#and Palamedes loves isolde and Brangain loves tristan...

[gringolet]

GAYEST ARTHURIAN TEXT BRACKET ROUND 1:

propaganda:

Le Morte:

- “Perhaps not the most obviously gay text out there but has some underrated moments. 'Everyone is in love with Lancelot', 'hoole book' edition, where this time the author is too! But more specifically, Lavayne. My guy sees his sister literally prepared to die of love for Lancelot and says 'yah same'. Luckily for him he is a MAN so he can just hop on a horse and follow him. Sorry Elaine. Specific quote: 'She doth as I do: for sythen I saw first my Lorde Sir Lancelot, I cowde never departe frome hym, nother nought I will and I may follow hym.', ”

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- also gawains entire final letter written in his own blood hello??? hello??? «  I, Sir Gawaine, knight of the Table Round, sought my death, and not through thy deserving, but it was mine own seeking; wherefore I beseech thee, Sir Launcelot, to return again unto this realm, and see my tomb, and pray some prayer more or less for my soul. And this same day that I wrote this cedle, I was hurt to the death in the same wound, the which I had of thy hand, Sir Launcelot; for of a more nobler man might I not be slain. Also Sir Launcelot, for all the love that ever was betwixt us, make no tarrying, but come over the sea in all haste » hello???

- also of course the greater cornwall polycule (tristan dinadan palamedes isolde lamorak lancelot brangaine isolde 2 etc etc)

- the whole ill made knight ill starred knight thing is so queer like thats so insanely transgender

SGATGK:

- “kissing”

-“Gawain getting kisses from Bertilak’s wife and kissing Bertilak is very bi”

- “I'm back with another answer. Obviously the kissing game is iconic. The scholarship about this poem is unparalleled. The people cannot get enough of submissive kissy face Gawain & frankly neither can I. He definitely fucked that couple. Or perhaps it's more accurate to say, they fucked him. Easy litmus test for a retelling is how they handle adapting this. Only cowards write around the kissing. Real ones make it even gayer.”

- “Gawain kisses a man in this”

- “3some, poly, bi conduit, gay kiss, gawain”

- “i'm going to kill myself i had a few paragraphs of propaganda typed up and accodentally deleted it all. holy ahit. anyways i have no doubt that this has been submitted before but it is my moral duty to say so again. even excluding the fact that lord bertilak sets up this game of exchange of winnings and sends his wife to seduce gawaine—knowing that gawaine will have to return whatever he recieved unto bertilak—and their kisses and embraces (which are technically 'excusable' under medieval homosocial behaviour), there's a sort of erotic fascination with the green knight everpresent throughout the text, the author, the pearl poet, even taking, what, five (? give or take a few. my memory fails me) verses to describe how green and big and beautiful the green knight is. the green knight kneels before gawaine, letting gawaine take the blow to cut off his head, and later, the green knoght takes a blow to cut off gawaine's head. it's all about reciprocity and exchanges and submission. it's SO erotic . i just. yeah :)”

- ill also say the way gawain is framed in parallel to the lords hunting scenes making him a pursued animal and the wife the pursuer who has him at her mercy is very interesting gender dynamics and role reversal

[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!

[gellavonhamster]

Palamedes for character meme!

How I feel about this character: My second favourite knight of the Round Table after Dinadan! As any Arthurian character, he has his questionable moments (did he really think abducting Isolde that one time would work out well?), but on the whole I find him much more noble and reasonable than the rest of them.

All the people I ship romantically with this character: the Brangaine/Isolde/Tristan/Palamedes/Dinadan friend group/polycule in which lines between friendship and romance blur is real to me

My non-romantic OTP for this character: see the previous point

My unpopular opinion about this character: Tristan/Isolde/Palamedes >>>>>> Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot, I said what I said

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: This is not quite about canon, I guess, but I would simply love to see him included in more retellings and adaptations (in a well-written and non-racist way, obviously). He deserves more appreciation!

