#people called this character development for Archer to justify the differences from Extra and FSN

[madillhethen]

Honestly...can we even name a single hero in fate that has no blood on their hands?

Wait...I guess the authors? Unless you want to count the invisible blood of all the characters they killed in their stories.

I remember how people told me this is Archer from after UBW? Then why is he still talking down to his heroic deeds and NOT stating his name? I know fanfics like to make that Emiya post FSN gets summoned and he’s still ‘I’m a Nameless hero etc’ but considering he embraces his inner Shirou, don’t you think he would be more on the line of ‘Heroic Spirit Emiya, I have answered your summons. What hero am I? Let’s just say I am no one important’ especially when summoned with Rin, he was so pretentious about her name since names meant trust but he couldn’t just out and say he was Shirou so he had to be ‘I don’t know who I am’ and stuff.

Also, though Archer sees himself ‘corrupted’ or not a hero, I would hardly think he would call himself a ‘necessary evil’--it’s still running on the logic of ‘the ends justify the means’ type of deal. I don’t even think Archer thought anything he did was evil. He just regretted his life because after he became a CG he became a murderer. Nameless isn’t a CG, right, so that means he did some shady a stuff in life (aka Kerry style).

Yeah, so like Kerry. Kerry would’ve slaughtered 10 innocents to save a million innocents. Kerry would’ve killed Illya to take out Berserker--that was his justice, that is society’s justice. Archer hypocritically told Shirou ‘kill the master to take the servant out’ then proceeded to never do this in regards to Illya, hell not even with Sakura. Shirou/Archer followed a different sort of justice that I wouldn’t say relied on societal views.... hence the Mind of Steel ending was one where Shirou chose Kerry’s life--do you think Nameless is a Shirou who went down that route...?