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women of King Arthur & the knights of the round table: Tasha
MORDRED: You have his eyes, by the way.
TASHA: Shut up.
TASHA: Who’s eyes.
MORDRED: Tristan de Lyoness, the knight you’re related to.
Tasha Barren, of the House Tristan, is probably a descendant of Sir Tristan. She is on probation for murder, but she got the permission to travel to Bangkok to partecipate in a training/tournament at Gunner’s dojo. The event is mostly a meet up of people who think (with irony or with true seriousness) they are the descedent of arthurian knights. She is probably the best fighter in the group and she doesn’t have a lot of patience, but she truly believes she is related to Sir Tristan.
While guarding Mordred, Tasha finds out that Mordred used an alien’s glove to find out everything about her: that she killed her own father in self defense, that she wants to know more about her destiny. Following her own curiosity, Tasha puts on the alien glove and touches Mordred, trusting the fact that the man desperately wants to know who he is and she wants to find out as well.
Reading into Mordred’s soul and past, Tasha seems to start sympathizing with him and she truly believes Mordred wants to stop working with his mother.
When Mordred sacrifices himself to save Jenna in the final battle, Tasha and the others try to convince him that there is no hell, and he won’t be damned forever.
At the end, she promises to use her life for justice and to defend the pure.
Why have enemies when you can have friends?
more aesthetic posts: arhur/guinevere
What if the storm ends and I don’t see you
As you are now ever again?
The perfect halo of gold hair and lightning
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Kaamelott, Livre III | Bêtisier | Jean-Robert Lombard, Thomas Cousseau, Alexandre Astier
women of king arthur & knights of the round table: Elaine
Find my sister, give her the Holy Grail. Only the cup can achieve the sword.
Elaine Fay Ambrose is Penn’s (clearly Arthur’s descendant) and Gunner’s cousin and a masseuse in a Bangkok’s massage place called “The Perilous Seat”. She takes care of the Grail, that she uses to recuperate her energies and survive, and she loves her family (mostly cousins, as she is alone and says that she is an only child). When Morgana visits “The Perilous Seat” to look for Excalibur, Elaine manages to escape with the cup, but Mordred finds her and wounds her to death. She reaches for her family’s dojo, where she manages to give Penn the Grail and ask him to go find her sister Krista, someone never knew existed. Krista later reveals them that Elaine, a descendant of Merlin like her, run away with the Grail, wanting to make money out of it, but at the end ended up protecting it.
My edit: OTPs in Arthurian Legends [2/?]: Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle- The Maiden’s Knight and the Loathy Lady
The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle is an English poem written in the 15th century by an anonimous author (even if there’s the hypothesis that the author is Thomas Malory himself, because this poem was written in the same period of Le Mort d’Arthur). The poem begins with King Arthur threatened by a knight that he met in the magic forest of Inglewood. The knight, Gromer Somer Joure, said that he was going to kill King Arthur in a year, if he for that moment didn’t answer at his riddle, “What the women desire the most?”. King Arthur was in despar, until he met in a forest the ugliest woman that he ever saw, who said him that she had the answer at that riddle, but she was goingo to tell to him only at the condition that she would marry King Arthur’s nephew, sir Gawain. Arthur was reluctant, but Gawain accepted. So, the loathy lady, who was called dame Ragnelle, told him the answer: what women desired the most is sovereignty over themselves. When Gromer Somer Joure heard the answer from King Arthur, he became angry and cursed his sister Ragnelle. So, Arthur came to Camelot with Ragnelle, who wedded with Gawain, even if the court was unhappy for this marriage. But when came the moment of the wedding night, Gawain saw his wife transformed into a beautiful maiden, who said to him that she fell under a curse of her step-mother, but right now he could choose between having her beautiful in the night, but ugly in the day, or beautiful in the day, but ugly in the night. Gawain answered so:
“Alas!” said Gawain, “the choice is hard
Choosing the best is difficult.
I don’t know what to choose.
To have you beautiful
At night and no more,
That would grieve my heart.
And I would lose my reputation.
But if I choose to have you beautiful in the day,
Then at night I would have slim pickings.
Now, gladly would I choose the best,
But I don’t know what in the world to say.
Choose what you think best, happy lady.
The choice I put into your hand.
Do as you want, as you choose.
Untie me when you will, for I am bound.
I give the decision to you.
Body, possessions, heart and everything,
It is all yours, to buy and sell.
This I swear to God.” (translation by David Breeden)
So, Ragnelle said to him that he had broken the curse, because he had given to her what she wanted the most: the sovereignty upon herself. So they are happy, until she had to left him (the text didn’t say if she died or she was only gone away). But Gawain never loved another woman as he had loved dame Ragnelle.The poem has many interpretation, many seemed a connection with the trope of the loathy lady who appeared also in “Canterbury’s Tales”. This trope had also a connection with the Celtic mythology, where the “sovereignty of Ireland” appeared both with the appearence of a beautiful maiden and of an old ugly woman, as a trial that the hero had to face, for becaming king.
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