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Name: Chris
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Character Name: Shirou Emiya
Character Series: Fate/stay night (http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Fate/stay_night), Unlimited Blade Works route (http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Unlimited_Blade_Works_(route))
Background: http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Emiya_Shirou
Point in Canon: Unlimited Blade Works True End
Personality: The first thing that needs to be mentioned in a discussion of Shirou as a character is his ideal. Shirou's greatest desire is to become a "hero of justice" and save anyone and everyone that needs to be saved. While this is a borrowed ideal -- which originally came from Kiritsugu -- Shirou has completely and utterly embraced it as his own ideal. In Shirou's mind, there is nothing more beautiful.

This, in turn, leads to some pretty self-destructive behavior. You see, because of his ideal, he's focused on saving everyone except one person -- himself. Shirou has no sense of self. All too often this leads to Shirou pushing himself past his limits, only to get himself severely wounded or clinging onto life by a mere thread in the process. If he has to give up his life to save even one person, he'll do it without hesitation.

Naturally, this leads to Shirou doing some pretty stupid stuff. Two such examples can be found in the first battle in Berserker. In the Fate and Heaven's Feel scenarios, Archer isn't there to back Saber up, so Saber is taking a pounding. Shirou then runs in to protect her and nearly gets cut in half as a result. Now, keep in mind that, if Shirou, the Master, dies, Saber, as his Servant, will disappear. Both Shirou and Saber were fortunate that Shirou had managed to survive. In Unlimited Blade Works, he does something similar. When Shirou realizes that Archer is targeting Saber as well as Berserker, he runs out, grabs Saber, and hauls her back. If he had been just a few seconds too slow, he would have been killed in the resulting explosion from Archer's attack. As it was, he took a serious shrapnel wound to the back that he would have avoided if he had instead called Saber to come back.

Now, with Shirou pulling stunts like this, it's natural that people call him out on his ideal. While it doesn't happen much in Fate, it happens a lot in Unlimited Blade Works. The most egregious example is Archer (which makes sense; Shirou's ideals led to the existence of Archer as we know him), but Gilgamesh lays it on pretty heavily, too. The two Servants both point out the flaws in the ideal, particularly two facets. First, a superhero can only save the people in front of him and/or the people he chooses to save. Second, if Shirou continues to pursue his ideal, there is one person he is guaranteed to fail to save -- himself.

Shirou, however, refuses to give up his ideal, even in the face of its most crippling flaws. To him, the ideal is just too beautiful to surrender. He's just that damn stubborn. Despite acknowledging its flaws, he refuses to give up on it, and continues onward. This is, however, a marked improvement, especially considering what the player would have seen when he/she read Fate. Here, Shirou knows and understands the flaws. That knowledge and understanding gives a much needed shade of gray to the otherwise black-and-white mentality the ideal involves. That shade of gray can lead Shirou to eventually correct the flaws with the ideal -- either by compensating in other areas or training himself to the point where most obstacles won't pose a problem to him -- and become better for it.

But enough negatives of Shirou's following his ideal. There is definitely one positive, which shows through the magic Shirou can perform. While most people consider projection useless because they need the raw materials in order to project (magic follows the rules of Equivalent Exchange in the Nasuverse), Shirou can project weapons without any raw materials. That's because he lacks a sense of self. Instead, he uses part of himself. Whenever Shirou projects early on, or attempts a massive projection, he experiences side effects. This ranges from a headache to the entire left side of his body going numb. And when he invokes his Reality Marble, his Magic Circuit almost explodes.

Yes, I covered six paragraphs on Shirou's ideal alone, but there's more to him than that. First of all, Shirou is very honest. He speaks what's on his mind, and if asked about if he's thinking about something he'd rather not divulge, he'll respond in a manner that mentions the subject of his thoughts but doesn't go into any more detail than that. His honesty even extends to what other people are saying -- when Fujimura is telling Saber about Shirou's childhood, despite his not wanting her to, Shirou keeps silent because she's speaking the truth. That said, if he needs to lie, he will -- he told Sakura and Fujimura that Saber was a foreign friend of Kiritsugu's.

Shirou is also highly self-sufficient for his age. He lives on his own, he cooks his own meals (unless Sakura beats him to the kitchen), and he works various part-time jobs to earn money. On that subject, he's a very good cook. Of the three characters able to cook (himself, Sakura, and Rin) he's the best at western dishes, and while both girls are better cooks of Japanese food than he is, he still cooks it better than he does western food. He has no experience cooking Chinese food, though. At the same time, though, Shirou isn't one for cleaning. Instead, Sakura takes care of that.

Speaking of girls, Shirou definitely likes them. He's pretty normal in that regard, actually. For example, Rin is the one girl at school that every guy drools over (except Issei), and Shirou is no exception. Even when he found out that Rin wasn't like the perfect student air she gave off at school, he was still endeared to her tsundereness anyway (for this, just look at how popular tsunderes are among male fans -- again, totally normal).

At the same time, though, Shirou keeps tabs on his hormones. A lot of times, though, this manifests in a spazzfest of sorts. Rin takes to teasing him just because she gets epic reactions out of him. Also worth noting is that he takes sex seriously. He doesn't want to have sex with a girl unless a mutual attraction exists. It's this belief that turns the scene between him and Rin the night before the final battle into a magnificently heartwarming scene (at least before the smut kicks in).

Then we get into some more minor stuff. First, Shirou is an excellent archer. He used to be part of the archery club until an accident left him with a chemical burn on his right shoulder. Of all the times he fired an arrow at the archery club, there was only one time that he didn't hit the target. Also, Shirou has gotten into the habit of waking up on his own at 5:30 every morning. He believes that alarm clocks are degenerate, so he hasn't used once since he was a kid.
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