Character · Fate/stay night
Archer
The bowman of the Fifth Holy Grail War fights almost exclusively with two short swords, which tells you something.
In Otakana the clue reads: Red-coated servant who fights with two blades
- Type
- Character
- Series
- Fate/stay night
- Letters
- 6 · Normal
Archer is one of the seven servant classes, summoned for skill at range and famous for ignoring it. The one in Fate/stay night wears a red coat, keeps up a steady supply of sarcasm, and prefers a pair of married blades named Kanshou and Bakuya, which he produces out of nothing and throws away as fast as he makes them.
That habit is the clue. His real ability is not the bow but the copying. He can look at a weapon, understand how it was built, and reproduce it, then break it and reproduce it again. A servant who fights by treating legendary swords as ammunition is a strange thing to find in the archer slot, and the story is entirely aware of the joke.
Class independence lets him act without his master, which he uses mainly to be somewhere inconvenient. He is rude to everyone, protective of nobody he will admit to, and the Unlimited Blade Works route is built around his argument with the protagonist about what being a hero costs. Ufotable animated that route as a television series in 2014.
Spelling ARCHER
ARCHER is an ordinary English noun and there is no trap in it. Say so and move on. The Fate class names were chosen in English and written in katakana, アーチャー, so nothing gets lost coming back. Six letters, one C, one H, and the ER ending is shared with LANCER, CASTER and RIDER, which is worth remembering when half a row fills.