#man i love how nasu handles things around morality and values

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Random fate ramble but you know what I realllly like that type moon does.

How they handle the aspects of morality and in particular how it's a spectrum not black and white.

You have this displayed through out many series but I'll use Emiya(Archer) as an example cause honestly his morals and stances appears in a ton of different series in fate so many points to refer to(I am also a man who has consumed many of said forms with this man as a simp)

But you have Shirou and well archer both are a form of the same person with their life that was built on top of the simple idea of helping and saving others. A selfish dream one that archer himself calls out on in cases.

You have shirou do all the things one would deem as morally right he's a people first kind of guy because that's what he believes what he has to do he has to live up to the legacy of kiritsu which man I could ramble on that whole aspect of morality and role models but that's another 2am ramble for y'all another time.

But on the flip side you see Archer a man who does anything to gwy the job done is the definition to the onlooker of morality is dead a job is a job. Now Nasu is no coward and bad writer and archers morals is noooot at all that simple. Like any human being he has a reason for acting like such and is doing what he thinks he is the right action to end his own suffering. But the kicker is that in the case of most routes by the end he realizes that oh that's the reason I and another version of his past self was doing what he was doing. He's a character that just became burnt down and broken over time and he realizes that his ideal while selfish isn't one without worth that this shirou is his own person and has very much shown him a part of himself he forgotten as he became a counter guardian.

Anyways what I'm trying to word and I could continue but I geniunly don't think people want to on one part of a post read a 3k word ramble on the morals and actions of a group of the same person and how morals are something complicated and difficult to write and nasu does a good job at showing that conflict and not having distinct lines but also havjbg clear good and bad in characters but not having it completely clear cut that evil is evil but focuses more on x is in this case doing something bad. It's around ones actions cause if it was simply in say some routes ah yes kotomine this man in basic means isn't an antagonist but he sure as hell is NOT a good man. He has his things that benefit the others in a positive way yes. But he is still a bastard of a man that is by no means a hero.

I would also love to ramble on Gil in the case of many pieces of fate and how he's a great display of how a being cannot be defined by one situation and one's morals and decisions aren't clear cut but convoluted but I'll make that separate