We really just decided as a society that this is what Sir Gawain looks like huh?
Got bored, drew punk Mordred. He’s going to overthrow the government. Christ help me I am so bored. I tried way too hard to make him not just look like Nimona.
Nobody talk to me I’m thinking of the historical and cultural landscape leading up to the Scottish Knights of the Round Table tales where a heroic Mordred leads a rebellion against a tyrannical King Arthur.
- The fact that the Scottish identified themselves with a character usually portrayed as an irredeemable villain.
- The fact that King Arthur was originally a Welsh folk hero of sorts and it had become so Anglicised by that time it was pissing off the Scots.
- The myth of Arthur which had been popular and romantic for centuries being soured for people who were in the middle of a war with a future colonial power.
- I mean obviously this is just “My fanfic is better than your fanfic.” on a national scale like all adaptations of the Knights but it gives me the feels.
- This is what’s fun about the knights!!! Historical and cultural feels and context n stuff. Like how a whole lot of writers fucking hated Sir Gawain for being pagan. Who different nations and groups and eras identify with as their heroes.
Sorry I just