User blog comment:Tns31091/Why I like Guinevere Pendragon/@comment-4650675-20120222213325

I see your point and I admit you are right on some of them. Gwen has had a lot of trouble and despite not being so good with a sword or not having magic she still makes a strong willed woman. However, I'm not sure if she's been through worse than the other characters have. Let's take them one by one. Merlin grew up as a boy having magic. He never had any friend beside William and he didn't know his fahter. His only friend died, his father died just after meeting him, he poisoned the only one of his kind because he had to and his love died too. Arthur grew up with a father like Uther, grew to hate magic just because he had to, always lived in a lie about his birth and never met his mother. Morgana lived her whole life believing that her guardian had killed her father but her father was actually her guardian. She had magic but grew up in a place that anyone with that gift was killed. Meanwhile she had nightmares that she had noone to turn to about, besides Gaius, who would only give her a heavier drug each time. My point is, all the characters have had difficulties but I would say that Merlin and Morgana have definitely had the toughest of them all. Still, I agree about Gwen being strong-willed.