Is Shirou Emiya Archer?

Archer is not a proper Heroic Spirit in the sense of other heroes. His true identity is that of Shirou Emiya of an alternate timeline from that of Fate/stay night who made a contract with the world and became the Heroic Spirit EMIYA. He acts as a Counter Guardian for the world as payment for the contract.

Does Shirou become Archer in Ubw?

Did shirou become Archer in Ubw? Anyways, the answer is NO, he's not Archer. ... Here he just says he won't become Archer and before that he says Shirou and Rin will have their happily ever after.

Is Archer Shirou son?

Backstory. Archer is Shirou Emiya, a child who was saved from a fire by a magus assassin named Kiritsugu Emiya, though his parents were killed in the inferno and Kiritsugu adopted him.