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notes!
Right, for those who are wondering about our incredibly synchronised entrance and incredibly bizarre take on Mordred and Galahad... *coughs*
There are, obviously, a million and one versions of the Arthurian legends. We’re not taking these particular characters directly from any of them, just taking the basic identities and building up our own fictional personalities. With added backstory, so we had something to do on our first night. NB – don’t mind us merrily being angsty and narrative-full in the middle of the bar. We’re just finding our feet and sorting out continuity issues. Once we’re done, the characters will be free to interact with anyone else who wants to play with them.
Backstory, the short version – the two had a twisted, possessive and frequently abusive (on Mordred’s side) relationship when alive, and Mordred died in battle a day or so after telling Galahad that he loved him. Hardly being the virtuous sort, he haunted the earth for the next one and a half millennia. He found Milliways by accident.
Galahad, however, committed passive suicide after he heard the news of Mordred’s death, and went straight to Milliways. Due to the handy-dandy warped time continuum, they arrived at almost the same time.
Character notes:
Galahad is unbalanced, to put it mildly. Issues a mile high about the fact that his mother died and his father didn’t want him at court. An incredibly low sense of self-worth that manifested itself in the violent relationship with Mordred.
He’s quiet and polite around most people, though it takes a bit of effort to get him talking. If you mention books, though, he’ll probably like you immediately. If he has to, he can fight. He’s very, very good at it, but he doesn’t do it too often (and at the moment he hasn’t got a sword, so he’s not much use anyway...)
Mordred is pretty much as he has been described in most of the more historical canons: soft-spoken, charming, and manipulative, with a deep running resentment against his father. He isn’t actively ‘evil’, being more amoral then immoral, but he is ruthless and can be very nasty to those he dislikes.
He holds most people at arms-length, treating them almost with bemusement. Despite this, he is usually fairly charming and likeable. Unless someone flirts with or hurts Galahad; then he tends to snap. He is also quite bitter about the fact that he wasn’t allowed to sleep in Avalon, and had to wander the earth for so long.
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Questions or screams of "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS YOU PERVERTED LITTLE GIRLS" can be directed at us :)
(By the by, I've seen Elaine around - Elaine-mun, how do you want to play this? Galahad probably wouldn't be too pleased to find his dead mother wandering around as her younger self. But it could be interesting. Up to you!)
There are, obviously, a million and one versions of the Arthurian legends. We’re not taking these particular characters directly from any of them, just taking the basic identities and building up our own fictional personalities. With added backstory, so we had something to do on our first night. NB – don’t mind us merrily being angsty and narrative-full in the middle of the bar. We’re just finding our feet and sorting out continuity issues. Once we’re done, the characters will be free to interact with anyone else who wants to play with them.
Backstory, the short version – the two had a twisted, possessive and frequently abusive (on Mordred’s side) relationship when alive, and Mordred died in battle a day or so after telling Galahad that he loved him. Hardly being the virtuous sort, he haunted the earth for the next one and a half millennia. He found Milliways by accident.
Galahad, however, committed passive suicide after he heard the news of Mordred’s death, and went straight to Milliways. Due to the handy-dandy warped time continuum, they arrived at almost the same time.
Character notes:
Galahad is unbalanced, to put it mildly. Issues a mile high about the fact that his mother died and his father didn’t want him at court. An incredibly low sense of self-worth that manifested itself in the violent relationship with Mordred.
He’s quiet and polite around most people, though it takes a bit of effort to get him talking. If you mention books, though, he’ll probably like you immediately. If he has to, he can fight. He’s very, very good at it, but he doesn’t do it too often (and at the moment he hasn’t got a sword, so he’s not much use anyway...)
Mordred is pretty much as he has been described in most of the more historical canons: soft-spoken, charming, and manipulative, with a deep running resentment against his father. He isn’t actively ‘evil’, being more amoral then immoral, but he is ruthless and can be very nasty to those he dislikes.
He holds most people at arms-length, treating them almost with bemusement. Despite this, he is usually fairly charming and likeable. Unless someone flirts with or hurts Galahad; then he tends to snap. He is also quite bitter about the fact that he wasn’t allowed to sleep in Avalon, and had to wander the earth for so long.
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Questions or screams of "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS YOU PERVERTED LITTLE GIRLS" can be directed at us :)
(By the by, I've seen Elaine around - Elaine-mun, how do you want to play this? Galahad probably wouldn't be too pleased to find his dead mother wandering around as her younger self. But it could be interesting. Up to you!)
