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** The author has also done a similar thing with Mordred, saying that she sees the two versions of the character as representing the two different ways he tends to be written; female Mordred is “Tragic Mordred”, an interpretation more common in modern works in which Mordred is presented sympathetically, and Proto Mordred is “Classic Mordred”, the standard CardCarryingVillain Mordred. Female Mordred is also written taking from the most sympathetic {{Alternate Character Interpretation}}s in legend and mashing them together, unless they really don’t gel well (I.e. Welsh accounts describing him as being so nice that no one would refuse him). As it’s been interpreted on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki that Mordred in legend may be disgusted with the whole incest thing and that he may be a DeathSeeker, those things are also added into her; unlike in Fate canon, she indeed does become disgusted with herself being the product of incest to the point of vomiting, especially after the only silver lining to it, becoming Artoria’s child and heir, is rejected, and as her attempts to subvert fate prove time and time again to be pointless her self-loathing increases to the point that she starts seeming suicidal, by the time of Camlann saying that she didn’t care if she was going to die if she was going to drag Artoria down with her. Her self-loathing was there from the start to an extent due to how [[AbusiveParents Morgan]] raised her, along with attachment and trust issues, but by her last meeting with Gwrddelw she becomes convinced that everyone who had cared about her before and who she ever loved now despised her and that there was no turning back, calling herself disgusting and expressing genuine shock that Gwr actually loves her. She’s also SmarterThanTheyLook, and is hardly the DumbMuscle she is in canon. As a Servant she also appears to smile a lot less outside of cocky grins until her shell is broken through.

** The collection in general is loaded with these, but the biggest ones are how Arturia and Arthur took two extremes of how to act as a king; while both swore to a life of self-sacrifice for the greater good and chivalry, Arturia put too much emphasis on logic, impartiality, and justice, and Arthur, the more typical image of King Arthur, [[WideEyedIdealist put too much on compassion and idealism]]. Yet there is a strong impression that if they’d been switched things might have actually gone at least slightly better. This is exemplified by their treatment of Mordred: Female Mordred would have thrived under Arthur, as is shown in practice by their interactions in the FGO era PA fics, as Arthur accepted his Mordred as heir and regent, also by extension making everyone feel obligated to treat the new crown prince the same... but because that wasn’t the Mordred he got, and because he isn’t a psychiatrist, therapist, or even priest, the closest medieval equivalent, he ended up enabling and giving a psychotic, unstable {{Yandere}} with a creepy obsession with both him and his wife the reins to his kingdom, despite advice to the contrary; meanwhile Arturia with her cold logic would have likely been able to tell immediately that something was terribly, terribly wrong with Male Mordred. (Pending)
** The difference between the Mordreds from what is seen is by itself a giant irony, what with Male Mordred rather fittingly being pretty much exactly what everyone was expecting Female Mordred to be. Yet Female Mordred, while also not the most psychologically healthy person around, had to basically be emotionally backed into a corner to produce the same results as her male counterpart, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy a circumstance which everyone all but consciously brought about]]. While Male Mordred was probably too far gone to be anything but a tyrant, Project Alter’s Female Mordred, despite her immaturity, shows signs of having legitimate potential as a king, apparently having spent days to think of policies and possible diplomatic efforts before going to Arturia to tell her about the whole bloodline revelation, as well as showing some strategic talent, ability to rally people to her side, even resembling a feudal version of a populist, so if Arturia accepted her as heir and taught her kingship, capitalized on these strengths, and worked through her recovering trust issues and impulsive tendencies, she may have very well have become a good king and they may have even been able to learn a thing or two from each other.
** The most important in terms of plot and overarching themes of the whole collection, though, is most likely [[spoiler:Galahad’s wish, and in a way Solomon’s as well, though especially Galahad’s]]. A recurring idea in PA is that various characters wanted/want to be perfect, most notably and prominently Jekyll, his search for it prompting him to take drastic measures, and these measures to purify himself and eventually humanity only succeeding in manifesting the less desirable parts, as well as Arturia, Arthur, and [[spoiler:Solomon himself]], and/or befell some great tragedy because they were imperfect and made some terrible mistake because of it, something which they greatly regret. And while many of said flaws are indeed shown to be bad things, even then [[spoiler:Galahad, the one person who ever existed who was perfect in god’s image, more than even Jesus himself, and Solomon, who was almost perfect and could have wished to become truly so, gave it all away to be truly human.]] [[spoiler:Galahad’s in particular because, as he says to God himself, “How can I truly help anyone if I cannot truly understand them and all their flaws, or if others feel I am too perfect to approach? If all were to be perfect, what is life, without its joys and bonds and even trials? Is that even true perfection, after all?” (going on to talk about how even Jesus had a human heart, and even God Himself had things to learn), which may as well be stating the moral of the “series” if there was one, especially regarding Jekyll’s character.]]

* NotSoStoic: To contrast her with Galahad, Arturia’s seeming lack of human emotions and desires in Fate canon is not only said to have become the norm only some years after the start of her rule, but she is also shown to have had moments when keeping up the mask became too much, though these these flashes of humanity were so rare that it caused those who witnessed them to doubt if they really saw it, and only Kay, Merlin, and Bedivere ever saw her outright panic or break down. But when those do happen [[TearJerker it’s invariably really heartwrenching]]. [[spoiler:But by the end the stoic mask cracked; the last face Mordred saw of Arturia was fear and anguish before she struck her in the head, and she’s crying as she begs Bedivere to throw Excalibur back into the lake.]]

* {{Asexuality}}: Galahad has been stated outright to indeed be asexual (as well as aromantic) as the Arthurian fics with him in him often make pretty clear, due to his whole Incorruptible Pure Pureness Chaste Hero shtick. Here, he not only was he chaste, but due to being inherently pure was physically incapable of feeling desire or romantic attraction; or even understanding it that much for that matter. The author has made clear that she isn’t saying asexual/aromantic people lack humanity (in fact, other characters like Mr. Utterson or Sherlock Holmes are also said to be aroace, as well as [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]], Franchise/MegaMan, Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog, and possibly [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Ike]] in her Franchise/SuperSmashBros works), but more that he’s aroace in a way that isn’t natural, as he was made to be the perfect person as God envisions it. Percival, meanwhile, is a good example of someone who is oblivious but not incapable of feeling attraction, showing that there is indeed a difference.
--> '''Lancelot:''' ...A knight I know of has fallen in love with his lord’s wife and is torn between his duty and his love for her. He cannot helped to be gripped by passion by the mere thought of her, and he loves her deeply, but he also loves his lord deeply as a friend. But there is nothing wrong about merely feeling love for another, is there?
--> '''Galahad:''' *confused*
--> '''Lancelot:''' ...Galahad?
--> '''Galahad:''' I do not think I understand the dilemma here. ...Father, what does “passion” feel like?
--> '''Lancelot:''' ...What? ...Never mind. Sorry for bothering you.

* VirginPower: Of course, was a virtue needed to be a Grail Knight. Though here it’s stated that Galahad was basically Asexual as God literally made this an EnforcedTrope.

** Agravain is probably one of the Round Table knights with the most noticeable changes, and is this regarding the character from legend; while still quite a bit of a {{Jerkass}}, as “The Many Faces of Arthuriania” make pretty clear, compared to a lot of his depictions in legend, he’s definitely an AdaptationalNiceGuy. Notably he was the only knight who wasn’t afraid of being near Mordred after her destiny and parentage were revealed; albeit he’s probably responsible for nudging Mordred completely past the point of no return. But whereas in Fate canon he’s TheStoic, basically Arturia’s prime minister, and is even a bit of an OnlySaneMan, in Project Alter he’s a jealous, haughty, InferioritySuperiorityComplex-laden snarky ArrogantKungFuGuy, and in fact is more of a troublemaker, much less an OnlySaneMan (according to the author, she used [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Trainer Silver]] as inspiration), and his position [[spoiler:including his place in the Sixth Singularity in PA]] is given to the also rather dickish and hotheaded but ultimately more responsible Kay as an extension of his Seneschal duties. In one fic, Gaheris, passing by and having been thrown in a dungeon with him even turns to him, sighing as if he’s not even surprised, asking “Agravain... What did you do this time?”. He retains his borderline murderous hatred for Gaheris, here being explained as a result of Morgan deliberately pitting the two against each other when raising them, and is most irrational with holding grudges out of the siblings. While he is shown to have slightly calmed down later, even then they’re pretty clearly different. And while he’s nowhere near as extreme in his loyalty to Arturia, this portrayal also borrows a lot from Vulgate characterizations and that loyalty gets transferred mostly to Gawain; if he and Gaheris are able to put aside their differences for anything, it’s their admiration of Gawain, to the point [[MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad that when Bors tells them that Lancelot is a better fighter than Gawain]], they are on the verge of 2 v 1-ing him in a fist fight before Gawain and Lancelot make them stop, and he rages at a group of Lancelot supporters for doing the same at a joust. And quite a bit of emphasis is put on this as it’s probably his most sympathetic trait in almost all the legends. The difference from, say, Mallory is probably best shown by Gawain’s reaction to his death, where while he doesn’t fly into a rage like he does with Gareth and Gaheris’ deaths, he’s still clearly saddened and angered by it, and he cites all three of his brothers’ deaths as to why he won’t forgive Lancelot. He’s also drawn much differently to fit this, with flatter hair and a more attractive, younger, and less pale but sneering and somewhat punchable face, fitting in better with descriptions in legend where he’s said to have a handsome face. [[spoiler:Also, in Project Alter, he gets his own badass moments in fics covering the Sixth Singularity, where he, being switched out with Kay, bluntly states that the whole affair is absurd and pulls a dramatic ScrewThisImOuttaHere, taking the other dissenting knights, even for once throwing aside his love of his big brother and being willing to cooperate closely with Gaheris and ''[[YouKilledMyFather Pellinore]]'' to stand by his choice, and leads the defecting group along with Pellinore. There is some focus on the weight of responsibility now that Gawain is against them now and he now has to take up the responsible older knight role as well, and he ultimately ends up as the OnlySaneMan in a different way from Fate canon]].
** Kay is indeed arrogant much like his legendary counterpart from the French romances onwards, instead of like the canon Fate interpretation who is pretty well aware of how he’s at the bottom of the deck as far as Round Table knights go. Though the author also throws him a bone in showing that he still isn’t exactly weak and is good at disarming people, what with his important role as the gatekeeper of the Round Table as addressed in Parzival, even having some quests to his name early in his career, and that he’s genuinely an effective bureaucrat who is good at keeping things in order and running smoothly, [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem even if he himself is kind of a hypocrite about it]] and [[DrillSergeantNasty is hardly]] [[PointyHairedBoss nice about it either]]. Also, whereas in Fate canon it’s said that he admires Arturia the least due to seeing her as a human first, in Project Alter he’s critical but still undyingly loyal to her and didn’t even think about running away before Camlann, [[spoiler:to the point he takes Agravain’s place in the Sixth Singularity purely out of sibling loyalty]].

