Morgan Le Fay - Blog Posts
Morgan le Fay casually making Satan her bitch. From a fan translation of Segurant, Knight of the Dragon, which I found on reddit here.
Dindrane: claimed I could remember my unborn sibling from Heaven, then gave a description of said sibling which turned out to be accurate
Taliesin: went outside during a lightning storm and tried to fly away by using a Mary Poppins umbrella to catch the wind while making dramatic poetic declarations (I got about two feet in the air)
Sebile: tried to practice necromancy to talk to a dead Monarch butterfly
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This isn’t something I did, but an evangelical organization once showed up at my family’s house to see whether one of us was the Messiah, and that seems pretty Galahad-esque.
arthurian legend characters as weird things i did as a kid
Arthur: created clubs for the sole purpose of making myself in charge of them
Guinevere: played barbies, but the plot of the game was that they were fighting in world war iii
Lancelot: pretended to be an exterminator by spraying actual hornets with a hose, and somehow not getting stung, against all odds
Gawain: held stair-jumping competitions, and regularly jumped down around 10 stairs at a time
Merlin: designated a particular tree branch for reading and refused to let anyone climb this branch
Gaheris: held ‘screaming contests’ in my backyard to which invited my friends (this is exactly what it sounds like and it was banned by my mother immediately)
Dinadan: eaten spaghetti while riding a bike
Galahad: made a graveyard for bugs
Morgana: recruited a friend’s little brother to spy on said friend because she wasn’t talking to me
Mordred: accidentally made a gallon of poison
Challenge: Find the Holy Grail
The Death of King Arthur by James Archer
Arthurian hot takes from before I joined the fandom
Funny story: the way I got into this fandom was a seventh-grade assignment to write an alliterative paragraph using the letter G. Something clicked (or snapped, however you want to look at it) and though I’d never given much thought to the Round Table before, I wrote a paragraph about Gawain, which spiraled into a chapter, which spiraled into an attempt at a novel, which spiraled into a neverending research wormhole and long term fixation. Older and at least a little wiser, I give you ten of my original takes on the characters and how they seem in retrospect.
Guinevere doesn’t really do anything. In my defense, my knowledge of her mostly came from watching the first half of an amateur production of Camelot, which is bound to give anyone the wrong idea.
Mordred is a socially awkward evil wizard. In my book, he made a number of cartoonish villain speeches, mostly to his long-suffering familiar, since no one else would listen. No, I have no idea why I thought he had magic… Is it awful that I kind of like him that way?
Arthur is perfect. Uh…
Gawain is perfect. Uh….
Lancelot is an absolute monster. My version of him was a mix of a guy who bullied me and the god Ares as depicted in D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths. Needless to say, he did not have an affair with Guinevere, because she would never cheat on Arthur, because only morally pure characters are good, and she is secretly awesome, even though most people think she doesn’t do anything… Uh… Yeah. I was wrong.
Agravaine is mildly aggravating. Gareth and Gaheris are just sort of there and uninteresting. This opinion was derived entirely from their names.
Morgause is an evil witch but has great style. That sounds more like Morgan.
Morgan is a terrible name. I debated renaming her Marianne or Meredith. Yes, I have seen the error of my ways.
Galahad is a rustic himbo. That was the vibe I got from the name “Gallahad”.
The Lady of the Lake is awesome. I stand by this one and always will.
This scene this scene this scene this scene undoes all my domestication at once. What motivated Morgan to destroy king Arthur so viciously? What motivated Morgan to sacrifice everything she had (including personhood, happiness and life) to rule a country that hated her? What could lead a single person to take such drastically different paths in each iteration?
That's easy. While their methods are different, the goal was the same; Morgan- every Morgan- genuinely, profoundly loved Britain. And Morgan- every Morgan- was rejected by Britain at every turn.
Morgan doesn't give a shit about her ruling right. In the lostbelt, she would have been perfectly fine with Mab and/or Cnoc taking things over. In panhuman history, she didn't even try to rule Camelot after the fall of Camlann. The one thing the one thing the ONE thing Morgan wants, above everything is a home. But the only way for Britain to survive in the lostbelt was by her becoming a tyrant. And the only shot she had in phh was by stopping Mystery from being driven out of the island- ie, by stopping King Arthur as she brought forth the age of man.
Don't get me wrong. Phh Morgan is a bitch and a motherfucker. But when you see her side of the story as "I am desperately trying to not get evicted" suddenly her actions make a lot more sense. From her perspective, she is being driven out, chased away from the one place she's ever known- where to? The reverse side of the world, a land of fairies, when she herself is partially human? To stay in this world, to become a witch, shunned by all, as Beryl's story tell us?
