#nimue du lac

[comicwaren]

From G.O.D.S. #001

Art by Valerio Schiti and Marte Gracia

Written by Jonathan Hickman

[liixlabrat]

hey gang welcome to: me ranting about the differences in fandom satbk lancelot and lancelot in arthurania (in an observational way) + some other things regarding the differences in satbk compared to legend (mostly my thoughts abt the casting. hint: i don't like it)

disclaimers:

- this will be a long post so it will be under a cut

- this will have a HEAVY lean towards the vulgate cycle in terms of characterization because that is what I'm most knowledgeable about.

- satbk is mostly based on thomas mallory and chrétien de troyes' work. there will be inconsistencies because of this

- i am a believer in dldr in fandom spaces. this isn't a critical rant about characterization. this is more about me talking about something I'm passionate about because i find it interesting

- this will also not be about MY characterization of lancelot bc that needs to be its own post (though my own thoughts will be mentioned)

- fandom's satbk lancelot will be called lance and arthurania lancelot will just be called lancelot for my sake

tws (all arthurania): rape, incest, drugging, kidnapping, death. stay safe, most of these are once mentioned in passing.

i find the differences between lance and lancelot absolutely fascinating simply due to the fact of how different they are. while a lot of lance's characterization can be excused by drawing parallels to shadow, it's still EXTREMELY different

the general consensus on lance (from what i can gather) is that he's a loyal knight who sticks by arthur's side through thick and thin, extremely stoic, and unwilling to say no to arthur (plus some shadow traits like being stubborn, prideful, caring etc etc)

and while that conclusion makes sense considering the information given about lance in satbk, it is incredibly different to actual lancelot.

lancelot is the best knight. he goes actively stir-crazy when forced to stay within arthur's kingdom, and knights don't enjoy times of peace because they are people made to fight. so more times than not, he's not in arthur's kingdom, and it's rare when he is. he's also not stoic in the SLIGHTEST. he openly worries (a lot), gets angry (a lot), cries (a lot), and wears his heart on his sleeve. he is DANGEROUS when he's angry, pretty much to the point of madness. he's also protective of those he cares about. at one point he actively left the round table because arthur fucked up (bad) and to be convinced by several people to return back to arthur's court. hell, he isn't even loyal to arthur! at all! that's his THING!!

lancelot isn't lancelot without guinevere. make it romantic or platonic he's still not lancelot without her. because guinevere is who he's loyal to, guinevere is who gives him his strength, and guinevere is who makes him a knight. (this is likely the reason why lance is such an inaccurate lancelot)

now in terms of satbk, transfer these traits to arthur/sonic and yeah, you can make it work. have your doomed medieval yaoi (even though theres already doomed medieval yaoi in arthurania but i'm getting ahead of myself)

another thing that i notice a lot of differences in is backstory

lance's backstory varies from person to person (commonly attributing parts of shadow's backstory) but i don't know how many people who write these backstories know lancelot's backstory??? or story in general?? like i genuinely have no idea

so bam. here's lancelot's story summarized:

lancelot was born in benoic (france) by king ban and queen elaine. his name was in fact NOT lancelot at the time and instead his name was galahad. when he was a baby benoic was overthrown by king claudas (which. king ban sent out pleas for help to king arthur. guess who left him on read. king arthur.), his father dies soon after bc he fell off a horse, nimue abducts lancelot/galahad, and his mother becomes a nun out of grief.

nimue raises lancelot in a place thats disguised as a lake (its not a lake) with two of lancelot's cousins (lionel and bors). lancelot doesnt have a name anymore at this point and is instead called "the child" "the fair foundling" or in nimue's case "my prince." he doesnt know about his actual origins and believes nimue to be his actual mother. he learns archery, swordfighting, academics, etc etc

he grows up, leaves at either 15 or 18, gets knighted, falls in love with guinevere, so on and so forth

in the case of vulgate cycle (i'm unsure if this carries over to other versions) he goes under several identities (white knight, red knight, black knight) before revealing himself as lancelot. he only learns of his name (and origins) when he conquers dolorous guard and finds his tomb. (which. yes lancelot owns a fortress and he renames it to joyous guard) this all happens relatively early on

everything else varies so i'm not going to tell a specific story bc the only one i'm very familiar with is vulgate.

