Fandom OC, canon is the Starz TV-series Camelot

[moderatus]

Why? Why must it be this way?

You tell me that it is because "that's the way the story goes", but the story was never told. You don't know what would have happened and how, why must you choose nothing but cruel paths for all of us to walk upon?

Why would you make me an instrument of hate if you have the power to change things?

I don't care what the fates of those who share my name are, you could tell a different story.

But you won't, will you? No, you want me to follow the ghosts of those who came before me into whatever darkness you conceive to be my inescapable end.

Grant me this at least, then: That it makes my mother smile.

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[verserak]

Pardon my intrusive comment, but...

It almost sounds as if they want you to die.

[moderatus]

No, that is just the one. The puppet master.

The other wants me to bring a king to ruin.

[ Which... is almost the same thing, but he will cling to that slight difference in nuance. ]

[verserak]

That is one way to spend the weekend.

[Who would have thought he'd get to hear something that surprises him!]

The latter would be your mother?

[moderatus]

Yes.

[ And he's kind of feeling like an idiot right now because he shouldn't have said that, but it doesn't count here anyway.

... right? ]

[verserak]

You look sort of beat up. Do not worry, your little family secret is safe with me, I heard worse. Far worse.

[Alright, time to get comfy here, this is interesting.]

So... your problem with the king is essentially the fact that your mother has an issue with him and you are supposed to end that feud. What is she to him? Spurned lover?

[moderatus]

She's his sister.

[ Let's just never mention the lover thing ever again, okay?

Okay. ]

Half sister, to be precise.

[verserak]

Ah. Someone wants what is theirs by birthright, I'd presume?

Would she make a good queen?

[moderatus]

I believe so.

[ Not that his judgment is entirely unclouded.

Things would be a lot easier to see in black and white if he could honestly say that Arthur is a bad ruler, but anyone with sense can see that it isn't so.

Mordred might be misguided in many ways, but he's not stupid. ]

[verserak]

Well, that is something, I suppose.

But your uncle isn't exactly despicable?

[moderatus]

I don't really know him.

[verserak]

You trust your mother's judgement.

[Not a question.]

It's your life.

[moderatus]

A life I would not have if she had not given it to me.

[ Not that he'd ever asked to be born, but that is apparently beside the point. ]

I owe her everything.

[verserak]

[Rrrrrrrrrraised eyebrow.]

Bet your father had fun with that one.

[moderatus]

I wouldn't know, I wasn't there.

[verserak]

Technically.

... You know it is about time to exchange names when you are about to discuss parental sex lives. I am Verserak.

[moderatus]

Mordred.

[verserak]

[Have a moment of "wow, I know your family history".]

You are genuinely screwed, Mordred.

[moderatus]

That seems to be the general consensus.

[verserak]

Well, now you have me. Congratulations, you might survive.

[moderatus]

... Just like that, you have decided to help me?

[ He's not used to it, okay. ]

[verserak]

What else am I supposed to do, really. Can't leave you to the wolves.

... You don't have many friends, do you?

[moderatus]

Make that no friends.

[verserak]

Hey, I may be not human, but I count.

[moderatus]

... Not human?

[verserak]

[He is a lot sexier when he is not just sort of... smoke.]

Not human at all.