Gilgamesh

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Nasuverse character
Gilgamesh/Archer
Japanese name:	ギルガメッシュ
Also known as:	Archer (アーチャー)
Franchise:	Fate
Appears in:	Fate/stay night Fate/hollow ataraxia Fate/Zero Fate/strange fake
Voice actor:	Tomokazu Seki Grant George (dub)
Character type:	Servant (Master: Kotomine Kirei)
Servant stats[show] Servant (Master: Tohsaka Tokiomi)
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Gender:	Male
Height:	182 cm
Weight:	68 kg
Hair color:	golden
Eye color:	red

Gilgamesh (ギルガメシュ, Girugamesshu^?) is an enigmatic Archer-class Servant. He appears familiar with Fuyuki City and claims to have a past relationship with Saber. Typically clad in an ornate golden armor, he possesses an immense number of Noble Phantasms, though none are representative of his true identity.

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IdentityEdit

Gilgamesh during life (The Statue of Gilgamesh

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Gilgamesh is a half-god, half-human king that ruled the Sumerian city-state of Uruk in the years before Christ.

PersonalityEdit

Child and adult Gilgamesh

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Gilgamesh is extremely arrogant and selfish. He claims that everything in the world is his possession and he's the one and only king. He cannot acknowledge the authority of anyone, even from the gods. He's incredibily proud, especially of his collection of treasures. He views everyone as inferior and does not care for their feelings at all. After he saw enough of the modern world, he decided to cleanse it from humans since they have become weak and unworthy of his rule. On the course of the 4th Grail War he took interest in Saber and developed an obsession with her. In battle, he's prone to underestimate his opponents and views fights as a game of amusement. His gigantic pride prevents him from acknowledging his opponent as a real threat and he does not fight him/her seriously. As such he prefers to severely handicap himself and just mindlessly shower his incredulous volume of Noble Phantasms.
After he consumes the potion of youth, he becomes a little boy. Surprisingly, the child version of Gilgamesh is well-mannered, polite and amiable, not to mention perfectly sane and rational, complelety different from his extremely haughty, rude (and sometimes irrational and violent-tempered) adult counterpart. He becomes popular and an idol among children in Fuyuki, as he is seen leading a football team with amazing leadership. In his child form, he not only retains his memory but his royal and divine charisma as well. He remembers Shirou and greets him politely. Shirou initially wonders whether he is Gilgamesh's younger brother before being corrected, though child Gilgamesh wished he had brothers and sisters, showing that he is the only son of King Lugalbanda and goddess Ninsun. He also expresses his uneasiness of how he grows up becoming someone so unpleasant, referring to his adult form's personality. He also approves of Shirou's relationship with Saber and states that Saber is not suitable for someone of his age. It is likely that the Golden King was a better person when he was a child. Seeing him with the children, Shirou wonders how Gilgamesh will eventually grow up to become someone so unpleasant.
He retains his boy alter ego and amiable personality even when he reverts back to an adult, as he is seen fishing with several of his chidren companion (dubbed Gil's Brigade) at Fuyuki Dock, along with Archer and Lancer. He is also less arrogant than usual, showing that his personality has improved greatly somehow, even though he is boasting of his superior quality fishing rods compared to Lancer's and Archer's own. At some point, he also authors a manga that called Ju-Op that one of the children eagerly asked for.

