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I know the lady of the lake doesn't appears a lot, but I consider her a more masculine woman and definitely a lesbian. And I also think that the women/nymphs who live with her and raised Lancelot are more masculine too, not all of them are lesbians or bi/pan, but they have a certain problem with men.

I say this because Lancelot was raised only by women and yet he is the best knight in the world, second only to his son, so he was trained by women too.

I honestly believe that the training for his muscles and sword skills was because the Lady of the Lake was exceptionally amazing with a sword as much as with ver magic. She's the guardian of Excalibur after all, and if I'm not mistaken, in one of the books it says that when Elaine, Lancelot's biological mother, asks where her son was, she's told that 'your son was taken by a mermaid and better queen than those who live.'

She rules alone without the support of any man for centuries and continues to be the best, which sounds to me like it was seen as masculine for the time.

In my perception, she, and the women and nymphs who live with her and helped raise Lancelot, have more muscles than many knights out there, wear more masculine things for the time and would had more body hair since in a kingdom with only women the shame for one's own body would be significantly less.

I always imagined that it was the Lady of the Lake who gave Lancelot his sword and battlefield impressive skills, and that she is a woman with muscles and certain more masculine mannerisms, and with great skills in battle, but which are not used. She would be a queen and a king at the same time and would be the best at it.

And she definitely looks like a lesbian to me. Don't ask me why, but I've always shipped her with Elaine, Lancelot's biological mother, since it's said that she's alive and living as a nun after the fire and her family's death. Or with one of Arthur's sisters simply because it would be funny.

I don't usually draw her, but I wrote a few paragraphs and descriptions of her appearance, I'm just a little embarrassed to post it.

i was thinking this morning about how many depictions i have seen of arthurian female characters are quite feminine. we headcanon many of these characters as girl kissers and of course not all queer women are masculine but there's so little masc rep out there...

so i am wondering what female characters in the arthurian legend yall headcanon as butch/masc?

do you write about them? make art/crafts about them? do you have any face headcanons for them?

please share!

Random scenario cause yes

First, this is not my head-canon but Tavo's. I kind of had this- possibly incomplete - scenario for a good few days after I saw the head-canons' post, so I did this small thing.

Gawain was watching Lancelot train Squirrel in the morning as he regularly did, but something was different this morning. Another child was there, learning from Lancelot too, but he wasn't talking much yet, or maybe it was just Squirrel who wouldn't shut up.

As Lancelot distanced himself from the boys and gave them a break to drink water, he approached the knight and he finally saw the chance to ask something stuck in his mind.

“Who's the new kid? I don't think I've ever seen him around. Is he a new rescue?” he asks. Lancelot looked at him with furrowed eyebrows as he took a sip of water, which left Gawain confused. It was a valid question since it was not possible to remember every face in the camp, especially the newcomers. "What?"

The ashman continues to look at him with furrowed eyebrows, analyzing the knight's face as if looking for a joke, but finds nothing but confusion. “You… could say that.” He responds, still staring at the other man's face.

Gawain is even more confused by this and furrows his eyebrows as well. "How’s that?"

“Gawain… That child is my son, Galahad.”

Gawain's eyes widened upon hearing Lancelot's confession. He tilts his head to the side to see the child better. His eyes traveling between the so-called son of Lancelot and Lancelot, comparing the two. And they had basically nothing in common.

“That boy, small and pale, with red hair and no marks on his face, is your son?" The skyman asks in disbelief, still exchanging his gaze between the former monk and the child in the distance. 

Lancelot licks his lips and sighs at hearing the questioning. "Yes. Galahad, small and less pale than me, with fire hair and no tear marks yet, is my son.”

“Are you sure you’re the father?” Gawain says immediately after Lancelot finishes speaking, eyes fixed on Galahad who was now finally speaking after Squirrel paused his talk for a moment.

The former monk gives the knight a hard look as soon as the question leaves his lips. Frankly, it wasn't the first time someone questioned his paternity in relation to Galahad, but it was still irritating every time he had this conversation.

