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rubycitymods) wrote2012-01-13 01:45 pm
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Ruby City does allow previous game history/CR to be brought over on a case by case basis. If you want to include this in your application please add additional sections for PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT and PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY beneath the Personality and Background/History sections.
In these additional sections we would like to see a brief outline of your character's previous game history and how it potentially impacted on and altered their canon personality.
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Name: Gilgamesh
Canon: Fate/Zero
Age: Hundreds. Never specified.
Timeline: Just when he gets the grail mud dumped on him/Episode 25.
If playing another character from the same canon, how will you deal with this?: n/a
How will you handle their interactions without playercesting? n/a
Personality:
How else would one describe someone who has proclaimed themselves the “ruler of everything between the heavens and earth?” Gilgamesh possesses both the overwhelming pride and staggering ego fuelled by centuries of self-righteous rule and unopposed tyranny, which is detailed in the epic his character is based off of. He is by all rights a divine king (two thirds god, one third man), even if his kingdom and his people have long since crumbled to dust, and to not know him is to know death. His ego is so enormous that at one point in the series he was doused in All the World’s Evil (the mud from the Holy Grail, at the end of the Fourth War), but rather than be corrupted and controlled by it he was given a physical incarnation and was able to resist the effects of it on his mind. He then went on to claim that someone would need “at least three times that amount” before it could even begin to affect him.
The role of Master and Servant isn’t of any significance to him. He even states early on to his Master, Tohsaka Tokiomi, that if there is nothing of value to be found in this world he will make him pay dearly for summoning him. Throughout the series Tokiomi is seen practically groveling to keep Gilgamesh happy, and more than once Gilgamesh has outright refused to respond to his orders in favor of following his own agenda. Their relationship is such that Tokiomi takes care to tread very carefully so as to keep his relationship with the King of Heroes in good standing, knowing that if he should slip up Gilgamesh will not hesitate to kill him for his impudence. The one time Gilgamesh had a command seal used on him, his initial reaction was to show outrage and ire at the fact that Tokiomi dared to order him around. Though it was not a command that he could so easily disobey, it was still one that left a bad taste in his mouth and worked to permanently mar their relationship as Servant and Master.
As stubborn as he is, manipulating Gilgamesh -- while sometimes bearing fruit if one knows which of his vanities to appeal to (kingliness, superiority, etc) –is ineffective in the face of his self-righteousness and entitlement when he feels that his way is right, and what he wants to do is something that he will do. Honestly, he has no real reason to fight in the war, believing that to fight for something that is already his is a foolish notion. During the meeting of kings (the gathering between Rider, Saber and himself that was mostly a discussion of their goals for the Grail) he even proclaims as such and vows to prosecute any thief that would attempt to steal his treasure, since Grail is a valuable object and by logic it should rightfully be his. Despite all of Tokiomi’s attempts to persuade him to fight for him as a Servant should, Gilgamesh does not budge unless it is for his own amusement or to further his own interests. He will not be manipulated into something he does not want, and does not hesitate to let this be known via defying or outright threatening Tokiomi.
It is not as though he cannot learn to cooperate with a Master, though; shortly after Tokiomi’s death he contracted with Kirei Kotomine, and their alliance is strong enough to get them through the rest of the series. Gilgamesh ends up taking a personal interest in him even prior to their contract, for he cannot comprehend why Kirei would deny himself enjoyment and pleasure even when it is not brought about as a result of sinful methods. For Gilgamesh, who has lived his life taking what he wanted and doing what he wanted without consequence, who has sought the pleasures of the world and indulged in them (whether it is through fine drink, virgins, or anything else that brings him joy), it is a curious thing, indeed, and their consecutive encounters leading up to Tokiomi’s death are mostly spent discussing the philosophical nature of pleasure and the methods in which one can obtain it. This sort of thinking will come up again, when he discusses with Saber and Rider the methods in which they have ruled their respective countries, but more notably with Saber when he openly mocks her for her naïve idealism and hopeless martyrdom in regards to her reign as a king.
Despite these glaring flaws in his personality, Gilgamesh is one to give respect where respect is due – but only if it is earned. Everyone else is but a lowly mongrel to him, and he will not hesitate to address them as such. If he has acknowledged an opponent as being worthy enough for him to use his treasures on, then he will; an example of this is when he fought Rider, when he did not hesitate to use both Ea and Enkidu on him, which up till then he had not bothered to pull out at any time during the series. This is the first and only time they are glimpsed in Fate/Zero, as he did not bother to pull them out again until the events of Fate/Stay Night. Even when he killed Rider, he referred to him as King of Conquerors despite the fact that moments earlier he declared that there could not be two kings. When Rider’s retainer and Master, Waver Velvet, refused to fight him out of respect to Rider’s last command to live, Gilgamesh allowed him to keep his life. He commented on how splendid his loyalty was and advised Waver that he should never let it be tarnished.
If Gilgamesh himself is shown disrespect of any kind – if someone doesn’t even know his name -- he considers that an unforgivable offense and will not hesitate to kill them on the spot. It is his belief that the world is “unspeakably ugly”, and he considers the beings that inhabit it not even worthy of his rule. Initially, he does not take other’s claims to kingship seriously, believing himself to be the one and true ruler of the world despite its misgivings, and is so stubborn and arrogant in regards to his own superiority that he refuses to see anyone else as anything other than a pack of inferior beings – mongrels – not even worthy to look upon him. His acknowledgement of Saber as the “King of Knights” is practically mocking, and he even makes a comment to Rider that suggests his opinion of her is less than savory. He does not see her as a king on the same level as Rider and himself, but merely as a thing to be coveted (which is, unfortunately, an obsession that carries through Fate/Stay Night) and crushed beneath the weight of their foolish, idiotic ideals.
In short: Gilgamesh is a king, through and through. He does what he wants without any regards to the consequences, and believes – stubbornly – that he is right in all things, since his rule is absolute. The world is his garden, and all the people within it are merely there to cater to the king.