Archer (EMIYA) White hair and tan skin

Why would the use of projection magecraft turn archers hair white and skin tanned. i mean its magecraft at the end of the day.Is there something different about his tracing that causes the effects

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A Fandom user·8/31/2017

When he use magic, Emiya create his own magical circuit before tracing. It is very dangerous because it can destroy the body and even kill himself if something miss. He do it all the time, which exposed his body internally to a great amount of mana. This mana destroyed his hair pigmentation, making them white, and burn his cells, tanning him. Du to this, his alter version is even more darker, because he used it even more usually. 
At a certaine point, it must be abusing this that tanned him. Not just doig it sometimes.

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Otherarrow·8/31/2017

Hair color change seems to be just a sign of magicraft overuse and isn't specifically tied to EMIYA creating his own magic circuit (and seeing as Shirou learns not to do that in just about every route of FSN, assuming that any incarnation of EMIYA does is silly.) Several other magi, such as the Aozakis right off the top of my head but even Sakura having purple hair, have altered physical features due to exposure and overuse of magicraft, but yeah EMIYA is the only one who has abused his magicraft so much that it darkerned his skin. Going by what we see of a younger Nameless (EMIYA's EXTRA-verse counterpart), his hair turned white first then his skin darkened btw.

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Fllipp1234·9/30/2020

From what I've seen his hair turns white from over use of mana in general while his skin turns darker when using a large amount of at once such as a UBW or Rho Aias over time. To continue on the second point it could also be because he's over exerting his body to use such abilities within a short time range. To say it in a different way his hair turned white from the light strain of overusing projection and such while the dark skin is from him over using UBW or maybe Rho Aias placing a much larger strain over perhaps a shorter time range. Or it could be the complete opposite and the bigger spells turned his hair white quickly while the smaller projection spells darkened his skin over time.

Hsanan·10/27/2022

İt is probably not about creating magic circuit 'cause there are some other servants that got the same white hair and tan skin due to oveuse of magecraft

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What do you think?