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emiya-san chi no kyou no gohan pages art by TAa from TYPE-MOON Ace 16
Every new chapter of Emiya Gohan is always great (even if I don't understand Japanese).
Gilgamesh stealing food from Lancer is the cutest shit ever.
Such a dork😆😌💕
Also it's not the first time Gil steals food from someone. He also one time stole grilled potatoes from Shirou and Assassin. And he burned his mouth too. Dumbass😆
“Sakura, just now that was…”
“Oh, yes, a second year-”
“That was Tohsaka right? Tohsaka Rin?”
“…Senpai, you know her?”
“Well, she stands out doesn’t she?”
“…Yes. Tohsaka-senpai is so beautiful and talented.”
So I've been thinking about post-heavens feel.
Like there is an over 50% chance some dumb ass magus learns about Sakura and/or Shirou and trys to pull something and I can only imagine it ending like this
Post-HF Rin strikes me as a woman who would approach any threat to her family with absolute overkill.
She zero hesitation bought a body from fucking Touko. I love Touko but the woman has the worst fucking rep.
Anyway I HF Rin is probably 2 degrees from a rabid animal by magus standards.
Like...
Dumb ass:"YES! Once I gain this power"
*jesters to Sakura and Shirou*
"My family's research will be conplete!....wait what that lig-"
*is atomized by prismatic light"
Big fan of these two panels
Before I was still bad at Japanese translation......I translate
Archer: Be beautiful. Be young. And it was a recruitment condition to be pure but----ahem. In the first place, you are the one who is unfamiliar with it!
For this new English Patch.....this blog.....
Archer: Be young. Lastly, be chaste. Those were the requirements, right? However-------Ahem. YOU'RE the one who has no experience!
What the hell with you Shirou?! Don't say stuff like that in front of Vergin girl! Geez!!(Sometimes let Hakunon handle this, okay?)
Cover for El-Melloi Adventures volume 7, releases on New Year's.
"Shirou, crouch down."
@giftober 2023: DAY 29 -BACKBAGS/ HANDBAGS
Spoilers for Fate/Samurai Remnant, and probably Fate/stay night but that's been out longer, but short spoiler free version, Iori Miyamoto, and Shirou Emiya, should never, NEVER, meet each other
For those unaware let us start in release order, Shirou Emiya.
Shirou 'is', a sword. In universe, his very being, due to several complex and unimportant factor, is made of swords, to the point that a bad ending in Fate includes his body erupting in blades, killing him. However this is not what I mean. I mean, Shirou is a sword, in that at the start, he is a tool. He wants to be of use to others, while having no idea of his own wants. A sword does not choose how it is used, simply that it is. At most, he would want to be a sword, used to save others. He wants to, due to his personal survivor's guilt and mental damage, to save every person before him, asking to be saved. This causes no amount of trouble for himself, including a copy of a future, bitter, traumatized version of himself wanting to kill him to prevent the harm these ideals had caused. But, at his core, that is what Shirou wants. To be of use to others, and to save them. For he is a sword, a tool to be used.
This, however, is not the Way of the Sword. This, Iori would argue, is not a sword's purpose.
Iori Miyamoto, the protagonist of Fate/Samurai Remnant, is the adopted son and student of Musashi Miyamoto, the famed swordsman and philosopher. In this series, Iori is the surviving orphan, of a town attacked and purged by bandits, and the bandits in turn, purged by a wandering swordsman. We do not learn who this 'sword saint' was, all we know is that a young boy was saved, and became obsessed, with surpassing the sword he saw that night. And in the bad ending, which is only unlockable after beating the game at least once, we learn that Iori is not a well boy. He, as he puts it, looks kind and warm, but he is not kind. He can project kind, he can present functional, and when with his fellow adopted sibling, Kaya, he can even go with the flow of being, 'normal'. But he is not a normal man. He is a student of the Way of the Sword. And the way of the sword, is not a path of protecting. A sword is only ever made, to kill. A sword can be used to protect, a sword can be used, and the user can choose not to kill. But when a sword is made, for the purpose to be used as a sword, that purpose, is to end lives around them. That is the path Iori wishes to walk, and most days fights to keep in check. Iori is a man who wants to perfect his skills, in order to kill more perfectly. Iori, as Musashi put it when alive, was born in the wrong age. If he had been born decades before, this would make him a hero. When born in a stagnant age of peace, as the beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate generally was, it simply makes him a sword demon, waiting.
Shirou, and Iori, should never meet each other. They should never be left in a room together, never left to talk about their experiences with their Sabers, never study each other's fighting styles. They will, eventually, learn each other's nature. They will, eventually, come to conflict with each other. They will, try to kill each other, and it will destroy each other. It will end, most times than not, with both of their deaths, be it in the exchange of blows, or one killed for striking down the other. ... But that's just me, I might be reading too much into things.
Sakura finally gained despite losing a lot. The answer arrived at after determination and miracles is HF. That is why, although it is cruel, but can't help but feel satisfied with the other answers.
I just rewatched the scene where Shirou stabs Sakura in the finale and breaks the contract between her and Angra, and something just occurred to me that parallels between that and the earlier scene where he can’t bring himself to kill her.
In one, he can’t stab her because it means she’ll die. But in the other, he stabs her because it’s the only way to save her.
And you can see it in the way he is shown in each scene. In one, he’s trembling, barely able to hold the knife, but in the other, he’s confident, happy in this path that he’s decided on.
And Sakura is accepting of it in both cases, but in the first she accepts that she has to die, and is happy for it to be by Shirou’s hand, for her life of suffering to come to an end. And in the second, she chooses to go on living like this, with Shirou by her side.
Unlike his father, when told he has to kill the person he cares about more than any other, he chose to refuse that and found another way. The first way is what Kiritsugu would’ve have done, and had done. And the second is a result of who Shirou is and the growth he went through throughout this route.
Would he have made a different decision in the other routes? Of course, but that’s the beauty of his character, there’s so many different versions of him, some people like UBW Shirou most, some like HF Shirou most, and I’m sure some like Fate Shirou most, he’s a complex character, with many different sides of him explored, and that’s just wonderful.
