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tamingthemuseTitle: They should have known
Fandom: Original (based on the Arthurian Legends)
Prompt: Prompt 332 - If they can't beat them, trick them
Warnings: None.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: The Arthurian Legends are in the public domain. I make no reference to any copyrighted work. So all is mine.
Beta: None, so any mistakes you see are mine.
Summary: It should have come as no surprise that Mordred had been both the greatest manipulator and the greatest manipulated.
Morgause has always known she could never beat men at the game of war. She was a woman. She had no status and her role was simply to be pretty and run the household if not enough servants were available. But Morgause had never fitted in this role. Ever since her childhood she had been rebellious but she had quickly learned that the path to command for her would be behind the scenes. She had applied herself to a quest of power and after long years she had succeeded and it was not a a spoilt brat hidden away for years that was going to steal her kingdom. She would trick him like the rest of them. She would command him by guilt.
---*---
Arthur had know from the start that he would never be a great warrior, not by the standards of the day. He wasn't the strongest and he could never win in a combat of sheer brute force. But he was the cleverest and he was really fit. He had never thought he could use those skills in armed combat but the arrival of Merlin in his household has changed things. The old man has shown him that brute force couldn't win against cleverness. He had taught him that magic was only tricks and that he too could become the greatest trickster of all time. However he had never complied to the demand of the young teenager to teach him his tricks, all he was willing to pass on to him were tricks for battle and lessons of strategy.
It was a only later, much later that Arthur had understood it had all been part of Merlin's master plan. By then it hadn't mattered though. He had became the greatest leader of the greatest warriors by using his brain and not his force.
---*---
With such a parentage it should have come as no surprise that Mordred had been both the greatest manipulator and the greatest manipulated. He had been a pawn with a will. He had resisted to the pull of his heritages for a very long time, and this had strained him beyond measures. None of the players had really tried to get him away from the other parent's claw, and in this their mistake had lied. None of them had truly wanted him for who he was.
So in the end, Mordred had done the only thing that was possible to him. He had exerted his will. He had exploded in burst of anger, of love, of hatred, of will. They had never counted on that, and now that the blast was closing in, engulfing the entire kingdom with it, Arthur thought that his son has outwitted them all. He had been the best trickster in spite of himself. He had used a weapon none of them could have ever used: force and mind at the same time embodied in one person.
Fandom: Original (based on the Arthurian Legends)
Prompt: Prompt 332 - If they can't beat them, trick them
Warnings: None.
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: The Arthurian Legends are in the public domain. I make no reference to any copyrighted work. So all is mine.
Beta: None, so any mistakes you see are mine.
Summary: It should have come as no surprise that Mordred had been both the greatest manipulator and the greatest manipulated.
Morgause has always known she could never beat men at the game of war. She was a woman. She had no status and her role was simply to be pretty and run the household if not enough servants were available. But Morgause had never fitted in this role. Ever since her childhood she had been rebellious but she had quickly learned that the path to command for her would be behind the scenes. She had applied herself to a quest of power and after long years she had succeeded and it was not a a spoilt brat hidden away for years that was going to steal her kingdom. She would trick him like the rest of them. She would command him by guilt.
---*---
Arthur had know from the start that he would never be a great warrior, not by the standards of the day. He wasn't the strongest and he could never win in a combat of sheer brute force. But he was the cleverest and he was really fit. He had never thought he could use those skills in armed combat but the arrival of Merlin in his household has changed things. The old man has shown him that brute force couldn't win against cleverness. He had taught him that magic was only tricks and that he too could become the greatest trickster of all time. However he had never complied to the demand of the young teenager to teach him his tricks, all he was willing to pass on to him were tricks for battle and lessons of strategy.
It was a only later, much later that Arthur had understood it had all been part of Merlin's master plan. By then it hadn't mattered though. He had became the greatest leader of the greatest warriors by using his brain and not his force.
---*---
With such a parentage it should have come as no surprise that Mordred had been both the greatest manipulator and the greatest manipulated. He had been a pawn with a will. He had resisted to the pull of his heritages for a very long time, and this had strained him beyond measures. None of the players had really tried to get him away from the other parent's claw, and in this their mistake had lied. None of them had truly wanted him for who he was.
So in the end, Mordred had done the only thing that was possible to him. He had exerted his will. He had exploded in burst of anger, of love, of hatred, of will. They had never counted on that, and now that the blast was closing in, engulfing the entire kingdom with it, Arthur thought that his son has outwitted them all. He had been the best trickster in spite of himself. He had used a weapon none of them could have ever used: force and mind at the same time embodied in one person.
