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* Earlier, in the Fate route {{spoiler|Ilya has been a major antagonist for most of the route. She's nearly killed Shirou, Saber, and Rin more than once, and kidnapped Shirou with intent to make him her 'doll'. Yikes. Yet after her servant is defeated, reducing her more or less to a terrified child, Shirou, who has more reason than anybody to never forgive her past actions... picks her up and carries her home to take care of her, so she won't have to be all alone and defenseless. He never even asks for anything in return. Awwwwww.}}
** That leads into another one. While it's most apparent retroactively after Unlimited Blade Works, hearing {{spoiler|Ilya insist that with Berserker dead, she has no desire to keep fighting (specifically, she has no desire to stick around and find another servant; Berserker was too important to her)}} is a first hint that maybe she's not as psychotically evil as she seemed...
* 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 [[
* 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.
{{quote|'''Archer:'''"I found my answer. Don't worry Tohsaka, I'll do my best from now on too."}}
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