Lostbelt Morgan and phh Morgan are two very different people, because they have different experiences, and because (according to her profile) losbelt Morgan is much older and as such chilled out a lot on the whole death and murder thing. But if you were to ask who is Morgan? What is the common thread, the core of her character you will find in every world? then here is your answer:
Morgan is an incredibly ruthless person, capable of the most virtuous acts and the most intense cruelty for her goals.
Morgan, truly, sincerely, loved Britain.
Morgan does not belong anywhere.
YAY!!! I didn’t do my homework last night and instead cleaned up a oc design!!
So here she is!! she is part of my sge au and more world building!
The Concert Hall
the Sugar Plum Fairy is the ceremonial king or queen of the sugar kingdom along with being the conductor and protector of the concert hall. as conductor they make and maintain the stages as well as conducting special performances
the concert hall is an institution similar to the school in the books.
but instead of the storian it holds the maestro, it controls the concert hall and many smaller stages, halls, and amphitheaters across the land.
the maestro is in its oldest form a oval music box with silver details and two small figures of two girls dancing inside.
the maestro records both art and history, it collects and records any stage play, song, or performance that is performed on any of its stages along with telling history threw any medium on stage. it will then replay or performer an act when requested.
ballet is especially popular in the sugar kingdom due to the nutcracker telling the story of the sugar plum fairy before Alexzander named Antonietta and Clara
while it is possible for sugar plum fairy's to be related its not that common. Antonietta is the mother of Alexzander and she was 8 months pregnant with him during the ballet, she had a extremely difficult pregnancy even before the rat king that completely destroyed all her energy, that's how she got captured.
the Sugar plum fairy is chosen by the maestro 10 years before the currents retirement and crowned the Sugar plum prince, princess, or hair. when chosen they are no younger than 15 and no older than 20
Sugar Plum Princess Anastasia Le Fey!!
(Ooooh fancy text!)
Anastasia is the eldest child of Morgan Le Fey and the current sugar plum fairy Alexzander
she has 8 siblings
Anastasia's full name and title is The Sugar Plum Princess Anastasia Gwendalynn Le Fey-Tchaikovsky III (what a mouthful) but she goes by Nastya
she is 3 days older than Tedros and will never let him forget it when she used to visit camalot as a child.
when visiting camalot her mother would leave her with Tedros and his nanny when messing with Arthur. she also would dress her daughter is simple play clothes instead of the major finery of the sugar kingdoms court. this has the unintended consequence of Tedros not knowing his cousin is a princess and just thinks she live in whatever run down location he thinks Morgan lives is.
i love making Tedros a dumbass
she has a baton that works like a magic wand
very intelligent and great at school but bad with people
her two best friends are the daughter of the queen of hearts and the daughter of the black swan and white swan (yes i'm making them lesbians)
she is close with her aunt Clara
i want more lesbians the nutcracker is a lady and Clara is useless around her, the nutcracker is an idiot and has low self esteem so she was as clueless as Percy Jackson
at first glance she could be a guy but she is defiantly a girl everyone gets it wrong even gods apparently(the maestro)
I have some very important headcanons about sge and I need to get them out now.
So you know how Wendy darling Is horts mom. No well she is, and I find that really interesting especially since horts dad was a part of hooks crew and after hooks death was second in command and Peter Pan is credited with killing horts dad, his name is apparently George scourie, although George is Wendy’s dads name so I don’t think that is right so I’m renaming him Will. Now i think that some how after there fairytale Wendy took over hooks ship and became the new captain introducing real historical piracy instead of hooks dictator style. Wendy and Peter become enemies and Will is her second(first mate). So when Wendy can’t return to neverland Peter kills her husband. Wendy ends up separated from the people she loves and because I love drama she is pregnant with her and George’s second child.
First some math. The story is roughly set around 1904 but I’m saying it’s 1906 and Wendy is 13 same as Peter, when we see Peter in the books I interpret him to be around 50 years old. So we will say that 40 years have passed, this means that for Wendy it’s 1946 the year after ww2 when she finally makes it back.
So timeline, in 1906 the Peter Pan story takes place, after the story Wendy and her brothers travel between their world and Neverland.
1909: Wendy gets really mad at Peter and storms off meeting Will(scourie) the newest member of hooks crew(he’s one year older than Wendy) they don’t start a romance but become fast friends. They teach each other things like Scourie teaches Wendy how to fight and everything about being a pirate and ships. Wendy teaches Scourie math and philosophy (as those are his favorite) as well as the history of pirates in her world. This also starts Wendy putting into question the whole concept of Evers and Nevers and confronting both her own bies in her world and neverland, as well as finding and understanding the failings of the system.
