#gorlois le fay

[thekingofthenameless]

I’M BACK

And I’m rebranding everything.

Profile picture change, username change (in a few days), etc.

talesofarcadiaforever -> thekingofthenameless

I took a long hiatus from writing and Tumblr in general because of bad burnout and putting expectations on myself that I shouldn’t have. Ha. But I’m back! And good news! I started writing again! Better news?

I decided to officially discontinue Emerald Embers and the Daylight’s Redemption series and write my own book.

I was already making everything so different from ToA that it was practically an alternate universe already: redesigning Merlin, making Merlin and Charlie familiars, adding magical species that weren’t explicitly in canon, completely changing other characters… I still love ToA, but I’m not hyperfixated on it anymore. And that’s okay. I was so scared of letting go for a long time, but I’m happy with my decision.

My wip is now called The King of the Nameless!

Currently, there are five main characters, and tidbits about each of them will be a little further down. (Except for one guy. He sucks.) Their attempted designs will also be down there.

In some aspects, it probably hasn’t changed too much. I’m still basing it off of Arthurian Legends, and Merlin is still the protagonist. But I redesigned him. Again.

The deuteragonist is Charlie; he and Merlin are still familiars. I tried several different names for him, but none of them would stick for him no matter how hard I tried; so Charlie the dragon he stays. But he now has the last name Ambrosius to reflect that he and Merlin are found family as well.

The other three characters in this stage of the story are Igraine, Gorlois, and Uther.

Igraine is Arthur and Morgana’s mother in the Arthurian Legends, (which I did not know at first and was wondering how Arthur and Morgana were half-siblings because they have different fathers…) and will stay the same here. I couldn’t find any official last name for her besides Pendragon from when she marries Uther? (Which is not going to happen here.) So I gave her and her husband the last name “le Fay” to match their daughter!

Gorlois is Igraine’s husband, and like I said, is Morgana’s father. However, unlike some media, he’s not going to be portrayed as a jealous and abusive husband. He’s the epitome of the “I love my wife” guy.

Uther is… a piece of work, to say the least. He’s the character who’s going to have a separate post because of triggering topics that I don’t want in this post.

I’m also going to make a separate post for upcoming characters, which include Nimue, Morgana, Arthur, etc.

Bear with me on lore and designs though please (I’m still working on the lore and I’m not sure if these will be their permanent designs except for Charlie). Some of it might be just random babble until I decide on something 😭 You’ll definitely be able to tell which characters I think about most ahaha.

Anyways, in more good news, I don’t use Artbreeder anymore. I attempt to use Picrews, but sometimes they don’t have everything I want, so I also use character creators from video games. If I could use Baldur’s Gate 3’s, I definitely would, but I’d have to spend like $600-ish to get something to play it on and get the game. 😑 I could also play it with my boyfriend, but our schedules are so busy with both of us working that’s it not really a convenient option.

But there is a game called Dragon’s Dogma, and I’ve been using that one! It’s an older game, so it doesn’t really have many fantasy character options, but it’s good enough for human characters lol. I made Igraine and Gorlois with it, and a few other characters yet to be posted.

Design and lore time!

Merlin:

This is him at the beginning of TKN! Expect more art of him eventually.

• 6' 8"

• “my son crump he has every disease”: schizophrenia, C-PTSD, misophonia

• is still a cambion like in the Arthurian Legends (specifically half-human, half-demon)

• was supposed to be the Anti-Christ (also like in the Legends)

• is also a romance and sex repulsed, non-partnering aroace <3.

• usually excudes a regal, dignified presence, and his preference for flowing outfits helps

• may seem slightly formal with strangers, but on a good day where he can clock their personality, he’ll either warm up to them quickly, or distance himself, depending on the person

• has a strong sense of justice, which also makes him anti-authoritarian for the most part. (unless they’ve actually proven that they’re not just in their position for the power of it, or because of nepotism; and really do want to help people.)

• extremely loyal

• highly empathetic; cries easily

• has a lot of trauma, but is still kind because he’s not going to make people suffer just because he did

• adrenaline junkie in regards to flying with Charlie

• Doesn’t kill if not necessary.

• Is very punctual. If you tell him to come at 5 he’ll be there at 4:30. At most.

Charlie:

• 6' 6" (top of muzzle)

• 7' 3" (top of head)

• the marking on his leg is his familiar mark!

