Familiarity
He sees blonde and wonders if Enkidu will take to her. –Tine, Ur-Nungal, Gilgamesh/Enkidu
Disclaimer: I don't own the Fate Series, of course.
Notes 1: Fate/Strange Fake-centered. Admittedly it's been a while since I've read it and something like this didn't actually happen in-story, but it roughly takes place before Gilgamesh meets Enkidu. Also features a OC, but they have real life lore and connections to the characters.
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He sees her and sees blonde hair and red eyes, much like himself.
It's strange really. This girl looks nothing like his long gone child, who now must be dust that make up the sands of the Middle East, but yet whenever he stares at her for too long he sees glimpses of his Ur-Nungal.
Something of her is like his child, but what?
Is it the uncertain expression? The utter respect she gives? The slant in her eyes as she eyes other people?
By chance he spots her with her hair down. Tiné undid the slackened ribbon in her hair and begins to retie it and again, he sees someone else in the girl.
The way her bangs framed her face and how the long front pieces of her hair fell on her chest reminds him of the other powerful entity in the war. Enkidu is somewhere and Gilgamesh needs to find them, because there's no way he could see his best friend in this mere girl.
There's a mildly serene expression upon Tiné's face and it mimics how Enkidu used to look in the wilderness with animals at their side. It baffles the great king. First his child, now his best friend. It's as if this girl mocks him with her appearance, despite looking nothing like Ur-Nungal and Enkidu.
But this girl knows a King when she sees one. She respects him and he will allow her to carve her own path, with him observing every move of course. With every question, comment, 'concern', 'advice'…he smirks at what the future might hold.
And Gilgamesh can see a great leader in someone. With his craft, he ensure this girl goes far. The girl that reminds of him of his child, his Enkidu, and the 'what-if' product between himself and his best friend.
He wonders how Enkidu will take to her. Will they see her as he does? As a child between them-?
Tiné turns to face him, her eyes slightly widened at seeing the King of Heroes smirking at her. She quickly bows her head, letting her bangs fall at the side like Enkidu's part.
"I apologize, my king." She murmurs as she attempts to now hurriedly fix-up her un-cooperating hair. Here she is, wasting the great wise king's time with something so mundane!
But Gilgamesh chuckles and waves dismissively, "Carry on,". He lets the "dear child" fall off the sentence and moves his gaze ahead to the fields before him.
Off to reunite with Enkidu.
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Notes 2: And by reunite, he obviously means to fight.
Anyways, here's a quick little Fate/Strange Fake fic about Tiné and Gilgamesh's relationship-or at least how I like to go about it. The idea of Papa Gil is so entertaining! It kind of baffles me that Fate hasn't brought up Gilgamesh's actual son at all while a bunch of other servants have had their irl kids mentioned or show up in the franchise.
Babylonia would have been the perfect place to mention Ur-Nungal at the end but le sigh of course they didn't. I guess that means Fate Gil doesn't have a son, but on the off-chance they decide to introduce Ur-Nungal I left them rather ambiguous here, just in case they get gender-swapped.
Thanks for reading!
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