History Fanfic / TheHillOfSwords

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: The CatchPhrase variant. Every time Shirou makes a Broken Phantasm, he always utters the same phrase:

* HurtingHero: Shirou has been through twelve different kinds of hell since the end of F/SN, and it shows. Pretty horrifying to think about, considering the events of F/SN itself were hell all its own for him.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6154638 The Hill of Swords]]'' is a completed [[CrossOver crossover fic]] between ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' by Creator/GabrielBlessing, wherein Louise summons Shirou [=EMIya=] (partial caps intended) as her {{Familiar}}.

It ends up becoming more serious than the original ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero''. The dynamic between Shirou and Louise is different from her original familiar and those who disliked the [[HaremGenre harem dynamics]] of ''Zero no Tsukaima'' will be glad to know that is all that has been cut out, except for the RuleOfFunny.

* FixFic: Could be considered one for ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' in some ways.

** This makes his Gandalfr runes particularly [[GameBreaker Game Breaking]], as they give him complete knowledge of the use of any weapon he uses (the Gandalfr runes have some resemblance to [[spoiler:[[LightNovel/FateZero Lancelot]]'s [[InstantExpert Knight Of Owner]] Noble Phantasm]]). Combine that with Shirou's crazy-insane arsenal and you have someone who can effortlessly switch between bow to spear to sword to shield to axe to club to scythe-on-a-chain without slowing. Just thank god [[HyperspaceArsenal Gilgamesh]] didn't get summoned.

-->I rolled my eyes. "Stop being so melodramatic. Imagine how it would have turned out if you had summoned someone who didn't have the convenient Master/Servant model to base their actions off of. [[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero What would it have been like if you just summoned someone who had no experience at all with this kind of thing as a Servant?]] How well do you think they would have reacted to some of the earlier scenes we found ourselves in?"

* WarIsHell: While duly noted in the [[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero original series]], Shirou makes all notable fights '''A LOT''' more brutal than Saito could ever accomplish. [[spoiler:The Battle at Saxe-Gotha is the most notable example. While Saito stalled the army with no casualties and a few hundred injured... Shirou gave them '''HELL''' by brutally maiming off limbs of soldiers standing in the way (to waste their time tending to the wounded and scare them), killing off officers and commanders, and spreading plenty of terror amongst the army. It was so bad that when the surviving commander went to Henrietta for peace talks, the '''first''' thing he asks for is to '''call him off'''.]] Shirou also hates wars for two more reasons: one is that it results in "old men talking and young men dying", and the other that those people who START the wars are always far away from the front lines or not on the battlefield itself.

* CasualDangerDialog: Shirou's principle is not to talk during fights, but during his fight with [[spoiler:Myoznitnirn]], he never raised his voice speaking casually the whole fight.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6154638 The Hill of Swords]]'' is a completed [[CrossOver crossover fic]] between ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1263379 Gabriel Blessing]], wherein Louise summons Shirou [=EMIya=] (partial caps intended) as her {{Familiar}}.

* CovertPervert: Louise and Siesta have become friends in this timeline, and often spend their time together reading steamy romance novels. Taken UpToEleven with Louise's eldest sister Eleonore, who not only reads the same raunchy novels, but is also a ''closet masochist''!

-->'''Shirou''':[[spoiler:"This is what you face now, Myoznitnirn," I told her, my own rage returning, though now it was cold. This battle had move beyond the point where it was just two foes who hated each other battling to the death. This was now a match between one who had brought an army, and one who had matched that army. "Swords are not enough to win this battle? What you face now is an unlimited number of them: peerless weapons, wielded by heroes and villains, the great and the small alike. An unlimited armory of blades stands before you."]]

* TheGlomp: Sylphid's method of welcoming Shirou back to the academy was to dive-bomb him at top speed. Sylphid is a dragon. OUCH.
** Siesta and Kirche had much the same reaction.

