Summary, appendix future plans
The story so far.
HOMUNCULUS
The 7 years before the 5th holy Grail war the Yggmillenia Clan is trying to amass enough resources to fight the Clock Twoer magus organization when surprise surprise a young magus called Julian Aizworth arrives at their doorstep offering his aid to hack the Holy Grail of Fuyuki and create powerful mystic codes: the servant cards (yes those of fate Kaleid).
Mmmm he randomly found the Grail (SUSPICIOUS).
Some time later the Yggmillenia Clan has created the cards, but they are dangerous to use for average magus and quite expensive to maintain as they need a new catalyst for every use. Enter the first protagonist S.I.E.G.1 a homunculus made with the goal of becoming the servant Siegfried and use his powers for the Yggmillenia clan.
Things won't go as planned.
S.I.E.G. 1 doesn't want to die so he tries to escape his tank compelled by an awful version of Wannabe by the Spice Girls. He fails and ends up in a surgery room just as the Ruler servant Jeanne D'arc is sent by the Holy Grail to stop the YggMillenia clan.
Wasn't Julian in charge of avoiding that (SUSPICIOUS)
Yggmillenia implants Siegfried's heart in S.I.E.G. gives him the saber card and tosses him to fight Jeanne, Sieg fights bravely but he is not accustomed to his new powers, Jeanne defeats him but lowers her guard to the last second leaving Sieg a chance to kill her. The homunculus ignores his orders and acting of his own free will spares her.
Sieg is basically dead, Siegfried form has pushed his limit, luckily Jeanne takes a liking for him so she allows the YggMillenaia Clan to retrieve him and surrender after having healed him.
The Clan says oh screw her we are making another Homunculus servant, we will use Siegfried Noble Phantasm and the Ruler card to kill her.
A barely alive Sieg hears everything and decides to stick it to his creators attempting to escape using heroic mana, he doesn't manage to go far and is almost killed... again.
In a last-ditch effort to survive the homunculus manages to summon the Assassin servant Hikigaya Hachiman to save his ass.
The two defeat the remaining Yggmillenia, seize the servant cards and flee with Jeanne aware that they are gonna have to fight the next Holy Grail War.
Seven years later Jeanne and Sieg have gotten married and have been staying in Fuyuki hiding as cafe owners to participate in the war. Thanks to Assassin training Sieg is a very powerful mage able to use many magecrafts, craft mystic codes, hands to hand combat and can wield parts of Siegfried's power.
His tools include guns bombs, throwing knives filled with magic, and Existence a shapeshifting blade that was once Siegfried's sword Bahalmung or Gram.
He can't quite reach Hachiman's fighting proficiency but he is very fearsome and can complete even the hardest move of Hachiman's fighting style "The Snake Bares its fangs".
While he is easily the strongest Master in the whole war he is also in a tight spot as both Jeanne and Assassin are struggling to receive the necessary mana to survive.
For this reason, his energy is constantly drained, his soul is getting strained by Siegfried's heart, and his mind is vulnerable to the dark side of Siegfried's power, the dragon Fafnir.
Quite a mess uh well the situation get worst teen Hikigaya Hachiman arrives in Fuyuki and this makes Assassin Hachiman's existence even more unstable.
To try to help Assassin, Sieg and Assasin Hachiman go to face the fake Assassin servant Sasaki Koujiro.
Sieg and Sasaki fight, Sieg seems to have the upper end but, the recoil from using Siegfried's power and Sieg's PTSD (triggered by silence) stops him from landing the final blow.
Assassin Hachiman intervenes saving Sieg from Sasaki and Caster, and allowing the pair to flee.
They return to their home only to find Jeanne in critical condition her energy is too little and soon she will disappear.
Assassin Hikigaya is not in a better position, the only way to save him is to either kill Sasaki Koujiro Assassin or change teen Hikigaya Hachiman's future, a thing that Assassin Hachiman is not willing to do.
A few days past and Assasin and Sieg are training, Sieg is trying to master his own version of Hikigaya Hachiman's fighting style, but between his difficulty to asses his powers and Siegfried's muscle memory messing with him, it's harder than he expects.
Assassin tries to aid him with his noble phantasm, but an anomaly appears and Sieg ends up injuring himself.
The anomaly is none other than Yukinoshita Haruno, Sieg and Jeanne's high school classmate, she has known the two of them for years, and despite not being aware of their real identities and knowing that they have secrets she trusts them.
