i'm here to end your life by requesting meta/hc thoughts on emiya shirou with gilgamesh as a servant.
you just want me to indulge you personally. i am okay with this.
so shirou as a character is very... well, he’s the hero and thus possesses heroic traits that gilgamesh just being... a normal person i guess, would be able to recognise as “typically heroic.” eg. loyalty, bravery, chivalrous ( in some regards ), wanting to overcome evils and all that good, protag shit heroes usually are. not to say gilgamesh isn’t any of those things himself ( he’s brave, overcame evils in the epic ) but shirou is kind of almost exaggerating those traits. i think that’s an important distinction to make right off, that whilst both of them are “heroes” they are different kinds of heroes and shirou is very very different in terms of ideology and belief when it comes to a gilgamesh comparison.
i would feel very sorry for shirou to summon gilgamesh as a servant because, whilst gilgamesh is very strong and omnipotent, he also has his own goals which differ to those of shirou’s which would probably be... tedious when compared to the king of heroes’ own. i think a lot of people would assume gil would purposely make life harder for shirou, that he’d stagger the chance of shirou winning and then turn it around last minute. essentially making it a game and making shirou work for a victory. i feel like, whilst that might happen once, it wouldn’t be a consistent thing within their master/servant relationship. instead, i feel like gilgamesh might impart wisdom with a sort of, condescending tone. he might find it amusing to listen to shirou ramble on as he does, but find it rather easy to just lie back and let his master worry over him ( worry, err as in serving him, i suppose haha. more wine for you, mister king of heroes? ) ultimately shirou isn’t that interesting to gilgamesh, not as interesting as he would be when stretched to his limits and doing something “””heroic””” eg. self sacrificing. that might be entertaining enough, but for the most part he’d just leave shirou alone, literally. i imagine he’d just disappear leaving shirou to panic and then only returning when he’s close to being impaled by another servant. he’s not there to serve, but to have his time occupied.
though, gil wouldn’t be too happy about being summoned by shirou, as it’s likely to be an accident and undeserving ( not that anyone really DESERVES him but, eh, you know ) with shirou not being prepared at all to house someone like gilgamesh let alone use him effectively. he’s out of his depths with gilgamesh and whilst gil would probably use that to his advantage to play either subtly play shirou into his own game or just leave him to own devices, he’d rather have someone who isn’t so lowly as his master, for appearances and convenience sake.
god, imagine an h-scene for gilgamesh and shirou.
so yeah my thoughts would ultimately be, it would be a shit time for shirou maybe, but not necessarily. gilgamesh might just carry him through it with amusement or he could purposely make it hellish really. i think it really depends on how shirou talks to him, what he does in this version etc. those displays of heroism might just keep him alive, despite them being things gilgamesh finds more tedious than heroic in his sense. it’s quite interesting to think about, two heroes of really differing mindsets though tbh even comparing them as heroes seems unfair since gilgamesh is considered more a villain in f/sn than he is a hero by the same definition. gilgamesh can at least recognise the traits of a good person, even if he doesn’t agree or like them. it’s those traits that make a person do stupid things. stupid things often funny.
idk mandy, it would be wild. wild and, fun. for gil.