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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Ian
AGE: 22
JOURNAL: pridefall
IM: priestlyish
E-MAIL: meaculpable AT live DOT com
RETURNING: N/A
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Gilgamesh of Uruk
FANDOM: Fate/Hollow Ataraxia
CHRONOLOGY: Right after the Mukuro attack
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: The King of Kings
ALTER EGO: None.
BACKGROUND:
Fate/Stay Night follows the story of one Shirou Emiya, who, like most passingly normal high-school students in Japan, is unwillingly dragooned into participating in a world-altering event that may change the course of history. This event, called "The Grail Wars," tasks Shirou to hunt down and defeat six other "Magi" in an epic battle royal occurring within Fuyuki City, Japan. The one thing standing in his way, however, is that Magi in this world primarily battle alongside mystical familiars named "Servants," and use this newfangled thing called "Magic," to Blow Shit Up In Ridiculous Ways. Oh, and also don't forget that each Magi has to fuel their Servant by either letting them eat people's souls or having sex with them, all of which Shirou knows nothing about.
Luckily, Gilgamesh belongs to the latter category of entrants. He is, in fact, the most powerful Servant available, delighting in carnage and warfare nearly as much as he enjoys arrogantly showing off or boasting of his abilities to anyone he comes across. Utterly callous and proud, Gilgamesh also works alongside a mysterious "Eight Participant" of the Grail Wars in a bid to win the Grail for himself and wish that all life on the planet was erased, as he believes humanity has become corrupted and vile, and thus not worthy of his reign. Throughout the entire visual novel, Gilgamesh is portrayed as the main villain in many of the different "routes" the story can take, and is always ultimately killed in the end. As both a participant and player in the third and fourth Grail Wars, Gilgamesh is the main antagonistic force of the story, but never the main character.
(It's worth to note that Gilgamesh was really only SO EVIL in Fate/Stay Night because, after the Third Grail war, he was bathed in the sins of every human on the planet because he touched the Holy Grail when it was impure.)
Thus we start the next chapter in the story of Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Hollow Ataxia, where Gilgamesh is suddenly alive again -- as the series is based on a time loop -- and drinks a potion of youth, turning himself into a small child. Now without a master, he goes about basically being a rich, snobby kid, and only assumes his role as a Servant for the novel's final battle; he's a relatively minor character again, is what I'm saying.
Since the events of this story purify the Grail, he's also less evil, and more of a noble savage than a tyrant who wants to end all life everywhere.
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 Ataxia: 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.
POWER:
As Gilgamesh is quite freakishly powerful, I've tried my best to condense his abilities down to three.
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, extrmely "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.
Since he's VERY POWERFUL, I'll be open to discussing any kind of nerfing you guys may think is needed.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
If the posts in his journal don't do it, then here's another one from a previous application:
And so it begins. Yet again, some foolhardy mongrel has summoned me to participate in a war that I have no interest in losing, claiming both ownership and superiority over my person without even realizing what the word means. Masters and Servants -- the world is certainly not so easily separated, and yet here we remain: forced into doing the bidding of those who cannot do it themselves, as if we, the Kings and Gods and Demons of their history were nothing more than puppets on strings.
Feh.
Will they succeed in destroying the world this time, I wonder? Or will some errant Mage yet again destroy the Grail in an effort to "save us all?"
[ A small, snide laugh ]
Are you out there now, Arturia? Iskander? Are you hiding from me? Are you biding your time? Will I be forced to have to seek you out yet again in a manner more befitting a peasants than a king?
[ He laughs again, though this time it is a bit more gentle. ]
Let us not be foolish, shall we? The war will be over far, far quicker if you accept your rightful places beneath my boot heels; come and face me so that we may be able to settle our differences as Kings!
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
They came at dawn, and, as prepared as his people were, Gilgamesh knew they stood no chance in the face of the inevitable. It was simply fact.
The sky is fire.
The earth is salt.
Smoke is burning his nostrils, and his City, oh, oh by the light of Ishtar, his City is burning.
Gilgamesh walks through the flames, and the death, and cries of his people as the enemies of Uruk take her walls and her streets, and the fools, ah, how the mongrels that are his people look at him! Always judging! Always expecting! Always seeing only what they want to see, even though his countenance offers neither hope nor salva…
Salvation? What do you know of salvation, God-king? I am going to die for your--
...Gilgamesh shakes his head, and banishes the thought of even thinking of such a word from his mind. Salvation simply did not exist in his world or any other, when the whims of mortal Gods could take away the one...Again, Gilgamesh shakes his head, and continues down his path, as resolute in his course of action as he will ever be. Uruk will fall without him, and his people…His people need him not only because they are weak, but because they are fools and he is the only one who deserves to control them.