[imthemuthafuckingcricket]

Palamedes: "I'm in love with the fair maiden Isolde!"

Brangain drawing X's over Isolde's likeness in th dirt:

"Unfortunate"

[epic-summaries]

Isolde: Sir Palamedes, there is a quest that you must embark on and it is important that Dame Brangaine accompanies you. Palamedes: I, of course, will not refuse you, Mylady, and this does not mean I dislike her company, but why is Dame Brangaine needed? Isolde: It is hard to explain, you will understand during the quest. *Later* This has to make them confess!

They walk back into Tintagel.

Isolde: So how did it go?

Brangaine: a witch cursed me to sleep the whole time and only this one herb could wake me up and Pal had to sail to the Isle of Mann to get it.

Isolde: oh. But he woke you up.

Palomides in the background: must find the herb.

Isolde aside to Tristan: Why couldn’t true loved first kiss work? *back to Brangaine* so why the herb?

Palomides: the witch told me ONLY the herb could wake her up so that’s the only thing that was on my mind.

Isolde sighs: this wasn’t the quest by the way. This was just an unfortunate accident.

Later

Isolde: I think there’s a great conspiracy. Someone doesn’t want Brangaine and Palomides to end up together.

Mark: But they’re such a cute couple why would anyone not want them together?

Isolde: Tristan! I have a quest for you.

[thepromisedbride]

HELLO JESS. BBC GHOSTS ARTHURIAN AU GO (by which I mean the arthurian characters in the premise of BBC ghosts, not the other way around)

REY oh my god i love you for this here we go

So in Ghosts the alive characters are a married couple, right?? Wrong!! Well, not wrong, because yes that’s exactly what Mike and Alison are. But wrong for this version because though I seriously considered having one of the couples as the main characters I then thought “hey what’s more fun than a family!!” and luckily for us (me) we have a ready made family in the form of (drumroll please) The Orkneys!!

The rest is under a read more because I got what some might call “carried away” and others might call “obsessed”

What happens is this: as the Orkney brothers grow up, they rather naturally become separated, until at last Gareth is the last one, at seventeen, living with their mother. Their father (or at least, their supposed father: they all know that Mordred looked too dissimilar to Lot to really be his son, though they never said it) died a while ago, and Morgause could not find it in her to really focus on her children over her job.

The five of them seem to unspokenly care about each other, but in a way where it was clear that they were all waiting to be contacted first.

Nonetheless, when Morgause does die, with Gareth having just turned eighteen and seriously wondering why he had taken a gap year from university, they all show up, and find that they had jointly been bequeathed the old family house in the country.

Gawain has been recently promoted and is now working from home. This meant more time than he usually spent inside his flat, and he had been getting rather claustrophobic. So, after an admittedly short heart to heart with Gareth, who was looking quite nervously towards a future without parents and with no idea what to do, he packs up his brothers in a typically Gawain-like fashion and moves them all out to the manor.

Mordred has been able to see ghosts since an incident in his youth involving a large body of water, an ill-timed trip and a sudden storm. He hasn’t been in water since, but the near-death experience left his with the ability to see those spirits left when their bodies had departed. This is especially unfortunate for him, because half the time he doesn’t particularly want to be able to see living people, let alone ghosts who do not leave when he throws things at them. But he puts up with it enough: there is, beyond all logic, a particular cup he took from Morgause’s house when he left which somehow has three ghosts attached to it, and they happily provide a deterrent for any others.

(It does create a somewhat awkward car journey: he’s being driven by Agravaine, and between the boxes in the back and the only two seats in the front, there’s not much room even for a ghost. Aggs keeps looking at him weirdly when he fidgets, but it’s not his fault that the only free place left is his lap or that Galahad decided that he simply had to see the journey to the house rather than simply confining himself to the cup like Bors and Percival did.)

Anyway, this means that he arrives at the house and immediately sees a crowd of variously costumed figures and tries turning around and leaving. Unfortunately Agravaine anticipates some “young adult hormones” and quickly steers him straight inside.

