>saw his friend and entire village turn into zombies
>killed his dad
>killed his mother figure
>killed countless people because of his twisted morals
>had to give up his wife
>never saw his daughter again
>feels responsible for the death of everyone in the fire
>never became a hero
Is there anyone else who had a harder life than Kiritsugu Emiya?
timelord mcedgeman
His wife was really gorgeous and he got to screw that.
>>135337821
That makes up for most of it in my opinion.
The ranking for good tragic popular characters is
>Gutts
>Kirei
>Kaneki
>>135337821
But every time he fucked her, he was reminded of how she would eventually turn into a cup.
Kotomine's life sucked pretty bad.
>>135338028
Just to be clear, what cup are we talking about?
>>135336751
Wake me up inside
>>135338028
But he still got to fuck her, right?
>>135338058
lesser grail
As an anime-only fag, I enjoyed Zero more than UBW Stay Night.
I am currently reading the visual novel and I have to ask: how much material did the adaption miss? The visual novel has loads of content.
>blames himself for the death of everyone in the fire despite having nothing to do with it.
>Saw everything he knew burn to death.
>gets adopted by and has to take care of one of the people actually responsible.
>gets taught ineffective, suicidal way of using magic
>gets burdened with an insane ideal.
>centers entire self around it.
>gets involved with magic war.
>murder loli after him because of dickhead dad
>former best friend trying to kill him.
>hot girl trying to kill/tsun him.
>hot junior getting wormed.
>hot foreigner saying shes not a girl.
>tons of OP mofo trying to kill him.
>has to go through existential BS when he just want to cook.
Is there anyone else who had a harder life than Shirou Emiya?
Izumi Shinichi's life sucked, though probably not as bad as anyone in this thread.
>>135338055
It's better than Kiritsugu's because at least he was able to experience and find joy in something, even if it was something as fucked as destruction.
Kiritsugu wasn't able to experience joy ever because he knows how fucked everything would become.
>>135338122
It's not comparable. You're better off just taking it as a separate thing, especially since you have 40 or so hours of the Fate route(saber) first anyways.
>>135338185
Kiri could have just walked away. Then again he didn't know the grail was fake so he really thought he'd gain something from winning.
>>135338211
If he walked away he would probably kill himself because of the guilt of not doing something like Iri said.
>>135338211
At least he does pretty much exactly that in prisma, where he becomes a real human bean after iris gives birth to illya and stops the 4th war before it starts
>>135336751
>saw his family burned to death
>crawled through a hellscape slowly burning to death
>barely saved by a madman
>given the madman's insane dream
>killed countless people because of the madman's twisted morals that he didn't even really believe in
>sacrifice self time and again for no repayment
>sell soul to god to facilitate morals he still didn't believe in
>betrayed by his friend
>betrayed by his lover
>executed for helping people
>forced to continuously murder an infinite amount of people for eternity
yeah his son
>>135338134
Literally everyone. His life is a revolving door of women who unconditionally love or respect him.
>>135338273
>Sell soul to world to facilitate morals he still didn't believe in
fix'd
>>135338306
The world is basically an abstract god, that's just nitpicking.
>>135338028
I don't see your point.
>>135336751
>mother figure
>>135338289
"His life is a revolving door of women who unconditionally love or respect him."
>see Maiya, Natalia and Iri
Are we talking about Kerry or Shirou?
>>135338361
Shirou.
>>135338273
>gives his life to fend off hercules so his allies can escape but they're just having a casual threesome in a shed
>>135338346
The magi girl who went in a plane full of ghouls he had to shoot down
>>135338346
Shirley wasn't motherlike.
>>135338361
If we were talking about Kerry you should have included Kirei in that greentext
>>135338405
When did your mom teach you how to aim a gun straight?
>>135338122
Not really all that much.
But the anime used more subtext to tell a lot of what the VN told clearly through internal monologues, so the anime just appears like it's missing some content.
Of course, I'm talking about the UBW route.
From FSN as a whole, it's missing about 2/3 of its content obviously.
>>135338405
>half Succubus
>blue hair
Len had a daughter?
This fucker had it hard as fuck. He totally deserves his harem ending.
>>135336751
Me. I've never even had a GF.
>>135338346
YND surely is the greatest.
>>135338537
Saber was truly in love with Kiritsugu and they didn't have enough time to enter the Dere phase.
If you pay attention you'll see she only started liking Shirou after finding out whose son he was.
