thusia | (no subject)

It's just a class name. Archer class doesn't necessarily have to use arrows, it just means that their specialty is long range projectiles.

...Okay, that could prove problematic.

Wait, let me guess. You're a close range fighter.

Mid-range at best. I'm a swordsman.

... Unless you have some very impressive magic to back that up, you won't even lay a scratch on him before you're annihilated.

I've got my tricks.

Also: harsh, much?

I'm only telling the truth.

Yeah, I get that.

Any suggestions? Other than "don't fuck with him you idiot", I mean.

[Looks as if he's going to answer that facetiously for a moment, then closes his mouth again and giving it some serious thought for a second. I too would like to see Gilgamesh go down for once...]

What "tricks" do you have up your sleeve?

[....c-considers this.]

My sword has a djinn in it. A djinn of fire.

So it can spit fire and also turn into a seven foot broadsword that can cut through literally anything.

Hmm. [Seven feet... doing some mental calculations quickly.]

That must be pretty heavy. How fast can you swing something like that?

Slow enough that it being a surprise helps, but fast enough to hold my own with it most of the time anyway.

I'm used to a one-handed short-sword style, but I manage.

[:/]

You'll need to be faster than that if you want to get the jump on him. He's going to want to place himself as far away from you as possible in the beginning to capitalize on his advantage, too.

Hold my own in close combat , much faster with a running start, or as a single-hit attack. Areas here are confined enough that any distance he gains only works in my favor.

[Nodding] Good.

As for his preferred method of attack... it's a little unusual, but basically he has the ability to summon a near-infinite number of projectiles from a kind of "hammer space" directly behind him, and he can expand said field for as far as he has space to expand it in. I don't think I need to explain the obvious dangers there.

However if you can manage to somehow withstand a barrage of swords and spears, there are a few weak points to that attack I can think of. The first is that his projectiles only seem to be able to fire in a straight line, so if you had a fast reaction time, one could theoretically be able to read and dodge their path. And since they can only fire in one direction, if you're fast enough you can potentially get out of its' firing range for a few seconds while he has to readjust.

At the end of the day though, he's still Gilgamesh, the legendary King of Heroes, so I wouldn't doubt his skills at close combat either just because he's summoned under the Archer class. Unfortunately I don't have any information on that, though I can direct you to someone who might, if you're interested.

....So I'm going to have to resort to smokescreenlike tactics if I can't dodge an armory flying in my face.

Ah? Who would?

A girl here called Tohsaka Rin, a student of mine back home... she's lived with him for a substantial period of time.

...That poor girl.

Yes, well... she's formidable in her own right.