A/N Just a little something as to what I think of Uther. I don't know if other agree with my thoughts but tell me if you do:D Hope you enjoy it and review to tell me what you thought, thanks. Oh and feel free to rant about how much you hate Uther or how you think he is misunderstood etc. in a review or pm and I'll be happy to rant with you:P
Uther Pendragon was a complicated man. On the outside it looked simple. He was a powerful man, who liked to abuse that power to punish those who had magic. But on the inside, there was so much in there that it would take 10,000 words to even get a glimpse.
He had been through so much, so many deaths, so many wars and he had so many enemies that hated him purely because of his status.
From the tender age of 11 he was given important duties. No time for a childhood when training and horse riding and meetings and schooling was much more important. From the age of which he was capable of understanding it, Camelot's history was shoved down his throat. Every battle, every King, every alliance, every little detail no matter how insignificant. Then after his father's early death he was crowned King before he even turned 18. Duties and responsibilities change a person. Expectations and what you get are very different things yet when you are not expected to be a certain person and act a certain way but told from birth who you are going to be and how you are going to act, well it's hard to keep up that facade.
He hadn't much a life. After being thrown into a role he wasn't ready for, he didn't have time for fun or friendship but most importantly there wasn't time for love. So when he was told by Lord Foctill (do not ask where this name came from, I pretty much hit random keys on the board) that he was looking to betroth his daughter, Yigraine, away to Uther, he was pretty happy.
At first they were awkward around each other but as year passed this awkwardness grew to love and soon enough into a child. But this child did not come about through normal ways. Magic was involved, in fact magic was the only reason Arthur ever came into being. Nimueh, a friend to Uther warned him of the dangers but nothing mattered to him more than an heir so he took the risk and used magic to conceive a child. When the repercussions hit it was too much, he understood it was his fault and perhaps this made it worse. He hated the world for taking away his wife, his love, his escape from life as King, his Yigraine.
He raised his son in much the same matter as he himself had been raised but with Arthur, he had been harsher and stricter. Arthur had been given important duties at nine and he was learning history before he could walk. He was told of magic's evil before he was old enough to comprehend words and perhaps these reasons were why Arthur and Uther were not particularly close. This hurt Uther because all he ever wanted was what was best for everyone. Even if he was wrong, he only wanted what was best.
In his last months he looked back on his life and saw nothing he had done he could be proud of. He realised his mistakes and it killed him to see what he had to done to himself, to his Yigraine, to his kingdom, to his daughter, to his son.
Uther Pendragon was a complicated man, he had a complicated life but at the end of it all, can you say he was truly evil?
A/N so as much as I think Uther has done terrible things, he really did do what he thought was right and best for the kingdom even if he was supremely wrong and in episodes like the one where Uther fights with Excalibur in Arthur place in the duel I really feel that Uther, underneath it all is a good man. The scene where he play fights for a minute with Arthur in the throne room after the fight made my heart swell and I just wish we could have had more moments like that in the show Anyway I hope enjoyed it. Please review to tell me your views of Uther and if anyone feels the same as me and answer the question at the end there. Thanks for reading;)