>>135338679
Muh doughjeans
>Father straight up walks out on his family
>Mother soon gets ill and dies
>Attempts to bring mother back, botches hard and loses brother
>Has to give a limb to place brother's soul in a suit of armor
>Military comes by and says "Yo, we heard you were doing some forbidden shit so either join up or we're gonna fuck your shit up".
>Teacher tells them to fuck off after they attempted to bring someone back from the dead
>Get a hint about a magic stone that can do anything
>Find out it requires NOT being a moralfag and sacrificing roughly a thousand people
>A superior officer/friend is murdered
>Brother has existential crisis and fucks off
>Mass-murder after him
>Turns out immortal people with super powers/power of "fuck the rules" are keeping him alive
>Brother starts fading out of his substitute body
>Encounter God
>Realize it's impossible odds
>Also, Nina
>Brother finally bites it to give him his arm back
>Has to sacrifice his knowledge of the arts just to get his brother back
Not as hard as OP, but Edward endured some bullshit
>>135338122
The anime adaptation only adapted the second route of the VN, "Unlimited Blade Works" (hence the title).
I would argue that UBW was overall a better adaptation, but you have to understand the context of what it was. The 2006 anime handled the first route, so the 2014 anime handled the second.
Starting with UBW is like starting with season two of a show. You might be able to pick up a bunch of things, but it's not surprising when you end up missing stuff.
>>135336751
I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR
>>135339001
And he didn't get his leg back
>>135338395
Could Archer beat Berserker using Unlimited Blade Works?
I've watched the Zero and the UBW anime and haven't fully completed the VN.
>>135340494
The 2006 anime had a scene where exactly that happened, but he still lost.
It's probably the single best thing in that adaptation, but it shouldn't be considered canon.
>>135340643
Rin could've given Shirou a quick handy into Saber's mouth and been back to save Archer in no time, but no. They had to romance king Arthur like she was some virginal maiden peasant.
>>135336751
Even in the Fateverse, I guess it would be Angra Mainyu?
>Dad ded
>Shieet, me suffer so much
>Kill me waifu and daughteru, so edgy
>Saving the world!
>Couldn't
>Nu familee then...
>Shirou can die if he's killed
Anons: "Fate so sad :C"
Can't believe people is so stupid.
>>135340494
>Could Archer beat Berserker using Unlimited Blade Works?
Absolutely not. Weapons in UBW suffer a rank down.
Meaning even if he traces the most glorious A+++ rank super-sword, it's thwacked away because God Hand doesn't give a shit about B+++ items.
The only thing he can do to hurt Heracles at all is Broken Phantasm which requires time and energy, deploying the reality marble won't make that any easier and if anything will just make it harder because it removes terrain to hide behind (it's a barren fucking wasteland) and drain shittons of energy for no raisin.
Always pitied Kariya. Not only did he not succeed in any capacity he actually made things worst. I suppose if he just became a mage in the first place most of his problems wouldnt exist.
>>135340987
All Archer had to do in that situation was aim for Ilya.
Not even with the intent to kill her, just shoot at her. Herakles would block it. It's the exact same shit Gil did.
Archer always works best when he's fucking with people and not playing things straight.
>>135341594
>abandons family because "I think mages are mean!"
>beta faggot who gets cucked by a far superior mage
>still hangs out with Aoi even though she's now married, and he will never get any ass
>When the daughter of the man who cucked him is in danger, he decides to play hero, and try to fix it himself. Not for Sakura's sake, but for his own, as a last resort to get some Aoi poon
>agrees to be his father's little fuckboy for the Grail War
>worms
>can't even control his own servant
>tries to fight Tokiomi, and gives a big "holier than thou" speech, and gets his ass handed to him
>loses all of his sanity
>finally decides to man up, but too stupid to know what to do now that his balls finally dropped, so he chokes Aoi to near death
>dies alone, and it's all his fault
I feel no sympathy for him whatsoever. He's a pussy and his suffering is self-inflicted.
>>135336751
>>feels responsible for the death of everyone in the fire
>>never became a hero
He is.
>>135341901
>>abandons family because "I think mages are mean!"
There is nothing wrong with that. Mages are immoral and if you don't want problems, don't get involved with them. His problems only started once he came back to Zouken.
>>135341901
>attempts to kill husband
>chokes whore to near death and make her go insane
this is the most cathartic anti-ntr story when you think about it
>>135341919
>never became a hero
But he did.
