Talk:Fate/Accel Zero Order/@comment-37.203.170.0-20160422181847/@comment-28048698-20160424225649

@Deyuaru: Hm... I agree with you in something: until now "Emiya" with caps ("EMIYA") is a very specific name (or surname) that refer to a single person: the Emiya Shirou who become a Counter Guardian and a Servant later in his life. However, that's the meaning of "EMIYA" until now. It's possible for it to also refer Kiritsugu in the future.

1.- If Type Moon (or I must say DW) want to surprise us, to use the surname "EMIYA" is a good strategy. Let's suppose that "EMIYA assassin" in the list of future Servants refer to Kiritsugu, let's only suppose this for a second. If they put in the list "Emiya Assassin", without caps, the fandom will suspect. They will say "Wait, the badass Shirou is EMIYA, not Emiya. Why "Emiya Assassin"? Maybe it's another timeline of Shirou, but Shirou is too useless to be an assassin, and too good boy, then... Wait, it must be Kiritsugu! He is Emiya too!". Or, in other words, it would be too obvious for the fandom. If they want to surprise us they need to do something that isn't that obvious, like using "EMIYA", who give us two options: or Kiritsugu or badass Shirou.

2.- The fact that we call Archer/EMIYA as EMIYA and not as SHIROU let the door open, very open, and Kiritsugu can pass through it. If "EMIYA" with caps refer to the timeline/universe where Emiya Shirou become a hero and a Servant, then it's possible for "EMIYA" to also refer to the timeline/universe to Kiritsugu in a timeline/universe where he can become a Servant. Yeah, we can say "it will be confusing for the fandom if both of them are called EMIYA", and it's true, it will be confusing. But, once again, if what DW want is to surprise us, then that's the perfect strategy: to confuse. And calling both of them "EMIYA" they are not going against the lore (I mean, if we call badass Shirou with his surname in caps, then we call badass Kiritsugu with his surname in caps, even if both of them have the same surname).

At least that's my theory. But who know, maybe I am wrong.