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Aug. 16th, 2025 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kadharononCurrent status of Le Morte d'Arthur read is beefing with Pellinore, who everyone keeps calling a really great guy and who repeatedly demonstrates by his actions that he is not actually a good guy at all. Not even close to a good guy, actually.
I guess that's somewhat the point of this, though: no matter what moral code you try to live by, we are all, in the end, horribly, fallibly human.
Pellinore's latest thing was haring off on his quest and ignoring a lady who was begging him to help her and the wounded knight she was sitting with, only to be sad (because she was so young and hot, you see) when he travels back past their corpses on his way back to Camelot. And there Merlin is, going "dude, that was your daughter, and she was going to marry that knight she was with, who would have been a great addition to the round table, but NO, you just had to ignore her!"
Which. Like. Okay, Sir Thomas Mallory. Why did you have Pellinore commenting on how young and hot his daughter was when he said he was sad she died. Also how many miscellaneous children does Pellinore have out in the world that he's completely unaware of. We're at two now.
Since part of the reason I'm reading this is Hexwood Reasons, it's also kind of funny imagining Merlin!Martellian looking at the outcome of this and crying about his reigner breeding program going awry ONCE AGAIN.
I guess that's somewhat the point of this, though: no matter what moral code you try to live by, we are all, in the end, horribly, fallibly human.
Pellinore's latest thing was haring off on his quest and ignoring a lady who was begging him to help her and the wounded knight she was sitting with, only to be sad (because she was so young and hot, you see) when he travels back past their corpses on his way back to Camelot. And there Merlin is, going "dude, that was your daughter, and she was going to marry that knight she was with, who would have been a great addition to the round table, but NO, you just had to ignore her!"
Which. Like. Okay, Sir Thomas Mallory. Why did you have Pellinore commenting on how young and hot his daughter was when he said he was sad she died. Also how many miscellaneous children does Pellinore have out in the world that he's completely unaware of. We're at two now.
Since part of the reason I'm reading this is Hexwood Reasons, it's also kind of funny imagining Merlin!Martellian looking at the outcome of this and crying about his reigner breeding program going awry ONCE AGAIN.
