Favorite story arc is 100% the Ragnelle story, it's a fascinating example of gender roles and expectations within Arthuriana which is something that's very dear to me (gawain is CHUGGING that Respect Women juice and I adore him for it)
Favorite parent is Morgan le Fay in the iterations where she's Mordred's mother. Teacher of the holy doctrine: gaslight gatekeep girl kill your boss
I finally got around to reading "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." One detail that I hadn't heard about before was the ugly old woman. She's deliberately contrasted with Lady Bertilak, and while we never hear her speak, Gawain apparently spends the days talking to both of them and finds them both to be enjoyable company.
I knew it wasn't going to be right, but a weird idea I had was that it was Ragnelle. And you know, I feel like combining these stories wouldn't be too hard. There's Gawain, having his virtue tested by a beautiful but supposedly wanton woman, but instead winds up with her supposedly ugly but virtuous companion. Both stories even use the setup of "knight has to come back and die because HONOR," and "The Marriage of Sir Gawain" even keeps the Christmas setting. If nothing else this could be a prequel, where Ragnelle decides "yeah, that's the knight I want" and arranges to marry him later.
Instead the old lady was apparently Morgan le Fay. Which doesn't make a ton of sense, but honestly, nothing about her in this story does.
So have any females ever tried to join the club such as elphaba?
I get this question a lot and while I ADORE Wicked and especially Elphaba, I'm sort of leaning more into literary characters, and the Elphaba we know is kind of a far cry from the original Frank Baum's one-eyed witch. But! I do know another classic lady of antiquity who might do nicely...
A year ago, i started making fan art of Gawain with my Oc, and his master, Elizabeth.
I wanted to do it for fun and giggles, but i ended up building a deeper world around them.
Fate/Reminiscent: Two Intertwined Souls will be an hard project to make and finish (cause as usually happens to us writers, we know how it begins, how it end and some cool stuff in the middle, but we are having an hard time connecting it), but it's making me proud already.
Maybe it won't be good, just some shitty fanfiction on the internet, but it will be there, for other people to cringe and laugh about it .
I will probably look at this in few years and ask what was wrong with me, but that's okay. This is how we grow.
So ye, happy 1st Anniversary, Gawain and Elizabeth.
ok so perhaps I’m hallucinating or something but the name ‘gromer somer jour’ in the wedding of sir gawain and dame ragnell, and especially the last part ‘somer jour’, sounds really close to the french ‘sans mesure’ right? and I was basically wondering if there were any connection at all? seems suspicious to me