RoleEdit

Archer/Gilgamesh was initially summoned by Tohsaka Tokiomi in the 4th Holy Grail War, who used a fossil of the first skin ever shed by a snake as a catalyst. With Tohsaka's death, Gilgamesh co-operated with Kotomine Kirei to obtain the Holy Grail, intending to cleanse the world of humanity, which he felt had become corrupted and vile, thus not worthy of his reign (he wanted to rule a world inhabited with strong and dignified creatures, according to the Unlimited Blade Works scenario). When Emiya Kiritsugu killed his Master, Gilgamesh remained in the physical world long enough to be drenched by the pollution within the tainted Holy Grail. Contact with this ichor normally corrupts a Servant's ego, but Gilgamesh resisted submission to the evil influence. However, the saturation converted his spiritual body to one of flesh and blood, and Gilgamesh also become more eccentric and excitable.
In Fate/Zero, Gilgamesh was responsible for delivering the deathblow to the Rider-class Servant Iskander, King of Conquerors. Though he had been at odds with the King of Conquerers, Gilgamesh expressed considerable respect for Rider, despite Gilgamesh's extreme pride. Out of respect for Iskander, he spares Waver Velvet, Rider's Master, and dismisses him for the remainder of the war. In contrast, Gilgamesh develops a fascination for Saber, whom he views as weak-minded because of her ideals and desires to see her despair after he crushes them. However, during their final confrontation, their battle is interrupted by the destruction of the Holy Grail at the hands of Saber, forced to comply because of the commands issued by Kiritsugu via his Command Spells.
Although able to exist independently of Kotomine, Gilgamesh continued to co-operate with his old Master, who had been resurrected by the Grail's malevolent power. With Kotomine's aid, he was able to stockpile prana for his Noble Phantasms through the consumption of human souls from children orphaned by the fire at the end of the war. Gilgamesh also retrieved a potion of temporary youth from his vault that reduced his physical age and allowed him to smoothly blend in with society.
Gilgamesh is one of the antagonists in each scenario of Fate/stay night. He first appears before the start of the Fifth Holy Grail War around Sakura's house. He identifies her as “the other Grail” and comes to tell her “Go die right now.” It is just a suggestion rather than a command, as he believes that the matter will develop into some sort of entertainment regardless of the situation. When asked about the encounter, Sakura just claims that he was asking for directions and that “It was English” in order to hide the truth.^[1] In Fate, he kills Caster as she assaults Shirou's residence, and later ambushes Shirō and Saber during their date. Ultimately, he is killed in a climatic battle with Saber at the Ryuudouji Temple atop Mount Enzō. Gilgamesh is more active in Unlimited Blade Works, and reprises his role as the final antagonist; He is "lent" to Shinji Matou after Shinji's Servant, Rider, is killed by Sōichirō Kuzuki and later easily killed Ilya and Berserker. Gilgamesh attempts to use Shinji as the core of the Holy Grail, but he is killed by Archer after being cornered by Shirō. Gilgamesh has a small role in Heaven's Feel  scenario, where he lacerates Dark Sakura with Gate of Babylon. However, he underestimates her regenerative abilities and is devoured by her shadows.
In Fate/hollow ataraxia, Gilgamesh once again consumes his potion of youth, and holds a low-profile in Fuyuki City to avoid interacting with previous Servants or Masters. As a child, he is extremely popular with other children, retaining his royal charisma but also affable and amiable. When Shirou reunited with this younger Gilgamesh, Shirou did not recognize him and was dumbfounded as to how Gilgamesh would eventually grow into such a haughty and selfish person. It is possible that Gilgamesh is a better person when he is still a child, or the potion he consume to revert to child affects his personality as well as his age. Furthermore, he still remembers the events in Fate/Stay Night as he recognizes Shiro and greets him politely.He also awares of his adult alter ego and wonders why he grows up becoming someone so unpleasant. During the Fuyuki eclipse, he reverts to his adult form and assists the other Servants in slaying the endless horde of Shadow Wolf Beasts, providing the opportunity for Avenger to make his way to Heaven's Feel. He also seems to retain his pleasant personality even after he turns back as adult as he is seen fishing at Fuyuki Dock with several children, with golden fishing rods that his children companions think very cool albeit being slightly silly-looking.
Fate/strange fake features another incarnation of Gilgamesh separate from the version summoned during the Fuyuki Holy Grail Wars.

AbilitiesEdit

Archer/Gilgamesh possesses countless prototypes of other heroes' Noble Phantasms inside his Gate of Babylon, but only two (besides Gate of Babylon itself) are truly representative of him as a Heroic Spirit : Enkidu and Ea.
However, he mostly uses Gate of Babylon when fighting, and, according to his belief that most servants are inferior to him and not even worthy of direct confrontation, he usually doesn't even bother to grab the weapons and use them individually, but rather shoots them out like a rain of arrows. Weapons fired this way return to his vault automatically after a short period of time. Incidentally, this way of fighting made him suitable for Archer class.

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Complete Material 3 -
   Q: Prior to the start of the Holy Grail War, what was Gilgamesh doing around Sakura’s house? Sakura said he was asking directions, did he come to identify “the other Grail” - Sakura?
   A: Yes. He came to tell Sakura to “Go die right now”. It is rather a suggestion than command. Regardless the situation, from the King’s perspective, this matter will develop into some sort of entertainment. As a result, what Gilgamesh said was not a command. Sakura’s reply “It was English” was a convenient excuse to hide the truth.