Remember that time where it turned out he was from an alternate timeline where his Hakuno died and he'd already lost to Altera on a suicidal charge and sideslipped into the Extella timeline thanks to a glitch in the Moon Cell meaning he already knew 90% of the plot points including her true nature as the White Titan and Archimedes' hidden allegiance
and then he just
didn't do anything about it
and this info is just dropped offhand in his sidestory while he waits for nero to do everything
extella is 11/10 great story
EDIT: haha somewhat less but still pertinently remember how jeanne joined the faction that wants to kill all life on earth because of her moral belief in the possibility of altera's salvation and her willingness to risk everything for compassion
and then she just vanishes from the main storyline and implicitly accomplishes fuck and all while knowingly aiding and abetting the fucking reapers
and her own sidestory just abruptly cuts out the literal second it looks like she's gonna finally put her money where her mouth is and beat the piss out of arky to save altera
12/10 bestgame b e s t g a m e
That's a conversation to have.
Hakuno: "Yeah, an alternate version of my Body self killed themselves to give me information to save Altera and the Moon Cell. It was heartwarming and kind of sad."
Archer: "Oh, yeah, I could have told you all about Archimedes and Sefar."
Hakuno: "i'm going to burn you for rare prisms"
I guess you could argue that it would be anticlimactic to the story for Archer to fix everything? But. Uh, why have the plot point in the first place? Maybe for a sequel thing, but I can't really see how you could parlay that into a sequel.
It ends up as kind of a nothing-burger (am I using that right?). I mean, Extella Zero is basically a summary on Nasu's blog post, so there's not a whole lot of emotional investment, but it would have been more meaningful if Extella!Archer had been (had the memories of) the Archer from Extella Zero. Hell, tie that into why he's only Nero's general - he doesn't feel worthy of standing by a Hakuno's side, since he, y'know, the one he served died.
As a quick aside, I am amused by how the versions of Extra Archer have some weird parallels with OG? The Extella thing, where he know a lot more about the situation than he lets on parallels his (somewhat sketchy) knowledge of FSN, though unlike FSN he never leverages it. And in Extella Zero, his Master ends up literally having to kill (an alternate version of) themselves - while FSN Archer wanted to kill Shirou in the hope that he'd die (and copious amounts of self-loathing), ZeroHakuno killed themselves in order to keep living.
