History Fanfic / FromFakeDreams

* FlatWhat: Illya says this, voicing everyone's stupefaction upon learning [[spoiler:from Archer that hundreds of Servants were summoned in [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder another timeline]].

* ShirtlessScene: Archer invokes this in an instance of LiteralGenie after being basically asked to tell the truth, [[{{Pun}} bare naked]], with no restraint. When asked to explain how he could identify Lancer, he proceeds to show everyone in the room the scar he got during his life by taking off his armor, prompting appropriate amounts of Luminescent Blush and fidgeting.

* ShirtlessScene: Archer invokes this in an instance of LiteralGenie after being basically asked to tell the truth, [[JustForPun bare naked]], with no restraint. When asked to explain how he could identify Lancer, he proceeds to show everyone in the room the scar he got during his life by taking off his armor, prompting appropriate amounts of Luminescent Blush and fidgeting.

In the aftermath of the [[LightNovel/FateZero Fourth Holy Grail War]], Emiya Kiritsugu was content to live out his final days with his newly adopted son Shirou. However, he found himself beset by strange dreams, dreams that told him the results of his incomplete training of Shirou's magecraft. As a result, he knew that he had to prepare for the future. For a [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Holy Grail War that was approaching fifty years early]].

** The entire plot of the ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' has been butterflied out of existence, per WordOfGod, with most characters only likely to show up in cameos, such as the one Yvette gets in Chapter 55.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Shirou, as in canon, has zero sense of self-worth. He fails to realize that Rin and Sakura have feelings for him, even when Sakura is having sex with him, and was perfectly ready to decapitate himself to save them from Louvre's kids. It's because of this state he has a Reality Marble in the first place, and the only reason he hasn't killed himself for a complete stranger at this point is thanks to the presence of his "sheaths", those that manage to keep him in line like Sakura and Rin.

->''My body is made of blades... Fire is my blood... and Glass is my heart... Through countless battles I forever wait, alone on the hill of blades... For Hell's hands to bear... For Heaven's hands to temper... Never yearning for salvation... Thus I see the dream, on the hill of blades.''

* RuleOfCool: The only reason why Rin is able to [[BlastingitOutOfTheirHands blast the Mace of Odo out of Louvre's hands]] using a Thompson Contender firing .30-06 Springfield rounds on her first try. Also meshes with ImprobableAimingSkills. It also helps that Louvre [[WhatAnIdiot actually tried to block the shot with the Mace.]]

* CoolBike: Having learned from his father that Saber was good with a motorcycle in the fourth Grail War, Shirou gets her one for the fifth. It's a custom-upgraded, nitro-boosted, heavily enchanted 1999 Suzuki Hayabusa that can do 350 [[superscript:km]]∕[[subscript:h]] (40 [[superscript:km]]∕[[subscript:h]] faster than the stock model) ''without'' using the nitro. She loves it. The bike could have been ''[[UpToEleven even cooler']]', but the advanced enchantments require one of the standard five affinities to cast, which Shirou doesn't have. Even before being enchanted it was cool though, as not only is the maximum speed higher than normal bikers can manage (prompting motorcycle producers in the entire world to put electronic limiters so that no other motorcycle can go over 300 [[superscript:km]]∕[[subscript:h]], thus avoiding accidents when these monsters get into the hands of anyone who isn't a champion), but the bike is balanced, sleek and efficient, has good turning and excellent acceleration, and can be easily customized. As the narrator states, "if there was ANY series of motorcycles that had the potential to become a phantasmal existence at some point in the future, it was without any doubt the 1999 Hayabusa."

* StormOfBlades: Like his canon counterpart, Shirou is completely capable of this. Taken UpToEleven during his fight with [[spoiler:Louvre]], when he traces a few hundred weapons simultaneously. Taken even further in his final battle against Gilgamesh, where he matches the Gate of Babylon when it's opened unprecedentedly wide [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and then briefly outpaces it]].

* EveryoneHasStandards: [[ByronicHero Archer]] is one of the most ruthless characters in the story, much like he is in the source material, to the point that he's willing to [[spoiler:kill his own allies]] if it means furthering his goals, but even ''he'' balks at the thought of telling Rin about [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil Sakura's]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast childhood]] in front of other people, he flat out says that he respects Saber too much to reveal what he knows about her back-story and the circumstances behind her peculiar status and condition as a Servant, and he admits that Illya is the only person he won't betray consciously. He gets to show he has far more standards than even himself gave credit for in chapter 48 by TakingAThirdOption when confronted with Sakura nearly going critical, no thanks to Witch!Caster. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Luvia:
--> ''"At the very least, it is refreshing to know that there is someone that you won't backstab."''

* SolarAndLunar: While cleaning up the remains of ghouls belonging Louvre's children, Rin and Sakura discuss how they represent the sun and moon in Shirou's Unlimited Blade Works respectively. The fact that both celestial bodies are high in the sky equally without either one eclipsing the other shows how important both are to Shirou. This doesn't really please the two as they are, initially anyways, in a SiblingTriangle.

* SolarAndLunar: While cleaning up the remains of ghouls belonging Louvre's children, Rin and Sakura discuss how they represent the sun and moon in ]Shirou's Unlimited Blade Works respectively. The fact that both celestial bodies are high in the sky equally without either one eclipsing the other shows how important both are to Shirou. This doesn't really please the two as are, initially anyways, in a SiblingTriangle.