Shirou Emiya

Shirou Emiya is a male character who features in Fate/stay night.

Biography

Shirou Emiya (Japanese: 衛宮 士郎, Hepburn: Emiya Shirō) was a male human who lived in Japan by the modern age where he was with his family in Shinto. Around 10 years ago, the Fourth Grail War resulted in a great fire erupting that consumed the city which killed his parents whilst leaving Shirou mortally wounded in the blaze. In that state, he was found by Kiritsugu Emiya who came to save the child after feeling responsible for the events of the recent disaster. Unknown to Shirou, he embedded within the boy Avalon which was responsible for saving his life and then asked to adopt him after revealing that he was a magus. The young Shirou agreed where he took the last name of Emiya and for the next 2 years came to persistently ask Kiritsigu to teach him Magecraft. Kiritsugu though disapproved of teaching him his craft but relented though only taught Shirou the basics and asked that he applied it in secret to help people in a way that would not draw suspicion.

Kiritsugu would later die as a result of the black mud from the Grail leaving Shirou frustrated, depressed, and alone. He was subsequently watched over by Taiga Fujimura, Shirou's longtime neighbor and his English teacher, and his living expenses were managed by her grandfather, Raiga Fujimura. He later went to a middle school where he encountered Shinji Matou around October of his second year when he had to remake the signboard of the culture festival according to the design of third year students in a single evening. Shinji, who oversaw that throughout the evening, said "Hmm... you're an idiot but you actually do a pretty good job," and started to laugh. Following the incident, the two became friends.

After starting in Homurahara High School, he met Issei Ryuudou and became known as someone who would readily do anything to help others, such as fixing the school equipment. He later joined the Archery Club, which led to an estranged relationship with Shinji. He missed the target only once during the period that he was enrolled, but even then he said that he saw that "it will miss" before even shooting it. He withdrew during the summer of his first year due to a bone fracture in his right shoulder he received during his part-time job, which left a burn mark over the skin. The wound itself was nothing major, but Shinji pointed out that it was unsightly for someone with a burn mark to do a formal shooting, so he left the club as it was also a period when he was busy with his part-time job. Their relationship eventually stabilized, but some tension still remained. Shirou also got closer to Sakura as she started to visit his household frequently during the period while he was injured in order to help him cook and clean up the house. Even after he was healed, she continued to come as a member of his surrogate family.

Five years later, Shirou was a student of Year 2WP Class C of Homurahara School. One day, he witnessed two servants fight which led to him eventually summoning a Servant of his own Saber where he learnt of the Heaven's Feel Ritual. He had no interest in the Holy Grail and instead despised its use. However, he was determined to win the Holy Grail War with Saber for he hoped his efforts will ensure that another disaster like the Fuyuki conflagration will never occur again.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Shirou Emiya was a human male who as a teenager had auburn hair and golden-brown coloured eyes.

One of his hobbies was cooking where one of his forte's was Japanese cuisine.

Due to the trauma he suffered during the great fire, Shirou has a constant emptiness in his personality and suffers from tremendous survivor's guilt. He feels that, as the only survivor, it is unfair to the deceased to prioritize his own needs before those of others. He has a distorted sense of values where he only finds self-worth from helping people without any compensation, feeling that the very act 'helping people' was its own reward. He believes it is highly unfair that some people survive and others do not. When it comes down to receiving an injury or even giving up his life to help someone, he will do it without a second thought. The people who see this side of him are often very worried and attempt to correct his behavior, though they are unable to change his opinions. Kiritsugu often talked about how he used strive to protect the innocent from the world's many perils, even at the cost of his own humanity, and how he was saddened by the reality that whenever he was able to spare one life, another person was fated to die. Although Kiritsugu was tormented by his inability to save everyone, Shirou always admired his efforts. Right before Kiritsugu's death, Shirou pledged to be a Hero of Justice in Kiritsugu's place and strive to protect everyone at the cost of his own life. Everything that he is thus far is the result of that very pledge. He has made it his dream to become a "Hero of Justice" who will save everyone regardless of what happens to his own life.

After the last Grail War, the orphaned Shirou was adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya (衛宮 切嗣, Emiya Kiritsugu?) thus becoming his son. This also made him the adopted brother of Illyasviel Von Einzbern.

It was shown that he was initially attracted to Saber from the moment he saw her after she had been summoned.

