The power of love.
Servants and shit
Meanwhile, Cu walks around with an exploded heart and barbs in him, Medea double checks in the hopes that her Master isn't hurt while she's a literal pin cushion, Herk keeps charging with an eighth of his body mass gone, Kojirou has pretty much the same wound as Semi does but 1000% less backup and still keeps himself from even bleeding on Saber while waxing on her nature, Siegfried literally has the time to feed his own heart to someone else...
Not even mentioning human Shirou turning into the Iron Throne or Kotomine lasting a day and a half with no Angra Pacemaker in his chest...
She should have died instantly, there's no shrugging off being cut in half. So unless she escaped right before getting the worst of it or found a way to block most of the damage, she shouldn't have survived. I would like to know how it happened in the novel, it's very possible the anime missed something.
Maybe Mordred isn't as good as you think
Who would have thunk
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People die when they are killed
Shirou had Avalon, Sakura had Grailjuice, what did Semiramis have?
Don't just throw out random examples, give an actual argument. (Otherwise you might as well say "Well, Herc can revive after being killed twelve times, so clearly Semi can too!")
Well for starters she gets a rank up to all her stats inside of them and her fame spikes
Getting super wasted is doubly dangerous out and about, who knows how many cars could hit you when you dumbly wander out into the middle of the street, who knows how many people could abduct you when you're unable to tell friend from foe, who knows how much the weather might kill you if you collapse in the bushes and lose your phone...
At least at home, in the comfort of your own bed or next to your own toilet, you only got your self to blame if you trip and smash your head into the furniture.
uhhh
I was going to say where that came from because it doesn't say anything like that in the Fate/Apocrypha materials, but then I looked at her profile in Cirnopedia and there it was. It's just Shishigou gave up his life so he could give Mordred the antidote to make that last attack. It would have perfect if she actually managed to kill her right then after giving their all and then said goodbye to each other. Instead Semiramis survives just long enough to see Shirou one last time.
It's not just so she could say goodbye to Shirou (though that was a heartwarming scene). The hanging gardens started to collapse instantly when Semi finally croaked, so if she'd died right away from Mordred's attack than none of the final battle could've taken place, and Shirou's plan for humanity salvation would've been foiled from the start since he needed the gardens to fly around giving people immortality.
So basically, she had to survive for plot reasons.