#bedikay

[sickfreaksirkay]

Sir Kay, Seneschal of King Arthur's Court, Harold J. Herman / Illustration from the Mabinogion / The Quest for Olwen, trans. Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley-Holland / The Story of Merlin, trans. Rupert T. Pickens / Illustration from The Quest for Olwen, Margaret Jones / Wace's Roman de Brut, trans. Eugene Mason / The Mabinogion, trans. Lady Charlotte Guest

a collection of sir kay and sir bedivere: companions/lovers/worse, for @queer-ragnelle's may day parade

[grail-lifesupport]

[kochei0]

the link to eng translation doesnt work for me :(

Aw I'm not sure why that is! But i'll list the links here again if it helps :

ENG translation carrd (explains how & where to read the TL , has a trope list)

ENG translation site (the TL itself is here)

and look: the fabled old men yaoi yall be talking about, they're in there!!

[knightsofsomethingorother]

Arthuriana Inktober 14 - Lover

[meduseld]

On a lighter Arthuriana note, I'm endlessly amused at how KayxBedivere must be from Bedivere's point of view? Like he is said to be a man so beautiful people start crying plus insanely competent. Ladies must throw themselves at him, he is beloved and a total babe. And then he meets Kay, who is Too Tall and deliberately a dick to people and gets pole axed like. I want Him. So Bad. And he doesn't know what to do! He's never had to woo someone! He didn't even like dudes before this! And he's romancing basically a mangy mean alley cat.

Basically, remember that ach nae, I love him, GimlixLegolas post? That but Bedivere had an intense sexual identity crisis beforehand.

[filletedfennysnake]

quick post some bedikay doodles while no one’s looking

[gingersnaptaff]

Hello, bringing u some prime Arthur, Bedwyr, Cai, and Cafall content today. What I'm taking away from this is that Arthur has a thousand siblings, Bedwyr was Arthur's BUTLER (Geoffrey of Monmouth we have to talk. I know ur dead, but still.) And Cai is Trans. And might not even be Cynyr's son. And is Tall. Very Tall. Also has Beef with Melwas. (Melegaunt. Which tbf, I would too.)

Also, Cafall is HUGE. HUGE DOGGO. HUGE DOGGO WHO BEDWYR GETS DIBS TO HOLD.

(Also, the fact that Arthur, Bedwyr, and Cai all watched as a king carried off the daughter of the king after the Brecon Beacons were named! They all just fuckin watched on a hill, chilling. Arthur even wanted her for himself. Gwladys, I'm so sorry. I would've whacked them across the head for that. Thrown my shoes. Idk.) And, if that's not enough, More Bedikay propaganda!!!!

[gwalch-mei]

40 and 29 for arthurian ship of your choice!

thank u for the ask!! i was gonna default to gawain and lancelot but hey lets go w kay and bedivere bc im love them and they need more content really 29.First Date? probably something thats overly romantic and chill <3 i could see them just sharing a nice meal together at night either in camelots kitchens or in a nearby picturesque forest or meadow <3

40. Whos the skilled shopper for holidays? who waits till the last minute and is stressed? Kay is really good at planning what hes gonna get and does so months in advance but is really bad about. actually going out and shopping bc he. quite frankly. hates going to markets due to the sheer amount of people there (hes not really good with crowds if you ask me and is already stressed bc he has to plan large feasts for the holidays someone please give this man a break) meanwhile bedivere doesnt plan shit ever and he never will but somehow always picks a really good and thoughtful gift by chance <3

[sanddef]

Nice things for an Abandoned Quest

Rewrote an old assignment and it held up surprisingly well. This picks up after Kay tried to kill that dog

597 words

Though incredibly biased, Bedivere genuinely thinks that Kay deserves more credit. After all, the man has been at the King’s side since they were children, he fought his first battle for him at sixteen. Not once has he tried to usurp Arthur or undermine him, and that’s saying a lot for a king’s brother these days. Lord knows he has enough work as a seneschal on top of being a knight. But that didn’t mean that everyone in Camelot was mistaken. No, Kay was often less than honorable, though then again, honor seemed like it was in short supply these days. 

