I do not seek power in any formal sense, if that is what you suppose. Tch... besides, if I have any role, at present, it is as the Chief Financial Advisor among the Otherworlders.
[ Appointed by himself, but someone has to don the mantle!! ]
Yet, my nature is... as it is. I cannot be other than what I am. To guide humanity, to observe their progress through the eons -- it is for that reason I came into existence.
[ Doesn't Lucy understand? Out of everyone here, Gilgamesh thinks she might be capable of comprehending him. But perhaps it is difficult, if her world is as different as it seems to be. ]
My official title at any moment is of no consequence. It is my nature, my internal state. I cannot be a commoner. In my life, collecting all the world's treasures, it is something like breathing to me. An activity I engage in naturally, without intention or thought. It is the same with accumulating wealth, or taking responsibility in the manner you speak of. If Magisteria is to be a place I think of as my domain, then its fate falls to me.
Think of it this way, Lucy. If indeed evil comes to Magisteria, then we do not bear the lives of a few people on our shoulders. We bear the lives of the whole human race. That makes it easier, doesn’t it? Whatever may happen, the instant you fail all those who would condemn you for it have been eliminated. You can take pleasure in battle and fail without fear.
To take on the burden of all things is essentially to face the world one-on-one. There is nothing to fear. Against all the lives in the world, you may become all its evils, it doesn’t matter. The only one who can punish you is you yourself.
[ #GilgameshPhilosophy. ]
Perhaps you think you are not yet ready to face All the World's Evils, yet such has been my journey from the beginning. With me by your side, you shall not lose, whatever we may face.
Be pleased, there is not another whom I would say such words to, aside from the one who would be worthy to be my Master.
[ Which he's ... tentatively, somewhat in the market for, in this world. An unclaimed heroic spirit, but not just any, at that. ]
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I do not seek power in any formal sense, if that is what you suppose. Tch... besides, if I have any role, at present, it is as the Chief Financial Advisor among the Otherworlders.
[ Appointed by himself, but someone has to don the mantle!! ]
Yet, my nature is... as it is. I cannot be other than what I am. To guide humanity, to observe their progress through the eons -- it is for that reason I came into existence.
[ Doesn't Lucy understand? Out of everyone here, Gilgamesh thinks she might be capable of comprehending him. But perhaps it is difficult, if her world is as different as it seems to be. ]
My official title at any moment is of no consequence. It is my nature, my internal state. I cannot be a commoner. In my life, collecting all the world's treasures, it is something like breathing to me. An activity I engage in naturally, without intention or thought. It is the same with accumulating wealth, or taking responsibility in the manner you speak of. If Magisteria is to be a place I think of as my domain, then its fate falls to me.
Think of it this way, Lucy. If indeed evil comes to Magisteria, then we do not bear the lives of a few people on our shoulders. We bear the lives of the whole human race. That makes it easier, doesn’t it? Whatever may happen, the instant you fail all those who would condemn you for it have been eliminated. You can take pleasure in battle and fail without fear.
To take on the burden of all things is essentially to face the world one-on-one. There is nothing to fear. Against all the lives in the world, you may become all its evils, it doesn’t matter. The only one who can punish you is you yourself.
[ #GilgameshPhilosophy. ]
Perhaps you think you are not yet ready to face All the World's Evils, yet such has been my journey from the beginning. With me by your side, you shall not lose, whatever we may face.
Be pleased, there is not another whom I would say such words to, aside from the one who would be worthy to be my Master.
[ Which he's ... tentatively, somewhat in the market for, in this world. An unclaimed heroic spirit, but not just any, at that. ]