[And that's all she can say, the look on his face making her want to shrink into herself even as she forces herself to face him. The shock, the horror, all of it knives that cut and tear into her heart. All of it makes her want to run and then he says she deserted them and she has to fight to keep her hands from shaking. It's almost like facing him in the Fourth Grail War again, having freshly discovered his role as Berserker and his (seemingly) mad desire to slay her. All it did was drive the point home she had not been the King Camelot needed.
That's the crux of it, isn't it? In all his bitterness he wished for her to be crippled with the knowledge of her faults and all throughout the years she already had been.]
If you had someone whose reign wasn't based on deception, then Camelot would not have fallen. If you had someone else as King then you and Gwen could've--[She cuts herself off there because she refuses to pass the blame on to him. The last thing she wants is for him to hate himself for her mistakes, her failures. Arturia is the one who led Camelot to its destruction, no one else.]
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[And that's all she can say, the look on his face making her want to shrink into herself even as she forces herself to face him. The shock, the horror, all of it knives that cut and tear into her heart. All of it makes her want to run and then he says she deserted them and she has to fight to keep her hands from shaking. It's almost like facing him in the Fourth Grail War again, having freshly discovered his role as Berserker and his (seemingly) mad desire to slay her. All it did was drive the point home she had not been the King Camelot needed.
That's the crux of it, isn't it? In all his bitterness he wished for her to be crippled with the knowledge of her faults and all throughout the years she already had been.]
If you had someone whose reign wasn't based on deception, then Camelot would not have fallen. If you had someone else as King then you and Gwen could've--[She cuts herself off there because she refuses to pass the blame on to him. The last thing she wants is for him to hate himself for her mistakes, her failures. Arturia is the one who led Camelot to its destruction, no one else.]