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i-am-gun-robot · 6 months
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Chapter 11 is up! Things are going to be a little different after this chapter >:) Make sure to check the notes at the end for a little announcement!
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az-daniels-yeeter · 1 year
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rise-of-arcadia · 5 months
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My favorite moments from Wizards- Episode 2: History in the Making
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soadscrawl · 2 years
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you guys seemed to really like my medic steve, so i decided to expand on it. apparently im not the first person to think of this concept, and i think its so funny we all collectively saw this violent teenage boy who punches everything and were like “what if he did the opposite of that” lmao. some notes:
-this is what i imagine his outfit for wizards would be. he still hangs out with the knights, but thats becasue hes a medic who keeps having to patch them up during the tournament and stuff
-i imagine a running gag where everyone in the past thinks steve is a medical genius bc he knows about things like washing your hands before doing a medical procedure and boiling water to purify it. a big chunk of his arc would be about him liking to feel like hes smart and not wanting to leave the past bc he feels special there since he has so much more knowledge than them.
-the longer hair is for two reasons: 1) its in some concept art and i thought it was cute, 2) in the rewrite of TOA that lives in my head theres a timeskip between the end of 3below and wizards, so it also shows the progression of time, and represents how steve has changed since the beginning of 3below.
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I was today years old when I realized that Lancelot had a prosthetic arm.
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How have I watched this series so much and not noticed till I was making an amv on TOA?
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akozuheiwa · 1 year
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Chapters: 1/40 Fandom: Tales of Arcadia (Cartoons) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan/Alex Swift, Steve Palchuk/Eli Pepperjack/Aja Tarron, Jim Lake Jr./Claire Nuñez, Toby Domzalski & Jim Lake Jr., Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan & Krel Tarron Characters: Krel Tarron, Alex Swift, Hisirdoux "Douxie" Casperan, Jim Lake Jr. (Tales of Arcadia), Toby Domzalski, Claire Nuñez, Steve Palchuk, Mordred Pendragon, Merlin (Tales of Arcadia), King Arthur (Tales of Arcadia), Lancelot (Tales of Arcadia), Iros Ventis, Morgana | Pale Lady (Tales of Arcadia), Knights of the Round Table, Original Characters Additional Tags: Major Original Character(s), Character Death, Loss of Limbs, Presumed Dead, Torture, Blood and Injury, Evil Merlin (Tales of Arcadia), Time Travel, Wizard Steve Palchuk, Alternate Universe, taking the canon wizards and going MINE NOW, trigger warnings before the chapters that need them, get ready for ANGST and BACKSTORY Series: Part 4 of The Ones Who Stayed 'Verse Summary:
It's three years after the most recent near-miss apocalypse and things are better than ever for Earth and New Akiridion. However, when Douxie finds a strange magical signature coming from near the ruins of Camelot, our heroes find themselves thrown back in time to a world of knights, kings, and the war that affected all of their lives even centuries later.
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s0me-rand0 · 1 year
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Why isn't anyone talking about how... horrible this is
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After so much training, possibly being his father
To get killed in front of steve
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chaosangel767 · 2 years
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REQUESTS OPENING  SOON FOR SUMMER OF SMUT **Closed**
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Hey Darlings,
My requests are opening for the Summer Of Smut event on July 5th at 12pm EST.
This lovely event is hosted by @voltage-vixen​ & @xxsycamore​! All the details can be found here.
