Talk:Mordred/@comment-46.197.43.56-20170805175816/@comment-5067531-20170821033002

I believe the whole "temp Futartoria" thing was done so Artoria would be able to consumate her marriage with Guinevire(reminder that Artoria was "legally" male so she would be able to take the throne as king, and the marrying Guinevire was in itself a politcal marriage), Morgana just took the opportunity to steal her sperm to be able to create Mordred, when you consider that Morgana likely had to get her hands dirty to get that, and that Morgana is Artoria's sister... man, that honeymoon must've been a wild ride...

And in Mordred's defense, she didn't so much care to be acknowledged as the heir to the throne, as much as she cares to be acknowledged by Artoria at all, the throne is entirely secondary and at best would be a by-product of getting the attention she wants, that's also why her wish to the grail is the opportunity to pull the Excalibur, and not to directly be able to pull the Exaclibur, she doesn't care for the sword, she just believes that if she was able to pull the Exacalibur, Artoria would be forced to acknowledge her, while she claims that she is "guaranteed" to be able to pull it, if she were to fail, I believe she would lose her will to live, it would, in Mord's eyes, be the ultimate confirmation that Artoria was right to reject her, and she would just comit suicide, as well as likely become almost impossible to be summoned as a Servant again.

As for Artoria rejecting her... man, that's complicated, I don't judge Artoria for acting the way she did, but to say she handled the situation poorly is an understatement, by rejecting Mordred, she essentially blamed Mord for existing, while the true culprit of it all was Morgana... ideally, Artoria should have tried to find a compromise, perhaps she couldn't acknowledge Mord as the heir because she is technically a bastard child, but instead give her the acknowledgement she wanted in private, which for Mord would have been more than enough, at the end of the day, Mord wasn't asking for much, but it was also a bad situation for everyone involved.