however: something that i've seen several times is morgan (arthur's sister) kidnapping and drugging lancelot. the motivations vary (from wanting lancelot herself or from hating guinevere) and the actions themselves vary but it's a consistent event. i've personally read both him being thrown into a dungeon and him being actively manipulated

anyway after more varying events: the court finds out about guinevere and lancelot's affair, a civil war breaks out and camelot falls

OKAY. so theres a distinct lack of galahad in said backstory and it's like that for a reason. because galahad is an entire thing in of itself

a common thing that i see is lance raising galahad. this in fact didn't happen with lancelot, and while i do think lance WOULD raise galahad, it would also be miserable for lance specifically. (and galahad too probably)

see, while the time of when galahad was born varies from source to source, the time i see most often is when he was freshly a knight or just entering camelot (not in vulgate). the fact that galahad was a result of elaine of corbinec drugging and raping him because he saved her from morgan boiling her (which made her fall in love. but she also knew that she was not lancelot's true love so instead she tricked him) makes the situation much worse. the reason why lancelot spared her was because she was pregnant with his child. events happen again three years later (minus the child and the boiling water) except this time guinevere found out and banished him for a year. during all of this galahad was raised by a convent

(during a fit of madness, elaine showed him the holy grail which cured him. they got married and i am in a pit of despair.)

galahad gets knighted at 15 by lancelot because it was the one time he ever lost a fight, then he dies between the ages of 15 to early 20s because of the holy grail quest. (tldr: he ascended)

so. thats arthurania. time for me to complain about segas casting because HOLY FUCK ITS ASS

the ones i'm not commenting on are lancelot, gawain, galahad and lamorak as shadow, knuckles, silver and jet respectively all of them are bc i think they're fairly accurate with the exception of lamorak because i know fuck all about jet or lamorak

however the largest atrocity is sonic as king arthur. BECAUSE KING ARTHUR FUCKING SUCKS DUDE. benoic fell because king arthur didnt respond, nobody likes him, he's had several affairs, a massive hypocrite (look at the previous point), a shitty ruler, camelot is still running because of lancelot (whos literally only there because of guinevere), and he hates his own kid WHOS MOTHER IS HIS OWN SISTER. I CANNOT THINK OF A LESS SONIC CHARACTER THAN KING ARTHUR. i know in my heart and soul sonic would fucking HATEE him. i'm convinced the only reason why sonic is king arthur is because of being a main character. (but even then the stories are NEVER about king arthur! they're always about his knights!!)

if it were me, he'd be galehaut. a strong, well liked ruler who despite taking over 29 kingdoms their people adore him. hes ambitious, charismatic and absolutely SMITTEN for lancelot. ("i will die if you are not here with me" is something said many times. hes also very serious about this sentiment)

idek who king arthur would be

the next one is amy as nimue. while it's not AS bad as sonic as king arthur, she doesn't fit as nimue. in my heart of hearts she would not be a teasing fae who abducted a kid to be raised as her own. however someone who sounds like they would do that is one (1) rouge the bat. (plus shadow and rouge family parallels!!)

amy would probably be guinevere. it just. makes sense. sweet to her people, generous with her words, a good leader. checks out

blaze as percival is not something i have an issue with but its more like i think her being queen blaye of malehaut would fit her more. (tbf blaye is a vulgate exclusive i believe). blaye took care of lancelot when he was injured from dolorous guard, accidentally fell in love, never confessed, and was planning to get married to galehaut. (however, if i'm being so fucking real guinevere, blaye, galehaut, and lancelot are all in a polyamorous relationship. this also opens the door for blazamy & sonadow so there's a win there!!)

if i had to assign percival to anyone it'd probably be espio. he's close with silver and while i dont know a lot about either of their characters it Just Makes Sense with the minimal research i did.

anyway. this was mostly an excuse for me to yell about arthurania lancelot i'll be real. love that guy. there's absolutely shit that i forgot to mention so if i remember i'll probably tack it on at some point.

