Fanfic / A Blade Recast

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In the great Fuyuki Fire, a boy was scoured of memory, identity, and humanity. He was found by the assassin Kiritsugu Emiya, who wished only to save someone from the disaster he had caused. However, he was not the only thing that found the boy. Something very old, which had yet to be born, found him as well, and gave him the opportunity to survive.

Years later, Shirou is recognizably the same, but notably... more. He pushes himself harder to improve, harder to save people. Even as a teenager, he's putting down enemy gangs and rescuing those in need. Upon accidentally giving himself powerful Mystic Eyes, he sees the horrible things that have been done to Sakura, and immediately resolves to save her. That sets off a domino effect that begins to change even more.

In other words: What if Shirou grew up with the memories of a Traitor Marine in his head?

A crossover between Fate/stay night and Warhammer 40,000 by Zahariel_Scholar. It's specifically a crossover with the author's "Roboutian Heresy" AU. It can be found on Archive of Our Own. (Also on FFNet)

This fanfic provides examples of:

• Adaptational Badass:
  • Shirou is this even compared to canon. By the time he's fifteen, he's already doing odd combat missions for the local Yakuza, known for efficiently and non-lethally dismantling enemy operations. And that's before he manifests his true power for the first time.
  • Stheno and Euryale, as in canon. As Rin notes, the entire point of their legend is that they were helpless and required Medusa to protect them. Yet when summoned as Servants they are granted a number of extra abilities to let them last in combat against the greatest heroes in history.
• Adaptational Origin Connection: The Holy Grail was corrupted by Angra Mainyu, as in Nasuverse canon. However, here Angra Mainyu acts as an agent of Chaos Undivided, giving the Dark Gods their strongest foothold in the World.
• Alternate Self:
  • Artoria Pendragon gets summoned three times in a single War. Shirou summons Artoria Alter (The King of Knights) as a Saber, Ilya summons Artoria Lancer (The King of Knights who bears the Light at the World's End) as a Lancer, and Rin summons Artoria Lancer Alter (The King of Storms) as a Rider.
  • Medusa Gorgon is summoned as a Berserker, using her Avenger form. This is Medusa in her most monstrous form, where she remembers murdering her sisters.
• Alternate Universe Fic: In addition to the obvious differences from the Nasuverse, Shirou is receiving memories from the author's "Roboutian Heresy" AU, where Guilliman turned traitor instead of Horus.
• Anaphora: This is often used to place emphasis on Shirou's visions and distinguish them from the rest of the prose.
  This is the last stretch of the fall, the first step on the path. This is the last moment before the war engulfs them all.
  This is the descent to Istvaan V.
• An Arm and a Leg: Bazett loses her arm when she fights Shirou. He was using a sword that only cuts supernatural evil, but then his focus slipped, and suddenly it was just a sharp sword.
• Arc Number: Nine comes up more than a few times; fitting, as the Dark Angel was beholden to Tzeentch, and nine is his sacred number. The gun Shirou tries to use has nine bullets left, nine magi were called to the Animusphere castle, Shirou can maintain a Projection of Avalon for nine days, Pretender's spell hits Shirou from nine angles, and the Chaos ritual would result in a "class nine incursion."
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Waver figures out what actually happened between Shirou and the Matous (in comparison to the lies he was told) just by seeing Shirou being polite, considering what he knew of the previous Matou mage, and how protective Sakura is of him.
• Back from the Dead: Mordred, quite literally. Alongside wiping out the Einzbern, the corrupted Grail remnant also used their knowledge to resurrect Mordred – not merely a Servant facsimile, but the actual Mordred, whose soul Chaos had stolen from the Throne of Heroes – in a true flesh-and-blood body, all in order to torture Artoria emotionally with.
• Badass Creed: As usual, the arias to summon Noble Phantasms and equivalent powers.
  • Pretender has an especially terrible one for his anti-Humanity Noble Phantasm. As in, instant genocide if he completes it.
    The Hour of Revelation Hath Come,
    I Am the Voice of Chaos.
    The Hour of Crowning Hath Come,
    I am the Herald of the Primordial Truth.
    The Hour of Rejoining Hath Come,
    I Am He Who Offers Up the World.
    Ars Chaotica!
  • Shirou gets a new variant of his famous one.
