blade Works, he does something similar. When Shirou realizes that Archer is targeting Saber as well as Berserker, he runs out, grabs Saber, and hauls her back. If he had been just a few seconds too slow, he would have been killed in the resulting explosion from Archer's attack. As it was, he took a serious shrapnel wound to the back that he would have avoided if he had instead called Saber to come back.
Now, with Shirou pulling stunts like this, it's natural that people call him out on his ideal. While it doesn't happen much in Fate, it happens a lot in Unlimited Blade Works. The most egregious example is Archer (which makes sense; Shirou's ideals led to the existence of Archer as we know him), but Gilgamesh lays it on pretty heavily, too. The two Servants both point out the flaws in the ideal, particularly two facets. First, a superhero can only save the people in front of him and/or the people he chooses to save. Second, if Shirou continues to pursue his ideal, there is one person he is guaranteed to fail to save -- himself.
Shirou, however, refuses to give up his ideal, even in the face of its most crippling flaws. To him, the ideal is just too beautiful to surrender. He's just that damn stubborn. Despite acknowledging its flaws, he refuses to give up on it, and continues onward. This is, however, a marked improvement, especially considering what the player would have seen when he/she read Fate. Here, Shirou knows and understands the flaws. That knowledge and understanding gives a much needed shade of gray to the otherwise black-and-white mentality the ideal involves. That shade of gray can lead Shirou to eventually correct the flaws with the ideal -- either by compensating in other areas or training himself to the point where most obstacles won't pose a problem to him -- and become better for it.
But enough negatives of Shirou's following his ideal. There is definitely one positive, which shows through the magic Shirou can perform. While most people consider projection useless because they need the raw materials in order to project (magic follows the rules of Equivalent Exchange in the Nasuverse), Shirou can project weapons without any raw materials. That's because he lacks a sense of self. Instead, he uses part of himself. Whenever Shirou projects early on, or attempts a massive projection, he experiences side effects. This ranges from a headache to the entire left side of his body going numb. And when he invokes his Reality Marble, his Magic Circuit almost explodes.
...Holy crap, I covered six paragraphs on Shirou's ideal alone? Well, there's more to him than that. First of all, Shirou is very honest. He speaks what's on his mind, and if asked about if he's thinking about something he'd rather not divulge, he'll respond in a manner that mentions the subject of his thoughts but doesn't go into any more detail than that. His honesty even extends to what other people are saying -- when Fujimura is telling Saber about Shirou's childhood, despite his not wanting her to, Shirou keeps silent because she's speaking the truth. That said, if he needs to lie, he will -- he told Sakura and Fujimura that Saber was a foreign friend of Kiritsugu's.
Shirou is also highly self-sufficient for his age. He lives on his own, he cooks his own meals (unless Sakura beats him to the kitchen), and he works various part-time jobs to earn money. On that subject, he's a very good cook. Of the three characters able to cook (himself, Sakura, and Rin) he's the best at western dishes, and while both girls are better cooks of Japanese food than he is, he still cooks it better than he does western food. He has no experience cooking Chinese food, though. At the same time, though, Shirou isn't one for cleaning. Instead, Sakura takes care of that.
Speaking of girls, Shirou definitely likes them. He's pretty normal in that regard, actually. For example, Rin is the one girl at school that every guy drools over (except Issei), and Shirou is no exception. Even when he found out that Rin wasn't like the perfect student air she gave off at school, he was still endeared to her tsundereness anyway (for this, just look at how popular tsunderes are among male fans -- again, totally normal).
At the same time, though, Shirou keeps tabs on his hormones. A lot of times, though, this manifests in a spazzfest of sorts. Rin takes to teasing him just because she gets epic reactions out of him. Also worth noting is that he takes sex seriously. He doesn't want to have sex with a girl unless a mutual attraction exists. It's this belief that turns the scene between him and Rin the night before the final battle into a magnificently heartwarming scene (at least before the smut kicks in).
Then we get into some more minor stuff. First, Shirou is an excellent archer. He used to be part of the archery club until an accident left him with a chemical burn on his right shoulder. Of all the times he fired an arrow at the archery club, there was only one time that he didn't hit the target. Also, Shirou has gotten into the habit of waking up on his own at 5:30 every morning. He believes that alarm clocks are degenerate, so he hasn't used once since he was a kid.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Work ethic. If you give Shirou a job, he will do anything he can to complete it. It doesn't matter if it's "make dinner" or "fight to the death," he'll give it his all. And in the latter case, it doesn't matter how injured he gets -- he will not die, even if he is killed.
+ Archery. As mentioned before, Shirou has a natural talent for archery. He only missed the target once, and he only quit because of a chemical burn he sustained at work.
+ Swordsmanship. While he lacks training, Shirou is a natural swordsman. This is likely associated with his magic -- his Magic Circuit is basically a specialized sword-maker, and he has a general affinity with swords.