⛱️Guidelines ⛱️
18+ -Minors DNI
Each Character and prompt can only be requested once 
Word Count may vary 
Crossed out means taken
Up to 2 characters & one Prompt per request
Accept suitor x suitor, suitor x Reader, suitor x mc 
please specify reader/ MC's gender. (Alice, Emma, Mitsuki will be defaults for their fandoms)
⛱️Fandoms ⛱️
IkeRev: Ray, Sirius, Luka, Seth, Fenrir, Lancelot, Jonah, Edgar, Kyle, Zero, Harr, Loki, Blanc, Dalim, Dean, Mousse, King Sandwich, Jack Sandwich, Fenray Sandwich
IkePri: Jin, Chevalier, Clavis, Leon, Yves, Licht, Nokto, Luke, Rio, Sariel, Gilbert
IkeVamp: Napoleon, Jean, Mozart, Theo, Arthur, Vincent, Leonardo, Comte, Issac, Sebastian, William
Obey Me: Lucifer, Mammon, Levi, Satan, Asmo, Beel, Belphegor, Solomon, Simeon, Diavolo, Barbatos
Court of Darkness: Guy, Toa, Fenn, Roy, Lynt, Rio
⛱️Prompts ⛱️
July 17th - Playing dirty in a water fight | Summertime strip tease
 July 18th - Blow jobs with a cooled tongue | Blow jobs on the beach
 July 19th - Beach bar flirting ends in a one-night stand | Sexy summer fling 
 July 20th - Nighttime skinny dipping | Forgetting a bathing suit 
 July 21st - Quickies in the shade | A shaded affair 
 July 22nd - Sharing a cold drink | Sharing a popsicle 
 July 23rd - Hand jobs in the car at the outdoor movie theater | Cockwarming in the car at the outdoor movie theater 
 July 24th -  Sneaking a hand into the bikini | Bonded by the bikini top 
 July 25th - Sleek in sunscreen | Tracing along the tan lines 
 July 26th - Bodies pressed tightly together in the hammock | Sex under the  sun dress 
 July 27th - Sneaking out of a pool party | Conjoined under the water
 July 28th - A summer getaway sexathon | Cumming on a cross-country car trip 
 July 29th - Hot skin + cold substances | The MC/LI's body as a sponge 
 July 30th - Welcoming the sunrise on the shore | Stranded on an isolated   island together
 July 31st  - Free Prompt
Tagging: @thewitchofbooks​, @toloveawarlord​, @kissmetwicekissmedeadly​, @aquagirl1978​, @devildomwritersposts​, @queen-dahlia​, @sarahann-1984​, @canaria-blackwell​, @ikesimp100​, @kpop-and-otome​, @citizensofcradle​, @littlewitty​, @curious-skybunny​, @lordsisterxotome​, @namine-somebodies-nobody​, @queengiuliettafirstlady​, @jihanel​, @atelieredux​, @violettduchess​ - If your name is crossed out I was unable to tag you. If you want to be tagged/untagged please let me know or fill out this form here.
See you guys on July 5th 💛🧡💛
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aikoiya · 2 years
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ToA - Rewrite
If I could only add 1-3 things to the Tales of Arcadia story, I'd first keep Jim a half-troll & never turn him back. Maybe change it to so he turns back into a human in the day time like Demona from Gargoyles & gets sunburned easily & can eat human food. That, or he uses that one stone that would let him walk around in sunlight as a troll. Or just let him be able to eat human food. I feel like that was an uncalled for change. He always loved food & cooking!
Second, I'd make Jim King Arthur's reincarnation. I know that the jerk magic dudes revived him & made him their minion, but hear me out. What if they could only revive his body, but were unable to reconnect his soul to his body?
Third, no series reset button. Or, at least, if there is one, keep Jim the hero, but make it sort of a butterfly effect dilemma where just one little change creates a cascading effect that creates great changes in the story. I mean, I love Toby, but I see him more as the Lancelot to Jim's Arthur, if that makes sense.
Either way, this would make Jim being turned into a half-troll almost poetic in a way. Not only that, we could keep the ‘once & future king’ thing going. Like, I felt like the excuse of only needing to have conviction or whatever to wield Excalibur absolute bullshit. Because if that were true, then Excalibur wouldn’t be freaking special.
Just keep it to where only a true king could wield it & by that I don't mean someone who happens to be of royal blood, but rather a person who exemplifies the qualities of a good king. For instance, the Bible notes the willingness to sacrifice one's self for the wellbeing of one's people to be kingly.
