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and eventually once they get their shit together, merthur live a long and happy life till they’re old men, merlin never has to do the trick again and the whole village thinks this generational curse was defeated by gay love

I like the idea that Merlin, while waiting for Arthur to return he sets up a little flower shop. It’s right by the lake, and it developed because he stayed right by the lake for Arthur. People find Merlin alone by this lake while they’re traveling and he’s all sweat and nice to them making them love him and they decided to settle down there. More and more people stay there making a town around Merlin. Merlin is just the old guy with his nice little garden who’s always been there, nobody’s sure how long he’s been there. No one is rude enough to ask him.

As civilization advances and the government starts trying to register everyone Merlin has to find a way around it. He finds that the best way of doing this is to find a girl who he can trust with his secrets and has her move in to pretend to be his wife. He illusions a little kid running around his garden so he’s had a ‘child’ and once the kid is of legal age he fakes his death and turns himself young again to be a ‘new’ person.

He repeats this process for generations so he is legally a person. Everyone in the town thinks his ‘family’ is cursed because the fathers always dies in their 40s or 50s, on the son’s birthday to become a legal adult.

He keeps this up with his flower shop that has now grown quite big that he hires college students to help him. Until one day Arthur shows up in his bedroom and chaos ensues.