- Shirou saved Sakura, but lost everything afterwards. Having woken up in a new and strange place. Shirou tries to make the most of his broken life in a city as broken as he is. Though that may become more complicated when he can't stop himself from befriending a girl known as Taylor Hebert.—Fate/Broken Sword, a summary
Fate/Broken Sword
is a FanFic Crossover between Fate/stay night (specifically the Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel Route) and Worm. Published on May 10, 2022 to Spacebattles by TurtSnacko.
Depicts a post-Normal End Heaven’s Feel Shirou, who has since been transported via unexplained multiversal tomfoolery to the world of Earth Bet roughly a year prior to the canon of Worm, where he tries to reconcile his lost ideals with the new precious people in his life. All the while, not only being haunted by the ghosts of his pasts, both proverbial and hallucinatory, but also trying to find his way around Brockton Bay.
Discontinued with 17 chapters as of May 10, 2023. Has been rebooted as Fate/Broken-Sword: Reforged.
This series contains examples of:
- Accidental Pervert: Whilst explaining how he's able to know who's a parahuman, Shirou describes the concept behind his Structural Grasp Magecraft and inadvertently mentions that the ability provides him with a full 3D scan of the person that he uses it on, much to Taylor's embarrassment.
- Adaptation Name Change: Taylor’s hero name is Chrysalis, instead of her canonical Skitter.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Due to having Shirou as her sole social support system, Taylor is noticeably happier and outgoing (at least when not in school) and more in line to how she was described pre-canon.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: On account of the fact that she does not have a more personal hand in the defeat of Lung on her first night out and the subsequent butterflies, Taylor's first meeting with the Undersiders is somewhat more standoffish and arguably antagonistic.
- Adaptational Wimp: On account of Shirou’s interference, the one to defeat Lung winds up being Shirou instead of Taylor.
- Ambiguous Situation: The origin of Emiya Shirou's arrival in Earth Bet. Such has largely been left up to the imagination of the readers and is rarely touched upon by Shirou himself.
- An Arm and a Leg: Shirou uses the attractive abilities of Kanshou and Bakuya to take off one of Bakuda’s legs.
- In following with Heaven's Feel canon, Shirou is in possession of Archer's left arm in place of his own.
- Audience Participation: The author has posted one poll so far to ask for which character to be made the POV character for the first interlude.
- Battle Couple: Downplayed & lampshaded. Whilst not quite in “couple” territory, Taylor certainly hopes to achieve such by spending more time with Shirou on patrol.
- Berserk Button: Downplayed. Any attempt by one of Shirou’s precious people to blame themselves for a problem that he perceives to be caused by him leads to him immediately shutting them down to shift the blame to himself, no matter how tenuous of a fault he might have in said problem.
- Broken Ace: Emiya Shirou. The unfortunate byproduct of having experienced the highs and lows of a Holy Grail War.
- Break the Haughty: Shirou’s delivery of a Curb-Stomp Battle coupled with his “show” of mercy and cold gaze that reminds him of Contessa, traumatizes Lung so badly that he second triggers.
- Clueless Chick-Magnet: Emiya Shirou, as is expected of a former eroge protagonist. With him receiving attention from Taylor, Lisa, Selene, and Laserdream.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Taylor Hebert towards Shirou.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Downplayed. Shirou delivers one to Lung.
- Endearingly Dorky: Taylor Hebert's insistence that Shirou follow cape costume etiquette comes off
- Expy: Justified Trope & In-Universe. Shirou's lingering trauma has caused him to see the specters from his past life hovering around people on Earth Bet that possess surface level characteristics that remind him of said specters. So far we have:
- Taylor and Sakura. For obvious reasons.
- Tattletale and Rin.
- Emma and Shinji.
- Glory Girl and Saber. Presumably on account of Glory Girl's aura and surface level appearance.
- Fantastic Drug: Interactions with Shirou's powers function as such, though this seems to be limited to Thinkers and Masters.
- For Want of a Nail: The entire basis of this fic is the ramifications that the insertion of a freshly traumatized off the events of the Holy Grail War Emiya Shirou has upon the world of Earth Bet, but more specifically Taylor Hebert.
- In Spite of a Nail: Despite the insertion of Shirou into the story prior to the start of canon, some of The Stations of the Canon are still followed:
- Taylor still winds up having to undergo her infamous "Locker Incident".
- Taylor goes on a first night that results in her fight with Lung over his perceived attempt to kill children
- Bakuda goes on a bombing spree that results in the villains of Brockton Bay gathering at Somer's Rock
- Insistent Terminology:
- When he’s on the clock at Somer’s Rock, Shirou insists that he be referred to by his civilian name rather than his hero name, since it's only professional.
- Shirou is adamant that he’s not a hero, much to the confusion and dismay of Taylor. Justified Trope. Lingering trauma from feeling as if he has failed his loved ones in Fuyuki makes him reluctant to accept this title.
- Living Emotional Crutch: Taylor to Shirou and vice versa. To a lesser extent, this dynamic is writ small between Shirou and Tattletale. In both cases, the participants serve as the crutch for one another. It is as heartwarming as it is hard to watch.
- Mistaken for Racist: Downplayed. While, Shirou and Taylor's costumes' primary colors are red and black which coincidentally are colors associated with the white supremacist gang, Empire Eighty-Eight, this has not had any detrimental effect on their reputation other than some offhand remarks by Mush and Shielder.
- My Greatest Failure: Shirou considers the fact that he never realized just how much Sakura had been suffering till the events of the Heaven’s Feel route occurred to be this.
- Named by the Adaptation: Selene is the previously unnamed deaf waitress of Somer's Rock.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Shirou’s unwillingness to kill in front of Taylor leads to him sparing Lung’s life which in turn causes Lung to presumably second trigger.
- Pet Monstrosity: Matty, the unholy amalgamation of Shirou’s magic interacting with Taylor’s spiders and shard, is a massive spider that while usually listening to Taylor, also possesses its own separate sentience.
- Real Men Cook: And bartend. Who else but Shirou Emiya, of course.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: For a Worm Fanfic, there's a surprising number of these.
- Ms. Knott
- Armsmaster
- Sense Loss Sadness: Shirou can no longer taste anything that he cooks himself, though this doesn't seem to have had any detrimental effect upon his cooking ability.
- Tempting Fate: The same chapter that has Taylor explain the concept of cape rules and how the greater threat of Endbringers prevents them from being broken ends with a Cliffhanger in which Bakuda tries to kill Shirou and co. with a mail bomb.
- Trauma Button:
- Shirou. Any Earth Bet resident with a resemblance to a loved one of his back in Fuyuki, whether appearance-wise or personality-wise.
- Lung. Understandably, any reminder of the events involved in his trigger event. Namely, his defeat at the hands of Contessa and the cold look in her eyes all the while doing so.
