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shane hollander is not homophobic. hayden’s pretty sure. solidly 85% sure. mostly very sure. he’s a good dude! he never makes those types of jokes and he has a gay friend, some figure skater he grew up with, and he had recently told rose that while he’d never seen the movie moonlight, he knew it won a lot of awards. so yeah. shane hollander is not homophobic.
but then. okay, a few years ago, hayden had asked if shane wanted to go to pride with him and jackie. shane had said no. no big deal. shane says no to most invites to loud, sweaty, places where he might have to say hi to fan or eat processed food.
shane hollander is not homophobic.
then again. shane hollander never fights. he certainly doesn’t instigate. but he had. he had swung on scott hunter after the end of play. at the time, hayden had asked shane why he picked a fight with scott hunter of all people (a lot of people called shane boring & uptight. hayden had always thought this was really unfair because shane was secretly very funny. he just didn’t like strangers. as far as hayden could tell, hunter was actually boring & uptight, but he got away with it because his play was so inconsistent it gave the illusion of him being interesting).
so the fight was weird. what was weirder, is how shane bristled and mumbled something about the fight being “personal” and “the principle of the thing.” hayden chalked it all up to stress. until now, as he sits, listening to scott hunter accept his mvp award, as the first out gay NHL player.
hayden is not a fix-it guy. he could probably fix things, but jackie & shane are consumate control freaks, so he’s more of a follow-the-explicit-directions-of-his-loved-ones-like-he’s-escaping-a-saw-trap guy. telling jackie about the “homophobic shane thing” is a non-starter, because she is barely post-partum and he thinks jackie may actually put him in a saw trap if he explains the “gay (straight) figure skater thing.” and telling shane. well.
so hayden has to be the fix-it guy.
hayden has not been sleeping well. it’s about 20% the “homophobic shane thing” and 80% the “newborn baby thing.” he’s not fully losing his mind, but he must have momentarily misplaced his frontal lobe, because he had asked for ilya rosanov’s number before he had even thought to try talking to shane directly.
shane, apparently, was on a “silent retreat.” if hayden was less of an ally, he would think that’s an awfully gay activity for a homophobe. alas, hayden had recently added call me by your name to his and jackie’s movie night list, so he does not find any irony in shane stewing in homophobic gay silence.
instead, he opens his phone and calls.
LAST PART I PROMISE :)
“da?” comes over the speaker before the second ring.
“hi. uhh. it’s hayden pike. i got your number from, well it doesn’t matter, i got your number.”
“…uh-huh…and why is hayden pike, montreals 15th best player calling me?” he announces it all louder than necessary. hayden imagines him as a middle school thespian, cheating out to the audience.
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@scyllas-revenge this has your name written all over it. twice.
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magic ≠ sword. magic is a tool. and frankly the persistent insistence (looking at you, Uther Pendragon, and by unfortunate narrative inheritance, Arthur) on treating it as though it is inherently a blade is less a moral truth and more a failure of imagination (and, not to be petty, but also a failure of governance).
because here’s the thing: a sword is designed to harm. that is its telos (yes, we’re doing philosophy about a saturday night fantasy show, keep up). you can hang it on a wall, you can ceremonialize it, you can even pass it down as a symbol—but its function remains violence. when you call magic a sword, you are making a claim about its essence: that harm is not an accident of misuse but its natural, inevitable endpoint.
which is…a wild claim, given what we actually see.
enter Merlin (patron saint of “this could have been an email,” except the email is a spell and the recipient is destiny). what does he use magic for, on a day-to-day basis? half the time it’s chores. it’s quietly preventing catastrophe while also, somehow, still having to polish Arthur’s boots (which is a separate injustice we don’t have time to unpack fully, though rest assured it rankles).
magic, in practice, behaves far more like a toolbox.
and tools are morally inert. a hammer can build a house or break a window (or, if you’re particularly unlucky, hit your thumb; morality does not enter into it, only regret). an axe can fell a tree or be weaponized, but we do not, as a society, declare axes ontologically evil and execute carpenters on sight (one hopes). to collapse all possible uses into the worst-case scenario is not prudence
uther voice: “but magic has caused harm before!” yes, and so has literally every technology, skill, and form of knowledge humanity has ever developed. fire burned down a village once; we did not outlaw warmth.
“magic is a sword” camp leans heavily on historical harm as evidence of inherent corruption. but correlation is not causation, and more importantly, context matters. if magic users are hunted, persecuted, and executed, what behaviors are you incentivizing? secrecy. desperation. retaliation. you are, quite literally, manufacturing the very threat you claim to be containing.
violence by magic users, in that framework, starts to look less like proof of innate evil and more like the predictable outcome of systemic oppression (funny how that works, across genres and centuries alike). if every avenue for benign use is criminalized, then the only magic that remains visible is the kind wielded in extremis. and then—surprise—you point to that extremity as justification for further crackdowns. a perfect, self-sustaining loop of bad decisions.
there’s also an epistemic issue here: focusing exclusively on harmful uses produces a distorted dataset. if you only record instances where magic goes wrong, you will inevitably conclude that magic always goes wrong. meanwhile, all the beneficial uses go uncounted because they leave no spectacle behind. it’s a kind of narrative survivorship bias
the “toolbox” perspective insists on a more capacious view. magic is not one thing; it is many things. it scales with the intent, skill, and circumstance of the user. to regulate it as though it were a singular, inherently violent object is intellectually lazy.
(which, again, not to harp on it, but if your entire policy framework can be summarized as “ban it because it’s scary,” you are not exactly winning awards for nuanced statecraft.)
none of this is to say magic can’t be dangerous. of course it can. so can swords, and storms, and politics (especially politics). but danger is not the same as destiny. a thing’s capacity for harm does not define its essence; otherwise we would have to condemn half the world into moral exile, starting with the nearest kitchen knife.
so when Arthur inherits his father’s fear (with a slightly more conflicted expression, granted, but still), what he’s really inheriting is a category error. magic is not a sword to be sheathed or shattered. it’s a system profoundly shaped by the hands that wield it.
and maybe if those hands weren’t constantly forced into hiding, they’d have a lot more room to build something other than the very threats everyone is so busy dreading.
Character duo where one *remembers I don’t like fitting characters into trope boxes* is a completely fleshed out and realised person *remembers treating characters as real people and not story devices written with intent is bad* who is written by the author and *remembers death of the author* uh. And *fumbles and drops my pile of queue cards* ah fuck wait no *the menacing horse* what was that.
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Turns out I'm writing again. ---
Title: the way it used to be
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/84308201
Summary: The phrase ‘making peace’ only began to imply the level of difficulty involved. Arthur, Morgana and what lay between. (Merthur compliant. A very AU late season 4/early season 5 fic) --- Title: the boy with the thorn in his side
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/4976461
Summary: Arthur has some questions. Gaius has some answers. They don't always match up. A ficlet set in early Season 1. --- Neither fic is rated higher than Mature. Many thanks to @saladscreamfor the inspiration and encouragement and Naph for the beta.