Self-conscious emotions
In this post, I explain Kiritsugu's experience of self-conscious emotions. I discuss these emotions in reference to the specific incident that triggered their generation. First, I think Kiritsugu never really expressed any kind of self-conscious emotions related to the perception of success. For example, although he was confident in his ability to win the Holy Grail War, he never seemed proud (i.e., pride) of himself. Even after defeating one of the six other mages that participated in the war, he did not seem proud about it but rather reacted to it as if it was nothing special. He also never showed any signs of arrogance or over-confidence (i.e., hubris); he always seemed deeply focused on defeating the other mages, and he did not have the composure to express such emotions. I think his lack of these emotions stems from how he viewed success in this Holy Grail War. For him, success in this war meant obtaining the Holy Grail, and what occurred during the war did not have much of a
