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Out of Character Information
player name: Adi
player livejournal: rainblessed
playing here: N/A , all new.
where did you find us? lots of my fellow friends play here :3
are you 16 years of age or older?: Yes. I am 23.
In Character Information
character name: Morgana Pendragon.
Fandom: Merlin
Timeline: 2x13 - The Nightmare Begins.
character's age: Unmentioned in canon, I assume somewhere around 22.
powers, skills, pets and equipment:
Powers:
"It would be better if the witch never knew the true extent of her powers - "
Such is the warning the dragon gives Merlin when the question of Morgana's powers come up. Morgana is a witch. According to the dragon she is destined to become a powerful, evil, witch, one that could pose a challenge for Merlin himself. But at the canon point she's taken from, Morgana has just accepted that she even has powers. She cannot use them or control them. Her magic surfaces when she is upset, deeply upset, and at such times it can be dangerous even to her, seeing she almost lit her entire room on fire because of a nightmare.
That brings me to the next ability Morgana has, and those are her dreams. Morgana is a seer; she has prophetic dreams ever since she was very young. Gaius mentions that he treated her since a very young age because of that problem. But he only assigned her sleeping potions that didn't solve the problem.
Morgana's dreams usually are linked to Camelot and Arthur, and usually occur whenever there is danger ahead. Morgana, deeply upset by the images in her mind, usually wakes up deeply upset. It is then when her magic surfaces without control, setting fire, or breaking glass. It comes to show how powerful she is even without trying. But she doesn't know how to control her magic, and she has no one to guide her unlike Merlin who has Gaius.
So her magic is strong, but she cannot control it or use it, making it a problematic skill, not one she can use out of her own will. Her dreams are also another power she has no control over. It could be said that both of Morgana's abilities have more control over her than the other way around. The mist will make the magic even more random, less controlled, which will pose a challenge for Morgana, having her magic erupting whenever her emotional state is less that favorable.
Skills:
While she may seem gentle in her long gowns and jewels, Morgana is very skilled with sword. Being the king's ward gave her many privileges, such as education and a life of luxury. But being the extraordinary woman she is, she didn't just become a spoilt useless court lady. Rather she learned how to defend herself with sword. She is very quick and graceful, and is able to leave the 'Lady' side of herself behind and fight sword as any other man. When Merlin's village was in danger, she left the jewels and the dress and helped the other men protect it. She doesn't lose her wits in battle; rather her responses are quick and instinctive, worthy of a woman who has learned how to defend herself since a very young age. Morgana is also very good in horseback riding.
All those skills and abilities are, of course, canon.
Equipment:
Morgana will only have a small dagger on her, something she keeps for self-protection.
canon history:
At the canon point she is taken from, Morgana thinks she knows of her own history. But she is very wrong. In fact, very few people know of her true history. Morgana believes she is the daughter of a good friend of the king Uther Pendragon, who died in battle. Uther supposedly promised said friend to care for his daughter as if she was his own. But what Morgana doesn't know is that Uther lied to her. She is illegitimate daughter as a result of an affair Uther had with her mother. Uther doesn't want to admit to this flaw in his history, which is why he hides the truth from Morgana. Morgana also doesn't know she has a half sister, Morgause. As far as she's concerned she is the only child of two dead parents, and Uther is the closest thing to a parent she ever had.
Morgana grew up as the king's ward. Learning everything from sword fighting to dancing. She soon became a woman ahead of her time, outspoken and brave, she became known not only for her beauty, but also for being one of the only ones in Uther's court who criticize him for his hatred of magic and sorcerers.
Morgana is known to have helped Merlin and Arthur more than once. Being in her position, she used to encourage Arthur to go against his father's will and develop his own sense of self. Such a case was when Gwen was accused of magic and also when Uther tried to kill the young druid boy Mordred. Her role is usually as an active helper to Merlin in hiding Mordred and helping him escape, or as an influence over Arthur.