• still nice, seems a little rougher around the edges than Merlin

• says the things that his wizard thinks but won’t say, and doesn’t hide that he stares people down while gauging their character. he sometimes won’t care that he sounds mean or very direct either

• very protective of his familiar and is intensely loyal to him. isn’t really willing to leave the latter alone with people they don’t really know because of people attempting to take advantage of his schizophrenia in the past, gaslighting him into thinking that their actions weren’t real and were things he hallucinated/imagined

• Do no harm but take no shit

• Far more willing to kill than Merlin

• “Hey do you want me to kill that guy for you? Because it sounds like he sucks and I will totally kill that guy for you.”

• (I guess he technically counts as an emotional support animal but like. he’s sentient so idk 😭)

• is an omnivore (most dragons are, but he eats more human food than them from growing up and staying around them.)

Igriane:

• 6' 5"

• a wizard!

• was originally a red head before I realized that oh yeah. Morgana has brown hair, and a ginger and blonde would definitely not for the most part have a brunette kid

• purple eyes (haven’t decided if I’m gonna stay with this concept, but I like the idea of all wizards having some type of heterochromia, or technicolor eyes to show that they have magic)

Gorlois:

• 6' 0"

• he doesn’t have any type of unique eye color yet because I didn’t have the concept of that for wizards yet, and still not sure if I’m gonna keep it so. blue eyes for now

• again I say he’s the “I love my wife” guy!!

• also a wizard (which is where Morgana gets her magic when she’s born. You have two parents with magic you’re like. guaranteed to have magic.)

• maybe not really much of a fighter? Would probably use some type of sword if he was.

Wow that was so much lore. 👍 If anyone wants to talk to me about my ocs or suggest ideas, my ask box is always open! (And I love love love getting asks)

Artist credits!

Merlin:

Charlie’s original artist:

Charlie’s second artist:

Charlie’s saddle:

#yelling #that’s my new ramble tag lol #would like to mention that I’m keeping my archive of EE and DR content up! People can absolutely use those ideas if they want to lol #like go ham with the ideas I’ll probably never use again #writing #my ocs #The King of the Nameless #art stuff #character designs #Merlin Ambrosius #TKN Merlin #Charlemagne Ambrosius #Igraine le Fay #Gorlois le Fay

[threemoonwatchers]

Fic where Morgana and/or Morgause try to do the Tiene Diaga on Merlin but (little do they know) he has magic so he’s just sitting in a room that sounds like it’s full of screaming toddlers (and I feel like he’d be used to loud noises from all the chaos he’s stopped/caused) so they’re wondering why the heck he won’t break/submit to their will and meanwhile he’s just like. Sitting there. And it scares the crap out of the sisters

#bbc merlin #merlin emrys #merlin #merlin au #Merlin fic prompt #morgana pendragon #morgause #Morgause Gorlois #morgana #morgana le fay #crack headcanons

[caer-gai]

#kay #arthur #bedivere #algove #lamorak #percival #tristan #Íseult #dinadan #sir Ector #uther pendragon #igraine #morgan le fay #morgause #gorlois #merlin #sebile #arthurian legend

[the-king-and-the-druidess]

«Giraldus Cambrensis knew that Morgan had once been a Celtic goddess, dea quaedam phantastica, as he says in the Speculum Ecclesiae» [] «Morgan Le Fay in Malory has been humanised; her Italian equivalent Fata Morgana is a full Fairy»

«Merlin—only half human by blood and never shown practising magic as an art—almost belongs to this order»

C.S.Lewis, The discarded image

#morgana #arthuriana #merlin emrys #I read a fic where Gorlois had a fae grandmother and that explained Morganas magic #idea: Vivienne was a fae and just disappeared when the purge began #morgan le fay

[queer-ragnelle]

So who among the Arthurian characters is into cottagecore? Morgan has to be right?

hi!

you know what i'm gonna have to disagree. i don't think morgan's affiliation to magic and nickname "le fay" are enough, especially bc she prides herself on a lofty status that elevates her above the humble rural living that cottagecore romanticizes. i mean here she is in the vulgate proclaiming herself a king's daughter (isn't she the daughter of duke gorlois?) while she prepares to kill her husband and get away with it.

queen shit. here are some characters i think would be into cottagecore.

arthur: when thomas berger wrote him as loving his simple life in wales with his family and sleeping out with the dogs and genuinely relishing his modest upbringing with his foster brother? i felt that.