It takes him a while to finally be alone with the ghosts, who seem to quickly realise he can see them. There are eleven of them in total, though a couple seem to spend most of their time in the little gatekeeper house rather than the main building. He immediately makes a note to avoid Dinadan, who looks at Mordred once and immediately makes fun of his choice in band t-shirts (and like, he’s a ghost, what does he know about bands, it’s like trying to talk to Gaheris—) and Lamorak is instantly relegated to Mordred’s extensive “least liked people” list, which is different to his “disliked people” list. Kay seems kind of mean, which is funny, and Bedivere is responsible enough to try and control the others, but they are clearly “not dating” which honestly Mordred has no time for.

He gets on best with Clarissant, probably, as she’s smart and not too grating but still sweet enough that she likes sitting with him when he wants to be quiet but doesn’t want to be alone. Owain, likewise, has shown him several spaces in the garden for birdwatching or other wildlife (which Mordred doesn’t particularly have used for, but he does appreciate the effort).

Owain is “not dating” a different ghost, Laudine, but in a different way than Kay and Bedivere are “not dating”, in a way that doesn’t get on Mordred’s nerves and lets him acknowledge that Laudine is kind of funny. Elaine doesn’t really talk to him: there’s a river and lake by the house and she seems to prefer it there, or else by the old tower. But she has great stories, and never minds when he really needs a vent, usually about his brothers.

It’s Palamedes and Brangaine who live (in the loosest sense of the word) in the gatekeeper’s cottage. This is very useful, because it means he can set up a little bedroom inside, though it’s mostly for storage now, and sleep there when he wants to pretend he has his own space. He has a strange nervousness that they might see him as a sort of pet, but he’s pretty sure that’s not the case.

Relatively sure.

Not that it matters. They have a clearly delicate history together, one Mordred is not about to ask after for fear that one or both will start crying, but they manage in a sort of sweet domesticity. He’s left the goblet in there for now, because Palamedes seems to enjoy Galahad, Bors and Percival’s company.

And it’s—

Nice.

And then, of course, there is Lancelot. He seems far too well meaning for Mordred to carry on any kind of maliciousness for long, except that for some godforsaken reason he has also decided that Gawain is an ideal muse. He spends way too much time following Gawain around, thinking up sappy poetry about Gawain, or else sighing blissfully out of a window (presumably over Gawain). Mordred thinks that if Lancelot were to ever be able to actually talk to Gawain (physically, he means. Or figuratively? Because even if Lancelot wasn’t a ghost he does not seem to have any cognitive abilities around Gawain anyway) then this image would be shattered. Gawain looks pretty, but so does this waterfall Mordred once read about that falls down into nothingness and despair, or the river stretch that looks like a lovely refreshing swim but actually is an fierce riptide with a 100% mortality rate. Something like that. But the point is that it’s difficult enough with Gawain constantly around without having his admirer hanging round all the time too. Gawain is insufferable already without Gaheris and Gaheris getting to add to their board of “Is Gawain Secretly (Or Not-So-Secretly) a Changeling” with ‘every time he puts something down it always seems to move just within reach when he goes to pick it up’

(If you’re wondering why there isn’t an Arthur, that is a subplot that I just suddenly decided on just now. I was going to have Arthur as a Captain-like ghost but then I was thinking and long story short there’s a tangent here—

It was Arthur’s house. He’s still Mordred’s dad, though here I guess he isn’t their uncle as well, and he left Morgause the house in his will. He heard she was pregnant, and there was a little but if him which knew he could never acknowledge his child but he still wanted to provide in some way. Arthur doesn’t have to be a bad parent.

Incidentally this also solves why the brothers didn’t really know about the house before rather than “Morgause wasn’t a big fan of the country”.)

