Shirou Kotomine

Shirou Kotomine is a character who first appeared in the light novel Fate/Apocrypha. The story takes place on an alternate timeline which portrays the "Great Holy Grail War", a battle between 2 teams of seven servants: Black and Red. Shirou was sent as a Master of the Red faction, and is also the master of Semiramis, the "Assassin of Red".

The name "Shirou Kotomine" is actually an alias; his real identity is the historical figure Shirou AmakusaW (also known as Shirou Amakusa Tokisada), a Japanese Christian who organized a failed rebellion against the Tokugawa shogunate which resulted in his execution; Amakusa's head was displayed on a pike to serve as a warning to other Christian rebels.

In the Fate version, Amakusa is portrayed as a Shirou Emiya-lookalike with the hair and skin tone of Fate/stay night's Archer, and is seen as the closest to a saint has from the Far East. Because of his saintly traits, Amakusa is classified as a "Ruler", which is supposed to supervise the Holy Grail War as a neutral party, but he eschews this responsibility because he has his own motives for obtaining the Holy Grail. He also forms contracts with teammates Achilles, Atalanta, Avicebron, and Black member Shakespeare, allowing him to control them using his command spells. The "Ruler of Red" serves as a major antagonist of Apocrypha, opposing the main character Sieg and Ruler-class main heroine Jeanne, both of which belong to the Black faction.

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