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[queerofthedagger]

there are many things that stayed with me from your fics and Ygraine is one of them. I didn't really give her much thought outside of 'even if it's full of love all the ghost can do is haunt' narrative, but the realization that you gave me that all the ghosts not only were but still are people. and even while haunting she STILL is a person... when I think about her watching arthur drown in guilt that isn't his and being so ANGRY I need 5-7 business days to recover no joke. she's one of my faves now THANK YOU

Oh my god thank you SO much, that's just about the best compliment you could have given me. I find Ygraine such a fascinating character on so many levels and she just has come to sneak into most of my Merlin fics in one way or another; frankly, I don't think you can really Get Arthur as a character without puzzling through his relationship (or rather lack thereof) with his mother.

Also I do need you to know that "even while haunting she STILL is a person" hit me like a sack of bricks. Like!!! YEAH!!!!!!! We talk about her always as Arthur's mother or Uther's wife or or or, but first and foremost she was a person!!! like!!!! aughhh