
His belief that he would continue to save many people as a Heroic Spirit did not happen, but rather he was made to clean up after human actions and forced to take many lives to save humanity as a whole instead. Although he desperately fought to end a war, he was in turn branded as the mastermind behind that war and subsequently executed. In order to save the lives of a hundred of people dying before him in a calamity, for the sake of saving the lives that his eyes could see and for the sake of saving even more lives as a Heroic Spirit after his death, he made a contract with the world and became a hero. It was during this time when he received his signature red overcoat as a gift from Ciel of the Burial Agency.

To this end, he stubbornly trained himself to his peak and began working as a freelance magus similar to his father. After the end of each of the three routes in Fate/stay night, the possibility for Shirou to become Archer still exists, but the chance is it happening is close to zero.Īfter winning the fifth Holy Grail War along with his Servant Saber, Emiya Shirou was all the more inspired to pursue his dream of becoming a superhero.

The jewel he owns is the actual catalyst used for his summoning rather than the one that Rin still has at the time of his summoning. He is summoned because he still has the jewel pendant that Rin used to save his life after Lancer stabbed his heart. He acts as a Counter Guardian for the world as payment for the contract. His true identity is that of Shirou Emiya of an alternate timeline from that of Fate/stay night who made a contract with the world and became the Heroic Spirit EMIYA. In the English version of the Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works anime, he is voiced by Kaiji Tang, who also voices Wingul and Kouen Ren.Īrcher is not a proper Heroic Spirit in the sense of other heroes. He is voiced by Junichi Sawabe in the Japanese version of the anime and Liam O'Brien in the English version.
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He is Shirou Emiya from an alternate future, with his goal being to kill the present Shirou to prevent him from making the same mistakes he did, and possibly free himself from his torturous existence as a Guardian. He has also appeared in other media including Fate/Grand Order: First Order as the secondary antagonist. A supporting protagonist/anti-hero in all three routes, Archer is the Servant protagonist and one of the two secondary antagonists of the Unlimited Blade Works route (alongside Kirei Kotomine).
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And if you can't live without that dream, let it drag you down and drown you!Īrcher is one of the main protagonists of the visual novel and anime series Fate/stay night.

It's dawning upon you that a world where everyone is happy is just a fairy tale.

Maybe other people aren't more important than you are. That's why you never developed any real passions of your own! If that isn't hypocrisy, then what is?! You're driven by this ridiculous obsession with sacrificing yourself for the sake of others, blind to your own arrogance! But in the end you are a fraud and your hypocrisy can't save anyone! How could you when you never knew who you should save to begin with?! And look! This is the result! You could never be a saviour! You never had anything to save! You became the embodiment of justice and justice can be cruel! Your ideals are falling apart. You couldn't help but admire the beauty in your father's dream of helping others. Something like you believing you can be a force for good, it is the height of hubris! That's right. Just because the idea consumes you, it doesn't mean helping others is something you truly want.
