Kubera Shadow Ananta 🔻🇵🇸さんのイラストまとめ

And while realizing this disappointed Kirei, as he couldn't find the person whom he could understand and who could understand him in return, this realization gave Shirou strength and resolve to surpass Kiritsugu, despite being only a fake compared to him.

More than anyone else in the world?

This relationship gets even more interesting when you take both of their relationships with Kiritsugu into account, because unlike the both of them, Kiritsugu was never empty, his reason for fighting was because he believed he was right

Kirei could only do it through their misfortune. This makes Kirei the perfect antagonist for Shirou and visa versa, as neither of them are fighting because they think their beliefs are more righteous, they are just simply unable to fight for anything else.

Artoria and Shirou are both burdened by their pasts, both believed that their path won't be a mistake regardless of the result, and yet both of them doubted that same path at some point, and their arc is about helping each other overcome those doubts by being each other's sheath.

Heaven's Feel is where Shirou diverges from Archer the most, by betraying the ideals that he has promised to follow, and ultimately surpassed Archer.

Probably a rare take but although I have a clear ranking between the 3 F/SN routes, I think each one of them has an aspect above the rest.

Fate tells the best story.

Unlimited Blade Works has the best conflict.

Heaven's Feel is the most consistently engaging and interesting.

Emiya Kiritsugu.

And deep down, I truly believe that he wanted it to be the latter answer rather than the former, that is why he was able to smile at the end of it all and claim that he was not wrong after all.

I really been underrating Unlimited Blade Works man, it's peak fiction.