>>135342079
I didn't mean to quote the second line.
>>135342027
> Mages are immoral
wut?
>>135336751
I saw spiky hair in the thumnail and thought you were describing Natsuno until you mentioned a wife.
>>135341901
>too stupid to know what to do now that his balls finally dropped, so he chokes Aoi to near death
She deserved it tbqh familia.
>>135342101
Their morals are fucked up.
>>135342126
There are different mages with different thoughts on morality. Matou Zouken != mages
>>135342163
Generally speaking, they are.
>>135342163
You have only watched fate,havent you
>>135342112
What did she do wrong? Nothing. She doesn't have to love Kariya back. Kariya is a typical beta who whines and bitches about "the friend zone". He loved Aoi. She didn't love him back. MOVE THE FUCK ON. Seriously, Kariya would probably post on /r9k/.
>>135342027
His problems started when he decided to be Aoi's little bitch, even though she never asked for that.
>>135342245
Zouken doesn't even appear in F/SN until HF, newfriend
>>135342263
She's a bitch. Why couldn't she just tell Kariya to fuck off if she didn't like her. You're right about Kariya being a beta, and that's why Aoi, being a typical woman, kept him around. She knew he loved her but never told him to fuck off because she is a whore who wanted attention from men and orbiters to be her slaves.
>>135342054
No, it would be the most cathartic anti-ntr if he proved he was more of a man than Tokiomi, and won Aoi back through his own merit. But he couldn't, because even though Tokiomi has ducked up priorities, he is twice the man that Kariya is.
>>135342343
Or you know, she might have wanted to be friends. She never asked for anything, she wasn't leading him on. If he had been ok with being just her friend, there would have been no problems.
>>135342313
He probably assumed he watched Zero, since all secondaries watch Zero.
>>135342393
She knew he loved her and she led him on by not flat out rejecting him.
Wow, that's such a horrible life.
>>135336751
>twisted morals
But he was right.
If there's an option to definitely save 100 people or a 30% chance to save 1000 people then you should save the 100.
>>135336751
>>135340900
>>135342413
She married another man. She doesn't need to reject him, that speaks for itself. He needs to take a hint, and give up on her.
>>135342449
>women can't cheat
White Knighting this late at night?
>>135342263
>>135341901
>>135342548
>Kiritsugu and Kirei as policemen
Never noticed this, nice
>>135342480
Don't assume that she will cheat. Life isn't a porno, women aren't just ready to throw away their lives on a whim. Yes, cheating happens. But it isn't the norm, and trying to get with a married woman is a losing strategy. Also, a lot of the time a cheater will go back to their spouse. Even if Kariya makes her question her marriage, she will still most likely go back to Tokiomi.
>>135342263
He literally gave his life trying to save her daughter with the man she cucked him with, and she had the gall to tell him he doesn't know what love is.Or something like that, its been a while.
I don't think shes obligated to fuck him or anything, but I was certainly cheering for Kariya when he was strangling her to death.
>>135342615
Yes, but Kariya believed Aoi was not happy with her marriage, which she also did not straighten out with him.
>>135342617
He was only trying to save Sakura to get with Aoi. He doesn't know what love is. He knows what obsession is. Also, betas need to learn this: if you have never been with a relationship with her, you don't love her. Love happens after a long time of being together. A crush is not love. Kariya literally does not know what love is, because he hasn't experienced it.
>>135342654
She has no obligation to "straighten out" the details of her marriage with him, as it is none of his business.
tumblr pls
>>135342686
If love is that thing my parents have then im not interested. I'll take infatuation over that any day of the week. I'm going to be honest with you, i'm not really interested in 3d relationships or anything of that sort. At the end of the day if you want to make up two new words for the filthy thing you call love, and infatuation, thats fine. I know which one I never want to be a part of.
Secondly, he clearly didn't think Aoi was going to marry him if he saved Sakura; he did it because it was the daughter of someone he had strong attachment to and emotions toward. Even if you don't think he loved her, he was infatuated with her to the extent that he sacrificed himself foolishly for a chance to save her daughter.
>>135342707
She deserved the choking for not clearing on misunderstandings and leading Kariya on.
>>135341866
>Not even with the intent to kill her, just shoot at her.
Wouldn't work, Heracles doesn't fall for feints.
He'd have to go all in on trying to kill Illya, which is very out of character.