For more on this concept, go here:
Also, we could make Claire Guinevere's reincarnation & because this version of the story doesn't have a love triangle, it'd just be romantic.
Not to mention, Jim would be how Arthur genuinely makes up for his mistakes in his past life.
Also, what if Jim was the descendant of Lancelot? I mean... it was said that Lancelot was raised by the Lady of the Lake & Jim's last name is Lake. Lancelot du Lac... It makes sense...
Imagine Britain's reaction to the fact that the true heir is American! XD
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slingerapen · 1 year
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So mad at toa: wizards for giving us gawain but its ofc not even gawain its lancelot
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taags-old-account · 2 years
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Steve from TOA for the character ask game
Hell Yeah!
Sexuality Headcanon: Bisexual (it's the vibes)
Gender Headcanon: Cisgender male
A ship I have with said character: Aja, Though I'm not a shippy person. I'm just neutral with it.
A BROTP I have with said character: Literally all of 'em. Eli, Douxie, Krel, Jim, the whole lot of 'em.
A NOTP I have with said character: Once again, not a shippy person. So I guess weird minor/adult ships.
A random headcanon: Less of a headcanon and more of an AU, but Steve having the ability to control water and ice, like waterbending. But for like when the Arcane Order would come, Steve would fight Skreal and take over the role of Skreal. Another headcanon would be that he was a descendant of Lancelot.
General Opinion over said character: He's an interesting character, and while I think his character could have been handled better, I still think he's neat!
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teamxdark · 2 years
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💎 , 🎢 and ☀️?
No fic was provided so I'll just choose ToA!
💎- What was your favorite part?
Chapter 18. Hands down. Wedding chapter. I was looking forward to that one from the very beginning! I love dancing and I love showing people hanging out together and having fun. Also, I love tormenting Lancelot, and this was some prime pining real estate!
🎢- Were there any scenes you were nervous about? For audience reception or otherwise?
I did mention in a previous ask that Chapter 9 (the one with Elaine) and chapter 22 (the one with Gawain's decisions) were a couple that got my heart hammering when I posted them, mostly because I didn't know if I'd written them well enough for the themes presented and I didn't know if they would be received well. Some of the topics were a bit difficult to handle but no one's complained yet so hopefully I did okay!
☀️- Was there symbolism/motifs you worked in?
There are the ones of Arthur being the sun, Guinevere being the stars, Galahad being light, Gawain being the moon and Lancelot being the world (that last one is especially fun, considering that his mother is one of the main deities of the kingdom, the Heart of Avalon). There's also tying together Arthur and wind, though that's a bit more nebulous.
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sunnymusingsao3 · 2 years
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Tales of Arcadia’s Lancelot Is a Fascinating Case Study for a Background Character With Incredible Potential: An Arthurian/ToA Cross-Examination Character Essay
Kenneth Hodges, in his essay, “Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte Darthur,” deconstructs the traditional notion that invulnerability—the inability to be hurt or bleed—is a masculine trait which makes a knight a knight. He explains that throughout Le Morte D’Arthur:
Wounds do not mark failures in the effort to be knightly. Although each wound might be said to result from a failure to ward a blow properly, the inevitability of this happening some times even to the best knights means knights had to deal with the fact that they would be hurt. Medieval sources testify to the thorough understanding that being injured was an essential part of knighthood, even for the best knights (Hodges 15).
It is a fate inevitable for anyone who gains knight status in Malory’s novel: they will eventually be hurt. But it is that act of being hurt—and in fact, the very risk of being hurt in the first place—that proves a knight to be honorable. Hodges explains that “Injury is thus essential to create meaning out of conflict. If there is no injury, then the fight does not matter: neither side is forced to remember the conflict and neither side gives up anything for asserting its beliefs” (Hodges 16). He points to Arthur’s fight against Accolon in Le Morte to prove this. Excalibur’s scabbard prevents the wearer from shedding blood, and in this fight, Accolon is the one who is wearing it, rather than Arthur—leaving Arthur vulnerable. When Arthur is wounded, however, Malory makes it a point to remind the reader that the only reason Accolon is winning is because he cannot get hurt. Arthur’s decision to continue fighting, even through his wounds, is presented as the more honorable choice, and it is narratively rewarded with victory; Arthur ultimately comes out the victor of the fight, not despite of, but because of his wounds and ability to be wounded.