** The tone can vary a lot, to the point some fics are borderline cartoony. Percival’s overall tend to be a bit more on the wacky, comedic side, what with his debut legend being a bit of a comedy itself, and him being the dumbest knight of the Inner Round Table and all that, but every major character at least gets a wackier story at least once or twice.

* DoggedNiceeGuy: ''Sir Pellas.'' Lady Ettard's overdramatic, persistent, luckless StalkerWithACrush. His most major appearance is in his debut, the fic simply titled "Pellas and Ettard", a Gawain-centric fic taking place early in his career when he was about 16; Pellas asks Gawain to help win Ettard over by telling her that Pellas died; Ettard not only doesn't care whatsoever, but she finds Gawain rather attractive, thus starting Gawain's career of sleeping around and Pellas being presented as a minor recurring ButtMonkey from that point onwards. Him being stated to be 18 in that fic, he also plays up the teenage romance effect a lot [[HilarityEnsues just because it's funny]].

** With Lancelot this is addressed indirectly; Lancelot tells himself that because it didn’t hurt and that Elaine did it for the sake of conceiving Galahad that he should be fine with it, making her promise that she would never do it again, halfway between recognizing it as rape and blaming himself. Elaine pulling it off again and Guinevere catching them and screaming at him is enough to send him into a mental break and send him jumping out the window, though both Gueniviere most of the Knights seem understanding after that and he explains just what she did. At least one story goes deep into the dark depths of his psychology on this, also incorporating why he continues his affair with Guinevere at all, feeling resentment that a total stranger “witnessed what should have only been for the Queen’s eyes and heard what should have only been for the Queen’s ears”.

** And with Bors, while Clair is shocked to learn that Bors’ consent was [[QuestionableConsent dubious at best]], it’s resolved by her apologizing, and Bors seems more bothered, or at least rationalizes it, by his broken chastity vow. Most horrifyingly, Clair’s governess apparently saw ''nothing'' wrong with enchanting Bors to “consent” to it (and it’s likely that if he never took the ring off he would have never snapped out of his state of constant infatuation and arousal for her) and Bors says that she was just doing her job serving Clair.

* HistoricalGenderFlip: Aside from the obvious, since this is Fate after all, there’s one female to male example, something unheard of in Fate; (later Saint) Cwyllog, Mordred’s tragic love interest in life, a young man whom she only realized her feelings for when he finally confessed a mere few days before Camlann, and who as shown in prequel fics she had befriended [[RescueRomance after rescuing him and his home from raiders after he made his father take her in on a stormy night]]... Or rather, it’s zigzagged. Cwyllog herself, the “Daughter of Caw” who was theorized to be Mordred’s wife by some scholars via what was basically a culmination of EpilepticTrees, is now thought to have possibly not existed at all in reality, but there was a ''son'' of Caw, ''Gwrddelw'', who was a saint of the same parish of Llangwyllog and had the same feast day of January 7 (and was actually listed on Saint calendars twice, while Cwyllog never was), albeit his existence is a bit ambiguous as well, as basically nothing is known about him. While articles on the subject tend to stop here, the author ran with the idea that they are indeed the same person. Jekyll in a PA fic speculates that it’s likely that since in-universe future scholars and even locals assumed Mordred was a man, they also assumed that the saint who was rumored to have had a relationship with Mordred was a woman, and traced “her” to Cwyllog, growing stumped when Gwrddelw seemed to be the “real” saint of the area. (Though the author admits this may not make much sense since the reason why Mordred was thought to have a wife was because he had children in Geoffrey’s account, where Cwyllog was thought to be “canon”, children who don’t exist in Fate nor Project Alter).

** Mordred, like in canon, hates the fact that she’s a woman being pointed out, at one point even pointing out the above “queens are only for the desperate” thing, and refusing to reveal her appearance is the one piece of advice from Morgan she always followed. It was such a given in the culture she lived in that women are weak, with those who weren’t weak either only being so because of some magical ability (e.g. Morgan and Lynette) or because they fought a really, really uphill battle in trying to be taken seriously (e.g. her sister Gareth), that she never really questioned it. Here it’s emphasized that who she truly wants to be seen as is a KnightInShiningArmor and PrinceCharming, not someone’s woman to be put on a pedestal, legitimately preferring to be called “cool” or “dashing” as opposed to “cute” or “pretty”. It’s pretty much all but stated that she and Gwrddelw were so perfect for each other because he saw her as a woman, but still as his knight regardless, [[LadyAndKnight and was perfectly happy to be her lady]] [[labelnote:Warning, smut and spoilers!]]and he bottoms to her in the MustNotDieAVirgin scene after their confession to demonstrate that she can still take the “masculine” position while still being a woman, continuing to call her things like “my knight” and “my prince” to encourage her[[/labelnote]].

* HistoricalGenderFlip: Aside from the obvious, since this is Fate after all, there’s one female to male example, something unheard of in Fate; (later Saint) Cwyllog, Mordred’s tragic love interest in life, a young man whom she only realized her feelings for when he finally confessed a mere few days before Camlann, and who as shown in prequel fics she had befriended [[RescueRomance after rescuing him and his home from raiders after he made his father take her in on a stormy night]]... Or rather, it’s zigzagged. Cwyllog herself, the “Daughter of Caw” who was theorized to be Mordred’s wife by some scholars via what was basically a culmination of EpilepticTrees, is now thought to have possibly not existed at all in reality, but there was a ''son'' of Caw, ''Gwrddelw'', who was a saint of the same parish of Llangwyllog and had the same feast day of January 7 (and was actually listed on Saint calendars twice, while Cwyllog never was), albeit his existence is a bit ambiguous as well, as basically nothing is known about him. While articles on the subject tend to stop here, the author ran with the idea that they are indeed the same person; as discussed in a PA fic in which Gudako brings it up to her with Jekyll, it’s likely that since in-universe future scholars and even locals assumed Mordred was a man, they also assumed that the saint who was rumored to have had a relationship with Mordred was a woman, and traced “her” to Cwyllog, growing stumped when Gwrddelw seemed to be the “real” saint of the area. (Though the author admits this may not make much sense since the reason why Mordred was thought to have a wife was because he had children in Geoffrey’s account, where Cwyllog was thought to be “canon”, children who don’t exist in Fate nor Project Alter).

* IJustWantToBeLoved: At the end of the day, Mordred, in addition to being a WellDoneSonGuy; even if she mainly wanted the love of her father, her social isolation is shown to have been as damaging. According to the author, she was written as someone who might have an attachment disorder due to the severely abusive, neglectful conditions she was raised in (as was Tristan to an extent, but with him it seems more mild, because he at least seems capable of building friendships without too much difficulty). Becoming a Round Table member, immediately gaining the support of a massive community of comrades, including her long-lost siblings (with Gawain and Gareth being particularly supportive) and its most respected member as a teacher, legions of adoring fans, and the opportunity to serve someone she found admirable and to do good in the world was the best thing to happen to her, even making some friends of her own on her own quests (most importantly Gwrddelw, also earning the respect of his family, despite the fact that the Caw family generally does not like Arturia) and generally making a name doing good was clearly the best thing that had happened to her. So obviously, that all being ripped away from her in the blink of an eye, combined with her disgust and self-loathing at her being a product of incest and an unnatural creation at that in this canon and Artoria’s refusal to acknowledge her as her child, demolishing almost any ability to trust and make connections that she had been able to slowly, steadily build up over the years.

** Also Guinevere. While she agrees to serve as a Virgin Queen at first, seeing Artoria as a friend but pledging loyalty as a queen. ...Then she meets Lancelot, who does actually love her romantically, and ultimately the romantic deprivation became too much for her.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Mordred had this dynamic with Gwrddelw, if not even more so; in fact, it’s pretty much a, if not the, central part of their dynamic. Gwrddelw, unlike the rest of his male family members, is a delicate, gentle (borderline?) NonActionGuy, and Caw, his father, as well as some of his brothers make fun of him for his light frame and relative femininity. They met via a story that basically mirrors an episode out of a chivalric romance with her as the knight and him as the damsel, and after Gwrddelw confesses, she even realizes for a moment that she may have basically been in a CourtlyLove relationship without even realizing. [[spoiler:It’s driven even more in with him laying down and telling her “Even if you’re a woman, it doesn’t change that you’re my knight... Prince Mordred.”, then subsequently that she has right to his virginity, and basically that she can still top him even as a woman]]. Fitting, considering that Gwrddelw is a HistoricalGenderFlip, paralleling Mordred being a gender flip; sort of. While his relationship with Mordred is based off of speculation that the saint Cwyllog was Mordred’s wife, Gwrddelw was an actual saint as well, who Cwyllog, a name which seems to be derived from the place she’s patron saint of, apparently replaced.

