First off; Mike your opinion is not wanted, or needed, I already know you're not gonna say anything useful, so don't say anything at all.
I originally got the idea from Verg AvestaÆs ôFakerö snippet from his Christmas fic, and it just sort of snowballed from there.
It was supposed to be a sort of fusion of Darker than Black and Fate/Stay Night, with Shirou acting as the ôHeiö of the story, with Illya as his ôYinö
A few years after the Mind of Steel ending, Emiya Shirou is working as an assassin for the MageÆs Association, partnered up with Illya, Tohsaka Rin, and White Len (I had as idea as to why, but I canÆt get into my BL messages anymore so I canÆt say what it was.).
Tohsaka Rin, of course, is not happy with that set up for three reasons:
He killed her sister.
He had Kirei lock her up in his basement until the war was over.
She loves Emiya Shirou, and hates the person who has replaced him.
SheÆs the Huang of the group, the person who does their job and keeps the rest of them alive, regardless of how much they hate the people they have to work with.
I had originally planned it to go something similar to DTB, but I figured it would do better as a Character development type fic with bits of ShirouxIllya and ShirouxRin thrown in for flavour.
And an epic fight scene between The Fujimura Yakuza and the Mages Association.
Since then, it was mostly going to focus on Shirou, and how interactions with his group slowly brings out the real Shirou, during the period Shirou is slowly evolving into a character closer resembling himself, the organization decide he has out lived his usefulness, and try to have him killed.
Of course, that would be the turning point in the fic, where characters have to pick their sides, or suffer the consequences, with Rin being the one with the hardest time choosing who to help.
The fic isn't exactly meant to be overly romantic, it's just supposed to focus mostly on Shirou gradually evoolving from an emotionless mage killer, into a character more like a fusion of himself and Archer.
I just thought using characters he's already familiar with would make it easier for him to understand them.
I'd be trying to aim for something where, despite it's mind of steel origins, it's really just Shirou attempting to shut down his emotions in order to stop himself being completely overcome with guilt.
He konws, and understands, that what he did was fundementally what was best for "The Greater Good" but the guilt of killing the woman he loves, who also happened to be the sister of one of his friends, drives him to the point of simply shutting his humanity down.
Illya follows him out of pity, she knows how bad a life of lonelyness can get, and she knows what he's doing to himself, and wants him to stop, because he's still her big brother.
There was more to it then that, but I honestly canÆt remember what Irun helped me come with in the end and since I can't get into my BL PM's I don't think I'm going to be able to retrieve the full idea..
I originally got the idea from Verg AvestaÆs ôFakerö snippet from his Christmas fic, and it just sort of snowballed from there.
It was supposed to be a sort of fusion of Darker than Black and Fate/Stay Night, with Shirou acting as the ôHeiö of the story, with Illya as his ôYinö
A few years after the Mind of Steel ending, Emiya Shirou is working as an assassin for the MageÆs Association, partnered up with Illya, Tohsaka Rin, and White Len (I had as idea as to why, but I canÆt get into my BL messages anymore so I canÆt say what it was.).
Tohsaka Rin, of course, is not happy with that set up for three reasons:
He killed her sister.
He had Kirei lock her up in his basement until the war was over.
She loves Emiya Shirou, and hates the person who has replaced him.
SheÆs the Huang of the group, the person who does their job and keeps the rest of them alive, regardless of how much they hate the people they have to work with.
I had originally planned it to go something similar to DTB, but I figured it would do better as a Character development type fic with bits of ShirouxIllya and ShirouxRin thrown in for flavour.
And an epic fight scene between The Fujimura Yakuza and the Mages Association.
Since then, it was mostly going to focus on Shirou, and how interactions with his group slowly brings out the real Shirou, during the period Shirou is slowly evolving into a character closer resembling himself, the organization decide he has out lived his usefulness, and try to have him killed.
Of course, that would be the turning point in the fic, where characters have to pick their sides, or suffer the consequences, with Rin being the one with the hardest time choosing who to help.
The fic isn't exactly meant to be overly romantic, it's just supposed to focus mostly on Shirou gradually evoolving from an emotionless mage killer, into a character more like a fusion of himself and Archer.
I just thought using characters he's already familiar with would make it easier for him to understand them.
I'd be trying to aim for something where, despite it's mind of steel origins, it's really just Shirou attempting to shut down his emotions in order to stop himself being completely overcome with guilt.
He konws, and understands, that what he did was fundementally what was best for "The Greater Good" but the guilt of killing the woman he loves, who also happened to be the sister of one of his friends, drives him to the point of simply shutting his humanity down.
Illya follows him out of pity, she knows how bad a life of lonelyness can get, and she knows what he's doing to himself, and wants him to stop, because he's still her big brother.
There was more to it then that, but I honestly canÆt remember what Irun helped me come with in the end and since I can't get into my BL PM's I don't think I'm going to be able to retrieve the full idea..