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throwmoreswords) wrote2023-04-23 04:00 pm
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Player Name: Jackals
Contact: tothejackals#005
Invited by: you let me in before i'm your problem now
Other Characters: Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Character Name: Gilgamesh
Canon: Fate/Grand Order
Canon History: should I link the wikipedia for the Epic too
Canon Personality: wew lads ok
-arrogant, cruel, tyrannical, manipulative
So just to ball of Gilgamesh's worst tendencies into one slot or we'd be here all day; Gilgamesh is the first hero, but that doesn't necessarily make him a good person. Granted, he thinks he's a good person, so that's why his D'n'D alignment on Fate/'s 'it's an RPG!' VN-sight comes up as Chaotic Good despite all the shit he pulls, but he's not necessarily a nice person. He was a tyrant king in life, grinding his people down and using them as he saw fit until he was humbled and eventually journeyed to chase and fail to find immortality. He's powerful and has no problem flaunting it or using people that are lesser than him (which is everyone) in order to find his own amusement. He is a mean, mean man when he wants to be, and he usually wants to be.
-lonely
Since Gilgamesh is the result of a magical contract between his father and the gods that ended up being 2/3rds god and 1/3rd human, he is wholly unlike everyone else in the world, humans and gods alike, so he ended up incredibly distant from everyone. He was a pleasant child, but years of watching people come to him with their wants and needs, wanting his resources and wealth--made him bitter and arrogant, and so he came to the conclusion that he was meant to sit apart from gods and humanity, refusing to act as the gods' chain to humanity, and positioning himself as an arbiter of mankind, and impartial judge who was beyond everyone in his judgement. This makes for a very lonely, solitary life, until a manic-pixie dream homunculus comes and bodies you based on the prayers your subjects raised up to the gods so you'd stop being a dick to them.
+pleasure-seeking (+hoarder)
So what do you do when you don't form meaningful connections with people? You seek things to fill the hole left behind. Gilgamesh collects all things of worth in the world--weapons, power, gold, magic objects, and he seeks unique experiences to fill his time and entertain himself with. Sometimes you goad a precariously balanced psychopath-in-hiding into full on snapping so the dude unlocks his murder-fantasies and you can have a giggle about him going absolutely bugnuts, betraying his mentor, and eventually making an orphan basement. It's all good as long as the king finds some value in what happened.
+loyal
Despite all of that terrible shit mentioned about, there is something to be said about a Gilgamesh who's found a proper master--which is to say, a Master who's subservient enough that their own ego and ambitions don't choke Gilgamesh, bore him, or piss him off, while also having enough ambition that they're interesting enough to follow. If he's come across someone he likes, he's terribly loyal to them--Enkidu is still the only being he calls friend, even now, and he sacrificed much of his personal wealth in order to chase a certain Master to the other side of the moon in order to see them safe. He wants to throw a rager of a party for Chaldea's master and gets pissy when you don't give him a week to set up. He can be very funny and frank and outlandish in the wild shit he says and thinks, he just... has to be with the right people that don't set him off down his Bad Route.
+loves humanity
Gilgamesh loves humanity. He doesn't care or love individual humans, certain notable people aside, but he does love the potential of humanity to create, to express themselves, to try to rise to their ambitions only to fail--it's admirable for someone who sees himself as an absolute, unchanging no matter the circumstances for good or ill. He also has a soft spot for children.
-hates humanity
... but he also thinks humanity as a whole are vermin and has no problem trying to eradicate them from his garden when he thinks they've maligned it. People are expendable and come back with enough time.
-holding the idiot ball
Gilgamesh's biggest controlling factor that keeps him from being an unstoppable juggernaut when he shows up is that he is so arrogant, he refuses to acknowledge that anyone can be a threat to him until they've already shot him in the forehead and cut some of his limbs off. Man's hubris makes him stupid. He would step onto a minefield simply because it was there, and because as king, he could.
