AspiringShoulder

shirou’s ability to copy weapons is an extension, a manifestation of the way he copied his ideals. noble phantasms are representations of heroic spirits, embodiments of that hero’s ideals. shirou is someone who copies the weapons, the ideals of others. but he doesn’t copy them without understanding. in order to copy a weapon he has to understand its structure, the components and conditions that came together to shape this ideal. shirou almost exclusively uses strengthening in fate route until he becomes able to project caliburn with saber’s help after he grows closer with her and comes to understand the ideals that led her to take caliburn from the stone in the first place. shirou regularly projects swords in unlimited blade works but only becomes able to activate his reality marble after clashing with and coming to understand his own borrowed ideal, after seeing for himself what the reality of that ideal is and coming to realize what kind of world needs to be imposed upon reality to fulfill that ideal anyway. in heaven’s feel all his acts of magecraft are borrowed, useable only through the arm of archer, who embodies his ideal. but that reality marble, that borrowed ideal, becomes incompatible with him as he develops his own, unborrowed ideal. unlimited blade works is the logical extreme of a copied ideal, the shirou who no longer borrows another’s ideals cannot use it.

Kojiro: I have practiced Tsubame Gaeshi until I am able to make three different cuts exist at the same point in time, creating an unavoidable mortal strike

Saber: Not if I dent your sword

Musashi: As the counterpart to Kojiro I have gained the ability to see multiple possible timelines within a single moment and forcibly manifest which one I want to occur, making space-time attacks ineffective on me

Lilith got summoned without a Master on the Bleached Earth. She was going to die alone, but Galahad formed a contract with her, thereby saving her life.

Galahad was intended to serve as the Gatekeeper to Antarctica. He was being used by Marisbury to summon more Servants (the Foreign Apostles), and would've had to fight us. Prior to Ordeal Call 4, that is a fight we would have lost.

But, Galahad and Lilith got dragged into Metatron's singularity. And a new opportunity appeared - for Mash to grow beyond Shielder, to reject Ruler, and become Shielder Paladin. Galahad wanted her to be a Ruler; Lilith wanted her to languish in agony as Shielder. Instead, Mash forged her own Saint Graph - something that required her to understand herself, and what she wanted to fight for... and what she wanted to fight against. And even more importantly, why.

She needed Ritsuka and Habetrot and her friends so that she could understand this... she needed Lilith for that as well.

Like Galahad said in Lostroom, the world was doomed. Daybit Sem Void wanted to unleash ORT to stop CHALDEAS plan, and Galahad thought that even Goetia's scheme would have been a better outcome than the unpreventable future set to come.

Until now. Until Mash became Paladin. A brand new possibility that could not have been predicted has appeared, and now Chaldea has a chance - something they didn't have before this moment - to stop CHALDEAS and reverse the bleaching.

So now, there's a chance. There's a chance the world can be saved. Because Mash saw her destiny and said "no, I will not follow the two roads that are laid out for me. I'll pave my own."

But also because Galahad, just like Ritsuka, saw a dying girl and reached out to her.

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