>>135338122
make sure you're reading the reaulta nau version of the vn
>>135342786
Yeah, marriages often fall to shit. Love isn't permanent. And yeah, infatuation is a lot easier than love. But love happens after discovering all the flaws of a person, learning to work around those flaws, and wanting to be with them anyway. That takes years to do. And yeah, maybe love isn't for you, that's fine. But you don't know what love is. Which brings us back to Aoi's point: Kariya does not know what love is.
And yes he did think Aoi would marry him/jump on his dick if he saved Sakura. If he really cared about Sakura, he would have gotten outside help, instead of trying to go solo and get the glory and gratitude from Aoi.
>>135342615
>Don't assume that she will cheat
Newsflash:
70% of wives cheat on their husbands
and 3/4 of divorces happen because the wife is not satisfied with her husband
>https://heartiste.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/the-reason-women-initiate-70-of-divorces/
>http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/07/wives-cheating-vs-men/66800/
I'd rather be a killed in the Middle East for being a faggot than marry some girl
>>135342837
That was basically what Gil did though. He wasn't seriously gonna mangle her, he needed her heart.
>>135342821
See
>>135342707
And
>>135342449
She owes him nothing. She married someone else, meaning she is not available. If she's unhappy with her marriage, that doesn't mean she wants Kariya.
>>135342893
I'm going to be perfectly honest:
If Aoi thought bringing up the nuanced and complex definition of love, and Kariya's lackthereof, in a church, alone, with her childhood friend who has sacrificed the majority of his lifespan and, maybe more importantly, sanity then maybe she deserved to die for being too rude or stupid to live.
>>135342937
All he needs to aim for is her head in that case. Not like she has the reaction time to dodge.
Wasnt Kariya betroth to marry Aoi since he was gonna be the successor to the Matou.
But he left to avoid the mage life-style for himself and Aoi. Obviously things didnt panned out since she just married Tokiomi.
>>135342916
>Wordpress blog
Didn't even go there, it's a fucking blog.
>The Wire article
Work on your reading comprehension, re-read that article, and see if you still get "70% of wives cheat on their husbands"
>>135336751
An average character from Terra Formars has it pretty rough and most of them are better people than Kiritsugu. Even the Chinese. And even the roaches.
>>135342686
>He was only trying to save Sakura to get with Aoi
Citation needed.
>They're all pretty old, so they fight with firm belief systems. However, among them, Matou Kariya, who's fighting for Sakura's freedom, is an anomaly. He, and only he, fights for a very shonen manga-esque ideal, "to save a girl." In that respect, I think it's easier for the reader to identify with Kariya compared to the valiant types like Kiritsugu.
Aoi was actually arranged to be with Kariya, before he left the Matou out of disgust.
>>135343076
Excellent argument. If you are ever board and need more whores to defend, just head on over to >>>/r9k/
>>135343102
>whore
She's a whore because she stayed faithful to her husband? I don't think you know what that word means.
Ironic how you think I belong on /r9k/, as you're defending someone who definitely fits the mold of an /r9k/ poster.
>>135343165
She's a whore for knowingly leading a man on for attention.
>>135343089
Again, if he really wanted to save Sakura for Sakura's sake, he would have gotten outside help. Instead he decides to do it by himself, so he can have all of Aoi's gratitude if he succeeds.
And if Aoi loved him, she would have still married him, even after he left the Matous. She didn't love him, and didn't marry him once she wasn't being forced to do so.
>>135343185
So any time a woman chooses to be friends with a man, and he has feelings for her, she's leading him on? No. If the man can't be "just friends", he needs to have no relationship with her at all.
>>135343221
>he would have gotten outside help
1) Kariya is stupid to begin with.
2) They're mages; this is not as simple as you're making it out to be.
3) Word of god overrules even absolutely rational interpretations, which yours is not.
No shit Aoi didn't love him. No one here thinks she did.
>>135336751
>Is there anyone else who had a harder life than Kiritsugu Emiya?
Well, just from fate:
-Archer
-Illya
-Irisviel
-Artoria
-Sakura
-Claudia Hortensia
-Avenger
-and the list can go on...
Kiritsugu could have a decent life if he just pulled his head out of his ass.
>>135342916
You fucking suck at arguing, just sayin
My dick is quite hard now and it kinda bothers me
>>135343257
Depends if she know about the feelings or not. In this case she did, but you seem to think she owed Kariya nothing, not even a proper rejection.
>>135343297
Again, she married another man. There is no greater rejection than this. If you don't get it by then, you are a fucking idiot, and it's your fault for not taking the hint.