Through her life, Morgana always had prophetic dreams, but her magic is only starting to reveal itself later in her life in fits whenever she is upset. This scares and upsets Morgana, who knows that even though the king loves her as a daughter he will kill her if he finds out about her magic. It doesn't help that Gaius refuses to agree with her that the weird things happening to her is magic, and he instructs Merlin not to tell her as well, to protect her from Uther. Merlin, however, takes her to the Druids, the people of Mordred who are fugitives seeing they practice magic. There, Morgana learns to accept the fact that she is a witch. She even wants to escape with the Druids away from Camelot. But the king finds out where she is and figures she was kidnapped by the Druids. So when the armies are sent to bring her back and she sees the kind Druid leader murdered by them, she decides to go back to protect them. When speaking to Merlin she tells him she accepted her powers, and seems optimistic, telling him she knows it's not a bad thing, and that she hopes one day people will see magic can be used as a force of good.
That's the canon point I'm taking her from. Morgana, then, is kind and sweet as a lady can be, but the seeds of who she will turn to be are already there. They are there because she is angry and resentful more than ever towards Uther and his hate of magic. She feels desperate and lonely, a freak, an outsider, since Gaius keeps telling her there is nothing wrong with her, and she doesn't know of Merlin's powers, leading her to believe she is the only person with magic in Camelot. Add that to the knowledge Uther will kill his own daughter since he hates more than he loves, and understand why Morgana is an angry woman. That anger will one day turn her to be the witch the dragon warned Merlin from, but at the current canon point, she is still brave, kind Morgana.
For more information I might have missed on Morgana see here
personality:
"I don't want to be brave; I just want to be myself."
Morgana, or The Lady Morgana as she is known throughout Albion, is the only woman in Uther's court, and a famous one at that.
Unlike most noble women who are shown throughout the series such as Lady Vivian, Morgana isn't a shallow creature who is focused only on ball gowns and jewelry. She is very intelligent and outspoken, sometimes being the only one to defy Uther, even when risking anger from his side. While Uther feels magic is to be destroyed, Morgana, even before finding out she's a Witch herself, always spoke against the harsh treatment he gave to those who uses magic. The executions and the killing of men, women and children, are things that Morgana could not stand. She made her opinion clear more often than not.
Despite being raised by the king, something that he feels Morgana should be grateful for; Morgana uses her status to voice opinions that are unpopular in the kingdom. Combined with her pride, she sometimes condemns the knights and even Arthur for not being the ones to stand up against the king. Her pride walks hand in hand with loyalty and bravery, making her a one of a kind woman in the kingdom. While being ladylike and elegant, she is hardly timid around Arthur or her friends; she's witty, snarky, sarcastic and playful. Arthur is the best example for her usual attitude, she believes in him, but she's very able of telling him off when she thinks he's not doing the right thing, and is also able of flirting and teasing him for being the arrogant git that he is on the surface.
Morgana is not just simply intelligent, she's witty, cunning and is able of being manipulative. When saving the Druid boy Mordred, she goes to the king to apologize for defying him, acting as sweet as he wants her to be, while in fact she merely wants to be in the room with him when Arthur smuggles out the child so he can see that she is not involved in the matter. She is able of thinking fast and making up her own plans. While hiding Mordred in her chambers she scolds Arthur so badly for wanting to search them that he eventually leaves. So she is creative even at times of stress, though usually she does need help and isn't beyond scolding others to do the right thing to get it.
"Sadly, the age of gallantry seems to be dead. You look around and all you see are small men, not big enough to fill their armor. There's not one of them that's able to stand up for what is right."
Morgana is stubborn, headstrong and idealist. She'll go to great lengths to fight for what she believes to be right, even if it means, eventually, betraying the man who has cared for her since her childhood. She believes in a just world, and the more stubborn Uther gets, the more stubborn she gets in return, refusing to bow her head or apologize. This is a known disadvantage Morgana has, she's kind and sweet, but is unable, usually, to reach a compromise on a matter she's passionate about. The same goes for admitting herself to be on the wrong side, her pride simply doesn't allow it. Usually when she tries to apologize she becomes more timid, even awkward. Sometimes she's so angry or passionate about something she can't see things that are right in front of her eyes, such as scolding Arthur to go rescue Gwen, yelling at him and condemning him while not noticing he is in fact packing to go on said trip.