[beginning-writer]

More baby dragon cause, why can't this get out of my head when i alredy wrote it?!?!

Lancelot had been holding the little dragon on his lap for a few hours. The little animal made himself comfortable in his extra warm lap and he didn't have the heart to take him away. In the first few minutes, after the little creature invaded the tent, scaring everyone and making itself comfortable in his lap, Merlin tried to take the dragon off Lancelot's lap and received a hiss in response. And then Nimue did the same, and Morgana the widow of death herself tried, they called Gawain to try, everyone received a fierce hiss and a sharpening of the body that guaranteed the little thing wasn't going off of him anytime soon.

���Why?-” Gawain begins, but before the word is finished. “Don’t you understand that it is not going to leave his lap?” Yeva, who only leaves her space on rare or dangerous occasions, interrupts him. Surprising everyone and making them look at her. She speaks in a stern tone, perhaps a little rude if you listened properly, still giving away her advanced age.

“I didn’t expect younger ones to understand this, but an old man like you, with hundreds of years old, Merlin, should already know.” The elder moonwing enters the place, seeing the little dragon on Lancelot's lap, she approaches. The dragon looks at her with his big curious eyes, still defensive, and Lancelot looks at her as he would look at anyone other than Squirrel , with a neutral and bitterly serious face.

Yeva lifts her eyes from the dragon to look at Lancelot, her one good eye looking into Lancelot's blue eyes and the black marks that painted his face and under eyes. They seemed lighter now, an indication that he was happy, or at least lighter than usual. She hadn't visited Ashman in his entire stay here, despite being curious about him or how he came to end up in these lands.

She quickly understood what happened. The little dragon lost its mother, or lost from its mother. The bodies of these creatures are usually overly warm, and for their young, cozy. Exactly what the baby found in the Ashman, who also had a higher body temperature than that of any human or fey due to the fire coursing through his veins. The animal thought that Lancelot was its mother and the man didn't seem to notice, or if he did, he didn't care.

“You’re the mother.” Yeva said simply.

"I know." Lancelot responds, turning his eyes to the adorable little creature that was biting his finger, trying to show affection.

Nobody in the room understood anything. Except the two of them, and maybe Merlin. “What’s the name?” A thinner, more energetic voice asked out of nowhere. Squirrel had sneaked into the room and startled some with his sudden speech. Lancelot's expression changes when he sees Squirrel, from neutral to slightly affectionate, his face lighter and his marks becoming clearer with the sweet affection that everyone knew he had for the boy.

“NightPearl.” He responds, and the dragon looks at Lancelot, as if recognizing that he has received a name. Squirrel smiles and comes closer, despite Nimue trying to stop him from doing so. This time, the dragon doesn't hiss, it just turns its little head, analyzing its new brother.

Lancelot looks at Yeva for a moment, and they know they'll need to have a talk after everyone goes to sleep and they're alone. Which seems scary when she seems even crazier than him. But nothing that made him want to say no. The dragon still tries to bite his hand, squirming in his lap and making Lancelot smile.

“You’re smiling!” Squirrel points out, his face lit up seeing Lancelot smiling in ‘public’ for the first time and a big smile on his face.

“Yes, I am.”

@lancedoncrimsonwings that was your fault for influencing me with, uh... cute reptiles! That. You infected me with a love for reptiles, it's your fault that Lancelot and dragons can't get out of my head.