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Okay - my character Ulfin (as logged in here) is a supporting character from Mary Stewart's set of Arthurian novels. I've only read the Merlin trilogy so far because Amazon is being a bastard and refusing to let me have the Mordred book, but I will get it someday.
The last time he appears in the Merlin trilogy, Mordred is approximately fifteen/sixteen and has just been brought to court with his half-brothers. There was a whole plotline about some scheme his mother Morgause was involved in, which resulted in her being disgraced and basically put under house arrest at Camelot, while her sons - including Mordred - are taken into Arthur's care to be trained as knights.
Ulfin is Arthur's steward, and servant to Uther Pendragon before that. He was one of the group who went with Uther to Tintagel the night Arthur was conceived, and he was also conveniently with Merlin in Lot's city (Lot being Mordred's... well, stepfather, I suppose. Morgause's husband) the night Lot came home in a blazing temper, having heard the rumors that "his" son was in fact Arthur's, and had every baby of a certain age in the town killed.
Ulfin was not entirely innocent in this. Thinking he was carrying out Arthur's wishes, he deliberately misled Merlin as to which way the soldiers had taken the babies, in order to try and ensure that Mordred would die among them. Of course, Morgause being who she is, Mordred was never among the babies at all. It's up to you how much Morgause knew about Ulfin's part in it (she had magic, which in the book means the Sight and some other power) and how much she told Mordred.
And also, Ulfin is loyal to Arthur to the death, but will give Mordred the respect owed by a commoner to a prince of the blood. Whatever his personal feelings on the matter may be, that stands.
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I can work with this, though.
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Well, this Mordred is 19, so three or so years on from when Ulfin's cannon is, and the battle of Camlann has been and gone. We could fit Galahad in, cause he wouldn't have come to court until Mordred was at least eighteen or so.
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That works - um, except one small problem - there's a Lancelot figure (right down to the forbidden love with Guinevere) in Ulfin's canon, but his name isn't Lancelot, it's Bedwyr as per the older versions of the story. Might still be able to work around it, though - have your Galahad as the son of Bedwyr (ICly using a different name, if necessary) and Elaine...
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Bedwyr was turned into Bedivere, and Mordred's relationship with Guinevere was moved to Lancelot...*coughs* Don't mind me, did far too much research a couple months back and it's all stuck.
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Guinevere-the-second and Bedwyr are in love after a certain point of the books, Merlin and Arthur both know about this, but neither of them has betrayed the king in any real way, so Merlin and Arthur are pretending it's not happening for everybody's sake. Could easily have it that Bedwyr left court in order to avoid the temptation, which is when the Elaine story takes place.
Or, you know, we could say Mordred looks like the one Ulfin knows, but comes from a slightly different world. ;)
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Excellent!
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It sounds as though the two canons can slot together fairly neatly, so I'm not going to worry about details unless they come up in RP.
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Galahad's Mum is the Lady Elaine from "Lancelot and Elaine".
Meh, couldn't Malory come up with different names? ;-)
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Will's mentor/comrade, Merriman Lyon, was once Merlion -- aka Merlin. (He, like Will, is immortal and ageless -- there are some more details on that in my userinfo.) Arthur is, in this universe, a lord of the High Magic, and a Very Good Guy. Will's best friend, a boy named Bran, is the Pendragon -- Arthur and Guinevere's son, brought forward through time by Merriman's arts and raised without knowing his heritage. He gained awareness and power later, and in a way Will is Bran's Merlin. Bran later renounced his heritage and his memory of it, in order to stay in this world as a human rather than travelling beyond it with Arthur, but Will still remembers.
I'm assuming, of course, that Will's universe is different from Mordred's. Nevertheless, he's not going to react very well to hearing the name "Mordred Pendragon." :)
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I devoured those books when I was twelve. Read them over and over again. And now I have a strong urge to go and find my copy of the series and reread it.
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Oh, and by the way, Will's freak-out (http://www.livejournal.com/community/milliways_bar/912279.html?thread=32044951#t32076695) over Mordred has happened. Or begun. Either one.
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Galahad and Will would get on quite well, I imagine. They could be quiet and enigmatic at each other. And talk about books :D
And watch Mordred flip out, if he finds out what Will thinks of him...
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