In Dreamworks’s Netflix series, Wizards: Tales of Arcadia, we are presented with a Lancelot who is largely used to aid in comedic relief, due to his resemblance to one of the supporting characters. However, his visual design is distinct for one other reason, and it is that reason that I argue that he is more than just a joke character. Because aside from using elements from Steve Palchuk’s model in order to animate his head, Lancelot also has a prosthetic arm, and it is this prosthetic’s existence, and what it means within the Arthurian canon, that creates the possibility for real depth within this character.
The story handles Lancelot’s arm in a very nonchalant way. It is designed in the style of his armor, and though intricate, it does not stand out starkly against the rest of his design. It is simply a part of him, as much as his hair or his beard are. However, while this trait may not be addressed diegetically, in the extradiegetic world, this character trait is deeply significant for us as viewers to take note of.
Tales of Arcadia’s Lancelot follows many of the typical modern tropes for the mythical character—he is brave, winsome, and confident. These traits all stem from the pop culture view of the archetypical knight—a knight who is a result of romanticization and “action-hero-ification” of knighthood. The way that pop culture presents them, knights could even very nearly be called a predecessor for modern superheroes. We can see this concept in various medias which feature Arthurian elements—especially in live action King Arthur films, many of which take an action genre approach to the story, as they highlight violence and battle for the entertainment and excitement of their audiences. This is not to say that this romanticization of knights as charismatic action heroes is necessarily poor writing; tropes serve a purpose—most commonly, they help establish certain ideas about characters and worldbuilding in a viewer’s mind, without the writers having to spend long amounts of time on exposition.
One such demonstration of this action hero/romanticized knight lies in the 1981 Excalibur’s Lancelot. Lancelot in this film first appears in shiny, silver armor and declares his perfect record in battle, explaining that he has yet to be defeated, and so swears no loyalty to any king yet. Arthur, who is confronting him, believes Lancelot to be bragging, and thus calls him out as arrogant for such a boast—to which Lancelot responds, “Not a boast, sir, but a curse” (Excalibur 47:28-42). This brief dialogue before they go on to fight uses key assumptions that we as an audience have about the traits that make a knight honorable. Before Lancelot goes on to specify that he is not boasting, Arthur is right, to modern viewers. We see knights as paragons of morality, and this is in part due to Malory’s own inclusion of Christian themes in Le Morte, which were previously not prominent in the Arthurian canon, but did tend to use the same moral code that was deeply prevalent in forming Western culture as we know it today.
In truth, whether or not a knight was a braggart had no relevance to a knight’s duties, according the Pentecostal Oath—which is ironically something that Malory himself uses in his novel as well—which all knights swear in order to earn their title. The Oath says nothing about bragging, and the only thing that might come close to touching on that subject is that knights are expected to be kind-hearted—though this notion applies more to a forbiddance placed upon unnecessary cruelty in battle, rather than to the purity of one’s heart.
That said, the Pentecostal Oath is also an unfamiliar and largely excluded part of the myths as we know them today—which means that, as far as the average viewer knows, Arthur is making a valid point here. And in fact, according to our own societal rules, bragging is indeed seen as a faux pas, one which reflects negatively on the braggart’s character.