blanchefleur: she definitely named herself "white flower" after her own garden's award winning blossoms at the county fair. she bottles it for perfume too, if you're interested. perceval always keeps a little vial around his neck so he can smell it and think of her while on quest or when he gets lost on his way to take out the trash. thanks wifey.

brangaine and palamedes: whether or not she can actually achieve this lifestyle whilst in the service of isolde, she definitely dreams of fleeing to the countryside with palamedes. it also makes his commute shorter (cottage is on the edge of the enchanted woods in which the questing beast roams).

culhwch and olwen: after the nightmarish tasks they underwent just to get married they absolutely retired far away from court life where those shenanigans wouldn't reach their children.

dindrane: she's the quintessential nun, one who didn't learn necromancy. she enjoys all the typical stuff expected in a remote hermitage; gardening, baking, making wine, going on an adventure bilbo style complete with chaotic means and tragic ends, bird watching.

fisher king and elaine: since the queen passed away they just want more father and daughter bonding time out on the boat to fish. they catch dinner in their little pond and take it home to cook and go to sleep happy. they do the same thing again the next day without any obligations besides living. nothing bad happens.

green knight and wife: pretty sure they invented cottagecore or at least introduced the concept into the realm. they have their own line of cottagecore starter kits with little seeds to grow personalized mini gardens for a country oasis even in the discomfort of your monarch-sanctioned barracks. so what if the plants they sell are annuals and you have to buy a new one every year. aren't you committed to the aesthetic?

isolde and tristan: did they or did they not smash in that grotto like their lives depended on it? i rest my case.

merlin: have you read mary stewart's merlin trilogy? my guy wanted the quiet life so bad it made him look stupid. he died as he lived, in the middle of fucking nowhere. say what we will he committed to the bit to the very end.

tor: he is literally a cowboy farmer kid turned knight. actually forget the whole list he's the only one.

thanks for the ask!

#arthurian legend #arthuriana #arthurian legends #arturian mythology #cottagecore #morgan le fay #king arthur #blanchfleur #brangaine #sir palamedes #sir palomides #culhwch and olwen #dindrane #the fisher king #elaine of corbenic #the green knight #lady bertilak #queen isolde #isolde #sir tristan #merlin #sir tor #ask #gawrkin

[malorydaily]

By now the youngest of three daughters born to Igrayne of her marriage to the now deceased Gorlois, [Morgana] is - on the occasion of the marriages of her sisters, Morgause, to Lot, Elayne, to Garlot, concelebrated with that of her mother to Uther - scole in a nunnery,' where she lerned so much that she was a grete clerke of nygromancy' (1,10). Perhaps - as male authors for centuries before and after as well as during Malory's own, maintained - this schooling illustrates the danger of educating women beyond their appropriate sphere (which is to male interests rather than their own). Indeed, Malory scales down Morgan's education from his French sources, where (as we have seen, and as Vinaver notes), she 'takes a full course in the seven arts' (3, 1235).

Maureen Fries, 'From The Lady to The Tramp: The Decline of Morgan le Fay in Medieval Romance' in Arthuriana 4

#malorydaily #morgana #morgan le fay #maureen fries #Book 1

[llamagirl28]

hi! question! In the very first scene when Arthur talks to Morgana alone, Arthur says "You're my half-sister! We came out of the same womb!", but I thought that they shared the same father, but not mother? Am I misunderstanding something?

Btw, love your story, so excited to get to the new content! <3

Thank you!

In this story (and a lot legends as far as I'm aware) they share only a mother - Igraine. Now, you may wonder why Morgana would have thought she had a claim to the throne - that's because even though Uther is not her father, legally he did adopt her after killing her father, Gorlois, to have power over her.

Uther was a Pendragon. Morgana's not a Pendragon - she's Le Fay, like Igraine.

#the bastard of camelot #Morgana #Arthur

[kaiwrites-if]

Arthur: Uther Pendragon | Ygraine Pendragon (née de Bois) †

Gwen: Thomas | Alicia †

Morgana: Gorlois † | Vivienne le Fay †(?)

Lance: Ban † | Elaine de Maris

Morgana: Morgause le Fay | Lance: Hector de Maris

Ygraine died in childbirth.

Alicia fell ill and died when Gwen was young.

Gorlois fell in battle and Vivienne is missing, presumed dead.

Ban was assassinated, and Elaine remarried and had Hector.