** Bedivere’s [[HeterosexualLifePartners closest friend]] other than Arturia herself, and especially after Arturia tried to seal her emotions off, is not Tristan like in Fate canon (in this canon, Tristan is clearly closer to Lancelot), but ''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kay]]'' of all people, a detail borrowed from the earliest Arthurian legends. They are the only ones in the Inner Table whose closest or most important associations aren’t Lancelot, Gawain, both of them, or Tristan (albeit, the two are also pretty close with Gawain either way due to how long they’ve been around, even if Kay is reluctant to admit it), being most associated with each other and often treated as ThoseTwoGuys if out of focus, and they often went on quests together in the early days of the kingdom, with Bedivere’s lack of arm even explained as having been [[IOweYouMyLife due to losing it taking an almost fatal hit for Kay in one such early quest]]. Kay’s “By the hand of my friend” CatchPhrase even makes a return.

** Percival has the same backstory he has in the Creator/ChretienDeTroyes version of his story, but the end of his story, influenced by Fate itself, is based on Parsifal, [[spoiler:going halfway between the Parsifal and Fate versions of his relationship with Kundry by him showing her platonic compassion, and due to this he misses the fall of Camelot completely]]. His ChasteHero status and pairing with Blanchefleur are compromised by them marrying after the grail quest, as he resolved to marry when he thought himself worthy of her. Before that point, they’re basically dating, but it stays chaste.

** Especially prevalent with everything regarding Mordred, even more so than Gawain; she has a gender-flipped Cwyllog as her love interest (albeit unlike the legends she/he is thought to be canon in she has no children with him), can be “joyous and courteous” even post-TomatoInTheMirror, albeit only when in manipulation mode after she’s made into a pariah (an Italian poem), was told about her fate to destroy Camelot by a prophet when adventuring with Lancelot, who tried to keep it secret because he didn’t want Gawain to be heartbroken (as well as not wanting to do that to Mordred, though he does become the first knight to grow fearful of her and they grow distant after this) before Merlin outed her to everyone later (Prose Lancelot, though the actual Prose Lancelot version of events was depicted separately in TMFOA written before it), was a ChickMagnet (some Welsh legends) and her antagonistic treatment by Merlin is even based off of a modern work, Series/Merlin2008; these are only a few examples among many. And with the heavy attempts to incorporate the gist of her Fate canon backstory and character, this is all heavily mixed with a lot of modern depictions of Mordred which make the character more sympathetic.

** The collection in general is loaded with these, but the biggest ones are how Arturia and Arthur took two extremes of how to act as a king; while both swore to a life of self-sacrifice for the greater good and chivalry, Arturia put too much emphasis on logic, impartiality, and justice, and Arthur, the more typical image of King Arthur, [[WideEyedIdealist put too much on compassion and idealism]]. Yet there is a strong impression that if they’d been switched things might have actually gone at least slightly better. This is exemplified by their treatment of Mordred: Female Mordred would have thrived under Arthur, as is shown in practice by their interactions in the FGO era PA fics, as Arthur accepted his Mordred as heir and regent, also by extension making everyone feel obligated to treat the new crown prince the same... but because that wasn’t the Mordred he got, and [[RealityEnsues because he isn’t a psychiatrist, therapist, or even priest, the closest medieval equivalent]], he ended up enabling and giving a psychotic, unstable {{Yandere}} with a creepy obsession with both him and his wife the reins to his kingdom, despite advice to the contrary; meanwhile Arturia with her cold logic would have likely been able to tell immediately that something was terribly, terribly wrong with Male Mordred. (Pending)

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The author tries to subvert this, making it clear that what Elaine and her maid did to Lancelot, and what Morgan did to Arthur, was rape (and rape of a very likely mentally ill person in Lancelot’s case... twice), and Lancelot and Proto Arthur at least are significantly affected and even traumatized. And Bors being basically date raped in one of his stories is altered considerably so that the maiden had no idea Bors was under a spell when the act happened, because the author was so disgusted by that particular case and couldn’t find a way to write around it. Notably, no one calls what they went through “rape” or seems to acknowledge it as such except for maybe Arthur.
** With Lancelot this is actually brought up indirectly; Lancelot tells himself that because it didn’t hurt and that Elaine did it for the sake of conceiving Galahad that he should be fine with it, making her promise that she would never do it again, halfway between recognizing it as rape and blaming himself. Elaine pulling it off again and Guinevere catching them and screaming at him is enough to send him into a mental break and send him jumping out the window, though both Gueniviere most of the Knights seem understanding after that and he explains just what she did. At least one story goes deep into the dark depths of his psychology on this, also incorporating why he continues his affair with Guinevere at all, feeling resentment that a total stranger “witnessed what should have only been for the Queen’s eyes and heard what should have only been for the Queen’s ears”.

** The two Ladies of the Lake that appear, Vivian and Niimue, are apparently siblings, unlike how they’re often perceived and [[DecompositeCharacter despite that they’re implied to be the same person in Fate]], Vivian being the calm, wise one who blesses Excalibur, and Niimue being the less responsible, selfish one who took Lancelot when he was a child.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:The brutal murder of [[PluckyComicRelief Dinadan]] by Mordred not only marks the point where Mordred is finally starting to slip past the point of no return, but also symbolizes the start of Camelot losing its joy and happiness. The death of Gareth later then goes on to truly drive home Camelot's loss of innocence]].

** Percival, fittingly for his signature color, is Red (naive, emotional, cheerful, not very bright, childlike, flighty) to Gawain (mellow, polite, worldly, reliable), as well as to Galahad's (Always rational and calm) Blue.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Unlike Mallory’s depiction and Fate canon itself, Percival actually returns to Camelot with Bors after the grail quest, instead of becoming a monk and dying a peaceful death, as the author thought this was a bizarre plot point and Percival, in his early [=20s=] at this point, is still a bit too young to just be killed off like this for no good reason. Plus it makes resolving the Percival x Blanchefleur ship possible while still keeping him a grail knight (they marry after the quest), [[spoiler:and makes a heartbreaking scene where Percival [[PleaseDontLeaveMe cries to Galahad to not leave him too]], having lost his mother and sister, possible, making Galahad feel a moment’s hesitation on whether he should ascend or stay]]. Also the author really likes writing him due to how {{Moe}} he in his airheadedness can be, and doesn't have much opportunity to do so outside of Arthurian fics. [[spoiler:Though he still gets [[KillTheCutie killed off tragically at Camlann, his death along with Gareth’s earlier pretty much symbolizing how everyone has lost their last shred of innocence]].]]

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:The brutal murder of [[PluckyComicRelief Dinadan]] by Mordred not only marks the point where Mordred is finally starting to slip past the point of no return, but also symbolizes the start of Camelot losing its joy and happiness. The deaths of Gareth and then Percival later then go on to truly drive home Camelot's loss of innocence]].

* {{Asexuality}}: Galahad has been stated outright to indeed be asexual as well as aromantic) as the Arthurian fics with him in him often make pretty clear, due to his whole Incorruptible Pure Pureness Chaste Hero shtick. Here, he not only was chaste, but due to being inherently pure was physically incapable of feeling desire or romantic attraction; or even understanding it that much for that matter. Percival, meanwhile, is a good example of someone who is oblivious but not incapable of feeling attraction, showing that there is indeed a difference.

*** For at the very least Gaheris and even Agravain, the feeling is mutual, to rather ridiculous levels, to the point that reminding them that Lancelot indeed took Gawain’s title as the strongest of the Round Table is a BerserkButton.

** A less violent, pacifistic example in [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas Gildas]], Gwrddelw’s oldest brother and here depicted as having been pretty friendly with Mordred, even seeing him as a bit of a brother. While WordOfGod states that what he wrote in this universe’s version of the De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae most likely isn’t the same as it was in real life, especially due to the weirdness of what the time period even is, after hearing of Mordred’s rebellion and death and his little brother’s account of it, he was so furious that he burned all of Arturia’s biographical entries, gave all of her accomplishments to her uncle Ambrosius, a king with already such good reputation that no one would suspect otherwise, and wrote the worst account possible of Constantine, her successor who inherited the rump state that remained, also adding his prayer to Gwrddelw’s to spare Mordred’s soul, lamenting that he should have stepped in as soon as he had heard from his network of monks that Mordred hadn’t been seen recently.

