The Mechanisms - High Noon Over Camelot - 6 - The Hanged Man Rusts (Lyrics)
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- |The Hanged Man: Wisdom circumspection, Trials, Sacrifice, Intuition, Divination, Prophecy, Letting go, Breaking old patterns, Suspension, Metamorphosis
This song is based on the song "Lannigan's Ball".|
Characters:
Merlin - (actually) Drumbot Brian
Gawain - Gunpowder Tim
Arthur - Marius von Raum
Galahad - Jonny D'Ville
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0:00 Gawain
1:26 Arthur
2:52 Galahad
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oh my god I just realized why Brian didnt tell Arthur his son was trans: he was probably in Means Justify The Ends mode, and he wouldnt out a homie like that
Once Upon a Time (in Space): Jonny’s having fun and also helping Nastya/Aurora in the process
Ulysses Dies At Dawn: Ashes being an active agent of chaos
High Noon Over Camelot: Brian just trying his best
the bifrost incident, they're collectively inconveniencing and irritating one man
Underworld blues: Ashes is actively vague to create chaos
The hanged man rusts: Brian just does his best, man
To be "fair" 2/3rds of the people Ashes was dealing with were, ultimately, selfish assholes and it's not like they lied, technically.
Ashes pronouns are they/them
@@TheVoidSings Apologies. I failed to check. I'll edit. Thanks for the heads up.
np
Brian must be in means justify the ends mode. He couldn't bring himself to misgender Mordred to save the station. He said trans rights, but at what cost.
"trans rights, but at what cost." is still one of the funniest sentences I've ever read.
mentionng that he is trans would not be misgendering though, especialy not if to tell a parent, that their child is alive
@@SingingSealRiana It could still be outing him tho.
We know their society assigns gender at birth, so probably being trans isn't entirely accepted / understood / viewed as normal. Brian also says that Mordred is "feeling deceiving" which (imo) points to him being stealth, in which case telling Arthur he's trans without permission would still go against "means justify the ends."
But that's just me speculating, if u disagree that's fine.
@@SingingSealRiana the whole issue with him being in means justify end is that he can't commit even the smallest 'wrong' regardless of why or the situation. It would not be misgendering in this situation, but because it not being bad is dependent on the *situation* in the first place, he won't. (I'd agree that this is closer to outing than misgendering, though)
Gawain: I hear what you say, and I'm listening
Gawain: **proceeds to prove that he did not hear what Brian said and was not, in fact, listening**
FACT
Galahad really said "You want me to be the head of a cult? I'll start a cult" He understood the assignment
Brian is so good.. He didnt misgender Authers son even though it would be a much better way to convince him..
mentioning he is trans and who he had been before would not have been misgendering though . . .
@@SingingSealRiana it would be outing him though
@@calamity2383 An ally until the very end… of the world.
Brian: How do I convince Gawain not to fear the Saxons?
Brian: Hate the ghouls that live in its thunder, that hunger for carrion torn asunder, by blades that glint in the dark
Brian: Nailed it
Look he's trying his best, man, stop being mean.
HA
everyone saying brian is in means justify the end mode (which he is) because he doesn't misgender mordred. but he wouldn't misgender someone either way. true trans ally
Yeah misgender is definitely the wrong term. He won’t *out* Mordred because he’s in means justify the ends mode; he won’t misgender Mordred because he’s not a shithead.
Guys I’m gonna solve the story in 3 sentences
Brian: Arthur recognize and accept your son
Arthur: I don’t have a son, I did have a daughter
Brian: Your kid is trans, he’s a man now
Arthur: Oh hell yeah
Can't believe Galahad out of all people actually listened to him
Brian did his best...
Yeah! He avoided misgendering mordred, even though that might have convinced Arthur.
Did he though? Could've just told Arthur "hey, your kid is trans"
@@sierra3052 you can't just out a guy to his estranged dad like that...
@@omgsomeonesomewhereonearth5936 that are fucked up prioreties there
@@SingingSealRiana Tell that to Brian's morality switch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. "Means Justify Ends" means he won't do anything that's against his moral code, including lying (which misgendering Mordred would have been) or betraying someone (which outing him would have been) no matter what the consequences of that might be
Honestly if Gewain and Arthur had believed Merlin the unhappy ending couldve been avoided.
Honestly if just one of them had listened there could’ve been a happy ending
@@screamingmadvoid And thus the world ended because Arthur forgot that trans people exist
brian to gawain: please just. stop being so full of hatred.
gawain: but have you considered that im really xenophobic and the ghouls are really, really scary
brian to arthur: the child you thought you lost is still alive, its just hes trans
arthur: i aint never heard of no 'trans gender', my daughters dead
brian to galahad: sit on the fucking, brain hurting chair. i am so fucking tired.
galahad: well golly pardner that sounds a right fine idea! *sits down* AAAAAAAA-
it also could have been avoided if Gawain didn't shoot that Saxon lady-
Galahad listened, so they got a chance to save the station. If just one of the other two had, the situation might have been salvageable.