    I am the blade that sunders the might of gods.
    Blinded by a thousand shadows,
    Deceived by a thousand lies,
    I have stood in the ruins you made,
    But I am yours no more.
    Never knowing honor,
    Never knowing peace,
    Only one reforged oath endures:
    I shall walk this endless path,
    Till I reach our ever-distant dream.
    At the end of glory, there shall always be,
    Unlimited Blade Works.
  • Saber realizes she can't use her standard aria for Excalibur, so she improvises one on the fly.
    From shame and shadow recast,
    In black and gold reborn.
    Fear me and despair,
    EXCALIBUR MORGAN!
• Being Evil Sucks: Even before Shirou fully understands the Dark Angel's past in its full context, he definitely understands that the Traitor Marine was never actually happy with the fruits of his betrayal.
  Shirou: He felt no happiness, only bitter satisfaction, and he certainly wasn't free. He was a slave to darkness, a puppet made to commit unspeakable evil in service of the Power that had damned him. All of the Dark Gods' so-called gifts are hollow prizes, which only serve them, not the favoured slaves who call themselves champions and think themselves great. You would have us doom Humanity for a few moments of satisfaction, and none of us are stupid enough to accept that offer.
• Berserk Button: Supernatural evil is one of the very few things that can actually make Shirou hate (rather than calmly deciding that violence is sadly the best answer), as it perfectly combines his own desires to protect and the Dark Angel's desire to destroy the enemy. Bonus points for the Ainsworth puppets; they're not Chaos, but Shirou still considers them a perversion of all that is good in the world.
  Shirou Emiya was furious. And this time, unlike when he had 'seen' what had been done to Illyasviel, he wasn't trying to hold it back.
  "Shirou," asked Lancer, calling Rhongomyniad to her hand in its rapier form. "What is it?"
  "An abomination," spat Shirou before burying his greatsword into the enemy Magus' chest without any hesitation.
  At Lancer's side, Illyasviel blinked in surprise.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Shirou is a polite, compassionate young man who would prefer to spend most of his time cooking for others. He is also fully capable of transforming into a vengeful demigod and fighting Servants on an even level.
• BFS: The Space Marine's power sword ends up like this in Shirou's hands, but he can still wield it easily. Rin is able to compare Shirou's perspective from the dream, where the sword is seemingly smaller, to correctly estimate the Space Marine at being about two and a half meters tall.
• Cavalry Betrayal: Shirou has a memory of the Dark Angels turning on loyalist Space Marines. The person who lived the memory keeps thinking about how it was the only option, but Shirou manifests in the memory to tell him to stuff that reasoning. It was wrong, and nothing will change that.
• Celebrity is Overrated: Waver Velvet has come to greatly regret his pre-eminent place in magecraft society (as a powerful Lord). He spends most of his time either bouncing between various political factions, solving problems and receiving very little credit for it, then surrounded by stupid rumors.
  God, but his younger self had been a moron, to think being famous was a good thing.
• Clueless Chick-Magnet: It takes Shirou a while to realize all the girls around him are in love with him. He doesn't figure out Sakura loves him until her evil grandfather tells him, and even after Rin has sex with him, he's still a little unsure about her feelings. Rin facepalms.
• Cool Sword: Shirou manages to Trace a Dark Angel's BFS, including the ten thousand years of history that hasn't happened yet. In addition to being almost as big as he is, if he chooses then it can only harm supernatural evil, leaving innocent flesh untouched. Or he can turn that function off and just cut normally.
  In his mind's eye, Shirou held the image of the sword. It was a perfect replica of the weapon of his dreams. Now all that was left to do was to pull it from his mental world into the real one.
• Determinator: Shirou gets some ten thousand years of horrifying memories from a Traitor Marine downloaded into his brain. Shirou wins.
  He was Shirou Emiya. He was the son of Kiritsugu Emiya, a man who had dedicated his life to saving others, and had lost everything he held dear as a result. He was heir to the Magus Killer's impossible dream, and Sakura Matou's hero. This nightmare memory of treachery was not, and would never be, him.
  Because whoever it was that had stood upon the black sands with his brothers' blood on his hands...
  ...whoever it was who had broken their oaths to Humanity...
  ...whoever it was who had turned their back on the dream they had sworn to defend...
