4x01 - The Darkest Hour | 5x07 - A Lesson in Vengeance
when merlin literally asked the same of gwaine (and potentially other characters) but according to racists gwen is selfish and horrible for asking the same of lancelot.
no one has ever questioned or criticized when merlin has asked his (and arthur's) friends to look after the literal king but everyone goes up in arms with their morals claiming gwen was a bad person for asking lancelot and blaming her for his death
and the people saying "first she rejects lancelot, then she asks him to look after arthur" uh.....yeah? because arthur is the fucking king and lancelot is one of his closests knights and may i remind you that lancelot literally left gwen bc he wanted her to be happy with arthur
it was NOT selfish or out of character for gwen to ask this. she wanted to ask someone she trusts to protect arthur, and lancelot would have done that anyway
also if i remember correctly lancelot sacrificed himself to protect merlin because merlin was gonna be the one to do the sacrifice but lancelot was not going to let him so he decided he would be the sacrifice
tldr; gwen's request to lancelot was completely reasonable and blaming her for lancelot's death on top of calling her selfish for asking a knight to protect his king is just ridiculous. stop the gwen hate
