#nyneve

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Queer Book Character Tournament Round One

Henry Jekyll- The Glass Scientists

Jack Sheppard- Confessions of the Fox

Nyneve- Witchy

Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System

Voting ended onApr 15

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Henry Jekyll- The Glass Scientists by S.H. Cotugno

Jack Sheppard- Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Nyneve- Witchy by Ariel Ries

Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

[forlorn-crows]

lady of the lake

i don't think i've ever shared my depiction of nyneve (who is known more commonly as lake wife). here's something i drew of her a few years ago 🦑

[thejenjineer]

I colored it!

[malorydaily]

Nyneve’s actions clarify important points of the new code of chivalry. Her first adventure, in which she imprisons Merlin, proves that loyalty to justice has indeed become more important than the ties of friendship. By the old codes of loyalty between men, her treatment of Arthur’s friend and advisor is criminal; by the new code, it is justifiable self-defense since Merlin was at fault. Malory takes care to make Nyneve’s innocence clear. He says Merlin “felle in dotage on” and is “assoted” with Nyneve (125; IV.1). Unlike his sources, Malory never claims Merlin is genuinely in love, and he cuts the passages in the French that say Merlin would not seduce her against her will. He persistently tries to seduce her against her will, clearly violating the code of chivalry Arthur has just announced. Instead of a knight showing up to protect Nyneve, she protects herself by permanently entombing him beneath a stone. (If this seems severe, it must be remembered that Arthur declared the penalty for enforcing women to be death.) Nyneve is performing a knightly function.

Surprisingly, critics have been slow to acknowledge her innocence unambiguously, perhaps because in so many other tales—although certainly not all—the entrapment is evil. Maureen Fries acknowledges that Nyneve does tend to help Arthur’s court, but she does not hesitate to call the intombment of Merlin the act of a “counter-hero.” Geraldine Heng recognizes that the text does “approve and confirm” Nyneve’s right to defend herself, but later she calls the imprisonment “surely an act as destructive as any of Morgan’s.” Even Sue Ellen Holbrook hedges in her landmark article on Nyneve, saying that, although her treatment of Merlin is “deceptive” and “regrettable,” she “has more to excuse than to blame her.”

In Malory there are few hints of condemnation or destructive con- sequences. Nyneve seems quite capable of preserving Arthur and his court from obvious magical threats. Neither the narrator nor Arthur condemn her; indeed, the narrator says that she “was allwayes fryndely to kynge Arthure” (2:490; IX.16), a surprising assertion if her imprisonment of Merlin is to be judged evil. Moreover, Nyneve’s treatment of Merlin demonstrates two important points of the new code: that the loyalty to ideals is real, so that even friends of the king are not exempt from justice; and that women, if they are strong enough, can act according to the new standards of chivalry. Her métier is magic, not arms, and thus she is a worthy opponent for Merlin. Her entombment of him is obviously justified as simple self-defense, but it goes further. She acts as champion of a principle, that power (magical or physical) is not to be used to oppress the weak. As such, she is the first champion of the principles laid out in Arthur’s Round Table oath, and is fitting that she is the one who provides him with Excalibur for the third time.

– Kenneth Hodges, Forging Chivalric Communities in Malory's Morte D'Arthur

[lily10808]

Morgan and Nyneve (Lady of the Lake)

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[vampslxsher]

The heiresses make a friend.

[bekahheart]

@witchycomic

[sleepysera]

"But in the years since her power had made its own control. She could do things ordinary people could not do, and rather than making her free, she was a slave to the helpless. With the gift of healing she was the servant of the sick, her power over fortune tied her to the unfortunate, while her knowledge, which made evil apparent to her no matter what its mask, enlisted her in constant war against the ambitious plots of greed and treason."

- John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1973)