  ...whoever had rejected their own free will to hide from the weight of their own guilt...
  ...it wasn't him. It wasn't Shirou Emiya. And so, in the end, it came down to a simple choice:
  To master this power, or to let it master him.
  Shirou chose.
• Didn't See That Coming: Several people were prepared for the heir of the Mage Killer to take up the mantle. No one was prepared for him to have the powers of a demigod from the future that can fight Servants on an even level.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Even in the bizarre Fantasy Kitchen Sink of the Nasuverse, being possessed by the spirit of a traitorous Super-Soldier from the future is so damn weird that no one could possibly have expected it. Even with multiple pieces of evidence and repeated testing, Rin's theories aren't even close.
  In the end, the best theory Rin had been able to come up with was that, in the aftermath of the Grail's destruction, Shirou had been partially possessed by a damaged spirit from an Earth-That-Never-Was, brought into existence by the elements of the Second Magic that had been incorporated into the Greater Grail's system by the Tohsaka Head that had participated in its creation.
  If the Dark Angel hailed from a timeline where, say, the Age of the Gods hadn't ended and Humanity had been forced to adapt, then the abnormalities in Shirou's visions could be explained. The huge sword he had used to kill Zouken and the shikome could have been invented by a version of Mankind that had combined Magecraft with technology in order to be able to fight Phantasmal Beasts on equal footing.
• Everyone Can See It: Literally everyone but Shirou knew Sakura was in love with Shirou. Even Zouken, little more than a mass of worms in a skin suit that barely remember what being human felt like, can see it.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Zouken explains the full process used on Sakura, and offers to let Shirou serve as the replacement od injector. Yes, he thought that the man who came to rescue her might be happy to take up the job of raping her on a regular basis. Shirou notes later that the fact Zouken genuinely thought that argument would work was a sign of how deteriorated his mind had become.
• Fantasy Contraception: Specifically averted; it's noted that Avalon healed Sakura to the point that she can have children, so she and Shirou have to actually be careful.
• First-Name Basis:
  • Shirou tries to continue calling Rin by her surname. She's not having it.
    Rin: You have had a threesome with me and my sister, I saved you from your od going crazy and tearing you apart from the inside, and you saved me from an Enforcer. Call me Rin, for God's sake.
  • Sakura, meanwhile, still calls Shirou "senpai" except in the most extreme of circumstances. It's yet another sign of her lack of self-worth.
• Foreshadowing: There are modern references to the Chaos Gods (not counting Shirou's memories of the future) talking about the "Four Gods." Shirou also finds an ancient daemon of Nurgle buried underground. However, not only should the Chaos Gods be far more peaceful at this point in history, but Slaanesh shouldn't even exist yet, as they are not born until the Fall of the Eldar in the 25th millennium. This foreshadows the reveal that they are not on the real Earth, and Shirou's memories are not of the future.
• Godzilla Threshold: Kodai's organization has a few ways to stop a Grail War. They start with destroying Fuyuki City, and then move on to destroying Japan. There's a reason he's hesitant to use them. It's later mentioned that these terrible last-ditch resorts most likely wouldn't even work, and would result in little more than a Mercy Kill for the people in the region.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: It's mentioned that astromancers (mages who study the stars) have a bad habit of going insane, which is why the reaction to the most prestigious astromancy family somehow getting themselves killed is largely "yeah, that was going to happen eventually." The fact that this world is actually in the modern world of Warhammer 40,000, hidden from the rest of the galaxy by a veil, explains a lot.
• Harem Seeker: After consummating her relationship with Shirou, Sakura decides that she is very much attracted to other women, and getting more girls into his bed keeps everyone happy. Several of the girls at school have noticed that she is oddly nice to them when they spend too much time staring at Shirou.
• Healing Factor: Shirou learns to reactivate Avalon inside him much earlier, meaning he will heal from anything with enough time. This is one of the key changes in the AU, as it is what gives him the confidence to attempt dangerous self-modification experiments, which lead to his Mystic Eyes and learning the truth about Sakura.
