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🔱Morgana 🔱

Ever since betraying Merlin and falling under the influence of dark magic, Morgana has become a being of pure evil and a true threat to humanity.

She is incredibly treacherous, scheming, self-serving, manipulative, abusive, and cruel, which was first shown in a flashback at the beginning of "when she made a bargain with. Ultimately, while she did give him what he wanted, she still tricked him into trading his own soul and turned it into the Inferna Copula, which she used to force him (against his own will) to kill Merlin's Trollhunters (and to some extent, Merlin himself). Her manipulativeness even extended to where she once took the form of Barbara Lake to persuade Strickler into trapping Jim and his friends in the Shadow Realm forever, by offering to give him the heart of another (though Strickler, in a desperate attempt to resist her temptation, claims that a stolen heart is never truly an act of true love, but rather an act of selfish desire).

Quite simply, Morgana is more than willing to use anybody and any dirty trick (dark magic included) to get what she wants, as she is megalomaniacal with an insatiable hunger for power. With almost any allegiances she makes she will easily break as she regards all of her allies as nothing more than "pawns", which she admits to Angor where Gunmar was concerned. And she even intended to dispose of him (even if Jim doesn't) once he completed his conquest for her. While she claims that she views Angor as her "champion" and will stand by her side once the world became hers, she still regarded him as one of her pawns.

Along with her cruelty, Morgana is extremely sadistic, ruthless, sociopathic, bloodthirsty, vindictive, and full of spite, as she often finds the worst ways when dealing with an opponent. She holds an intense, long-term grudge against Merlin and everything associated with him, like his ever since he took her left hand to create his champions' (though it can be argued that he mostly did it because of her betrayal, which would also make this excuse extremely petty compared to her past horrendous actions). She enjoyed every bit of brutalizing and mocking Merlin during their battle in Trollmarket, as there were so many ways to kill him, she decided to use them all. She clearly became furious when the souls of past Trollhunters possessed many of her Gumm-Gumms and came to fight her to protect Merlin. While she restrained Jim's friends and ensnared him, she claims that she only spared their lives just so they could watch her kill him before she would finish them all. Morgana is also not above harming, torturing, or even killing children to get what she wants, or just to entertain herself. She tortured with Claire's mind while she possessed her and trapped her spirit in the Shadow Realm, messed around with Toby unprovoked, and tried to give Jim a slow, painful death just because he's Merlin's Trollhunter, regardless that he didn't do anything personally to her.

What makes her even more despicable are her destructive and genocidal tendencies. As said by Merlin, Morgana craves chaos, which was the very reason why she sowed the seeds of strife and conflict between mankind and troll kind (which led to Gunmar's birth in the first place). While she first appeared to have some sort of affinity for trolls, as she sought to bring the Eternal Night to relieve them of their petrifying weakness to the sun, but she does not actually care for them, shown when she had no such qualms destroying several Gumm-Gumms to use their dust in order to begin this fiendish ritual. In reality, she wanted to rule the entire world with her widespread chaos and malice, using the Gumm-Gumms to do so, starting by releasing the Eternal Night upon the surface lands to keep the sun from shining on the Earth permanently. This makes Morgana an even worse threat to humanity than Gunmar (who is somewhat amoral) and clearly possesses no such honorable traits: holding no sense of morality, reason, and lack any respect for rules of engagement nor innocent lives whatsoever. Thus, she is to be taken very seriously if anyone ever confronts her.

She did, however, show an ounce of emotion, like when Angor betrays her at the last minute. In spite of that, Morgana initially saw him as a failure as she exclaimed that he was supposed to fight for her, showing that she despises redeeming qualities. She can also be legitimately gloating and arrogant in herself and the power she possesses. She often compares herself to a god, showing moments of narcissism as a means of intimidating the heroes. Morgana is also capable of showing mild annoyance, like when she tried to introduce herself to Jim to strike fear into him, only to realize that he's never heard of her before.

However, it is discovered that Morgana wasn't always a monster; she was once a peaceful, well-meaning, and understanding sorceress. She genuinely did have an affinity for all magical creatures, due to all of the pain and torture King Arthur put them all through. Next to that, she helped Claire escort an injured troll (Jim) out of Camelot so that he and the rest of his brethren could finally be freed from Arthur's captivity. It is revealed that the reason for her fall into evil was that she believed her old master, Merlin, and other people of Camelot turned on her when she reveals just how much she despised how they treated everything involving magic, including the creatures and spell casters. Thus, this supposed act of betrayal and the Arcane Order led her down a dark path to take over Camelot herself and become one of the most feared witches in history, doing everything in her power (dark magic included) to make sure she and other magical creatures can have true freedom from prejudice (although she becomes the very person she despised, much like Arthur).

The present Morgana seemingly found solace, clarity, and remorse during her imprisonment in the Shadow Realm, as she was upset to have been released from it and despaired at having to become involved in more violence and chaos at the behest of the Arcane Order and, to her horror, her resurrected brother, Arthur. She initially cooperated and then later tried to see if she could sway her brother to be the good man he once was, only to find he was beyond all hope of redeeming, to her bitter dismay. Morgana was the only one to truly feel sorry for her undead brother and what he's become, as she remembered he tried to make amends with her before his death at the hands of Belloc (yet this also makes her realize that the Order care naught for the balance of magical and mortal; only to destroy everything).

In the battles that followed, Morgana expressed remorse and wisdom that had come from self-reflection and understanding that her mistakes and sufferings and the consequences that resulted from them were her own doing, and so sought to redeem herself and entrust the future to a new generation of protectors. She made the ultimate sacrifice and found redemption, mending the bond she once shared with her master and fellow junior before departing with the former into the afterlife in peace.

Personality:

Past: Honorable, loyal, fair, well-intentioned, kind, brave, caring

Present: Evil, cruel, sadistic, treacherous, manipulative, cold, vindictive, spiteful, vengeful, mysterious, hypocritical, hostile, deceitful, unpredictable, crafty, power-hungry, vile, bloodthirsty (formerly) Determined, remorseful, witty, courageous, selfless