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Originally Posted by Moczo

Spoiler for Rain Review:

I felt a little bad for Shirou, truly. He kind of just got his hopes crushed after finally working up the courage to admit his feelings. He's putting on a brave face, but he just took a hit, that much is clear. How this changes his actions for the remainder of the storyline will be probably just as interesting as seeing the main relationship develop, to be honest... his whole world just got overturned twice in the space of a few days, once when he realized his feelings, and again when he couldn't act on them.

Yes, well, I've found Shirou makes an excellent punching bag in that sense. You can hurt him as much as you like and he never breaks completely. But yeah, in his case, it's going to get worse before it gets better, though it does get better for him; now I just need to figure out in what way it gets better for him....

Spoiler:

Despite what Rin might say, if she called Shirou and said, 'please come back, Sakura might die if you don't', he would have, and the fact that she didn't make that call showed that deep down she did not want to. And Sakura could easily have requested she do so, but did not. They don't have a normal sisterly relationship, after all, and they certainly had enough subtext in-game to make an attraction plausible. That night in the rain could easily be enough to bring that out in both of them, even though for the moment they're not quite willing to admit it and telling themselves it's solely out of necessity.

Morning after is certainly going to be interesting, that's for sure. I replayed through it just a minute ago to get the general feel for the scene when it was Shirou and Sakura, and I already have some ideas of how to tweak it for Rain.