Small tribute to Mordred
Dec. 26th, 2025 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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merlin_bbcJust dropping by to say that after eleven freaking years I am STILL absolutely, passionately, never-endingly in love with Mordred.
It's not just Merlin BBC's Mordred, of course, but that one's the one who started it all. And it's always his face I picture (Hello? what you seen that nose?? Greek statue shit.). He was the character who moved me the most, and there is still something about him - his composure, his way of talking, of being - that I keep coming back to when I create a young male character in my writing.
It was also John Newbolt's play Mordred: A Tragedy that made this obsession last so long, so in honour of this I'll share my favourite verses from it, spoken by a version of Mordred who embodies anarchy in its deepest and most compassionate, life-loving way :
It's not just Merlin BBC's Mordred, of course, but that one's the one who started it all. And it's always his face I picture (Hello? what you seen that nose?? Greek statue shit.). He was the character who moved me the most, and there is still something about him - his composure, his way of talking, of being - that I keep coming back to when I create a young male character in my writing.
It was also John Newbolt's play Mordred: A Tragedy that made this obsession last so long, so in honour of this I'll share my favourite verses from it, spoken by a version of Mordred who embodies anarchy in its deepest and most compassionate, life-loving way :
Life is not a mummer's dance that we should walk it
Stiffly composed and following one by one the same set figure ;
It is more orderly when ordered least, and only then secure
From waywardness when each man's acts are flowers
Of his own rooted will.
Stiffly composed and following one by one the same set figure ;
It is more orderly when ordered least, and only then secure
From waywardness when each man's acts are flowers
Of his own rooted will.
