who dares question me

[impostorsyndrome]

QUESTION FOR A QUESTION MEME

We all like hearing about each other's characters! We all like talking about our own characters! With this groundbreaking new meme, now you can finally do both, for the very first time in DWRP history!

The Guidelines:

• Post a toplevel listing the characters you play! If you have any boundaries you want to set re: questions you might receive (e.g. "No NSFW questions for this character"), do that here too.
  
• Tag other people asking them questions about their characters. What kinds of questions? Up to you! Canon questions, headcanon questions, meta questions, some random thing you've wondered since that thread you had two months ago, it's all fair game.
  
• Need ideas? I was passed this excellent gallery of various questions memes, so feel free to crib from these or just use them as inspiration.
  
• Answer the questions you receive, and, once you've done that, hit the person back with a question of your own about their character(s) too!
  
• You can end it there, or continue to go back and forth asking questions until you're out.
  

Now get to askin'!

Comments

[lunarchain]

YOUR RIGHT and I love the headcanon. I mean we knew they 'fell' and we know that... Children who go into that forest? Either runaway or do it go away from everything. so its very likely your head canon checks out really well!!

I have a question for you, what about Gawain attracted you to his character?

OH! I originally wanted to write him because I wanted to write.... A evil Knight? Or an asshole knight? ( Which now I KNOW I was looking for Sir Kay to write at the time ) Then I learned Gawain in actuality is anything but that, and that he is multilayered. And runs very deep despite coming off as a character that doesnt run very deep.

What drew me finally into his character, was the absolute love, devotion, and unique narrative care Nasu gives Gawain. That you dont get to see unless you like... Absorb every canon there is out there of him. Which is hard because there is a lot... Extra, extra/ccc, extella, extella link, the anime, the singularities, fate go, the manga x2, like theres a lot to read and take in. The only time i saw him sort of ooc is foxtail manga. But its more like they play up the 'hes a joke.'

And even that is... Very hilariously historically canon to who Gawain is as a character.

Basically Nasu's devotion to writing him, is what drew me in. Then when you read about him historically, and you see the depiction Nasu writes for him. Like I FELL IN LOVE HARD for his narrative.

Basically, loyal man who knows he did wrong( let his emotions get the best of him: Lancelot & his revenge. Didnt understand King Arthurs feelings. ), knows what he is doing (Gilgamesh calls him out, gawain never affirms nor denies. Leo calls him out, Gawain only affirms but also doesnt bare more of his own truth toward leo. Basically showing Gawain knew what was going on from the start. ). Does as much. Even if it is wrong ( See extra & camelot singularity ). But you can always COUNT on him never straying from what he obviously is - because this MEANS EVERYTHING to him. In this way he mirrors gilgamesh in a way - where Gilgamesh is definied by who he is because he is Gilgamesh. He choses that, he knows who he is, he is beyond fate. Gawain in that way is the same... But like a Loyal Knight. He knows what he is, he knows the flaws in being as loyal as he is, and he knows the cost of his actions. What they can do, what it means (see singularity gawain in camelot, and what he tells Ritsuo in both of their meetings. )

I think its hard to hate someone who knows who they are, and knows when they do wrong. I think there is this romanticism in Knighthood - if Arturia is the IDEAL KING. Then Nasu wrote Gawain to be the IDEAL KNIGHT.

Despite that Percival, Gareth, & Galahad exist. They are different themes.

Gawain is more... The picturesque what we expect to read in a book when we want a Knight and he owns up to that. All of its flaws too - Nasu did fucking disgusting amazing job writing him.