But then Lancelot counters the idea that he has bad character, by explaining that he did not intend to brag—he sees his lack of fealty with a king as a curse, as something that causes him distress. It is natural that he would see the situation this way because a knight is only a knight if they have a king to serve; to Lancelot, his inability to be defeated in battle is dishonorable and is something which he hopes will end one day, which aligns back to Hodges’s point that invulnerability does not a noble knight make. In just a few words, Excalibur has established Lancelot as somehow both a bad and a good knight at once—on the one hand, he is invulnerable, and has no king to serve, but on the other hand, he recognizes this as an issue and seeks to rectify it, which ultimately softens our judgements of him.
Arthur might be an admirable man with a morality that aligns with modern audiences in this moment, but he is also a king—and in fact, he is a king first, and a knight second. Lancelot has no such title; he is a knight and a knight only, and furthermore, he is a knight that eventually gets what every knight wants—a king to serve. His character goal is realized by the end of the film, and though he betrays Arthur by pursuing his wife in an affair, the two of them reconcile by the end, cementing both of them as morally good characters, as they are able to overcome their differences and ultimately keep their relationship to each other, rather than allowing it to fall through—a notion of good that once again resonates with modern audiences. And it is this resonation that helped carry this film’s presentation of what knights should be into the generalized pop culture idea of what a knight is.
Excalibur presents to us the action hero knights who we enjoy watching, who discuss fairly easy-to-understand moral issues, and who pick the path of good, even after being tempted from it. This film shows us exactly the type of modern knight that we call to mind when we think of Arthurian tales today.
And it is this modern knight that we see in Tales of Arcadia’s Lancelot as well. He is a charismatic, handsome knight, who delivers inspirational speeches, gives his all in battle, and inspires confidence in others; he is loyal to his king, and—as Hodges would point out—is not invulnerable. The evidence of his honor in battle is visible on his person; we don’t know the circumstances of the fight which took his arm, but we do see the effects that the fight had on him. He wears a prosthetic arm, and his sword is broken*, though he still wields it.
*Note: It is still speculation that his sword was broken in the same fight that took his arm, and it will likely remain so.
This prosthetic and this broken sword prove the existence of at least one fight, if not two fights, that put Lancelot in grave danger, which thus makes the fact that he is still alive a noble act in and of itself, since he persevered through the risk, and the possible injury of such a vicious battle.
Lancelot has more than proven that he will follow through in a fight with high stakes—we see on screen the proof that he has put himself in the way of harm and has still come out with his head held high— and that he has survived the recovery process, to boot, which is no easy feat, either. In fact, the act of allowing someone to treat your wound is another thing that Hodges cites as honorable because, “Injuries educate young knights, and the opportunity for healing creates lasting social bonds. Thus injuries are often a key part of becoming a mature knight and a member of a community” (Hodges 19). He goes on, then, to explain how various bonds are formed between specific knights who are injured and knights who take care of the injured in Le Morte. And while we can’t be sure that this also happened in Wizards, there is another Wizards character—Sir Galahad—who might have been one such acting nurse for Lancelot. We cannot be certain, as it was never showed on screen, but Galahad and Lancelot’s relationship is shown on screen, and it is made to be one that is close and fond.
The evidence of a thriving relationship between these two knights is present in the way that Lancelot throws his arm around Galahad very casually in episode two, and in how Galahad reacts to Lancelot’s death in episode seven. While the screen time is limited for these two, it is apparent from the get-go that these two knights have grown close to each other in their tenure under Arthur. I posit that one such way that they could have created this relationship is by using Hodges’s point about caring for the wounded. When Lancelot took such a major injury before the events of the show, it does not seem out of the realm of possible that the rest of Arthur’s knights rallied around him as he recovered.
Of course, all of this can be speculated at all because of the proof that we have that Lancelot can even get hurt in the first place. Not only has he been hurt, but he has been hurt in a significant way, in a way that would have changed his life and the way that he interacted with the diegetic world around him.
