(There are those of us who said GilNanna would never come; What have they to say now?)
I would say: How and when did it happen? and then I would ask why someone would have a ship between Gilgamesh and Inanna's father (Nanna).
Ok bad jokes out, if we talk strictly about the mythology it is about, I am more of Innana x the female members of her court and if it is the Fate version, after getting a bad first impression of Gilgamesh on the Saber route, I was left with the idea that this guy is so misogynistic that it's better for him to be gay. Although of course I have my tastes, but does not prevent me from trying new flavors.
Ah, a person of culture! True, GilNanna is a risky portmanteau, but it rolls off the tongue so well
Inanna/Ninshubur is obviously top tier, but I found myself interested in the angle of reconciliation and mutual humbling that is possible to dig into between an older, wiser Gilgamesh such that we get in Babylonia and an equally more experienced Inanna (being a Servant and thus having lived her entire life).
I totally agree on Gilgamesh in FSN. He was, flatly, designed first and foremost as a flexible villain to slot into each of the three routes, not as a character in his own right, much less a hero, and indeed it suits him to be entirely devoted to his clay husbando. But, I find Babylonia's representation of him to be much closer to the Gilgamesh we imagine from the end of his Epic -- more like if Gilgamesh was designed as an individual Servant in a vacuum, rather than intrinsically as the villain of FSN -- so that's the angle I hew to closely, attempting to treat him as a character completely separate from his FSN portrayal, albeit maintaining a few of the iconic mannerisms.
In any case, once I finish it up and start posting in earnest (soon(TM)), I hope you'll be entertained well enough
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