Board Thread:What If?/@comment-5674726-20140119214236/@comment-5674726-20140126111116

Fimber wrote: And would Morgana really have feared that Uther would kill her if he ever learnt of her powers in that case? He wouldn't have done it, of course, but what would have been her point of view?

Then there is the possibility that she had hated herself even more so under these circumstances, growig up as Uther's child in a kingdom where magic is hated, and she later learns of her powers.

If she knew that he was her father from infancy onwards, rather than only becoming aware as an adult and then not being recognised as such, I could see Morgana being reasonably confident that she will not be executed for her magic. I'd say that she'd also be sure that she's not going to be locked in the dungeons. She might anticipate a form of house arrest as the worst case scenario, that she'd be confined to her chambers, not allowed to see anybody apart from a trusted few, etc. She could also expect that her father would want to cure her of her magic.

Her own attitude towards magic would be an interesting one. If she was close to her stepmother as a little child and was told that magic killed her, she could grow up extra wary of the dangers and, when she developed magic, it would be very frightening and something that she would want nothing to do with. If she thinks that magic makes people turn bad, she could reason that her only chance is if she never uses it and she could approach Gaius to help her find a "cure" for it.