Gilgamesh

**Gilgamesh** is an important character from the **Record of Tavern** verse. Constantly depressed nowadays, he used to be a heroic king of Mesopotamia, and the lover of Enkidu.

He takes part in the tournament between Aegis and Pagun, as a fighter for Pagun. He is confronted with Grant during the 10th round.

## Appearance

Gilgamesh is a rather old-looking but imposing king with white hair, a white beard, tanned skin and light blue eyes. He wears precious royal accessories such as a golden crown and a heavy necklace which probably stands for the Fertile Crescent, but he doesn't wear much clothes on his upper body. That allows to see his well-built body and muscles, which he takes a deep sense of honor from.

## Personality

His friend's death at the hands of the gods has tempered his mind, as he no longer fears death. Instead, his stoicism as a king comes from his inability to feel anything anymore, believing that in order to become a good king, he had to close off his emotions. His lack of any developed relationships at the current time, platonic or otherwise, means that very few people still around actually know what's going on his mind anymore, and it isn't like he puts himself out there. His reason for fighting in the tournament, especially, is currently a mystery.

## Background

Gilgamesh was an unfair and brutal king, hated by his masses for the first 22 years of his reign due to him imposing unfair laws and only partying as his solemn duty. This changed on the King's 23rd birthday when he was given a supposedly unbeatable monster, Enkidu, to defeat. Gilgamesh battled the monstrous man for months on months, neither side backing down and only exchanging hands for the duration of their lengthy fight, which ended in them befriending each other after earning a mutual respect for each other's powers, making a fool of the Gods' plan. This came to an end when Gilgamesh decided to break a goddess’ heart, and the godess retaliated by unleashing an unbeatable Bull, who could only be taken down by sarcifice, in this case it would include the sacrifice of Gilgamesh's friend Enkidu, and all Gilgamesh could do was watch in despair if he wanted to have a Kingdom remaining before his own death. It was the despair necessary to lead a country without issue. He did not go out and fight people anymore, he no longer partied, he became meaningless. He did his job, he acted as a king, but there was no magic in his eyes. He became… normal. Then the afterlife came. The meeting between Gilgamesh and Enkidu was like rediscovering your favorite song. Another three months of brawling, for old times sake. It made for a strange reunion, but a welcome one. After decades of feeling nothing, Gilgamesh had the power to feel once again. He had his one flame, he had his… corpse….The fallout of Ragnarok, and the slaughter of Gods thereafter, did not mean well for the constructs of the gods. They did not discriminate, and Enkidu counted as a god. While the man took down nine people with him, eventually, anybody would lose, and the cycle of despair started all over again. And now, Rather than seek a way to avoid the inevitable, the wizened king became something he never was before: Suicidal. For the first time in his life, Gilgamesh did not want to live anymore, and he had no idea how much of this was him becoming immature once more.

## Powers and abilities

### Main ability

* **Enkidu's Scars:** the knuckles on Gilgamesh' fists spent so much time scraping Enkidu's skin that they became divine weapons in their own right, and as Enkidu was made of clay, so too did Gilgamesh gain the powers of the earth. This gives him an earth-molding ability, able to carve weapons out of stone in an instant as well as set up traps for his opponent to fall into. But as for his knuckles going on the offensive, needless to say that the king can smash people's skeletons to bits with just a few punches, and they don't discriminate. Because Gilgamesh has bits of a godly construct permenantly burned into his skin, in addition to his two thirds divinity, he's one of the few humans that can injure divine beings without a volund.

### Secondary abilities

* **Primal boxing:** his barehanded fighting style. Before swords were in style, all you had was fists. While less refined than modern boxing, Gilgamesh's hand to hand combat is the strongest aspect about him.
* **Remarkable Stamina:** While not yet revealed in its greatest extent, it is known throughout Valhalla that Gilgamesh is immesurably hard to wear down.
* **Stone weaponry:** rather than wield his own weapons, Gilgamesh was such a powerful warrior because he could just grab anything off the ground and use it as a weapon.
* **Rightful Owner:** "anything off the ground" includes "anything I steal from my opponent".

## Trivia

* Gilgamesh is the only fighter in the tournament to come from an existing myth, similar to Record of Ragnarok proper.
* Gilgamesh's birthday does not lie on the Gregorian calendar, but rather the Jewish/Mesopotamian calendar. His birthday itself, the 10th of Tevet, is a fasting day in Judaism.
* According to his author, Gilgamesh has slowly become more and more inspired in personality by Yi Sang from the Korean game *Limbus Company*.