Talk:EMIYA (Alter)/@comment-38379662-20190319210909/@comment-37932737-20190409085541

@Towerwatch Because the drawback to Projection, the magecraft Emiya uses to fight, is that it damages the users body if used too much, and is the reason the OG Emiya ended up going from white-guy colored skin with an anime haircolor to a tan man with white hair.

Now I'm not sure exactly what happened to Alter, but I'd imagine he's been using Projection nonstop since his dual swords have been turned into bladed guns (I don't think UBW normally allows for the storage of guns, and he had to really work using a workaround to create his guns) and turned Unlimited Blade Works, a storm of swords from all directions, into Unlimited Lost Works, a bullet fired into his target and detonated with the focused force of UBW from the inside. If that is the case, which it seems to be based on the new abilities he has, then his skin should be burnt to a crisp and his hair as white as you can get due to the overuse of Projection required to develop his magecraft this far. But according to NA, these drawbacks stopped happening to Alter because...?

Plus I do at least know that Alter's life isn't exactly a good one, so the stark contrast in appearance from Red Archer Emiya is very fitting (the whole "tanned by his forge, scorched by the flames" comparison ArcherEmiya2018 was getting at). I'm pretty sure he was even intended to be nearly unrecognizable since the lines from Team Chaldea when they first meet him in Shinjuku heavily imply that they're shocked by how different he is from his original self. Now, it's VERY obvious that he's some form of Emiya, which defeats the purpose of that shock.