Feint (Interlude Camelot)
Added 2025-05-27 11:00:07 +0000 UTC
And the second-place winner for May's drabble with 19 votes is "Lancelot/Bedivere POV of Lancelot losing to one Camelot MCs /w lucid dreaming" at 2468 words.
I went a little overboard with this one.
Merlin: (｀д´)9 I call shenanigans! The stench of vote-rigging! I demand a recount!
The second place was originally a tie, but the Camelot vignette won the placing after Merlin spice lost the coin-flip. Twice in a row. Apparently, Bedivere's luck > Merlin's luck. But hey, if Merlin spice should eventually win, I'll make it into an interactive mini-game like Fetch next time.
Merlin: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Anyway, here's a bit of a behind-the-scenes look at what was going on in real time during the Camelot dream flashback sequence. Including a few extended reactions to a certain Camelot MC winning the spar against Lancelot.
Password: tis_but_a_scratch
Comments
And that's another vote for Galahad. Arthur's previous drabble does seem to indicate that there's a Percival-ish entity stalking around out there.
Hazard
2025-06-08 19:33:39 +0000 UTCI had thought that either Percy or a particular MC could be Galahad, but I am leaning more towards MC after reading this drabble. The Dreamwalker Arthur Interlude indicates Percy is actually Percival (and not Galahad pretending to be Percival like I had thought). Then there's the whole amnesia MC wandering the desert. That suspiciously casual comment about Caleb Degare's Longing for Longinus makes me think the Bleeding Lance is/was in the Mojave, especially since the lance is associated with wastelands.
cel
2025-06-08 19:14:17 +0000 UTCSeemed to me that, depending if you fight or go with Arthur, the MC can be different people.
Moirnelithe
2025-05-28 10:24:58 +0000 UTCJust looked over the parts of Chapter 2-1 where Arthur appears. So does that mean Mordred and Guinevere can be crossed off the list of potential Camelot MCs? Gawain often acts as Arthur's body double, which reminded me of one of Arthur's nephews who appears in "The Perils of Jousting", though the 4 black squares covering his name still confuse me a little. If this Camelot MC is Yvain (5 letters, 3 squares), and Adrian's previous incarnation is Lancelot (8 letters, shown as 4 squares in "Reverie"), then having 6 letters correspond to 4 squares feels a bit inconsistent. I initially guessed the nephew might be Gaheris or Agravain. But then again, the name of the Camelot MC mentioned by Merlin in Chapter 2-1 is also shown as 4 squares, which doesn't match the name length of this one. So maybe the black squares over people's names in "The Perils of Jousting" are just a rough way to obscure them, and the number of squares doesn't actually mean anything? This drabble has given me a few conflicting theories to think about… Hoping for more clues in the future.
Iidnows
2025-05-28 09:54:49 +0000 UTC
