His Lady, Her Champion: An Arthur/Morgana Manifesto

[jadehunter]

Arthur/Morgana (BBC's Merlin)

Title: His Lady, Her Champion
Author: jadehunter
Fandom: BBC's Merlin
Pairing: Arthur and Morgana
Spoilers: Somewhat detailed spoilers of all of Season 1, but little to none of Season 2

Comments

[theafterimages]

I've got to say that though I'm not really an Arthur/Morgana shipper, this manifesto is fantastic! It sums up their personalities and their relationship really, really well. I'm definitely going to be linking others to it. :)

[jadehunter]

Thank you! That actually means a lot coming from someone who doesn't ship the couple, haha. At least it means I managed to express some of what I felt about the pairing semi-coherently. :)

[dresstokill]

This is lovely. It highlights all the best Arthur/Morgana interactions and why their UST is always the highlight of any episode for me. Thank you!

[jadehunter]

Thanks! It was so fun to work on this, because I got to go back and re-watch all my favorite scenes, analyze them, and just revel in the pairing for quite some time. :)

[jadehunter]

Okay, now you've made me want to re-read The Road to Avalon... I think that's, so far, the happiest version of A/M I've ever encountered. Their love is so EPIC!

[anonymous]

I agree with this excellent manifesto on all counts. Although I am mainly a Arthur/Merlin (funny and USTish and with genuine strong feelings behind all the banter, even if they're not canonically romantic) and Morgana/Gwen (they're just so damn passionate about each other and their friendship that it makes my throat ache) shipper, I thouroughly enjoy the relationships between all the main characters, and Arthur/Morgana is one of my favourites. That's why it irritates me that the creators seem to be pushing aside Merlin/Gwen (which was canonically at least one-sided during season one) and Arthur/Morgana (who were clearly intended to have some serious UST between them) in order to rush into Arthur/Gwen. Luckily the chemistry of the actors and the basic sweetness of the pairing itself seems to be saving the day and making it fairly believable, but I wish they could have built it up a bit more and introduced it without pushing aside previous semi-canonical couples

[juvjuvychan]

I will freely admit that my OTP of the fandom is Merlin/Arthur but if I were to chose a possible canon het pairing I really, really, wanted Arthur/Morgona. I'd explain my feelings on the pairing, but you've pretty much summed it up perfectly. Also the actors have genuine chemistry between them. I enjoyed watching their scenes and miss them so much in S2. The Arthur/Gwen scenes are just...weird to watch. Akward and stiff I simply can't get into them. Which is weird cause Angel and Bradley seem to get along great outside the show. Anyway, floved you manifesto so much. XD I really hope we get more interaction between them soon.

[jadehunter]

Part of the fun of the series is that you could ship all four of the main characters and have plenty of squee material from canon, IMO. Arthur/Morgana is my favorite of all of the pairings, but I have no problems admitting the shippyness of the others, and all of them together as an OT4, lol. Which is why the awkward A/G thing was so weird, but I think the biggest problem was the writers just rushing into it. If they took the time to develop the whole thing, it could've been so much better, but they just made things come out of no where, so it was really a struggle to believe it.