[ TT ] People refuse to acknowledge their hero 's increasingly dark behavior and keep making excuses for him .

The first time I'd heard anything about Gilgamesh was a small feat, all he'd done was found a dog. The lady I interviewed thought it was some teenager playing at super hero `` but he found Daisy, so he's a hero to me.'' I did n't really think anything about it until his second visible appearance nearly two months later. I liked to think we lived in a safe city, drugs came through but thanks to police efforts they rarely stayed. That was until a triple homicide on Washington Street. Every witness I spoke to told me of a man in a mask, Gilgamesh, had already come through and questioned them. 
 
 My concern for some kid turned to concern about a super-powered vigilante when two very scared murderers turned themselves in with the evidence needed to convict. My concerns appeared to be ill-founded when Gilgamesh went public and seemed less concerned about using his powers to beat the crap out of villains and more about providing for the needy. Agents from D.C. started spending time in our time however, concern about this new hero was high. His claim was the ability to create energy and matter from nothing, and if this was true he might be the strongest Super to date. 
 
 The first time I met him in person was a night I got a call about a disturbance. Some homeless man sifting through the trash in a residential neighborhood. I gave him a ride to the Methodist Mission, I knew some good folks down there. When I arrived the place was packed, two people walked out speaking of a miracle worker. When I walked in I spotted Suzie's red mane immediately. `` Yo Suzie, what's the spectacle?'' she just shook her head and pointed at a young man in a mask with some plain black clothes. He was what I could only describe as *conjuring* clothes and food out of thin air. He glanced my way and in a flash of light my homeless companions worn and tattered clothes were replaced by new and sort of nice clothes. 
 
 `` Where'd he come from'' I whispered to Suzie as he continued with his work. `` I do n't know'' she whispered back `` but I'm glad he did, we could n't of fed this many. Did you see the strollers out front?'' I shook my head. `` They closed down the mental hospital, lots of extra homeless, and lots of families with laid off breadwinners, but whatever they need and whatever we need he just makes it.'' I stuck around to talk to him and was surprised at how young he sounded. `` Hello detective, pleasant night.'' He said sounding disinterested. `` Yeah it's not bad, just wanted to say I think it's really great work you're doing here.'' He looked down at the pavement, looking for all the world like an embarrassed kid. `` Yeah, but in a week they'll be out of food again, in a few years those clothes will start wearing out'' he shook his head as he zipped up his sweatjacket `` and this is just one city, a small city.'' He looked me in the eye then and I could feel the sincerity of his next statement `` I'm trying to save the world you know?'' 
 
 Was only a month later I heard about his failed meetings with the city council, and then the governor about reopening the state's mental hospital. Not only did they refuse to accept his offers of either just creating money to pay for it, or to make any materials they needed to lower the cost, but alerted him his activities doing this for citizens on a small scale was breaking the law. I took him out for breakfast and tried to talk him down `` well if you just created money to pay for it, that's counterfeiting, and that's illegal.'' `` When your laws were created they could n't of imagined something like me existing'' he muttered to himself. 
 
 Seemed like Gilgamesh started dominating the news after that. Corporations, politicians, economy experts all scared that if he wanted, he could destroy the global economy overnight by flooding the world with superior free products. Congress passed a bill making it illegal to accept or use anything created by Gilgamesh, and he went on a highly visible rant and railed against `` the corrupt politicians'' as he put it `` with me in the world, there is more than enough for everyone. I suppose the powers that be have decided how will they know that they have a lot, unless others have nothing?'' 
 
 He eventually convinced a town to officially disobey sever themselves from the rest of the economy. All power, and all merchandise anyone in town could want was created by Gilgamesh. This town was on United States soil however and was treated as a foreign invasion. What was meant to be a threat for anyone else that might follow that town's lead and follow Gilgamesh, turned into a display that the government held no power over him. Planes, tanks, guns, armor, ammunition, all dissipated in an instant. Gilgamesh alerted the soldiers they were free to leave and advised they do so, a general who tried to rally them to continue into the town dissipated as well. 
 
 In my department, on the streets, on facebook the debate about Gilgamesh raged. Many called him a traitor, against the government for defeating the army, and to god for setting himself up as a new savior. Some, myself included, said he was trying to improve the world. However with his power armies, large parts of governments and most industries were obsolete so they were using their political power to keep him from doing it within the system. 
 
 Then Gilgamesh slipped up and his identity became known, and his wife was kidnapped and assassinated. His rage and grief would shake the world. Reports showed D.C. as if it was hit by a nuke. He continued to hunt down and kill both the politicians that he held responsible as well as their families, their children. `` If I'm to remove these weeds from my garden, the seeds must be destroyed as well.'' Still, he was trying to create a new and better world, this was just the death throes of the previous corrupt world. 
 
 He eventually came to terms with many world Governments who would surrender large areas of land on every continent where anyone was to be allowed to travel. When asked what they would receive he sneered and replied `` I'll continue to tolerate your existence.'' For several months these `` safe zones'' were the promised utopia, virtually no crime, no want or need went unfulfilled. Still some began to leave, saying with no struggle came an apathy and I witnessed Gilgamesh who had become like a friend to me slip into a deep depression. 
 
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