#gawaine

[morganaconda]

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[oldschoolfrp]

Excalibur is known by name in many other sources too. To the Welsh it was called Caledvwlch or Caliburn, and was said to have been made in the Isle of Avalon. After Arthur pacified his kingdom the court champion wielded Excalibur for many years while Arthur ruled. Gawaine was King Arthur's oldest sister's oldest son. According to the Celtic inheritance system Gawaine was, therefore, the heir to the king. He was also the champion and war leader.

"Swords of Pendragon" by Greg Stafford, illus. Martin McKenna, White Dwarf 85, January 1987, summarizing the stories of The Sword in the Stone, Excalibur, The Sword of King David, and Balin's Sword

#Pendragon #Greg Stafford #Martin McKenna #Excalibur #sword #fantasy #strange women lying in ponds #King Arthur #Gawaine #Gawain #White Dwarf #Games Workshop #GW #Arthuriana #Arthurian legend #1980s #Caliburn

[hardoncaulfield]

admittedly I have not read that many texts but I really enjoy how Gawaine is characterised on a sliding scale from ‘most pleasant man you’ll ever meet’ to ‘considers murder a rewarding daily exercise’

#arthuriana #reading the green knight and le morte back to back has been v funny #he's like those pictures that are a rabbit and a duck at the same time #gawaine #i could spell it the approved way but i won't give up the extra e

[gawaincomic]

Bookish Gawain.

I think Camelot would totally have a library - which explains the sheer number of books on that shelf.

It's rare that I'm happy with my watercolours, but I think I pulled this one off rather well. The background could have been darker, I guess - that's always a difficult thing for me. I made it muted, that's something.

#sir gawain #sir gawaine #gawain #gawaine #arthurian legend #arthuriana #illustration #watercolour #watercolor #dark ages #early medieval #ginger #ginger cat

[dondalsy]

you’re laughing. lancelot shall slay the man that in the world he loved best, that shall be sir gawaine, and you’re laughing!

#malorydaily #arthuriana #lancelot #gawaine #my posts

[heroofthreefaces]

new disney+ series about sir gawaine becoming a superhero from his fae ability to gain strength till midday and then lose it as the sun descends. call it

noon might

#gawaine

[palamidezh]

hi

#mine #round table mecha #arthur #gawaine #lancelot #arthuriana

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Dinadan: Galehaut, I know you snuck out to see Lancelot last night. Galehaut: If you tell Gawain or Percival, I swear I’ll murder you, and they’ll never find the body. Dinadan: Five bucks? Galehaunt: Fine.

#mahn I LOVE Dinadan #he's my fav knight #also gawaine but he comes second #maybe I love dinadan more cuz he's this aroace icon lol #mythology memes #incorrect quotes #incorrect mythology quotes #incorrect mythology #arthurian mythology #arthurian legend #arthurian knights #knights of the round table #dinadan #galehaut #lancelot #lancelot x galehaut #percival #gawain #gawaine #arthurian retelling

[arcanespillo]

“The Eye of the Phoenix”

Merlin S3E8

#bbc merlin #merlin screencaps #merlin rewatch #arthur pendragon #the fisher king #arthuriana #gawaine

[tiodolma]

chretien de troyes be like:

GAWAIN THE MAN WITH MANY BESTFRIENDS.

#arthuriana #cliges #gawain #gawaine #chretien de troyes #lancelot knight of the cart #yvain knight with the lion #there's lancelot alexander and yvain lol

[morganaconda]

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[awanderingmuse-ficrec]

Teach a man to fish and he’ll never run out of ale

Fandom: Merlin BBC

Author: Doctor959

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Violence, Child Abuse, Imprisonment, Alcohol Abuse, Strong Language, Sexual Content

Word Count: 142,115

Pairings: Merthur, Gwaine/OC

Characters: Merlin, Gwaine, Arthur Pendragon, Morgana, Gwen, Lancelot, Percival, Elyan, Gaius, Uther Pendragon

Tags: Young Merlin, Big brother Gwaine, Protective Gwaine, Whump, Angst, (Eventually) Powerful!Merlin, Magical restraints, Banter, Hurt Merlin, Arthur's scared of Gwaine, BAMF Merlin, Good Morgana

“Where did you learn to do that?” Gwaine asked, following Merlin up the bank.

“This is how normal people fish,” Merlin replied dryly. “Not trying to stab them with swords.”

“This is a knife,” Gwaine retorted, sounding every bit as sulky as he felt.

“Still, you didn’t catch a fish.”

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Gwaine saves a young Merlin from a beating and ends up with a new little brother to take care of on his travels.

Or, what would Merlin be like if he had Gwaine influencing him over his formative years?

#fic rec #merlin bbc #merlin #arthur pendragon #gawaine #merthur #mer:canon divergence #mer:angst #mer:fluff #mer:kid!fic #knights of the round table #mer:magic revealed #morgana has a heart #mer:slow burn #god i love will #brother!gwaine #explict #complete #100k

[fluffypotatey]

don't know if i should be upset that BBC Merlin's spelling of Gwaine made me have to respell it like 50 times for my midterm because the spelling my prof wanted was Gawain

#me: gwaine....shit.....gawaine.....fuck.... #i blame you bbc merlin #i blame you #shitpost #late night talks with a potato #bbc merlin #sir gwaine #gawaine #FUCKING WHY #EVEN HERE #*sighs* i'm so tired my brain is full of medieval poems

[gawaincomic]

I was wondering and you seemed like a likely candidate to know, do you know when red-headed Gawain first became a thing? It seems to have become the standard for his character, but I've never come across a description in the original sources that mentioned his coloring whatsoever. Did this start with T.H. White's depiction? Or *is* there an earlier description in a source I haven't read yet? (I'd also be curious if there are any og sources which give him a different hair color entirely!)

