[quote=ZainWilder]
Wasn't the original archer also an original character in pretty much every scenario? Sure in one they say he is the future shiro come back to kill his younger self before all of his mistakes... but thats still an original character they came up with, don't think too badly of it. ^^
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He also didn't make sense in the setting, he existed mostly as a plot device that could have been filled by any other convenient mechanic besides the HGW.