#morgane

red flags where???

Morgane le Fay / Morgane la Fée

I mean... Again for us Internet users it is so darn simple: it's a reverse AU. What if it wasn't Arthur that pulled the sword but Morgane? What if it wasn't Arthur who was the son of Uther, but Morgane who was his daughter? What if the Arthuriana was a Morgiana?

It's the type of stuff you expect to have at one point and yet... It is the first time I ever see this actually written, actually published? Why did nobody thought of doing it before? Usually when there's such perspective flip it is usually "Oh yeah Morgane was a good guy all along" or "She was actually the defendant of an old feminist world" (that usually doesn't end up being feminist at all *cough cough Mists of Avalon cough cough*).

But... del Socorro, by just doing the basic logic of any AU, manages to just do something fresh and "feminist" feeling by... basically doing nothing. He just retells the Arthurian myth, but just in a world where queens are equal to kings, where knights can be both male and female, and also where you can marry either gender without anybody batting an eye. Morgane is queen, she has to hesitate between a public political wedding to Guinevere or her personal, half-secret romance with Arthur. Of course there's some logistics explanation - we are in a half-mythical time where some fairies still roam the land and the old Britain worships a pseudo-Celtic Goddess a la neo-paganism, and Christianity is coming up, spreading around, already frowning on the idea of same-sex marriage and there's promises that Christian records will rewrite the story to fit their own ideals...