Haruno knows they are dependable fighters and asks the two to help her find the core of the Holy Grail to activate DUM DUM DUM the avenger servant card (ANOTHER CARD MMMMM)
The two reject it but the card reacts to Jeanne turning all her pent-up emotions into a new personality her ALTER form which starts lurking in her brain.
The situation keeps worst as teen Hikigaya Hachiman gets involved in the war after fighting Rider. Assassin Hikigaya manages to stop him from getting more people involved by destroying Teen Hachiman's cell phone, but they can't wait any longer.
Sieg and Assassin Hachiman pack their best weapons the Saber and Archer card and go to face Sasaki and Caster... unfortunately they never make it on the way they end up having a car accident with the luxurious Rolls Royce of the Einzebern (Liz forgot that in japan people drive on the left)
The two homunculus teams' fight begins.
From the start, it's clear that Berserk is a force to be reckoned with, in a matter of minutes, he manages to overpower both Sieg and Assassin, but unfortunately for him, the two adapt quickly and manage to exploit Illiya, Liz, and Sella as weak spots to change the course of the battle.
With one last ditch effort to protect the two maids, Illiya creates a shield to stop Sieg's attack. This shoots Illiya, the maids and Assassin to be shoot in Fuyuki and leaves Berserk and Sieg to fight each other.
Berserk is soon summoned back to Illiya forcing Assassin Hahciman to flee and carry out a secret plan of his (MMMMMMMMMM SUSPICIOUS)
Left alone Sieg interacts for the first time with Fafnir's manifestation, Fanfnir voice pushes Sieg to indulge in all his worst pulsions and makes him use the Servant card to turn into a dragon monster and chase the Einzbern faction.
In this mode Sieg's in a weird position: he is using a power he doesn't know well, his mind is not sharp, and his body is deteriorating, however, is mana is boosted and his morals have come loose making him very dangerous.
Sieg ends up finding the Einzbern and ends up almost killing Illiya, unfortunately for him at the last minute teen Hikigaya Hachiman appears to save Illiya, and the fight between the two begins.
Both Hachiman and Sieg are far from their best condition, but even in this scenario, they manage to show a battle that rivals a match between servants.
Sieg is clearly more powerful, but the corruption of his mind and the arrival of Rin Tohsaka, Shirou Emiya and Illiya allow Hachiman to keep up with him.
Sieg try to finish the fight by summoning at once the power of both Siegfried and Fafnir, but Hachiman is able to outspeed him by calling the spirit of Kiritsugu Emiya.
Sieg ends up knocked out and gravely injured but luckily for him Assassin Hachiman has managed to push away Archer, Saber and Berserker.
So they once again flee.
SWORD
Shirou Emiya's story is not that different from the original UBW he wakes up does harem protagonist shenanigans, has a twisted sense of personal worth which makes him discard his own safety in favor of others and all the 13 herbs that make him our favorite Ginger.
A small change comes at the very start when his Part time job at the Copenhagen cafe now directed by Siugr Eru, his wife, and his father Nijito (MMMM)
All the other changes come as Hikigaya Hachiman ends up living under the same roof due to a scholastic exchange.
On the first day, the two find each other at the opposite of the social spectrum and are incredibly awkward with one another, but they start to open up after Hachiman stops a kid from getting run over by a car (driven by SIEG!)
The two have an odd bond as they respect each other, but Shirou finds Hahciman unreasonable, bitter, and crazy, while Hachiman perceives him as a foolish Raijuu who talks with his own utensils.
The two however pass something good to each other, Hachiman forces Shirou to think outside the box and Shirou is someone Hachiman can truly rely upon.
This comes into play when Shirou ends up witnessing the fight between Lancer and Archer. As per usual Lancer stabs Shirou but this time around he manages to stick with his consciousness long enough to see Rin helping him.
A thing that will make him trust her a lot. (SHIPPING)
Miraculously healed Shirou returns home finding Hachiman KO on the floor after his fight with Rider, the two chit-chat about dinner before Hachiman walks away. This leaves the scene open for Lancer to come again to kill Shirou. The blue servant toys with Shirou and ends up kicking him in Hachiman's room.
Hachiman trying to buy Shirou extra seconds decides to sacrifice his PC and reveal some of his pain magic, a noble plan which immediately backfire as Shirou won't leave anyone behind.
Shirou is kicked in the backyard while Hachiman is left to bleed out on the floor, with one last effort Shirou tries to get Kiritsugu's origin bullet but Lancer won't have any of it, the blue servant breaks his ribs and is about to go for the kill when Hachiman let's his magic go berserk, turning into a skeleton full of smoke empowered by talismans and drugs.
