Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Adept Muscle
A living weapon and the life of the party.
Discord	@greshbolt
Reddit	Greshbolt
Wiki User	Greshbolt
Metatype	Troll (Giant)
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	0
D.O.B.	2061-02-13
Age	25
Folder	Google Drive
Priority	Metatype - A Attributes - A Magic/Resonance - D Skills - E Resources - D
#Max IGs/Ascension	28

Character Information

Summary

A Giant with the polish of a corporate fixer and the brutality of a street enforcer, Gilgamesh walks the razor's edge between both worlds. His troll reduction surgery and silver tongue let him navigate high-rise boardrooms, while his enhanced form and bloodthirsty mentor spirit make him the last thing alleyway threats ever see. Now working Seattle's shadows as a freelance problem-solver, he's equally comfortable negotiating a deal or dismantling it—depending on what the job requires.

Goals

• Get a better apartment and fashionable armor.
• Upgrade outdated ware.
• Learn more about magic.
• Reconnect with old friends.

Background

Early Life: A Giant in a World That Fears Him

Born in the sprawling docks of Marseille to an Orkish Moroccan father (Sabir Gibran) and a Giant Norse-Greek mother (Ira Magnhildottir), Antoine Gibran inherited his mother’s imposing stature, and the prejudice that came with it. The docks were harsh, but the streets were worse. School was a gauntlet of distrust; teachers watched him like a bomb about to detonate, while children either shrank from him or provoked him, knowing he couldn’t risk fighting back. The few times he did, the blame always fell on the "violent giant."

The Mouettes: A Found Family

Everything changed when he met Marie, a sharp-eyed human girl who didn’t flinch at his size. She became his first real friend, and through her, he found acceptance in the Mouettes, a scrappy gang of outcasts surviving on petty theft and port-side hustles. For once, Antoine belonged, until their luck ran out.

Their downfall came when the gang stole a cache of credsticks from the Albanian Fares, not realizing the money belonged to the syndicate. Antoine used his share to wipe his parents’ debts clean, but the Fares didn’t forgive debts of their own. They ambushed the Mouettes during a late-night party, dragging them to a bloodstained warehouse. When the torture began, Antoine’s restraints held him back, until The Blood came calling. Something broke in him before the ropes did. A voice, thick and hungry, coiled around his thoughts and by the time his frenzy ended, three Fares enforcers were dead. The syndicate seeing value in his rage and recent awakening, offered a deal: his service for his friends’ lives. Antoine, still shaking with power and guilt, agreed.

Syndicate Enforcer: From Antoine to Gilgamesh

For three years, Antoine served as the Fares’ enforcer, earning the name Gilgamesh—a mythic giant for a mythic brute. He invested in troll reduction surgery, not just for practicality, but to shed the features that had always marked him as a monster. When the Al-Akhirab Aswad Mayid overthrew the Fares, they kept Gilgamesh on retainer, honing him into a precision weapon with combat training and ware, each implant dulling his connection to The Blood, but sharpening his edge in the underworld.

Yet Gilgamesh wasn’t blind. He bided his time working with the Fares, siphoned funds, smuggled the Mouettes to safety, and begged his parents to flee. They refused, leaving him trapped, until Marie, now a Milieu Marseillais lieutenant, offered him an out: "Help us break the syndicates, and you walk free."

The Marseille War & Escape

Gilgamesh became the tip of the Milieu’s spear, crushing Fares, Mayid, and Triad operations alike. By the time the dust settled, Marseille’s underworld was reshaped, and Gilgamesh was a broken, cybered-up husk of the timid giant he’d once been. With Marie’s blessing (and a contact in Seattle), he vanished into the shadows, ready to sell his skills to the highest bidder.

"The doc said the surgery would make him ‘less monstrous.’ As the plane touched down in Seattle, Gilgamesh wondered if all those incisions had just turned him into a different kind of beast."

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

• School of Hard Knocks: A rough upbringing forced Gilgamesh to quickly pick up lessons on the street.
• Mentor Spirit (Shark): Known to Gilgamesh as "The Blood", he does his best to ignore its call.
• Changeling (Class 1 Surge): Caught in a freak Mana storm in the Mediterranean, Gilgamesh was changed during lucrative negotiation at sea between Saeder-Krupp and the Albanian Fares. Forced to swim 50 miles back to shore while dragging an executive of the Fares, he returned to land forever altered.
  • Bicardiac: Given the nickname The Mule, after the incident out at sea Gilgamesh rarely finds himself out of breath.
  • Celerity: Gilgamesh moves with a freakish speed for someone of his size.
• Bilingual: (I couldn't manage to fit this into the base build, but plan to purchase this as soon as possible with Karma since it just makes sense). French and English were among the most common languages spoken in Marseille.

