We Answer Your Most Burning Merlin Questions 🗡️🧙

A blog of polls about and for BBC Merlin. Send in your questions!!

[camelotfights]

Who would win in a fight

Dragoon

The knights of the round table

Voting ended onApr 23

[shutupandmakemepizzaroll]

is he lactose intolerant

yes

no

Voting ended onNov 30, 2025

[chasm-side]

My therapist, who specializes in adults with ADHD, recently told me that all of her clients need a three day crashout period after a big life change. Finish the semester? Crashout. Change jobs? Crashout. Go on a really cool, really relaxing vacation? Crashout the moment you get home.

It's true of literally all of her clients. She works with a lot of them to put systems in place so that their crashouts are only three days. This includes the high-powered execs who travel regularly for work. It does not matter how successful or high functioning they are - they have ADHD, and a crashout is just part of the process of living with it.

I'm sharing this with all you ADHD friends out there, just in case you (like me) start shaming yourself if your crashout lasts more than one day. It turns out three days is kind of the best case scenario. Be kind to yourselves!

[bbcmerlin-polls]

I always find these kinds of things fascinating, because I've had an ADHD diagnosis since I was a kid and I'm the exact opposite.

I'm never doing better than right after a big life change. I'm never more focused, or more on time, or more put together then when some big change just happened.

It's why I picked a career where I'm in a different town doing a different thing every week

[onceandfuturelesbian]

post-magic reveal and magic ban is lifted, merlin is appointed to the court. what do you call him?

court sorcerer

court warlock

court magician

other (comment what!!)

Voting ended onAug 31, 2025

[bbcmerlin-polls]

Gwaine knows Merlin has magic, how did he find out?

Merlin blatantly used magic to throw plates the first time they met.

Courage, Strength, and Process of Elimination

A drunken warlock has much worse control than a sober one

Gwaine's bedpartners typically don't make flowers sprout from the bedroll

Gwaine heard tales of Emerys and The Once and Future King and 2+2=Magic

No one is that good at dice without help

Secret 7th option in the tags

Voting ended onMay 21, 2025

[bbcmerlin-polls]

Was Merlin the first Emerys?

Yes. He is the first of his name, and the last.

No. There was another young man called Emerys before him.

No. Emerys is a god/spirit and Merlin is their human form.

Yes. Emerys isn't real and he was simply always Merlin, a powerful sorcerer.

Voting ended onMay 19, 2025

[bbcmerlin-polls]

Leon is Immortal, when does Merlin realize?

He can sense it instantly but decides that's a problem for another day

After Camlann, when he doesn't age quite the same as Gwen.

When all the knights are dead but Leon

decades or centuries after Camelot, neither realizing the other had been immorta

They bump into each other at Kroger in 2019 like ?????? holy shit

When Arthur returns

Voting ended onMay 3, 2025

[bbcmerlin-polls]

A few of my favorite replies to this poll

[bbcmerlin-polls]

Why does Audrey the head cook have beef with Merlin?

She's upset he was picked to have such an important job

She knows he has magic, but isn't a snitch.

She hates Gaius, and Merlin by association

He's always stealing food and it throws her numbers off

She finds his personality grating

She doesn't, she's like that with everyone

He's too skinny, what does he not like her food?

Secret 8th option in the tags

Voting ended onMay 4, 2025

[bbcmerlin-polls]

Leon is Immortal, when does Merlin realize?

He can sense it instantly but decides that's a problem for another day

After Camlann, when he doesn't age quite the same as Gwen.

When all the knights are dead but Leon

decades or centuries after Camelot, neither realizing the other had been immorta

They bump into each other at Kroger in 2019 like ?????? holy shit

When Arthur returns

Voting ended onMay 3, 2025

[knightfighttourney]

WHO SERVES MORE CUNT? FINALE!

Gawain

Mordred

Voting ended onApr 29, 2025

Gawain:

1- literally the king of pulling like bro can get it!!!! hes got so many kids and wives and other men who are obsessed and devoted to him like that alone has an INSANE level of cunt <3 he almost became a couples third bc they saw him from across the bar and liked his vibe <3 he makes out with both the lady of the castle AND her husband multiple times!!!!! AND gets a cunty little neck scar at the end along with a cunty little girdle to wear home <3 plus hes extremely devoted to women and respectful af to them which is so cunty actually <3 hes also respectful to those that are sick and poor like what more could you want from a man!!!! <33

2- he's bisexual. he's promiscuous. he's married. he's known throughout the land for respecting women. he's a deadbeat father. he "accidentally" killed 18 people during the grail quest. he becomes emperor of rome. he dies at like age 30. he has intensely homosexual relations with sir lancelot. he writes his best friend a letter in his own blood. he canonically wishes he was a woman so he could fuck said best friend. he beheaded some girl. he's been concussed more times than a football player. every arthurian character wants him carnally. he has never starred in a romance but he interrupts all of them at least twice. he's the main character. he's more important than god. he's a horse girl. did i mention he's bisexual.

3- Link to a post with unbroken embeds!

Mordred:

1- Linking to original because the embeds broke badly

[bbcmerlin-polls]

If Prince William of Ealdor had lived,

Everything would be better

Everything would be so much worse

Everything would be the same but funnier

Voting ended onApr 29, 2025

[golden-age-ruler]

if you could erase a character from bbc merlin's narrative which would it be?

Leon

Leon

Leon

Leon

Also Leon

Arthur

None of these/other/i hate women

see results

Voting ended onApr 25, 2025

[bbcmerlin-polls]

Merlin was only 23 in the finale????Should he have been at the club?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 29, 2025

[aventuras-de-andre]

‘gwaine’s reaction to the magic reveal’ this and ‘leon’s reaction to the magic reveal’ that. focus. we need The Cook Merlin Had Unexplained Beef With’s Reaction to the Magic Reveal

[bbcmerlin-polls]

Pick a magic reveal to make cannon

Gwaine

Leon

Audrey, the cook who had unexplained beef with Merlin

Voting ended onApr 26, 2025

[bbcmerlin-polls]

Character Spotlight - Merlin

Did Merlin ever forgive himself?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 23, 2025

[bbcmerlin-polls]

Character Spotlight - Merlin

What does he do in his spare time?

Go to the Tavern

Enjoy the woods and the outdoors

Hang out with the Knights or Arthur

Hang out with the other servants or Gwen

Practice his magic

Spare time? What spare time.

Secret 7th option in the tags

Voting ended onApr 23, 2025

[bbcmerlin-polls]

Character Spotlight - Merlin

Is Merlin a cat or a dog person?

Cat

Dog

Voting ended onApr 22, 2025