** Lionel also doesn't have the best of luck either. By the time of the Grail quest it finally seems to really be getting to them.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The author tries to subvert this, making it clear that what Elaine and her maid did to Lancelot, and what Morgan did to Arthur, was rape (and rape of a very likely mentally ill person in Lancelot’s case... twice), and Lancelot and Proto Arthur at least are significantly affected and even traumatized. And Bors being basically date raped in one of his stories is omitted entirely in favor of the still [[QuestionableConsent questionable]] scenario of the maiden drinking with him and getting him drunk to the point of consent, because the author was so disgusted by that particular case and couldn’t find a way to write around it. Notably, no one calls what they went through “rape” except a select few.
** With Lancelot this is actually brought up; Lancelot tells himself that because it didn’t hurt and that Elaine did it for the sake of conceiving Galahad, that it isn’t Elaine’s fault, making her promise that she would never do it again, even being polite to her, and doesn’t seem to understand why he feels so viscerally sick about it even as he’s trying to justify it to himself. Elaine pulling it off again and Guinevere catching them and screaming at him is enough to send him into a mental break and send him jumping out the window, though both Gueniviere most of the Knights seem understanding after that and he explains just what she did.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Arturia and Mordred (pre-TomatoInTheMirror, of course) have quite a few female admirers, albeit none of them know they are actually women. Arturia for being the king and all, with her naturally high charisma and regal air, but for her it’s more quiet respect. Mordred develops a reputation as “the young semi-BadBoy knight” and as a bit of a darkhorse, straight-up becoming something of a ChickMagnet, a reference to Mordred being said to indeed be a bit popular with the ladies before his fall in some legends. The fact that “he” never shows “his” face doesn’t impede her popularity at all, in fact it becomes part of the appeal. Mordred’s popularity with fangirls, especially with teenagers, apparently rivals even the likes of Tristan or possibly even ''Percival'' (though of course they stop short of fan-favorites Gawain and Lancelot, the former who is basically treated as a MemeticSexGod in-universe, and the latter the resident MemeticBadass), with a whole score of {{Squee}}ing, adoring fangirls who cheer her on at jousting tournaments. The fangirl legions also serve to show just how accepted Mordred was before her fall, however, making their comical behavior one of many HarsherInHindsight things.

** Arturia was an interesting case. She is and never was a misogynist per se, but she was a product of her era; as destiny said she was to be king, she refused to be queen. PA elaborates that it wasn’t just a semantic issue either, because for most of European history queens only happened when there was literally no other option, and it’s actually shown that she already wasn’t immediately accepted as a 15-year-old boy-king, so God knows how well she would have went over as a teenage queen. As such, she lives as a man and Kay, Ector, Guinevere, Merlin, Nimue, and Morgan are the only people in the entire kingdom who know she is a woman (though some material suggests Bediviere was in on it as well). But even so, what role God had in mind for her was apparently a common question Arturia had (and this is shown to be [[MenDontCry another reason she tried to kill off her emotions]]), like if begetting an heir with Guinevere is God’s plan and therefore moral, or is a major sin in God’s eyes and unworthy of her status. However, over the course of the Holy Grail Wars, especially fighting alongside Shirou, her first actual OneTrueLove, it appears she has come to terms with it.
** Mordred, like in canon, hates the fact that she’s a woman being pointed out, at one point even pointing out the above “queens are only for the desperate” thing; refusing to reveal her appearance is the one piece of advice from Morgan she always followed. It was such a given in the culture she lived in that women are weak, with those who weren’t weak either only being so because of some magical ability (e.g. Morgan and Lynette) or because they fought a really, really uphill battle in trying to be taken seriously (e.g. her sister Gareth), that she never really questioned it. Here it’s emphasized that who she truly wants to be seen as is a KnightInShiningArmor and PrinceCharming, not someone’s woman to be put on a pedestal, legitimately preferring to be called “cool” or “dashing” as opposed to “cute” or “pretty”. It’s pretty much all but stated that she and Gwrddelw were so perfect for each other because he saw her as a woman, but still as his knight regardless, [[LadyAndKnight and was perfectly happy to be her lady]] [[labelnote:Warning, smut and spoilers!]]and he bottoms to her in the MustNotDieAVirgin scene after their confession to demonstrate that she can still take the “masculine” position while still being a woman, continuing to call her things like “my knight” and “my prince” to encourage her[[/labelnote]].
* HistoricalGenderFlip: Aside from the obvious, since this is Fate after all, there’s one female to male example, something unheard of in Fate; (later Saint) Cwyllog, Mordred’s tragic love interest in life, a young man whom she only realized her feelings for when he finally confessed a mere few days before Camlann, and who as shown in prequel fics she had befriended [[RescueRomance after rescuing him and his home from raiders after he made his father take her in on a stormy night]]... Or rather, it’s zigzagged, because his name wasn’t Cwyllog, but ''Gwrddelw''. Cwyllog herself, the “Daughter of Caw” who was theorized to be Mordred’s wife by some scholars via what was basically a culmination of EpilepticTrees, is now thought to have possibly not existed at all in reality, but there was a ''son'' of Caw who was a saint of the same parish of Llangwyllog and had the same feast day of January 7 (and was actually listed on Saint calendars twice, while Cwyllog never was), albeit his existence is a bit ambiguous as well, as basically nothing is known about him. While articles on the subject tend to stop here, the author ran with the idea that they are indeed the same person; as discussed in a PA fic in which Gudako brings it up to her with Jekyll, it’s likely that since in-universe future scholars and even locals assumed Mordred was a man, they also assumed that the saint who was rumored to have had a relationship with Mordred was a woman, and traced “her” to Cwyllog, growing stumped when Gwrddelw seemed to be the “real” saint of the area. (Though the author admits this may not make much sense since the reason why Mordred was thought to have a wife was because he had children in Geoffrey’s account, where Cwyllog was thought to be “canon”, children who don’t exist in Fate nor Project Alter).
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Male!Arthur was apparently one at the start of his career. While he was never really crass about it, he had a weak spot for pretty women and this apparently came and bit him at least a few times. By the time he marries Guinevere, he had significantly calmed down enough to want a serious relationship, however.

** Gwrddelw and Gildas had _24_ siblings, not counting themselves, which is extremely impressive even for the era, though only Hueil, and the two sisters Peithien and Gwenabwy really get much attention other than as namedrops.

** Some other Monty Python references are the NonSequiturThud (or otherwise non-sequitur) lines said when some of the Arthurian characters are hit in the head, (which tends to happen on a somewhat uncommon basis because [[RuleOfFunny the author finds it funny]]); aside from saying something about giant mutant snails, a gag characters like Astolfo also have (itself a reference to the weird tendency of a lot of medieval literature to have depictions of knights fighting snails in the margins of their pages for unknown reasons), Arturia once decries a [[KillerRabbit “Dastardly rabbit”]] instead, and in a prequel fic slurs out “Izzat an African... or European swallow?” after she gets whacked on the helmet and Kay asks if she’s okay, and Bediviere once mumbles something about the world being shaped like a banana.
*** Albeit, much like canon, it’s eventually confirmed that the knights did indeed fight a KillerRabbit once, calling it the strangest fight they’d ever had. They managed to take that one down via AttackAttackAttack, unlike their less fortunate Monty Python counterparts. Though it did still seem to hurt the ones who the rabbit killed in the movie the worst, with Gawain commenting that it almost bit his cheek off and he was stuck healing for a month, and it also being mentioned that poor Bors got his face kicked in, was stuck healing for two, and was afraid of rabbits for a while. (Pending)

** Percival has the same backstory he has in the Creator/ChretienDeTroyes version of his story, though in here, while he found the magic lance to heal the fisher king, he came to the conclusion that he wasn’t ready to look for the grail yet and didn’t bother until it showed up when it did in the Mallory version of events (Pending), being the only one aside from Galahad to know what the grail is and for once getting to look smart by explaining it to everyone. He’s also gone through similar character development as he did there already, albeit really downplayed because the author finds him being the resident lovable idiot cute and unique. Also his ChasteHero status and pairing with Blanchefleur are compromised by them marrying after the grail quest, as he resolved to marry when he thought himself worthy of her. Before that point, they’re basically dating, but it stays chaste.

!!Tropes in ''There Once Was A Spot Known As Camelot''

** Some of Kay’s most badass moments come from his loyalty to his stepsister. While he might be a massive braggart, he’s willing to do anything to defend her, and even sees basically absorbing negativity coming her way as part of his job as Seneschal. [[spoiler:In Project Alter, this becomes apparent to heartwrenching levels in fics taking place in the Sixth Singularity, where despite knowing how wrong it is and having the clearest head on his shoulders, he continues to follow The Dragon King to the bitter end purely out of sibling love. He has an UTAU cover of [[Franchise/EvilliousChronicles Servant of Evil]] based on this version of events for a reason.]]

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Arturia and Mordred (pre-TomatoInTheMirror, of course) have quite a few female admirers, albeit none of them know they ate actually women. Arturia for being the king and all, with her naturally high charisma and regal air, but for her it’s more quiet respect. Mordred develops a reputation as “the young semi-BadBoy knight” and as a bit of a darkhorse, straight-up becoming something of a ChickMagnet, a reference to Mordred being said to indeed be a bit popular with the ladies before his fall in some legends. The fact that “he” never shows “his” face doesn’t impede her popularity at all, in fact it becomes part of the appeal. Mordred’s popularity with fangirls, especially with teenagers, apparently rivals even the likes of Tristan or possibly even ''Percival'' (though of course they stop short of fan-favorites Gawain and Lancelot, the former who is basically treated as a MemeticSexGod in-universe, and the latter the resident MemeticBadass), with a whole score of {{Squee}}ing, adoring fangirls who cheer her on at jousting tournaments. The fangirl legions also serve to show just how accepted Mordred was before her fall, however, making their comical behavior one of many HarsherInHindsight things.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The author tries to subvert this, making it clear that what Elaine and her maid did to Lancelot, and what Morgan did to Arthur, was rape, and Lancelot and Proto Arthur at least are significantly affected and even traumatized. And Bors being basically date raped in one of his stories is omitted entirely in favor of the still [[QuestionableConsent questionable]] scenario of the maiden drinking with him and getting him drunk to the point of consent, because the author was so disgusted by that particular case and couldn’t find a way to write around it. Notably, no one calls what they went through “rape” except Gareth.
** With Lancelot this is actually brought up; Lancelot tells himself that because it didn’t hurt and that Elaine did it for the sake of conceiving Galahad, that it isn’t Elaine’s fault, making her promise that she would never do it again, even being polite to her, and doesn’t seem to understand why he feels so viscerally sick by it. Elaine pulling it off again and Guinevere catching them is enough to send him into a mental break, though both Gueniviere most of the Knights seem understanding after that and he explains just what she did.

