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Thank you guys; I’ve enjoyed this Morgana-and-Lancelot conversation very much. Their relationship is one of my favorite elements of the story, and I can’t wait to be able to share more about it in the prequels, which I am still working on from time to time.
I think maybe the good news for everyone is that I don’t intend to include anything that would specifically confirm or deny a repressed or latent attraction to Lancelot on Morgana’s part. (You all know how much I love ambiguity. ) So Morgana is NOT going to wake up all flustered from a sex dream about Lancelot and then deny it happened even though Guen knows the truth, or anything like that. And I personally don’t think anything like that is happening, but for readers who enjoy imagining it, I’m not going to put anything in the game that definitively says it’s not.
Morgana is emotionally invested in Lancelot, for sure. Her own family was never much of a support for her growing up, and even at Avalon, many people kept their distance from her because they were intimidated by her dark magic or her personality or both. Lancelot as a child always liked her and wanted to play with her. He annoyed her a lot, but he was family because he always accepted her. (His mothers Vivien and Vathac also became mother figures for Morgana, whose relationship with her own mother was problematic.)
So at the moment Morgana thinks of Lancelot much more as a younger sibling than anything else, and she is extremely protective of that relationship for many reasons. She’s not perfect (still relatively young herself, for as mature as she seems), and she has something of the “not like all those other girls” mindset – her sibling relationship with Lancelot makes her feel special and different from all the girls who crush on him. The underlying psychology of that does suggest that she gets a lot of emotional validation from his affection for her. She’s been somewhat emotionally abusive toward him their entire lives, in a way typical of older siblings, and knowing that she can get away with it and he’ll still care about her has always made her feel powerful. She’s not a saint.
Anyway, at the moment I think that Morgana is so invested in the sibling relationship that she’s really not thinking of Lancelot in a romantic or sexual way. (But, again, I’m not going to say so explicitly in the game.) Even so, she still has a certain amount of jealousy toward anyone else he might be close to, with the exception of Arthur. And she can get a little obsessed with Lancelot’s behavior.
So the question is, what would it take to shift Morgana’s feelings toward Lancelot into something more like romantic/sexual attraction? The answer is A LOT. It won’t just happen. Guen’s influence will be a key part (which means that if you don’t want that shift to happen, it won’t), but it will also take major changes in both of their lives. Those changes are going to start at the end of part 3, and I’m very excited to write about them.
Oh, and yes, Morgana is technically bi, but she’s like 80-90% attracted to women.
Oh my, that may be more complexity than I can really work in… would be interesting, though…
Probably. Morgana and Lancelot do talk to each other about a lot of things, and Morgana would believe Lancelot if he told her he apologized. She’d still be pretty explody though.
Morgana considers herself to have been forced because she really wasn’t given any choice other than running away. The reason she didn’t run away (of which she would have been perfectly capable) is that she did believe that the marriage would contribute to greater peace in Britain.
I am saying nothing about Frozen.
I did pick MBTI types (and also zodiac signs, by accident) for each of them. If you go back to to post number 5965 and scroll to the bottom, you should see them. EDIT: ninja’d by Mr. Always-Right.