Now, I had originally come up with this theory some time ago, in a thread that was soon deleted, moments before I posted it. But today, I feel like sharing it with you all, my ridiculous, shitty theory on what happened in the ten years between the events of Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night. Naturally, everything about to be said is a spoiler for the Fate series in general, Zero and Stay Night in particular. Leave if you don't want to see them.To begin, allow us all to take a moment to recall the facts surrounding the aforementioned ten year gap. At the end of Fate/Zero, Gilgamesh is bathed in the Grail's juices or something and becomes able to stay in the real world despite being a summoned servant. He, then, shows up in Fate/Stay Night 10 years later as an eighth servant since he never dissapeared. In other words, there had to have been 10 whole years where the King of Heroes inhabited the real world. Furthermore, in the two series, Gilgamesh has distinctly different goals. In Zero, he seeks the grail because it is rightfully his. In SN, he has come to loathe humanity and seeks to destroy it all. The question then is this: What did he do during these ten years? What could've possibly happened that could've changed his ambitions so drastically? The answer might shock you.The only reason this is even a question is because the subject we are talking about is Gilgamesh. Had it been anyone else, the simple answer of "He just waited patiently for 10 years until the next Holy Grail War" would suffice. But this is Gilgamesh and there was no one that ego monster was going to wait patiently for 10 years. There had to have been something to occupy his attention and keep him busy. In Babylon, he was a king and had plenty of performers, concubines, and slaves to entertain him. In Japan, though, such forms of entertainment were likely less common and probably not as enjoyable. No, he'd need something else. Something that he couldn't get even when he was alive: technology.Fate/Stay Night presumably takes place around 2004, when the game was released. In the 10 year span leading up to this, a single technological advancement stands out: the internet. The possibility of internet in Japan was first realized in 1996. It was a novel concept, a treasure bank of possible entertainment, and something not even in the King of Heroes's Treasury. For a man who took hubris in possessing the greatest treasury in mankind, there was no way Gilgamesh was going to let the internet fly under his radar. Thus, I am lead to believe that Gilgamesh had spent much of his ten year gap, entertaining himself like we do today: by browsing the interwebs.Now, of course, saying he browsed the internet is dandy and all but just what exactly did he use it for. I believe that we can find the answer by opening our Epic of Gilgamesh and see what hobbies he had before he became a heroic spirit. The opening tablet of the epic actually has a quite apt description of Gilgamesh's activities as a king. He liked to fight enemies, rape the women, and oppress the citizens. Standard Gilgamesh but I think that can give us a look into the sort of hobbies he'd have in the modern world. Battle was Gilgamesh's entertainment through sport. He got to feel physical thrill through competition and be smug when he won. This would most likely equate to playing an online game on the internet. The late 1990's saw the boom of commercial MMORPG's. Being a NEET, Gilgamesh would've probably been that guy that played 24/7. Oppressing citizens satisfied Gilgamesh's large hubris through social superiority.. Most likely, he would go on online forums and call everyone mongrels. Heck, he'd probably also brag that he possessed the "original" meme. And, I'm sure I don't even need to explain how raping women would equate to internet pornography. There were many things for Gilgamesh to waste his life on in the internet, enough perhaps to satisfy him for 10 years.Though we've solved the mystery of what he did, I'd like to now move on to what could've caused the change in his character. I believe, however, that the answer remains the same. Anyone reading this should now how toxic and hopeless the frequenters of the internet are. It is not unlikely that as he played his MMO's and went to his forums Gilgamesh became more and more disgusted with the humans that inhabited the world. What pushed him over the edge though has to do with his other internet hobby, or so I believe. Internet pornography ignited Gilgamesh's hatred for humankind.Let us just take a second and think about Gilgamesh's sexual preferences. We know that he wants Saber but a single example is hardly enough to guess what kind of pornography he viewed. Instead, let us look back at the Epic of Gilgamesh. It just so happens to state that Gilgamesh would rape every woman in his kingdom as he liked. In fact, Gilgamesh's rape tendencies were so great that he would always rape a woman on her wedding night and "leaves no virgin to their husband". A very Gilgamesh thing, of course, but reveals something we might have never considered. Gilgamesh likes to rape women before their wedding night, but ancient Babylonian culture is vastly different from ours. It is customary that a girl be wed at very young ages, such as 12-13. This would mean that Gilgamesh not only enjoyed but specifically desired to have sex with very young, adolescent girls. It was the culture of the time and, as king, Gilgamesh probably embraced these sexual tastes more than anyone else. In other words, when Gilgamesh viewed pornography on the internet, it was most probably child pornography.This explains everything. In 2003, just before the presumed date of Fate/Stay Night, Japan passed a law, banning child pornography from the internet. His only outlet for his sexual desires crushed, only hatred remained in Gilgamesh and he decided to take it out upon the world. For banning his beloved child pornography, Gilgamesh finally truly hated mankind and was ready to Enuma Elish it to pieces.Anyways, I've shitposted enough today. G'night. http://ift.tt/1jGVjt2