Presenting himself as Zero Hachiman faces Lancer while using pain magic to instruct Emiya by cutting words in his forearm and giving him a talisman.
The psychological attacks of Hikigaya end up restraining Lancer for a moment, but the servant is too strong and manages to free himself, tapping in his berserk side.
Again too stubborn to run away Shirou uses the talisman to sun against Lancer and manages to scratch his hand by molding together several origin bullets.
The scratch stops momentarily Lancer and allows Saber to be finally summoned and chase away Lancer.
Rin arrives soon after and explains the Holy Grail to Shirou while Hikigaya is in a fucked up mental state after his fights.
Shirou figures out quickly that Hachiman was Zero thanks him and promises not to reveal his secret. Rin manages to convince Shirou to go to the church to learn more about the war. Refusing to let Shirou go alone with a potential enemy Hachiman pulls himself together and tags along.
The three go to the church where Shirou talks with Kirei and accepts to participate in the war, a thing that pisses off Rin and Hachiman, but pleases Saber as she has finally a Master whom she can work with.
All nice now right? NO.
In a matter of minutes, the three teens stumble in the middle of the fight between Sieg in dragon form and the Einzbern team. Incredibly enough Sieg alone is holding his own against Berserk, who is unable to go at 100% due to Illiya and the Maids being in danger.
Rin tries to take hold of the situation, but there are too many unknown variables so Hachiman takes the lead, gives a few orders give Shirou his knife and has Saber throw himself against Sieg.
The two start fighting but in the meantime ASSASSIN Hachiman attacks Saber Archer Rin and Shirou. Thanks to the surprise Assassin manages to outmaneuver the two servants and attaches a bomb watch on Rin's wrist. Shirou's next but by tapping into Hachiman's knife he manages to extract memories of his fights and trades blows with Assassin. This short break allows Saber and Archer to recollect and go after the servant.
Assassin chases away from the masters and all the servants, while Hahciman and Sieg are attempting to kill each other.
Sieg overwhelms Hachiman, but surprisingly Shirou arrives and pushes Sieg back for a moment and Rin uses her gems to keep the homunculus busy for enough time to have all the mages regroup.
Hachiman and Shirou act as vanguards while Rin and Illiya support them from behind.
The fight seems to be changing, buuuuuttt well no. Sieg is still too powerful and launches a last attack to murder them all. Hachiman dives through and finally brings him down.
The fight is won but with everyone too tired to even stand Assassin manages to swoop in claim Sieg and knock all the Masters out putting to an end this great opening of the Holy grail war.
A day later the Emiya residence has been turned into a camp hospital, Shirou has a dream about his past in which he meets a small child who calls him Testu, and then he relieves the events of the great fire of Fuyuki.
Waking up from the nightmare Shirou proceeds to take care of Saber and Rin until the latter wakes up and the two starts arguing/flirting. Hachiman interrupts them and is followingly punched in the face by both Rin and Shirou for being a jerk and setting them up as bait against Assassin.
Shirou is pissed as hell but recognizes that Hachiman acted to save as many lives as possible, therefore forgives him quite fast.
The two boys then perform surgery on Rin's arm to remove a bullet: Hachiman's plan is to use Shirou's ability to read the memories of an object to find the source of the bullet, and in the meantime place a small bomb inside Rin's arm as insurance in case she ever attacked Shirou.
Our favorite ginger reluctantly finds himself with the trigger for a bomb inside his crush's arm and to avoid trouble doesn't talk about it for the time being.
After Rin wakes up Hachiman gives tasks to all the people in the house in order to amass enough objects to turn the house into a fortress, Shirou is tasked to go with Saber shopping for clothes, lolly pops, and scratch and win tickets.
Thanks to Saber's luck the pair makes a bounty of winnings and is able to buy the rest of everything until they stumble into a poisonous woman that dares to mine Saber's confidence (Haruno). Shirou acting in defense of his servant makes a scene and runs away after shaming Haruno for having stained clothes inside the shop.
The two return to the Emiya mansion just in time to assist the return of Hachiman after he and Liz went stealing the equipment left behind by Sieg and Assassin's car after the fight with Berserk, (THE ARCHER CARD!)
With all gathered together Rin, Illiya, Hachan and Shirou manage to project the memory of the fight of Assassin against Archer, Saber, and Berserker. With all the information gathered the guests leave the house, leaving Shirou and Hachiman alone.
