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I lent ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
varadia my copy of Idylls of the Queen a few months ago.
In response, she gave me Cherith Baldry's Exiled from Camelot. "It's also about Kay!" she said, helpfully, "but Idylls of the Queen was good! And this was not!"
Exiled from Camelot is ... well, look. Cherith Baldry had a lot of feelings about Kay, and about how the administrative work of being a seneschal and keeping a castle organized is very important and doesn't get enough appreciation, and - look, that's a reasonable opinion! I have a lot of respect for it!
And then Cherith Baldry expressed that opinion by writing a novel-length hurt-comfort fic starring the most hilariously woobified version of Sir Kay I ever expect to encounter, which, I mean, that's fine too! Live your bliss!
The book begins when Arthur's illegitimate son Loholt (not Mordred, who also exists, but offscreen) turns up at court. Loholt immediately tries to kill Kay, for no reason.
ARTHUR: I want to officially make Loholt my heir. Kay, draw up the legal papers. I know you don't like him --
KAY: Yes, well, he did try to kill me that one time, for no reason.
ARTHUR: -- but otherwise he's a good kid and I love him more than I love you and you need to get over it.
KAY: :(
(Arthur in this fic, by the way, will be playing the role of The Asshole Who Doesn't Love Kay The Way He Deserves And Must Be Proven Wrong Through Kay's Absence And Extensive Suffering.)
( Spoilers? Do you care about spoilers? Probably you don't care about spoilers )
I should note that Exiled from Camelot includes an acknowledgment at the beginning thanking Phyllis Ann Karr (author of Idylls of the Queen) for her 'unfailing encouragement.' Saidsovay, when she opened the book and saw this, "Oh! So she asked someone to write her Kay fic for Yuletide, and then she had to be nice about it no matter what she got."
varadia my copy of Idylls of the Queen a few months ago. In response, she gave me Cherith Baldry's Exiled from Camelot. "It's also about Kay!" she said, helpfully, "but Idylls of the Queen was good! And this was not!"
Exiled from Camelot is ... well, look. Cherith Baldry had a lot of feelings about Kay, and about how the administrative work of being a seneschal and keeping a castle organized is very important and doesn't get enough appreciation, and - look, that's a reasonable opinion! I have a lot of respect for it!
And then Cherith Baldry expressed that opinion by writing a novel-length hurt-comfort fic starring the most hilariously woobified version of Sir Kay I ever expect to encounter, which, I mean, that's fine too! Live your bliss!
The book begins when Arthur's illegitimate son Loholt (not Mordred, who also exists, but offscreen) turns up at court. Loholt immediately tries to kill Kay, for no reason.
ARTHUR: I want to officially make Loholt my heir. Kay, draw up the legal papers. I know you don't like him --
KAY: Yes, well, he did try to kill me that one time, for no reason.
ARTHUR: -- but otherwise he's a good kid and I love him more than I love you and you need to get over it.
KAY: :(
(Arthur in this fic, by the way, will be playing the role of The Asshole Who Doesn't Love Kay The Way He Deserves And Must Be Proven Wrong Through Kay's Absence And Extensive Suffering.)
( Spoilers? Do you care about spoilers? Probably you don't care about spoilers )
I should note that Exiled from Camelot includes an acknowledgment at the beginning thanking Phyllis Ann Karr (author of Idylls of the Queen) for her 'unfailing encouragement.' Said
sovay, when she opened the book and saw this, "Oh! So she asked someone to write her Kay fic for Yuletide, and then she had to be nice about it no matter what she got."