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Thursday, December 20, 2012

So Mordred is going to be in Fate Apocrypha?

Good morning/evening/noon/night depending the time you may be reading this. The objetive of this post for today is to expose a character of my like that was considered male(i never believed it) to get confirmed female and that she will appear in the upcoming novel of Fate Apocrypha, you still don`t get the name? if you read in the title it is pretty clear i meant Mordred Pendragon! the news came to me 2 days ago and i greatly felt pleasure from hearing a character i really wanted to appear more in the franchise to get a good role and that the genderbend thing is over once and for all. without further ado i will give some more data of  my dear Mordred.

DISCLAIMER: i don`t own Mordred or any TYPE-MOON work or data i am simply using this data to reinforce my essay.


                                          if you still believe Mordred is a dude read this:
Nasu - "Mordred is a girl, definitely. A man with that sort of outward appearance is... well, I guess a certain kind of person would consider it a prize, anyway. (laughs)" words from Nasu the big boss in type-moon.


Overview

Mordred, the "son" of King Arthur, but she is actually female despite being raised as the secret male heir to the throne. She was conceived between Altria and her sister, Morgan le Fay, through unorthodox circumstances. Altria, normally female, was a pseudo-male at the time due to Merlin's magecraft, so Morgan enchanted her with a spell to extract sperm from her. Morgan developed it within her own ovary, and made the child into a homunculus clone of Altria. Due to her status as a homunculus, she was given a much faster growth period than a regular human being, and her life span was far shorter. She was raised in secret and told to hide her status and obey the king.
Mordred in her armor
Told that it is her right to inherit the throne, Morgan bid her to one day defeat the King and take "his" place. She did bare that same obsession as her mother, but before all that was her adoration for King Arthur. She felt ashamed of her twisted birth, unconsciously acting jealous of normal people, and, with the special innocence that children possess, she worshipped the "perfect king." Given a helmet she was told never to remove in front of other people, she was eventually sent to Camelot under Morgan's recommendation, and through a presentation of her own superb swordsmanship, became one of the Knights of the Round Table. She was given her sword despite her unknown origins because of her abilities and straightforward mental chivalry.
She protected the way of the knights much like that which could only be found in picture books, working hard daily in being the ideal knight, all while hiding her dislike of others. In the end, even that innocence was shattered by Morgan, who revealed the secrets of her birth. She learned of her parentage and was told that the King didn't know either. Morgan tried to instill that the King would never accept such a filthy child, but she was, while shocked, wrapped in joy. While not a proper human being, sharing the same blood as the King, being the "son" of a superior king, she was proud of the fact that she was not human. She felt that in name, reality, mind, and body that she was fit to be the true successor of the King.
She went without having the slightest feelings of rebellion, spurred on by the truth, and approached the King with delight. Raised without a father, the King was the very form of a godlike "father" to her, but Altria rejected her very clearly. She said that, while Mordred is certainly born from her and her sister's plotting, that she will not recognize Mordred as her "son" or give her the throne. Mordred believed that it was all due to the King's hatred for Morgan, that it would be impossible for her "son" to be accepted. Thinking that was the reason her title was the weakest, believing that no matter how hard she tried, even if she excelled over everyone, that the King would forever view her as a dirtied child from the moment she was born from Morgan, her great love for the king up until then made her hatred burn.
Mordred as she appears in Fate Apocrypha
Mordred`s final battle with her "father"
Modred`s helmet is destroyed revealing her face.
Resulting from that, the distrust of the Round Table towards the King spread, and the reigns of power in Camelot were seized once the King departed for the Rome expedition. Mordred became the leader of the rebellion, representing the national discontent towards Arthur. After the King finally returned from a long and tiresome battle, Mordred raged, claiming that she hated the King and that only she was fit for the throne. The truth of the matter was that she only wanted to be accepted by Altria and wanted to be called "son" by her. The conflict eventually lead towards a final fight, where both armies were dying in heated battle. The few knights that stayed with the King soon died off, leaving only the two of them standing.
The two faced each other on a hill of swords, where Mordred pointed out that the country had ended and that the victor no longer mattered because everything was gone. Blaming the situation on the King for not giving her the crown, she asked if the King hated the "son of Morgan" that much. Altria emotionlessly replied, "Not once did I despise you. There was only one reason I would not give you the throne. You didn't have the capacity of a King." Mordred charged forward while driven on by passion, and was eventually defeated in single combat, collapsing while still impaled by a spear. Freed of the mask forced upon her, with a face identical to her "father", she said "....Fa-ther", all while reaching out to touch the King with blood-soaked hands at least once, but was not even granted that wish as she fell. Due to being bound by a strong curse, Mordred still swung her sword after her death, leaving a fatal wound on Altria


Personality 
since the novel hasn`t been released very little is known about her real personality besides her small dialogues and her acts as a knight of the round table. From what we know is that she is a very loyal knight towards her king (Arturia) and is mentioned on several ocassions to have a swordsmanship to a degree similar to that of her "father" and sir Lancelot himself.Mordred seems to have a very childish nature despite doing a great political revolt at her time just to have her "father" call her "son". with a small kanji i found at type-moon wikia she says:"The next time I'm called a girl, I won't be able to restrain myself" this indicates she dislikes her own gender and beauty just because many people on her age and modrn ones believe "girls can`t be knights" or maybe because due to the gender she has she has the same problems her dad had to achieve the throne.having being raised as a different creature from normal hum,ans she seems to have envy from normal children with parents.





Noble phantasm

Clarent Blood Arthur: Rebellion Against My Beautiful Father
Since the novel hasn`t been released nothing big is known about this weapon.


final words

 Believe me when i`m saying i did enjoyed doing this work! it feels very good to know a character which obviously was a girl the whole time gets confirmed from the very same creator and that she finally receives a good role in a huge work (i`m cheering you Mordred for the new war!). i have to thank deeply to the TYPE-MOON wikia for their information which from i would be unable to do this. without further to say i desire you a good morning/evening/noon/night depending the time you may be reading this.





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