Once and Future King Thoughts #4:
I like Lancelot, I like him a lot. He reminds me of myself if I'm being honest. A man whose childhood was devoid of love because of how he was. A man of cripplingly low self confidence. A man who made himself to be the best he can be, because he had genuinely believed he had nothing to offer as himself. A man with so much love to give, and had received so much love. A man trying to be the best a man could be, when the best men are gone. A good man, a flawed man, a failed man, but a good man. Perhaps even the Best.
The thing about Lancelot? The book never portrays him as a Bad Man. Just because he fails, just because he falls to temptation, just because he's not perfect, it never makes him a bad man. Despite Lancelot's internal thoughts saying otherwise. He is as Arthur, as Guinevere, as even God himself decrees multiple times, the Best Man. He is never treated by the people he loves, and the God he loves as a bad person. He is, instead, a Tragic Person.