I love this girl, I hope she likes me too!
.
.
.
She married another man! Well, maybe she still might love me!
.
.
.
She had two children with this man! Maybe she'll throw away her marriage for me eventually!
Do you not see how stupid Kariya is?
>>135343353
Fucking retard. The marriage does not prove anything because she is not the one who made the decision.
>>135343386
You're worse than anyone in /r9k/.
>>135343400
Good argument.
>>135343264
So could Archer and Artoria.
>>135343353
As a married woman, she has a duty to tell him to stop hounding around. He shouldn't need a "hint", he needs to be told to step off.
>>135343386
>She is not the one who made the decision
Citation needed. Also, here's what I found on the Type Moon Wiki:
>"She accepted Tokiomi's proposal with full knowledge of what it meant to marry a mage."
I know the Wiki isn't official, but short of scouring the novels for the answer, that's the best source available.
>>135343400
The irony is your comments are quite sexist. You deny women any power or responsibility.
>>135343444
He would need to be told to step off if he actually did anything more than pine after her and secretly fap to her. He never made any advances after she was married, so she would never have to tell him to back off.
>>135343483
And now a shitposter has arrived. I'm arguing for Aoi, but I'm no tumblrfag.
>>135343526
>I'm no tumblrfag
You sure so post like one. It's either that or you're one bored shitposter.
>>135343466
She was arranged to marry Kariya before he left. Then she becomes arranged to Tokiomi, and the marriage goes through. This would have happened whether or not she liked Tokiomi. She did in fact love Tokiomi but would not explain it to Kariya because he apparently does not deserve an explanation. The point is, she would have gotten married whether she liked Tokiomi or not, ans since she never rejected Kariya properly, he thought she did like him and not Tokiomi.
>>135343502
She could have said something when he told her he would kill Tokiomi to and save her.
>>135343569
You're acting like it's Aoi's responsibility to reject him when he doesn't even bring up the subject. He never confesses to her, or asks her to leave Tokiomi for him. If he never asks, he will never get a yes or no. If Kariya honestly thought that Aoi would choose to be with him, he would have talked to her about it. The very fact that he never brings it up shows that he knows that Aoi won't choose him. He doesn't want to be rejected. He would rather watch Tokiomi fuck her than get formally rejected.
>>135343666
He brought it up during loli Rin's adventure and she still said nothing.
>>135343710
Because he literally walked away before she could. He said his speech, she says "wait", he says "someday we'll play in this park again, r-right?" And walks away. She doesn't chase after him because she has to take care of her unconscious child. If he didn't have such a flair for dramatic faggotry, he would have actually sat down and talked it out with her.
>>135343808
If she really wanted to say something she would have.
>all this whiteknight faggotry
Aoi's flaw was her passivity. What made her the "perfect wife" ironically brought a lot of misery.
>>135343869
If he really wanted to hear it, he could have stayed to listen.
Also, she just found her child unconscious in a park. Dealing with her obsessive ex is lower on her priorities list.
>>135343925
>If he really wanted to hear it, he could have stayed to listen.
Of course he would not want to listen to that after coming so far, what's your point?
He just told her he would kill her husband. She could have said "I WANT TO BE WITH TOKIOMI, NOT YOU" if she wasn't a bitch.
>>135343892
You're absolutely right. Aoi isn't perfect. However, Kariya is responsible for his own sorrow. Never assume that a married woman wants you. Even if she had been leading him on, it's still his responsibility to not take that shit, and leave her for good.
Why you're talking about Aoi and Kariya
This thread has to be dedicated to the legit hero of justice, Kiritsugu Emiya
>>135343978
>Kariya is responsible for his own sorrow.
True and Aoi bears much responsibility for her own sorrow.
>>135343972
>Of course he would not want to listen to that after coming so far
Exactly. He fucking knows that Aoi doesn't love him. He doesn't want to listen to her, because he knows that she will reject him. Yet he follows her around like a lost puppy anyway. His suffering is his fault. He can choose to walk away from Aoi at any moment. But he never did.
>>135344034
Sure, I can accept that. That was never the issue. The issue was that faggots felt sorry for Kariya's pussy ass.
>>135344050
>He fucking knows that Aoi doesn't love him
He doesn't.
>>135344081
Yes he does know that she doesn't love him. If he thought that she loved him, he would have confessed years ago. He would have sat down and talked to her, told her how he felt, and ask her to leave Tokiomi. But he didn't. Why? Because he knows he will be rejected.