Shirou extract once again the memories of Hachiman's knife and realizes how behind he is compared to the other Masters so Shirou asks Hachiman to train him, and Hachiman initially refuses, but Shirou knows how to convince him. Using reinforcing magic Shirou's starts modifying his voice to bother Hachiman until he agrees if Shirou teaches him how to alter his voice, will listen unconditionally to him, and he will become the master of Saber in case of Shirou's demise.
Saber is not pleased by the agreement, but Shirou is her master so she simply obeys.
Soon after Sakura reaches the Emiya mansion to spend the afternoon with her senpai and meets... Archer who was coming to pick up some stuff Rin left behind.
Weird shit goes on until Archer leaves and Sakura can finally get her date... that of course gets turned into a group hang.
While Hikigya goes to do his business, Sakura, Saber, and Shirou reach the cafe where Shirou works part-time, here they are served by Nijito the old man in a wheelchair, who teases them a bit.
All seems fun and games until Hikigaya's powers trigger in Sakura a panic attack, which can only be solved by Emiya making a makeshift bong.
With Sakura now calm and the night coming Hachiman offer to escort Sakura home while handing Shirou and Saber a box and telling them to return to the mansion before the other servants become active.
In the mansion they find out in the box there is a vibrator, yeah Saber wont go far without mana transfer.
The Loner
So in this story, Hachiman is our favorite loner and the leader of an international magical secret organization OROBORO.
while he lives his wrong youth in Chiba, he also partakes in raids and fights against vampires and mages aided by his team of agents.
As per usual Hachiman is willing to help others in any circumstance putting himself at risk and not asking for any help. A behavior that is getting on the nerves of even his closest companions.
It doesn't help that Hachiman's unique type of magic is a double Origin related to Pain (NOT JUST PAIN MMMMMM), his powers come from the ability to understand someone's pain as in emotional and physical, take it for himself and then be able to turn it into wounds and black smoke under his command.
Through several incantations Hachiman can use specific pains to open reality marbles he collected in his life and cast extremely powerful spells. The only problem is that Hachiman's magic circuits are very fragile and if he uses too much mana he risks going berserk and becoming a monstrous skeleton.
His simples and most powerful spell "the eyes are the mirror of soul" allows him to enter into the inner world of the person he is having eye contact with, and try to take control of their existence.
These powers have made him a force to reckon with in the magical world, and for this reason, he is always disguised. When on a mission all his organizations uses a drug to change their hair color to bright red and show big tattoos all over their body. The tattoos show two snakes wrapping up from the legs to the face, the operative number on the front, and the war name on the back.
Hachiman's battle name is Angra Mainyu. (Foreshadowing?)
Around valentine's day Hachiman is roped into a school exchange in Fuyuki to allow a member of the archery team to participate to a tournament. Originally the teen is averse to the idea as he is enjoying his time in the service club and actually forming a genuine bond despite hiding such a huge part of his life from Yukino, Yui Iroha etc, unfortunately after a mission that pushes some of his OROBORO companions to question his methods Hachiman says fuck it I need a vacation and off he goes to Fuyuki.
Is not gonna be relaxing.
On the very first week, he blows half of his cover by showing Shirou great athleticism while saving a child from getting run over by a car (Sieg's car) and by doing exercises in his room, which forces Shirou to look past appearances and in a short time, the two create a fun bond based on finding each other's weaknesses and poking fun at each other.
All should be fine but the shadows of Fuyuki are naturally drawn to Hachiman who quickly sees through Sakura Matou's facade, recognize Shirou and Rin as mages, as a faint recollection of Soichiro Kuzuki and comes in contact with the negative energy left by the Fuyuki great fire.
All come to spiral down even further when the marks of the command seals appear on Sakura and Shirou. Hachiman starts to feel that something is wrong and to avoid Emiya becoming a target taunts Shiji Matou who sends Rider after him.
Hachiman faces the Rider in an alley managing to land a strong blow on the servant, unfortunately, Medusa is too powerful and with a sudden twist defeats Hachiman. Our favorite Loner is done for, but thanks to his wits he manages to engage in eye contact and use his strongest spell.
Within the realm of the inner world, Hachiman completely overpowers Medusa and manages to alter her memory so that she leaves him alone.
Waking up after the fight Hachiman realizes his phone got destroyed (Thanks to Assassin Hachiman who was following him), and stumbles into the Einzbern team. The loner and the three homunculi argue with each other but Illya finds him amusing and reminisces about her late father.
