way to break it down , Boom <| sep |> I can ' t wait for the mannequin challenge to be over . <| sep |> Added you ! Will be online . <| sep |> I found that out too . It ' s not wicking a lot up . <| sep |> This is my most loathed misinterpretation of Shirou ' s character , so please forgive me for going on an unsolicited rant . For starters , Shirou doesn ' t want Saber to stay back and not fight solely because she ' s a girl . He ' s using that as an excuse , it ' s what a chivalrous hero would do right ? Imagine you ' re Emiya Shirou , and your entire life up to this point was based around the idea of becoming a Hero . A Hero protects others and destroys bad guys , right ? How emotionally humiliating would it be the stand there powerless , as the beautiful girl with the body of a 14 year old desperately holds her ground , bleeding out , defending you against a murderous behemoth for your sake . Isn ' t he supposed to be the one protecting her ? Shirou doesn ' t want Saber to protect him , not because she ' s a girl , but because he himself doesn ' t believe he ' s worth protecting . He ' s completely powerless and he knows it , he hates it , he even has a breakdown and falls to the ground struggling with this knowledge . What is he supposed to do ? What can he even do ? It ' s important to remember that Shirou has a Messiah Complex . He would rather himself die than let someone else get hurt . Gender didn ' t matter to him , if Saber was a boy , he ' d just come up with a different excuse . And the entire damn point of the Fate route was about Shirou coming to terms and accepting that he can ' t do everything on his own . It baffles me how many people don ' t catch on to this .