... The character of Morgaine le Faye in her truest nature, from the accounts I've read, portrays her as being rather evil and largely uncaring person. She used Athur, knowingly or unknowingly for her own gain, and then sought to have her son installed on the throne.
Mordred, I'm a little sketchy on, but I tend to think that with him having had anything to do with Morgaine le Faye, she would have aimed to teach him any tricks that she could. Putting him in a similar position as Morgaine. Evil.
So when it comes to Mordred's wife and twin sons, you can imagine that they would also lean towards the mean spirited, selfish category, right?
But for the life of me, for some 50 odd pages in my novel, these characters are neither selfish nor mean. And the boys, well they barely get a mention.
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Now of course, there's no way that I can re-write 50 odd pages, there is after all some good dialogue, etc, and even when December comes, I don't want to find myself with a book that is virtually useless.
I'm thinking of maybe playing it off that she possible realised that she would have to pitch in and provide whatever she could to help with the settlement, and have her grow a little more mean spirited after she finds herself a pawn to the Sidhe's plans.
She is after all the elder of the group. The rest of them are between the ages of about 15-22, while she's 36.
I keep finding myself cringing when I am writing the lines of Morgain le Faye, Modred and Cywythog.....
*pouts* It's just not fair. I always find myself at the mercy of my characters, they tend to do as they please ..... a lot.
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Can I just say that as a reader of many Arthurian novels, I wouldn't mind some reinvention of the Morgaine character.
Also a bit of out of character-ness might be a good contrast when she DOES hit her usual stride later on.
If you should want a beta reader somewhere down the track after editing I'd put my hand up
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Thanks. I'll keep that in mind, if the novel makes it past November 30th as something I deem to be worthy of keeping.
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