#gilart

[xxnotinmylobbyxx]

“Help my sworn enemy keeps trying to convince me to join his throuple”

[fate-inspiration]

/zero kiss

This illustration was made from a base.*

I had this old sketch in my files, so I decided to give it some color and show it to you :)

[chiililisatoo]

GilArt Question

Why do Gilgamesh x Artoria shippers on Tumblr

Why has saber Artoria not responded to Gilgamesh as of yet canonically ?

She is not compatible with him

Author has not got a good opportunity

Author does not want them to get together for reasons

It adds to Gilgamesh's character if he keeps pursuing an unresponsive saber Arto

They will definitely be canon in an indefinite far off future

Artoria does not view herself as a woman and gil wants her as a woman

Artoria is not capable of being or feeling as a woman and gil wants her as a wom

Other : please state in the comments

Voting ended onOct 8, 2024

[gunrabba]

-Summer-

Finally have time to draw again

[akampana]

Yay welcome back!

12. Gilturia

I'm not sure how long ago this ask was, hahah hopefully you're still up for this. :)

Prompt: 12. "You are all I can think about"

Gilturia as requested, with a Fantasy AU twist. 1.1k words

...

“Let me.”

Before today, Arturia thought her feathers were a gift of freedom. Few creatures had the luxury of liberating themselves from the soil and tasting the breeze and feeling it under one’s wings. They had been an honor; something she wore with the pride of a king with his crown. 

Now, she saw them for what they truly were: a tether. 

The elf’s arms snaked around her gingerly, like she could break at the slightest disturbance. She could feel his heat everywhere they touched: the warmth of his lap, his hands between her shoulder blades, his cheek pressed onto her hair. Her wings felt like lead, drooping down beyond the couch to the floor as if they meant to ground her there. 

“I cannot. My oath–” 

She felt Gilgamesh’s jaw clench as his fingers brushed the thick, tight band locked around Arturia’s throat. The metal was seamless, fitted so exactly that even if he tried, he couldn’t slip a pinky under it without choking her. When they first met, she told him it was a symbol of loyalty. If it were, it wouldn’t need the small ring attached to the back. 

This…was a collar. 

Bitterness creased his brow. Thousands of years, he’d spent upon this realm. He lived through the years when the elves had not yet established themselves in the great forest, when their kind used to war with the duergar, when houses traded mortals in exchange for coin. He’d spent centuries abolishing the slave trade within his own people, inspiring the dismantling of the practice across the plane, and it was not enough. It never reached where she hailed from. 

A gasp escaped her lips as his fingers moved over her secondary scapulae, feeling where soft skin turned to feathers, where her kind branched off from that of the short-lived humans. It was unnatural, something no amount of evolution could have pushed a human to develop–more proof of the twisted circumstances that bound her to service. 

Arturia pulled back, but he prevented her escape, locking his arms behind her. 

“Gilgamesh.” Her fingers crumpled the fine fabric of his shirt. “You cannot have me. You know that.” 

The elf king responded by drawing her closer to him than before, pressing her to himself so tightly the beads in her garbs imprinted marks onto his skin.

“Is it you that rejects me, Arturia?” he whispered softly, his lips ghosting over her ear. “Or is it your god?”

The man felt goosebumps pepper her skin and she turned away, concealing her countenance. If she meant to hide from him, it was a futile effort. While she could no longer see his face, with his chest pressed to her ear, she could hear the confession he hadn't yet put into words, hammering away at a quickened pace. 

It was one of the few things she feared; that she denied. In the deepest depths of her heart, she hoped that his fascination for her and all his incessant pestering had been fuelled by disgust, or hatred, or something else. She hoped that elves were as shallow and self-important as their dwarven comrades initially made them out to be. But while the king that held her now had been vain, had been supercilious, had been wholly difficult to work with, he was also…more. 

Gilgamesh had sown doubt where she once had unwavering faith. He’d bitterly challenged her ideals when others stayed quiet, pointed out flaws she chose to ignore, spoken into existence words she chose to swallow. All throughout their journey and even now that it had reached its happy end, the metal ring around her neck grew heavier and heavier, as if it could sense her heart beginning to falter. Meanwhile, the elf king planted himself firmly by her side, seeing not her mission, but seeing her. 