"There he is, the King of Kings," his people whisper in hushed, careful tones when they see him, always averting their eyes, always groveling and preening and prostrating themselves before him, as if he were something more than the sum of his parts. As if, somehow, what Gilgamesh was, was something great and terrible to behold; his power, his godhood, and his station hanging about him like some kind of tangible banner of his own Greatness, beautiful and flowing and tied ever-so tightly about his neck.
( …So much like a noose, he thinks, and believes, when Enkindu is not near and neither wine or fire can keep the dark at bay. So much like a noose.)
"There he is, Our King of Kings! Our God-Slaughterer, Wall-Builder and the man First To Reject The Goddess Ishtar! There he is, Lord Gilgamesh of Uruk, our Conqueror of Conquerors and salvation in our darkest of hours!”
Gilgamesh hates his name; loathes his titles. He is no King. He is no Godling, or Tyant, or any of the thousands of names his people give him -- Gilgamesh is simply Gilgamesh. There is nothing else: he is human, and mortal, and so many other things that he cannot escape, and these things...His name embodies them; defines him. Every letter, every syllable is another iron band that chains him to the inevitable knowledge that he will always be what he was destined to be, that Uruk would, if not today, somehow inevitably fall, and that he will die, and that the world will move on without him.
“Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh!”
The walls of his city stand before him, as monolithic and foreboding as the small army gathering around him is not. The Goddess Ishtar is beside him, at the head of the crowd of his people, nubile and lithe and every other perfect thing that a Goddess should be, her mouth moving in her same, silent plea:
Be mine, Gilgamesh. Be mine, be mine, be mine. I will give you wonders. I will make you Legendary. Be mine, and I will give you the world and more.
He looks at her; looks at the walls of Uruk, and the millions besieging it; at the mere hundred behinds him. Babylon is falling, he thinks, and knows, and Ishtar agrees; whispers: Be mine, and you will live forever, as the first King of mankind should. Accept my offer, Gilgamesh!
(Babylon is falling.)
...It is a tempting offer. It is a terribly tempting offer, but the King of Kings is no fool. Tonight, he will die, his City will burn, and the fact that he turned down the benediction of a Goddess when his people needed it the most will live on forever.
Be mine!
(The King of Kings looks at Enkindu as the sword of the Gods pierces his neck, and his insides twist. This is not what it meant to be "Great", and "Powerful.", and he knows it.)
"No, Goddess. I will not."
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
None!
NAME: Ian
AGE: 22
JOURNAL: pridefall
IM: priestlyish
E-MAIL: meaculpable AT live DOT com
RETURNING: N/A
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Gilgamesh of Uruk
FANDOM: Fate/Hollow Ataraxia
CHRONOLOGY: Right after the Mukuro attack
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: The King of Kings
ALTER EGO: None.
BACKGROUND:
Fate/Stay Night follows the story of one Shirou Emiya, who, like most passingly normal high-school students in Japan, is unwillingly dragooned into participating in a world-altering event that may change the course of history. This event, called "The Grail Wars," tasks Shirou to hunt down and defeat six other "Magi" in an epic battle royal occurring within Fuyuki City, Japan. The one thing standing in his way, however, is that Magi in this world primarily battle alongside mystical familiars named "Servants," and use this newfangled thing called "Magic," to Blow Shit Up In Ridiculous Ways. Oh, and also don't forget that each Magi has to fuel their Servant by either letting them eat people's souls or having sex with them, all of which Shirou knows nothing about.
Luckily, Gilgamesh belongs to the latter category of entrants. He is, in fact, the most powerful Servant available, delighting in carnage and warfare nearly as much as he enjoys arrogantly showing off or boasting of his abilities to anyone he comes across. Utterly callous and proud, Gilgamesh also works alongside a mysterious "Eight Participant" of the Grail Wars in a bid to win the Grail for himself and wish that all life on the planet was erased, as he believes humanity has become corrupted and vile, and thus not worthy of his reign. Throughout the entire visual novel, Gilgamesh is portrayed as the main villain in many of the different "routes" the story can take, and is always ultimately killed in the end. As both a participant and player in the third and fourth Grail Wars, Gilgamesh is the main antagonistic force of the story, but never the main character.
(It's worth to note that Gilgamesh was really only SO EVIL in Fate/Stay Night because, after the Third Grail war, he was bathed in the sins of every human on the planet because he touched the Holy Grail when it was impure.)
Thus we start the next chapter in the story of Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Hollow Ataxia, where Gilgamesh is suddenly alive again -- as the series is based on a time loop -- and drinks a potion of youth, turning himself into a small child. Now without a master, he goes about basically being a rich, snobby kid, and only assumes his role as a Servant for the novel's final battle; he's a relatively minor character again, is what I'm saying.
