In all fairness, Illya isn't actually a child; she only acts that way due to her emotional immaturity and to exploit her appearance by getting others to think of her as "just a child". In reality she's older than Shirou, Sakura or Rin (at least 18), and with Gilgamesh's super-human perceptiveness he'd likely know that. Another important factor to consider is she's the Lesser Grail, and thus doomed to die anyway on top of him needing her death to further his own plans (doesn't excuse him literally torturing her though).
A better example would be Gilgamesh's relationship with Teene Cherke, his Master in Fate/Strange Fake. She is a young girl and he's fairly kind towards her (kind of like how a noble who actually believes in noblesse oblige would act with a competent child servant), even occasionally throwing a gift or two her way while doing his own thing. Though, again, to be fair, Teene is very good at sucking up to him. She fully understands she has no real control over him, and the best she can do is plead for his assistance regarding the Holy Grail War, and pray he's in a benevolent mood (it helps that Enkidu was summoned in that war, so Gilgamesh is feeling pretty generous by his standards).
In all fairness, Illya isn't actually a child; she only acts that way due to her emotional immaturity and to exploit her appearance by getting others to think of her as "just a child". In reality she's older than Shirou, Sakura or Rin (at least 18), and with Gilgamesh's super-human perceptiveness he'd likely know that. Another important factor to consider is she's the Lesser Grail, and thus doomed to die anyway on top of him needing her death to further his own plans (doesn't excuse him literally torturing her though).
A better example would be Gilgamesh's relationship with Teene Cherke, his Master in Fate/Strange Fake. She is a young girl and he's fairly kind towards her (kind of like how a noble who actually believes in noblesse oblige would act with a competent child servant), even occasionally throwing a gift or two her way while doing his own thing. Though, again, to be fair, Teene is very good at sucking up to him. She fully understands she has no real control over him, and the best she can do is plead for his assistance regarding the Holy Grail War, and pray he's in a benevolent mood (it helps that Enkidu was summoned in that war, so Gilgamesh is feeling pretty generous by his standards).
He was completely fine sucking the live out of the stock of orphans that Kotomine hide in his basement and the worst part was that they seemed still alive after 10 years... And technically none of the servants in this picture are children when you realise what "they" really are...
He was completely fine sucking the live out of the stock of orphans that Kotomine hide in his basement and the worst part was that they seemed still alive after 10 years... And technically none of the servants in this picture are children when you realise what "they" really are...
To be fair, he was in his "Humanity sucks and need to repent" mood when that happened. He was pretty kind to Nursery Rhyme and Alice during Fate/Extra CCC. In his own way.
He was completely fine sucking the live out of the stock of orphans that Kotomine hide in his basement and the worst part was that they seemed still alive after 10 years... And technically none of the servants in this picture are children when you realise what "they" really are...
During that time Gil was tainted by the pollution in the grail, so all his *quirks* were enhanced as well as the darker sides of his personality.
Normal Gil would *NEVER* do that. those children would have been his subjects, and he'd never harm his subjects.
....It's been 4 months and I just realize nobody actually check out that link I post.
I mean c'mon guys! It's really just a harmless scene of Gil and children XD
I guess that stuff with Illya really traumatize a lot of people huh?
Or they never actually played Hollow Ataraxia, and only knows Gil's character by his anime incarnation, where he's primarily in the "asshole antagonist" role.
Skribulous said: Or they never actually played Hollow Ataraxia, and only knows Gil's character by his anime incarnation, where he's primarily in the "asshole antagonist" role.
Also, you should know the score by now. Anime is "Easier" to watch than it is to read manga or visual novels. Especially light novels. Anime adaptions will never have the same level of background detailing as their original counterparts because time is always an issue. Even hard to do that when you have a 60 hour VN or a 13 volume(and probably still in continuation) light novel that is all of a sudden being condensed into only 13 episodes.
There are countless points of information in all the VNs that show Gil isn't that bad a guy but untill any of those things get a more mainstream adaption, it will go largely un-noticed.
Are we all skipping the fact that this may be Gil as a caster from Grand Order. Summoned as this class he is an older and more mature Gilgamesh considered the wisest ruler by his subjects.
Are we all skipping the fact that this may be Gil as a caster from Grand Order. Summoned as this class he is an older and more mature Gilgamesh considered the wisest ruler by his subjects.
This was made before Caster Gil was announced IIRC
What is this malaise?Hmm? Ah, right.It's kinda like that.WHAT IS THAT?I would!For example, there's a drug that gets you together with your mother forever,"And then, the mermaid princess got the appearance of a human."Hey, Mama. Why did the mermaid princess want to become human?But in exchange, you have to lose your fins and voice. Would you drink that?Furthermore, he narrates politely and is easy to understand from the children's point of view!
