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Anyway - court is now in session.

As inspired by the treasure that is Cavern of the Mystic Knights, here are my thoughts on various romantic pairings within the show – regardless of whether the show was even aiming for it.

I didn’t want to stick these on Tumblr, since I don’t want to spoil somebody else’s fun by waving stuff around that clashes with their daydreams. The show’s been off the air for 25-ish years; that’s a lot of time for folks to cultivate and get attached to their head canons. Let the people play.

I would never stick these onto Reddit ‘cause they’d just call me cringe. :(

Anyway – in here, where I’m objectively correct about everything I've ever said, including stuff that contradicts my other stuff, you’ve made the choice to jump aboard. See? Now it’s both our faults uwu



The Classic Ships


  • Ivar/Deirdre - the Mystic Cloud of wuv

  • Angus/Deirdre - the Mystic Whistling-Noise-in-a-Cave of wuv

  • Rohan/Deirdre - the Mystic Candle of wuv

  • Garrett/Deirdre - the Mystic Rustling Leaves of wuv



    • The Ships We Should Be Talking About


  • Angus/Rohan - How in the hell did we go twenty-five years without the single-most obvious, lowest-hanging-fruit-to-the-point-that-the-fruit-has-fallen-off-the-tree pairing in the show getting any fanworks (that I could find) about them? You've got "We're Just Best Friends (oblivious)" + "We're Just Best Friends (pining)" + "Do you think they ever explored each other's bodies (rhetorical)" kicked directly under your feet, but everyone wants to titter about the lamer version of Tommy and Kimberly? ANGUS BROKE A FUCKING ENCHANTMENT ON ROHAN THROUGH THE POWER OF THEIR FRIENDSHIP, WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT THEM TO DO

  • Garrett/Conchobar - You know it, I know it: the new clause in that alliance was letting Deirdre out of her betrothal so Garrett could sub in a remarkably detailed "Stacey's Dad" fantasy. Then he picked up that signed treaty and did not wash his hand for three days.

  • Garrett + Aideen - The crime the show could have committed was continuing without Angus. The crime the show did commit was not getting these two to partner up and take Rohan/Deirdre down.

  • Angus/Garrett - I'm not mad at this fandom. I'm disappointed. Do you have any idea the shit we were making Seto Kaiba and Joey Wheeler from Yu-Gi-Oh do to each other at roughly the same time period on the internet? But we got zero fics about Garrett enforcing a power dynamic through their class or Angus purposely flipping that class structure to highly humble the guy? The whole show's got everyone making fun of Angus for being dumb and sneaky, and this random prince who shows up deadset on murdering them tells Maeve, "Angus is tricky, we have to watch out for that," and nobody in the fandom bites?!

  • Rohan/Ivar - If Angus didn't exist in this show, then putting aside the part where I wouldn't've watched it, this would've eventually been my OTP. Mysterious, charming stranger shows up, hits you with swordplay, pledges that his life is in your hands out of gratitude for saving his, then lets you spend all your time hanging on his every word for reassurance and advice about every damn thing you're angsting about. And then when you try to impress him back, you just keep getting in the way of his solo mission to reclaim his stolen chalice, making you look like an idiot at every turn, but everyone's still insisting you'll grow into your destiny so you'll surely impress this guy for real eventually. You know what this is? The fun version of Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask.

  • Deirdre/No One - Leave her alone.

  • Deirdre/Polyandry with the Other Four - ok now get back in here. in a pile i guess? maybe they spin a bottle or something idk

  • Angus/Maeve - "oh no i'm so bored of all my entertainers, all i have to amuse myself is this hot thief that i kidnapped who is 100% DTF so long as i feed him first i guess" + "just 'cause i'm your stepdad, it doesn't mean we can't still be best friends" + "so you definitely didn't volunteer to check if she's still banished for any reason other than ensuring the safety of Kells right"/"yeah yeah yeah totally it's for Kells"/"look me in the eye and tell me that"/"no" gawd I have to do everything myself. >:(

  • Ivar/A Mermaid - If you're gonna have an OC, why it would be another boring human when you could open all of us up to a WHOLE NEW WORLD of magic? Do not give them legs. We're not doing "selkie sheds their skin to walk on land" - MERMAID. TAIL. IN THE WATER. I want the good version of Rohan/Aideen where it's actually mutual, and I want it with someone who's charming, romantic, and poetic enough to date someone who lives in the water without drowning themselves by accident (which all four of the others would do within twenty minutes to an hour).

  • Angus/Lugad - Not Liam. Not any human transformation. I mean the big, yellow monster guy we see in the final eight episodes. I'm working on it - it's still in draft. (Note: If you actually believe in your soul that I wouldn't then follow this with an Angus/Maeve fic and title it "Hat Trick," you are out to lunch. That is the only acceptable title in that specific and orchestrated context, and if Rohan had a dad, I'd find an angle to get Angus in there too, just so he could finish collecting the set.)

  • Maeve/Nemain - You can basically feel it: they might not have been married, but they are absolutely divorced. And I love that for them; Nemain's so bitter she was dropped the second she stopped being useful. :3 It's Angus/Garrett but with two MILFs, more magic, and two entire kingdoms to suffer through their therapy-by-combat sessions.

  • Angus/Deirdre/Rohan - Honestly, I think it'd be the healthiest thing for all of them. And I'm obviously including the entirety of Kells in 'all of them'.