[daliathewitch]

People are simping for Lancelot and yeah, he's cool BUT WHAT ABOUT SIR PELLEAS, THE GENTLE KNIGHT?!?!

Like I'm rereading "the death of Arthur" rn and slowly remember why I didn't like Gawain at first and why this story with Sir Pelleas was one who captured my attention the most.

Sir Pelleas. This bro won 10 (!) knights ALONE. He allowed them to tie him up and take him captive to his lady because ���this is the only way for me to see her”. HE DIDN'T KILL GAWAIN OR HIS LADY ETTARDE AFTER GAWAIN SPENT NIGHTS WITH HER. He also asked his people to cut out his heart after he dies and bring it on a silver plate to Ettarde (what a romantic). And then Nynyve comes to him and with her magic makes Pelleas stop loving Ettarda. AND THEN PELLEAS FALLS IN LOVE WITH NYNYVE AND THEY ARE LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER 💔💔💔

I LOVE THIS GUY SO MUCH HE'S SO COOL PLEASE

[a-lonely-red-feather]

Why everyone always forget in some versions of the tale Lancelot was raised by Nimue/Vivienne?

Queen Igraine was also Nimue's sister (again, not all versions are like this, just my favorite one). That makes Arthur his foster cousin and his romance with Guineviere even more akward.

[cleanfreakforever]

I will always find it funny that she just snatched him from his mother 💀

Tbf tho the Lady of the Lake is a great mother :3

[ircnwrought]

DEATHLESS

I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. // @avilionea (nimue) to morgan !!

__________♕      DARK GREEN GAZE TAKES IN THE OTHER. there is a spark of power there, perhaps they are two of a kind. they are women born to destiny in a world where men demand they be caged or burn. ambition can be just as much a crime as treason or murder. she had once softened herself for them, played obedient wife, bowed her head when chastized. all it brought her were sorrows && curses heaped upon her head. ❛    my dear, to be a demanding creature is to be aware of what you are worth. && a woman who is aware of her weight in gold is a rare gift indeed.    ❜

[mitaukanoarts]

AHAHAHA I finished finally!!

All the player characters from King Arthur's Birthday Bash!

From left to right - Lord Oberon Riverstone (Monk) Lord Wilbur Treyu (Shadow Sorcerer) Lady Mair Hendwyr (Rune Knight, engaged to Lady Du Lac) Lady Nimue Du Lac (Bladesinger Wizard, engaged to Lady Hendwyr) High Priest Israfel Nightcatcher (Fiend Warlock) Lady Elle Carafina (Wild Magic Sorcerer, Queen of Britannia cause her twin brother Arthur was done with being King.)

[sabretooth1100]

Now available as a postcard and print! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1860606161/aramis-du-lac-and-nimue-postcards-1-15

#arthuriana #kingarthur #ladyofthelake #excalibur #vintageaesthetic #vintagepostcards #postcards #illustration

[beginning-writer]

I know the lady of the lake doesn't appears a lot, but I consider her a more masculine woman and definitely a lesbian. And I also think that the women/nymphs who live with her and raised Lancelot are more masculine too, not all of them are lesbians or bi/pan, but they have a certain problem with men.

I say this because Lancelot was raised only by women and yet he is the best knight in the world, second only to his son, so he was trained by women too.

I honestly believe that the training for his muscles and sword skills was because the Lady of the Lake was exceptionally amazing with a sword as much as with ver magic. She's the guardian of Excalibur after all, and if I'm not mistaken, in one of the books it says that when Elaine, Lancelot's biological mother, asks where her son was, she's told that 'your son was taken by a mermaid and better queen than those who live.'

She rules alone without the support of any man for centuries and continues to be the best, which sounds to me like it was seen as masculine for the time.

In my perception, she, and the women and nymphs who live with her and helped raise Lancelot, have more muscles than many knights out there, wear more masculine things for the time and would had more body hair since in a kingdom with only women the shame for one's own body would be significantly less.

