Gilgamesh (ギルガメッシュ, Girugamesshu), also known as Archer (アーチャー, Āchā), is the Archer-class Servant of Tokiomi Tohsaka in the Fourth Holy Grail War of Fate/Zero. Saber, who would take her sword in any condition whatsoever and Archer who would fight using a strategy of victory. He does not to answer as to why he did not block an attack he should have been able to easily block, and it is possible he does not know the answer. In one of the loops, he also wears black bow gloves. Although classified under the Archer class, he was not a swordsman nor an archer in life, but a magus at his core relying on his one spell, Unlimited Blade Works, to fight. Recognizing Illya as the vessel of the Holy Grail as well as her hybrid parentage, Gilgamesh tells her to hurry and become the fifth.
Rin then uses a Command Seal to order Archer to never attack Shirou.
The reason that he favored isolation is that he chose that path and needed to advance down it alone. Dying would mean abandoning his role, his kingship, because he had determined to be the observer and adjudicator of the people. Summary: And again, Nasu pointed out on his blog that it meant the very start of the prologue was from Archer's POV and he was surprised nobody got it.
Utilizing Broken Phantasms requires for the destruction of a Noble Phantasm, so it is not something able to be utilized by a normal Servant without sacrificing their strength. He smiled at his accomplishment upon returning above ground, believing that he could overthrow death and avenge his friend. Pagination
He is capable of freely controlling it, allowing him to briefly descend to the ground before quickly returning to the air shortly after. Gilgamesh allows him to murder his former mentor and forms a contract with Kirei afterward.
He lives by the ideal that later became Although he was created for a specific purpose, he did not feel contempt for being artificially manufactured life for the sake of being used by the gods, and although his every cell was designed before birth, he was born from her mother's womb like a normal human; therefore, he was both "born" and "created" at the same time.
He doesn't have a wish, but he cannot allow people to rob his treasury as a matter of principles. Which he did all the while protecting Illya and Shirou. In Rin's ending, Rin sealed the Holy Grail and transformed Archer into a smaller scale of himself. As his dignity cannot be yielded, such weaknesses "kind of balance out" with the firepower of the other participants of the Fourth Holy Grail War when he could simply end it in one night should he wish it.He normally does not care about his attire in battle while playing, but claims there are some restrictions for a serious, dignified battle.
Unable to put words to his state of mind at the time, there was some part of him that was hopeful even though he declared that there was no need of immortality modeled on the gods. It is normally impossible for correctness and affirmations to exist with the cursed vortex of hatred because all has determined that everything is ugly and hateful, so the words "yes" and "that is right" appearing within is an anomaly. The skin shed by the first snake in the world in ancient times was later fossilized and remained in existence for countless eons before being used as a catalyst by Gilgamesh is a dignified man with golden hair standing up like a blazing flame. Shirou and Archer soon get into a quarrel over Shirou's ideals, and Archer attacks him but is stopped by Saber and Assassin. He is described as handsome with an elegant face, and his eyes, crimson like blood, are visibly not those of a human and give off a mysterious radiance that makes people wither.
When Kirei orders Ultimately, he is killed in a climatic battle with Saber at the Bazett decides to take action, charging towards it only to be gouged by many weapons from the Gate of Babylon.