“How did you fare?” Bedivere asked Kay when he returned from his quest not even half an hour after he left. He’s soaking wet, and everyone was giving him a wide berth, trying to avoid his temper. Bedivere didn’t worry about it, let him yell himself hoarse, he was going to make sure he wasn’t hurt at the very least.

“I lost the dog.” Kay said simply, brushing his hair away from his eyes.

“No, you did not.” Bedivere said, taking Kay's sword and shield so he could have his hands free. Kay huffed.

“Well, it is a ridiculous quest anyway. Why must I follow a dog? What would that lady even want with the foot of a hart anyway?” He complained, “I hate getting wet.”

What happened on that quest, Bedivere had no actual idea. He just knew Kay was a habitual liar, especially when he’s this upset.

“The dog returned.” Bedivere said as he helped Kay with his cloak. Kay grunted, used his magic to warm his hands and rubbed at his face. “It is all wet too. Would you mind telling me how that happened?”

“I did not try to drown the dog, and that is the truth.” Kay said, “I returned because I felt sick.” Bedivere guessed that the second statement was a lie, but as for the first, he had no reason to disbelieve him. Kay shrugged off his chainmail, laying down on his bed.

“I suppose Gawain will attempt the quest now.” Kay continued, “What an auspicious start, by mocking me. He is sure to succeed, it seems no punishment ever touches him. No fear of anything short term, much less eternal perdition.

“Not Gawain; Lancelot will.” Bedivere said, idly folding Kay’s cloak, “And you know that to be untrue. You remember the Green Chapel?”

“He got let off easy and you know it.”

“He girds to this day.”

“Don’t care.” Kay sighed, sitting up slightly, “He has an unseemly easy tendency towards diplomacy.”

“You say that like it devalues his character.”

“It does when he does it.” Kay said, “And Lancelot has a similarly uncontrolled tendency towards violence. You would think it would be the other way around.”

Bedivere tossed the cloak onto Kay’s chair, “Are you done?”

Kay paused, considering the question. Bedivere could almost see his thought process, searching for something else to complain about before Bedivere leaves.

“You’re too kind.” Kay says finally, smiling slightly, “By the hand of my friend, you tolerate too much.”

“Are you done now?” Bedivere asked again after a moment. Kay scoffed, looked up at the ceiling of their room.

“I’m insulted that you’re leaving me to go do God knows what.”

“I won’t stay and lick your wounds.” Bedivere smirked, and Kay bristled. For a moment Bedivere thought he was going to send him away.

“Will you stay and talk to me?” Kay paused, considering, “We can talk about something nice. I can do that.”

“We can do that.”

[caer-gai]

Little smooch

(stickers by the magnificent @mortiscausa )

[grail-lifesupport]

literally finally found my calling in digital art, illustration and comics when i drew gawain in a grave post mortem

I keep seeing medival arthurian literature pop up on my dash, and I did a little digging because I'm a huge literature, arts and language nerd

I dont know you, and you dont know me, but I really love you guys, wherever you may be

Good for you good for you

I admire the dedication

[taliesin-the-bored]

Tag game: tag nine people you’d like to know better.

Tagged by: @oneshoulderangel (Thank you for tagging me!)

Last song: At the moment, I have "Losing Your Memory" by Alan Star stuck in my head, which I suppose makes it my current song, not my last song. Hm. I get songs stuck in my head very easily, but the last one I had there for a significant amount of time was a mashup of different language versions of "Les Rois du Monde" for about a week. "Lehetsz Király", the Magyar version, is probably my favorite of them. It's worth a listen.

Currently watching: Normally, the answer would be "random mostly terrible old movies/shows" or "nothing much", but I currently have a hyperfixation on the musical Roméo et Juliette and have been watching it in multiple languages. (Thus, the song).