Hachiman tired and injured, manages to drag himself to the Emiya mansion, but hesitates to call for support. This will be a fatal mistake as Lancer attacks the house and destroys Hachiman's PC leaving him no way to ask for help from OROBORO.
Hachiman uses his power, and various drugs to face Lancer and even though he puts up a good fight is eventually defeated, and saved by Saber's arrival.
Even more tired and weakened by the recoil of his powers Hachiman enters a half-crazed state. He follows Rin and Shirou to the church and teases mercilessly everyone, especially Shirou and Archer, which he nicknames vanilla and chocolate Emiya, (Mmmmm).
While Rin and Shirou are talking with Kirei, Hachiman wanders off on his own looking for a presence that was spying on him.
Here he meets the Nijito an acquaintance of his who should not exist in front of him (MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM).
Nijito gives Hahciman information about Caster and Sieg, and offers more in exchange for his aid. Hachiman refuses to become his pawn and leave Emiya behind so the two fighters part away to say goodbye they both call the other by a specific nickname... ANGRA MAINYU (BIG FORESHADOWING).
Hachiman then enters the church to talk with Kirei, in a matter of seconds the two exchange blows to test each other. Hachiman is suspicious of the scary, priest and Kirei seems to be very fond of the Loner's ability to attract pain, to the point he offers Hachiman a command seal and to enter the war Gilgamesh as his servant.
We still don't know Hachiman's decision, because he does have a bandaged hand now but Gilgamesh and Hachiman hate each other's very existence making them an almost impossible pair.
Hachiman comes out of the church with a new headache and a set of black keys extorted from Kirei, which will be immediately employed to their very limit in the fight against Sieg.
In fact, a little away from the church Sieg is about to finish off the Einzebern team. Recognizing the three homunculi Hachiman jumps into action to save them, (and recognizes Illiya from an old picture of Kiritsugu that was hidden in the coat he borrowed) and so the LONER and the Homunculus meet.
The fight between the two is ruthless and true proof of their skill even when weakened. Hachiman realizes quickly that Sieg is trained in the same way as him and possesses skills that none but Oroboro members could have.
Thanks to his greater experience and the help of Shirou and Rin, Hachiman lands a hard blow on Sieg who retaliates by releasing a small Noble phantasm. All seems to be done for but with one last effort, the loner summons the power of a spirit that had remained trapped in the Emiya residence Kiritsugu Emiya.
With this short burst of power, Hachiman defeats Sieg but is knocked out by Assassin immediately after. (The contact between the two further weakens Assassin Hachiman, but reinforces Hachiman's magic circuits)
The day later Hachiman wakes up surrounded by the Einzebrn an proceeds to accidentally touch Sella's chest who slaps him in the face...
Tough start to another tough day.
Now completely in the Holy grail war, Hachiman spends the whole day preparing his next move, showing the weak spot of Assassin to the other servant, preparing tools to fight, a track to train Shirou, insurance against Rin, sexy stuff to have Shirou give mana to Saber, other secrets and manipulates Sakura in order to meet and get a hold of the unpredictable faction the Matous.
WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN NEXT?
So it was supposed to be a big summary full of details but I got bored of writing summaries because I wanna go back into this story after a long break.
I hope I put together the most important point of the main three POVs, but if you want to see hints of what coming next I warmly suggest checking back the POVs of Jeanne, Rin, Illiya, and Sakura. respectively THE RULER, HEIRESS, DOLL, and FEARFUL.
I left out the summary of the Nightmare as the story is relatively short so far and can be summed up to:
Fucked kid, with a weird ability to kill parts of himself to create a slightly different new personality focused on a goal, is dealing with mean adults and magi in Chiba seven years before the 5th Holy Grail war. how is he involved in what's going on now?
Also is full of foreshadowing and I don't want to spoil that part.
I hope to show all the plans that are coming and how all the premises are flooding together.
There will soon be a training arc that will bring Shirou, Sakura and yeah even Shinji to a new level that you have not seen yet.
Rin and Shirou will be tied as partners in crime trying to understand the mysterious plans that Hachiman is carrying out on his own.
Jeanne will face her darkness.
Soichiro Kuzuki will be more involved than ever.
Gilgamesh will be an asshole.
Shirou's past before the fire will be brought to light.
Illiya will encounter the ghost of her lost family
and Angra Mainyu's shadow will be looming over everyone, showing that maybe this caos was someone's plan all along.
Thanks for who has waited so patiently see you in two weeks with the new chapter of the Homunculus.
Caster descends on the battlefield