#Guigemar AU
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[Summary of the prologue of "Guigemar", lay of Marie de France, mediaeval writer]
One day Guigemar, a young man incapable of loving, finds a doe and her fawn in the forest. The animal is completely white with stag’s antlers. The knight, not bothered by the fact that the creature is a mother, fires his bow and struck the animal in the forehead. The doe falls immediately, but the arrow ricochets and penetrates Guigemar's thigh. He falls down beside the suffering animal, who suddenly speaks and curses the man for inflicting fatal injuries on her: "May you never find a cure…until you are cured by a woman's love. You will suffer for her and she will suffer as much for you"
"Dad, why didn't you tell us that mom was mortal?"
"I'm sorry, my deer"
#hws france#hws canada#hws america#hws england#fruk#aph france#aph america#aph canada#aph england#nyotalia#nyo france#In the original story it's sort of implied that the doe is actually a male specimen but the author gives her female pronouns#So this hybrid France here is a Trans “woman” (In the sense that she is still a white doe in this universe;I only drew her in a human form)#It's implicit that Arthur is ftm but it is at your discretion; he is a wind nymph#Guigemar AU#Medieval literature AU#??#But also Bambi#Because the small fawn cannot survive without the mum so in the original story they just die outside the narration#and there isn't any father figure#Let me save them#tw murder#my art
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L'amour est une blessure intérieure qui n'apparaît pas au-dehors. C'est une maladie tenace que la nature elle-même nous envoie. -Les Laïs, Guigemar, Marie de France
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