WorkingTitle. A repository for tropes about Tropers/{{shonengirl}}'s possible Arthurian supplementary fics to DarthWiki/ProjectAlter that have blown up into something way too extensive to be contained in the main page. While the fics use and are heavily based on the Franchise/FateSeries[=/=]Nasuverse version of Arthuriania (most notably whole thing with Arthur, Mordred, and Gareth being female), it also heavily modifies it by blending in tons of elements from various legends from all across the middle ages to make her own coherent version of events. While following the rise and fall of Arthur's short but glorious reign and all the character drama that accompanied it, it also features more mundane quests to SliceOfLife goings-on of the knights and court, with genre and tone widely varying from fic to fic.

** Arturia and Arthur are a play on this trope itself and how prevalent this is in actual Arthurian legend. As Arturia’s backstory is already elaborated on heavily in canon, her version of the story seems to use more material from later cycles and depictions, though this isn’t always the case. Arthur meanwhile seems to take after more earlier interpretations (fittingly for being the prototype design), and Arthur is also portrayed a bit more like King Arthur usually is all the way through. In one fic [[DiscussedTrope in which they actually discuss this]], he brings up some characters Arturia doesn’t know about and vice-versa, and details like who ended up with who also seem to differ. Though their backstories can also tend to mix inspirations, so it’s difficult to say that their routes are based on specific interpretations. (This is all Pending, but I’m starting to disregard it)

*** They are also interpreted to not have started that way, in fact having acted way more like one would expect from teenagers at the start of their careers, if not even somewhat childishly. Artoria at least drew the sword from the stone purely by AchievementsInIgnorance, much like in legend, to her own biggest shock, for one. She also was kind of a StockShonenHero; impulsive, prone to HonorBeforeReason, and surprisingly cocky as well as HotBlooded, and is shown to have at least attempted to trade snarky banter with Kay, with an episode taken from Culwich and Olwen having her write a teasing poem about him, promoting him to run off in immature anger as Bedivere looks on in bafflement and Merlin just shrugs and says “Hah, teenagers.”. Though the above mentioned shonen hero-ness is also shown to directly contribute to her charisma and to draw people to her ideals. Arthur seemed to be slightly calmer, but also rather impulsive and kind of snarky much like her very early on, and also he was apparently quite a bit of a HormoneAddledTeenager, though by the time he meets Guinevere he has calmed down a lot. These are all based on real flaws Arthur has displayed in legend. They settled down much more after the securing of the kingdom, but were still pretty human for the first five years or so after. Unfortunately they took that development too far, resulting in them as we know them, though for Arthur more of his earlier personality seems to remain as shown when he cracks above and his snippiness towards Merlin and his enemies. And while they [[IHatePastMe really don’t like their younger, more immature selves]], they don’t seem to realize that it’s this very teenage-acting but passionate attitude their initial allies were drawn to.

** While in Fate canon Berserker Lancelot is Lancelot's mental state after Arturia forgave him and he broke from his own self-loathing, in Project Alter much like in legend he already had the tendency to go berserk in battle, though here it's said that it's more likely to happen if he's under stress and isn't actively trying to supress it; here the two are basically the product of a succesful Jekyll-Hyde split. In life he also had obsessive tendencies, particularly regarding Guineviere, that bordered on {{Yandere}}. But even in Saber form Lancelot has episodes of extreme sensitivity and emotional instability (Mash's initial CallingTheOldManOut causes him to actually start crying, with the scene being turned into a semi-comedic WhatTheHellHero moment from the Gudas and Bedivere isntead of the purely comedic one it was in canon, and she’s subsequently nowhere near as harsh to him), occasionally has moments up in [[CloudCuckoolander Cloudcuckooland]], and he also retains some of his obsessive tendencies and singlemindedness (though the [[spoiler:Sixth Singularity]] adaptations show him snapping himself out of it upon realizng that he's been here before). The author says that he definitely has some kind of AmbiguousDisorder. It's also shown that ''he's'' actually the OneNoteChef, not Gawain, has a tendency to break things (that the author says she based off of [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Chrom]]), and can be awful in social situations, even if not to Percival levels, giving off the impression that his strength is made up for with a lack of common sense. He also shows none of his FGO canon self’s ladykilling (at least [[ChickMagnet not intentionally]]), as that explicitly becomes Gawain’s territory and is heavily associated with Gawain, and in fact in life he had a huge case of SingleTargetSexuality regarding Guinevere, showing very clear lack of interest in his many other female admirers and even treating persistent ones as {{Abhorrent Admirer}}s (And considering that one of the most prominent ones is Morgan and the other two, Elaine and her maid, actually raped him, he really isn’t given any reason to think otherwise). Not only that, similarly to Arthur, he actually still seems a bit uncomfortable at the idea of way too much female attention or another romantic relationship because of that and that his only true love obviously ended terribly.
** Agravain is probably one of the Round Table knights with the most noticeable changes, and is this regarding the character from legend; while still quite a bit of a {{Jerkass}}, as “The Many Faces of Arthuriania” make pretty clear, compared to a lot of his depictions in legend, he’s definitely an AdaptationalNiceGuy. Notably he was the only knight who wasn’t afraid of being near Mordred after her destiny and parentage were revealed; albeit he’s probably responsible for nudging Mordred completely past the point of no return. But whereas in Fate canon he’s TheStoic, basically Arturia’s prime minister, and is even a bit of an OnlySaneMan, in Project Alter he’s a jealous, haughty, InferioritySuperiorityComplex-laden snarky ArrogantKungFuGuy, and in fact is more of a troublemaker, much less an OnlySaneMan (according to the author, she used [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Trainer Silver]] as inspiration), and his position [[spoiler:including his place in the Sixth Singularity]] is given to the also rather dickish and hotheaded but ultimately more responsible Kay as an extension of his Seneschal duties. In one fic, Gaheris, passing by and having been thrown in a dungeon with him even turns to him, sighing as if he’s not even surprised, asking “Agravain... What did you do this time?”. He retains his borderline murderous hatred for Gaheris, here being explained as a result of Morgan deliberately pitting the two against each other when raising them, and is most irrational with holding grudges out of the siblings. While he is shown to have slightly calmed down later, even then they’re pretty clearly different. And while he’s nowhere near as extreme in his loyalty to Arturia, this portrayal also borrows a lot from Vulgate characterizations and that loyalty gets transferred mostly to Gawain; if he and Gaheris are able to put aside their differences for anything, it’s their admiration of Gawain, to the point [[MyDadCanBeatUpYourDad that when Bors tells them that Lancelot is a better fighter than Gawain]], they are on the verge of 2 v 1-ing him in a fist fight before Gawain and Lancelot make them stop, and he rages at a group of Lancelot supporters for doing the same at a joust. And quite a bit of emphasis is put on this as it’s probably his most sympathetic trait in almost all the legends. The difference from, say, Mallory is probably best shown by Gawain’s reaction to his death, where while he doesn’t fly into a rage like he does with Gareth and Gaheris’ deaths, he’s still clearly saddened and angered by it, and he cites all three of his brothers’ deaths as to why he won’t forgive Lancelot. He’s also drawn much differently to fit this, with flatter hair and a more attractive, younger, and less pale but sneering and somewhat punchable face, fitting in better with descriptions in legend where he’s said to have a handsome face. [[spoiler:Also, in Project Alter, he gets his own badass moments in fics covering the Sixth Singularity, where he, being switched out with Kay, bluntly states that the whole affair is absurd and pulls a dramatic ScrewThisImOuttaHere, taking the other dissenting knights, even for once throwing aside his love of his big brother and being willing to cooperate closely with Gaheris and ''[[YouKilledMyFather Pellinore]]'' to stand by his choice, and leads the defecting group along with Pellinore. There is some focus on the weight of responsibility now that Gawain is against them now and he now has to take up the responsible older knight role as well, and he ultimately ends up as the OnlySaneMan in a different way from Fate canon]].

* TheBerserker: Lancelot. And as one can imagine, the strongest knight in Camelot having the tendency to go berserk in battle is indeed a terrifying prospect, and generally only Bors, Galehaut, or Gawain are able to even hope to effectively restrain him in this state alone, and even then in one instance he makes Bors sustain a terrible injury for three months, to his horror. It’s heavily implied that this is why he tends to often go on quests unannounced.

** Gawain. It’s made clear that if anything he’s a guy that values his siblings a lot (though they needn’t even be his actual siblings). Especially Gareth, though before Mordred was outed he was pretty protective of her too, and even after the fact he was constantly conflicted over it. Though he’s not super over protective regarding them getting into danger at least as it’s part of their profession. But this trope becomes apparent to [[KnightTemplarBigBrother utterly terrifying levels]] when Lancelot killed Gaheris and Gareth on accident (not long after killing Agravain as well). [[spoiler:And he hesitated on striking Mordred as well, leading to his demise]].

** Gareth also isn't always the smartest person around, so like Percival she can become the brunt of jokes, and having [[DeadpanSnarker Lynette]] as her companion doesn't help. Lynette even actively cheers on one of her enemies. Though poor Brunor takes and and multiplies it.

** Lancelot: TheAce and MemeticBadass, awkward and troubled but not quite IneffectualLoner.

** Kay: [[BadBoss That annoying boss]], DrillSergeantNasty, and ButtMonkey who seemingly no one likes but has a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Or “Basically a {{Tsundere}}”. Disliked for being a bureaucrat, but for Artoria is [[BigBrotherInstinct is willing to take any hit]]. Also the resident cook.

