#argause

Medraut's narration implies Morgause intended to babytrap Artos into making her queen but what if it had been the opposite and Artos wanted to babytrap Morgause? He was an orphan with an unknown father. Morgause was the rich heiress of a nobleman. She was a pure maiden receiving the finest education a lady of her time could get behind the secure walls of the convent. She had blue blood flowing through her veins, magic pouring out of her fingertips, a great destiny seemed to be waiting for her. Had she been a man she would have donned on the armor and become a hero that singers would have written ballads about. His love to her seemed impossible. Impossible unless he were to seduce her and take her virginity which would make her ruined in the eyes of other men and force her to marry him to avoid a scandal.

I want to read a story where Morgause succeeds in gaslighting Arthur that Merlin was just passing him off as Uther's son and she offers Arthur her forgiveness & love if he stops resisting her and of course Arthur being a lonely love-starved 15 year old orphan believes her because the lady is so beautiful and kind and he never wanted to shoulder the responsibility of being a king anyway. He had already slept with her once, the truth was too terrifying to believe. 14 years forward, Mordred has been reared as Lot's legitimate son into a formidable knight and it's Arthur who desperately wants to form a connection to his son instead of the other way around, wheras to Mordred Arthur is just his mother's scandalous younger lover that is ruining his parents marriage and who his mother still keeps around for some reason.

It is imperative that the brother with darker hair is younger

it'd be cool if the dagger Lleu used to stab Medraut with was a parting gift from Morgause to Artos that eventually ended up in his possession