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honestly it's so interesting to me what every adaptation / version of arthurian considers lancelot's most important character trait. de troyes definitely writes lancelot as The Lover, with his obsessive relationship with guenevere taking center stage. toafk places a large emphasis on his internal struggles and sense of wrongness and how he copes with that through duty. in the same vein (likely because it's an adaptation of toafk) camelot shows off lancelot as the stern and solemn lover obsessed with duty and chivalry, an odd and misplaced and at the beginning not very well liked figure at court. bbc merlin shows off lancelot's kindness and honor. malory portrays lancelot as The Great Hero, with a large emphasis placed on him as the shining star of knighthood. e.a. robinson's lancelot poem portrays him as an unwilling but complacent figure in his own demise, doomed from the beginning to fall into the same old patterns that will lead to his ruin. and i'm not sure what to make of lancelot-grail's lancelot, but there's a lot going on there. maybe i'll make a post about it once i get a bit further in, as i'm only 1/6 of the way through lancelot's section.

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maybe later we could hang out and take turns bursting into tears