Morgause is three years older than Morgana, and Hector is five years younger than Lance.

#c: uther #c: ygraine #c: tom #c: alicia #c: gorlois #c: vivienne #c: ban #c: elaine #c: morgause #c: hector #artbreeders #c: ros family #ygraine and alicia look young because they died young #I didn’t forget to age them #promise

[tolkien-feels]

Oh I have for quite some time been thinking about daughter(s) of Finwe AU; and I have to say: female! Feanor would make for such fantastical Morgana le Fay figure (plus we need more women who are hubristic subcreators and mad scientists and break and haunt world with their pride and madness). I espc feel that it would make for fun relationships with Finwe and Indis, with Fingolgin, and with Melkor.

Wait wait wait wait wait no damn it now I'm full on headcanoning an au that is like... Finwe as an Igraine figure, Miriel as a Gorlois figure and then Indis, of course, as an Uther figure. And then we ignore how Arthurian genealogy works in most stories and have the children of Finwe parallel the many daughters of Igraine. They don't map onto each other so well but like, just in terms of Vibes of "Everybody in this family is Legendary"

....this is very much not where I should go in answering this ask. Sorry. Let me try again.

In this au, are Findis and Lalwen, men or women? (Assuming elves subscribe to gender binary, which I headcanon they do in Aman) Because I feel like the answer would change the dynamics A Lot if you assume, again, that Aman is sexist

#do NOT mention arthuriana-related things near me #there's a middle/high schooler inside me who will start screaming

[thekingofthenameless]

37 for the ask game

Thanks for the ask!

37 - Defy

Tws: rape mentions

[Gorlois and Igraine] are in shock for a while. Uther, their king, is the one who raped her. Has he raped more women, or is his wife his only victim? The question plagues him as he pulls out some parchment. We found him, is all that he writes, before he sends it to Merlin. Merlin and Charlie don’t speak about it, (don’t speak about any of their past really, but it clearly haunts the former) but it’s not a secret that they have gone against kings before. Charlie being a dragon probably helps. Either way, they know how to defy royalty, and perhaps, they’ll have ideas of how to bring justice to Igraine (and Uther’s possible other victims) without bloodshed. He hopes they will.

#asks #danhengsbestie #writing #my ocs #The King of the Nameless #Gorlois le Fay #Igraine le Fay #tw: rape #tw: rape mention #tw: sa #tw: sa mention #send me more asks pls pls pls 🥺

[kob131]

"Roast: Avalon Le Fay and Morgan’s whole set up. Like, civilization wise. Put as much plot related stuff in as you like at least." you got this ask before but you didnt know much about the plot so I would like to here it again know that you do know

Well I forgot about that ask before so very well.

You know, it's a personal theory of mine that Mordred picked up her administrative talents from Le Fay. I mean, it makes some kind of sense. Le Fay, or at least one of her personalities, grew up under Gorlois, the Duke of Cornwall, then Uther alongside Igraine. Naturally at some point, she must have picked up some level of ruling know-how. And Mordred knowing these kind of skills despite having never been raised like an heir by Arturia kind of knocks it down to Le Fay passing it on, if only to try and trick her into thinking she'd actually get the throne.

The reason why I bring this up is because it kind of puts into perspective just how much a fuck up LB Morgan really is in the ruling department. Yeah, the Fae are nothing but selfish, entitled bastards who do nothing but take the most dickish route possible to their goals but that's in their nature- they lack human morals as well as human pragmatism to know that all this backstabbing would kill them off. But at the point that Morgan showed up- She knew all this. She knew the Fae were effectively ungovernable creatures, down to their very nature. She knows that everything about them yearns for death and the end of their world for the sins they committed, to the point of incarnating a version of VORTIGERN to kill them all. And yet she still decided to rule over them.

Not out of ideals or beliefs mind you. She abandoned her ideals and beliefs as a person when she became a tyrant. Morgan gets next to NOTHING out of this situation except some vague love for Britan that Le Fay had and passed on. But the thing is- Britan WANTS the Fae to die. Britan WANTS them to all die off and for the Fairy Isle to crumple for their sins. The aforementioned Vortigern is an INCARNATION of its will to die- she is going against the wishes of the very thing she supposedly loved. And all for what at that point? Not her happiness, not the Fae's happiness and certainly not Sith's. She went through all that pain and effort for...what in the end? Instinct? Routine? Proving a point to Arturia? Nothing. She got nothing in the end.

