If I had limited characters to describe Once & Future, it would be girl King Arthur and queers in space. On the plus side, Merlin will no longer be cursed but after decades of pining away for friendship and finding love, I'm stanning Merlin and Val. Now at seventeen, this is his last attempt to help the latest Arthur succeed before tapping out. Merlin has been Arthur's sidekick and adviser for over forty cycles and although he begun the journey as an old, grumpy wizard, with each cycle failed, Merlin has been ageing in reverse. Lam is fluid using them and they pronouns while Val is gay and very much into Merlin.
Ari's futuristic Knights are all brilliantly developed.
Kay fluctuated between loving brother and a bit of a prick at times, which only added to the authenticity between the brother and sister relationship. The side characters are bloody magnificent. Kay's family have hidden her from Mercer authorities until the point of their capture, now Kay and Ari are on the run with a prayer and a promise to keep his sister safe, despite her brash determination and dangerous bravery. Ari remembers little of her young life before being rescued by now adoptive brother Kay and his mothers, now her mothers. A planet where Dragons haunt the nightmares of children. I loved Ari, she's essentially an illegal refugee from a Middle Eastern society on a planet that was isolated from the galaxy and civilisation. Like the forty one Arthur's that have gone before her, Ari is the latest reincarnated Arthur destined for greatness and the first female Arthur.
Each new cycle, the infamous King Arthur is reincarnated yet with the same overwhelming quest, save the world and unite humanity.
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