I just had to come back for a second round of complimenting this amazing AU.
I love Arthur and Lancelot's exchange about cigarettes. Arthur's being ridiculously protective - hello, this guy is a soldier who enjoys fighting people with swords and Arthur gets upset about emphysema. I can't decide if Arthur telling Lancelot that it will ruin his wind is hypocritical or really smart. On the one hand, Arthur has expressed the intention never to draw a sword again - and seems to want Lancelot not to either. So Lancelot doesn't really need his wind. On the other, Arthur knows Lancelot well enough to know that if he just told him not to, Lancelot would smoke out of spite. So he uses an argument he knows Lancelot will listen to.
And I love that Lancelot went and tried it anyway. Because of course he would.
Arthur's such a mother hen! But in all the wrong ways. He gets so bent out of shape about something like this but is completely oblivious of what he really needs to be protecting Lancelot from.
And - since you said you were taking suggestions - any chance of Bors getting his hands on the movie version of the musical "Camelot"? I think he would die laughing over Lancelot's first (egotistical) number. But then I think Lancelot would have walked out as soon as Guinevere started singing about wanting to start a war. Could be fun.
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Date: 2006-05-04 01:19 pm (UTC)I love Arthur and Lancelot's exchange about cigarettes. Arthur's being ridiculously protective - hello, this guy is a soldier who enjoys fighting people with swords and Arthur gets upset about emphysema. I can't decide if Arthur telling Lancelot that it will ruin his wind is hypocritical or really smart. On the one hand, Arthur has expressed the intention never to draw a sword again - and seems to want Lancelot not to either. So Lancelot doesn't really need his wind. On the other, Arthur knows Lancelot well enough to know that if he just told him not to, Lancelot would smoke out of spite. So he uses an argument he knows Lancelot will listen to.
And I love that Lancelot went and tried it anyway. Because of course he would.
Arthur's such a mother hen! But in all the wrong ways. He gets so bent out of shape about something like this but is completely oblivious of what he really needs to be protecting Lancelot from.
And - since you said you were taking suggestions - any chance of Bors getting his hands on the movie version of the musical "Camelot"? I think he would die laughing over Lancelot's first (egotistical) number. But then I think Lancelot would have walked out as soon as Guinevere started singing about wanting to start a war. Could be fun.