Since the events of this story purify the Grail, he's also less evil, and more of a noble savage than a tyrant who wants to end all life everywhere.
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 Ataxia: 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.
POWER:
As Gilgamesh is quite freakishly powerful, I've tried my best to condense his abilities down to three.
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, extrmely "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.
Since he's VERY POWERFUL, I'll be open to discussing any kind of nerfing you guys may think is needed.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
If the posts in his journal don't do it, then here's another one from a previous application:
And so it begins. Yet again, some foolhardy mongrel has summoned me to participate in a war that I have no interest in losing, claiming both ownership and superiority over my person without even realizing what the word means. Masters and Servants -- the world is certainly not so easily separated, and yet here we remain: forced into doing the bidding of those who cannot do it themselves, as if we, the Kings and Gods and Demons of their history were nothing more than puppets on strings.
Feh.
Will they succeed in destroying the world this time, I wonder? Or will some errant Mage yet again destroy the Grail in an effort to "save us all?"
[ A small, snide laugh ]
Are you out there now, Arturia? Iskander? Are you hiding from me? Are you biding your time? Will I be forced to have to seek you out yet again in a manner more befitting a peasants than a king?
[ He laughs again, though this time it is a bit more gentle. ]
Let us not be foolish, shall we? The war will be over far, far quicker if you accept your rightful places beneath my boot heels; come and face me so that we may be able to settle our differences as Kings!
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
They came at dawn, and, as prepared as his people were, Gilgamesh knew they stood no chance in the face of the inevitable. It was simply fact.
The sky is fire.
The earth is salt.
Smoke is burning his nostrils, and his City, oh, oh by the light of Ishtar, his City is burning.
Gilgamesh walks through the flames, and the death, and cries of his people as the enemies of Uruk take her walls and her streets, and the fools, ah, how the mongrels that are his people look at him! Always judging! Always expecting! Always seeing only what they want to see, even though his countenance offers neither hope nor salva…
Salvation? What do you know of salvation, God-king? I am going to die for your--
...Gilgamesh shakes his head, and banishes the thought of even thinking of such a word from his mind. Salvation simply did not exist in his world or any other, when the whims of mortal Gods could take away the one...Again, Gilgamesh shakes his head, and continues down his path, as resolute in his course of action as he will ever be. Uruk will fall without him, and his people…His people need him not only because they are weak, but because they are fools and he is the only one who deserves to control them.
"There he is, the King of Kings," his people whisper in hushed, careful tones when they see him, always averting their eyes, always groveling and preening and prostrating themselves before him, as if he were something more than the sum of his parts. As if, somehow, what Gilgamesh was, was something great and terrible to behold; his power, his godhood, and his station hanging about him like some kind of tangible banner of his own Greatness, beautiful and flowing and tied ever-so tightly about his neck.
( …So much like a noose, he thinks, and believes, when Enkindu is not near and neither wine or fire can keep the dark at bay. So much like a noose.)
"There he is, Our King of Kings! Our God-Slaughterer, Wall-Builder and the man First To Reject The Goddess Ishtar! There he is, Lord Gilgamesh of Uruk, our Conqueror of Conquerors and salvation in our darkest of hours!”
Gilgamesh hates his name; loathes his titles. He is no King. He is no Godling, or Tyant, or any of the thousands of names his people give him -- Gilgamesh is simply Gilgamesh. There is nothing else: he is human, and mortal, and so many other things that he cannot escape, and these things...His name embodies them; defines him. Every letter, every syllable is another iron band that chains him to the inevitable knowledge that he will always be what he was destined to be, that Uruk would, if not today, somehow inevitably fall, and that he will die, and that the world will move on without him.
“Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh!”
The walls of his city stand before him, as monolithic and foreboding as the small army gathering around him is not. The Goddess Ishtar is beside him, at the head of the crowd of his people, nubile and lithe and every other perfect thing that a Goddess should be, her mouth moving in her same, silent plea:
Be mine, Gilgamesh. Be mine, be mine, be mine. I will give you wonders. I will make you Legendary. Be mine, and I will give you the world and more.
He looks at her; looks at the walls of Uruk, and the millions besieging it; at the mere hundred behinds him. Babylon is falling, he thinks, and knows, and Ishtar agrees; whispers: Be mine, and you will live forever, as the first King of mankind should. Accept my offer, Gilgamesh!
(Babylon is falling.)
...It is a tempting offer. It is a terribly tempting offer, but the King of Kings is no fool. Tonight, he will die, his City will burn, and the fact that he turned down the benediction of a Goddess when his people needed it the most will live on forever.
Be mine!
(The King of Kings looks at Enkindu as the sword of the Gods pierces his neck, and his insides twist. This is not what it meant to be "Great", and "Powerful.", and he knows it.)
"No, Goddess. I will not."
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
None!