(OH MY GOD also so Guin isn’t a ghost either bc I wanted her alive. So now she’s an important plot point. She moved into the outskirts of the nearby village because she liked the area but didn’t want to contest for a massive empty house. Anyway she’s smart and despite the problems her and her late husband went through, she does respect him for this. So eventually the Orkneys will have to go for a discovery on the house’s secrets aka there are ghosts and so they will find Guin and discover the Truth. It’s all coming together now lads)

They invite their neighbours over for dinner one night: the house needs some pretty desperate renovating, but it’s now moderately liveable at least and, according to Gawain, this requires a party.

So invite them over he does. The ones to the left, a couple named Tristan and Isolde, though Gaheris swears that when they were introduced in the village Isolde looked completely different, and the ones to the right, Morgan and Vivian. They pass a very pleasant evening, despite the fact that a fox manages to get on the roof.

No one is sure how.

Gaheris and Agravaine are charged with rescuing it, which is by far the stupidest decision Gawain has ever made. However, despite them all living together, the brothers are really not in a brilliant harmony yet, and so Gawain sends those two off whilst he entertains their guests.

The two of them are staring out the window at the fox for a while before Gaheris dares Agravaine to climb up. He doesn’t want to, but Gaheris is his little brother, and if he passes over a dare from him he’ll never hear the end of it. So he climbs out.

It’s a dry night. But it was not a dry day. And the leaves packed on all the footholds are wet and slippery, and Agravaine—

Falls—

And hits the ground, several stories below.

They’re all terrified, of course, regretting every moment they spent apart or arguing. Agravaine is declared legally dead for fourteen minutes, and it is the worst fourteen minutes of any of their lives. But finally— finally— the doctors emerge to tell them that their brother is resting, but is expected to make a full recovery.

Which he does! There are several more doctor’s appointments and physiotherapists scheduled, but eventually he can return to house. (Unsurprisingly, the arguing starts again quickly.)

There is, however, one major difference.

Agravaine can now also see the ghosts.

Mordred, having been able to see them all his life, had not considered this possibility, and thus does not prepare.

Agravaine discovers these new abilities when he walks into a room to find Mordred, pretending to be on a phone call, chatting away with Clarissant whilst Lamorak inexplicably floats nearby. He stares, screams, and blacks out.

When he comes to after a moment he is faced with a lengthy, surprisingly bored conversation with Mordred, and seriously considers blacking out again. Lamorak has not left the room despite his presence being an inevitable disaster, and Agravaine perhaps unsurprisingly decides that He is to be the newest mortal enemy in Agravaine’s list.

(Lamorak is silently gratified that he is on lists for both alive people who can see him, and chooses to ignore the reasoning behind the lists.)

Mordred has been dealing with ghosts for most of his life.

Agravaine has Not.

This means that, pretty quickly, Gawain, Gaheris and Gareth realise something is even more wrong with those two than normal.

And of course they have to come clean.

Gaheris is half convinced that the two have found his conspiracy journal and that this is an elaborate ruse to trick him into confessing love for Nessie or something. Gareth is mostly concerned about the logistics and privacy, though Mordred’s narrated conversations between him and Owain seem to make him much more comfortable with the whole thing. Gawain is genuinely tempted to jump out a window to see if he can join to newly discovered exclusive club of ghost watchers, but eventually decides that it’s too much a risk to his beautiful face.

(Lancelot silently agrees, though it has not escaped his attention that it would be nice if Gawain could actually see him.)

[lucrezianoin]

Prompt: When Palamedes saves Brangaine, she is so exhausted from her ordeal, she needs to stay and recover for a longer time. During this time, she and Palamedes get closer and fall in love and when Tristan comes to rescue her, it turns out she could have left at any time, but wanted to stay with Palamedes.

Brangaine has to admit she was wrong. She has never personally met Palamedes before this- she doesn’t even want to think about it. She has always heard of him through Tristan’s words and Isolde’s exasperation. He has always been Arthur’s Saracen knight.

“Did I wake you?” Palamedes asks, looking up from where he has been working on a pot, over the fire.