** Mordred: The gentlemanly, mysterious, edgy “Bad Boy”

** The tone can vary a lot, to the point some fics are borderline cartoony. Percival’s overall tend to be a bit more on the wacky, comedic side, what with his debut legend being a bit of a comedy itself, and him being the dumbest knight of the Inner Round Table and all that.
** The Green Knight episode is also presented in a comedic way, at poor Gawain’s expense. It’s very first scene basically entirely consists of the Green Knight being a relentless Merlin-tier {{Troll}}.

--> '''Kay:''' You don’t get assigned grunts all the time, do you? Someone’s got to keep standards high around here! ...WHAT WAS THAT, SQUIRE?! YOU WANT TO FIGHT FOR THE KING WITH THAT ATTITUDE?! I’VE MET DAMSELS WITH MORE GRIT THAN YOU, YOU FILTHY MAGGOT!

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Arturia and Mordred (pre-TomatoInTheMirror, of course) had quite a few female admirers in life, albeit none of them knew they were actually women. Arturia for being the king and all, with her naturally high charisma and regal air, but for her it’s more quiet respect. Mordred develops a reputation as “the mysterious but young semi-BadBoy knight” and as a bit of a darkhorse, straight-up becoming somewhat of a ChickMagnet, a reference to Mordred being said to indeed be a bit popular with the ladies before his fall in some legends. The fact that “he” never shows “his” face doesn’t impede her popularity at all, in fact “What kind of {{Bishounen}} or {{Hunk}} is lurking under that helmet?” becomes a major part of her public character gimmick and appeal. Mordred’s popularity with fangirls, especially with teenagers, apparently rivals even the likes of Tristan or possibly even ''Percival'' (though of course they stop short of fan-favorites Gawain and Lancelot, the former who is basically treated as a MemeticSexGod in-universe, and the latter the resident MemeticBadass), with a whole score of {{Squee}}ing, adoring fangirls who cheer her on at jousting tournaments. The fangirl legions also serve to show just how accepted Mordred was before her fall, however, making their comical behavior one of many HarsherInHindsight things.
* FandomRivalry: Invoked and PlayedForLaughs in-universe with the kights’ fanbases, who are presented as if they were a mix of modern sports and fandom culture, with [[FootballHooligans all that]] [[FanDumb implies]]. Though for the most part, the “camps” are shown to merely have stereotypes of each other, and apparently getting into spats at each other in sidelines and taverns (during the bet scene at the joust, there are mentions of Lancelot fans being just in it because they know he’s going to win, Gawain and Tristan fans being half EstrogenBrigade with the other half being too cool to just go with Lancelot already, Mordred fangirls being young, and a joke about if [[ButtMonkey Kay]] fans even exist), Lancelot and Gawain, being the two most popular knights, seem to have amassed a fanbase who are at odds at each other, with there always being a few particularly FanDumb-y [[FootballHooligans hooligans]] and rabid fangirls who get into outright fights with each other, mainly because Gawain fans are bitter that Lancelot has “stolen” Gawain’s status as TheAce and Lancelot fans are extremely smug about it. Agravain and Gaheris (Gawain camp), and Galehaut and to a less blatant extent even Bors (Lancelot camp), don’t help at all whatsoever in discouraging it, with the former even snapping at some Lancelot fans who were stupid enough to push him on it. Gawain and Lancelot themselves are more confounded and baffled by the whole thing, though they also find it a bit funny and ironic that they want them to have some kind of rivalry so much despite them being HeterosexualLifePartners (fortunately for them the saner members of their fan bases are pretty aware of this too, and they also have a FriendlyFandoms portion). ...Though much like with Mordred’s fanbase, this also serves as really cruel DramaticIrony considering what happens to them later.
* FallenAngel: Among the UTAU covers, "Devil's Manner" is a melancholic, even somewhat philosophical song sung by Mordred and displaying the less DumbMuscle side of her character. Against the backdrop of her raising her rebellion against Arturia, she compares herself to Satan; as much like how Satan was a fallen angel, she's a fallen knight, or at least she will forever seal her destiny as such and the Satan to Arturia's God with her rebellion. In her backstory itself, this is also brought up by her.

* HistoricalGenderFlip: Aside from the obvious, since this is Fate after all, there’s one female to male example, something unheard of in Fate; (later Saint) Cwyllog, Mordred’s tragic love interest in life, a young man whom she only realized her feelings for when he finally confessed a mere few days before Camlann, and who as shown in prequel fics she had befriended [[RescueRomance after rescuing him and his home from raiders after he made his father take her in on a stormy night]]... Or rather, it’s zigzagged, because his name wasn’t Cwyllog, but ''Gwrddelw''. Cwyllog herself, the “Daughter of Caw” who was theorized to be Mordred’s wife by some scholars via what was basically a culmination of EpilepticTrees, is now thought to have possibly not existed at all in reality, but there was a ''son'' of Caw who was a saint of the same parish of Llangwyllog and had the same feast day of January 7 (and was actually listed on Saint calendars twice, while Cwyllog never was), albeit his existence is a bit ambiguous as well, as basically nothing is known about him. While articles on the subject tend to stop here, the author pretty much ran with the idea that they are indeed the same person; as discussed in a fic in which Gudako brings it up to her with Jekyll, it’s likely that since in-universe future scholars and even locals assumed Mordred was a man, they also assumed that the saint who was rumored to have had a relationship with Mordred was a woman, and traced “her” to Cwyllog, growing stumped when Gwrddelw seemed to be the “real” saint of the area. (Though the author admits this may not make much sense since the reason why Mordred was thought to have a wife was because he had children in Geoffrey’s account, where Cwyllog was thought to be “canon”, children who don’t exist in Fate nor Project Alter).

** The collection in general are loaded with these, but the biggest ones are how Arturia and Arthur took two extremes of how to act as a king; while both swore to a life of self-sacrifice for the greater good and chivalry, Arturia put too much emphasis on logic, impartiality, and justice, and Arthur, the more typical image of King Arthur, [[WideEyedIdealist put too much on compassion and idealism]]. Yet there is a strong impression that if they’d been switched things might have actually gone at least slightly better. This is exemplified by their treatment of Mordred: Female Mordred would have thrived under Arthur, as is shown in practice by their interactions in the FGO era fics, as Arthur accepted his Mordred as heir and regent, also by extension basically making everyone feel obligated to treat the new crown prince the same... but because that wasn’t the Mordred he got, and [[RealityEnsues because he isn’t a psychiatrist, therapist, or even priest, the closest medieval equivalent]], he ended up enabling and giving a psychotic, unstable {{Yandere}} with a creepy obsession with both him and his wife the reins to his kingdom, despite advice to the contrary; meanwhile Arturia with her cold logic would have likely been able to tell immediately that something was terribly, terribly wrong with Male Mordred. (Pending)
** The difference between the Mordreds from what is seen is by itself a giant irony, what with Male Mordred, a sadistic ticking time bomb, somewhat fittingly being pretty much exactly what everyone was expecting Female Mordred to be. Yet Female Mordred, while also not the most psychologically healthy person around, had to basically be emotionally backed into a corner to produce the same results as her male counterpart, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy a circumstance which everyone all but consciously brought about]]. While Male Mordred was probably too far gone to be anything but a tyrant, Project Alter’s Female Mordred, despite her immaturity, even shows signs of having legitimate potential as a king, apparently having spent days to think of policies and possible diplomatic efforts before going to Arturia to tell her about the whole bloodline revelation, showing some strategic talent, ability to rally people to her side and can even be described as a feudal version of a populist, so if Arturia accepted her as heir and taught her kingship, capitalized on these strengths, and worked through her recovering trust issues and impulsive tendencies, she may have very well have become a good king and they may have even been able to learn a thing or two from each other.
** The most important in terms of plot and overarching themes of the whole collection, though, is most likely [[spoiler:Galahad’s wish, and in a way Solomon’s as well, though especially Galahad’s]]. A recurring idea is that various characters wanted/want to be perfect, most notably and prominently Jekyll, his search for it prompting him to take drastic measures, and these measures to purify himself and eventually humanity only succeeding in manifesting the less desirable parts, as well as Arturia, Arthur, and [[spoiler:Solomon himself]], and/or befell some great tragedy because they were imperfect and made some terrible mistake because of it, something which they greatly regret. And while many of said flaws are indeed shown to be bad things, even then [[spoiler:Galahad, the one person who ever existed who was perfect in god’s image, more than even Jesus himself, and Solomon, who was almost perfect and could have wished to become truly so, gave it all away to be truly human.]] [[spoiler:Galahad’s in particular because, as he says to God himself, “How can I truly help anyone if I cannot truly understand them and all their flaws, or if others feel I am too perfect to approach? If all were to be perfect, what is life, without its joys and bonds and even trials? Is that even true perfection, after all?” (going on to talk about how even Jesus had a human heart, and even God Himself had things to learn), which may as well be stating the moral of the “series” if there was one, especially regarding Jekyll’s character.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: At the end of the day, Mordred, as the Arthurian fics make pretty clear, in addition to being a WellDoneSonGuy; even if she mainly wanted the love of her father, her social isolation is shown to have been almost as damaging. According to the author, she was written as someone who might have an attachment disorder due to the severely abusive, neglectful conditions she was raised in (as was Tristan to an extent, but with him it seems more mild, because he at least seems capable of building friendships without too much difficulty). Becoming a Round Table member, immediately gaining the support of a massive community of comrades, including her long-lost siblings (with Gawain and Gareth being particularly supportive) and its most respected member as a teacher, legions of adoring fans, and the opportunity to serve someone she found admirable and to do good in the world was the best thing to happen to her, even making some friends of her own on her own quests (most importantly Gwrddelw, also earning the respect of his family, despite the fact that the Caw family generally does not like Arturia) and generally making a name doing good was clearly the best thing that had happened to her. So obviously, that all being ripped away from her in the blink of an eye, combined with her disgust and self-loathing at her being a product of incest and an unnatural creation at that in this canon and Artoria’s refusal to acknowledge her as her child, demolishing almost any ability to trust and make connections that she had been able to slowly, steadily build up over the years. Especially not helping that being a Vassal/Servant has meant she had good reason to trust no one but her Lord/Master, if they’re a trustworthy person in the first place. But while it might be hard to earn her trust, and she’s much slower to fully embrace it without being a {{Tsundere}} than even canon, it’s made pretty clear that she’s still actually pretty starved for positive attention and that more than anything she still wants to be a KnightInShiningArmor and a good prince who could rule a kingdom justly and earn the love of her subjects - and father - some day, because GoodFeelsGood. [[spoiler:Repeated assurances of trust and being a KnightOfShiningArmor or PrinceCharming are even shown to be a turn-on for her with regard to Gwrddelw and, if they’re shipped, Jekyll]].
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Mordred had this dynamic with Gwrddelw, if not even more so; in fact, it’s pretty much a, if not the, central part of their dynamic. Gwrddelw, unlike the rest of his male family members, is a delicate, gentle (borderline?) NonActionGuy, and Caw, his father, as well as some of his brothers make fun of him for his light frame and relative femininity. They met via a story that basically mirrors an episode out of a chivalric romance with her as the knight and him as the damsel, and after Gwrddelw confesses, she even realizes for a moment that she may have basically been in a CourtlyLove relationship without even realizing. He’s depicted [[spoiler:It’s driven even more in with him laying down and telling her “Even if you’re a woman, it doesn’t change that you’re my knight... Prince Mordred.”, then subsequently that she has right to his virginity and basically that she can still top him even as a woman]]. Fitting, considering that Gwrddelw is a HistoricalGenderFlip, paralleling Mordred being a gender flip; sort of. While his relationship with Mordred is based off of speculation that the saint Cwyllog was Mordred’s wife, Gwrddelw was an actual saint as well, who Cwyllog, a name which seems to be derived from the place she’s patron saint of, apparently replaced.