• Healing Magic Is the Hardest: As in canon, healing is extremely difficult for magic to do most of the time, though every magic-user does know the magical equivalent of first aid. So, of course, Shirou demonstrating the ability to casually Trace temporary copies of Avalon is both unspeakably valuable and multiple levels of impossible. Since they're just copies, they're not as good as the real thing (and he can only maintain one at a time), but they still grant the user a pretty good Healing Factor.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Shirou quickly gains a reputation as the heir of the Mage Killer, who slaughtered the ancient Matou family, kidnapped their heir, brainwashed the Tohsaka clan head, assaulted an Enforcer, and bullied the Archibalds. The truth is that everything he did was moral even by the Moonlit World's infamously lax laws and morals (if they knew what he did, they would have killed the Matous themselves), but people are happy to spread bad rumors to paint him in the worst possible light.
• I Know Your True Name:
  • Zouken begins to realize how screwed he is when Shirou uses his real name, demonstrating how he knows much more than he has any right to.
    "You know nothing of love, Zolgen Makiri," he said, his voice deep and charged with power. He looked upon the thing that pretended to be an old man with eyes that blazed with a fire that was suddenly dark, and he knew that this was the creature's true name.
    He could also see how to kill it.
  • "I see you" practically becomes Shirou's catch phrase, as his eyes let him use Structural Grasp on anything he sees. This ends up biting him in the ass when he confronts Caster, or rather, Pretender. Kor Phaeron had to wear the mask of Solomon to exist in the World until Shirou declared his True Name. Then he cast aside the disguise and could use his true power.
  • Pretender uses this against Shirou, forcing him to remember Corswain's life in its full context. Thankfully, Shirou's identity as a hero defeats Corswain's broken identity as a failed traitor.
    Pretender: The time has come, my friend. As you freed me from my mask, so shall I free you from yours, one servant of the Gods to another. By Their will and Their might I command you: remember who you truly are!
• I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: After Shirou saves Sakura, he decides that he's not a hero after all. A true hero would have saved Shinji, or at the very least felt bad about failing to save him. Instead, Shirou has no regrets save for the fact that he doesn't have regrets. While he could have saved Shinji, he had decided that it wasn't worth the risk given what he had learned of him, and doesn't change his mind later. He gets a bit better about it later.
• Kick the Dog: After the conclusion of the Grail War, part of the Grail escapes to Einzbern castle, kills everyone there, and utterly destroys the library. Why? It knows it can't defeat Shirou and Ilya, so it destroyed all the homunculus research they had accumulated over thousands of years, making it impossible to repair Ilya's condition.
• Killed Off for Real: Of a sort. When Chaos managed to invade the Throne of Heroes through the Grail's corruption, the records of several powerful Heroes – including Gilgamesh and Solomon – became irrecoverably tainted, forcing the Throne to purge those records in their entirety. Their legends now forever lost, those Heroes can no longer be summoned, ever again.
• Loyal Phlebotinum: Implied. When "Gilgamesh" tries to summon Ea, his arm explodes when he touches the portal. Shirou had identified him as Alter Ego, claiming he was so twisted by corruption that he wasn't even really Gilgamesh any more. Ea, apparently, is not willing to serve a false Gilgamesh.
• Man of Kryptonite: The Gorgon sisters get this in both directions. Medusa is utterly wracked with guilt at the sight of her sisters, who she murdered and consumed in her insanity; all it takes is a few words from them (forced by their Master) to psychologically cripple her. On the other hand, because she did murder them, they have a massive conceptual weakness to her, and they basically lose the second she decides to fight back.
  His two Servants had been killed by the Medusa in life, which gave the other Servant a conceptual advantage against them. The fact she didn't want to kill them was irrelevant: she hadn't wanted to kill them last time either, and yet it had still happened. The very idea of Medusa turning into a monster and killing her sisters was inscribed into the sisters' legend, and it would cost him the Grail if it repeated itself.
• Mistaken for Pedophile: Shirou suggests that he can help heal Ilya by making a contract with her, like he did with Sakura and Rin. Since he made that contract with a tantric sex ritual, he gets a lot of glares for suggesting that with his sister, who looks like a pre-teen child. He quickly reminds them that contracts normally don't involve sex, theirs was a unique situation.
