Gilturia

"Defying me until the very end, huh? But I shall forgive you. The most beatiful things are the ones you cannot obtain."

- Gilgamesh

Gilturia is the het ship between Gilgamesh and Artoria Pendragon from the Fate fandom.

Fate/Zero
Invited by Iskandar, Gilgamesh visits the castle of the Einzberns (the family that Artoria serves in the fourth Holy Grail War) for a dinner among the kings. Gilgamesh, despite his arrogance towards everyone, he offers the wine he brought to Artoria. Somehow, over the course of the war, in some unknown and unexplained way, Gilgamesh develops a peculiar obsession with Artoria. By the end, Gilgamesh and Saber are about to have the final fight which is going to decide the winner of the Fourth Holy Grail war, when Gilgamesh proposes to Saber, saying that in the spasm of disillusionment, she still stunning, and that she should stop fighting and marry him. Saber gets surprised by his words, and before she could refuse his request, he attacks her, says that she has no choice to marry him or not and they start to fight. Just after, Artoria's master - Kiritsugu Emiya - appears and uses his command seals to force Artoria to destroy the Holy Grail, ending the war with Saber “death”.

Fate/Stay Night: Fate Route
One night, while Artoria is fighting against Medea, the latter is suddenly attacked and brutally killed by a rain of Noble Phantasms from a new arrival - Gilgamesh. To her surprise, she recognises the mysterious eighth Servant as the Archer from the previous Holy Grail War, who leaves after vowing to claim Artoria when they meet again.

The Next day, Artoria and her master - Shirou Emiya - go on a date in an effort to make Artoria happy. They were on their way back from their encounter when they again met Gilgamesh, who starts talking about how the Holy Grail had just appeared in Fuyuki. Artoria questions Gilgamesh about his desire for the Holy Grail, and he replies that as he's told her earlier, he doesn't have a desire and that the only thing he really cares about is her, and that she's the only thing has been thinking during his time on Earth. Artoria prepares to use Excalibur against Gilgamesh, who draws his ultimate Noble Phantasm - the sword Ea. The two Noble Phantasms clash, and Artoria is easily defeated and gravely injured. Unconsciously projecting swords to heal his body, Shirou gets up to fight Gilgamesh again, projecting Caliburn. Gilgamesh, disgusted by the copy, draws its original, Merodach, and defeats Shirou yet again. However, Shirou continues to regenerate and gets back up, whilst confessing his feelings to Artoria. Then, to both his and Gilgamesh's surprise, he projects a mysterious object which, with Artoria's help, deflects Gilgamesh's attack back at him, damaging him and causing him to retreat. After the Fight, both Shirou and Artoria go home.

The next night, Shirou and Artoria proceed to Ryuudou Temple for the final battle, where the corrupted Holy Grail is being summoned by Gilgamesh's master - Kirei Kotomine. They confront their respective enemies; Artoria against Gilgamesh, and Shirou against Kirei. As they fight, Gilgamesh aims to force Artoria to drink the Grail's corrupted mud to gain a body as he did, so he can claim her as his own. Artoria resists his advances, and after seeing her determination, he decides to finally go all out and kill her with Ea at full power. Although Artoria is able to momentarily offset Enuma Elish with Excalibur despite being so exhausted she couldn't lift her sword or walk due to her legs not being even at one tenth of their original power, once Ea's turns reach their maximum speed, its light starts to mow down Excalibur. Artoria blocks Enuma Elish using the sheath Avalon, and then charges towards Gilgamesh before he can react, attacking him with a fully-charged point-blank Excalibur. Right before dying, Gilgamesh gently cups Artoria's face, says she is a very persistent woman, so he admits his defeat to her, and says it was fine that he was rejected, because as according to him, the most beautiful things are the unreachable ones.

Carnival Phantasm
In Saber at Work, Artoria gets a temporaly job at the Cafe Ahnenerbe to save money for a birthday present for Shirou. Gilgamesh finds out about it, and goes to the Cafe to get to be served by her. At first, she is mad to see him there, however, she needs to treat him with respect and patience, as he was a client. Gilgamesh asks waitress Artoria to bring a popular dish, and for her to smile, he smiles at her as well to demonstrate what he would like to see. Artoria gets angrier, and smirks at Gilgamesh, who is celebrating Artoria's unusual action.

Artoria went to sort out other things at the restaurant, and after a while, Gilgamesh calls her to pay his bill, and says that for his takeout, he'll want her. Saber becomes extremely angry with the last words uttered by Gilgamesh, and transforms into her Alter counterpart, who begins to judge Gilgamesh for not having even finished eating what he asked for. Artoria starts calling Gilgamesh an idiot for wasting food, while he questions who she thinks he is to treat him this way, and she replies that she is a lolita gothic maid waitress. Then Gilgamesh apologizes and starts to flatter Artoria.

Fanon
Gilturia is one of the most popular shippings in the Fandom, being Fate's couple with the most fanfics published on AO3. Despite this, it is still frowned upon by a part of the Fate fandom, due to other pairings involving these characters rivaling Gilturia. On Saber's side, rivaling ShiSaber and on Gilgamesh's side, rivaling Gilkidu. The pairing can be considered cotroversial in the view of these people in the fandom, because some of the Gilgamesh lines to Saber can be considered sexual harassment.

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