Fate/Kaleid/Shirou Emiya

• Height: 5'5" (167 cm)
• Weight: 128 lbs (58 Kg)
• Age: 17
• Race: Japanese
• Magecraft: "Trace Magic"

10 years ago when the previous Holy Grail war took place, Shirou's family wound up getting caught in the cross fire and wound up dying as civilian casualties. Upon learning about this, Kiritsugu blamed himself and took him in as his son. Shirou has completely accepted Kiritsugu as his father and idealizes him as a role model, and he also cares a great deal for his younger sister Illia.

Shirou is a fairly sensitive and caring young man who works hard for the sake of others. He gets good grades, and he would be on the student council in his school along with his best friend if it weren't for the fact that he prefers to practice archery. He also happens to be a very good cook.

In terms of magic, Shirou was not born to a mage family and thus started off with a handicap in the form of poor capacity to perform magic. This rendered him completely unable to learn his adoptive mother or father's magecraft. However, knowing his adoptive parents were both mages, he still wanted to learn magic. Kiritsugu's solution to this was for him to learn some very basic low level divination, the ability to analyze the physical characteristics of an object he is in direct physical contact with. He then told Shirou to practice this magic every day in order to expand his magical capacity.

By the time Shirou's mage training began to show real results in terms of his magical capacity strengthening, his adoptive parents had begun traveling the world as his mother Illia had joined his father in going back to his old lifestyle for the sake of concealing their new family's location. They move around frequently and now keep little contact with their children. He has become incredibly good at this form of touch divination witch he has begun to call "trace" as he can literally perform a trace analysis of the object he is touching, analyzing every last microscopic detail. With this skill, but no means by witch to expand his magical repertoire, he decided to teach himself the next step to build on his skills and decided to try reproducing an object he has analyzed and wound up teaching himself a highly specialized form of conjuration to match his equally specialized divination. He calls this application "trace" as well, although trace has a slightly different connotation as he is now referring to the act of tracing an outline of the original object in order to make a copy.

Shirou's trace magic allows him to completely analyze and reproduce any non-magical object in a manner undecernable from the original, even down to the complex moving parts in a piece of technology as complicated as a smart phone, and basic objects without such complex devices can even be reproduced on sight alone. He could easily commit fraud or forgery at a grand scale with this ability if he were so inclined. The only thing keeping him from doing so is his strong moral character. He can also produce weaker imitations of magical items. These reproductions can be made having only seen the original, but if he has fully analyzed them then the reproduction will be stronger than it would be if he is tracing it from sight alone. Upon expanding the divination portion of his trace magic into magical objects, he also now has the ability to analyze the nature of a magical enchantment on an object, but this does not necessarily give him the ability to understand it witch he often doesn't due to his lack of a proper mage's education outside of how to use his two highly specialized forms of magic.