• Murder by Inaction: Shinji comes up behind Shirou just as Zouken attacks him. Shirou realizes that Shinji is fully aware and complicit in Sakura's torture, decides he's not worth saving, and dodges despite knowing this will get Shinji killed. While he does tell people it was Zouken's fault, both Sakura and Rin realize that Shirou blames himself. Shirou considers his failure to save Shinji a sign that he's not really a hero.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: After the Kick the Dog moment listed above, the escaped fragment of the Grail tops it off by unleashing a resurrected and corrupted Mordred on Shirou, Saber, Lancer, and Illya. However, the corruption includes implanted hatred for Shirou, who Mordred has never met, which when pointed out lets Mordred notice that said corruption isn't their own feelings and gives Shirou the opening he needs to cut it away. After being saved, Mordred realizes that the Grail fixed flaws in their original body as part of the resurrection and offers to let the heroes study their new body to figure out how to heal Illya.
• Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond:
  • Shirou's Dark Angel powers are decent by Warhammer 40K standards, but nothing too crazy. By Fate standards, he's at least at the level of a strong Servant, and that's before he figures out how to really use them. That means he can fight literally anything in the world besides an ancient hero summoned from beyond the grave.
  • The sword Shirou uses to destroy supernatural evil. In addition to being a power sword (a strong, but fairly standard weapon of the Space Marines) and thus an Absurdly Sharp Blade, its holy light is merely the Tracing of a glimpse of the light of the Emperor's blade.
• Not Where They Thought: A twist at the end of the Grail War arc. They're not on Earth in the early 2000's, they're in the 41st millennium, hidden from Chaos and the rest of the galaxy behind a veil. Why anyone would create a world that closely mimics the history of Terra pre-Emperor is the next big mystery.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Rin freaks upon realizing that Caster is a corrupted Solomon, the founder of all modern magecraft. The readers freaked out a few chapters earlier when it was first revealed. And then it gets worse, because it turns out that he's actually the Pretender Kor Phaeron, the Black Cardinal. Not only is he one of the greatest priests of Chaos Undivided, but he absolutely should not be here. Shirou nearly has a breakdown before he even starts talking, because his presence proves that the Dark Angel isn't actually from an alternate timeline, but something else altogether.
  • All of Shirou's wishful thinking goes out the window when the Daemon Primarch Lion El'Jonson sees him. Shirou instinctively realizes that the Lion is real, not a shadow from a simulated timeline, which means it was all real. And now he knows Corswain is alive.
• Older Is Better: As is normal in the Nasuverse, magic gains power from its accumulated age, in addition to the fact that older things also start better than newer things. Which is why the Dark Angel's sword, which is over ten thousand years old, is so much stronger than anything else even in its Traced form. Gilgamesh, the first Heroic Spirit who manages to overpower everyone by sheer dint of his age, is only five thousand years old.
  Reproducing the accumulated years.
  Every change, every alteration was reproduced. What the sword had begun as was not what it had stayed. It had changed, just as the one who had wielded it - who? - had changed. The sword was no mere instrument of murder, but a weapon worthy of legend, its deeds echoing through time - then why had he never found any trace of it in history books? - and from that legend, it had gained great power.
• Polyamory: With Sakura's encouragement, multiple girls end up sleeping with Shirou. Partly this is because Sakura is at least as attracted to women as she is to Shirou, and is happy to have the extra company. However, it takes a sadder turn later, when she admits that at least part of the reason is because if Shirou can have multiple lovers, then he'll never have a reason to dump Sakura for someone else.
  Rin: [softly] He'd never do that, Sakura.
  Sakura: I know! Of course I know. But...
• Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Kiritsugu described the Holy Grail as like The Monkey's Paw, then has to pause to explain that when Shirou doesn't know what that is.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Waver and his sister work to come to an accord with Shirou as fast as possible, because their family was absolutely in the wrong in every way. In particular, Waver is pissed because sending an assassin after the adopted son of an old enemy had no possible good outcome. If they had succeeded, it wouldn't even have earned them prestige among their morally bankrupt peers.
  Oh, look at us, he thought with bitter mockery. We are so strong and mighty, we managed to hire someone with no prior connection to our family to go and kill the teenager adopted by the foreign mercenary who all but ended our lineage, years after the man in question had died. Truly our wrath is fearsome and our influence boundless. They would have been the Association's laughing stock!
• Reforged into a Minion: This is what the Grail corruption tries to do, as is standard for Chaos. Shirou is disturbed to realize that not only were Gilgamesh's memories rewritten to turn him into a one-dimensional genocidal maniac, but he is now incapable of even hearing them point out the inconsistencies with his backstory.