Her relationship with Gwen, her maid, is one thing that shows another aspect of Morgana's character, she is kind and loyal not only to those of her own royal status. When Gwen was kidnapped in her place, she yelled at the king in front of all his court, eventually saying he should be ashamed of himself, since Gwen is not only her maid, but her friend. When the king asks 'how many men must die in order to save a servant?' she answers, without a second of hesitation, 'as many as it'll take'. To her - saving Gwen, who has been a loyal and brave friend, is as important as saving herself. Not many noble men would have spared the servant a second thought, but Morgana is shaken and upset at the thought of not saving her friend. When Arthur tells her he will go to save Gwen, only that he couldn't defy his father in public, she doesn't say anything, but it's clear that she thinks that she did dare to do just that, despite being the king's ward and in his debt. Morgana also confides in Merlin a few times, despite him being a servant, letting him voice his opinions and talks to him at an eye-to-eye level.
But there is one more aspect to Morgana that is crucial if one wants to understand why she eventually betrayed Uther, and combines forces with Mordred and the warlock Alvarr and that is her magic. Morgana starts off as having no magical powers whatsoever except for her prophetic dreams. Those dreams made her save Arthur's life twice, the more notable one was when she dreamed of Lady Sophia drowning him, and went to confront Sophia herself. Gaius, the court's physician gives her sleep potions in order to stop the dreams, but those don't work, as they are not ordinary nightmares. The dreams leave Morgana very stressed and upset, as she doesn't know what's going on with her.
Beyond the dreams, Morgana starts doing magic without controlling it in season 2, usually that happens when she wakes up or during her sleep. Things like setting her curtain on fire by giving more energy to a flame of a single candle, to shattering a vase with her magic. That scares Morgana in levels the dreams never did. She knows well enough that if Uther knows she is able of performing magic, he won't hesitate to hang her, despite her being his beloved ward. The knowledge of it makes her bitter and resentful towards the king, and more importantly, makes her feel extremely lonely, as if no one can understand her. She can't confide in anyone in the castle, in fear of Uther. The worst thing is when she tries to tell Gaius she did magic, when she finally trusts him, he says this is her imagination, and instructs Merlin to do the same and never tell Morgana he can do magic himself. He does that to protect both Merlin and Morgana, but when two people she trusts tell her she must be imagining things this makes her feel even more lonely and misunderstood. Merlin tries to help her without telling her the truth, he takes her to the Druids, and she finally feels at home, finally she doesn't feel alone, but is forced to go back to the castle when Uther thinks the Druids kidnapped her. Ever since she discovered she has magic she just wants to be with people like her, with people she can talk to, so she won't feel so alone. In the castle, she feels trapped and miserable. Morgana is driven by a need to belong somewhere, to not feel like an outsider. That can cause her to later on befriend people who Gaius calls 'ruthless' and 'dangerous'. She doesn't befriend them at first because she's evil, she simply befriends those who she thinks can understand her, and that makes her easy to fall into others' influence. While she's anything but naïve, she's feeling so lonely that whoever will show her sympathy and understanding, namely, someone who can perform magic himself, she will probably feel for him and trust him. She is loyal to her friends, but also very loyal to herself and to her own beliefs.
why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting? Morgana is used to seeing creatures that would scare the life out of the ordinary person, seeing those creatures usually attack Camelot. She had seen huge killer birds and some monsters who would make the ordinary person very scared. She has a strong sense of self and works well under pressure. She is headstrong and fitting to deal with frightening situations, even those including psychological horror, as she sees great and terrible horrors in her dreams since she was a child. As mentioned, she is able to leave the Lady of Camelot self behind and become a skilled warrior. She isn't very spoiled, and can adapt herself quickly to survival situations.
Writing Samples
Network Post Sample:
Here are two examples
Third Person Sample:
Morgana's eyelashes fluttered once, twice, before she finally accepted that she is indeed awake and cannot go back to sleep. Now, unlike any other time in the last few weeks, she slept without any dreams whatsoever. The ironic thing was, she couldn't remember going to sleep last night at all. The last she remember she was at her room, saying goodnight to Merlin. Perhaps the exhaustion from the journey to the Druid camp and back took over her without her attention.
