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Since the advent of the fate series, Gilgamesh has always been a popular male character - the strongest Servant, arrogant and arrogant personality, handsome middle two's remarks, and even a harmonically demonic laughter, It has brought countless fans. In the early days, fans mostly positioned him as a "charismatic villain", and those who tried to whitewash him were criticized by mainstream fans.
Because in the fate original book, Gilgamesh has absolutely no good qualities, especially in the fate line, he is a pure villain, causing countless disasters to the protagonist. No one doubts the charm of Jin Shining's character, but this charm never comes from this person's excellent quality, which is the unanimous consensus formed among the early fate fans.
However, with the successive advent of various subsequent works, especially in the seventh chapter of fgo, the portrayal of the old Gilgamesh has gradually become more controversial.
As the wise king, Gilgamesh has inherited all the advantages of Gilgamesh in the original book - his strength, his unrestrained demeanor as a king, and his absolute confidence in what he does. On this basis, the willful violence of the original novel was reduced, and the likable qualities such as responsibility and wisdom were added, and the profile image of him as the king, the protagonist and the people of Uruk was deeply portrayed. In the end, the scene of the virtuous king's sacrifice can be regarded as a model of hero shaping. Anyone who saw it couldn't help but shed tears, and then deeply fell in love with this character.
A character can have such a big change, and there is no obvious OOC in this change. Behind it, there must be a set of self-consistent logic of the creator. What I focus on analyzing here is the double-sidedness of the same person when facing different objects, which is a neat trick in the shaping of circular characters.
First of all, we can meditate on a sentence - a person's perspective on problems is inseparable from his background, origin, and the mindset formed by his life.
Then, let's remember an unwritten rule in the fate world - people before the age of gods, and people after the age of gods, are almost different creatures with the same shape.
If we travel back to ancient times, we will definitely not agree with the feudal omissions such as killing slaves, three obedience and four virtues. Based on this, we can further infer that a person living in a higher civilization looks down upon and hates a lower barbaric civilization. Although it is immoral, there are traces to follow, which is not surprising.
Although we have a thousand words to refute it, Gilgamesh sees modern man as I speak of it.
People usually have a habit of thinking, that is, civilization has been progressing, human beings have been growing, and history is forward rather than backward. This is why we feel that Gilgamesh's modeling is different from ordinary people. This difference is based on the worldview of Xingyue's works - civilization has regressed to some extent, and Gilgamesh, as a hero of his time, The king, after being summoned to this world, had a strong collision with the laws of modern times.
What he thinks is normal, we don't think it's normal.
We took it for granted, and he hated it.
The resulting villain, of course, is an enemy of all mankind, an absolute villain. Because all human beings in this world belong to this era, and he vetoes an era, it seems to us that he has vetoed human beings themselves.
But he could not have held such an attitude towards his contemporaries.
This is the fundamental reason for the difference between Xian Wang and "Er Flash". In our era, our home court, he is a guest. In his day, the positions were reversed, and it was us who became the guests. But as a "guest", Gudazi is different from Gilgamesh. His empathy ability covers all eras and all human beings. Because Guda is the protagonist, we also inherited her empathy ability, and through the bits and pieces in Uruk City, we regard ourselves as a part of the united Uruk City.
How can we, who have been assimilated in this way, not like or love the ruler who we trust with all our hearts? But after returning to God, we found that Winky is still the same Winky, and his essence has not changed. The reason why he behaved badly in the fate line is just based on his own position. For the "modern" us, he initiated a campaign against him. A fierce and irreconcilable counterattack.
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