But Geoffrey's barely managed to publish the Historia Regum Britanniae before people started writing fanfic about it. The first handful of these are written barely a few decades later by Chrétien de Troyes, a French poet whose name I also can't pronounce, who wants to show off an OC he's super proud of. You may have heard of the character: Does "Lancelot" ring a bell? Yeah, Lancelot "Best Knight in the World" Du Lac, an exiled prince raised by the Lady of the Lake in her magical fairy kingdom who's super handsome and totally unbeatable and all the girls like him and also he totally gets the girl instead of Arthur, is somebody's Original Character Do Not Steal. Try and contain your shocked disbelief.
— Overly Sarcastic Productions, "Legends Summarized: King Arthur"
