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Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (TV).

Since Ufotable wanted to link their previous adaptation to this work, somehow the only survivor from the 4th War would be rammed in somehow despite supposedly spending most of the 5th with the couple who took him in.

Umm, Gina, your post has Heaven's Feel spoilers in it, could you please hide those?

I had to look up what a medulla oblongata was. My first guess was wrong.

Harleyquin wrote:

Since Ufotable wanted to link their previous adaptation to this work, somehow the only survivor from the 4th War would be rammed in somehow despite supposedly spending most of the 5th with the couple who took him in.

Wait, what? Waver spent the entirety of the 5th HGW in London, where he's been a lecturer at the Clock Tower ever since he took over as head of the El-Melloi family...

Unless I'm reading this part of your post wrong...

The wikia sources the Character Materials that Waver is Rin's sponsor at the Clock Tower, so he must've gone back and taken up the title sometime before the epilogue.

I barely recognized Waver, he still has long hair (longer than before, actually), & he's still in England. Otherwise he looks completely different. And he's still a jerk? I thought his time with Rider softened him up. Why'd he have to be such a jerk to Shirou? And how'd he become recognized as a El-Melloi when he wasn't related to them at all and they hated him?

Why did Shirou reject the Clock Tower's offer to become a recognized mage of his own? So he could go off and become a soldier of justice or whatever without them on his back?

I feel that this wasn't fully explained, but if Shirou ever accepted a position in the Clock Tower, and his ability to create and use a Reality Marble was ever discovered, like when they'd test him for his origin and affinity when he formally enters the association, he'd earn a Sealing Designation so fast which would prevent him from ever leaving and able to do anything except under the strictest surveillance. Since human users of Reality Marbles are so rare, those that get discovered are given a Sealing Designation, which means that the higher ups in the Clock Tower want to capture and study you to see if they can't replicate the effect, and ultimately kill you if they're unable to capture you to do so. And seeing as how Shirou isn't the product of a lineage and therefore subject to the protection given to family heads...

Yes, mage society tends to be full of not-so-nice-people, so much so that the non-not-so-nice-people, like Waver and Rin, are the exceptions. There's a reason why he wanted out of the Clock Tower and the Mages Association, and the freedom to pursue his ideal was not the least of them.

He collected Kayneth's writings and basically published "Kayneth Archibald: the Complete Works", which saved the family's reputation. As a gratitude they gave him the title and also chained him to themselves since they blame him for Kayneth's death. Most likely he's a jerk because he's stuck with them and because he can't get over the fact that whatever he does he'll still be a mediocre magus.