History Fanfic / PathOfTheKing

* CallBack: There's a nod to a couple of JSDF F-15 fighter jets that went MIA during the events of ''LightNovel/FateZero''.

** Just like [[LightNovel/FateZero Kayneth]], [[spoiler:Guilford]] mistakenly assumes that his opponent wasn't a magus because he FightsLikeANormal [[spoiler:and he ends up paying dearly for it.]]

** The premise of the story. Shirou running into Sakura years earlier than their canonical meeting makes him realize his ChronicHeroSyndrome at a time where a post-''LightNovel/FateZero'' Kiritsugu is still there to guide him.

** In "Escalation (VI)" the mechanics of the Grail are discussed, such as how the Einzbern clan cheated by [[LightNovel/FateZero allowing themselves the ability to summon the first Servant via a queue process]], something which would go ''horribly wrong'' due to [[spoiler:Shirou contracting with Caster when he was meant to contract with Saber instead]], completely gumming up the works when [[spoiler:he's able to establish a ceasefire with most of the Masters]], a situation that ''should'' have triggered the summoning of seven more Servants like in LightNovel/FateApocrypha, but because [[spoiler:the seventh Servant wasn't assigned a Master in the first place and thus couldn't be summoned]], that failsafe could not be triggered. This results in the Grail's current intelligence, aka [[spoiler:Angra Mainyu]] being given control to resolve the problem. This results in... Consequences.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Shirou is this ''to the enitre Grail War system''. Prior to this particular war [[spoiler:Angra Mainyu took over the Grail]] and the Einzberns modified the system multipled times to give them an advantage (first opening up the system to anti-heroes and heroic sprits with the "Evil" alignment to allow themselves the ability to summon [[spoiler:Angra Mainyu in the Third War]], and instituting a "queue" system prior to the events of LightNovel/FateZero that would ensure they would always have the first choice of Servant). This causes ''major problems'' when Shirou [[spoiler:contracts another Master's Servant, Caster (instead of contracting with Saber, completely fucking up the queue since was the third Master but contracted with the second Servant, resulting in Rin, the fourth Master, contracting with Saber, the third Servant, and so on, meaning there isn't a Master available in the queue to summon the final servant) - Angra Mainyu ended up refusing to reboot the war to resolve the problem so all seven Servants can be summoned, as it would resolve in less violence and bloodshed.]] Normally this wouldn't be a problem, ''except'' [[spoiler:Shirou successfully establishes a ceasefire until the Greater Grail is investigated and his claims of its corruption are verified]]. This ''was'' taken into account by the Grail's designers, and it was ''supposed'' to be resolved by changing the Grail War into a battle between two teams ala LightNovel/FateApocrypha, but [[spoiler:with the queue being unresolved and the seventh Servant not being summoned]] and because someone on the outside had set up a safeguard to prevent the Grail from accumulating energy too fast or past a certain threshold, ''that'' contingency couldn't be utilized ''either''. WHOOPS. Unfortunately, this results in the system handing over control to the main intelligence. Which is [[spoiler:Angra Mainyu, who has a vested interest in the most violent and bloody outcome possible.]]

* BattleCouple: [[PlayingWithATrope Not a couple per se]], but ''Archer'' and Rin's CasualDangerDialog can come across as flirty. [[spoiler:This is notable because it only happens ''after'' she figures out his SecretIdentity.]]

* GroinAttack: Shinji was on the receiving end of this trope when he berated Shirou after the latter allegedly slept with Rin the night before (in Shinji's head, [[EntitledToHaveYou he's the one who is supposed to do that]]), confronting him in the middle of a school corridor. During lunch break. Where ''she'' can hear him. WhatAnIdiot.

[[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2257031/Neoalfa Neoalfa's]] ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7657235 Path of the King]]'' is a VisualNovel/FateStayNight {{Fan Fic}} created in response to the author's FridgeLogic of pre-Grail War [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Emiya Shirou]] not actually having done anything that heroic for someone whose life goal is to become a "Hero of Justice."

* TheStraightAndArrowPath: ''Archer'''s WeaponOfChoice, hence his name. It's also a way for Shirou to use Magecraft in an inconspicuous manner.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: [[spoiler:When Medea and Shirou finally make love, they end up not getting any sleep because they have sex the ''entire night'' and way past sunrise.]]
-->''' [[spoiler:Medea]] POV''': It looked like the vigor of youth was more than willing to make up for the absence of experience.

* NewTransferStudent: [[spoiler:Saber]] in ''Fake Opening'', now know as Ginevra A. Dulac. [[spoiler:She immediately objects to Rin's choice of SecretIdentity naming, though[[labelnote:(explaining the joke)]]as a given name "Ginevra" is an Italian variant of ''Guinevere'' and "du Lac" ("of the Lake") is Lancelot's surname in Creator/ChretienDeTroyes' [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian works]][[/labelnote]].]]

* HellBentForLeather: This is what you get when you let ''Caster'' pick out what [[GorgeousGeorge Rider]] should wear when riding Shirou's motorcycle. That and the BikerBabe trope, of course.

* BikerBabe: [[GorgeousGorgon Rider]] + Shirou's motorcycle + Caster's fashion sense = This Trope.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Invoked and Discussed; Shirou may have gained something of a BastardBoyfriend reputation due to some massive misunderstandings, but Taiga tells him that when it comes to dating prowess, there is NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, especially when it invloves having two supermodel worthy girlfriends, one of which he is supposedly in a [=BDSM=] relationship with.

* BastardBoyfriend: One too many misunderstandings gave Shirou this sort of reputation in Homurahara. His alleged dating history includes forcing himself on the attractive foreign woman living at his place (Caster) and then having her -- cheerfully -- deliver his lunch to him afterwards, and somehow getting who can only be a foreign supermodel (Rider) to be his [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} sub]] and call him "Goshujin-sama" in public.

** In "Escalation (VI)" the mechanics of the Grail are discussed, such as how the Einzbern clan cheated by [[LightNovel/FateZero allowing themselves the ability to summon the first Servant via a queue process]], something which would go ''horribly wrong'' due to [[spoiler:Shirou contracting with Caster when he was meant to contract with Saber instead]], completely gumming up the works when [[spoiler:he's able to establish a ceasefire with most of the Masters]], a situation that ''should'' have triggered the summoning of seven more Servants like in LightNovel/FateFateApocrypha, but because [[spoiler:the seventh Servant wasn't assigned a Master in the first place and thus couldn't be summoned]], that failsafe could not be triggered. This results in the Grail's current intelligence, aka [[spoiler:Angra Mainyu]] being given control to resolve the problem. This results in... Consequences.

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