The characters relationships varied depending on which route had been taken.

Powers and abilities

Whilst living with Kiritsugu, he was trained as a magus though his training was not formal leading to him now following the typical path of a magi. As such, he had been taught Magecraft (魔術, Majutsu?) though he only had the most basic training. This was to the point that Emiya's basic training in Magecraft was noted for being extremely lacking.

Despite any more training, even when following Rin to the Mage's Association, he will never leave the level of a magus apprentice. Should Rin be given a ranking ranging from seventy to one hundred as a magus, Shirou would only rank as a ten. Ranked within the classification as a specialist Spellcaster, he would be received as someone on par with Kiritsugu's evaluation as a 'Magus Killer' with a rank of forty.

His unorthodox training led to him developing a very specialized version of projection magecraft.

He temporarily utilizes a bow during the second battle with Berserker, having imitated Archer's Bow. Shirou's Bow (士郎の弓, Shirō no Yumi?) was formed by utilizing strengthening magecraft on a tree branch he had found, and he creates arrows for it in the same manner. It utilizes the same design for the most part, but the arrow rest and grip are amateurish and simple compared to those of Archer's Bow. Shirou personally thinks it is ugly and crooked, but it functions properly as a bow. It is also slightly less curved due to Shirou's preference in the Japanese method of shooting. He is only a practitioner of Japanese archery compared to Archer's Western method, so he subconsciously altered the bow into his preferred shape without realizing it.

Notes

• Shirou Emiya was created by Kinoko Nasu where he featured in the setting of TYPE-MOONs Fate universe.

Alternate Versions

• In an alternate future timeline, Shirou 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. Rin intended to summon a strong Saber class servant without a catalyst. Unknowing to her, the jewel pendant was used as a catalyst which summoned the Heroic Spirit EMIYA. Rin's Pendant, a one-of-a-kind jewel kept by Emiya as a keepsake of his unknown savior over the years. Differing from normal, it was not the pendant Rin owns in the present that acts as the catalyst. Emiya is instead a case where he holds a catalyst with a connection to his summoner. Archer crash landed in one of the mansion' rooms after the summoning process was completed. He is disappointed by her first impression of him, to which she questions what he is "supposed" to be. After the two of them confirm their relationship as Master and Servant, Archer begins to question Rin as a master. He judges her worth as a master, and even goes so far as to announce he will not follow her orders, regardless of their importance. Archer makes sarcastic remarks about Rin which aggravated her to use one of her command seals to force Archer submit to her. Afterwards, Archer scolds her for being so careless, and asks whether or not she knows the importance of Command Seals. Once their argument is settled, Archer agrees to stay with Rin. He blames Rin for his vague memories due to her incomplete summoning but also acknowledges her talents and skills. Archer then tours Fuyuki City with Rin acting as his guide. As they venture through the city, Archer learns that Rin has no actual wish for the Holy Grail, other than her desire to win it. One night, after informing Archer of a strange Bounded field around the school grounds, Rin goes to the school in an attempt to destroy it, only to encounter another servant, who she identifies as belonging to the Lancer-class. When Lancer tries to attack Rin, Archer intervenes. The two servants then engage in a fight. While Lancer tries to disarm Archer, he becomes quite agitated at Archer's ability to reequip his swords. During in their fight, Shirou Emiya was a pedestrian who witnessed the two Heroic Spirits battle for the first time. Before their fight can continue, they are disrupted by Shirou's presence. Lancer stops the fight and pursues Shirou, Archer and Rin follow him. Lancer pursues the student, and impales him before fleeing. Archer and Rin stumble upon the student's body. Rin orders Archer to track down Lancer, but he was unsuccessful. Rin uses the magic in her pendant to revive Shirou. Before the boy can regain consciousness, the pair flee. Archer gave his own pendant back to Rin making her think that Archer returned to the scene to retrieve the pendant. Shortly after, Archer and Rin come to the conclusion that Lancer's master will gain knowledge of the boy's survival, and have Lancer finish him off. Deciding to protect the boy, the pair travel to the suburbs. However, before they can enter the grounds, they are attacked by a servant, who Rin identifies as belonging to the Saber-class.

Appearances

• Fate/stay night:
• Fate/stay zero:

External Links

• Type-Moon Wiki Entry
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