2012-01-22, 20:39 | Link #4041 |
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If he wants to 'prevent the people close to him from crying', or make them happy in other words, killing someone he loves would PROBABLY count as discarding his ideals. He doesn't want to save everyone - he already realizes that it's impossible to do so, and even denies the chance to save the orphans in the Fate route.
He's not Kiritsugu, after all. |
2012-01-22, 20:40 | Link #4042 |
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I'd call it more like fully embracing Kiritsugu's personality. His ideals in Fate and UBW are rather different from Kiristugu's, in the fact thta he calls sacrifice rather bu**sh**, and wants to save everyone (and thus do the impossible). He's still largely clinging to that idea, although knowing that it's impossible. (That's what drove Counter Guardian EMIYA insane after all)
The road he adopts in mind of steel has him become much more Kiritsugu alike where he makes compromises.
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2012-01-23, 17:39 | Link #4043 | ||
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Note that he avoids killing people like Shinji and Ilya who were just as dangerous as Sakura (to his knowledge, anyway) and had far more intent. Quote:
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2012-01-24, 06:51 | Link #4047 |
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No. The problem is that he LIKES HIM! That's why he kills him. Shirou is in truth a Yandere that will end up killing those he loves! I bet that if Kotomine did an anguished declaration of love to him... he'd have spared him.
Ok, coming back to a more serious discussion, in the Fate route, this is probably due to the fact that Kotomine had near zero redeeming features in him from Shirou's current PoV. Shinji was a jerk, but he had somewhat befriended him before. Which is why even though he had no second thought about killing him at the school, he tried not to. (Here, a bit of Kiristugu's idea came back) Illya was a small little girl... and the time they spent together kinda warmed his heart. Plus we have to admit that Shirou is definitely a lolicon.
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2012-01-24, 16:04 | Link #4049 |
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Well that to. If Shirou had mucked around, and Kotomine started acting rather than chewing the scenery... well, we can just say that Shirou would've eaten a few Black Keys to the guts...
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2012-01-26, 04:39 | Link #4050 |
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Kotomine is directly acting to destroy the world through his own free will. Sakura was not....
Exactly. He had to stop Kotomine, because he was in the process of attempting to destroy the world (and kill Ilya in the process...), and he couldn't risk not going all-out because Kotomine was too strong. Sakura was different because he had an alternative, and also because she didn't really choose to become what she became. |
2012-01-26, 13:11 | Link #4052 |
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Thats far more ambiguous really. If you look at it that way then there's no such thing as free will. The philosophy of Determinism has always been something Nasu rejects in almost every one of his stories
Besides it's not like Shirou ever managed to fully find out Kotomine's backstory. Fortunately there's no Kotomine route.
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2012-01-26, 15:54 | Link #4053 |
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Interesting idea. Shirou's ideal explicitly is saving everybody. Kotomine is somebody, thus part of everybody. By killing somebody, he cannot save everybody anymore. Thus, he has effectively betrayed his ideal.
But so long as he doesn't realize what he has done, so long as he isn't aware of the fact, it doesn't matter - he can maintain his ideal while betraying it. And as DragoZero said, he arranges his ideology around his emotional inclinations. That's funny considering the name of the merchandise ... |
2012-01-26, 17:14 | Link #4055 |
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I dunno, I always felt like people being fated to act a certain way always played a big part with the Fate villains.
Kotomine was born basically evil. That's why he identifies with the Grail. He wants to know why someone like him would be allowed to exist (by God). He actually TRIES to fight it and be good, but in the end he gives up and surrenders to his nature. Sakura gets so warped that she's basically just acting out her madness. Ilya is raised to basically be a mindless killer. Even Shirou himself basically confirms that he's just a mirror image of Kotomine, which is why Kotomine rubs him the wrong way. He basically sees that if things turned out just a little different, he could have become like him. He has no sense of self or purpose; he only gets enjoyment from pleasing others, just like Kotomine gets pleasure from hurting others. That's not necessarily determinism though since they still had to choose to act on their inclinations, and in cases like Shirou and Kotomine they were fully aware of what their actions meant. |
2012-01-27, 00:40 | Link #4059 |
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No, this isn't the problem. The one person that made Gil go through his descent in darkness was Gilgamesh. He was an empty, but nice guy before that. Why would his wife commit suicide to try to awaken his emotions if she didn't love him?
He also talks about his daughter in a fatherly tone IIRC, so Kotomine was no monster before Gil drew him in to the dark side. *Ok, let the "Tokiomi summoned "x" instead of Gilgamesh* imagine spots arrive. Or as a fan-fic that I saw... Assassin isn't that dumb and tries to reason with Kotomine, two advisors, competition. Oh, and did I mention that he knew Tokiomi was fooling around and sending him as a test lad rat against Iskander? He has one body remaining afterwards... COMPLETE CHANGE IN THE PLOT!
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