Three ships: This is hard. Maybe as a result of being on the ace and aro spectrums, I'm more likely to care about which characters are interacting than whether it's romantic or platonic. Here goes:

Kedivere/Bedikay. It can be romantic, platonic, or queerplatonic, but whichever way, I'm here for it. I probably spend too much time thinking about how in Cullwch and Olwen, when Cai gets mad at Arthur and marches out, Bedwyr stays behind, keeps acting like nothing's happened, and isn't the one to avenge Cai's death. The feeling of betrayal on both sides has a lot of unexplored potential. And the version where Bedivere dies and Kay fights to bring his body back safely while mortally wounded himself... And the version where Bedivere survives Camlann and Kay isn't said to fight in it, so they might be left together after their world has fallen apart...

Platonically or queerplatonically, Galahad and the Grail Heroine. I really like the tragic Grail Quest friendships, but I like theirs most, maybe because there's something weird and otherworldly about them both. I like it when characters are strange and endearing and doomed by the narrative.

Ever since reading John Matthews' retelling, which I read before the original, I've had a soft spot for Caradoc and Guinier. The Story of Caradoc is very disturbing, and I have some major qualms with Caradoc over a detail Matthews cut out, but all the same, there's a reason these two have the best track record with magical fidelity tests. Each of them would go to the ends of the earth for the other, and together, they're stronger than any curse.

Favorite Color: Blue, particularly royal blue and some teals.

Currently consuming: Black licorice with chocolate.

First ship: This is a hard one, since through elementary and most of middle school, I tended to go along with whatever I thought the author's intentions were and was more likely to unship something. The first non-endgame ship I got invested in was Sonya/Nikolai in War and Peace. I didn't like Nikolai, but Sonya did, and she was my favorite character, so I wanted her to be happy. The first non-canon couple I thought was meant to be together was also in War and Peace: Marya Bolkonskaya and Julie Karagina. My eighth grade self did not think their letters could be interpreted platonically. I still don't.

Last movie: If the musical doesn't count, the last movie I watched was Quest for Camelot, which was awful. Though not Robot Monster-level bad, Robot Monster has an elegance to its simplicity which Quest for Camelot lacks.

Currently working on: Various fics, most of them Arthuriana or CotRK-related (I am woefully behind on the Badfic Bingo), and (theoretically) an epic-style poem, though I haven't gotten much of it written for quite a while now.

Tagging: @gawrkin, @emperorcandy, @wildbasil, @gorewound, @knightsofsomethingorother, @ladyminaofcamelot, @tasosotaso, @amashelle, @gingersnaptaff (I have no idea who's been tagged so far, apart from the people on @oneshoulderangel's post, so I apologize for any multi-tags)

[grail-lifesupport]

Despite being the seneschal kay keeps forgetting to bring lunch :[

Later that day:

[queer-ragnelle]

Added some books to the Arthurian Retellings page! We officially have books from every decade of the last 100 years!

Arthur of the Britons by Rex Edwards (based on the 1970s show of the same name!)

Arthur the Bear of Britain by Edward Franklin (prime inspiration for Warlord Chronicles!)

King Arthur and His Noble Knights by Mary MacLeod (Le Morte d'Arthur retelling!)

The Emperor Arthur by Godfrey Turton (Pelleas point of view!)

Gareth of Orkney by Edith Ditmas (Gareth point of view!)

Launcelot & Guenevere by Richard Hovey (tragic plays!)

The Great Captains by Henry Treece (bad Arthur, good BediKay!)

[knightsofsomethingorother]

❤️‍🔥🔪 bedivere and kay

❤️🔥 Romantic headcanon- So Kay's got that whole icy heart thing, right? Here's my pitch: Bedivere rests his head on Kay's chest directly over it when he gets migraines.

🔪Violence headcanon- Kay's got a thing for violence. He and Guinevere have that in common and they chat about the horrific acts of blood and suffering inflicted by their paramours to the horror of any eavesdroppers.

[mountainashfae]

You can hand me an angsty fic but I can’t promise that I won’t shitpost it.