Visiting Knight: Oh, I'm Not Afraid Of Fighting A Sorcerer. I've Tackled One Before, You Know, In Controlled

Visiting knight: Oh, I'm not afraid of fighting a sorcerer. I've tackled one before, you know, in controlled circumstances.

Arthur: Oh, don't worry. You won't find any of those here.

Visiting knight: What, sorcerers?

Merlin: No, controlled circumstances.

Prompt #17:

Skiing AU:

Arthur is a skiing-beginner and accidentally runs Merlin over on the slope. Needless to say neither of them is very fond of the other after that meeting.

It really was an accident though.

So was the second time.

And the third time.

The fourth time, however, wasn’t.

Possible endings:

1) Arthur invites Merlin to their skiing lodge at the end of their holidays as a way of apologising for the times they unfortunately bumped into each other.

2) Merlin and Arthur get stuck in a gondola and huddle together for warmth.

3) Both of the above.

Prompt #16:

Another Supernatural Crossover:

Merlin is not a typical hunter.

Among hunters he is known as Emrys and he is a big mystery. No-one has ever actually met him, but it is known that he is always there to help whether he pretends to be your FBI supervisor or you are stuck with your case (he is like a walking encyclopedia on supernatural things). But he never leaves his house to go hunting himself.

Arthur is one of the hunters who has called Emrys once or twice when he got stuck with a job.

That is, until he finds a super difficult case that not even Merlin knows the solution to immediately. So they start talking on the phone every evening for like an hour to brainstorm. (And merlin might’ve developed a little crush on the cocky hunter with the husky voice)

At one point Arthur decides to go after the monster and at first Merlin is irritated that Arthur didn’t call that evening, after 3 days with no notice from Arthur he gets concerned and after a week he is so freaked out that he breaks his unwritten rule and leaves his house to search for Arthur himself.

I love this concept!

But I guess it would've just been too logical for our wizarding community, they haven't exactly been known to do the most logical things, have they?

But apart from this - and correct me if I'm wrong - I believe it's because not every death eater has the dark mark (as we know from Fenrir, he is a death eater but doesn't have the mark because he isn't 'worthy' of it)

I think it's only Voldemorts most inner circle, his most trusted death eaters who bear the mark. (I think there's about 25 of them? Not sure. It's those that show up/miss in the circle at the graveyard)

Plus, the people knew about the dark mark in the sky after killings but I'm not sure whether they knew it was also a tattoo for his followers.

Anyway, the mark would've only exposed a very small - though very important - amount of death eaters, not the lot of them.

If everyone was worried about who was and wasn’t a Death Eater, and the Death Eaters are all branded on their left arms, why didn’t robes with short or missing or sheer or rolled up left sleeves become A Thing? Why didn’t rolling up your left sleeve in greeting become A Thing?

This should have been a Bold Anti-Death Eater Fashion Statement and no-one, no-one in all of Wizarding Britain thought of it and was brave enough to do it? No-one???

Okay so I haven't looked up any Old English words from Merlin recently, but this post stuck with me and I wanted to know.

I guess - after watching this show - it's not exactly surprising that wilddéoren literally means "like wild beasts" and "fierce" because what are those things if not exactly that.

But can we also appreciate that wilddéor can mean "reindeer" as well?!

#iconic

Prompt #19:

Merlin has been in love with Arthur from the moment they’ve met. And even though there were several moments where the sexual tension was tangible, he never dared imagine something might actually happen between them.

Imagine his surprise when, out of the blue, Arthur proposes to him.

And imagine his heartbreak when he realises Arthur only proposed to spite his estranged father.

Even though the proposal was made for the wrong reasons they might realise it hasn’t been the wrong decision after all.