"Gwen!" she called, without even opening her eyes. Surely Gwen would be here by now. "Gwen!!" she tried again. No response. Where is she - Gwen was anything but irresponsible, something must be off, for her not to answer her. Jolting up, she realized she is not at all in her bed. In fact, she couldn't recognize the room at all. Nothing looked familiar, nothing looked like Camelot. To be exact, she was certain she had never seen anything like this room in all her years.
She was alone, her kidnappers - since yes, indeed she has been kidnapped, no other way to explain this were absent, which was very odd indeed. She panicked, how could they have taken her from her bed without waking her up? Have they poisoned her? And more importantly, how could they have left her on her own without someone to make sure she doesn't run away?
This thought stirred rage within her. For them to dare to touch her, not letting her defend herself but rather breaking her with poison, how vile one should be to do that. She would have to plan an escape and run. It's not as if she hadn't done so before. She needed to understand where she is first, that much was obvious, and then understand just who kidnapped her and why, how far she was from Camelot and find a way out. Arthur and his men should be looking for her by now, even if she couldn't trust Uther, she trusted Arthur. He will come for her, and with some luck, she could meet him midway.
When she locates a window, she looks out, and gasps. All thoughts of getting to Camelot by foot seem suddenly useless, as the view is like nothing she had ever heard of. It seems so - different - oddly different. She frowns, and tries to find anything familiar in the place.
She fails.
Where are you? She asks herself, where have you been taken to? She figures she has to be far, very far, from Camelot. She reaches for her neck, fingers feeling her necklace distractingly before she realizes how odd it is that the kidnappers did not steal her jewels.
She snatches the dagger from the floor, her own dagger, she realizes. The sight of it is a relief but it also frustrates her. Why would they let her keep it? Why can't she see anyone to let her know what's happening to her? She thinks this whole thing could be some kind of sick game, perhaps the view is created by magic? She can't tell. She had never heard of magic this strong, but then again, thanks to Uther, she had no knowledge of what magic can or can't do.
Magic or not, she will have to overcome. With this thought she raised her chin and approached the door.
Anything else? I…don't think so?
player name: Adi
player livejournal: rainblessed
playing here: N/A , all new.
where did you find us? lots of my fellow friends play here :3
are you 16 years of age or older?: Yes. I am 23.
In Character Information
character name: Morgana Pendragon.
Fandom: Merlin
Timeline: 2x13 - The Nightmare Begins.
character's age: Unmentioned in canon, I assume somewhere around 22.
powers, skills, pets and equipment:
Powers:
"It would be better if the witch never knew the true extent of her powers - "
Such is the warning the dragon gives Merlin when the question of Morgana's powers come up. Morgana is a witch. According to the dragon she is destined to become a powerful, evil, witch, one that could pose a challenge for Merlin himself. But at the canon point she's taken from, Morgana has just accepted that she even has powers. She cannot use them or control them. Her magic surfaces when she is upset, deeply upset, and at such times it can be dangerous even to her, seeing she almost lit her entire room on fire because of a nightmare.
That brings me to the next ability Morgana has, and those are her dreams. Morgana is a seer; she has prophetic dreams ever since she was very young. Gaius mentions that he treated her since a very young age because of that problem. But he only assigned her sleeping potions that didn't solve the problem.
Morgana's dreams usually are linked to Camelot and Arthur, and usually occur whenever there is danger ahead. Morgana, deeply upset by the images in her mind, usually wakes up deeply upset. It is then when her magic surfaces without control, setting fire, or breaking glass. It comes to show how powerful she is even without trying. But she doesn't know how to control her magic, and she has no one to guide her unlike Merlin who has Gaius.
So her magic is strong, but she cannot control it or use it, making it a problematic skill, not one she can use out of her own will. Her dreams are also another power she has no control over. It could be said that both of Morgana's abilities have more control over her than the other way around. The mist will make the magic even more random, less controlled, which will pose a challenge for Morgana, having her magic erupting whenever her emotional state is less that favorable.