I always imagined that it was the Lady of the Lake who gave Lancelot his sword and battlefield impressive skills, and that she is a woman with muscles and certain more masculine mannerisms, and with great skills in battle, but which are not used. She would be a queen and a king at the same time and would be the best at it.

And she definitely looks like a lesbian to me. Don't ask me why, but I've always shipped her with Elaine, Lancelot's biological mother, since it's said that she's alive and living as a nun after the fire and her family's death. Or with one of Arthur's sisters simply because it would be funny.

I don't usually draw her, but I wrote a few paragraphs and descriptions of her appearance, I'm just a little embarrassed to post it.

i was thinking this morning about how many depictions i have seen of arthurian female characters are quite feminine. we headcanon many of these characters as girl kissers and of course not all queer women are masculine but there's so little masc rep out there...

so i am wondering what female characters in the arthurian legend yall headcanon as butch/masc?

do you write about them? make art/crafts about them? do you have any face headcanons for them?

please share!

[mitaukano]

It took me awhile, but I finished this a week or two ago! Been working on printing them out for my group, so everyone has a character portrait but still ridiculously proud of this. Also, I'm probably going to keep reposting it and re-blogging it, as I deserve a little self-congratulatory pat on my back. The cast of our Court of Fey and Flowers inspired D&D campaign, King Arthur's Birthday Bash. From left to right: Lord Oberon Riverstone (Monk) Lord Wilbur Treyu (Shadow Sorcerer) Lady Mair Hendwr (Rune Knight, engaged to Lady Nimue) Lady Nimue Du Lac (Bladesinger Wizard, engaged to Lady Mair) High Priest Israfel Nightcatcher (Warlock, the Fiend) Lady Elle Carafina (Queen of Britannia, after her brothers' abdication because he wasn't fond of the position.)

[comicwaren]

“I have done something... wrong. Which in this line of work is not unusual, but this time... it is something I cannot live with.” -- Aiko Maki

Cover art for G.O.D.S. #006

Art by Mateus Manhanini

[avilionea]

NAME:  Nimue SPECIES: fae-child / human-ish ORIENTATION: she’s still figuring that out GENDER: female BIRTH DATE:  May 1st ( though is younger than Galahad)

APPEARANCE

She has the faint timeskip of her mother's eyes and the feral nature of her father's jaw. She is their dying ember of a half felt joy, an embodiment of some human forgiveness long forgotten. In the half light she is fair skinned and crowned with sorrow. In the morning sun, she has leather-worn hands and a hair scalded by the sun.

face claim:  Thea Sofie Loch Næss

RELATIONSHIPS

FAMILY:  Elaine of Corbenic ( mother/ deceased), Lancelot du Lac (father) , Galahad ( Brother )

SIGNIFICANT OTHER:  Verse dependent

CHILDREN:  N/A

PERSONALITY

A nihilist by nature she is flighty as she is feral. Gentle as she is wild. She can see the goodness in her brother's smile, but cannot find it in herself, no matter how she tries.

NEED TO KNOWS

Whereas Galahad was the unwanted child conceived under mysterious circumstances at Corbenic, Nimue was an intentionally conceived child. While Elaine never calls either child Lancelot's, its fairly obvious both are his. The contrast has to do with their respective inherited magical/fae abilities from and how they are perceived by the people around them. Galahad is the golden child, he's good at everything he tries. He is more normal, his ability to see into the future only in his dreams without any control of them and the common sense to keep quiet about them. Nimue is a wild card, often perceived as a demon or a witch, however both Elaine and Galahad are severely protective of her.

Nimue's magical abilities are specific only to sequencing events and predicting how someone will die( of which she's always right). She can also "jump" from place to place and end up exactly where she needs to be, though she doesn't know how that works. She can't exactly see the future the way her mother or Galahad can, but she knows the infinitives of endings( deaths, eras, etc). its Merlin who forces further control and appropriate understanding of her magic out of her, making her a formidable force to be reckoned with by the time he's done.

