Post by Morgana le Fay on Aug 3, 2013 20:58:26 GMT -5
MERLIN AMBROSIUS
20. Suggested play-by: Thomas McDonell. Half-fay. White Owl Animagus.
Merlin Ambrosius died at the hands of Morgana's rival Evienne and remembered Morgana as the woman that he could never get to love him. This couldn't have been further from the truth, as much as she hates to admit to it. Now, he's been brought into the future and they have a second chance.
Merlin is cunning, intelligent and curious with a fiercely competitive streak. He likes puzzles, especially if their names are Morgana and Evienne, and is relentless in his attempts to unravel them. He can be arrogant to nearly a fault, and possesses a self-assurance that drives most to distraction, especially Arthur. For all of the charm and wit that comes to him naturally, though, he does not understand humans. At all. He was raised by the fay, after all; those are what he understands. He is quirkily funny, but tends to make jokes that only make sense to him and then laugh about them. Morgana refers to Merlin as "infuriating, arrogant and awkward," and all of those things are probably accurate. Merlin can be summarized, overall, as a complicated person. That's probably why Morgana loves him.
ARTHUR PENDRAGON
16. Wielder of Excalibur. Lion Animagus.
This version of the once and future King of England is young and has not yet met the woman that ruined him, Guinevere. He is, in fact, in the middle of his tutelege under Morgana and Merlin, having just completed his vegeance for the death of his previous mentor, Ambrosius Aurelius. It is safe to say that romance was far from the mind of the legendary king at this point in his life, and arguable that it should have stayed that way.
Arthur is valiant and inventive, but he is also young and naive. He trusts his people to do what is best, and generally believes the best of everyone that is not Scottish, Irish or French. On those three topics, he reserves judgement. He has a penchant for mischief and jokery that compliments the charisma that comes to him naturally, but sobers up quickly when it is needed. In battle, he is a bold and intelligent commander that strives to minimize casualties where he can; in private, he is a devoted and loving brother and son. His boldness borders on rashness more often than not, and he despises pomp and ceremony, finding it all obnoxious and callous in light of Britain's widespread poverty in his time. He is quick to anger, but also quick to forgive, though he never forgets. When he loves, he loves intensely; it seems that Arthur is not capable of feeling shades of emotion. His all-or-nothing approach to feelings is his general approach to really everything. He is fiery and competitive and hates to lose, but his youthful abundance of energy is also the reason he sometimes overlooks things. If Morgana can be compared to the moon, then her brother can be compared to the sun. It is, for these reasons, probably appropriate that Arthur is strongly associated with dragons, lions and fire.