“I was already awake,” Brangaine admits, mostly because she doesn’t want Palamedes to feel guilty. She is sleeping well, these days, she feels in strength, and she is sure she can move her arm completely, the sprained wrist probably healed. 

“I am making some tea, if you’d like.”

Palamedes seems quite fond of tea, Brangaine muses, and she has grown to enjoy these moments. She has always disliked the taste of strong ale, or warm wine. She takes the cup the knight is offering.

“You are my guest now,” Palamedes has told her, once he has found her, running, in the forest, from a knight that saw her only as a tool to get to Isolde. 

Oh, how she hates Britain. Nothing but sadness has fallen on her, since she has stepped in this cursed grey land. In Ireland, she has been a person. Here she was Isolde’s maidservant. Nothing more than an object. 

She has been afraid she would have turned into Palamedes’ instrument as well, another way for him to ingratiate himself into Isolde’s affection.

“I don’t want to go back, yet,” Brangaine has told him, kneeling on the grass, her wrist sprained. “I want to go to Ireland.”

Palamedes has not taken her back to Ireland, but he has led her to a friend’s manor, an old Roman castle that another of Arthur’s knights, Sir Aglovale, owned. Palamedes has not taken her back to Isolde. And for the past two weeks, Brangaine has felt like a person again.

She feels free. Palamedes never names Isolde or Tristan, he only asks about her. He is the most curious person Brangaine has ever met. Do you like riding? Do you like tea? Would you try tea? Have you visited Camelot? Have you visited Rome? 

And he has so many stories. Stories of Greece, of his brothers (Brangaine was sure Safir and her brother Mathael would get along wonderfully), stories of his family, of what he missed of Byzantium. Stories of his religion, something Brangaine has not ever encountered before.

In exchange, she has narrated of Irelard, of the fae people, of the Tuath Dé that no one in Britain seemed to believe in, of the sea.  

They both love the sea, she has soon found out. 

Brangaine accepts the cup of tea, and sips it, grateful.

“Ah. There is something,” Palamedes starts, hesitant. He taller than her, taller than Tristan, but so much softer, Brangaine realizes, so easy to read. He looks worried no, he is frowning. He is kneeling now, still by the fire. 

“Yes?”

“Tristan is here. He asks of you.”

Oh. 

The words feels like cold rain. She has forgotten... there is a world outside being herself. There are duties, there are betrayals, dangers, servitude.

“I’m. I must go.”

Palamedes stands, walking to her bed. “You are well to travel?” He sounds disappointed.

Brangaine nods. She should dress, she should go back. She should thank this knight and say her goodbyes. 

She should put Isolde before her own needs or desires. She has always been dutiful.

“I want to stay here.”

[fuckyeaharthuriana]

I have always been interested in Sir Palamedes or Palomides, the Saracen knight of the Round Table. And apparently, John Erskine's novel Tristram and Isolde, Restoring Palamede uses one of the tales of Palomides, where he rescued Brangaine, Iseult's handmaiden, from robbers who had tied her to a tree, to have them both fall in love, instead of Palamedes only being in love with Iseult and Tristan's rival. Do you know more details about that?

I love Palamedes too! Sadly I never found a certain of that book that was cheap enough for me to buy. But I did read his other novel (the Galahad one) and while I did find it a bit too phylosophical, I enjoyed it a lot. It was actually one of the first Arthurian books I've borrowed from my local library, so it was ages ago!

Also if I'm not wrong Palamedes is also a secondary character in Catherine Christian's The Pendragon.

