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anemoisity) wrote2011-09-13 09:38 pm
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Archer
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Contact Info: AIM: Captain Gardock, Punch Dinosaurs | Plurk: Gardock
Character Name: Archer
Character Series: Fate/stay night (http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/stay_night)
Background: http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Archer_%28Fate/stay_night%29
Archer's canon is a VN with three branching paths making basically three AU versions of the actual canon. Though the route in which he's most important is Unlimited Blade Works, I'm going to take him from Fate to give myself a little more to do with the character. 90% of his backstory is the same anyway.
Personality:
Do you know the etmyology of “gar” as internet slang? It was invented for Archer. Literally. (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gar) The point is, he's a pretty masculine dude. Confident, nonchalant, collected, reliable, Byronic, the works. He's the type to never be evidently scared of an enemy, but not to rush in yelling about how invincible he is either. That's not to say his ego is never a problem; he has been known to underestimate opponents and beyond that he's generally kind of a smug, condescending asshole—just in a way that gives the impression that he can back it up in experience. He's also pretty goddamn resolute; perhaps it's largely because death isn't so bad when you're already just a Servant and have died innumerable times, but Archer doesn't mind risking or sacrificing his life to accomplish a goal. Of course, that's nothing new. The first time he died, his real death, it was already in pursuit of his ideal to what he thought would be the very end.
About that Byronism thing: Archer is so grimdark. He's fairly stoic in the sense that it's basically impossible to tell what his deal is, or that his mood ever runs deeper than “wryly amused and/or exasperated at the dipshits around him,” but deep in his mind he's always brooding like Batman. Resultingly, he's especially arrogant and caustic to those who aren't. Got an innocent, idealistic heart? Fuck you the world sucks and you're going to die alone. Archer can't put up with anybody's naivete. Ideals are basically stupid shitty deathwishes and he will compulsively let you know it.
Despite most of these not really being traits Shirou Emiya ever had, all that really separates Heroic Spirit Emiya from the man he was while still alive is age and misery; the death of his lover, being betrayed by those he saved, lifetimes' worth of failure and loss and the total breakdown of the ideals by which he lived his life. If Archer is a total abrasive ultracynical prick, it's because he learned to be the very, very hard way. It should go without saying he regrets his life choices pretty damn hard. So hard, in fact, that if weird timey-wimey shit were to plant him down in the same Holy Grail War as an alternate timeline version of his younger, alive self, he would pretty strongly consider temporal suicide if it were at all an option. Just hypothetically. No, seriously, though, there is nobody Archer-who-is-Shirou-Emiya hates or could possibly hate more than Shirou Emiya.
Ironically, the diametric personality change that defines Archer isn't as complete as he claims/wants it to be. He talks a big game about being willing to sacrifice innocents, and he's an experienced killer of his actual enemies, but Archer still almost compulsively helps people (particularly, he's developed a fondness for helping them improve; he basically gives out unsolicited constructive criticism to everyone about everything. It kind of doubles as being an asshole, but his intentions are good on some level) unless he has something direct to gain from not doing so, and there are moral lines he's had the chance to cross to achieve his goals but didn't. He even admits that if he could have anything at all, he'd take world peace; for all he wants to destroy his old, failed ideals, he's still hanging onto the barest thread of them.
Also, he's obsessed with swords.
Sample Entry: A bit old and meant for a different game, but alas! (http://testrun-box.livejournal.com/208960.html)
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