1: In what ways has your muse changed you?
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In what ways has your muse changed you?
Cap: Pre-Shirou as a main muse Era:
“I got into Fate due to Archer Emiya, but there are at least 2-3 semi-active ones that are decently written, so the fandom doesn’t really need ANOTHER one. Who else could I play that isn’t around? Shirou Emiya? Me? Write him? Ha. I probably wouldn’t last a week writing that softie. He’s too nice and he’s a stark contrast from the muses I usually gravitate toward to write. He would be a good challenge for to tackle as a writer though. So I’ll give him a shot and see how far I can go with him. Oh? What’s that? He’s taken over by Sengo Murasama in FGO and is related maybe? Ohhhh~ I’ll play him too, since I can look up on Murasama’s legacy AND it gives me a muse that’s also outside my normal picks: AN insane one!”
Cap: Shirou as his Main Muse Era:
“You honestly have a better shot at having him be your unpaid cook & maid than ever being a house wife or husband. He has no sense of self-worth, hates burdening others to the point he has CANONLY in EVERY ROUTE pick options where him facing a high chance of dying was more preferable than having someone else even RISK getting hurt on his behalf. He’s functioned as a heavily emotionally damaged and philosophically empty person for over a decade and if it wasn’t for Kritsugu’s ideals, he likely would have aimlessly lived desperately looking for a meaning in life to help with the survivor's guilt and emotional numbness.
HE. LITERALLY. SEES. HIMSELF. AS. A.TOOL. A.SWORD. WHO. VALIDATES. ITS. EXISTENCE.BY. SAVING.OR.HELPING.OTHERS.THROUGH.ACTIONS.
...maybe it’s a good thing most miss the fact if anything there would be a parent-child dynamic between him and anyone he has a relationship with. Otherwise Archer would get the mommy/daddy kink jokes thrown at him. Everyone just thinks Shirou will let them do whatever to him because he has no backbone and is a pushover and that’s far from the truth. Rin couldn’t even pull that off in the NOVEL or ANIMES so why- *looks at his Pixiv Tag and Tumblr tags*
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
THE NEXT PERSON WHO TALKS SHIT ABOUT MY SON GETS REINFORCED LEAD PIPES SMASHED INTO THEIR KNEECAPS!!!!!!
...*COUGHS* So, Hi my name is Cap and Shirou Emiya has been one of the most complex and interesting protagonist characters I’ve seen in anime/visual novels.I love him very much and hope to get that complex nature across when I write for him.”