This is all to say: simplistic as Lancelot’s character is, due to his lack of on-screen appearances, there is still a great deal happening with his character that I personally find to be interesting. I think that Lancelot’s character speaks primarily to the character design team’s brilliance as they worked on this show. For the constraints that all the showrunners had on this mini-series, there are a remarkable number of smaller details which help push the show to still be an entertaining and interesting piece of media, especially when compared to the Arthurian canon. Wizards: Tales of Arcadia is very loosely an Arthurian show; it has many recognizable figures from the original legends, but it puts its own twist on them, and while these twists might include many easily recognizable tropes, there’s something fascinating to be said about the decisions that it’s made that do stand out.
The primary stand-out twist on an Arthurian character is most likely found in the Lady of the Lake’s design—as she resembles not a woman in medieval clothing who seemingly lives underwater, but instead, has the aspects of a very Del Toro-style monster. But while this twist is fascinating as well, I think that there’s still something to be said about the more subtle changes that they have made to the canon; the ones that the characters don’t acknowledge as anything more than a regular part of their lives. What a character finds as normal—especially when it isn’t, to us—speaks volumes about both them as a person, and the world in which they live.
Lancelot has a prosthetic arm. The characters acknowledge it as a simple fact of life. Malory’s knights get hurt. The characters acknowledge it as a simple fact of life. Wizards: Tales of Arcadia’s Lancelot is, in every sense of the concept, a good knight. He has taken the wounds that he has received with perseverance and strength; he uplifts his peers and shows loyalty to his king. This Lancelot is more than just a visual gag for Steve Palchuk to play off of. This Lancelot is our modern action hero with a winsome smile and a mostly good heart, who does have character depth and can be made to be more than comedic relief, and it is by bridging Arthurian canon with Wizards canon, that we can begin to see emerge some intriguing opportunities for growth and storytelling within the large swaths of untold diegetic history that pre-date where Wizards: Tales of Arcadia’s pilot picks up. I think that the entire Tales of Arcadia series has been brought to completion, so I won’t call for spin-offs or new canon details to be added, but I will declare that though the story is over, there is still much that can be done with it, even with its more background, more tropey characters, who, frankly, not only deserve, but indeed hold great deals of potential for, depth and growth.
Sources:
Del Toro, Guillermo and Kraus, Daniel, creators. Wizards: Tales of Arcadia. Dreamworks Animation and Double Dare You Productions, 2020.
Excalibur. Directed by John Boorman, Warner Brothers, 1981.
Hodges, Kenneth. “Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Malory’s ‘Le Morte Darthur.’” Studies in Philology, vol. 106, no. 1, University of North Carolina Press, 2009, pp. 14–31, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20464342.
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Wizards Dating Aesthetic ✨
Morgana: Stolen kisses in shadowy corrdiors, secret strolls in the woods, looks across the dining hall, passing notes, the smell of ink and magic, brushing each others hair, inside jokes, ancient knowledge, gifts exchanged in secret, magic tricks, winking when no ones looking, wishful thinking, finding pressed flowers in your books, ballroom dancing down the halls at midnight, cradling each other's face, swaying in the dark humming softly
Arthur: The smell of rich wine, lavish feasts, extravagant parties, loud inspiring speeches, warm bubble baths and long talks, cuddles by the fireplace, dancing alone to piano music, soft touches, battle strategies and kingdom expansion, bribes, riches beyond your wildest dreams, travel and politics, gifts galore, tracing your lips before kissing them, tight embraces, teasing neck kisses, adjusting his cape and crown, ballroom dancing, shared stories, the looming threat of war
Lancelot: Swords clashing, the smell of roasted meats, back to back fighting, beer drinking competetions, constant teasing, weapon testing, training the troops, preparing for war, roses on your pillow, planning battle formations and attacks, marking maps, armor sparking, quick decisions, battle scars and war stories, suicide missions, singing soldier shanties, sweet nicknames, practicing hand to hand combat, late night shifts staring into a burning fire, living in the moment
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daydream-believin · 3 years
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also steve is lancelot’s son boy they had time travel family time
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shipworm · 4 years
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Steve has a very specific taste in weirdos who can kick his ass
(Ex: Eli, Ajá, Lancelot, Douxie)
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