Skills:
While she may seem gentle in her long gowns and jewels, Morgana is very skilled with sword. Being the king's ward gave her many privileges, such as education and a life of luxury. But being the extraordinary woman she is, she didn't just become a spoilt useless court lady. Rather she learned how to defend herself with sword. She is very quick and graceful, and is able to leave the 'Lady' side of herself behind and fight sword as any other man. When Merlin's village was in danger, she left the jewels and the dress and helped the other men protect it. She doesn't lose her wits in battle; rather her responses are quick and instinctive, worthy of a woman who has learned how to defend herself since a very young age. Morgana is also very good in horseback riding.
All those skills and abilities are, of course, canon.
Equipment:
Morgana will only have a small dagger on her, something she keeps for self-protection.
canon history:
At the canon point she is taken from, Morgana thinks she knows of her own history. But she is very wrong. In fact, very few people know of her true history. Morgana believes she is the daughter of a good friend of the king Uther Pendragon, who died in battle. Uther supposedly promised said friend to care for his daughter as if she was his own. But what Morgana doesn't know is that Uther lied to her. She is illegitimate daughter as a result of an affair Uther had with her mother. Uther doesn't want to admit to this flaw in his history, which is why he hides the truth from Morgana. Morgana also doesn't know she has a half sister, Morgause. As far as she's concerned she is the only child of two dead parents, and Uther is the closest thing to a parent she ever had.
Morgana grew up as the king's ward. Learning everything from sword fighting to dancing. She soon became a woman ahead of her time, outspoken and brave, she became known not only for her beauty, but also for being one of the only ones in Uther's court who criticize him for his hatred of magic and sorcerers.
Morgana is known to have helped Merlin and Arthur more than once. Being in her position, she used to encourage Arthur to go against his father's will and develop his own sense of self. Such a case was when Gwen was accused of magic and also when Uther tried to kill the young druid boy Mordred. Her role is usually as an active helper to Merlin in hiding Mordred and helping him escape, or as an influence over Arthur.
Through her life, Morgana always had prophetic dreams, but her magic is only starting to reveal itself later in her life in fits whenever she is upset. This scares and upsets Morgana, who knows that even though the king loves her as a daughter he will kill her if he finds out about her magic. It doesn't help that Gaius refuses to agree with her that the weird things happening to her is magic, and he instructs Merlin not to tell her as well, to protect her from Uther. Merlin, however, takes her to the Druids, the people of Mordred who are fugitives seeing they practice magic. There, Morgana learns to accept the fact that she is a witch. She even wants to escape with the Druids away from Camelot. But the king finds out where she is and figures she was kidnapped by the Druids. So when the armies are sent to bring her back and she sees the kind Druid leader murdered by them, she decides to go back to protect them. When speaking to Merlin she tells him she accepted her powers, and seems optimistic, telling him she knows it's not a bad thing, and that she hopes one day people will see magic can be used as a force of good.
That's the canon point I'm taking her from. Morgana, then, is kind and sweet as a lady can be, but the seeds of who she will turn to be are already there. They are there because she is angry and resentful more than ever towards Uther and his hate of magic. She feels desperate and lonely, a freak, an outsider, since Gaius keeps telling her there is nothing wrong with her, and she doesn't know of Merlin's powers, leading her to believe she is the only person with magic in Camelot. Add that to the knowledge Uther will kill his own daughter since he hates more than he loves, and understand why Morgana is an angry woman. That anger will one day turn her to be the witch the dragon warned Merlin from, but at the current canon point, she is still brave, kind Morgana.
For more information I might have missed on Morgana see here
personality:
"I don't want to be brave; I just want to be myself."
Morgana, or The Lady Morgana as she is known throughout Albion, is the only woman in Uther's court, and a famous one at that.
Unlike most noble women who are shown throughout the series such as Lady Vivian, Morgana isn't a shallow creature who is focused only on ball gowns and jewelry. She is very intelligent and outspoken, sometimes being the only one to defy Uther, even when risking anger from his side. While Uther feels magic is to be destroyed, Morgana, even before finding out she's a Witch herself, always spoke against the harsh treatment he gave to those who uses magic. The executions and the killing of men, women and children, are things that Morgana could not stand. She made her opinion clear more often than not.