AU Name: He goes by "Gil" and you will respect that. The family name is probably long and cumbersome.
AU Birthday: August 1st. bitch feels like a Leo.
AU History: For the most part, Gil's life up until now has been almost... mundane. Obnoxiously so. There's nothing interesting about being born to wealthy parents who were distant and used their money to dote on and raise their son, a by all accounts charismatic young man who wasn't scholar material, but was intelligent enough to get excellent grades, athletic enough to do well in sports, and generally be a golden boy... when he applied himself. It's almost boring to say, but Gil was a lonely, frustrated child who turned inward, polite enough and generous enough with his resources to be 'liked' by people but never connected to them, internalizing his 'friendships' the same way most people would think of feeding koi in a pond from a quarter feeder.
He turned a inwardly lonely but outwardly idyllic childhood into a passable attempt through higher education and business school, and when he graduated with honors enough that his family looked upon him very favorably, his mother and father gave him enough money to start the kind of business that stupid tech websites interview the hot young CEO about to find out about how he started from nothing with nothing but his own grit, ingenuity, and a cash injection from his oil baron father. Gil used his ability to read people to figure out what they wanted from him so he could perform accordingly to read markets, and his little startup blossomed into a behemoth of an umbrella corporation that was very good at acquiring other businesses, unafraid to capitalize on new trends and stick his hands into new, interesting pies, usually coming out ahead as he turned his Gardens of Babylon into a corporation that was actually dozens of businesses in a trench coat.
Now a self-made man with more money than sense, Gil turned his attentions to once again, trying to find something interesting. Art, antiques, travel, 'culture experiences', expensive technology, cryptocurrency, startup businesses, beautiful people, Gil ran through everything rich people with more money than sense were supposed to go through in order to try and find something, anything to really care about.
It wasn't until he visited a museum with some dead king's shiny things on display that Gil had his first brush with the strange--he went from exhibit to exhibit with his arm candy, making pithy comments as they looked at old tapestries and extravagant bits of metalwork, pausing to look at a strange golden object in a place of prominence in the middle of the exhibit.
'The King's Key'.
It was golden and an odd, geometric device; it was the ugliest thing by far in the collection, and Gil got himself thrown out of the exhibition because he could not stop himself from crossing the velvet rope to pick it up, finding himself in another time, another place, another mind as he held a spinning, improbable sword, all the power of the cosmos in his fingers as he looked out across a desert at an advancing army, his arm swung up to rewrite the universe to his will--
And that's how Gil was gently encouraged to not make use of his patron's subscription to museum for a few months.
Since then, Gil's been looking for something that makes him feel like that ugly lump of metal did--and the world around him has grown very strange indeed. He's noticed things he's never noticed before; strange people, strange occurrences, things that should alarm him and have him spending some of his money on psychiatric help... if only it weren't the most exciting thing to happen to him in what feels like the entirety of his life. He tried to find more answers and information among his favorite antiques dealers and old-stuff-havers, only to find that at least one of them had, like an asshole, moved without telling him, and so Gil followed him to an odd city by the name of Kaisou, and, well.
Sometimes you wake up and your eyes are red. It's been an experience so far.
AU Personality Differences: A lot of the more outright violent and vicious parts of Gil's personality are tamped down--he's not an immortal godking who can just lord over people, so he's had to learn how to lean more on being manipulative and using his social power and monetary influence to get what he wants. He's still kind of a catty bitch and will absolutely go for the throat on people, but he's a lot more King-in-his-Reigning-Days Caster than he is Tyrannical Young Archer, though that's always simmering just below the surface because he's still a lonely asshole with no friends and minimal patience for stuff That Are Not About Him or Isn't Interesting to Him because he has Main Character Syndrome in his own mind.
