Talk:Sieg/@comment-35471151-20180502133802/@comment-32788591-20180503083319

@Durendal That is where the storytelling part comes in to distinguish the two.

Watching Zero and then UBW made it feel like that Shirou got his powers upon progressing the story and actually making choices. Sure, the part where he was the only one saved directly by Kiritsugu could be considered a plot convenience but the UBW anime did show Kiritsugu asking Shirou whether he wants to go with him or not and Shirou chose to go with him. It's a snowball effect from there.

Sieg on the other hand, didn't feel like he actually made choices in the story and the writing practically conspired to excuse it. "Well he was half-dead so Siegfried can't ask him if he wants his heart" is one example of the writing enabling it. The writer kind of took away the privilege of choice from Sieg and the character suffered because of it.

Plus, Shirou only really showed his OP powers during the closing and most important acts of the story so he felt less overpowered than Sieg in general. Shirou was also more active into getting into the situations he got into may it be good or bad unlike Sieg who's only dragged along by Jeanne and Astolfo.

So no. Shirou has a lot more in the way of decisions and actions than Sieg does if we base it on anime alone and even if we consider Apoc LN and Stay Night VN, Shirou would still have made a lot more choices given the VN nature of Stay Night.