#elyancelot is the beautiful smile ship

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Just saw a post that called elyan/lancelot a weird ship (which I don't want to link here or reply to because I don't think op had bad intentions and I don't want to start drama) but it reminded me that we've been sleeping on Elyancelot as a ship! It's not weird, just not common, which makes sense because they had few interactions (but more than lancelot/gwaine did, so that shouldn't be an excuse) and because people generally don't like to ship Elyan or explore his character (which is a problem for another post and something I'm not very qualified to talk about). But personally, I think elyancelot is wonderful.

Elyan is an amazing combination of extreme sass and the most heartfelt deepest compassion of anyone on the show (remember ghost boy?). He has so much potential backstory and history from his early life in Camelot and his travels, so a few well-placed headcanons can take a story so many interesting places with him and anyone, but especially Lancelot.

Lancelot is nobility and chaos and trauma all rolled into one very complex character who deserved more screentime to be explored (well, all the knights did, really)

There are so many different stories to be told with Elyancelot as a ship in them. Pre-series 3? Absolutely, they had so many opportunities to meet up on the road in different ways. Between season 3 and 4? Yes, show me them growing closer and realizing their bond is something other than friendship. During season 4? Sure, if you love angst and want to break my heart (looking at you, neednoggle). Reincarnated era? You know this fandom loves a good modern au.

Like y'all... we're sleeping on Elyancelot