** Gwrddelw and Gildas had 24 siblings not counting themselves, which is extremely impressive even for the era, though only Hueil, and the two sisters Peithien and Gwenabwy really get much attention other than as namedrops.
* LoveRevelationEpiphany: Played to extremely depressing effect. Mordred realized that what she had feeling for Gwrddelw was indeed romantic love after the latter confessed to her... [[spoiler:Said confession was an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove from him to make her reconsider going through the rest of the rebellion, but her mind was made up.]] [[spoiler:But they agree to spend one night with each other as a couple.]]

* ManlyManAndSensitiveGuy: Galehaut and Lancelot; the former is a hammy, dramatic half-giant, and while Lancelot is hardly feminine or weak-willed he is a bit sensitive to criticism, a romantic, and, well, the other member of the duo is [[TestosteronePoisoning Galehaut]].

** A pretty serious example, and a pretty far-reaching one thematically, in prequel fics: Galahad alludes to the fact that Percival was the original Grail Knight by saying that he suspects that even if he had never existed, Percival would have achieved the grail, and was worthy of such, [[spoiler:because Percival may, in fact, be the most perfect person among them all, as while his heart may be pure, it is still very much human. This also sort of invokes [[Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing T.H. White’s interpretation]], where Percival was portrayed as the only actually likable member of the Grail Knights]].

* NotSoStoic: To contrast her with Galahad, Arturia’s past seeming lack of human emotions and desires in Fate canon is not only said to have become the norm only some years after the start of her rule, but she is also shown to have had moments when keeping up the mask became too much, though these these flashes of humanity were so rare that it caused those who witnessed them to doubt if they really saw it, and only Kay, Merlin, and Bedivere ever saw her outright panic or break down. But when those do happen [[TearJerker it’s invariably really heartwrenching]]. [[spoiler:But by the end the stoic mask cracked; in Project Alter, the last face Mordred saw of Arturia was fear and anguish before she struck her in the head, and she’s crying as she begs Bedivere to throw Excalibur back into the lake.]]

** Percival has the same backstory he has in the Creator/ChretienDeTroyes version of his story, though in Project Alter, while he found the magic lance to heal the fisher king, he came to the conclusion that he wasn’t ready to look for the grail yet and didn’t bother until it showed up when it did in the Mallory version of events, being the only one aside from Galahad to know what the grail is and for once getting to look smart by explaining it to everyone. He’s also gone through similar character development as he did there already, albeit really downplayed because the author finds him being the resident lovable idiot cute and unique. Also his ChasteHero status and pairing with Blanchefleur are compromised by them marrying after the grail quest, as he resolved to marry when he thought himself worthy of her. Before that point, they’re basically dating, but it stays chaste.

** Kay (Red) and Bedivere (Blue), reflected in their color schemes. Or for that matter, Artoria (Blue) and Kay (Red), in fics taking place after the first few years of the latter's career as king.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Unlike what the source legend said and Fate canon itself, Percival actually returns to Camelot with Bors after the grail quest, instead of becoming a monk and dying a peaceful death, as the author thought this was a bizarre plot point and Percival, in his early [=20s=] at this point, is still a bit too young to just be killed off like this for no good reason. Plus it makes resolving the Percival x Blanchefleur ship possible while still keeping him a grail knight (they marry after the quest), [[spoiler:and makes a heartbreaking scene where Percival [[PleaseDontLeaveMe cries to Galahad to not leave him too]], having lost his mother and sister, possible, making Galahad feel a moment’s hesitation on whether he should ascend or stay]]. Also the author really likes writing him due to how {{Moe}} he in his airheadedness can be, and doesn't have much opportunity to do so outside of Arthurian fics. [[spoiler:Though he still gets [[KillTheCutie killed off tragically at Camlann, his death along with Gareth’s earlier pretty much symbolizing how everyone has lost their last shred of innocence]].]]

WorkingTitle. A repository for tropes about {{shonengirl}}'s possible Arthurian supplementary fics to DarthWiki/ProjectAlter that have blown up into something way too extensive to be contained in the main page. While the fics use and are heavily based on the Franchise/FateSeries[=/=]Nasuverse version of Arthuriania (most notably whole thing with Arthur, Mordred, and Gareth being female), it also heavily modifies it by blending in tons of elements from various legends from all across the middle ages to make her own coherent version of events. While following the rise and fall of Arthur's short but glorious reign and all the character drama that accompanied it, it also features more mundane quests to SliceOfLife goings-on of the knights and court, with genre and tone widely varying from fic to fic.

** The author has also done a similar thing with Mordred, saying that she sees the two versions of the character as representing the two different ways he tends to be written; female Mordred is “Tragic Mordred”, an interpretation more common in modern works in which Mordred is presented sympathetically, and Proto Mordred is “Classic Mordred”, the standard CardCarryingVillain Mordred. Female Mordred is also written taking from the most sympathetic {{Alternate Character Interpretation}}s in legend and mashing them together, unless they really don’t gel well (I.e. Welsh accounts describing him as being so nice that no one would refuse him). As it’s been interpreted on ThisVeryWiki that Mordred in legend may be disgusted with the whole incest thing and that he may be a DeathSeeker, those things are also added into her; unlike in Fate canon, she indeed does become disgusted with herself being the product of incest to the point of vomiting, especially after the only silver lining to it, becoming Artoria’s child and heir, is rejected, and as her attempts to subvert fate prove time and time again to be pointless her self-loathing increases to the point that she starts seeming suicidal, by the time of Camlann saying that she didn’t care if she was going to die if she was going to drag Artoria down with her. Her self-loathing was there from the start to an extent due to how [[AbusiveParents Morgan]] raised her, along with attachment and trust issues, but by her last meeting with Gwrddelw she becomes convinced that everyone who had cared about her before and who she ever loved now despised her and that there was no turning back, calling herself disgusting and expressing genuine shock that Gwr actually loves her. She’s also SmarterThanTheyLook, and is hardly the DumbMuscle she is in canon. As a Servant she also appears to smile a lot less outside of cocky grins until her shell is broken through.

** Gareth also isn't always the smartest person around, so like Percival she can become the brunt of jokes, and having [[DeadpanSnarker Lynette]] as her companion doesn't help. Lynette even actively cheers on the Though poor Brunor takes and and multiplies it.

** Kay: [[PointyHairedBoss That annoying boss]], DrillSergeantNasty, and ButtMonkey who seemingly no one likes but has a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. Or “Basically a {{Tsundere}}”. Disliked for being a bureaucrat, but for Artoria is [[BigBrotherInstinct is willing to take any hit]]

** Gareth: “[[TheSmurfettePrinciple The Girl”/“[[TheCutie The Cute One]]; no, I mean the other one.”

Lancelot: ...A knight I know of has fallen in love with his lord’s wife and is torn between his duty and his love for her. He cannot helped to be gripped by passion by the mere thought of her, and he loves her deeply, but he also loves his lord deeply as a friend. But there is nothing wrong about merely feeling love for another, is there?