+ Physical fitness. Shirou trains his body every day. He doesn't know any formal martial arts, but he does know how to survive combat.
+ Cooking. As mentioned before, Shirou is an excellent cook. He specializes in Japanese dishes, but his western dishes are also delicious.
+ Repairing. Shirou tends to begin each day by following the student council president around the school, repairing appliances that need to be fixed. Part of this is magic, however -- Shirou has a knack for being able to analyze the composition and structure of inanimate objects. It's part of what makes him so good at projection.
+ Honesty. As mentioned before, Shirou is very honest. He speaks the truth and lets others speak the truth, even if he doesn't like what's being discussed, and only lies when it's absolutely necessary.
+ Stubbornness. It doesn't matter how outclassed he is or how injured he gets -- he will not die, even if he is killed.
+ Selflessness. Shirou is selfless to the point where he has no sense of self whatsoever. He will help anyone who's in a jam without a thought to the consequences. This also leads into how he's able to use the magic that he possesses.
- Lack of common sense. Who runs into the middle of an explosive attack to pull a Servant out of the line of fire? Who goes to school without his Servant when he knows for a fact there's an enemy Master there? Shirou Emiya, that's who. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Shirou's idiotic moves.
- Stubbornness. Wait, didn't I mention this as a strength? Well, this is a double-edged sword. The problem with it is that it can be very hard to reason with him when he needs to be reasoned with.
- Selflessness. Another double-edged sword. No sense of self means he has no self-preservation instincts, which leads him even further into trouble when coupled with his lack of common sense. It also makes him a doormat -- a lot of the other students at school pawn their tasks off on him.
- Refusal to let others put themselves at risk. If there is one thing that Shirou will NOT do, it is endanger people he cares about. He objects frequently to people getting involved in dangerous plans, and he tries to carry too much on his own. Actually trying to get through the VN like this normally leads to a bad end, which further hammers the point home.
Pokemon
Starter: Skarmory, nickname Excalibur
Password: salmon riceballs
Samples
First Person Sample: Stop trying to talk me out of it! I'm not just going to walk away and ignore Team Rocket. They've been stealing people's Pokémon, and now they've been in Slowpoke Well cutting the tails off Slowpoke and selling them! I can't leave them be just because they've left me alone!
What you say doesn't matter. I'm going down into that well and I'm going to stop Team Rocket myself. I have Excalibur and Caladbolg, and they've both gotten so much stronger since I got them. And I...no, we won't stop until we force them out of the well and get back the Pokémon they stole from other trainers.
Third Person Sample: The first thing that Shirou registered was a bright light and unnaturally white surroundings. He slowly opened his eyes and found himself in an unfamiliar room. Memories came back to him -- memories of a raging fire, and memories of subsequently waking up in a room much like this one. Back then, he hadn't known how he survived. This time, the same was once again true.
Shirou tried to sit up, only for a fierce pain in his stomach to assault him. His breath escaped him in a hiss, and he fell back down onto the bed. He lifted the covers and saw a thick bandage wrapped around his waist. That had been where the horn had gored him. He had leaped in between a raging Nidorino and his Beedrill and had been rewarded with a horn driven into his stomach.
At least Shirou was no stranger to pain. This would take some time to heal, though, and he wouldn't be able to travel again until it did. He knew that Rin would give him an earful when she found out he was awake, too.
But it wasn't that big a price to pay in his mind. He'd rather be wounded himself than have one of his Pokémon in the ICU. He might push his Pokémon on until they can't battle any more, but he'd never risk their lives. And when that Nidorino went ballistic, he saw no other immediate options.
Shirou looked out to the side and saw a window. Through the window he could see sunlight, though whether it was morning or afternoon he wasn't sure. Either way, he was stuck until a doctor came in to explain how much damage had been done and how it had been treated. And, most importantly, how long it would take him to recover. With that in mind, Shirou turned his head back toward the ceiling and closed his eyes once again.
Name: Chris
Livejournal Username: hurricane_chris
E-mail: hurchris@ptd.net
AIM/MSN: HurricaneChris04
Timezone: EDT (GMT -4 or -5 when DST is over)
Current Characters in Route: Athrun Zala
Character
Name: Shirou Emiya
Series: Fate/Stay Night
Timeline: Unlimited Blade Works True End
Canon Resource Links: http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Emiya_Shirou
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fate/stay_night_characters#Main_characters
Affiliation: Trainer
Personality: The first thing that needs to be mentioned in a discussion of Shirou as a character is his ideal. Shirou's greatest desire is to become a "hero of justice" and save anyone and everyone that needs to be saved. While this is a borrowed ideal -- which originally came from Kiritsugu -- Shirou has completely and utterly embraced it as his own ideal. In Shirou's mind, there is nothing more beautiful.
