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[rainbowjehan]

Title: Taxes
Author: Soujin
Characters/Pairings: Galahad, Peredur, Lancelot, Peredur/Lancelot, semi-not-really-implied-possible-maybe Galahad/Peredur
Rating: PG-13
Archive: Yes
Disclaimer: Copyright has presumably expired.
Summary: Lancelot can't understand his son. Or his son's best friend.
Notes: :P This story has never sat well with me, but at

Comments

[holyschist]

OMG POOR MESSED UP ARTHURIANS. This is brilliant.

[rainbowjehan]

^^;; Oh lord, thank you. I cannot write Lancelot, but I think the boys came off pretty well.

[holyschist]

I think this is a really interesting take on Lancelot! I don't know what characterization you're trying to conform to, but it made sense to me.

[rainbowjehan]

Any, my own. I figure he has almost as much trouble with his kid as Mordred has with the twins.

[fisher_queen]

This? Made me ache but in mind bendingly awesomely beautiful ways. Absolutely wonderful.

[rainbowjehan]

Thank you so much! I am so glad someone liked it.

>_> I love translating Percy's accent into modern-day central Pennsylvanian. /tangent

[skaryma]

Ooooh, I actually like this quite a bit. A lot of the legend is about fathers and sons, isn't it? How Arthur would be a good father except..., how none of the Orkneys can quite manage (except maybe Gawain, depending on who you ask), and even Pellinore, though I'm sure he'd have loved Peredur, would be hard pressed to make heads or tails of him, I think.

For me, though, the small details are what really make this work. Lancelot musing over the "thee," then turning around and calling Galahad "boy" without a thought. The way Lancelot keeps trying to draw parallels between Peredur's mannerisms and Guinevere's, so he can understand. The story's a heap of little things that add up to a palpable frustration. I love that. Thank you for sharing.

[rainbowjehan]

Eee, thank you. This is such high praise coming from you. <333 I love getting to write Galahad and Percy together,

I like to think Gawain was a pretty good father, although naturally Ragnelle helped. :D

[scarfman]

Wonderful stuff. This is almost only the beginning of a story: if Lancelot can realize that Galahad is as awkward with him as he is with Galahad, then he's capable of learning how to relate to him. He just has to be as willing as Galahad to be taught by the wise innocent. The question becomes, is he, can he be? If any more of this does get written, please post it.

[rainbowjehan]

aklflasjflkasjflj HELLO SIR. *dies*

^^ I don't know if I'll ever write more--I can rarely sustain anything for very long so I tend to leave off when I come to a place where I can. On the other hand, I probably shoulde write more about characters who aren't totally obscure and largely substantiated by my own imagination (*cough Sagramore cough*). Anyway, thank you very much.

(I have to say, AKOTAS is the only thing I have ever read where I have felt even mildly sympathetic towards Lancelot: I actually kind of like him in your 'verse.)

[sasha_b]

OMG beautiful. And I want to alternately smack and hug Lancelot.

The boys are sweet and f'ed up too. Excellent work - thanks for sharing this.

[rainbowjehan]

Thank you! :D I love my crazy boyos.