Archer (EMIYA)

**EMIYA**, also known as **Archer**, is a character from the *TYPE-MOON* series.

## **Charactah Account**

Archer is the Servant of Rin. Sarcastic but well intentioned, he tends to look down on Shirou's ideals and usually dispenses either cryptic advice or razor-sharp putdowns. He is obedient to Rin, although to what extent nobody really knows; Though he does as she asks, he seems to enjoy pissing her off to the extent that she wasted one of her three Command Seals giving an order she knew would have little effect.

His personality is very contradicting. While he is thoroughly cynical and nihilistic, he is at the same time devoted and protective, and even a little childish to the point that it makes him hard to hate. He does not lie, but he does keep secrets and tell half truths. He means well and is capable of being nice, but often ends up being sarcastic, especially so when he gives advice. He cannot approve of Shirou’s ideal of becoming a Hero of Justice due to his own experience, but at the same time he cannot deny it for the very same reasons.

Archer is a very bitter person due to how his life turned out after constant betrayal by those he deemed his comrades in life and for becoming a counter guardian willingly, a being that is forced to "clean up the messes humanity has made". The reason he chose to become a counter guardian was because he believed that he could save as many people as possible and in a way this was true, but the reality was that the counter force merely sent him to a point in time where it believed humanity was on the brink of collapse and had him kill any and every person it had deemed to be the perpetrators irrespective of the fact if they were good or evil. Archer was forced to kill in spite of his beliefs and feelings, something that shattered him from within and essentially broke his heart. Due to this Archer feels betrayed by his ideal, his sole remaining wish even in his afterlife. That further solidified his bitterness and increased its intensity. His bitterness was so strong that he wished to die.

## **Appearance**

### **Anime**

* Carnival Phantasm
* Fate/Grand Order: First Order
* Fate/stay night
* Fate/stay night TV Reproduction
* Fate/stay night Movie: Unlimited Blade Works
* Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
* Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly
* Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel - III. Spring Song
* Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
* Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works 2nd Season
* Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works - Prologue
* Today's Menu for the Emiya Family

### **Manga**

* All Around Type-Moon
* Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Abyssal Cyber Paradise
* Fate/hollow ataraxia
* Fate/stay night
* Fate/stay night: Comic Battle
* Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel
* Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works
* TYPE-MOON Academy Chibichuki!

### **Video Games**

* Capsule Servant
* Fate/Ace Royal
* Fate/EXTRA CCC
* Fate/Grand Order
* Fate/Grand Order Arcade
* Fate/hollow ataraxia
* Fate/stay night
* Fate/tiger colosseum
* Fate/unlimited codes

## **Trivia**

* The scene "Decisive Battle" in *Fate/hollow ataraxia* shows Archer remembering the very first scene of the Prologue of *Fate/stay night* with Shirou Emiya summoning Saber, and though it was meant to show that the Prologue scene was from Archer's perspective, Kinoko Nasu was surprised when nobody made the connection.
* In the first Popularity polls of *Fate/stay night* in 2004, Archer was ranked 3rd and the top most voted male character.
* In the second Popularity polls of *Fate/stay night* in 2006, Archer was ranked 3rd and the top most voted male character.
* In the Type-Moon's 10th Anniversary Character Poll, Archer was ranked 3rd and the top most voted male character.