This, in turn, leads to some pretty self-destructive behavior. You see, because of his ideal, he's focused on saving everyone except one person -- himself. Shirou has no sense of self. All too often this leads to Shirou pushing himself past his limits, only to get himself severely wounded or clinging onto life by a mere thread in the process. If he has to give up his life to save even one person, he'll do it without hesitation.
Naturally, this leads to Shirou doing some pretty stupid stuff. Two such examples can be found in the first battle in Berserker. In the Fate and Heaven's Feel scenarios, Archer isn't there to back Saber up, so Saber is taking a pounding. Shirou then runs in to protect her and nearly gets cut in half as a result. Now, keep in mind that, if Shirou, the Master, dies, Saber, as his Servant, will disappear. Both Shirou and Saber were fortunate that Shirou had managed to survive. In Unlimited Blade Works, he does something similar. When Shirou realizes that Archer is targeting Saber as well as Berserker, he runs out, grabs Saber, and hauls her back. If he had been just a few seconds too slow, he would have been killed in the resulting explosion from Archer's attack. As it was, he took a serious shrapnel wound to the back that he would have avoided if he had instead called Saber to come back.
Now, with Shirou pulling stunts like this, it's natural that people call him out on his ideal. While it doesn't happen much in Fate, it happens a lot in Unlimited Blade Works. The most egregious example is Archer (which makes sense; Shirou's ideals led to the existence of Archer as we know him), but Gilgamesh lays it on pretty heavily, too. The two Servants both point out the flaws in the ideal, particularly two facets. First, a superhero can only save the people in front of him and/or the people he chooses to save. Second, if Shirou continues to pursue his ideal, there is one person he is guaranteed to fail to save -- himself.
Shirou, however, refuses to give up his ideal, even in the face of its most crippling flaws. To him, the ideal is just too beautiful to surrender. He's just that damn stubborn. Despite acknowledging its flaws, he refuses to give up on it, and continues onward. This is, however, a marked improvement, especially considering what the player would have seen when he/she read Fate. Here, Shirou knows and understands the flaws. That knowledge and understanding gives a much needed shade of gray to the otherwise black-and-white mentality the ideal involves. That shade of gray can lead Shirou to eventually correct the flaws with the ideal -- either by compensating in other areas or training himself to the point where most obstacles won't pose a problem to him -- and become better for it.
But enough negatives of Shirou's following his ideal. There is definitely one positive, which shows through the magic Shirou can perform. While most people consider projection useless because they need the raw materials in order to project (magic follows the rules of Equivalent Exchange in the Nasuverse), Shirou can project weapons without any raw materials. That's because he lacks a sense of self. Instead, he uses part of himself. Whenever Shirou projects early on, or attempts a massive projection, he experiences side effects. This ranges from a headache to the entire left side of his body going numb. And when he invokes his Reality Marble, his Magic Circuit almost explodes.
...Holy crap, I covered six paragraphs on Shirou's ideal alone? Well, there's more to him than that. First of all, Shirou is very honest. He speaks what's on his mind, and if asked about if he's thinking about something he'd rather not divulge, he'll respond in a manner that mentions the subject of his thoughts but doesn't go into any more detail than that. His honesty even extends to what other people are saying -- when Fujimura is telling Saber about Shirou's childhood, despite his not wanting her to, Shirou keeps silent because she's speaking the truth. That said, if he needs to lie, he will -- he told Sakura and Fujimura that Saber was a foreign friend of Kiritsugu's.
Shirou is also highly self-sufficient for his age. He lives on his own, he cooks his own meals (unless Sakura beats him to the kitchen), and he works various part-time jobs to earn money. On that subject, he's a very good cook. Of the three characters able to cook (himself, Sakura, and Rin) he's the best at western dishes, and while both girls are better cooks of Japanese food than he is, he still cooks it better than he does western food. He has no experience cooking Chinese food, though. At the same time, though, Shirou isn't one for cleaning. Instead, Sakura takes care of that.
Speaking of girls, Shirou definitely likes them. He's pretty normal in that regard, actually. For example, Rin is the one girl at school that every guy drools over (except Issei), and Shirou is no exception. Even when he found out that Rin wasn't like the perfect student air she gave off at school, he was still endeared to her tsundereness anyway (for this, just look at how popular tsunderes are among male fans -- again, totally normal).
At the same time, though, Shirou keeps tabs on his hormones. A lot of times, though, this manifests in a spazzfest of sorts. Rin takes to teasing him just because she gets epic reactions out of him. Also worth noting is that he takes sex seriously. He doesn't want to have sex with a girl unless a mutual attraction exists. It's this belief that turns the scene between him and Rin the night before the final battle into a magnificently heartwarming scene (at least before the smut kicks in).
