#bedikay

A scene of Sir Bedivere and Sir Kay inspired by this moment from the 1981 movie Knightriders:

I love them dearly, and I wish modern media did too, in the right way.

I'm greatly saddened by the miscarachterization that dawned on them (and several other characters that either got villainfied or erased: Morgan, Mordred, Llacheu ecc) in later centuries, and wish modern authors could understand the roots of the ancient myth without necessarily twisting it.

Still gotta see a version where these two are actually done justice and are written as they should be (a pair, the interpretation of it is then up to the author.)

I want to see their bond, and I WANT to see the original Triad (Arthur, Cai and Bedwyr) display an actual closeness, they were said to be his closest friends, where did that go?

The arrival or romances erased the epic roots in it, these characters went to wars and probably were born into war periods, they were tempered, they fought death and gods and awful beasts, usually against things beyond human, but they were just.

Yet these great epic heroes got reduced to shadows of themselves, boorish and easy to defeat. It's saddening. It gives me pain. They were beloved by the people who first wrote them and read them, respected, and their roles were intact and important.

Sir Kay, Seneschal of King Arthur's Court, Harold J. Herman / Illustration from the Mabinogion / The Quest for Olwen, trans. Gwyn Thomas and Kevin Crossley-Holland / The Story of Merlin, trans. Rupert T. Pickens / Illustration from The Quest for Olwen, Margaret Jones / Wace's Roman de Brut, trans. Eugene Mason / The Mabinogion, trans. Lady Charlotte Guest