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Originally Posted by RadiantBeam
1. According to the game, a Master doesn't lose their Command Spell until they lose their Servant; Shirou didn't fully lose his Command Spell, as I recall, until he said goodbye to the place where Saber had fallen. I originally had a line where he thought his Command Spell would have disappeared if Saber died, but then I remembered it didn't disappear until he actually saw the place, so instead I changed it to say that his hand would have hurt worse if Saber was gone.
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Actually, masters don't lose their command spell until they
accept that they're no longer a master. Since Shirou has no interest in the war itself, for him that means when he accepts that Saber is gone, hence why Shirou loses them when he sees the place where she had fallen and says goodbye. It's the point where Shirou accepts that he's lost his servant and, thus, no longer has the right to be a master. However, for someone like Rin in UBW, she
retains her command spells even when she's betrayed by Archer, because she doesn't accept that she's no longer a master, hence why she can contract with Saber. However, once the servant dies, the command spells fade, as if they had all been used (if the person makes a new contract with a servant, they get three command spells again), so that would be the distinction (not that
Shirou would know that).
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2. In my head, I justified Shirou checking Saber's pulse to make sure she was alive because as they are in the game, despite being spirits, Heroic Spirits are also shown to be capable of human form; they can bleed, and eat, and breathe just like humans, so I naturally assumed that like humans they would have a pulse. Of course, whether or not they would need one is subject for debate, but eh.
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Well, I'd imagine that they
do have a pulse, however it's pretty strongly hinted that servants only do human things like breathing because they
used to be human. A servant does indeed breathe, but a servant couldn't
suffocate, and similarly a servant can't bleed to death. There is, however, an easy way to know if a servant is dead, because a dead servant
vanishes. Having said that, once again Shirou would likely not be aware of this, so it's quite plausible for him to try taking her pulse to check.