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Entanglement has switched over to a dressing room format for now, so applications aren't needed for the time being.

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Fate/Stay Night has three routes, Fate [Saber's route], Unlimited Blade Works [Rin's route], and Heaven's Feel [ Sakura's route]. Saber here will be coming from the Fate Route where she is the story's main heroine.

The main difference between Fate and the other routes is the fact that Shirou never internalizes the idea that Saber needed to be protected, this idea first pops up in the Fate route when Saber is beaten very badly by Berserker and causes Shirou to believe that he should protect Saber and fight in her place.

Shirou's thinking eventually causes a disagreement between himself and Saber as Saber sees Shirou's need to protect her running contrary to her role as a servant and knight. This disagreement eventually leads Saber to act against Shirou's will in a several instances, including going by herself to confront Caster and attempting to use Excalibur, even though she knew it could kill her to do so, against Berserker.

However, she eventually comes to term Shirou's feelings towards her, when she agrees to train him in sword play since he insists on fighting. Shirou and Saber get to know each other better spending time together during their practice which leads Shirou to feel bad that Saber is so bound by her past as King of England.

The second incident that cements Saber's status in the Fate route comes later when, after using Excalibur to defeat Rider, is on the verge of death due to loosing most of her mana. Shirou, at about the same time, is kidnapped by Berserker's master, Illya, forcing Rin, Saber, and Archer to save him. After rescuing Shirou, a feat made possible by Archer sacrificing his life to stall Berserker, the gang is forced to find a way to restore Saber's mana so that they could stand a remote chance against Berserker. Rin reveals that the only effective way to accomplish this feat is to have sex with Saber. Because of this, Shirou is forced to finally deal with his own attraction to Saber. The next morning, Saber is forced into a fight with Berserker but manages to defeat him via Shirou using his magical power to create a copy of the legendary sword Caliburn, a weapon that had centuries ago determined the next king of England.

After the fight with Berserker, both Shirou and Saber seem to have come to some understanding as to what they mean to one another but have yet to put words to that feeling. This eventually leads Shirou to ask Saber on a date. After the date, Shirou and Saber get into a fight over if he truly understands her, which leads Saber to run off for a time and leaves Shirou to think things over. He eventually comes to the conclusion that he had been in love with Saber the entire time he has known her and rushes back to the spot where he and Saber fought in order to make things right. He finds Saber there who relates that despite Shirou telling her to do as she wished she was unsure she had any other place to go.

Finally understanding her own feelings for Shirou, and understanding that the people around her truly cared for her, Saber gives up her old wish of wanting to use the Holy Grail to redo a portion of her life and resolves to make a better life for herself in the present. This also changes her goal to ending the Grail War and destroying the Grail itself so it's power wouldn't end up in the wrong hands.

After defeating the Route's main villains, Kotomine Kirei and his servant Gilgamesh, Saber destroys the Grail with Excalibur and tells Shirou goodbye. But not before finally saying that she loved him.

In all, Shirou's stubborn insistence on protecting Saber, which were motivated by both his desire to save others and his actual romantic love for Saber, eventually help Saber to better understand herself. Enabling her to realize that people in the present, unlike her subjects during her time as king, liked her as a person. Knowing this, Saber is able to better embrace her more emotional side she was forced to down-play as a king and knight. This allowed her to accept she did all she could in her past life and to embrace her present instead of wishing to change her past. With that she is able to admit her own love for Shirou and resolve to finish the Holy Grail War.

This is comparasion to the UBW's route where Saber's role is mainly relegated to being Shirou's, and later Rin's, servant and Heaven's Feel where she is killed early in the story by Sakura and revived as a dark version of herself who then serves as one of the main antagonists of the route.

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