Despite being raised by the king, something that he feels Morgana should be grateful for; Morgana uses her status to voice opinions that are unpopular in the kingdom. Combined with her pride, she sometimes condemns the knights and even Arthur for not being the ones to stand up against the king. Her pride walks hand in hand with loyalty and bravery, making her a one of a kind woman in the kingdom. While being ladylike and elegant, she is hardly timid around Arthur or her friends; she's witty, snarky, sarcastic and playful. Arthur is the best example for her usual attitude, she believes in him, but she's very able of telling him off when she thinks he's not doing the right thing, and is also able of flirting and teasing him for being the arrogant git that he is on the surface.
Morgana is not just simply intelligent, she's witty, cunning and is able of being manipulative. When saving the Druid boy Mordred, she goes to the king to apologize for defying him, acting as sweet as he wants her to be, while in fact she merely wants to be in the room with him when Arthur smuggles out the child so he can see that she is not involved in the matter. She is able of thinking fast and making up her own plans. While hiding Mordred in her chambers she scolds Arthur so badly for wanting to search them that he eventually leaves. So she is creative even at times of stress, though usually she does need help and isn't beyond scolding others to do the right thing to get it.
"Sadly, the age of gallantry seems to be dead. You look around and all you see are small men, not big enough to fill their armor. There's not one of them that's able to stand up for what is right."
Morgana is stubborn, headstrong and idealist. She'll go to great lengths to fight for what she believes to be right, even if it means, eventually, betraying the man who has cared for her since her childhood. She believes in a just world, and the more stubborn Uther gets, the more stubborn she gets in return, refusing to bow her head or apologize. This is a known disadvantage Morgana has, she's kind and sweet, but is unable, usually, to reach a compromise on a matter she's passionate about. The same goes for admitting herself to be on the wrong side, her pride simply doesn't allow it. Usually when she tries to apologize she becomes more timid, even awkward. Sometimes she's so angry or passionate about something she can't see things that are right in front of her eyes, such as scolding Arthur to go rescue Gwen, yelling at him and condemning him while not noticing he is in fact packing to go on said trip.
Her relationship with Gwen, her maid, is one thing that shows another aspect of Morgana's character, she is kind and loyal not only to those of her own royal status. When Gwen was kidnapped in her place, she yelled at the king in front of all his court, eventually saying he should be ashamed of himself, since Gwen is not only her maid, but her friend. When the king asks 'how many men must die in order to save a servant?' she answers, without a second of hesitation, 'as many as it'll take'. To her - saving Gwen, who has been a loyal and brave friend, is as important as saving herself. Not many noble men would have spared the servant a second thought, but Morgana is shaken and upset at the thought of not saving her friend. When Arthur tells her he will go to save Gwen, only that he couldn't defy his father in public, she doesn't say anything, but it's clear that she thinks that she did dare to do just that, despite being the king's ward and in his debt. Morgana also confides in Merlin a few times, despite him being a servant, letting him voice his opinions and talks to him at an eye-to-eye level.
But there is one more aspect to Morgana that is crucial if one wants to understand why she eventually betrayed Uther, and combines forces with Mordred and the warlock Alvarr and that is her magic. Morgana starts off as having no magical powers whatsoever except for her prophetic dreams. Those dreams made her save Arthur's life twice, the more notable one was when she dreamed of Lady Sophia drowning him, and went to confront Sophia herself. Gaius, the court's physician gives her sleep potions in order to stop the dreams, but those don't work, as they are not ordinary nightmares. The dreams leave Morgana very stressed and upset, as she doesn't know what's going on with her.