[gellavonhamster]

la tavola ritonda liveblogging(ish) 1/?

the tribute that Cornwall has to pay the Irish king includes three camels, three lions, and three leopards. Considering the fauna of Cornwall, I believe this was included specifically as an additional pain in the ass

the Lady of the Lake is referred to as the sister of Morgan le Fay - I wonder if it is meant literally or figuratively (as a fellow sorceress)

I am almost certain that I've already read something in which a boy sees knights for the first time and mistakes them for God and/or angels and then proclaims that since knights are so beautiful, he wishes to become one, but here it is Lancelot and I could swear I've come across the same scene with Perceval

oh hey, now Lancelot is sitting at the table of the less cool knights and a maiden who never spoke before speaks to him. Yeah, it appears he's doing a bit of a Perceval thing here

Arthur's war against Galehaut is combined with war against Mark, didn't expect that

Morholt meets Tristan at the court of the French king, compliments his beauty and prowess, and the court jester prophesizes that "the beauty and prowess of this young man will cost you dear"

(sorry, I'm not using the Italian versions of the names in this post except for direct quotes lest I confuse anyone, because some of these are very different from English ones)

Isolde's mom gave up being a doctor because she couldn't save her brother :(

Isolde is twelve when they first meet?? And Tristan and Palamedes are both, like, fifteen... they're babies...

And it's not hard to tell they're fifteen, lol

and then Braingaine asks Isolde which one of the two guys she likes the most 🥰 babies!

oh, and apparently Palamedes and Tristan would die on the same day?..

and now Tristan is doing the Perceval thing by looking at the blood on the snow and thinking of Isolde

Breus Sans Pité is described as the "anti-lover", and Tristan, after defeating him, orders him to surrender to Gawain, who is "the lover"

Isolde's dad: alright, Tristan, I'll give my daughter to your uncle and not to you, since you insist so, but I don't like this and I'm going to pray he dies soon

I don't think I've seen any other version before have other people than Tristan and Isolde affected by the same love potion? Here, Isolde's dog licks some of it and becomes extremely loyal to Tristan and Isolde (three days after their death, she is found dead on their grave). Also, the loyalty of Brangaine and Gouvernal to Isolde and Tristan is amplified by them inhaling the smell of the potion

Brangaine was hoping to remain a virgin her whole life, but still agreed to slept with Mark pretending to be Isolde on their wedding night :(

BRANGAINE!!!

girl NO :( you deserve better

Sagramore the what?

[imthemuthafuckingcricket]

Still thinking about cheesy romcom situation where Palamedes and Brangaine are intially at odds with each other. BUT then they decide team up to spilt Tristan and Isolde, because, Brangaine loves Tristan and hates the way that cold manipulative Isolde treats the poor puppy. Palamedes loves Isolde and doesn't understand how someone so lovely could be with such an unreliable moron. CLEARLY the two are wrong for each other. It's so obvious right?

Shenanigans happen, Brangaine and Palamedes actually realize that their infatuations are just that.... the two finally see that Isolde/Tristan are pretty awful and deserve each other actually.

Idk it's cheesy, its cliche, adds nothing of substance and I would do something with this idea if my attention could be held longer than five minutes.

[epic-summaries]

Isolde and Tristan fake love letters to Brangaine and Palamedes as their next attempt.

And Isolde makes Tristan write it. He’s amazing at writing love letters, you know being a musician and all.

Mark catches Tristan and reads it. His barons convinces him Tristan is writing it for Isolde (which lets be honest he is thinking about her when he writes anything lovey). Mark banishes Tristan... again. Isolde later tells him what her plan actually was. Mark unbanishes Tristan... again.

Dinadan is laughing in the background. Also wondering why Mark listens to his good for nothing barons all the time.

[epic-summaries]

Palamedes is badly wounded during a tournament and Brangaine can't hide her feelings any longer and visits him secretely in the night to give him comfort and confess her feelings. He's so weak and high on painkillers and other medicines, however, that the next morning he thinks it was just a hallucination born from his longing that will never be fullfilled. B says nothing out of shame for adding her feelings unto the already too big Love Quadrangle and burdening P with what she still (1/2)

Isolde - Damn it, why did it put him on such strong painkillers. They were so close!

Tristan - I saw his wounds those painkillers were needed.

Isolde - You think a love potion would work for them just to confess already?

Tristan - Don’t turn into your mother.

Isolde - Look at how cute they are together. I’m pushing them into a room together and refusing to let them out until the confess to each other.