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My in progress BBC Merlin Fanfiction story for anyone interested.
I hope this finds the right people and that you all enjoy it! :)
Gwen posting this. Her boyfriend is Arthur. I'll leave the identity of the cook to your imagination (it's Merlin)
Arthur, on a date with Gwen: I want to run away with Merlin
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." Merlin loving Arthur, who thinks magic is pure evil.
Pretty convenient when the man you cherish more than life itself is also the king because that means other people also have to protect him from harm
The fact that Arthur said this just after we saw Merlin do him the biggest kindness I've ever seen anyone do another person. Like. A sorcerer just selflessly shattered his own dream, and that of many people, just so Arthur would not have to bear the guilt of killing his own father, in one of the purest and most horrifying demonstrations of love I've ever witnessed, and it went unseen and unheard, and then he had to listen to this
Sometimes it just hits me, the amount of emotional pain Merlin has been going through since the beginning of the series.
It makes me think of this post
My friend thinks we had fun the last time we hung out but them telling me "he looks straight" after I showed them a picture of Prince Arthur was actually one of the worst moments of my life
Merthur really have it all huh. King and lionheart dynamic. Fucking hate at first sight then speedrun to trying to die for the other. Slow burn? Never heard of her. One of them wears gloves and one doesn't and I'm not even gonna bother to explain why that is top fucking tier. Lies and secrets that could bring about the doom of the kingdom. Obviously adore each other but will actually fucking die before saying it with actual words. The prince is a gigantic asshole who doesn't know how to show care or ask for attention like a person who had healthy emotional development as a child and oscillates between pulling pigtails and acting like an over-eager puppy or both at the same time. Domesticity levels previously unheard of. They canonically wear each other's clothes. One of them makes up words and the other promptly starts using them. Both are extremely into the other's specific brand of dumbassery. Their love language is fucking playing together. "I don't want you to change" fuck this fuck everything
Arthur dreams of living with him in a FARM
Merthur really have it all huh. King and lionheart dynamic. Fucking hate at first sight then speedrun to trying to die for the other. Slow burn? Never heard of her. One of them wears gloves and one doesn't and I'm not even gonna bother to explain why that is top fucking tier. Lies and secrets that could bring about the doom of the kingdom. Obviously adore each other but will actually fucking die before saying it with actual words. The prince is a gigantic asshole who doesn't know how to show care or ask for attention like a person who had healthy emotional development as a child and oscillates between pulling pigtails and acting like an over-eager puppy or both at the same time. Domesticity levels previously unheard of. They canonically wear each other's clothes. One of them makes up words and the other promptly starts using them. Both are extremely into the other's specific brand of dumbassery. Their love language is fucking playing together. "I don't want you to change" fuck this fuck everything
SLANDER
My friend thinks we had fun the last time we hung out but them telling me "he looks straight" after I showed them a picture of Prince Arthur was actually one of the worst moments of my life
This fucking took me out
EVERYONE WHO HASN'T YET NEEDS TO GO READ "Where I'm Meant To Be" by WhiteRoseCottage. The premise is perfect and it's so funny and sweet. I love the idea that Merlin didn't spend a thousand years wallowing in grief and that, while Arthur is undoubtedly the love of his life, he had a full and interesting life without him, with friends, jobs, hobbies and even lovers (William Shakespeare and him was the crack ship I didn't know I needed). He's such a brave, loving and resilient person and it seems like a waste to have him go through eternity depressed. Just thinking about the entire century he spent waiting for Arthur near the lake makes me want to fight God.
Wait a damn minute Merlin is an actual nightmare of a servant. Imagine you're the Prince and all of a sudden and only two seconds after surviving an assassination attempt you're stuck with this scrawny, clumsy fucking dude with a really shifty air about him who spends literal days in the tavern with zero notice, steals your food, tried to spy on a guest, doesn't let you hunt, can never fucking be found when you need him even though he is the literal manservant to the prince, which you would think should be a priority but apparently he has better things to do, and is always talking like he's the only thing standing between you and certain death???? Then he gives you attitude? Literally I would throw things at him too. Arthur is misunderstood he's actually being too nice
This has been gnawing at my brain since I first heard it
because
And the way Arthur says it is so honest, so serious, so earnest. He's exhausted but he makes sure to look at Merlin's right in the eye. Like this comes from the bottom of his soul and he absolutely, desperately needs Merlin to understand (and considering he most likely knew he was going to die at this point, well). Look at Merlin's face. There's such solemnity and vulnerability in this scene. It hurts to watch.
“I failed?”
AU where Arthur finds out about the prophecy and pieces together that "his closest ally Emrys" must be Merlin because who else would it be, but incorrectly assumes that Merlin doesn't know and therefore has never practiced magic before.
Even better if he finds out early season 1 so He's just so devastated the entire time and he's just like "I can't believe this, this prophecy is going to turn my best friend into a sorcerer, and it's all my fault for being the once and future king" and Merlin's in the back just murdering a sidhe
you know what? I'm not actually sure that Arthur did know Mordred's name in The Beginning of the End (s1 ep 8). He didn't talk to Arthur as far as I'm aware, and, lets be honest, how many brunette white boys do you think Arthur has met in his life????? It's got to be too many.
All of this to say, it's no wonder he didn't know Mordred was a druid, because he never knew his name when he saved Mordred as a child.
you stopped?
why is my heart suddenly aching over merlin again
Cute things to call your boyfriend 🥰😘
Clotpole 💖
Dollopead ✨
Turnip-head 🥺
Cabbage-head 💫
Idiot 🌹
Useless toad of a servant 💘
Girl's petty coat 🔥
Buffoon 😇
Royal Prat 💋
Bone Idle Toad 🌺
Reblogging for those tags
Merthur really have it all huh. King and lionheart dynamic. Fucking hate at first sight then speedrun to trying to die for the other. Slow burn? Never heard of her. One of them wears gloves and one doesn't and I'm not even gonna bother to explain why that is top fucking tier. Lies and secrets that could bring about the doom of the kingdom. Obviously adore each other but will actually fucking die before saying it with actual words. The prince is a gigantic asshole who doesn't know how to show care or ask for attention like a person who had healthy emotional development as a child and oscillates between pulling pigtails and acting like an over-eager puppy or both at the same time. Domesticity levels previously unheard of. They canonically wear each other's clothes. One of them makes up words and the other promptly starts using them. Both are extremely into the other's specific brand of dumbassery. Their love language is fucking playing together. "I don't want you to change" fuck this fuck everything
AU where Arthur comes back after 1,500 years and Merlin thinks Excalibur sword is very outdated at this point. It is 21st Century and unsurprisingly sword is not the best choice of weapons, magic or not.
So, Merlin creates him lots of new weapons, and soon discovers that Arthur masters everything fast and is ridiculously good at adapting everything to fight. Because if Merlin is the greatest Warlock to ever walk on earth, then Arthur is the greatest Warrior ever to exist.
So, at one point Merlin is just having SO MUCH FUN discovering Arthur’s very OP warrior skill because this man can make everything he holds a legendary weapon.
Modern Magic People being rescused: THE King Arthur is here to save us from the evil beast! look at his shining Exca..li..bur…?
Arthur, holding a ~magical and forged by Dragon’s flame~ airfryer: DO NOT DISRESPECT EXCALIBUR #2461