Gawain lets go of his hate, and the climactic battle never happens. period. mordred parlays for peace, and quite possibly achieves it, though his father still does not see him he still has years worth of chances to make it work.
OR
Arthur recognises and embraces his son. trusts him and backs his peace plans. I'm not so sure Gawain would have been so keen to shoot had Arthur given his blessing, but even if he still had, Mordred wouldnt have lost everything. A lot, yes. But he would have had a stable pillar in his father. No emptiness. It would have hurt. Horribly. But with one thing in the world left to care for, he would have had a chance to pull through.
but they didn't. and in true shakespearian style they were warned of their fates, but could not avoid them due to personal failings.
brian was just so hot that galahad sat on the death chair and thats super correct of him
YOU ARE SO RIGHT. Yeah yeah brain space Jesus and all, Galahad just wanted to impress the hot statue
Everyone is saying Brian should've been clearer on Mordred being trans, I just think Arthur's kinda dumb. You lost your kid and then another kid same age similar look different gender comes back and you get told explicitly your son is alive. Does it just seem that clear to me because myself am trans and would consider my kid being trans in a similar situation? idk, seems obvious
Super belated response, but I both agree with you and... sort of can see where Arthur might be coming from. It is implied a fair amount of time passed between Arthur becoming Sheriff and Arthur sending out Gawain, probably multiple years, and Arthur probably last saw his child before he went to Camelot. Thus, Mordred might have been a toddler or even an infant the last time Arthur saw him, which would make it very hard to recognize him. Especially when you combine that with thinking his child died, and not realizing Mordred is trans. In "Death", it's mentioned that no one noticed Arthur's child wasn't among the dead, so they wouldn't have reported that they didn't find Mordred. They might've made the assumption Mordred was among the dead and reported it as such, leading Arthur to believe they actually found his son's body. Don't forget it was probably Gawain telling Arthur of the caravan's fate, and Gawain hates the Saxons and would never, ever believe they'd be capable of something as compassionate or civilized as adopting and raising a child.
I can't excuse Arthur for seemingly forgetting that trans people exist, though. I think he's hung up on the fact his kid died, and died at a time when said kid wasn't trans (or realized he was trans) yet, but... I mean, I'm cis, and if someone referred to my son, and I knew I only had one child... I'd definitely assume they meant that child. Really the part that baffles me is how Arthur can be so sure he didn't have another child somehow. I'm a cis woman, so I would damn well know how many kids I'd had, but it's more difficult for a cis man to be sure of that. Arthur's relationship history would have had to be very exclusive, and his partner's been dead for over a decade at least by the time Brian tells him this, right? Anyway, I can only conclude that, much like Gawain, Arthur didn't listen to a damn thing Brian said, because he didn't even entertain any of the very logical possibilities that could explain what Brian was saying.
BRIAN IS TRYING HIS BEST
Everyone who thinks that Ends Justify Means style thinking causes badness really ought to listen to this. They all die because Merlin isn't willing to ignore trans rights.
They both have flaws and neither is perfect, Brian and others suffer regardless of what mode he's put into.
Literally nobody except Galahad and Brian did a good job. They could’ve been safe if Arthur wasn’t oblivious, if Gawain wasn’t racist, if Mordred hadn’t flown the space station directly into the sun, if the throuple hadn’t wasted time fighting, etc
In Arthur's defense, how was he meant to recognize Mordred was his son? Even if he realized the answer was transness, how would he know who was who?
i mean, there's always genetics? he would have looked probably like both arthur and his mother ygraine, so there's always that too
I figure he probably could've just asked any of the Saxons to speak to his son after telling them his name
One of my favorites ♥️
Arther says what the hell are trans rights.
Arthur: wassa "trains bender"
Odin: 👀
@@aceofjacks7071LMAO
it’s heartbreaking cause. arthur would’ve excepted if only he knew
i love how pretty much every time brian appears in a song hes doing his best but accidentally causes everything to go badly (thinking of this & dr pilchard rn). i know its his programming and stuff but i find it cute
I will say, my favorite headcanon about arthur is that he is also a trans man, and just, doesn't know that's actually a thing for others.
...I admit I kind of like that. Or, that he is aware others can be trans, but he gave birth to his one and only child (some trans men do!) so he knows he doesn't have any other children, and he's just really hung up on his belief that his child is dead. "Death" mentions that they never realized they didn't find Mordred's body, so for all Arthur knows, his trusted knights actually saw his child's corpse. He'd obviously believe that sooner.