Im not sure how people will take my opinion but I will give it anyways so if you want to understand gilgamesh please read my mini talk ^^ :
I think many of you need to understand that gilgamesh is a metaphor for human behavior and an example that was used for thousand of years .
read the epic of gilgamesh to understand gilgamesh better as a fictional character and historical and most importantly mythological, nasu or fate series didnt stray too far from his concept and thats why I like him.
The epic of gilgamesh in tldr talks about humanity and humans and their ability to change for the hetter despite being the worst of all. And this is basically gilgamesh, he started as a rapist an awful tyrant who thinks no one is above him which no one denies and stays with him till the end. Eventually the epic continues to show that gilgamesh started to notice how awful he was when enkidu was around sometimes all a human needs is to be called out is the message Eventually, after the death of enkidu gilgamesh realized that he is still human and he will eventually die and death terrified him most he goes on his famous adventure to gain immortality bcuz he alwys believed its the only way to stay alive. On the journey gilgamesh will figure out a lot of moral values and actually starts to figure out that his past actions were bad and thats literally was the goal
I will spare you the details so you can read it yourself, at the end of the story gilgamesh indeed gets the elixir of immortality. But he eventually lose it to a snake.
Gilgamesh will figure out soon that being "immortal " doesnt equal to being alive for a long time but being remembered and defined as a hero and a king is what going to make him immortal, eventually gilgamesh goes back to uruk rebuild it and becomes the better king for his people and matter of fact gilgamesh had a peaceful death and was loved till the end in short he redeemed himself.
Gilgamesh is a mythology and a story of human morals and development.
Now what I think the most with modern communities is they dont read historical and mythology with the standard of ancient civilization but with our current one, we are way too advanced and educated on morals than they were back in the time
This kind of epics IS what started defining moral compasses by telling people you can be better than you are. This is why gilgamesh lived for more than 4000 years bcuz its an example for the old civilization that you can start off bad and be better later. And honestly fate did best in that it portrayed him both ways as he is
No caster gilgamesh is not a diffrent gilgamesh he is the very same gilgamesh but older he is the king of uruk who came back and realized his flaws he never denied any of his wrongs and thats the best part of him he recognized what kind of man he wans and what he became and that what defines him as a human.
A human makes a mistake and get better
In our modern terms yes a lot of his " mistakes are unforgivable but again I need you to read it as a epic of 4000 years and not a story made in 2026.
Gilgamesh as a historical character is so so so much better when u read and try to understand the morals of it
And again nasu did his character best by showing all sides of this stupid mongrel through diffrent series
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aang no mató a ozai para no ir en contra de si mismo y la cultura de su pueblo que él representaba como el único sobreviviente, si lo hacía ozai ganaba al cumplir el genocidio de los nómadas aire, pero aang se mantiene fiel así mismo y le arrebata lo que más apreciaba: su poder