Talk:Shirou Kotomine

This is just idle speculation, *possible spoilers* but could this be a version of Shirou Emiya who was raised by the Kotomine family? According to Fate/Apocrypha's story, the third war never occured because it was "plundered" by Yggrmillennia. Thus Shiro might have been raised as a member of the Church, how or why may be explained later in the novel. That could explain Shirou Kotomine's resemblance to Archer, as it was stated in Fate/Extra that he got his "tan" from his use of thaumaturgy as he would have been properly raised as a magus in the church.