#gawain.

jinman tinha se acomodado na ala leste há algumas horas. ele teria ficado em seu quarto, se fosse por ele, mas hera tinha mandado uma mensagem — curta, direta, lembrando que toda informação era útil. um jeito educado de dizer saia do quarto e vá falar com alguém. então ele pegou o celular e a glock que receberam, porque ele nunca andava desarmado. o sol já estava baixo quando ele se aproximou da mulher na piscina. a água refletia a luz dourada do fim de tarde. um garçom passou, equilibrando uma bandeja de drinks, e jinman pegou dois sem pensar muito. ❝ eva ❞ jin não sorriu. não era o tipo de coisa que ele fazia para a maioria das pessoas. estendeu a taça na direção dela, o líquido cor de salmão levemente perolado. ❝ achei que você gostaria de um desses coloridos ❞

Ohhh yes I adore Gawain and Guin looking after each other's hair/spines!!! Gawain has braided Guin's hair before many an excursion, and Guin has combed through and cleared out twigs and leaves from his spines more times than she can count.

Gawain was known to admire the sky at night. His innate sense of direction was born from following the skies, and there was something about the night that cleared his mind and set him on the right path.

His strength was phenomenal, near godly during the day, but at night, it waned, leaving clarity in its wake.

During the day, Gawain fought, but at night, he thought. He ruminated over his orders, born from loyalty and from his own heart. He considered his life, his choices, and everything that had a hand into making him into the knight he was today.

I'm sure Angel Village had some area-specific traditions. Some might be similar to G.U.N. traditions, given that the territory was once split by both kingdoms! The main things that come to mind are memorials for specific events in the village's history and some more observed days for their primary values (utmost loyalty to one's family, celebrations of love and joined souls, etc.).

Some knights would have some other traditions! Namely Sir Tristan and Sir Bors, since neither grew up in Avalon. They would bring over some ideas or practices from their own original kingdoms (also applies to Enid, Yseult, Guin, and Vivien). Otherwise it's mainly the worldwide religious celebrations!

(I will not be including Arthur because we already know how that happens, also these are very rough to leave room for the imagination and because I can’t remember a lot of the stories I made up.)

Gawain : The village has a wonderful harvest that year, bandits wanted a good “share” of the harvest. Bandits tried to basically burn the place down to get what they wanted, Gawain stopped them (obviously) and he felt so good about being able to stop the threat he decided that what he wanted to do in life was protect really everyone.

Lamorak(?) : Growing up a stable boy, Lamorak had a strange connection to most horses, he enjoyed riding and racing them whenever he had the chance. When he saw Knights jousting he fell in love, not just with the ability to ride and care for such a fine and strong horse but to have freedom. (Idk). He decided to become a knight so he could have the freedom to do what he loves, bring justice and ride his favorite pony. (Her name is lettuce)

Bors : he got bored (that’s literally it, was just bored so he decided to join a war. Turns out he’s a badass)

Those are all the folks I remember at the moment, if there’s anyone in specific you’d like to hear about lemme know and I shall type it up! (These are just fun to write)

IT'S BEEN SO LONG SINCE YOU'VE SENT THIS I'M SO SORRY ANON.

I like Gawain's! It's a pretty simple story but he's a pretty simple man! He just wants to protect everything he loves with all his heart and all his might... Just like Knuckles does!

Lamorak's is nice too. I have a few things I would add but that's due to the characterisation I have for him (which I'll be able to put into future chapters of RtA and I'm looking forward to that!!) but I 100% agree that he grew up around horses and loved them since he was a child. Also his horse's name being Lettuce I love that so much.

I do actually have something in mind for Bors! It's not incredibly planned out but it's something that he'll be revealing in a future chapter of RtA... (unfortunately it isn't due to boredom like you predicted).

If you’re talking physical then Gawain would’ve at least been higher ranked than Geraint, no?

Overall power and I suppose potential.

In Lancelot's case, it's very much due to his well-roundedness in speed, strength, durability, etc. He's very hard to beat, even with incredible powers, hence his shock when he was captured and his relief when he realised it was because it was a god doing the work. Lancelot can usually figure out where he matches up with an opponent and then lean on a different fighting style to take the win (for example, against Gawain, Lancelot wouldn't try to overpower Gawain, but would shift to his speed or try to outsmart him).

Gawain is physically much stronger than Geraint. Gawain is physically stronger than Lancelot. But Geraint has the ability to turn someone's mind against them with his illusion magic and that degree of power is absolutely ridiculous when in the right hands.

And then there's Lamorak, who can hold his own against these people without even using his gravity powers. Lamorak has long since accepted that he won't be the greatest knight (Lancelot claimed that title and destiny when they were young, and Lamorak (and Geraint) quickly realised it — the difference between him and Geraint is that Lamorak accepted it while Geraint resented it). But that's honestly fine with him; Lamorak doesn't care for that particular form of glory. He wants to be the best at what he's best at (horseback riding, jousting, etc.) and to be a great knight. Great, not the best, but still legendary in his own little corner of talent and feats.

And then there's Galahad and Percival, who are definitely going to be the strongest knights when they grow up. Not even Lancelot will be able to hold a candle to them and he's going to be so proud.