Gilturia

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

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

Fate/Zero
Invited by Rider, 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 series, in some unknown and unexplained way, Gilgamesh develops a peculiar obsession with Artoria. By the ending of Fate/Zero, 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, Kiritsugu - the master of Saber - appears and uses his seals of command to force Artoria to destroy the Holy Grail, and the war ended with Saber “dying”.

Fate/Stay Night: Fate Route
Saber was having a fight with Caster, when Caster, is suddenly attacked, and brutally killed by a rain of Noble Phantasms from a new arrival - Gilgamesh. To her surprise, Saber recognises the mysterious eighth Servant as the Archer from the previous Holy Grail War, who leaves after vowing to claim Saber when they meet again.

The Next day, Artoria and Shirou - the master of Saber in the Fifth Holy Grail War - took Saber in a date in an effort to make her happy. Artoria and Shirou 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 Saber earlier, he doesn't have a desire and that the only thing he really cares about is Saber, and that she's the only thing has been thinking during his time on Earth. Saber prepares to use Excalibur against Gilgamesh, who draws his ultimate Noble Phantasm - the sword Ea. The two Noble Phantasms clash, and Saber 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 Saber. Then, to both his and Gilgamesh's surprise, he projects a mysterious object which, with Saber's help, deflects Gilgamesh's attack back at him, damaging him and causing him to retreat. After the Fight, both Shirou and Saber go home.

The next day, Shirou and Saber proceed to Ryuudou Temple for the final battle, where the corrupted Holy Grail is being summoned. They confront their respective enemies; Saber against Gilgamesh, and Shirou against Kirei. As they fight, Gilgamesh aims to force Saber to drink the Grail's mud to gain a body as he did, so he can claim her as his own. Saber resists his advances, and after seeing her determination, he decides to finally go all out and kill her with Ea at full power. Although Saber 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. Saber blocks Enuma Elish, and she 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 Carnival Phantasm - Fate's comedy Spin-off -, Saber gets a temporaly job in a Maid Cafe to save money for a birthday present to her master. Gilgamesh founds out about it, and goes to the Cafe to get to be served by Artoria. 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 Saber 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 his Alter or Dark version, who begins to judge Gilgamesh for not having even finished eating what he asked for. Artoria starts calling Gilgamesh an idiot for wasting food, 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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