>>135344148
> She would have sat down and talked to him, told him how she he felt, and tell him she would not leave Tokiomi. But she didn't. Why? Because she is a bitch.
>>135344181
>women should preemptively reject men who haven't even confessed
>>13534421
>women should preemptively give up on women who haven't even rejected them
>>135344234
>>135344215
You know what I meant.
>>135344181
Yeah, I always tell my friends that I'm not into them, even if they don't confess to me. Just to make things awkward. Seriously, Aoi is fine with the situation. She has the relationship that she wants. Kariya is the one who wants things to change. It's his job to make it happen. Also, even if Aoi led him on by not rejecting him, he still didn't muster up the balls to confess to her, meaning that he is still to blame for his suffering.
Scenario A: Kariya thinks Aoi loves him.
Kariya should confess, I mean, why not? If he thinks that she's into him, go for it! But he doesn't. He's a pussy, and his suffering is his fault.
Scenario B: Kariya knows Aoi does not love him.
He should either be friends, or leave Aoi forever. He has no chance of any romance, either be happy as friends, or leave. But he doesn't. He's a pussy, and his suffering is his own fault.
>>135344234
If that woman is married, yes.
>>135336751
Being a hero isn't exactly a good thing in the Nasuverse.
If you become heroic enough, you get removed from the Cycle of Reincarnation and get stuck in some faggot's fucking Hard Drive and stay there, forever.
Meanwhile, normal people can keep getting reincarnated over and over again.
>>135344339
But Aoi knew Kariya loved her. You blame Kariya saying he should have backed off knowing Aoi did not want him, even though she never said it, but you defend Aoi not rejecting Kariya knowing he loved her even though he did not confess.
>>135344071
It's okay to pity Kariya, his life was a wreck from the cradle forward. There was good to him, even if he was pathetic and deluded. He did legitimately care about Sakura and didn't want her in the hands of evil grandpa and he wanted to make Aoi happy even if he wanted her to prefer him to Tokiomi.
People feel bad for him because he wants to "make things right" and find some happiness but it's futile.
>>135344402
Because. She. Married. Another. Man. That is a rejection.
And yet again, it doesn't matter if Aoi is wrong or right. The point is, Kariya could have saved himself from all his problems, by either confessing or leaving. He is to blame for his sorrow. This is my point. Kariya is not to be pitied. Even if Aoi was a bitch, Kariya could have solved his own problems.
>>135344457
He did have a hard childhood, I'm sure. But everything that happened to him in Fate/Zero is his fault.
And again, if he wanted to save Sakura for Sakura's sake, he would have gotten help, instead of going solo. He wanted all the praise and gratitude from Aoi all to himself.
>>135342163
The majority of mages in Fateverse are scumbags that need to be purged with holy fire.
>>135344579
>arranged marriage
Do you have a brain?
>>135344601
Aoi and Tokiomi's marriage was not arranged. She "accepted his proposal". Her choice, 100%.
Do you have a brain?
>>135344641
Either you're failing to read this>>135343569
or you're shitposting.
>>135344545
>But everything that happened to him in Fate/Zero is his fault.
Of course, but that doesn't make him unworthy of pity.
>he would have gotten help
From who? How? He stormed off the grandpa's to find out what the deal was and had to strike a deal there.
>>135344666
I did read it. He claims Tokiomi and Aoi had an arranged marriage. He's full of shit. It wasn't arranged.
>>135344505
> she was arranged to marry kariya before he left
forgive me, I don't remember this. I know them as childhood sweethearts, and that's all.
even if that is the case, couldn't kariya just man up being a mage if he wanted her that bad? like, he wants the lady, but he doesn't want to work for it.
do i pity him? I guess so. wanting to save the sisters from zouken iz good. But not for his heartbreak ntr whatever. that.. he brought himself.
>>135344545
>he would have gotten help,
You don't really understand how this whole mage thing works.
>>135344696
Read it again you idiot.
>>135344681
Nope, if your own troubles are your own fault, no pity.
He could have found help. As a last resort, he could have even gotten hired help. I mean, Kiritsugu does that kind of work all the time. Get a mage for hire like him.
>>135344724
Yep, read it again, you're still a dumbass. It wasn't arranged. If it wasn't arranged, then Kariya would think "oh, she must love Tokiomi, since it is entirely her own choice to go through with this marriage".
