Fate stay night/Heartwarming: Difference between revisions

** The flashback to Saber's death showing Bedivere's desperate attempts to keep her from dying.

* During Shirou and {{spoiler|Archer}}'s cataclysmic battle in ''Unlimited Blade Works'', {{spoiler|Archer}} asks Shirou: [[Hannibal Lecture|"Is it really worth saving this sad and ugly world, when there is nothing left after it is saved? With all this death, cruelty and sadness, do you still WANT to become a hero?"]] With ''[[Wide-Eyed Idealist|absolute]]'' sincerity, Shirou retorts:

* ''Heaven's Feel'' route. Shirou's had a rough day; he's found out that {{spoiler|Sakura, the route's love-interest and his childhood friend, has been put through hell by her grandfather and raped multiple times as part of her training. To make things worse, she's also a Master in the Holy Grail War and has trouble controlling her incredibly dangerous magic. After she knocks herself out after inadvertently attacking Shirou, he goes off by himself to a park where he reflects on this new information and starts getting enraged at Zouken, as well as himself for not noticing any of this sooner. Suddenly, Ilya, the child Master of Berserker, shows up and wants to play with him. In a fit of rage, he pushes her away and immediately regrets it, knowing that he just "pushed aside an honest, pure show of affection." He can't even meet her gaze, and a Dead End seems imminent, when Ilya, in a show of compassion, apologizes to Shirou.}}

{{spoiler|'''Shirou''' (thinking): My vision is covered in white. ...It's just one phrase. But that phrase washes away everything from my head.}} }}

** {{spoiler|This can create a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] moment if Shirou chooses to stick with his ideals, producing the infamous "Heart of Steel" bad ending, in which Shirou is supposed to kill everyone involved in the Grail War, ''including Ilya.''}}

* Then there's the scene the night before the battle in Unlimited Blade Works. Rin had been acting weird earlier, so Shirou goes to see her. {{spoiler|He finds out that Rin was acting weird because the quickest and simplest way for Shirou to access the amount of magical energy he needs to use his Reality Marble is to [[Lampshaded Double Entendre|"connect"]] to Rin. Shirou reacts the way you'd expect a 17-year-old with repressed sexual feelings would act, which Rin takes the wrong way and becomes visibly sad. Shirou then tells Rin that having sex with Rin is like a dream come true, but he wanted it to happen naturally in the course of a relationship, as an expression for their mutual love. Shirou then expects to be slapped...only for Rin to kiss him.}} That scene was the first of two times in the VN (the second being the True End of Heaven's Feel) that made this troper vocalize his feelings as such: "Awww..."

* Archer's [[Go Out with a Smile|smile]] at the end of UBW. Just like when Kiritsugu pulled Shirou out of the fire ten years prior to the story, it makes you feel like Archer might have found his own salvation in saving Rin and Shirou, and the events of the route generally, after a long existence of pain, betrayal, and bloodshed.

 

** If that wasn't heartwarming enough, consider the fact that if you have the voice acting for that scene available in some way, you'll notice that when he says that, his speaking manner has changed back to the way they used to be. If you can tell the difference, its all the more apparent that Archer is freed, the cold, spiteful demeanor is gone, and {{spoiler|he has become Emiya Shirou once again.}}