Because of Pelles' fear of his own mortality, he used the magic of the time god trapped in his Grail to thwart Nimue's conception, which screws over the whole timeline of events. Nimue was meant to be born prior to Galahad, with her own destiny as a child of two kinds of magic (the Otherworld through Elaine and Avalon through Lancelot) but was born after him, with Pelles building his own self fulfilling prophecy. Nimue's conception is the fear that Pelles uses to justify imprisoning Elaine, but she still meets Lancelot regardless.

Avalon catches wind of Nimue and Galahad's existence and tries to abduct both children via drowning in the river near the abbey. they were playing, Galahad couldn't grab ahold of her before the current took her away and Elaine barely managed to pull Galahad out. This is the first of magical beings trying to 'fix' her. They know how she was supposed to turn out and are actively trying to fix the timeline.

Arawn in Annwn also abducts her and tries to 'fix' her, but he's more concerned where she's hidden a death that's escaped him. This is where she learns about Merlin. Arawn gifts her a white stag to keep her on track.

Nimue gets attached to logs. she'll carry it around for a good long while, and they all end up having some significant importance to her, and often are picked up when she knows some has or is going to die. Merlin's burned a few of her favorites in particularly bad arguments. Galahad brings her back little sticks and cut logs he thinks she'll like to make her happy again.

For my own comfort I would rather Nimue's relationship with any Merlin be plotted and there be open communication regarding the nature of their relationship because the myths and most modern interpretations are sketchy at best.

[beginning-writer]

Lancelot's tears part 2

Warning: not so small text.

So, those days i got myself thinking "Lancelot crys a lot in the legends. Probably because he was raised only whit women and he didn't grow up whit the pressure of 'real men don't cry' bullshit. It's funny cause in the show he was raised to be a weapon and only by men paladins. It's kind of contradictory... wait hold on-"

Well my mind just give me de awsome information that PERHAPS Lancelot and his cousins, Lionel and Bors, might just had swapped their fates whit each other in the show. Why, do you ask? Let me give you some of those beautiful reasons that almost made me want to drown myself in coffee and medicine.

In the original legends, we know that Lancelot's mother, Elaine, ran away when the castle they lived in set on fire and give young Lancelot to Viviane, the Lady of the Lake or Lady du Lac, which in the show we know as Nimue. And in some other versions he is kidnaped, or more like taken away from his mother's arms, by her. And we all assume his biological mother is dead. While Bors and Lionel are taken by Claudas and his son, and held in captivy for a time (it's not telled how many time exacly), until they kill Claudas' oldest son and ran away whit the help of Claudas' youngest son.

By the time Lionel and Bors had been whit Claudas they were treated like prisioners and had only permision to go to church or be in the surroundings of the castle whit vigilance, and they would be punished for any bad action if i remember correctly. If that's a wrong information then pardon and please correct me.

I strongly belive that Bors is too religious cause of the trumas he passed during this period of the sequence of trumas in his life. The parents death, the kidnap, and the fact that he couldn't leave or go to any place other than the church. And all of this happend when he was young, but not so young as Lancelot.

They don't cry as much as Lancelot does. Probably cause Lancelot was raised whit only women and had much more freedom to cry and expose his feelings, meanwhile, for what i belive, Lionel and Bors had been whit Claudas and i'm pretty sure he has the "swallow the cry, or i'll give you a real reason to cry. Suck it up." kind of guy dealing whit them two.

In the show we see that insted of being raised whit women, Lancelot was raised whit paladins men, worse than that, church man-blood men. NO OFFENSES. And that he probably was kidnaped and treated like an animal or a demon/prisioner. Really similar whit Lionel and Bors don't you think? It gets worse. Cause we see Lancelot suffering and asking the father if he loves him, but we don't see him cry when he totally should in front Carden. Really weird the similarity happend twice, huh?