** Percival: “The Adorable Resident Idiot”/TheKeet

** Gareth: “The Girl”/“[[TheCutie The Cute One]]; no, I mean the other one.”

** Mordred: The gentlemanly, mysterious “Bad Boy”

* IJustWantToBeLoved: At the end of the day, Mordred, as the Arthurian fics make pretty clear, in addition to being a WellDoneSonGuy; even if she mainly wanted the love of her father, her social isolation is shown to have been almost as damaging. According to the author, she was written as someone who might have an attachment disorder due to the severely abusive, neglectful conditions she was raised in (as was Tristan to an extent, but with him it seems more mild, because he at least seems capable of building friendships without too much difficulty). Becoming a Round Table member, immediately gaining the support of a massive community of comrades, including her long-lost siblings (with Gawain and Gareth being particularly supportive) and its most respected member as a teacher, legions of adoring fans, and the opportunity to serve someone she found admirable and to do good in the world was the best thing to happen to her, even making some friends of her own on her own quests (most importantly Gwrddelw, also earning the respect of his family, despite the fact that the Caw family generally does not like Arturia) and generally making a name doing good was clearly the best thing that had happened to her. So obviously, that all being ripped away from her in the blink of an eye, combined with her disgust and self-loathing at her being a product of incest and an unnatural creation at that in this canon and Arturia’s refusal to acknowledge her as her child, demolishing almost any ability to trust and make connections that she had been able to slowly, steadily build up over the years. Especially not helping that being a Vassal/Servant has meant she had good reason to trust no one but her Lord/Master, if they’re a trustworthy person in the first place. But while it might be hard to earn her trust, and she’s much slower to fully embrace it without being a {{Tsundere}} than even canon, it’s made pretty clear that she’s still actually pretty starved for positive attention and that more than anything she still wants to be a KnightInShiningArmor and a good prince who could rule a kingdom justly and earn the love of her subjects - and father - some day, because GoodFeelsGood. [[spoiler:Repeated assurances of trust and being a KnightOfShiningArmor or PrinceCharming are even shown to be a turn-on for her with regard to Gwrddelw and, if they’re shipped, Jekyll]].

** Arturia put a distant relative named Constantine as regent on the throne while going to fight Lancelot in Gaul, not Mordred; in Geoffrey’s account, Constantine, a real king, was Arthur’s successor. While not much info is given about him, though he does appear as a minor character in other places, he flees Camelot into exile before Mordred can assassinate him, taking the throne of the remaining rump state after Camlann.

** Played with in an Arthurian one-shot in which Lancelot and Mordred go and try to track a unicorn. Because the legends merely say that unicorns are drawn to female virgins, Mordred, despite not exactly being the most pure of knights even though this did take place when she was still a respected, noble knight, actually qualified, said unicorn recognizing that she’s indeed actually a woman and due to her keeping her gender secret still being a virgin. Though she of course panics and flips out over this. Fortunately Lancelot merely shrugs in confusion and suspects that maybe perhaps unicorns don’t really mind gender as much as previously thought. Mordred before her fall was apparently known for being surprisingly chaste, especially in contrast to Gawain, despite her more rough-around-the-edges image, and was admired by some for this fact as everyone interpreted this as a dedication to virtue.

*** Arturia put a distant relative named Constantine as regent on the throne while going to fight Lancelot in Gaul, not Mordred; in Geoffrey’s account, Constantine, a real king, was Arthur’s successor. While not much info is given about him, though he does appear as a minor character in other places, he flees Camelot into exile before Mordred can assassinate him, taking the throne of the remaining rump state after Camlann.

*** The Green Knight episode is also presented in a comedic way, at poor Gawain’s expense. It’s very first scene basically entirely consists of the Green Knight being a relentless Merlin-tier {{Troll}}.

*** A pretty serious example, and a pretty far-reaching one thematically, in prequel fics: Galahad alludes to the fact that Percival was the original Grail Knight by saying that he suspects that even if he had never existed, Percival would have achieved the grail, and was worthy of such, [[spoiler:because Percival may, in fact, be the most perfect person among them all, as while his heart may be pure, it is still very much human. This also sort of invokes [[Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing T.H. White’s interpretation]], where Percival was portrayed as the only actually likable member of the Grail Knights]].

** Arthurian:

*** Gawain is a mix of his Fate incarnation and as much of legendary material can be mixed in while still being coherent; generally his earlier KnightInShiningArmor and somewhat flawed but good Vulgate incarnations are used as the core of his character, with his being a CoolBigBro who is [[FriendToAllChildren a friend to young knights]], has concern for the less fortunate, even lepers, and the whole protector of damsels thing, the latter of which is especially played up to the point of him being described as “kind of like the medieval equivalent of a [[IdolSinger J-Pop idol]] [[ReallyGetsAround sans the restriction on sex]]” by the author and that this along with the abovementioned CoolBigBro thing is what makes up his public celebrity persona. But his more fatal flaws take hints from Mallory and are gelled with Fate canon, and while the whole episode where he and all the other Orkney siblings except Gareth hunt down and brutally kill Lamorak is cut out completely, cues from it are definitely noted; his violent tendencies from Mallory are interpreted into a tendency to be utterly ''terrifying'' when angered to the point of being straight-up unrepentantly murderous (though a tendency towards wrath seems to run in the family, with Gareth being the only exception), [[BlackAndWhiteMorality being able dehumanize those not on his side unnervingly easily]], and his absolute lack of regard for mercy (though he sees this as respecting knightly honor, and is a bit confused by Gareth’s horror at his unwillingness to show mercy to a wounded opponent until she straight-up has to remind him of the Green Knight episode, ''which Gareth only knows of through Gawain telling her of it in the first place'') to the point that he was apparently extremely close to becoming straight-up Berserker worthy. Though even then he comes out looking more positive than he ever does in any legend written after the Post-Vulgate and even occasionally Fate canon. Also Ragnell was his canon wife and The Marriage of Gawain was completely canon. His side of Literature/{{Parzival}} is also treated as canon, save for the RelationshipUpgrade at the end due to the abovementioned canonicity of the Gawain x Ragnell ship. He also turns into a BoisterousBruiser when drunk, a reference to how he gets characterized as such in many modern works.
*** Percival has the same backstory he has in the Creator/ChretienDeTroyes version of his story, though in Project Alter, while he found the magic lance to heal the fisher king, he came to the conclusion that he wasn’t ready to look for the grail yet and didn’t bother until it showed up when it did in the Mallory version of events, being the only one aside from Galahad to know what the grail is and for once getting to look smart by explaining it to everyone. He’s also gone through similar character development as he did there already, albeit really downplayed because the author finds him being the resident lovable idiot cute and unique. Also see the point about his wife. (Pending)
*** Kay and Bediviere being best friends and HeterosexualLifePartners (from the earliest Welsh legends).
*** Especially prevalent with everything regarding Mordred, even more so than Gawain; she has a gender-flipped Cwyllog as her love interest (albeit unlike the legends she/he is thought to be canon in she has no children with him), can be “joyous and courteous” even post-TomatoInTheMirror, albeit only when in manipulation mode after she’s made into a pariah (an Italian poem), was told about her fate to destroy Camelot by a prophet when adventuring with Lancelot, who tried to keep it secret because he didn’t want Gawain to be heartbroken (as well as not wanting to do that to Mordred, though he does become the first knight to grow fearful of her and they grow distant after this) before Merlin outed her to everyone later (Prose Lancelot, though the actual Prose Lancelot version of events was depicted separately in TMFOA written before it), was a ChickMagnet (some Welsh legends) and her antagonistic treatment by Merlin is even based off of a modern work, Series/Merlin2008; these are only a few examples among many. And with the heavy attempts to incorporate the gist of her Fate canon backstory and character, this is all heavily mixed with a lot of modern depictions of Mordred which make the character more sympathetic.

*** Gawain is a mix of his Fate incarnation and as much of legendary material can be mixed in while still being coherent; generally his earlier KnightInShiningArmor and somewhat flawed but good Vulgate incarnations are used as the core of his character, with his being a CoolBigBro who is [[AFriendToAllChildren a friend to young knights]], has concern for the less fortunate, even lepers, and the whole protector of damsels thing, the latter of which is especially played up to the point of him being described as “kind of like the medieval equivalent of a [[IdolSinger J-Pop idol]] [[ReallyGetdAround sans the restriction on sex]]” by the author and that this along with the abovementioned CoolBigBro thing is what makes up his public celebrity persona. But his more fatal flaws take hints from Mallory and are gelled with Fate canon, and while the whole episode where he and all the other Orkney siblings except Gareth hunt down and brutally kill Lamorak is cut out completely, cues from it are definitely noted; his violent tendencies from Mallory are interpreted into a tendency to be utterly ''terrifying'' when angered to the point of being straight-up unrepentantly murderous (though a tendency towards wrath seems to run in the family, with Gareth being the only exception), [[BlackAndWhiteMorality being able dehumanize those not on his side unnervingly easily]], and his absolute lack of regard for mercy (though he sees this as respecting knightly honor, and is a bit confused by Gareth’s horror at his unwillingness to show mercy to a wounded opponent until she straight-up has to remind him of the Green Knight episode, ''which Gareth only knows of through Gawain telling her of it in the first place'') to the point that he was apparently extremely close to becoming straight-up Berserker worthy. Though even then he comes out looking more positive than he ever does in any legend written after the Post-Vulgate and even occasionally Fate canon. Also Ragnell was his canon wife and The Marriage of Gawain was completely canon. His side of Literature/{{Parzival}} is also treated as canon, save for the RelationshipUpgrade at the end due to the abovementioned canonicity of the Gawain x Ragnell ship. He also turns into a BoisterousBruiser when drunk, a reference to how he gets characterized as such in many modern works.

!!Tropes in ''ThereOnceWasASpotKnownAsCamelot''