#gilmiya

One thing that's canonically establish about Gilgamesh and Emiya is how Gil despises Emiya's practice of creating fakes from original treasures which he also owns, calling him Faker in disdainful manner. And I guess that's it. But it always bothers me that this one thing is left unexplored between them, which is Gil's whole reasoning in attempting to release All The World's Evil to the world, to let the hell loose and allow the natural selection process run its course because he hates the current modern society for being weak and for each individual lacking value of their own.

Meanwhile Emiya is someone who, as stated by Nasu, was born in the wrong part of history. Were he born in the age where heroes were created and heroic life flourish, he would've successfully lived the way he desired as a hero. But because he was born in modern era, his heroism and altruism stood out as strange, his hardline ideals alienated him, and he was shunned for it, leading to his death. He would've been the kind of human that Gil would respect among the people of modern society, yet it never came up. And then they made Gil inexplicably 'respects' Ritsuka who lacks any meaningful writing devoted to build them up in any way resembling an actual character, let alone an interesting one, sure thing nasu

Gil (theoritically) appreciates people like Emiya who chose a hard, tumultuous, heroic life among people living in modern world he deemed as weak and seemingly live without having to embody any meaning of their own, and the whole Gilgamesh owning every treasure in the world including weapons and Emiya whittling his existence down into a sword, a tool, a weapon, it writes itself. A weapon-slash-treasure belonging to Alaya, and a king with a bold claim towards every single treasure in the world desiring that of which belongs to the world itself, that's one hell of a setup to a (probably initially a bit nonconsensual bc Gil is an inconsiderate asshole and Emiya hates him) star-crossed love story.

Oh and don't forget Emiya's parallel to Enkidu who is a self-proclaimed weapon taking an appearance of a human, and how apparently he also creates weapons as a part of his ability, which is said to be the representation of humanity's craftmanship. Though I'll have to say, I can't see Enkidu bring more interesting dynamics with Gilgamesh compared to Emiya. He's undoubtedly very important to Gil, but their interaction feels... established, for the lack of better term. They're the bestest of friends, and we know Enkidu challenges Gil and equals him in a way no one could, and his death is a huge catalyst for Gil's journey but that's all there is to it. They're so close and their bond so unbreakable it also makes them static. Regardless of the circumstances around them, they'll never change towards each other. Part of it maybe because their budding process has already gone by, it has happened in the past, any conflict that might have existed between them has been resolved. The most interesting they could've been was when Enkidu has already long since died and it's never been Enkidu to begin with.

I admit it might just be me being hyperfocused on Emiya, which I can't do anything about, but I guess it comes down to personal interest, and gilkidu isn't really a dynamics that interests me.

These are the how interesting Gilgamesh and Emiya pair could be and how they theoritically could bring the best and worst out of each other to explore their character depth which is disappointing it isn't explored anywhere it seems.... Why aren't you seeing this Nasuuuu *shake fist towards the cloud*