Sin_of_sloth

an incredible common misunderstanding. Origins are usually very specific, as a byproduct of the fact that they can be literally anything. Kiritsugu's origin isn't "severing" and "binding", rather it's "severing and binding" or even more accurately "severing and then binding". This is why his origin bullets first sever and then tie the magic circuits of El Melloy together in a wrong way. he can't just do/use one of them, it's either both or nothing

in Chinese fics the MTL always translates it as time travel

they work

The Franco-Prussian war was fought in 1870, so she came from a time before the mc?