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Character: Morgan le Fay
Fandom: Arthurian legend
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Word Count: 244
Rating: PG
Quotation: "Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." - Abraham Lincoln
Fine then, I’ll tell you the truth.
Truth: I spent my adolescence teaching myself about potions and poisons, mixing concoctions and feeding them to small animals.
Truth: I have committed the sin of adultery so many times that I haven’t bothered to keep count.
Truth: I have devoted my life to ruining and, eventually, ending that of my younger brother and his arrogant advisor, Merlin.
Truth: I am one of the most despised women in the land.
What harm then do slanders do me? Some of them, I believe, I started myself, whispers in the ears of those likely to pass on the stories. I have no interest in maintaining a reputation that would, at the heart of it, be false, or in being thought the hero of this tale. Perhaps I believe my cause just, but, at the heart of it, I don’t care whether anyone else does, unless I happen to need their aid. I am perfectly content to play the villain in the fairy tale of Arthur’s reign, the wicked sorceress in rubies and dark velvet. Far better to be that than vague Nimue, fading into the mists of the lake with which she will ever be identified. My name will be remembered, a tale to frighten children and beguile men, and, if I succeed in my purpose, then the tales told of me shall be the greatest slander in all of history.
Say what you will. I revel in it.
Fandom: Arthurian legend
Community:
desperatefansWord Count: 244
Rating: PG
Quotation: "Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." - Abraham Lincoln
Fine then, I’ll tell you the truth.
Truth: I spent my adolescence teaching myself about potions and poisons, mixing concoctions and feeding them to small animals.
Truth: I have committed the sin of adultery so many times that I haven’t bothered to keep count.
Truth: I have devoted my life to ruining and, eventually, ending that of my younger brother and his arrogant advisor, Merlin.
Truth: I am one of the most despised women in the land.
What harm then do slanders do me? Some of them, I believe, I started myself, whispers in the ears of those likely to pass on the stories. I have no interest in maintaining a reputation that would, at the heart of it, be false, or in being thought the hero of this tale. Perhaps I believe my cause just, but, at the heart of it, I don’t care whether anyone else does, unless I happen to need their aid. I am perfectly content to play the villain in the fairy tale of Arthur’s reign, the wicked sorceress in rubies and dark velvet. Far better to be that than vague Nimue, fading into the mists of the lake with which she will ever be identified. My name will be remembered, a tale to frighten children and beguile men, and, if I succeed in my purpose, then the tales told of me shall be the greatest slander in all of history.
Say what you will. I revel in it.
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