Element: N/A
Purchased Powers:
+ Constant Luck (4 points)
+ Red eyes with a serpentine pupil (1 point)
+ Red geometric tattoo bullshit on his chest (1 point)
Contact: tothejackals#005
Invited by: you let me in before i'm your problem now
Other Characters: Nicholas D. Wolfwood
Character Name: Gilgamesh
Canon: Fate/Grand Order
Canon History: should I link the wikipedia for the Epic too
Canon Personality: wew lads ok
-arrogant, cruel, tyrannical, manipulative
So just to ball of Gilgamesh's worst tendencies into one slot or we'd be here all day; Gilgamesh is the first hero, but that doesn't necessarily make him a good person. Granted, he thinks he's a good person, so that's why his D'n'D alignment on Fate/'s 'it's an RPG!' VN-sight comes up as Chaotic Good despite all the shit he pulls, but he's not necessarily a nice person. He was a tyrant king in life, grinding his people down and using them as he saw fit until he was humbled and eventually journeyed to chase and fail to find immortality. He's powerful and has no problem flaunting it or using people that are lesser than him (which is everyone) in order to find his own amusement. He is a mean, mean man when he wants to be, and he usually wants to be.
-lonely
Since Gilgamesh is the result of a magical contract between his father and the gods that ended up being 2/3rds god and 1/3rd human, he is wholly unlike everyone else in the world, humans and gods alike, so he ended up incredibly distant from everyone. He was a pleasant child, but years of watching people come to him with their wants and needs, wanting his resources and wealth--made him bitter and arrogant, and so he came to the conclusion that he was meant to sit apart from gods and humanity, refusing to act as the gods' chain to humanity, and positioning himself as an arbiter of mankind, and impartial judge who was beyond everyone in his judgement. This makes for a very lonely, solitary life, until a manic-pixie dream homunculus comes and bodies you based on the prayers your subjects raised up to the gods so you'd stop being a dick to them.
+pleasure-seeking (+hoarder)
So what do you do when you don't form meaningful connections with people? You seek things to fill the hole left behind. Gilgamesh collects all things of worth in the world--weapons, power, gold, magic objects, and he seeks unique experiences to fill his time and entertain himself with. Sometimes you goad a precariously balanced psychopath-in-hiding into full on snapping so the dude unlocks his murder-fantasies and you can have a giggle about him going absolutely bugnuts, betraying his mentor, and eventually making an orphan basement. It's all good as long as the king finds some value in what happened.
+loyal
Despite all of that terrible shit mentioned about, there is something to be said about a Gilgamesh who's found a proper master--which is to say, a Master who's subservient enough that their own ego and ambitions don't choke Gilgamesh, bore him, or piss him off, while also having enough ambition that they're interesting enough to follow. If he's come across someone he likes, he's terribly loyal to them--Enkidu is still the only being he calls friend, even now, and he sacrificed much of his personal wealth in order to chase a certain Master to the other side of the moon in order to see them safe. He wants to throw a rager of a party for Chaldea's master and gets pissy when you don't give him a week to set up. He can be very funny and frank and outlandish in the wild shit he says and thinks, he just... has to be with the right people that don't set him off down his Bad Route.
+loves humanity
Gilgamesh loves humanity. He doesn't care or love individual humans, certain notable people aside, but he does love the potential of humanity to create, to express themselves, to try to rise to their ambitions only to fail--it's admirable for someone who sees himself as an absolute, unchanging no matter the circumstances for good or ill. He also has a soft spot for children.
-hates humanity
... but he also thinks humanity as a whole are vermin and has no problem trying to eradicate them from his garden when he thinks they've maligned it. People are expendable and come back with enough time.
-holding the idiot ball
Gilgamesh's biggest controlling factor that keeps him from being an unstoppable juggernaut when he shows up is that he is so arrogant, he refuses to acknowledge that anyone can be a threat to him until they've already shot him in the forehead and cut some of his limbs off. Man's hubris makes him stupid. He would step onto a minefield simply because it was there, and because as king, he could.
