Morgana Pendragon

 Hello all! 

This is Shelly! I am the play of Morgana, ward to the king and future big bad from Merlin. She's currently still in the nice gal era, but she's still got a sharp tongue like you would not believe, so don't take it too personally.

And, on other notes, if you have questions, comments, or any thing to mention then feel free to tell me here or by the other means. I am reachable at whitewutianrose or Bellsandtrinkets on AIM and poptartenvy_9@yahoo.com. 

Anon is on! 

Player Information

Name: Shelly
Age: 21
AIM SN: bellsandtrinkets
email: poptartency_9@yahoo.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Oh yes.
Currrently Played Characters: Trauma mademyhell
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Character Information

General
Canon Source:Merlin
Canon Format: Tv show
Character's Name:Morgana (Pendragon)
Character's Age: Early twenties. Never entirely clear, but I'd guess probably about 21-24.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. n/a

What form will your character's NV take? It'll be a pretty bound leather book with a strap to hold it shut. She can write in it, speak to it, or it will project a screen as if by magic.

Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities: Morgana is first, and foremost a seer. What that means is, she is inherently magic. She has dreams that show the future, though it's probably safer to cause them nightmares. They keep her up most nights and make it impossible to actually relax most of the time.

As already said, she is also inherently magic. At this point she's only lit drapes on fire by accident and seems to be only capable of unconscious magic at the moment, but she has the potential to learn it. And be pretty dang powerful, too.

Morgana also is a capable swordsman, having trained as a child until it was no longer reasonable for a little girl to run about with a sword beating up the king’s son during lessons.

Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A

Weapons: None on hand, no.

History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Here
Point in Canon: The Witchfinder, after she has left the questioning.

Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A

Character Personality:Morgana is a very passionate person, quick to feel and quick to action because of it. This can lead her to an incredible recklessness when there is an injustice or someone does something she cannot and will not agree to. More than once she has argued and fought until she's forced Uther's hand into either getting horribly angry with her, and even in one case locking her in the dungeons.

Morgana is very clever and cutting with her words, speaking her mind and using her words as a weapon when needed. She is able to come up with plans and use everything she has to her advantage. She is willing to go with the idea of ends justifying the means. She uses what she knows of the people around her to her own ends, but her own ends tend to include things along the lines of helping runaway children with death sentences on their heads, and terribly ill servants who can only be helped by defying the king. For example, she tells Arthur that Mordred is behind a curtain in her room, knowing full well that he'll likely decide she's being difficult just to cause him trouble and not check there, and tells Uther she's sorry and plays the good ward of the king so that Mordred can escape.

She is willing to take justice into her own hands, even though she doesn't follow through, she does actually make an attempt on the life of the king for taking the life of Gwen's father and so many others, and would have succeeded were it not for her change of heart at the last minute due to Uther admitting he was wrong.

The girl is wonderfully brave, harboring a fugitive child in the heart of Camelot, trying to take him out of the city herself to stop others from having to risk their lives, because she knows she is least likely to be punished for the behavior. She volunteers to go to Ealdor and help Merlin's Village against raiders, even knowing that their chances of success are low, and refuses to be put on the sidelines just because she is a woman, even though she's one of the few with actual training.

And she is also incredibly compassionate. When she's first met, Morgana cannot watch the executions performed in the square, averting her eyes instead of watching. She also sneaks food out to peasants during  the shortage in Camelot. It takes very little to convince her to help, risking everything from safety to her own life when she sees something she can do to help. She sees through the law against magic and tries to help Uther match the punishment to the crime, multiple times in the series, as she feels he is going beyond what should be done. Morgana also is one of the few people who listens to and advocates for Merlin and Gwen without any sort of prompting at all, taking them both on their own merit and the fact that she trusts them, despite them both being servants. She tends towards treating Gwen more as a friend than a servant most of the time, anyway, and rages at Arthur in hopes to get him to rescue her when she has been captured, despite the fact that Uther has told them both that nothing is to be done.

Morgana is also the only woman in the royal family, and the ranking woman at court. This means that she does a lot of the official behaviors expected of that rank, like sitting next to the king and being at literally every feast and function in existence. 

It also stands to mention that only a few episodes before she’s pulled, she found out she had magic, and the fear that she’ll be killed, or banished, has made her more isolated and afraid than she ever has been. This does eventually lead her down a rather dark path...but that's getting ahead of things. 

Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A

Character Plans: I want to develop Morgana in a way that is without a fear of her own gift. I want to have her see what being unafraid of her magic is like and train her in it. I want her to make friends and be happy. ….And then I really want to horribly wreck it by updating her to season four. I'm nothing if not honest about it. I also want to play with that whole living legend issue and the fun that her canonmates are ahead of her in the timeline.

Appearance/PB: Katie Mcgrath.

Writing Samples

First Person Sample

[Morgana is in the library, by the look of things. She looks utterly ecstatic, smiling and gleeful. Her hair is pulled back and she looks like she’s slept better than she has in years, the weariness that always seems to stay with her is nowhere near as strong as it usually is. She has both her book open and six or seven across the table. She passes the camera over it all to show the many many books in front of her.]

Look, look at all of this. I don’t even know where to start, there’s so much on….dreams and magic. They said I could take any of them I liked.

I keep thinking I’m going to wake up any moment now.

[She turns the book to the table again, sweeping over it to show off the many ones she’s already pulled off the shelf. She her hand drifts into camera, turning pages and drifting over the words. ]

Where should I start?

Third Person Sample

It was both easier and harder to get ready in the mornings here. Without Gwen, she had no one to help her braid her hair or fasten her dress, but then these modern clothes were so much easier to get into and so it wasn’t entirely needed.

For example, men took for granted their ability to wear trousers at every opportunity, but not her. Everything was so easy to move in, and did not catch on a thing. Had she been wearing the dress she’d arrived in, she would have had someone trip over her train two steps onto the street and she knew it.

The woman at the corner store had told her about several of the shops within walking distance, and so Morgana had set out to find some of them. She almost lost her nerve when she rounded a corner and found the side street filled with people, and all of them roaming about, talking of spells and buying things that would have made Uther Pendragon’s head spin to see anywhere within Camelot’s boarders.

She didn’t make herself known, or stop at first, letting herself get completely lost in the crowd and watching as people, even children, showed off their gifts freely in the street.

A little girl’s laugh caught Morgana’s attention, and as she watched she saw the girl’s brother spin a toy over the child’s head without touching it. The girl laughed and laughed as her brother made it fly through the air.

Further off, a man was growing tiny trees to the size people were asking for, the leaves filling out right before the eyes of everyone.

A little boy popped into visibility a few paces ahead, only to be picked up and swung around by his father.

All around there was magic, free and happy. People were laughing and enjoying themselves. It was wonderful and everything she’d imagined when she’d tried to come up with a world in her head where magic was free.

And all Morgana could think, was that had they been in Camelot, they would all burn, men, women, and children alike.

It left her cold.