@luanna801 Thank you for the question! As you have guessed, this is something that really interests me, and I have looked into it in the past.

To be sure, I haven't read *all* the sources (I'm still reading) and some of my reading happened ages ago, so - maybe someone can correct me on this. But here is what I have found:

I can't recall a single medieval source that mentions Gawain's hair colour. Not one. I assume that the colour of a knight's hair was of no interest to medieval authors and readers, as long as he had a 'noble countenance'. This fact is striking to me because today, we often like to describe characters' appearances in great detail, but - nope, I personally haven't found any descriptions of his appearance except in the most general terms. (His clothes, yes!)

As far as I have been able to ascertain, red-haired Gawains are indeed descendants of T. H. White's Gawaine. I'm not sure I'd call the red hair 'standard', really, because I've found blond and brown and black-haired Gawains in post-White books, but it's clear that White has had a very powerful influence. Then again, his Gawaine is a striking character. It's also White who made Gawain Scottish and Gaelic. Medieval sources don't touch upon that at all (indeed, some say Lot is the king of Norway, so that would make Gawain Norwegian, but whether he's British or Norwegian, none of it seems to have any real impact on his character). Also, I've noticed that when people write a red-haired Gawain, they often give him character traits that also come from White.

For me personally, red-haired Gawain was a no-brainer because I really only picked up on him as a character in The Once and Future King as a twelve-year-old, and next I read Rosemary Sutcliff and Anthony Mockler, both of whom write Gawains who are clearly influenced by White. So that's the image that got fixed in my mind. But clearly, there are also a number of post-White Gawains around who are not particularly White-inspired.

Off the top of my head: Phyllis Ann Karr's Gawain in The Idylls of the Queen is blond, and Gillian Bradshaw's Gwalchmei in the Hawk of May trilogy is dark. Bernard Cornwell's little Gawain is blond too. In Het Zwevende Schaakbord, a 1918 Dutch novel by Louis Couperus, Gawain / Walewein has brown hair and brown eyes (OK, this is clearly pre-White but I'm putting it out here anyway). I've also found blond and brown-haired Gawains (and, indeed, a Black Gawain) in comics - and of course, there isn't a single red-haired Gawain on screen, a fact I deeply deplore 😅.

#arthuriana #sir gawain #illustration #arthurian legend #sir gawaine #gawaine #gawain's appearance #red-haired gawain #t. h. white #the once and future king #gillian bradshaw #phyllis ann karr #rosemary sutcliff #anthony mockler #king arthur

[povestotrischane]

gawaine from the uhm. mecha vn adaptation. just dropped + a gringolet sketch (not to scale) bc i wanted to include it buttttt really didn't want to commit to a design quite yet or spend an excess of time on something that really just exists to sit on the side and justify the image dimensions other than the need to prevent this from becoming sfw gawaine

lore notes under the cut

- it's not really that clear based on this illustration but the armored parts of gawaine's plugsuit are actually meant to be a sort of science fantasy material similar to a clear acryllic, with gold + green paint on the inside . i'm genuinely considering learning to make resin molds just so i can have a real life example of the effect i'm going for just to reference it bc i have absolutely no idea how to begin to properly convey this

- this isn't actually the (in-universe) intended design of a plugsuit. remember what i said the other day about arthur's kingdom being well past its prime and most things being in a state of disrepair? yeah this is a big example of that. the means to produce plugsuits are long gone and so instead of each knight getting their own proper one which covers everything, is tailored to fit and looks a lot more like an actual medieval suit of armor, they just wear the most important pieces bc the vast majority of plugsuits haven't survived the test of time in their entirety and. as previously mentioned. are tailored to fit their original wearer. and thus cobbling together pieces wouldn't exactly work.

- the not-quite-acryllic plugsuit pieces actually connect to the mecha (which is why wearing the biggest pieces are important, as the connection can still be achieved without a full suit if the major connection points are intact)

- plugsuit pieces are harder to come by than actual mechs themselves, knights will fight tooth and nail for the minimum number of pieces, force them to fit just well enough to not fall off, comfort be damned (the big example of this is lancelot bc uh. sorry babe but the big tits ascribed to you by the vulgate aren't doing you any favors here), and then just show up at the nearest liege lord's door and immediately get the job + a mech bc they're in such high demand.

- under their plugsuits, knights usually just wear their uniforms. they didn't used to but uhm. judging by the fact that plugsuits used to cover "more" rather than "less", times have changed. the uniforms themselves are very thick, almost like cloth armor.

- the uniforms worn under plugsuits are changed out with whichever region of arthur's kingdom the knights are in, largely according to dialect changes, which is mainly just my way to lend a nod to the slight distinction between, say, gwalchmai and walewein (welsh gawaine and dutch gawaine 4 when i inevitably throw this at my main which has a higher population of mecha fans than med lit enthusiasts) with a visual queue which goes farther than just the name switching i mentioned the other day

- gawaine has a helmet i just forgot to add it anywhere. it's fine its only worn while actively piloting

- mechs are mainly piloted with a system than relies heavily on pulling on different ropes. this is bc of the whole. horse thing.

- if you look closely (please don't) you'll see that the sword gawaine is holding is dinged up. once again, everything in this kingdom is well past its prime, his... everything is in v good condition bc he's Literally Arthur's Heir. once you get to say, aggravaine (who is, if i may reiterate, 3rd in line for the throne after gawaine and yvain), you start to see damage to plugsuits and it just gets worse from there on.

- gringolet is a biomechanical organism but most mechs aren't, it's just particularly special

#arthuriana #romeo.png #gawaine

[dondalsy]

oh no…. i desire him carnally

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