And the saddest thing? It didn't NEED to be that way. By the time Sith came around- it was a Lostworld. Morgan along with whoever she wanted could have just crossed the barrier of light and escaped that accursed land and lived outside of it. Yeah, the world is barren but Chaldea still exists. Morgan could have helped them unbleach the planet and give Sith a place to live in peace. She could have taken the child she supposedly cared for, given up her foolish dream and give her a better life. And not, I dunno, ignore her 99% of the time, bitch at her when the child SHE raised screwed up and do nothing to help her. For fuck's sake, MORDRED has a better sense of self and self esteem than Sith. And Mordred bases her identity in no small part on Arturia with about as much self esteem as her dad.

You wanna know what the one thing that really proves how foolish Morgan was at the end? Even assuming Morgan survived killing Cerennous, which considering Arturia Caster's end is unlikely- She would have STILL needed to deal with Oberon. Or rather, Oberon-Vortigern, someone commanding what is basically a mobile black hole that Morgan has shown no counters against. And even if she did- Oberon could easily just summon some catepillars to fuck with her and then have her fall into the damn thing. And all because she ordered Barghest to burn the Welsh forest to the ground, killing all the insect fae...who were keeping Vortigern in check under the guise of Oberon. Morgan's own actions KILLED her country.

She worked for nothing and then killed her own chances at any meaning. And it's all her fault.

[paulgadzikowski]

[Image description: Preview panel for the comic strip at the link. Queen Guenevere and Morgan le Fay of Arthur King Of Time And Space, space arc, sit at a conference table and are interrupted by Sir Constantine. Guenevere says, "Well, that's a new look for you, Sir Constantine!" Constantine says, "I thought a dye might improve my chances for getting a date for the Harvest Ball." Unfortunately there are not image descriptions at the main Hero Of Three Faces site. End description.] 

The Hero of Three Faces is fanfiction crossovers, but it’s comic strips with stick figures, but they’re triangles. Preview panel only. Click here for full cartoon. Or see the on-site navigation tutorial. Or see this blog’s FAQ, or my archive tumblog’s FAQ. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers. Cartoons linked from Tumblr 10:00 (Central US time) daily are the previous day’s new update and the posts are pinned to the top of this blog. Cartoons linked from Tumblr 22:00 daily are from the archive and the posts are pinned only during annual summer hiatus of new updates.

Looking back, I think Constantine (in the sources Arthur’s regent during the Roman War [this cartoons’s set in Guenevere’s regency during the AKOTAS Roman War] and successor as High King after Camlann/Salisbury) must be the only knight in Arthur, King of Time and Space who is male in the sources and in the AKOTAS baseline arc, female in the contemporary arc (where they’re Arthur’s running mate and vice president and, I assumed until 11/9/16, successor) and then not female in the space arc. Of course I drew this Three Faces because I noticed recently Constantine’s hair color changed at the end of the space Roman War which I hadn’t done on purpose. I think they’re dark again for the rest of the run, and only appear again in the contemporary arc, but I don’t remember for sure.

Trivia: AKOTAS asserts here Cador was Gorlois’ second son by his first wife before Igraine, which means Morgan is Constantine’s half-aunt. Which may be why she seems more casual and relaxed with him here than she is with anyone else including her own children - her association with Cador’s family predates all the bad turns in her life.

#arthur king of time and space #akotas #fancomics

[caer-gai]

Finished Igraine - Pendragon family!

Orkney bois here since they're technically the same family:

https://www.tumblr.com/caer-gai/735436356714659840/my-grandma-mordred-looks-like-hes-either-about?source=share

#uther pendragon #gorlois #igraine #morgause #king lot #elaine of garlot #arthur #morgan le fay #my art

[maatnetwork]

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[acciofandomlove]

The Weirdly Manipulative Narrative of BBCM Characters

Let's start with the character that is the easiest to explain and whose sympathetic narrative is the easiest to break from:-

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#1 - Uther

Part 1 - Ygraine

Uther starts off as this big bad villain who every viewer hates. He kills magic users, is a tyrant, emotionally manipulates Arthur, is a narcissist, a natural liar and so forth.

Then we get to know more about his past and realise that he's just a broken man. Someone who lost his wife due to magic and couldn't handle the loss so he chose the only path he understood as a warrior king- violence and bloodshed.

“ She was my heart, my soul. And you took her from me. ”

But here's the thing.