Beyond the dreams, Morgana starts doing magic without controlling it in season 2, usually that happens when she wakes up or during her sleep. Things like setting her curtain on fire by giving more energy to a flame of a single candle, to shattering a vase with her magic. That scares Morgana in levels the dreams never did. She knows well enough that if Uther knows she is able of performing magic, he won't hesitate to hang her, despite her being his beloved ward. The knowledge of it makes her bitter and resentful towards the king, and more importantly, makes her feel extremely lonely, as if no one can understand her. She can't confide in anyone in the castle, in fear of Uther. The worst thing is when she tries to tell Gaius she did magic, when she finally trusts him, he says this is her imagination, and instructs Merlin to do the same and never tell Morgana he can do magic himself. He does that to protect both Merlin and Morgana, but when two people she trusts tell her she must be imagining things this makes her feel even more lonely and misunderstood. Merlin tries to help her without telling her the truth, he takes her to the Druids, and she finally feels at home, finally she doesn't feel alone, but is forced to go back to the castle when Uther thinks the Druids kidnapped her. Ever since she discovered she has magic she just wants to be with people like her, with people she can talk to, so she won't feel so alone. In the castle, she feels trapped and miserable. Morgana is driven by a need to belong somewhere, to not feel like an outsider. That can cause her to later on befriend people who Gaius calls 'ruthless' and 'dangerous'. She doesn't befriend them at first because she's evil, she simply befriends those who she thinks can understand her, and that makes her easy to fall into others' influence. While she's anything but naïve, she's feeling so lonely that whoever will show her sympathy and understanding, namely, someone who can perform magic himself, she will probably feel for him and trust him. She is loyal to her friends, but also very loyal to herself and to her own beliefs.
why do you feel this character would be appropriate to the setting? Morgana is used to seeing creatures that would scare the life out of the ordinary person, seeing those creatures usually attack Camelot. She had seen huge killer birds and some monsters who would make the ordinary person very scared. She has a strong sense of self and works well under pressure. She is headstrong and fitting to deal with frightening situations, even those including psychological horror, as she sees great and terrible horrors in her dreams since she was a child. As mentioned, she is able to leave the Lady of Camelot self behind and become a skilled warrior. She isn't very spoiled, and can adapt herself quickly to survival situations.
Writing Samples
Network Post Sample:
Here are two examples
Third Person Sample:
Morgana's eyelashes fluttered once, twice, before she finally accepted that she is indeed awake and cannot go back to sleep. Now, unlike any other time in the last few weeks, she slept without any dreams whatsoever. The ironic thing was, she couldn't remember going to sleep last night at all. The last she remember she was at her room, saying goodnight to Merlin. Perhaps the exhaustion from the journey to the Druid camp and back took over her without her attention.
"Gwen!" she called, without even opening her eyes. Surely Gwen would be here by now. "Gwen!!" she tried again. No response. Where is she - Gwen was anything but irresponsible, something must be off, for her not to answer her. Jolting up, she realized she is not at all in her bed. In fact, she couldn't recognize the room at all. Nothing looked familiar, nothing looked like Camelot. To be exact, she was certain she had never seen anything like this room in all her years.
She was alone, her kidnappers - since yes, indeed she has been kidnapped, no other way to explain this were absent, which was very odd indeed. She panicked, how could they have taken her from her bed without waking her up? Have they poisoned her? And more importantly, how could they have left her on her own without someone to make sure she doesn't run away?
This thought stirred rage within her. For them to dare to touch her, not letting her defend herself but rather breaking her with poison, how vile one should be to do that. She would have to plan an escape and run. It's not as if she hadn't done so before. She needed to understand where she is first, that much was obvious, and then understand just who kidnapped her and why, how far she was from Camelot and find a way out. Arthur and his men should be looking for her by now, even if she couldn't trust Uther, she trusted Arthur. He will come for her, and with some luck, she could meet him midway.
When she locates a window, she looks out, and gasps. All thoughts of getting to Camelot by foot seem suddenly useless, as the view is like nothing she had ever heard of. It seems so - different - oddly different. She frowns, and tries to find anything familiar in the place.
She fails.
Where are you? She asks herself, where have you been taken to? She figures she has to be far, very far, from Camelot. She reaches for her neck, fingers feeling her necklace distractingly before she realizes how odd it is that the kidnappers did not steal her jewels.
She snatches the dagger from the floor, her own dagger, she realizes. The sight of it is a relief but it also frustrates her. Why would they let her keep it? Why can't she see anyone to let her know what's happening to her? She thinks this whole thing could be some kind of sick game, perhaps the view is created by magic? She can't tell. She had never heard of magic this strong, but then again, thanks to Uther, she had no knowledge of what magic can or can't do.
Magic or not, she will have to overcome. With this thought she raised her chin and approached the door.
Anything else? I…don't think so?