Hearing the question coming from his best friend made his patience disappear in a blink of an eye. His next words came out harshly. “Yes, Gawain of Orkley, I am sure that I am the father. Because I was ab-” He stops mid-sentence, momentarily composing himself to change the words. “Because his mother slept only with me with the aim of getting pregnant. And it succeed.”

Gawain knew he had done something wrong when he saw Lancelot's marks suddenly turn darker, like wine. But hearing his full name and a rephrase mid-sentence was something else. He doesn't touch on the subject, though. He knows better than that and he knows that his best friend will talk to him if he wants and is ready. "Sorry. I didn’t mean to anger you by questioning Galahad’s paternity.”

“It’s fine, but do not do something like that again.” The ashman responds by calming his nerves again and drinking another sip of water.

“It’s just that you two don’t look-” He stops his sentence with his mouth open. Behind Lancelot, Galahad and Squirrel were playing, and Galahad raised his leg to the maximum doing a perfect split. Squirrel looked impressed, Gawain was scared and certainly eating his own words. “Forget it, I can see the resemblance now.”

The former monk finds it strange, but doesn't question it either. He says goodbye to the knight momentarily and returns to training the children.

Gawain had so many questions… But unfortunately that would have to wait. So he just leans against a tree and goes back to watch Lancelot train his two sons.

Gods, having to refer to Lancelot and Gawain as best friends killed me, on the other hand I put squirrel as his son too at the end as a compensation.

Again I should be resting because I'm sick, but here I am again. @lancedoncrimsonwings maybe I'll steal your head-canons more often, but you can't judge me, they're too good.

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Me reading: Helient, Ilene, Lady of the lake- LADY OF THE LAKE?! GAWAIN SLEPT WITH LANCELOT'S MOM?!?

is there a list of all the women gawain had been with?

Aislyn (see Ragnelle)

Aleta (Prince Valiant (1954))

Amie (Beaudous by Robert de Blois)

Amurfina (The Crown by Heinrich von dem Türlin)

Antikonie (Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach)

Arcade/Ettarde (Post-Vulgate/Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory)

Beauté (Gilglois)

Bertilak, Lady (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger)

Blanchadine (Floriant et Florete)

Blanchemal the Fay (Le Bel Inconnu)

Bloiesine (4th Perceval Continuation)

Carlisle, Daughter of (The Carle of Carlisle)

Carlisle, Lady (The Carle of Carlisle)

Elaine of Astolat (The Legend of King Arthur (1979))

Elidan (Hawk of May by Gillian Bradshaw)

Emma (see Ragnelle)

Enid the Faultless (Lanzelet by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven)

Essel (The Green Knight (2021))

Florée (Le Livre d'Artus)

Florie of Syria (Wigalois by Wirnt von Grafenberg)

Gay Maiden (Pulzella Gaia)

Guilorete of Lis (1st Perceval Continuation, Perceval (1978))

Gwendolen (The Masque of Gwendolen by Reginald Heber)

Halaés (Le Livre d'Artus)

Helient of North Wales (Vulgate)

Ilene (Prince Valiant (1954))

Lady of the Lake (Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger)

Linet (Gawain and the Green Knight (1973), Sword of the Valiant (1984))

Lorie of Roche Florie (The Marvels of Rigomer)

Luned/Lunette (The Lady of the Well, Yvain, Ywain, Iwein, Íven)

Marjorie (Gawain and Marjorie)

Morgana (Excalibur (1981))

Olwen (Arthur the Bear of Britain by Edward Frankland)

Orgeluse the Haughty (Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach)

Ragnelle (Loathly Lady Master Post)

Raquel (see Ragnelle)

Risa (see Ragnelle)

Risa (Guinevere by Sharan Newman)

Rosalie (The Mantel)

Schartine of China (Gabein)

Tanrée (2nd Perceval Continuation)

Venelas (Le Mantel Mautaillié)

Ydain (The Lancelot Compilation)

Ysabele (Roman Van Walewein)

Sources supplemented by The Arthurian Name Dictionary by Christopher W. Bruce, The Arthurian Handbook by Norris J. Lacy and Geoffrey Ashe, and my own knowledge. If there's a lady I missed, don't hesitate to say so, and I'll add her!

NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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