Title: National Treasure instagram: 8 September 2022
Artist: Hakka (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
prue84 )
Fandom: BBC's Merlin (post-canon, modern magic) AU
AU: National Treasure
Characters: Arthur Pendragon.
Rating: G
Tagline: Mandatory social post by Arthur Pendragon for the news of Queen Elizabeth's death.
Series: National Treasure instagram
About the graphic: Arthur had been in close contact with the Queen since he returned - or, at least, since Merlin couldn't keep the world outside of his cottage's door anymore and had to allow people to get near Arthur (a crime, if you ask him!).
Being Elizabeth the current monarch of the British Islands, Arthur always respected both her authority and her role in the kingdom (a kingdom definitely bigger than his own; it took him months to wrap his head around the fact she was ruling over a united Albion. And Merlin by then had still to touch the whole "Earth is round" and "English Empire" subjects). Too different and with a ridiculously crazy age gap for any chance to become close friends (literally children of two different millennia), they stroke a cordial rapport nonetheless and even enjoyed a couple of horse rides together (one on the shores of lake Avalon, no less).
The picture captures a friendly moment between former King and current Queen during one of the private visits the Queen (with Prince Consort Philip) did to check the progress of the restoration work on the castle that has then come to be known as the Pendragon Castle of New Camelot.
Queen Elizabeth officiated both the grand opening of the restored castle and the ceremony for the founding of the New Camelot enclave, but Arthur choose to celebrate Her Majesty's memory with a more private picture from his personal collection.
For Arthur, the passing of the Queen is a sad day.
About the AU: Under the graphic.
Notes: I didn't know what Arthur would say (he would say something complimenting her and how he appreciated having to do with her? Something more formal?) so initially I decided to steal the purple heart posted by Bradley James on his Twitter. A last-moment change, right when I was in the middle of the posting, turned this into a simple "farewell".
Disclaimer: I don't mean to express any opinion on the figure of the Queen nor Elizabeth Windsor's persona. I am Italian, so I don't hold any resentment toward the UK Royal Family, their role in the society, their flaws or crimes. Nor, at the same time, I'm loyal or feel drawn to them either. I'm not even a fan. Sure, I hear the news (unfortunately, media here are treating the funeral like you can expect - no matter that we're holding politic elections or that we aren't a British colony so she wasn't our queen - but media are enamored with the Royal Family and their shenanigans since Princess Diana) but neither I cheered nor I cried when the announcement was made.
Since in this AU Arthur meets and has close ties with the Queen from his return and prompted by Bradley Jame's tweet, I just wanted to make a mock-post about the death, because I feel Arthur would. Arthur's opinion don't necessary reflect my own. He's a medieval king, after all. He almost respected Sarrum, why wouldn't he respect an old woman who seems more decent than the guy who tortured his sister?
Sure, he might have some beef with how modern royalty works, but he'd ascribe that to "bloody modern times". Besides, the woman didn't bat an eye when her nephew and future heir married a "commoner": that's enough to get brownie points in Arthur's opinion.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): It took me more time to search for pics than to make the manip itself. It's embarrassing. But find a Bradley pic that would work and then find a proper fitting pose for Queen Elizabeth wasn't as easy as it seems.
Also. I meant to work on this as soon as possible but it's been an awful two weeks for me, starting with 27 hours of head spinning and then having hard time to sleep and... well, let's say I manip only during specific hours and I was in bed sleeping in those hours so... yeah. But I had to finish before the window closed on Monday, so here I am.
Original manip is way bigger but it was scaled down to 1080px as that is the maximum size of the pics on Instagram.
Instagram graphic made all by-hand, with much moving/copy/pasting and, especially, a wearying research to find out which font the website used. No template site. Since I created my own template (with a couple of tweaks, including not cutting a longer IG Story title), it won't reflect any future changes the platform might make (I have no intention of modify my template).
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this. Full credits below the manip itself.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart (instagram post, photo), Tumblr.
