ARCHER The Heroic Tragedy of Fate | FATE STAY/NIGHT (Analysis part 1)

Make sure to watch my 2nd vid on Archer! https://youtu.be/wdeWAsi7Jqs

Archer to me is the literal saddest/tragic character in fate series and may even be the saddest character in all of anime because of his fate as a Counter Guardian is infinite never will he not suffer, never will he not fight, never will he reach his goals, all he has is regrets

If you think about it, the Stay night and its counterparts are fanfiction of historical figures. So that means Archer is Nasus OC

This is something that gets misunderstood and infact is meant as a misdirect even having other characters believe the intention to be true. Archers wish was not to kill Shirou but to instead free Shirou from having to walk the same path as him. This is shown not only in words but in actions. If Archer wanted to kill Shirou the task could have been easily done as the difference in skill and power was clearly huge. Shirou might be able to adapt as he fights Archer but Archer still would have won. The show also hints that Archer knew who he was but may have not remembered everything because he recognized Rin after seeing her. If a servant doesn't remember their name or legend they are not able to use their noble phantasm or main ability as their abilities name and their legend would both be lost. But Archer knows his abilities and his origin. His goal is to frame his intentions as distrust for Shirou trying to distance Rin from him and allow the task of changing events to be easier but that plan fails. Remember this is the hero that can summon and throw noble phzntasms that he can supercharge to explode like nukes. The definitive point is how he would convince Shirou. He uses multiple conversations to try to break apart his logic and ideals and when that fails wounds Shirou to remove him from the conflict and to give him time to reflect hoping that the action would frustrate him and lead him to give up his dream. Even at the last fight Archer is trying to kill his ideals and not Shirou. Archer also remembers that Avalon is inside Shirou thus giving him increased healing. Shirou's persistence in his fight and desire to fight for that dream causes Archer to remember fully the thing he forgot. Why he became a Hero. With that remembered Archer let's Shirou's swords strike true and admits defeat. The real Archer now understanding himself and accepting the outcome. It's the principle of having a fight with your younger self and striving to help them avoid things. In the end if they avoid those things they would never learn the lesson and the value that was gained would be lost. Shirou would a not be diswaided from his path and his lessons were ones he had to learn himself.

There are things that require you to watch this several times to find the deeper layers, and this show gets better every time I watch it. The struggles of human morality, the downsides of godlike figures, belief, and honestly there's a lot about this series that deconstructs real world religion.

A lengthy 2 part analysis on my favorite Fate character? Yes plz!

before abridged meme reach this comment he is "*Actually Satan*"

I totally have a thing for heroes with tragic backstories. Vash the Stampede(Trigun) and Archer are my #1 and 2. They share enough traits I'm pretty convinced Vash is the Fate/Stay creator's inspiration for Archer.

Archer is my favourite character. I really hope they make a movie on Archer.

I'm late but damn finally more people talking about my boy 🔥

People Die If They Are Killed.

Archer is such a peak character

He forgot about oath under snow there’s 4 paths

You hit all the good spots, good sh8 man

like the video can't wait to watch part 2

While Unlimited Blade Works probably dives into him and his past selves relationship, the most thoughtfully it also really undermines all his characterization and analysis with the end. Shirou get an easy answer to the complex problem that is the whole situation and ideals. His answer to archer in the long run amounts to you could’ve done it all if you had encountered a future version of yourself so you could get all the power you needed to become a hero by copying it all off a version of yourself that had already sacrificed themselves and lost everything.

There's really almost zero vids about EMIYA

Ive been waiting for this baybeee let's goooo Also Fate is superior to any of the anime you mentioned.

Bone not Burn

Kind of incoherent delivery, dont take it at heart.