Then we get into some more minor stuff. First, Shirou is an excellent archer. He used to be part of the archery club until an accident left him with a chemical burn on his right shoulder. Of all the times he fired an arrow at the archery club, there was only one time that he didn't hit the target. Also, Shirou has gotten into the habit of waking up on his own at 5:30 every morning. He believes that alarm clocks are degenerate, so he hasn't used once since he was a kid.
Strengths/Weaknesses:
+ Work ethic. If you give Shirou a job, he will do anything he can to complete it. It doesn't matter if it's "make dinner" or "fight to the death," he'll give it his all. And in the latter case, it doesn't matter how injured he gets -- he will not die, even if he is killed.
+ Archery. As mentioned before, Shirou has a natural talent for archery. He only missed the target once, and he only quit because of a chemical burn he sustained at work.
+ Swordsmanship. While he lacks training, Shirou is a natural swordsman. This is likely associated with his magic -- his Magic Circuit is basically a specialized sword-maker, and he has a general affinity with swords.
+ Physical fitness. Shirou trains his body every day. He doesn't know any formal martial arts, but he does know how to survive combat.
+ Cooking. As mentioned before, Shirou is an excellent cook. He specializes in Japanese dishes, but his western dishes are also delicious.
+ Repairing. Shirou tends to begin each day by following the student council president around the school, repairing appliances that need to be fixed. Part of this is magic, however -- Shirou has a knack for being able to analyze the composition and structure of inanimate objects. It's part of what makes him so good at projection.
+ Honesty. As mentioned before, Shirou is very honest. He speaks the truth and lets others speak the truth, even if he doesn't like what's being discussed, and only lies when it's absolutely necessary.
+ Stubbornness. It doesn't matter how outclassed he is or how injured he gets -- he will not die, even if he is killed.
+ Selflessness. Shirou is selfless to the point where he has no sense of self whatsoever. He will help anyone who's in a jam without a thought to the consequences. This also leads into how he's able to use the magic that he possesses.
- Lack of common sense. Who runs into the middle of an explosive attack to pull a Servant out of the line of fire? Who goes to school without his Servant when he knows for a fact there's an enemy Master there? Shirou Emiya, that's who. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Shirou's idiotic moves.
- Stubbornness. Wait, didn't I mention this as a strength? Well, this is a double-edged sword. The problem with it is that it can be very hard to reason with him when he needs to be reasoned with.
- Selflessness. Another double-edged sword. No sense of self means he has no self-preservation instincts, which leads him even further into trouble when coupled with his lack of common sense. It also makes him a doormat -- a lot of the other students at school pawn their tasks off on him.
- Refusal to let others put themselves at risk. If there is one thing that Shirou will NOT do, it is endanger people he cares about. He objects frequently to people getting involved in dangerous plans, and he tries to carry too much on his own. Actually trying to get through the VN like this normally leads to a bad end, which further hammers the point home.
Pokemon
Starter: Skarmory, nickname Excalibur
Password: salmon riceballs
Samples
First Person Sample: Stop trying to talk me out of it! I'm not just going to walk away and ignore Team Rocket. They've been stealing people's Pokémon, and now they've been in Slowpoke Well cutting the tails off Slowpoke and selling them! I can't leave them be just because they've left me alone!
What you say doesn't matter. I'm going down into that well and I'm going to stop Team Rocket myself. I have Excalibur and Caladbolg, and they've both gotten so much stronger since I got them. And I...no, we won't stop until we force them out of the well and get back the Pokémon they stole from other trainers.
Third Person Sample: The first thing that Shirou registered was a bright light and unnaturally white surroundings. He slowly opened his eyes and found himself in an unfamiliar room. Memories came back to him -- memories of a raging fire, and memories of subsequently waking up in a room much like this one. Back then, he hadn't known how he survived. This time, the same was once again true.
Shirou tried to sit up, only for a fierce pain in his stomach to assault him. His breath escaped him in a hiss, and he fell back down onto the bed. He lifted the covers and saw a thick bandage wrapped around his waist. That had been where the horn had gored him. He had leaped in between a raging Nidorino and his Beedrill and had been rewarded with a horn driven into his stomach.
At least Shirou was no stranger to pain. This would take some time to heal, though, and he wouldn't be able to travel again until it did. He knew that Rin would give him an earful when she found out he was awake, too.
But it wasn't that big a price to pay in his mind. He'd rather be wounded himself than have one of his Pokémon in the ICU. He might push his Pokémon on until they can't battle any more, but he'd never risk their lives. And when that Nidorino went ballistic, he saw no other immediate options.
Shirou looked out to the side and saw a window. Through the window he could see sunlight, though whether it was morning or afternoon he wasn't sure. Either way, he was stuck until a doctor came in to explain how much damage had been done and how it had been treated. And, most importantly, how long it would take him to recover. With that in mind, Shirou turned his head back toward the ceiling and closed his eyes once again.