I was talkin to a few people about this and we came to the horrid realization that Kirei imitates murders he’s seen/done and found particularly appealing.
OK starting with Tokiomi, he stabs him in the back and he dies utterly betrayed. That’s kinda the start of all this, habitually.
Fate path he does the same to Rin, whom Tokiomi entrusted to him in that very scene. Which he probably does because disgusting irony is his joy in life.
There is a scene in Fate/Stay Night where Kirei tells Shirou that Kiritsugu was a ruthless murderer and forced a Servant (Lancer) to commit suicide.
With full knowledge of this, he does the same to his Lancer
BTW how did he steal Lancer from his redheaded aristocratic Master?
Like Kiritsugu did to Sola-Ui
In Unlimited Blade works, Gilgamesh rips Ilya’s heart out of her chest. A few scenes later, Kirei tries to do the exact same thing to Rin.
He tries to fight Shirou in an epic battle to the death because he projects Kiritsugu onto him and this is kinda his ‘revenge’ for losing, finishing what he started.
I also think he tries to ‘fix’ deaths he found unsatisfying. Think back to the fact that his one-eyed white-haired sickly wife died of illness and he regretted not taking her life himself. During the fourth war he starts profiling two people who fit that description pretty closely. Like to the degree Gilgamesh calls him out on it with Kariya, why should someone you think is pathetic and hopeless interest you more than more competent masters.
We know it’s because he subconciously wants to watch him suffer as much as possible.
Kirei found his father’s death unsatisfying. He was the one who found him, already dead, and it didn’t really move him.
After he kills Tokiomi he makes sure to leave the body where it’ll cause as much trauma as possible.
And initially I thought the fact that Kirei choked Iri to death was just gratuitous asphyxiation fetish on Urobutcher’s part because choking happened like three times in the past episode and then I realized holy crap he wasn’t just choking her, the conversation he has with her about her husband before he chokes her when she disagrees- subconsciously or not he imitated Kariya. Maybe because Kariya didn’t finish the job, and Kirei wasn’t fully satisfied, so idk he had to go choke someone else’s wife.
he also grows out his mullet after the 90s have ended
long story short Kirei is terrifying
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