It didn’t make sense. Those like her were born to serve their god. It was what they lived for. It was what they died for. They had no purpose other than what was laid out for them. She wasn’t built to feel anything other than what her god ordered. 

But Gilgamesh insisted, placing his pointy ears at center-stage for her attention, and it was that persistence that made her realize that there was a life beyond the words of her creator. Gilgamesh infuriated her, made her laugh, made her shed tears. He pushed her so hard that all the feelings she deemed unnecessary broke free of their confines, and she was forced to face the fact that she was more than her duty. 

“You do not want this. I am bound to his service–” 

He cupped her chin in his hand and lifted her head til his burning gaze met her watery one.

“That is not an answer.” 

He pressed his lips onto hers. 

Gilgamesh didn’t care for the divine and all their whims. The woman in his hands had never turned her sword on anyone or anything without cause. Every day, she insisted she was nothing but a tool; an instrument of her god’s will, but he knew that wasn’t true. 

“Don’t,” she protested weakly, feathers rustling as she pushed him away. “He won’t let you have me, Gil. I–”

He kissed her again, burying his fingers in her hair before her wings could take her from his embrace.

Arturia didn’t choose to be born a thrall, but she accepted that duty because she knew it would help people–people who didn’t deserve her, who would forever see her as an outsider because she was only half-mortal. Because she was born from the lust of their god’s supposedly perfect servants. Because she was an aberration. A mistake. 

“Damn your god,” he cursed, his whispers tickling the fair skin of her collarbones as he left his marks. “I care not what he wants. I want this. I want you.” 

“You cannot think that,” she objected, finding her hands had lost the strength to push the high elf away. His touch felt like fire, warm upon her skin in places she’d never been caressed. She thought she’d see her end without ever having known what it was like: to feel someone crave her, to feel someone lament as his mouth reached the band around her neck, to feel someone want more than anything to break her chains. 

But here this elf king was, selfishly claiming that which was owned by someone else. 

“You are all I can think about, Arturia,” he declared, sealing his truth as he claimed her lips once more. “Night and day, it is you. Always. It will always be you.”

His ruby eyes shone with nothing but the raw, excruciating truth: he loved her. More than anything, more than anyone, he loved her. 

The winged wonder cupped his face in both her hands, gently stroking her thumbs across his cheeks. Her heart pounded loudly against her chest. Her collar burned hot against her skin. Glowing gold tears welled up in her eyes. Did she want this? Could she want this? 

Could she? She asked, feeling herself lean in. 

Their lips had barely touched when her leash snapped taut. 

She was gone.

[borntobelime]

“”. A woman stepped out of the drift, tall and handsome, with dark eyes and darker hair. Her clothes were brightly dyed, cloaked in the myriad of autumn, a sharp contrast to the demure blues and grays of Artoria’s own wardrobe. Glass beads adorned both her neck and her wrists, trapped the outside sunlight and carried its reflection inside with her.

Once recovered from her surprise, Artoria spoke: “Greetings, Vivian. I appreciate your haste.” “”

Vivian from the fanfic We Three Kings

Written by nothing_is_beautiful_and_true

Plot : While her knights are out questing for the Holy Grail, Artoria stumbles across two gifts left behind by Merlin. If only she could figure out how to return them.

(Special thanks to @fate-inspiration for helping me a bit on the anatomy )

Here is also the lineart

[endortbc]

[ininsulaavalonia]

[-spectacular- art commissioned from supjeyk on Twitter. Please do not repost]

There were 2 main things I wanted for this artwork. supjeyk nailed both: 1. the vibe/aesthetic of a royal portrait, as befitting these 2 stupidly powerful and majestic kings;

2. their definitive image, as far as I'm concerned => hence the pick-and-choose fest in terms of designs, expressions etc.

I also wanna take the time to give a quick shout-out🙏 to @fate-inspiration, @endortbc, @akampana , @borntobelime, @xxxdreamingflowerxxx . You guys have been keeping the ship alive [on the Western side of the fandom] for years now, and I've been meaning to thank you for it - so thank you for all your super creative headcanons, hilarious shitposting, wonderful art and fics! For loving these 2, individually and together🥰

You're all heroes in your own right⚔️