* RageAgainstTheHeavens: After faced with the prospect that [[FutureMeScaresMe he may be turning into Archer]], worrying about the impending threat of shadowy enemies, enduring a [[{{Glomp}} welcome home]] from a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]], and then discovering that a statue has been made of himself, and Shirou is [[ImStandingRightHere standing right there]] while Kirche [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking tries to commission a second, pornographic statue that includes herself, himself, and Mr. Colbert]].

* GeckoEnding: The story only adapts up to the conflict with Joseph and his familiar, i.e. the anime's third season. This is due to the fact most if not all of the post-third season {{Light Novel}}s weren't (and a few still aren't) fan-translated, and at the time, nobody expected that the Familiar Of Zero would get a fourth and final season in 2012.

** [[spoiler: [[TogetherInDeath I guess it froze over, then]].]]

* MassOhCrap: When [[LadyOfWar Louise's mother]] Karin challenges Shirou to a trial by combat in chapter 13, everyone within earshot has a brief panic attack. When he accepts, they start panicking more.

* {{Moe}}: This trope is used InUniverse with Sylphid, Tabitha's dragon familiar. She exudes so ''much'' Moe that Shirou is temporarily struck speechless in chapter 5, and actually [[CutenessOverload knocked unconscious]] by it in chapter 8. And then ''she flattens an entire room'' with it in chapter 20.

** Shirou's references to, for instance, 'Tohsaka Rin Lecture Position #1', which are reminiscent of the specific few character drawings of the aforementioned Rin that appear in the VisualNovel/FateStayNight visual novel.

** [[spoiler:During the DistantFinale, Louise mentions that she had to re-summon Shirou five separate times, with absolutely no details about why each of those summonings were necessary.]]

* OhCrap: The general reaction of anyone who survived Shirou's rampage at Saxe-Gotha when they see him again.

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: The CatchPhrase variant. Everytime Shirou makes a Broken Phantasm, he always utters the same phrase:

* RunningGag: Shirou offering to kill someone for Louise, and later Henrietta, despite it being totally unnecessary.

* SituationalSword: Hrunting, the sword Shirou Traces during his second fight with Fouquet, is capable of cutting anything that isn't protected by magic, but even the weakest magic armor stops it completely.

* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler: Shirou apparently managed to impregnate one of the girls shortly before the DistantFinale. Which one is never specified.]]

* GroinAttack: Mid-psychotic breakdown, Shirou proclaims he will do this to the ''[[{{God}} Root of the World itself]]'' so hard that all of reality will feel it at once.]

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Shirou and Henrietta end of kissing while he was in Saber's form and she was in Louise's form. Guiche and a few other boys are paralyzed by the sight.

* UnstoppableRage: Shirou does ''not'' take it well when [[OurElvesAreBetter Bidashal]] nearly kills Kirche.

* TheDreaded: Shirou is this to the survivors of the Battle of Saxe-Gotha. To the extent that one of their terms of surrender was that Henrietta "call him off".

* FriendToAllLivingThings: [[WordOfGod According to the author]], the reason all things scaly take an instant liking to Shirou is because "he boinked Arturia", a.k.a. [[AllThereInTheManual she of the dragon aspect]].

* HeroicBSOD: Guiche is really, ''really'' freaked out by witnessing [[spoiler: Unlimited Blade Works]] in action.

* HurtingHero: Shirou has been through twelve different kinds of hell since the end of F/SN, and it shows.
** Pretty horrifying to think about, considering the events of F/SN itself were hell all its own for him.

* StrayShotsStrikeNothing: Averted. Apparently Shirou's deflected attack against Fouquet hit (and destroyed) a nearby hill.

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* ChefOfIron: Shirou will make a meal that will make [[BadassGrandpa Zelretch]], [[{{God}} the Root of the World]], and the Water Spirit purr with delight, and then will go and slaughter gigantic golems protected by Forcefields with one of his [[SwordBeam Wave Motion Swords]].

* UnwantedHarem: So far Shirou's consists of [[FieryRedhead Kirche]], [[MaidOfMoe Siesta]], [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Henrietta]], and a whole lot of attractive barmaids. [[IgnoreTheFanservice And yet he manages to ignore all of them…]]