May 27
Every time I see someone talk about Gawain as a cinnamon roll I'm reminded of that time he described wanting to viciously torture and kill some guys he has beef with. But like "politely"
Most courteous knight<3
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Every time I see someone talk about Gawain as a cinnamon roll I'm reminded of that time he described wanting to viciously torture and kill some guys he has beef with. But like "politely"
Most courteous knight<3
Something I really appreciate about Tristan’s visual FGO Depiction is Failnaught. Failnaught is a Bow Tristan built himself while he was hiding with Isolde in the Woods. I think you can see it in Ascension 1 the most. I think the simple look refers to this very fact.
Something I also really adore is how they adapted the unique traits of Failnaught into the Word of Fate/the Type Moon Universe. It always felt like „it’s Failnaught, but with a magic Twist“ kind of.
His Noble Phantasm is an A Rank, which is crazy given that he provisionally built it himself…
Disclaimer: I did not draw IN the Book. I made a photo and edited it. Please don’t worry. 💔
funniest heroic oath of all time. of course this comes from Tristan (Béroul)
The gods, demons, dieties and occultists from the DC Animated Movie Universe. In order:
Tristran by Béroul | More quotes at Arthuriana Daily
Tristran by Béroul | More quotes at Arthuriana Daily
Isoldes (of Ireland), ranked
5. Gottfried von Strassburg. 0/10, a real bottom-of-the-barrel Isolde. All of her compelling qualities are ported onto other characters so that she can embody the empty shell of idealized femininity: she doesn’t have the medical skill to heal Tristan, her mother does; she doesn’t have any political savvy, Brangien does. Insipid, limp, fickle, boring. Also, and this isn’t strictly related to her, but it is emphasized that she HATES Tristan prior to the potion, and I vastly prefer the versions where they develop a real friendship before the potion turns them into lust-drunk maniacs.
4. Eilhart von Oberge 4/10, a mixed bag. You see where Gottfried got some of his Isolde’s worst characteristics — the pettiness, the fickleness, both when Tristan does something extremely minor like not halting for her sake, and the awful post-wedding-night trying to murder Brangien thing. But she also keeps many of her fun qualities — her medical skill, her deductive reasoning (the detective work to figure out that the Lord High Steward didn’t kill the dragon! Finding Tristan by tracking down his non-Irish horseshoes!). You tried, Eilhart, but you didn’t try hard enough.
3. The Prose Tristan. 7/10, this Isolde is really cooking with gas. She’s giving Tristan a run for his money in the writing-emo-songs department, which sounds honestly insufferable for everyone around them but they seem happy, so like good for them. When called out by Mark gives him a real “yeah, I AM in love with Tristan, and I sure hate you, the fuck are you gonna do about it,” which we love for her. Points docked for attempted Brangien murder, however.
2. Le Morte D’Arthur. 9/10, the Isolde that first made me not normal about Arthuriana. She’s willing to do anything to save Brangien. She holds a castle against Palamedes while he lies down outside the gates and mopes. She writes heartfelt letters to Guenevere. She has a very sweet relationship with Dinadan and lets him pour out his heart about how much he hates love.
1. Béroul 10/10 no notes. Ten steps ahead of Mark at every turn and hilarious about it. Engineering the scenario wherein she will be able to swear honestly that no man ever been between her thighs except Mark and “the leper who made himself a beast of burden and carried me across the ford, and my husband King Mark” by ordering Tristan, in the guise of a beggar, to get down on his knees and “turn your face away and your back toward me, and I will straddle you like a man,” in case we were in any doubt about what they get up to in bed. An icon. A legend. The greatest tragedy of the Arthurian manuscript tradition is that we only have fragments of this one.
“she” is Isolde and the leper is Tristan in disguise, in case anyone was unclear what these kids get up to