1911:on the day Wendy and Scourie finally get together Peter finds out about Wendy and Scourie and because this Peter is a incel he decides that in the middle of a fight with Captain Hook in order to distract hook he exposes them. Hook is enraged by this and goes to kill Scourie but Wendy jumps in and duels hook and actually ends up killing him. Because Wendy killed hook she becomes the new captain of the jolly Rodger. Peter initially starts talking to Wendy about how he knew she could do it and trying to manipulate her into coming back and dumping Scourie and how she should’ve never been with him because she’s an ever and he’s a never. But Wendy doesn’t believe in that and she has seen that the divide between Evers and Nevers isn’t real and is steeped in classism and corrupt ideas. While Peter was talking Wendy was frozen almost unable to speak but her brothers come over and snap her out of the trance and both back her up when she accepts being captain and takes control of her crew and ship chasing Peter off the ship.
1917: Wendy gets a new quartermaster named Sasha
1920: Mr. Smee retires and Scourie becomes Wendy’s first mate and John becomes the doctor. In there home world John was a medic during ww1
1922: Michael went to culinary school and is a chef back home and the cook on the ship.
1925: Wendy and Scourie get married Michael is the maid of honor and John and another crew member named Bonnie are brides maids, Sasha officiates.
1930: threw out all of this Peter has been fighting Wendy and her crew off and on threw out the years and falsely blames them for him aging. Hort is born named Horace “Hort” George Scourie Darling. Hort doesn’t know his full name just the nickname since his dad died when he was young and Scourie was really depressed after Wendy was taken and had a hard time talking about her, Hort was to young to remember this and was left to assume a lot of things about his mom.
1933: Wendy when pregnant with her second baby she and her brothers are forced to return home due to a curse Peter had someone put on them. She names her daughter Willa Mary Scourie darling.
1937:Scourie is killed by Peter and hort is taken in by Sasha until he goes to school, Sasha isn’t very motherly.
1946: during the last ever after Morgan le fey crashes the meeting at Guinevere and Lancelot’s place with her daughter and ends up getting frustrated with some of the fairy tale heroes that are there. So she decides to bring her own, Alice (who never left wonderland and had also traveled through time when she first fell into wonderland is age 18), the Gerda and kai from the original snow queen (in their early 50s and happy together), and the darling family. Later on Clara from the nutcracker shows up but that’s for another post. Wendy notices hort first and starts hugging him and it’s a very tearful reunion until she calls him Horace and he gets confused for a second there. Sophie probably mention something about how the Wendy darling is horts mother and he never told her, while also questioning it because she in this part of the books isn’t able to understand how a hero like Wendy could be married to horts pirate father, just wait till she finds out that Wendy is a pirate captain.
Willa is also confused as while she knew she had a dad and brother she just assumed both were dead. And when Wendy starts looking for and asking about Scourie she finds out that Peter killed him and is devastated. With terrible timing Peter walks into the room and Wendy attacks him crying about her husband. Both Morgan and Merlin have to restrain her and Michael(who ready to help his sister torture and/or kill Peter, John was planning the escape plan and how get away with the murder). The three darlings swear not to fight Peter until after they save the world.
During the pair-up’s instead of pairing up with hort her son she helps lance with Tedros since she is an amazing leader. Michael ends up with dot and red also bonding over similar tastes in men and starts swapping recipes with red. John and Kai end up talking to Guinevere, Gerda pairs with hort and Peter and teaches hort some detective skills. Alice joins Cinderella and Agatha but keeps giving advice in riddles which Agatha finds confusing.
A small side tangent the snow queen is not working with Rafal as Gerda and Kai don’t defeat or confront her she just leaves Kai to die because she got bored, she might show up in Camelot years head cannons.
None of Morgan’s hero’s went to the school for good and evil and most don’t fall into the traditional divide of ever and never. They join the final battle and afterwards Wendy and John are asked to teach at the school and Michael gets a job as cook. They accept so they can stay near hort.
That’s enough for now but I do want to add more to this.
alright so I just finished all six books in the school for good and evil and my brain in buzzing with au's already. like I kind of wish that Morgan le Fay was in there. like it would be hilarious that the sister to the great king Arthur with how he is portrayed in the book has a this crazy prankster of a sister just running around and causing chaos. I know a lot of people see her as a evil sorceress but I like her as a loony tunes like villein or a trickster. witch makes her off screen redemption arc extremally funny. like in the original(not sge) green knight story the entire purpose that he is there is because Morgan thought if the green night got his head cut off Guinevere would see it and just die. like that is so stupid, but I love it!
Edit: spelling and contradiction correction
It’s Sebile day! Everyone give it up for medieval wlw who kidnap Lancelot!
Shoutout to @gawain-in-green for the design, and @beheadaed, @lanzelet and @lesbianrenard for help with research