Yes, I saw it over and over… Meaningless massacres. Meaningless suffering. Meaningless happiness! I was forced to watch it all. Even when I refused to look, it surrounded me. That isn’t what I wished for! I didn’t become a Guardian for this!
NAME: EMIYA, エミヤ. ALIAS: Archer, Faker, Actually Satan. GENDER • SPECIES: Male | Servant, Human, Magus. DATE OF BIRTH • AGE: N/A | Late twenties to early thirties. HAIR • EYE COLOR: Ashen white | Gunmetal gray. HEIGHT • WEIGHT: 187cm | 78kg.
APPEARANCE: Archer has short hair with the exception of being white and swept backwards, gray eyes and tanned skin color. His skin, hair and eye colors are different to his younger self due to the extensive use of projection magecraft that caused a rebound effect. He wears body armor consisting of a black tight and sleeveless shirt with silver accents and a metal plate on his collar, along with black pants that have two black straps on his thighs, and another two strapped around his shins separate from each other. He wears black metal plated shoes, which appear to be attached to his trousers. His signature red coat is a type of holy shroud, which were actually two separate sleeves connected by a metal plate at the back which covered his arms and had a separate red open skirt which ended above his shins with the top fashioned and tied with an agemaki knot, covered by a silver metal plate.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Straight. MARITAL STATUS: He's got hoes. SIGNIFICANT OTHER:Rin's defenseless bum. LIKES | DISLIKES: Housework, Cooking, Electronics | Immature ideals, Blue Lancers and Gold Archers. PREFERRED WEAPONS: Kanshou and Bakuya.
PERSONALITY: While he is thoroughly cynical and nihilistic, he is at the same time devoted and protective, and even a little childish to the point that it makes him hard to hate. He does not lie, but he does keep secrets and tell half truths. He means well and is capable of being nice, but often ends up being sarcastic, especially so when he gives advice.
He believed that gaining power as a Counter Guardian would help him save everyone, but it was a mere continuation of his life's work where he had to sacrifice a minority for the good of the majority. In the end, he was even betrayed by the one ideal he believed in.
Is it really worth saving this sad and ugly world, when there is nothing left after it is saved? With all this death, cruelty and sadness, do you still want to become a hero?
I was driven by my obsessive need to help someone.
I kept running, neither noticing the pain nor how wrong I was. But it's all a fake.
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He is not a proper Heroic Spirit in the sense of other heroes. He is an alternate version of Shirou Emiya from an alternate timeline of Fate/stay night where he made a contract with the World (Alaya) and became the Heroic Spirit EMIYA. He acts as a Counter Guardian for the world as payment for the contract. He is summoned because he still has the jewel pendant that Rin used to save his life after Lancer stabbed his heart. 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.
The beginning conditions for Archer's Holy Grail War were mostly the same as that of the Fate/stay night universe, but it could be said that "something was missing." The following events of the war happened in a similar manner to the Fate scenario, having summoned Saber and continued fighting together with her until the end, but while he understood her, he didn't "save Saber's heart." After they destroyed the Grail and parted, he went on to cooperate with Rin and headed to London. He eventually went on to work as a freelance magus to pursue his dream of becoming a hero of Justice. He stubbornly trained himself while pursuing his dream of saving mankind, but later fell into despair upon realizing that his abilities were insufficient in fulfilling his goal. Sometime in his twenties, he obtained his signature red overcoat, possibly as a gift from Ciel of the Church. He at some point encountered and fought beings similar to Angra Mainyu, but he was forced to retreat when he was unable to act against them. He later gained some understanding of such beings as targets of the Counter Force upon entering the Throne of Heroes.
He had to make a life changing decision. Confronted by a calamity which had the potential of killing one hundred people before him, he decided to "make a contract" with the World to become a hero capable of producing miracles and become a Heroic Spirit after his death.[14] He believed he could save both the lives of the dying people before him and save even more as a hero after his death. Although he desperately fought to end a war, he was in turn branded as the mastermind behind that war and subsequently executed because of the betrayal of his allies. Although he died of betrayal, he did not hate mankind. However, the "World" ironically gave him the duty as a Heroic Spirit "to slaughter all humans at a particular location when mankind is at the threshold of complete self destruction", a "Counter Guardian".
His belief that he would continue to save many people as a Heroic Spirit did happen, but it was through being made to clean up after human actions and forced to take many lives to save humanity as a whole, instead of "saving everyone" - protecting humans without having to cause deaths of humans as he would have liked to. After seeing human self-destruction and forced to oppose his own ideals countless times, he began to deny himself and his ideal. Even knowing that the Throne of Heroes was isolated from time and space, Archer desperately came to believe that his only hope of release was to have himself summoned into an era where Shirou Emiya exists and kill his past self, hoping that the double paradox created by Shirou Emiya being killed before having a chance to make the contract with Alaya and that the killing was done by a Shirou Emiya who successfully made the contract with the world would create a time paradox great enough in magnitude that could potentially erase his existence as a Counter Guardian.
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I shall call you Rin. …Yes, the name suits you well.
On the night of the summoning, Archer assessed the situation and deduced the current circumstances. He believed that he would have the opportunity to achieve his goal.
At the instant Rin introduced herself, Archer believed the girl who summoned him was "Tohsaka Rin" (not due to his memory being confused, but the name Tohsaka Rin being worn off). At that moment, Archer recalled like a jolt of lightning: "――Rin. Ah, that's the name――" Archer murmured this under his breath at that time. It was truly from his heart and filled with much endearment close to insanity.
I am the bone of my sword,
Steel is my body and fire is my blood.
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Unlimited Blade Works: Infinite Creation of Swords is the Reality Marble of Shirou Emiya and the Noble Phantasm of the Heroic Spirit EMIYA and his Fate/EXTRA counterpart.
EMIYA does not have a true Noble Phantasm that is the crystallized embodiment of a hero's existence like many demonic or holy swords, but if a Noble Phantasm is considered to be a symbol of the Heroic Spirit, then the Reality Marble is his Noble Phantasm.
It is a high-class Thaumaturgy that embodies their internal worlds and imprints them upon the World as a Bounded Field for a short amount of time. It is their one true specialization of Magecraft, the result of Sword being both their Origin and their Elemental Affinity, and the basis of their Projection and Reinforcement skills.
It is the definite answer obtained by someone whose life was saved by a sword, actually merged and lived with a sword, and acted as a sword all of his life.
➺ •I wish not to cut into both of our messages, thus I will reach you here.
Forgive me for the delay. Once more. I'm just working myself to the bone for this project I've envisioned, as well as dealing with my everyday ventures.
I mean not to keep you waiting. Thus I ask for your forgiveness. I shall tend to your replies post-haste, the moment I find time to myself. It shouldn't be more than a day or two more.
Nevertheless, I'm pleased to hear that your vacation was well spent.
I hope this day finds you in high spirits and good company.
How can you be so messy at home but the smartest individual in everything else? This is dope btw! I'm actually trying to learn how to color manga panels using Photoshop.
OOC: What a talented writer you are. It's very nice to meet you and seeing how skillful you are, I'm even more excited to get something going with you.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with the series you're from, so you're going to have to hold my hand a bit. As for Demon Slayer, if you have only watched the anime, I'd rather not spoil anything, but if you're sure, I may incorperate a few things to make matters easier in terms of communication between our characters.
I want to sincerely thank you for your interest in writing with me. I hope you're having a lovely day and I can't wait to start brainstorming with you. I've been a bit slow as of late, but I assure you that I will get to you as soon as I can.