AU Name: He goes by "Gil" and you will respect that. The family name is probably long and cumbersome.
AU Birthday: August 1st. bitch feels like a Leo.
AU History: For the most part, Gil's life up until now has been almost... mundane. Obnoxiously so. There's nothing interesting about being born to wealthy parents who were distant and used their money to dote on and raise their son, a by all accounts charismatic young man who wasn't scholar material, but was intelligent enough to get excellent grades, athletic enough to do well in sports, and generally be a golden boy... when he applied himself. It's almost boring to say, but Gil was a lonely, frustrated child who turned inward, polite enough and generous enough with his resources to be 'liked' by people but never connected to them, internalizing his 'friendships' the same way most people would think of feeding koi in a pond from a quarter feeder.
He turned a inwardly lonely but outwardly idyllic childhood into a passable attempt through higher education and business school, and when he graduated with honors enough that his family looked upon him very favorably, his mother and father gave him enough money to start the kind of business that stupid tech websites interview the hot young CEO about to find out about how he started from nothing with nothing but his own grit, ingenuity, and a cash injection from his oil baron father. Gil used his ability to read people to figure out what they wanted from him so he could perform accordingly to read markets, and his little startup blossomed into a behemoth of an umbrella corporation that was very good at acquiring other businesses, unafraid to capitalize on new trends and stick his hands into new, interesting pies, usually coming out ahead as he turned his Gardens of Babylon into a corporation that was actually dozens of businesses in a trench coat.
Now a self-made man with more money than sense, Gil turned his attentions to once again, trying to find something interesting. Art, antiques, travel, 'culture experiences', expensive technology, cryptocurrency, startup businesses, beautiful people, Gil ran through everything rich people with more money than sense were supposed to go through in order to try and find something, anything to really care about.
It wasn't until he visited a museum with some dead king's shiny things on display that Gil had his first brush with the strange--he went from exhibit to exhibit with his arm candy, making pithy comments as they looked at old tapestries and extravagant bits of metalwork, pausing to look at a strange golden object in a place of prominence in the middle of the exhibit.
'The King's Key'.
It was golden and an odd, geometric device; it was the ugliest thing by far in the collection, and Gil got himself thrown out of the exhibition because he could not stop himself from crossing the velvet rope to pick it up, finding himself in another time, another place, another mind as he held a spinning, improbable sword, all the power of the cosmos in his fingers as he looked out across a desert at an advancing army, his arm swung up to rewrite the universe to his will--
And that's how Gil was gently encouraged to not make use of his patron's subscription to museum for a few months.
Since then, Gil's been looking for something that makes him feel like that ugly lump of metal did--and the world around him has grown very strange indeed. He's noticed things he's never noticed before; strange people, strange occurrences, things that should alarm him and have him spending some of his money on psychiatric help... if only it weren't the most exciting thing to happen to him in what feels like the entirety of his life. He tried to find more answers and information among his favorite antiques dealers and old-stuff-havers, only to find that at least one of them had, like an asshole, moved without telling him, and so Gil followed him to an odd city by the name of Kaisou, and, well.
Sometimes you wake up and your eyes are red. It's been an experience so far.
AU Personality Differences: A lot of the more outright violent and vicious parts of Gil's personality are tamped down--he's not an immortal godking who can just lord over people, so he's had to learn how to lean more on being manipulative and using his social power and monetary influence to get what he wants. He's still kind of a catty bitch and will absolutely go for the throat on people, but he's a lot more King-in-his-Reigning-Days Caster than he is Tyrannical Young Archer, though that's always simmering just below the surface because he's still a lonely asshole with no friends and minimal patience for stuff That Are Not About Him or Isn't Interesting to Him because he has Main Character Syndrome in his own mind.
Element: N/A
Purchased Powers:
+ Constant Luck (4 points)
+ Red eyes with a serpentine pupil (1 point)
+ Red geometric tattoo bullshit on his chest (1 point)