  There were limits to Shirou's perceptions, especially since Gilgamesh didn't carry any weapon on him. But he could still read the surface of his golden armor's past, and it made him want to puke. As he had said, it had been rewritten like Excalibur's had been, and while the King of Heroes wouldn't have been considered heroic by modern standards, Shirou didn't doubt he'd have been a saint compared to the grotesque tale of genocide and pointless cruelty he could glimpse.
• Rescue Romance: While Sakura was already in love with Shirou, him rescuing her from her abusive family certainly accelerated their relationship. Sakura notes that while Taiga subtly gave her permission to go ahead, she probably won't be happy to learn that Sakura jumped Shirou literally that same night.
• The Reveal:
  • The Dark Angel's true identity is revealed by Pretender: Corswain, First Archduke of Cysgorog, one of the greatest Dark Angels short of Lion El'Jonson himself.
  • After the Grail arc, it is finally revealed that not only is Corswain's reality real, it's not the future. They are in Corswain's reality, in the 41st millennium, on a planet hidden from Chaos behind a supernatural Veil.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: At the end of the Grail story, Kor Phaeron's soul is caught and placed in Tartarus, along with every daemon he summoned and more besides. Merlin has been capturing the pawns of Chaos for a very long time, as it's one of the only ways to keep them down for anything like a permanent basis. He's a little worried that the Chaos Gods will notice that Kor Phaeron is missing, however, as he's one of their favorite toys.
• Sex Magic: Rin is mortified when she realizes that they need to use a tantric magic ritual to save Shirou. Sakura doesn't see the problem; she's already his lover, so she'll just do the ritual and it will be fine. Rin explains that it needs to be all three of them. Sakura still barely even sees the problem, and Rin's head almost explodes.
• Single-Minded Twins: Stheno and Euryale take great pleasure in finishing each other's sentences and overall acting as if they were literally of one mind. Chapters from their own point of view imply they're just trolling everyone else.
• Spared by the Adaptation: It is briefly mentioned that Kairi Sisigou managed to save his daughter from the poisoned Magic Crest.
• Spotting the Thread: Shirou quickly realizes that the Chaos-corrupted Mordred has a deep implanted hatred of him. Since they've never actually met, it's pretty obviously tacked on and not irreversibly mixed with the rest of their soul. Shirou is able to use that as a guideline to identify all the corruption and cut it out.
• Sword and Gun: The Space Marine memories in Shirou's head remember using a bolter and sword together, so he could technically do the same, even though his magic is exclusively focused on swords. However, this reacts too much to the Space Marine's trauma over his betrayal, so it's not really an option.
• The Tease: Stheno and Euryale repeatedly ask probing questions about Shirou's sex life, as well as imply that they'd be more than happy to hop into bed with him. Since they have the appearance of pre-teen girls, no one appreciates this.
  Sakura: If Euryale is in his bed, being brought to ecstasy every night, then she won't shoot him in the heart again.
  Rin: [deadpan] I'm pretty sure that isn't going to happen.
• This Cannot Be!:
  • Zouken is confused and terrified when he realizes that Shirou is able to destroy all of his familiars at once, which not only should have been impossible but ruins any possibility of him resurrecting himself.
    Zouken burned, feeling every part of his ancient, rotting soul being consumed. Centuries of memories turned to ash and less than ash. Such was the pain of this most total of annihilation, he did not have any last thoughts, any final moment of realization—only torment, and then the void.
  • Bazett has a pseudo-Noble Phantasm called Fragarach, the perfect counterattack that twists causality to strike a lethal blow before the attack it is countering. It is based on the gift of an ancient god and has been perfected by her family over centuries. But it's also a sword, so Shirou instantly understands it and is able to dismantle it.
    "What the Gods have wrought," he declared between gritted teeth, pouring his indomitable will into every syllable, "I will sunder."
• Tomato in the Mirror: Rider notices she has inconsistencies in her memories like being unable to remember her life in Camelot and is horrified to realize she was created by the Grail.
• Trauma Button: Touching a gun triggers all of Shirou's Space Marine memories about betraying his fellows, causing him to react so bad that the gun shatters.