They claim it was arranged. They are wrong. Go look it the fuck up.
>>135344821
Did you read the entire page on the wiki when you quoted it?
>>135344830
Yes. And their marriage was not arranged.
>>135344750
>Nope, if your own troubles are your own fault, no pity.
Stone cold. I don't fully agree but that's your way.
You don't understand. After coming to grandpa's house, he had to strike a deal then and there. Zouken was wicked and senile and didn't give a fuck about Sakura's life, and he was not going to just let Kariya leave after Kariya messed shit up for him. Kariya had to make a deal then and there and from there, under Zouken's thumb, he had to go solo.
And it wouldn't have been easy for him to find help in the mage world. A bum like Kariya sure as hell couldn't hire a guy like Kerry, who was too busy striving to end all suffering to focus on one case anyway.
>>135344902
Next read the LN.
>>135344935
No he didn't have to strike a deal right then and there. Zouken sent Sakura to the wormpit up until the Grail War anyway. Whether or not Kariya put a plan into action that day or later doesn't matter. He could have planned it out, gotten help, and saved her. And yes he could hire help. Kariya has income of some kind. He could even ask Aoi to chip in.
>>135345009
>No he didn't have to strike a deal right then and there....
Yes because Zouken would just allow him leave freely and plot against him, right?
>>135344943
i don't understand why he has the burden of proof. If you claim that the marriage is arranged in the LN, why don't you show proof yourself.
The marriage was not arranged. Aoi agreed to it. Just accept it anon.
So I recently started F/HA and let me get this straight.
80% of the game is SoL with Shirou with small tidbits of Bazett here and there?
>>135345165
More like 90%, but I still liked it. It was literally "fanservice, the game"
>>135345165
>80%
99%
>>135345165
And no Rin until you're about halfway through the plot.
On the other hand, Archer, hero of kittens,
>>135345378
Archer has like, five scenes. It's kind of bullshit.
I'd say most of the game is pretty bullshit, to be honest. Some good scenes mixed between a bunch of bullshit, but nothing that ever made me go "wow".
>>135336751
Have you seen his kids?
>>135345419
Kill yourself.
>>135345419
Whole ending was god tier.
>>135345580
The Bazett stuff was okay. I kinda liked the message about moving on, and how you can't keep living an endless happy dream forever. You could see it as Nasu almost trying to close the book on these characters, and give them all a goodbye.
Loses a fair bit of its impact though when you realize Fate's still his bread and butter 10 years later.
>>135345165
The serious scenes are only the night scenes. It's a fandisk with an excuse plot.
>>135343221
>he would have gotten outside help
From who? Everyone in Type Moon is a complete asshole except for Kitty Stu and 'You Lost Me'. Even Sakura's own dad was legit okay with her begin raped and shoved with worms because 'muh mages'.
>>135340987
Come on, we all know that after A pluses are not situational, but just next level of strength. Under what conditions Excalibur is equal to Bellerophon? Or to Caliburn, for that matter?
>>135347674
>Under what conditions Excalibur is equal to Bellerophon? Or to Caliburn, for that matter?
When not wielded by the true king of britain.
>>135347745
All NPs drop in rank or even not work altogether when acquired wrong - it's less of a condition and more of a rule.
>>135349849
But this would apply even, say, in Lancelot's hands.
>184 replies
>no BOKU WA
You disappoint me, /a/.
>>135350623
I don't think that's how Knight of Honour works, but I might not be following you. It functions by making any NP he grabs into his NP, and gives him full access to its abilities. Any ownership rules (e.g. GoB) will be overridden by KoH for as long as Lancelot is using whatever NP he's grabbed.
>>135350811
There is a few DRM-blocked phantasms, like Ea or Excalibur - it's unknown how does they function with KoH. But it's not the original point of argue anyway - if pluses are situational, then there should be a situation when Excalibur used by Arturia loses to Medusa's Bellerophon. This is not what happens - Excalibur straightforwardly called a phantasm better then Bellerophon - therefore, pluses are just additional level of strength before EX.
>>135351039
>then there should be a situation when Excalibur used by Arturia
That's not implied at all, the condition can very well be "when used by someone with dragonblood".
>>135350811
No, he keeps the level of the NP and it's treated as his, he doesn't freely satisfy all requirements made of it. If he took Gae Bolg he couldn't do the reality inverting heart stab because that's Cuchulainn's technique channeled through the spear, not an ability of the spear alone.
