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Kiritsugu Emiya is a man perpetually caught between purpose and remorse. His devotion to the greater good is ironclad, yet it is laced with anguish — a constant echo of lives lost under his hands. Each decision is measured not by morality, but by the scale of suffering it can prevent, and the weight of that calculation is etched into his very soul.

Beneath the cold efficiency lies a tender heart, fragile and careful, yet hardened by tragedy. He cherishes fleeting glimpses of innocence and beauty, guarding them fiercely while silently mourning the dreams he will never fulfill. His presence is at once grounding and unsettling, a man who embodies both salvation and destruction.

Kiritsugu's life is a study in contradictions: ruthless yet loving, detached yet haunted, a savior sculpted from sacrifice and sorrow. Tall and lean, Kiritsugu moves with controlled grace, a predator honed by circumstance. His dark hair, often falling across his face, shadows sharp eyes that seem to weigh every passing thought. A faint stubble lines his jaw, a testament to sleepless nights and a world-weariness that does not bend.

His clothing is practical, dark, and unassuming, concealing weapons and tools of his trade. Every motion is deliberate, economical, and alert, as though the world itself holds its breath in his presence.

Time Alter

Kiritsugu's signature magecraft — a self-destructive manipulation of his own time axis, allowing him to accelerate or decelerate his personal flow of time. This grants inhuman speed or heightened reaction time at the cost of tearing muscle fibers and rupturing organs. He endures it through sheer will, turning pain into precision.

Firearms Expertise

Unlike most magi, Kiritsugu relies on modern weaponry. He is a master marksman, tactician, and close-quarters combatant, capable of adapting to nearly any environment or enemy. His signature weapon, the Thompson Contender, fires Origin Bullets made from his own ribs — each one capable of devastating a magus's circuits beyond repair.

Tactical Mind

Kiritsugu excels in preparation and manipulation. Every mission is planned with military precision, every variable considered. He prefers indirect confrontation — traps, diversions, and psychological warfare over brute strength. To him, victory is measured in outcomes, not honor.

Severing and Binding

In the world of magecraft, every person is born with an Origin — an elemental truth that defines their being. Kiritsugu's is "to cut and to bind," an inherently paradoxical force that represents irreversible change. It manifests both in his magic and in his life: everything he touches is altered, for better or worse.

While he can mend simple, mundane things, when he attempts to repair delicate machinery, this often explodes hilariously in his face. Yet in battle, this curse becomes his greatest weapon. His Origin Bullets carry the same principle into his enemies, severing and binding their magic circuits until they collapse beyond repair. Even prolonged proximity to Kiritsugu has a subtle effect on others — coaxing dormant traits to the surface, binding them more tightly to who they truly are. His very existence cuts away façades and forces revelation.

Hypnotic Suggestion

Kiritsugu's use of hypnotic suggestion is a quiet, invisible weapon — one less dependent on raw magical force than on precision and timing. With little more than a gesture and a few softly spoken words, he can implant false memories or override perception, guiding the mind of his target into a constructed illusion of normalcy.

His technique favors subtlety over dominance. He implants simple, believable commands: a guard forgetting a face, a witness overlooking a gun, a survivor recalling a kinder version of the truth. The world bends softly around his lies, leaving behind only the faintest disquiet — a lingering sense that something essential has been misplaced.

Magical Familiars

Kiritsugu is capable of creating magical familiars through a process both intimate and unsettling — by transplanting a fragment of himself into another living creature. Blood, hair, or any vessel carrying his magical circuits can serve as the medium, allowing the animal to form a spiritual link to him. In canon, he favors bats: discreet, nocturnal, and well-suited to silent observation.

Once bonded, the familiar becomes an extension of his will — capable of understanding speech and completing simple commands. Whether carrying a camera, delivering a message, or observing from above, these creatures serve as his eyes in the dark; but to outsiders, they remain indistinguishable from ordinary animals.

Child of Tragedy

Kiritsugu Emiya's story begins on a remote island in the Philippines — a childhood marked by curiosity and innocence that burned away too quickly. His father's pursuit of immortality through magecraft ended not in triumph but in horror: his friend Shirley's transformation into a Dead Apostle, and a boy forced to kill his father with his own hands. From that moment, Kiritsugu learned that love and mercy were luxuries the world rarely allowed.

The Magus Killer

He was taken in by Natalia Kaminski, a seasoned mage killer who taught him the craft of pragmatic survival: the calculus of death in service of the greater good. Together they hunted monsters, human and otherwise, until duty demanded another unthinkable choice. When her plane became a vessel of contagion, Kiritsugu destroyed it midair — sacrificing his mentor to prevent a greater tragedy. He wept, then moved on. That, too, became a pattern.

The Fourth Holy Grail War

Years later, the path of salvation led him to the Holy Grail War. There, he fought as a Master alongside his wife, Irisviel von Einzbern, his assistant, Maiya Hisau, and their Servant, Artoria Pendragon (Saber) — a knight too noble for the blood-soaked reality she was bound to. For a time, he believed he might find redemption through the Grail, that a miracle could justify all he had done. But when he saw the truth of that wish — that the Grail's salvation was built upon endless death — he destroyed it, and everything it touched.

Aftermath

After the fire of Fuyuki, Kiritsugu lived as a ghost in the world of the living. He raised Shirou, the boy he saved from the flames, and tried to instill in him a gentler ideal of heroism — one untainted by the compromises that had defined his own life. Yet even then, he knew his hands would never be clean. The magic circuits that once served the cause of salvation became scars beneath his skin, reminders of the lives he severed and the ties he could never restore.