SHIROU NOTES

[gage]

- INCREDIBLY DENSE
- "The big Emiya household doesn't suit me, and I can only relax in this space full of junk."
- Fixes broken items as a hobby
- Trains his body to be like Kiritsugu
- "Heehee. Senpai, you always put too much weight on these things. Mitsuzuri-Senpai always says you're so honest that it's annoying."
- "I don't mind people thinking highly of me, but I guess it depends on who they are."
- Can look inside of an object with his sense of touch
- Learned that magic from Kiritsugu
- Has no talent for magic
- "I'll help if there's anything I can help with"
- "You're the sort to lose your temper easily"
- "Furukawa's an idiot, but so are you.
Oh well. You never turn down anyone asking for help, do you?"
- "I don't take impossible jobs. I only accept things I can do."
- "You're a good person, but a bit stupid."
- "You just help anyone who comes to ask you."
"Hm? Am I that indiscriminate?"
- "But I'm doing it because I want to, and it's not a problem as I decline things that I think are beyond me."
- "He's always on the losing side because he's the one helping everyone else"
"I'm not on the losing side if I help someone and they're helped by it."
- "But he's not meddlesome, he's just a bit precocious"
- "Shirou is a person who can't ignore someone in trouble. It's like helping the weak and defeating the strong. In the essay he wrote as a child, he said 'My dream is to become a superhero'."
- Doesn't care about being a magus, he just wants to be like Kiritsugu
- Is a good cook
- "I was taught the difference between killing your opponent and beating your opponent."
- Doesn't worry about suddenly bleeding and having a giant mark on his arm
- Knows what it feels like to die
- "You're quick-witted, but you suck at magic. It seems like you have talent, but I guess you're just too young."
- Thinks the Holy Grail War is ridiculous
- Doesn't like Kotomine, and feels uneasy around him
- Doesn't run away, even when faced with Berserker
- Feels that he can match a god with Saber at his side, and learns to accept the consequences of the war
- "You're confused, but you're thinking as well."
- Thanks Rin, even though she's his enemy
- Emiya Shirou has been training in magic to become a superhero, to protect innocent people.
- Despite not knowing fully of what a servant is, he has a lot of faith in Saber
- Thinks things through quickly
- Isn't fighting for the Holy Grail, but to prevent the the conflict
- Wants to become a superhero because of Kiritsugu, since he wants Kiritsugu's dream to come true
- "In it all, I was saved, and a person was there to save me.
That's why I decided to become like him.
Become a superhero, so that I could save people and let no one be killed… just like him.
Even if it may be a child-like fantasy, I yearned to become one."
- "You are brave. You are always selecting the choice that brings you pain."
- Doesn't think he can ever accept Archer, and dislikes him
- Even though Archer saved his life, he doesn't agree with his decision to let her go
- "Well, I just thought it is rare for you to insult someone. I have only been with you for a few days, but I understand that you are not one to insult others."
- "I want to be like Kiritsugu someday."
- "Yeah. I never thought training in magic was fun. I never considered magic or training to be fun. But I was glad to have people around me be happy. Um, I thought I could be of help to someone if I studied magic."
- "I wanted to be a superhero like Kiritsugu. I learned magic for that reason. …Well, that's my reason."
- "Yes, Shirou hates losing. His persistent mind is reassuring during battles."
- I knew more than anyone that I'm powerless.
- "Tohsaka, no matter how much you tell me…"
If I believe it is right, I will believe in this path until the very end.
I won't stop, and I won't let her fight by herself.
- Will keep going, even if in pain
- I don't want to regret anything.
I want to make all the tragedies that happened into meaningful things by believing that my path is right.
- "The fact that people are dying bothers you more than the fact that you might die.
That's why you decided to fight no matter how weak you are."
- "…You seem like you don't know anything, but you know some interesting terms."
- But I still considered it…
How wonderful it would be…
If I was able to save everything here.
- I will take the wrong path and lose a lot of things at times.
But I cannot discard them as meaningless.
- I don't want anyone dying in front of me.
It is more painful and scary than anything else not to be able to save someone asking for help.
- "Shirou. Your way of life is really distorted."
- "It's wrong to live thinking that others are more important than you."
- "You never had proper training as a magus, but you got calm every time you got into a fight to the death.
You would get enraged by seeing corpses, but you didn't feel any shock or disgust."
- "I have accepted death."
- "I realize there's something wrong with me. But it's all right.
Because there's no way that wanting to help people can be a mistake."
- Tohsaka told me such a life is unnatural.
…I know.
I realized that a long time ago.
There's no world where nobody gets hurt
- "Hm-- you are getting better at making excuses, Shirou."
- "That's how I've been living up to now. I've always believed that I am right. As he says, I'm sure it's full of false courage and distortion.
I've lost more than I've gained.
But that's all the more reason why.
I cannot withdraw for the sake of the things I've lost."
- Emiya Shirou is not a swordsman.
We are beings that create swords.
- There were things I lost,
and there were things I dropped.
There are always things that will be forgotten.
So I swore to myself never to forget this one fact.
-- To become a superhero.
I will protect it even if it isn't my wish, or even if it is just sophistry to soften my guilt.
It has to come true...
The person who saved me died, leaving those words behind.
I believe in the wish contained in those words.
Even if everyone in this world disagrees with me, and even if I myself curse me, I--
- My wishes are all borrowed.
I just admired the wish of wanting to help someone because it's beautiful.
So there's nothing that came from within me.
My body has always been driven by a curse-like obsession with helping others.
- I know that I can't save everything.
I know that there's no help without sacrifices.
I know that reality is like that because I became an adult.
I know it's only an ideal, but I still continue to seek it.
- It's not the end after someone gets hurt.
Even if the best possible outcome has someone get hurt to save many others, I still want to pursue a resolution where nobody is hurt.
That there is no justice in this world,
and that people die meaninglessly in reality…
I don't think such words are right…!
- I don't care, even if it's a fake.
First of all, I'm too simple-minded to worry about such a thing.