Then the realization hits that his narration is just as sarcastic as Rin's and boggling occurs. First-Person Smartass: Not very obvious.He's a magus who specializes in projecting swords for combat, but he has to get a good look at the swords in question. Fighter, Mage, Thief: An ODD amalgamation of all three.
His abilities appear to have arisen specifically because of this, as explored in the final two routes of Fate/stay night. The Fettered: Shirou's ideal of wanting to save everybody is a large source of his strength.Also, Shirou becomes an Artificial Human like Tomoe in the True End of Heaven's Feel in Fate/stay night. Expy: Shirou shares a character model with Tomoe Enjou the two have similar issues regarding what is fake and what is real, as well.Evil Laugh: Believe it or not, Shirou has a mocking, sadistic and unbelievably smug little chuckle that he lets out exactly once in the voiced version of the visual novel - specifically, when his plan to cockblock Lancer by proxy just in case his Values Dissonance would get him to cross the line between flirting with girls and sexual harassment without realizing it goes off without a hitch.Dual Wielding: He picked up Archer's dual wielding style.Determinator: Not even getting killed over and over make Shirou give up.Doubly so when it's later revealed that the Shirou the readers have been following for most of the visual novel is actually Avenger possessing him and/or posing as him. Decoy Protagonist: This is really more Bazett and Avenger's story.Question: The main heroine of this fandisk is Fujimura Taiga. Deadpan Snarker: He tends to snark a lot in his internal monologues, even more than he did in Fate/stay night.Therefore, he can only use any magic that has anything to do with these ( Reinforcement, Spontaneous Weapon Creation, Structural Analysis and Bounded Fields) Lifelong contact with Avalon has altered his Element and Origin to Sword. Crippling Overspecialization: Justified.Shirou's quite the gentleman, can you blame him when he's getting weird thoughts while he's holding Saber's hands while she's swimming in a two-piece? which means Illya's pool date could be considered the only glimpse we've ever gotten of the Illya Route. The pool dates take place in timelines where Shirou got together with the girl he takes there. He outright mentions being in a "relationship" with Illya during the pool date, and tells her seeing her in a swimsuit made his heart race the most.Though one pool event in particular sheds some doubt on this. Comedic Lolicon: In certain scenes he expresses a clear attraction to Illya (which is obviously mutual), but for one reason or another doesn't consider her an actual love interest.She's older than him, just looks younger. Big Little Brother: To Illya, his adopted sister.His Structural Analysis spell may not seem like much, but then it forms a HUGE part of his more powerful abilities.
Just see his and Saber's battle against Archer, wherein after several loops of getting sniped in seconds, Shirou turns the entire thing around into a Single-Stroke Battle in his favor. Due to being aware of the time loops and being able to prepare accordingly for any deaths, he manages to avert quite a few deaths thanks to thinking of possibilities.