#nimue du lac

[comicwaren]

From G.O.D.S. #001

Art by Valerio Schiti and Marte Gracia

Written by Jonathan Hickman

[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.

[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.    ❜

[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!

[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

[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.)

[godinvent]

Me and my friends oc Dylan du Lac, son of the Lady of the Lake (also known as Nimue or Viviane) from Arthurian legend!

He wields a unique form of magic he developed himself that lets him wield the power of the 12 western zodiac signs, as well as the Chinese zodiac signs! He is able to turn into 12 different forms based on the western signs, and his normal self (as seen above) is considered his Gemini form, as that’s what his actual sign is. ✨💫✨

[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 her mother's daughter, fair skinned and crowned with sorrow. In the morning sun, she is her father's spawn with 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 her mothers child, crowned with her sorrow. She is her father's child, for she wears the shackles of his temper. 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, born from coercion and an ill-fated prophecy of Corbenic's downfall ( that is to the say, the double rape regarding both Elaine and Lancelot while within the Cult of Corbenic), Nimue was the wanted child, conceived in the abbey at Corbin, some time after Elaine heals Lancelot of his madness and he decides to stay with her and Galahad( without Elaine's invitation or demand). 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, with a lot of pressure to be good from Elaine. 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, though while in the care of her mother is very much protected.

She also has the ability to see the future though to a much lesser extent. She can't shapeshift herself, though she can manipulate plants and objects around her. she can change matter, create illusions, and 'jump' place to place. Like Galahad she has next to no control of her powers as Elaine doesn't encourage or know how to teach them since her own powers were incredibly stifled in Corbenic.

Avalon has a claim to Nimue through her maternal grandmother who wanted to give her own daughter, Elaine, to the Isle to stop a prophecy in motion but was hindered by Pelles. Because of this she is abducted soon after Lancelot returns to Camelot, abandoning his family at the Abbey in Corbin. Nimue has always found her way to any significant point in her life by first spotting the White Hart of Arawn and following it as a sort of guide rather than the more common thought to hunt it. it's taken her away to Avalon twice, helped her leave the Isle, lead her to Merlin, and led her to Camlann to get Arthur's body.

Nimue's abduction via following the Hart was the last time she saw her mother. Elaine thought she drowned in the nearby lake. This traumatized Galahad.

Nimue can't swim. She'll try and she'll just sink.

Nimue gets attached to logs. she'll carry it around for a good long while and even give them names if she gets very attached. 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.

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. Merlin as a character has one goal and that's Arthur and all that can be achieved through his rule and royal seat at Camelot. However, at the end of all his tangle of multiple futures, trying to shape and mold this perfect future, is Nimue. His perfect other half. When he meets her, he laments that she isn't perfect, that she's born too late. She's feral, she's untrained. She isn't his Nimue. So he takes it into his own hands to train her, much to Nimue's own resistance. Their relationship is complicated at best, but as fate described, they are destined for each other. Nimue rejects this. He's too old, he's too set in his ways and he scares her. While they bring out the best in each other they also bring out the worst and Nimue certainly feeds into the negative parts of Merlin's aging mind. She has no problem during her time with him in Arthur's court, making him feel insecure and paranoid, intent to get away from him. Her fear and his controlling nature, for better or for worse, is one of the reasons she traps him in a tree, despite the fact that he hones her powers and her skills, enhancing what she learned on Avalon and making it comprehensive to her. they don't hate each other, but if there was love it wasn't very good. if Galahad hadn't come to Arthur's court she would have done anything to leave. Reuniting with Galahad is the only good thing in Camelot ad if being trained by Merlin is her ticket to stay with her brother then she'll endure it.

[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

[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

[caer-gai]

Merlin is an easy answer since (at least in Malory) he's specifically named as helping Uther and also (In Malory) he's setting up Galahad-specific parts of the Grail quest long before Galahad was conceived meaning he knew and would likely take steps to ensure Galahad would happen. Such as supplying such a ring or enchantment.(Malory's timelines are thoroughly unclear but i'm pretty sure Lancelot himself is a young child or even not born yet when this happens)

These two are sadly not the only examples within the Du lac/De Gannes family, bc Bors is also """seduced"" with an enchanted ring, though this is more of a love potion deleo instead of making her look like someone he actually likes. Still very much a parallel. There's also a version where King Ban uses some sort of magic disguise to gain access to Hector de Maris' mother and I'm pretty sure Merlin was involved somewhere in that one, though i don't think there was a ring involved.

honestly the idea of love potions love spells ect was really popular and romatizsed (see, Tristan and Iseult; Nimue and Pellas) in other ways and it's..... idk i was going to land this on something smart but i took to long writing it and forgot how. enjoy all this info literally no one asked for ig.

I can't really make a silly comic or meme about the magic disguise ring or the fact that it happened more than once, because the shit people used that ring for isn't funny at all.

But it's wild that it keeps cropping up; with the two most well-known examples being Uther """"""seducing"""""" Igraine with it and Elaine of Corbenic """"""""""""seducing""""""""""""""" Lancelot with it. The fact that it keeps happening makes me wonder if this was just a trope people liked back in the day for whatever reason, or if a bunch of people just independently thought of it with no real influence from the others.

Also I have no idea if they're separate rings or the same ring. I think it's thematically better for it to be the same ring getting passed around just because I think it works really well as a symbol for both the cyclical nature of sexual violence and general generational trauma, showing Uther's influence still affecting people long after he's gone. A guy I've always parsed as a straight up villain and rat bastard even when writers try to make him out to be a Great and Noble king.

If they're separate rings that just begs the question "Who the fuck is making and distributing these fucking rings?"

[fettiowi]

Nimue and Lancelot moment but its really stupid

Youtube link

[gawayne]

arthur you gotta put this one back something w something went wrong