Lancelot was raised by men, kidnaped, treated very poorly from the very beginning, and doesn't cry in front of his abusers. Exacly what happend to Lionel and Bors in their story.

I think i made my point very clear, and i think you get what i mean.

Ok what the fuck does this have to do whit Lancelot's tears?

Not satisfacted whit giving me a headache from all this comparisons, my mind decided to give me more. Lancelot and his cousins swapped their storys/fates, that means Lionel and Bors scaped and now are living whit an adoptive mother looking for Lancelot. And perhaps Hector also sufferd the same fate, cause both brothers, Lionel and Bors, were kidnaped and kept imprisoned in the legends, then maybe it would make sense if Lancelot and Hector were whit the paladins.

But what about Lancelot being a total cry baby? He can't cry anymore. He'll have to learn how to express his feeling all over again.

My ADHD mind jut gave me the most perfect headcanon were, at first, Carden would not make them supress his feelings cause he knows that if he did, they would break and turn their backs to him sooner or later. But he had to do it. Why? Cause Lancelot is and the others are ashkids, and the ashfolk has a devine cry.

Devine cry. (Let me explain myself, alright? I promisse this can be good.)

As i was creating a reason for the Ashfolk marks in Lancelot's backstory story, i wrote about how Aed, the red, Celtic God of fire, created the ashfolk out the first ashes that fell after the very first fey fire being summoned on earth. Or the second version and particularly my favorite: the ash folk and fey fire were created of Aed's tears when humans murdered one of his creations, his tears burn the earth where it were killed, and so the ashes fell from them. Aed not bearing the suffering, takes the ashes and creates a new form of life, made to sense the danger whit their noses and capable of desgising among the nature. Marking their faces whit tears and as black as the ashes they were made from. Giving them the ability of making fey fire and a cry closer to his own suffering than the humans.

Whit that, the ashfolk were made, and whit them the protectiveness of Aed and the fey fire. The ashfolk had one regular diferential in their cry, they didn't cry very often, cause no one wanted to mess whit Aed new creation after seing him cry and get mad, but one day a person was stupid enough to mess whit of them. And they cried.

"When the humans heard the cry of the young ashkid, they could not describe it other than a beautiful sound that at the same time made their souls break into ten billion pieces. They claimed to hear a cry closer to an angel than to any human."

I thought about making their tears black, but then i trowed it out cause a human, a man-blood, would never call black tears beautiful. So insted, i'm thinking about their tears as something very clear, a transparent but angel-like tear that fall from their eyes like waterfalls. And I'm absolutely pleased whit that.

This would explain why Carden had to supress the ashkids feelings. Cause everytime Lancelot or any other ashkid cried, Father Carden heard about how the paladins cried along whit them until they pass out, and the ones who didn't went to cry in his feet begging him to free the childs.

Because the ashkids cry were so devine, so angel-like, in the sounds and color, even in the way it fell from their eyes, that any human would simply not bear to hear it. And whit that, Carden toke the decision of supressing their feeling, even if he kew it was a bad decision.

Time to imagine the lil scene (lancewain as always.)

[strawberry blonde]

As Guinevere and the raiders has arrived, they brought news whit them, as always, but this day something went diferent. Guinevere come to the healers tent, were Lancelot and Pym worked. She went whit the especific notice for Lancelot, and asked for Gawain's and Nimue's presence because it would be something they would need to hear later. What she didn't expect was that Lancelot would completely burst into tears when he heard the news.

The Red Spear had come whit the news that two ashmans were found by the east-southeast, one whit red hair and the other whit redish-blond hair, both whit green eyes, and the red head had a lion swened in his chest.

When the information left her lips, she heared the most soft and breaking heart sound she had ever heard in her life.

