thinking of answers

[fahye]

I have a surprising amount of free time today, thank you timetabling people!

Although I just slept through quite a lot of it, including...breakfast. Again.

Anyway:

Ask me about a character and I'll give you five facts from their personal canon.

Original or fandom, everyone's fair game.

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[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

*grabby hands* THANK YOU.

Galahad's desire to be destroyed? Pls elucidate.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

If you want to read most of their threads (there are fewer than you might expect) then clicking on these in order (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=maydaybrat&keyword=Galahad&filter=all), top to bottom -- which is chronological -- will give you a large portion of their story. I ran out of free time and steam and never gave Galahad a proper exit from the game, but my ficlet 'Gésir' is their agreed coda.

Galahad's Unwanted Child complex (his mother's suicide and his father's rejection) collided with his inherited tendency to not really deal with things in the most balanced manner possible. He had NO basis for self-esteem or self-worth beyond the fact that he kept pushing himself and pushing himself to be the best...and that didn't do squat to increase his standing in Lancelot's eyes. And then there was the fact that wanting Mordred created a loop of guilt, because he shouldn't have wanted the things he did, but he did, because they finally gave him some self-definition, but the definition was at odds with everything he had striven to achive...

Galahad spent a lot of time at war with the inside of his own head, to be frank.

Try this thread (http://community.livejournal.com/milliways_bar/6421464.html)and then this one (http://maydaybrat.livejournal.com/8459.html), they occur directly after each other and cover a lot of the guilt stuff.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Am starring this notification, and I'll come back to it. I"ve read just enough to remind me that I have a Galahad stashed away somewhere... Don't want to get him drowned in yours all at once.

*wanders off to dig out her Galahad*