Personality: Gilgamesh is a God-King of one of the first "proper" societies of the ancient world, and and acts as such: he believes himself to be the greatest of all Kings, that everything and everyone is owed to him and must belong to his Kingdom. He will never tell a lie or mislead someone from his true intents -- as he believes this "cheapens" his image -- and is never, ever wrong. Ever. There is nothing that Gilgamesh will not do to get what he wants, no place or person too sacred for him to deify, and there is certainly no person or thing too strong for him to subdue and break to his will. This side of Gilgamesh is the "Old-World" Gilgamesh; he is the Gilgamesh who turned away the love of Ishtar on whim alone, the Gilgamesh who loved war and death, who killed his allies simply because they failed him once. He is a tyrant, arrogant in the extreme and just as callous, a king who damned his people to poverty and strife simply because the gods had taken away his one and only friend, Gilgamesh the God-killer.
There is another side to Gilgamesh, however: while it is true that he is an outright bastard most of the time, the "true" Gilgamesh is a man that only a select few have ever seen. This Gilgamesh is a proud, noble savage -- all he wants is to rule justly and fairly without the influence of old, callous gods. This side of Gilgamesh is the one who wept for Enkindu's death, and the one who Saber saw a flash of before his death: the Gilgamesh who took on all of the sins of humanity just because he believed no one else should be so cursed, the God-King ready to lay down his life for his people, damning the consequences so long as the world was allowed to continue.
This Gilgamesh is the one we see in Ataraxia: he is the child -- and young adult, in the end -- who builds an amusement park just because his friends needed a place to play, the Gilgamesh who unleashes his strength to protect Fuyuki City when the Mukuro come, potentially laying down his life to give Emiya -- who essentially asked himself: "How does this kid grow up to be a douche?" when he first saw Tiny!Gilgamesh -- the chance to succeed.
The second personality is the one that "stuck" the most, as Gilgamesh eventually rid himself of the sins of humanity by reverting by to a child at the beginning of the last game he was in.
He's still kind of a douche, though. Just slightly nicer about it.
Abilities: o NOBLE PHANTASMS; like every other Servant, Gilgamesh has access to several magical weapons and artifacts tied in with who he is in the mythology of the world -- in this case, Gilgamesh possesses the Gate of Babylon, which allows him to use the original form of every mythological weapon, artifact, and the like that has ever been spoken of in the many different mythologies of the world.
The most common weapons and items that he uses, canon-wise, are located in list format here, though he isn't really trained to use more than three of them; the grand majority of them he merely "fires" out of the gate, like arrows.
o TWO-THIRDS DIVINE; Through his divine heritage, Gilgamesh is superhuman in every sense of the word. He possess enough strength to cleave through steel, enough fortitude to be immune to all mundane diseases, enough stamina to fight for days at a time, and enough speed to outrun the naked human eye in short bursts. Because he is only two-thirds divine, however, he is no way truly immortal, and can be killed by normal means.
o INDEPENDENT SERVANT PROPERTIES; As an ARCHER-class servant, Gilgamesh was once required to bond himself to a master to keep from disappearing when summoned to this plane of existence. Due to several events in canon, however, he was given a physical body, meaning that he has no need for a master to supply him with the magical energy -- Prana -- that each Servant needs to survive. Instead, Gilgamesh survives by absorbing souls, and is, for all intents and purposes, a being composed of hundreds of thousands of densely packed human souls comprising a single, extremely "hard" soul. (I know, I know, it's hard to explain.)
This is only worth noting because the "hardness" of his soul(s) makes it so that only attacks dealing damage to the soul (or are extremely powerful magic attacks) can manage to harm him. His body naturally heals any other kind of damage.
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There is another side to Gilgamesh, however: while it is true that he is an outright bastard most of the time, the "true" Gilgamesh is a man that only a select few have ever seen. This Gilgamesh is a proud, noble savage -- all he wants is to rule justly and fairly without the influence of old, callous gods. This side of Gilgamesh is the one who wept for Enkindu's death, and the one who Saber saw a flash of before his death: the Gilgamesh who took on all of the sins of humanity just because he believed no one else should be so cursed, the God-King ready to lay down his life for his people, damning the consequences so long as the world was allowed to continue.
This Gilgamesh is the one we see in Ataraxia: he is the child -- and young adult, in the end -- who builds an amusement park just because his friends needed a place to play, the Gilgamesh who unleashes his strength to protect Fuyuki City when the Mukuro come, potentially laying down his life to give Emiya -- who essentially asked himself: "How does this kid grow up to be a douche?" when he first saw Tiny!Gilgamesh -- the chance to succeed.
The second personality is the one that "stuck" the most, as Gilgamesh eventually rid himself of the sins of humanity by reverting by to a child at the beginning of the last game he was in.
He's still kind of a douche, though. Just slightly nicer about it.
Abilities:
o NOBLE PHANTASMS; like every other Servant, Gilgamesh has access to several magical weapons and artifacts tied in with who he is in the mythology of the world -- in this case, Gilgamesh possesses the Gate of Babylon, which allows him to use the original form of every mythological weapon, artifact, and the like that has ever been spoken of in the many different mythologies of the world.
The most common weapons and items that he uses, canon-wise, are located in list format here, though he isn't really trained to use more than three of them; the grand majority of them he merely "fires" out of the gate, like arrows.
o TWO-THIRDS DIVINE; Through his divine heritage, Gilgamesh is superhuman in every sense of the word. He possess enough strength to cleave through steel, enough fortitude to be immune to all mundane diseases, enough stamina to fight for days at a time, and enough speed to outrun the naked human eye in short bursts. Because he is only two-thirds divine, however, he is no way truly immortal, and can be killed by normal means.
o INDEPENDENT SERVANT PROPERTIES; As an ARCHER-class servant, Gilgamesh was once required to bond himself to a master to keep from disappearing when summoned to this plane of existence. Due to several events in canon, however, he was given a physical body, meaning that he has no need for a master to supply him with the magical energy -- Prana -- that each Servant needs to survive. Instead, Gilgamesh survives by absorbing souls, and is, for all intents and purposes, a being composed of hundreds of thousands of densely packed human souls comprising a single, extremely "hard" soul. (I know, I know, it's hard to explain.)
This is only worth noting because the "hardness" of his soul(s) makes it so that only attacks dealing damage to the soul (or are extremely powerful magic attacks) can manage to harm him. His body naturally heals any other kind of damage.