History Fanfic / ShatteredBlade

** Shirou compares her to a big cat on a few occasions.

** The fact that Karasuba has also actually gotten an ashikabi on her own is viewed in a similar light by some. Kochou thought that because Shirou is a mercenary that they had to pay him to be Karasuba’s ashikabi.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Shirou Emiya, as is the case in most stories featuring him. Shirou is an incredibly kind, helpful, empathetic, incredibly domestic, hospitable, and generally affable individual who cares very deeply for his friends and family. That lasts up until someone threatens either a large number of innocent people or someone he cares about. If that happens you are quickly introduced to a man who has spent several years traveling the world as a brutally efficient mercenary and Enforcer/Executioner-for-hire for The Clocktower and The Church who also survived a death match between mythical figures in his teens and can functionally pull magical weaponry out of thin air.

* DeathByAdaptation: In Sekirei Canon Yomi was merely had her crest removed by Musubi. Here she is all but disemboweled by Shirou.

* HappilyAdopted: Shirou is glad to have met and get to know Takami, Minato, and Yukari (his biological mother and siblings), but he couldn’t really care less about who his biological father is. As far as he’s concerned, Kiritsugu is the only father he really needs to know.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Karasuba, after getting surprised by Shirou pulling out weapons that he should not have, noting his far above average strength and speed, witnessing Shirou dismiss and re-trace copies of Kanshou and Bakuya, and noting that Shirou’s age places his birth firmly in the several year gap between the awakening of Miya and the awakening of the first of the single digits, starts to theorize that Shirou is some kind of genetic abomination born of early experiments with Sekirei DNA.

* BonusMaterial: The author of this story, Drake Valkyr, has written two companion pieces meant for showing snippets of different turns the story could have taken, comedic omakes, and expanding on past events in the story that didn’t get much time in the spotlight.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9343146/1/Shattered-Blade Shattered Blade]]'' by Drake Valkyr is a recursive fanfic/inspired by the fanfic [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/InFlight In Flight]] by Gabriel Blessing, which itself is a crossover of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}''.

Shattered Blade centers around the relationship between Shirou Emiya, the idealistic (if tarnished) Hero Of Justice, and Karasuba, the nihilistic alien warrior-woman and enforcer of the multinational bio-tech conglomerate Mid-Bio Informatics.

* AManIsAlwaysEager: Heavily Averted. Shirou winged Karasuba and Haihane without any idea that The Winging is in fact a form of mating ritual. When Haihane clears up that understanding after bringing up her expectation that they’d be having sex, Shirou freaks out.

*** Yomi is a sadistic, violent, murderous, and over confident brat with a superiority complex. The only person who is shown caring about her death is the notably innocent and soft hearted Minato.
*** Junichi Tanigawa is a violent, lazy, foul mouthed good for nothing who carelessly abuses his Sekirei and has no sense of when he’s dealing with people above his weight class. His off screen beating at the hands of Shirou and Natsuo is a well deserved one.

* AThreesomeIsHot: Haihane brings up a few times how she could get behind sleeping with Shirou and Akitsu at the same time.

* Crossover: This a crossover story between Fate/Stay Night and Sekirei.

** "The Gods are dead." I snapped, almost cutting him off. His lips didn't so much as twitch as he held his smirk, though the emotion behind it died away at my vehemence. His eyes widening behind his glasses was the only visible reaction to my statement. "And humanity is better off for their absence."

* ItsPersonal: People tend to overlook this, but nothing gets Shirou on the warpath faster or more unhesitatingly brutal than making his issue with you a personal one. Hospitalizing his recently rediscovered mother is a damn fast way to make it personal.

* MagicalGirl: Kaho refers to herself as this.

* NonchalantDodge: Miya when she's training Musubi.

*** Thanks to the sheer destruction of The Fuyuki Fire, Shirou’s amnesia, and Kiritsugu’s very quick adoption of Shirou everyone had understandably assumed that Takami’s oldest son died in the conflagration. At least right up until he got flagged by an experimental piece of technology MBI was testing.
*** After Karasuba and Shirou’s fight drags them out of the clearing and away from Minato and the others, Karasuba comes back alone. This gives Minato and co the impression that Karasuba killed Shirou. Homura gets his misunderstanding cleared up quickly by Matsu, but as of chapter 10 Minato is still operating under the impression that his recently rediscovered brother is now actually dead.

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: All but literally called out word for word in Karasuba’s narration during Shirou’s fight with Yomi.
** “At that point, I knew he couldn't lose. Not because he was stronger, faster, or more skilled than his opponent, but because if he did then he couldn't fight me next.”

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*** Junichi Tanigawa is an abusive, foul mouthed good for nothing who carelessly abuses his Sekirei and has no sense of when he’s dealing with people above his weight class. His off screen beating at the hands of Shirou and Natsuo is a well deserved one.