like two sparrows in a hurricane

[wanderlustlover]

Meme:

1. Comment with any 'ship from a fandom that you know I have some knowledge about.

2. I will rant about aforementioned romantic pairing. This may be incoherent gushing or exclamations of disgust, depending on what it is.

[Additional Notes: doesn't have to be a romantic ship, though if you don't want it to be, you should probably specify.]

Comments

[wanderlustlover]

....I did not just flail my hands in a wholly undignified manner the moment I read the first set. >_> Or, go, someone else watched it?!?

Oh them. Them them them.

Let's start with her, because he is our watcher!pov into her.

Ygraine is an amazing soft and sweet women. Who has to have a core of pure, unminable steel to be soft and sweet and compassionate still after her pre!season background. Her husband is a brute, who took by force/magic, who took her child from her, and whom she had to plead to send Morgan away rather than kill her. There is no part of that marriage made to foster kindness in a woman.

And yet, here she is. Ygraine, who shows up to watch her son from a distance, never even forcing herself on Arthur's life more than he's willing to ask her to step into it. She can take care of things and she can be regal, but she's never over prideful or arrogant.

We get to understand the sheer incredulity of Merlin (who's background is never clear, but it's hardly ever kind in most of his canon's) when he gets to all but say who could see her as she is and manage not to fall in love with her?

And she gets him, and she treats him with a soft, but firm hand. When he's sane and when he's acting less than sane. She draws him out of his shell, while at the same time he represents her past and future, both taking Arthur from her and bringing him back to her.

They are the remments of that bloody war-torn past. The Elders which everything relies on. Him half-crazy with magic and not always wise choices, and her with her softness, causing things to flourish even among the tattered ruins.

Where they went broke my heart for both of them. He finally lets someone in, let's her in, only to realize it isn't her, that letting down his barriers actually was a foolish move. She gets held captive, and raped, and pretty much thinks she's gone insane when seeing herself.

AND YET.

With how much they've grown, and how much ever worse crap they've all put up with in the years Pre!Arthur, I think as who they are they could have overcome all of that for each other.

I mean, these are the people who even in tatters of realizing what's just been done to them, don their best clothes, looking elegant and angry, ride right back into the Gate of Evil and accuse Morgan to her face. Without taking any time to recoup.

Yeah, those two could have overcome it.

If it weren't for what happened to her. Which made them into this horrible trageic "Could Have Been/Would Have Been" that broke my heart more Arthur(-who-was-also-Lancelot) and his Girl.

[wanderlustlover]

Actually the icon doesn't annoy me at all. It doesn't move or talk. >_> (Though this may be the same sort of thing I say about R.P. of Twilight. Stills rarely ever bother me.) I was actually staring at it earlier trying to figure out what exactly was going on in it (Damian is carrying Elena, right?) / where it was from in the show. He really doesn't annoy me all that much really. He's still story integral.

But, oh my, this pairing was so well done. And I have a fondness for Merlin's actor from other roles he's played, and then with him and them.