If It Were A Fanfic - Tumblr Posts
Imagine the sheer hilarity if Lancelot and Gwaine switched their first episodes. Gwaine shows up and saves Merlin from a griffin and gets injured.
Merlin: You're cool and you saved my life! You should be a knight so we can hang out!
Gwaine: *frantically trying to think of a way to tell his new friend no when he's looking at him with that face*
Gwaine: Sorry bro, I'm not a noble so I can't
Merlin: That's okay! We can just commit identity fraud!
Gwaine: . . .
Gwaine: I'm in
And the rest of the episode proceeds with Gwaine pretending to be the son of a random nobleman when he's already a noble purely for the chaos of it all. Bonus points if someone were to recognize Gwaine for some reason as already being a noble.
Random nobleman: *narrows eyes* And you're certain you're the son of Lord Eldred? It's just, you look so much like-
Gwaine: Yep, sure am! Good ol' Eldred and my three-
Merlin: *coughs* Four
Gwaine: -Four brothers! Ha ha ha it's a great happy family!
Random nobleman: *continues to squint suspiciously*
*Random nobleman goes to the king*
Random nobleman: Sire, I think this man is lying about his heritage!
Uther: *Gasp* Are you saying he's not actually noble?
Random nobleman: No, he's definitely a noble, but he's lying about which nobleman!
Uther: . . .
Gwaine helps to take down the griffon and finds out about Merlin's magic, deciding he needs to stay around to watch his back and to partake in magical shenanigans. Also he's grown to sort of respect Arthur at this point and Arthur in return, so when the truth comes out about the forged seal, Gwaine is just-
Gwaine: It's cool it's cool, I am a nobleman, just a different nobleman, here's my seal
Random nobleman: I KNEW IT!!!
Uther is contemplating if he cares enough about the semantics to arrest Gwaine, Arthur is just like
Arthur: Seems legit, welcome to the crew new bestie *high fives Gwaine*
Uther decides that at least this new friend is a noble and might get Arthur to stop spending so much time with his peasant servant, and lets it go.
(now, Arthur spends all his time with his peasant servant AND the alcoholic knight and Uther gives up)
(Lancelot shows up later and Uther, halfway through his fifth cup of wine, is so relieved he seems responsible that he knights him on the spot without checking his references)
(Lancelot turns out to be just as chaotic as the others and Uther just hides in his room for the rest of the series, allowing Arthur to be king way earlier. Arthur legalizes magic and the golden age happens and all that jazz)
(the end)