Uther cheated on his wife.

“I loved your mother. There isn't a day that passes where I don't wish that she were still alive. I could never have done anything to hurt her.”

Yeah, sure Uther.

Now, I'm not saying that Uther didn't care for Ygraine. But cheating (and barely showing any guilt over it later) is not the action of a man who "loved" his wife. Considering the fact that Gorlois was clueless about the infidelity, we have to assume that Ygraine was too.

To prove my point further, let's consider the fact how we all know how much Uther valued tradition and arranged marriages. Is it so hard to assume that he would've married Ygraine for her family standing and pedigree rather than "true love"? Especially since he was a new king who had just conquered all of Camelot.

"Your father betrayed me."

So, then why was he so angry at her death? Why did he remember her so fondly? Why did he always call her the one he loved?

The same reason Jane Seymour was the only one Henry VIII truly loved.

Because she gave him a male heir.

"I'm sorry Arthur. Your father has deceived you as he deceived me."

Like I said, this doesn't mean that Uther didn't love her at all. The pain he feels about her death shows that he obviously did.

But a lot of his pain also comes from guilt.

Ygraine probably lived her last moments feeling the fear that she was going to die, sorrow that she would not get to see her son grow up and betrayed over what fate her husband helped write for her.

"Those few seconds I held you were the most precious of my life."

The most precious moment of her life was also the one tinged with the most sadness.

Uther was not some tragic Romeo. Instead, he was the Othello that let himself be his own downfall. But what sets him apart from his Shakespearean counterpart, what truly makes him the villain is what he did next.

“You showed yourself to be a man of honour. You inherited that trait from your mother.”

Uther destroyed Ygraine's life, her friend's life, her legacy, her kingdom.

Ygraine is shown to be sympathetic to magic from the way Nimueh and Morgause describe her. But he turned her death into a cause of war, killing thousands in the process.

He tore down homes for the magic he used to create his own. Kills children for the sake of the one he sired. He not only rages but actively lies and manipulates as he did with Balinor. He spread propagandas and used Ygraine's death as emotional fodder.

He got Gorlois killed in his fight of hatred, Nimueh's life destroyed, Vivianne to have to hide one of her daughters and Gaius to lose his love and watch people he cares for die. These were all people Ygraine knew and was most probably friends with.

Her brother Tristan was killed and Agravaine reduced to a snivelling villain who Uther barely tried to hold any correspondence with as far as we knew. You could say it was because Uther didn't trust him but the very reason that was true was because Uther sacrificed Ygraine and then had the audacity to blame innocent people for it.

He lied about her sacrifice to not only her subjects but also her son, dishonouring her life and cheapening her death.

No matter how much you try, you can never show Uther in any way, shape or form as "sympathetic". The death of the mother during childbirth was quite a common thing during that time, regardless of magic. How that can be used as a reason or justification for literal GENOCIDE is beyond me.

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Intro

#1 - Uther Part 1 // Uther Part 2 (coming soon)

#bbcm #bbc merlin #merlin #ygraine #ygraine pendragon #uther #uther pendragon #arthur pendragon #vivianne le fay #gorlois le fay #morgana le fay #nimueh #morgaus le fay #morgana pendragon #gaius #narrative bbcm

[thedupshadove]

Daydreaming my own Arthurian retelling, and my desire to give Arthur the "raised in relative obscurity and ignorance of his birthright" backstory is clashing headlong into my desire to have Arthur and Morgan know each other as children in order to give their relationship as adults more depth and complexity.

#king arthur #arthuriana #arthurian mythology #arthurian legend #morgan le fay #Yes Morgan is his half-sister (daughter of Ygraine and Gorlois) in this version #No she is not Mordred's mother #That dubious honor belongs to Morgause #(Who is *not* his half-sister; she's his maternal aunt) #Anyway I want Morgan to have Complex feelings about Arthur #While he mostly just wishes they could get along #Like did she show up to Camelot unanounced with the intent of stirring up trouble? Yes #But when their initial banter leads to him breaking down sobbing over the Lancelot-Guinevere Situation #She *will* drop everything to hold him and make slightly meanly-worded but still sympathetic murmurring noises until he's cried himself out #and listen while he gets everything off his chest #(And he finally broke down in front of her because she's his Big Sister and he doesn't have to be The King in front of her) #But like I said: how do we pull that off if he's supposed to have been spirited away to Ector as a baby?