Talk:Gareth/@comment-31760473-20190809124441/@comment-26370056-20190812090530

Arturia's femininity was generally treated as youthfulness. Her being a woman was kept secret, her halted aging was not. There's probably a bit of "The emperor's new clothes" effect going on as well. "Why does the King look like a woman?" "His aging was halted by pulling the sacred sword from the stone. Thus he never fully went through puberty." "Well, I suppose that makes sense. (Insert casually sexist remark about women not being fit to be rulers)"