Sire… It Must Be… SAUCERY

"It is not a crime to fight for your freedom."

Do you ever think about how Kara and Freya were both punished for defending themselves? How Arthur killed them both?

so this may be a bit of a jump but hear me out:

kara gets introduced with very little backstory aside from knowing mordred when they were young. it can be assumed that she grew up with druids, perhaps, and that people she loved were probably killed by uther. other than that, we have no clue about her past.

but this isn't the first time the name of kara has popped up. because nimueh used it (albeit with a 'c' instead of a 'k') as her disguise in 1×04. and, with the exception of tristan, no name is repeated in the series.

coincidence? perhaps. or perhaps not.

because something that has always bothered me is why nimueh waits almost twenty years to exact her revenge. there is absolutely no mention of her having caused trouble pre-canon, so it just seems like she's been quietly existing and then one day decided to fuck shit up after two decades.

unless she had a child. and perhaps that child was left in the care of druids because nimueh, as a high priestess and a very personal enemy of uther, knows that she will always be hunted by him. but the druids cause no harm and keep themselves largely hidden away. and her child can have more of a family than nimueh could ever offer, a family like she used to have on the isle of the blessed.

then she hears that the camp she left her child in has been destroyed by uther and everyone who lived there is either dead or presumed so.

so she decides to take her revenge. and when she arrives in camelot, the home of the man who supposedly murdered her daughter, she takes her daughter's name. cara.

little does she know that her daughter is very much alive and will grow up to be just as strongly opposed to camelot as her mother was.

ah, yes. the " i only appeared in one episode but was enough to steal your heart and then i died" squad

Op where's freya

In the lake

I feel like this is an unpopular opinion because she turned Mordred to the dark side or whatever, but I fucking love Kara.

During her trial, Arthur says “i’m not my father” as if he’s done anything during his reign to indicate that to magic users (note that this episode comes after Arthur sends his knights after Osgar just for being a sorcerer who resisted arrest, and after he sent men after Finna just for practicing the Old Religion)

And Kara rightly calls him on his bullshit when she says, “You don’t kill those with magic?” To which Arthur has no response because how does.

Kara stands before the king of Camelot who holds her life in his hands and tells him exactly what she thinks of him: 

Like damn. She doesn’t waver. She doesn’t soften her words. She doesn’t beg for leniency. 

Even when Arthur tells her he’ll rethink his sentence if she repents, she refuses. Arthur makes it so easy for her to say, “you know what, I’ll pass on this whole execution business” but she doesn’t because staying true to her cause and her people is more important.

Arthur gave her the most patronizing out in the world, talking about how “young” and “impressionable” she is–as if she’s the one between the two of them who’s deluded by prejudices–and instead of taking that out, she looks death right in the eye and tells him: 

I mean seriously, the sheer power of this woman. Her very existence is outlawed, and yet she stands before the king and refuses to humor him for even a second, not even to save her own life.

Like yeah, it sucks that Mordred killed blond pendragon man but Kara is a fucking hero, and she doesn’t get enough credit for it.