Ok...First I should point out that as yet I've only watched the anime. I've read through the wiki article, so I know the basic story of the rest of the game, but for all intents and purposes, this idea takes place in the Fate storyline.
Now that's over...How about if Shirou knew less mythology?
They're all fighting Berserker. Archer has already laid doun his life for them, and Saber is back to full health, thanks to a transfer of his magic circuit to her.
Archer, before he died, gave Shirou the same advice he did normally: "The thing you image is always your strongest form..." and so on.
Problem is, that now Shirou begins to understand the nature of his powers, and is ready to use them, and needs to use them because of the massive Grecian hero bearing down on him, he cant think of anything to trace.
For whatever reason, the image of caliburn stolen from Saber's memories doesn;t come to him. Maybe he never had that vision, or maybe it just didn't affect him that much...either way, he has to trace something but has no idea what.
We know Archer could trace the noble phantasms of all the heroes he encountered. He was just that badass.
And we know that Shirou may one day become that badass, but that day is not today. Apart from anything else, the number of noble phantasms he's seen and understands enough to image and trace is very few. And mythology was never his thing, so he can't remember any legendary weapons that he could trace off hand.
He's desperate...Saber is about to use Excalibur, which might kill her, and even if she doesn't, Tohsaka is one squeeze away from being paste. Finally his mind clicks onto the only track that might let him out of this situation, by giving him something to trace...
Turns out Shirou's something of an Otaku...
The basis of this idea is, rather than tracing various noble phantasms belonging to mythological and historical heroes, he will instead trace various weapons and devices from anime, manga, cartoons, comic books,...etc...
I got this idea when the wiki site said one of the weapons Shirou (or Archer, I forget which) could trace was one that was created by the game designers for one of their other games. 'The jeweled swod of something' or something like that...
So what would he trace...I had a few ideas.
-Sword of Thundara (thundercats)
-Sword of power (He-man)
-Zangetsu (Bleach)
-Samehade (Naruto)
-Web shooters, or venom suit (Spiderman)
-monowire (hellsing)
-Ultima Weapon, with various materia attached (FF7)
-Gunblade (FF8)
-Gundam Wing Zero (Gundam Wing)
...get the picture?
Now that's over...How about if Shirou knew less mythology?
They're all fighting Berserker. Archer has already laid doun his life for them, and Saber is back to full health, thanks to a transfer of his magic circuit to her.
Archer, before he died, gave Shirou the same advice he did normally: "The thing you image is always your strongest form..." and so on.
Problem is, that now Shirou begins to understand the nature of his powers, and is ready to use them, and needs to use them because of the massive Grecian hero bearing down on him, he cant think of anything to trace.
For whatever reason, the image of caliburn stolen from Saber's memories doesn;t come to him. Maybe he never had that vision, or maybe it just didn't affect him that much...either way, he has to trace something but has no idea what.
We know Archer could trace the noble phantasms of all the heroes he encountered. He was just that badass.
And we know that Shirou may one day become that badass, but that day is not today. Apart from anything else, the number of noble phantasms he's seen and understands enough to image and trace is very few. And mythology was never his thing, so he can't remember any legendary weapons that he could trace off hand.
He's desperate...Saber is about to use Excalibur, which might kill her, and even if she doesn't, Tohsaka is one squeeze away from being paste. Finally his mind clicks onto the only track that might let him out of this situation, by giving him something to trace...
Turns out Shirou's something of an Otaku...
The basis of this idea is, rather than tracing various noble phantasms belonging to mythological and historical heroes, he will instead trace various weapons and devices from anime, manga, cartoons, comic books,...etc...
I got this idea when the wiki site said one of the weapons Shirou (or Archer, I forget which) could trace was one that was created by the game designers for one of their other games. 'The jeweled swod of something' or something like that...
So what would he trace...I had a few ideas.
-Sword of Thundara (thundercats)
-Sword of power (He-man)
-Zangetsu (Bleach)
-Samehade (Naruto)
-Web shooters, or venom suit (Spiderman)
-monowire (hellsing)
-Ultima Weapon, with various materia attached (FF7)
-Gunblade (FF8)
-Gundam Wing Zero (Gundam Wing)
...get the picture?