Everyone in the room turned their faces to Lancelot, founding him now leaned against the stone table they examined the pacients, the clearests tears they ever seen rooling down his cheeks as a waterfall, his tear marks seems to get clearer as the tears flowed. His sounds were so quiet, yet so breath taking, so lovely and painful that for a moment, the ones present felt their knees weaken. He looked like an angel crying.

Guinevere had to left before she herself cried, but she didn't know she wanted to cry.

What anyone knew, is that the ashmans in the east-southeast were Lancelot's cousins. Which he didn't saw since he was kidnaped as a kid. And even with all the training and preparation to suppress his feelings, he couldn't hold back his tears hearing the news that they were alive, and on this land. Tears were rolling down his eyes before he could realize it.

Gawain couldn't belive what he was seeing. Lancelot was crying, and he sounded absolutely devide. He looked so broken, yet so beautiful.

His body doesn't seem to move for a moment, but then he readily moves to comfort the crying man, hugging his body slowly and carefully. His heart broke a little more when he felt Lancelot flinch from the hug, because of he wasn't used to that or any form of affection.

Within seconds he feels his friend's facade break and bury his face in the crook of his neck. The almost non-existent sobs seem louder now that they are so close, Lancelot's tears wet the fabric of his shirt, and without even knowing why, Gawain's own tears begin to silently descend.

Apologies

This actually went way bigger than i thought, so if you read it till there, either you are really hiperfixed on the weeping monk, or you just had a fucking time. Either ways, thank you for reading.

Hunted kisses for you ❤️

@lancedoncrimsonwings

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(Also hi yall im back)

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1) people say amy/nimue is lancelot's mother cuz in the og arthurian legends, the lady of the lake raised lancelot. They're not blood related, though. Thats why Lancelot is called Lancelot su Lac. Du Lac means of the lake.

2) Silver is Galahad, and the reason Sega chose to probably do that is because Galahad is called the Silver Knight for his pure nature/chivalry.

3) For Galahad, he was the one who went after the Holy Grail and was the one to find it. When this happened, in the arthurian legends, angels appeared and took him off into the heavens. This is why paintings of galahad(and some ive seen of silver in satbk) portray him looking up into the sky with a bright light.

4) Sir Lamorak is a knight known for his temper. Also, just a side note, in the legend, he has siblings and one of them is Sir Percival who, in SATBK, is Blaze. So prime story opportunity there.

5) It is important to remember that in some versions of the tales, Lamorak's considered to be Arthur's third strongest knight, after Lancelot and Trystan(Trystan isnt in SATBK so dont worry too much about him). Thats just another interesting aspect.

6) as for ur question as to why there are those two extra knights in the game, i imagine its cuz sega just wanted to give those charscters their own counterparts, but it could also be since, in the legends, the Round table can have as many as 25 to 150 knights so it would be kinda strange if we only saw 3 in game.

7) OH ANOTHER THING. In the legends, Lancelot is Galahad's father. SO, if u see any headcannons of that for satbk, know that isn't random.

IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: Remember that the's legends are VERY old so there's obviously gomma be some overlap or misinformation. There's a lot of different versions of these stories out there and everyone adds their own creative flair so there isnt one set story for King arthur but smaller little ones that may alll carry similar components. Just wanted to let u know before u got confused.

Welp i think thats all i got rn.

If u have any more questions, feel free to reach out :D

Can anyone yap to me about Sonic an the Dark Knight?

Recently I got addicted to the ship lansoni or Lancelot x Arthur/Sonic and of of course I watche the game. I tried to find nay media I could of the ship or the world itself since I'm also intrested in this new world and this characters, but one info I found happened twice and it's that Nimue/Amy is Lancelots mother or raised by her. Is it a headcanon or something from the original king Arthur's tale? So I wnat to know all the Canon and headcanon of this game, for example how there are actually two extra knights of silver and that... Green bird guy... Sorry I'm not a real Sega fan but I do plan on watching most of the games a possible.

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Nimue and Lancelot moment but its really stupid

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