Negative

• Code of Honor (Warrior's Code): Gilgamesh was weak once and bullied by those stronger, he will not stoop to their level.
• Sinner National (France): Born in Marseille, France.
• Distinctive Style: A 3.25 meters (10’8”) conventionally attractive giant is hard to miss, his unique fashion doesn't help (see appearance for more detail).
• Changeling (Class 1 Surge): Caught in a freak Mana storm in the Mediterranean, Gilgamesh was changed during lucrative negotiation at sea between Saeder-Krupp and the Albanian Fares. Forced to swim 50 miles back to shore while dragging an executive of the Fares, he returned to land forever altered.
  • Bioluminescence: A lightning scar running down his neck and back, Gilgamesh is forever marred from his incident at sea. While it may make for a cool party trick, it also tends to draw the eye, especially during night.
  • Symbiosis: If he wasn't already connected to his community, Gilgamesh now was doubly so.

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Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
X	6	1	Custom(G,A,N,K)	Cyborg	Working Hours, Private Life, Hard to Reach, Wanted, Not Your Fixer, True Believer, Looking For a Challenge, To Be Governed, Flesh is a Cage, Titanium-alloy Backbone, Efficiency in All Things, Keep the Change, “I prefer the shiny stuff.”, Cranial Casing, Sinew of Steel, Actualized Actuators, No Judgment, Sequence Matcher Extraordinaire, Quality Quartering	Even
Auntie Amelia	4	2	Fixer(N,K,G,A)	Elderly Troll	Gossiper, Old Adept, Tea Horse Road, Shadow Networker, Seattle Streetwise	Even
John Baptise	2	1	Service	Taxi Driver	Reliable, Voodoo, No Questions Asked	Even
Genevieve LaCroix	4	1	Custom(G,N,K,A)	Talismonger	Talismonger, Awakened Philanthropist, Hocus Focus, Big Stick Diplomancy, Tattoo Artist	Even

In Character Information

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	A fictional figure most popularly known from the Epic of Gilgamesh.
3	A figure by the name of Gilgamesh is rumored to have ties to various syndicates in the region. Gilgamesh is an awakened giant who notably survived a freak mana storm in the Mediterranean Sea.
6	The description of Gilgamesh matches one Antoine Gibran, a native of Marseille. He worked for the Albanian Fares, Al-Akhirab Aswad Mayid, and Millieu Marseilles as an enforcer/bodyguard. Assisted the latter in establishing underworld dominance in the city of Marseille.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1
3
5

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	Awakened, Healthy, Excited
2	Adept, Cyberware: Bone Lacing and Metatype Reduction
3	Relative Essence
4	1 Magic, 2.8 Essence, Bioware: Striking Callouses and Troll Reduction
5	Not a Technomancer

SINs

Real SIN (France): Antoine Gibran

• Adept License
• Bodyguard License
• Cyberware License
• Bioware License

Burner Fake SIN R4 (UCAS): Joseph Jeffreys

• Adept License
• Bodyguard License

Appearance

A colossus even among Giants, Gilgamesh towers at 3.25 meters (10’8”) and carries his 375 kg (825 lbs) frame with the deliberate, predatory grace of a combat-modified enforcer. Where most Giants lean toward lanky disproportion, his dense musculature and broad shoulders lend him an almost statuesque symmetry, a fact he’s painstakingly reinforced with a consistent training regiment and troll reduction surgery. The procedures have scrubbed his troll-like facial features, leaving a face that could pass for human. if not for the sheer impossibility of his size. His jet-black hair is pulled into a tight bun, and his beard—trimmed to a short, sharp line—hides old scars.

Gilgamesh has an easy, disarming presence; the kind of guy who makes nervous clients forget they’re talking to a 10-foot-tall former enforcer. Right up until they need to remember.

Clothing

Gilgamesh dresses like a syndicate prince who moonlights as a high-end bodyguard. His business-casual outfit consists of:

• A tailored dress shirt, collar unbuttoned to the sternum to accommodate his neck and flaunt his musculature.
• Dark gray trousers, held up by a belt with a snarling dragon buckle—a trophy from a Triad lieutenant who didn’t need it anymore.
• Polished dress shoes, custom-forged to bear his weight without a creak.
• Gold hoop earrings (a parting gift from an old friend) and a silver Ankh pendant (a reminder of family).

Matrix Persona

Gilgamesh tends to prefer the physical and with little to no experience with the Matrix his persona is the stock default for almost every device he uses.

Character Plot Hooks

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