Artist: Hakka (
prue84 )Fandom: BBC's Merlin (post-canon, modern magic) AU
AU: National Treasure
Characters: Arthur Pendragon.
Rating: G
Tagline: Mandatory social post by Arthur Pendragon for the news of Queen Elizabeth's death.
Series: National Treasure instagram
About the graphic: Arthur had been in close contact with the Queen since he returned - or, at least, since Merlin couldn't keep the world outside of his cottage's door anymore and had to allow people to get near Arthur (a crime, if you ask him!).
Being Elizabeth the current monarch of the British Islands, Arthur always respected both her authority and her role in the kingdom (a kingdom definitely bigger than his own; it took him months to wrap his head around the fact she was ruling over a united Albion. And Merlin by then had still to touch the whole "Earth is round" and "English Empire" subjects). Too different and with a ridiculously crazy age gap for any chance to become close friends (literally children of two different millennia), they stroke a cordial rapport nonetheless and even enjoyed a couple of horse rides together (one on the shores of lake Avalon, no less).
The picture captures a friendly moment between former King and current Queen during one of the private visits the Queen (with Prince Consort Philip) did to check the progress of the restoration work on the castle that has then come to be known as the Pendragon Castle of New Camelot.
Queen Elizabeth officiated both the grand opening of the restored castle and the ceremony for the founding of the New Camelot enclave, but Arthur choose to celebrate Her Majesty's memory with a more private picture from his personal collection.
For Arthur, the passing of the Queen is a sad day.
About the AU: Under the graphic.
Notes: I didn't know what Arthur would say (he would say something complimenting her and how he appreciated having to do with her? Something more formal?) so initially I decided to steal the purple heart posted by Bradley James on his Twitter. A last-moment change, right when I was in the middle of the posting, turned this into a simple "farewell".
Disclaimer: I don't mean to express any opinion on the figure of the Queen nor Elizabeth Windsor's persona. I am Italian, so I don't hold any resentment toward the UK Royal Family, their role in the society, their flaws or crimes. Nor, at the same time, I'm loyal or feel drawn to them either. I'm not even a fan. Sure, I hear the news (unfortunately, media here are treating the funeral like you can expect - no matter that we're holding politic elections or that we aren't a British colony so she wasn't our queen - but media are enamored with the Royal Family and their shenanigans since Princess Diana) but neither I cheered nor I cried when the announcement was made.
Since in this AU Arthur meets and has close ties with the Queen from his return and prompted by Bradley Jame's tweet, I just wanted to make a mock-post about the death, because I feel Arthur would. Arthur's opinion don't necessary reflect my own. He's a medieval king, after all. He almost respected Sarrum, why wouldn't he respect an old woman who seems more decent than the guy who tortured his sister?
Sure, he might have some beef with how modern royalty works, but he'd ascribe that to "bloody modern times". Besides, the woman didn't bat an eye when her nephew and future heir married a "commoner": that's enough to get brownie points in Arthur's opinion.
Tec stuffs (aka Behind The Manip): It took me more time to search for pics than to make the manip itself. It's embarrassing. But find a Bradley pic that would work and then find a proper fitting pose for Queen Elizabeth wasn't as easy as it seems.
Also. I meant to work on this as soon as possible but it's been an awful two weeks for me, starting with 27 hours of head spinning and then having hard time to sleep and... well, let's say I manip only during specific hours and I was in bed sleeping in those hours so... yeah. But I had to finish before the window closed on Monday, so here I am.
Original manip is way bigger but it was scaled down to 1080px as that is the maximum size of the pics on Instagram.
Instagram graphic made all by-hand, with much moving/copy/pasting and, especially, a wearying research to find out which font the website used. No template site. Since I created my own template (with a couple of tweaks, including not cutting a longer IG Story title), it won't reflect any future changes the platform might make (I have no intention of modify my template).
Disclaimer: Don't own anything on this. Full credits below the manip itself.
Crossposted: Livejournal, Deviantart (instagram post, photo), Tumblr.
