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25 lives: Merthur

Inspiration: 25 lives by Tongari

Authors of the wonderful manips and graphics used in this work(in order of appearance):

merlin-willcome-withme [x]

sterekandstuff [x] and [x]

brolinskeep [x] and [x]

missexcalibur [x]

carlesjo [kiss manip]

#merlin #merthur #reincarnation #soulmates #graphics

rednightmare18

the unfortunate thing is that i fear kcd2 has ruined game romances for me forever, including its own minor/sideline romances. like no thanks champ. no i will not do your stupid fucking playersexual kissing side quest. you mean nothing to me. i'm sorry, you want me to give you your Special Item to unlock your backstory? why. who are you to me. are you my one reprieve from the tragedy of my old life and the polestar of my new one? do you pettily piss me off or childishly delight me so much i have remembered how to have a normal day again? are we now so thoroughly burned into the woodwork of each other's lives that we would rather perish than imagine returning to a life without the other? have you grown into your manhood and your understanding of a person's worth with me??? no you have not! i will not be pressing x to fuck!

birich-dasha

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x-populuxe

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Rating: Teen Fandom: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies) Relationship: Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier Characters: Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Hank McCoy Additional Tags: Winter, Cabin Fic, Snow, Politics, Canon Disabled Character, Alcohol Words: 6,004 Summary: “Hank peered at the newspaper over his shoulder and said haltingly, ‘Do you think…Erik might be trying to send a message…to you specifically?’”

When Charles stands Erik up for their annual winter holiday getaway, Erik spends the following twelve months expressing his displeasure in increasingly creative ways. With this year’s winter break approaching, Charles makes plans to head to the cabin alone—or without contacting Erik in advance, anyway...

My Secret Mutant fic is live! ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ Thank you again for the prompt, @birich-dasha! And many thanks to @arcanewinter for being willing to look this over at the relative last minute*, and who left perfect comments on the doc like, "these children, these absolute toddlers" (this one in particular should give you a sense of this story lol).

*This is actually the *second* Secret Mutant story I worked on this month—because in an act of extreme hubris, I initially took a prompt that was far to big to do properly in the limited time frame. Since SM doesn't allow WIPs, I called it last week about 15K words in... So @fullcatkryptonite, you'll have a belated gift coming hopefully in early January in response to one of your prompts! 😁

birich-dasha

@x-populuxe has chosen my prompt to base yet another masterpiece on. I'm over the moon. Honestly, made my year.

#cherik #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #secret mutant 2024

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birich-dasha

25 lives: Merthur

Inspiration: 25 lives by Tongari

Authors of the wonderful manips and graphics used in this work(in order of appearance):

merlin-willcome-withme [x]

sterekandstuff [x] and [x]

brolinskeep [x] and [x]

missexcalibur [x]

carlesjo [kiss manip]

birich-dasha

*crawls out from under the rock* I hear Merlin is trending in 2022?

#bbc merlin #merlin #merthur

nextstopparis

i know everyone always complains about how bbc merlin didn’t even reach the final goal of legalizing magic and how arthur never fulfilled his destiny but. i kind of disagree? i don’t think destiny ever meant for arthur himself to bring magic back. i think it was always his death that was going to. let me try and explain:

i’m pretty sure we all agree that once arthur died, gwen legalized magic, right? i think its important to acknowledge why gwen would do this, though. gwen’s prejudice against magic definitely didn’t come close to arthur’s, but i think it would be wrong to assume that she didn’t have it at all (her reaction to morgana using magic, that deleted scene of her cautioning arthur) (although idk how in character that deleted scene was but). anyway, what i’m trying to say, is that: i believe the knowledge of merlin having magic is what softened gwen into legalizing it.

i dont know what her stance on magic would’ve been if she didn’t figure it out about merlin. she lost her best friend, her brother, and her husband to it, of course she would have trouble thinking it was good, when all of her experiences with it had been bad. so her finding out that her other best friend - one of the best people she knows - has magic, and has been using it all these years to not only protect her but also the person she loves most in the world, i think that definitely softened her to it a great deal, and thus led her to legalizing it.

now, the fact that she did figure out that merlin was magic, was all because arthur was dying. im pretty sure her and gaius wouldn’t have had that conversation if arthur were there&alive. so idk if - even if she did figure it out - she could’ve had confirmation that merlin had magic.

also - being killed by mordred had always been part of arthurs destiny. so? to make his destiny uniting albion and bringing magic back WHILE ALSO making it to be dying by mordreds hand seems? counterproductive? unless they are linked together. i dont think merlin was ever supposed to save arthur from mordred, i think he was supposed to save arthur in time so that he could be killed by mordred.

i think this is also why, in 5.13, kilgharrah denies telling him that he failed. because he didn’t. everything happened exactly as it was meant to, and arthur’s death was actively going to work as a catalyst into bringing magic back.

i just think that kilgharrah omitted a lot. he made merlin think that arthur himself would bring magic back. he didn’t tell merlin that arthur had to die anyway, just at a specific moment. which is exactly why i agree with all those people who say that kilgharrah wanted arthur dead/orchestrated the whole thing by sabotaging merlin so that arthur ~would~ die. he wanted arthur to die. that was arthurs destiny, and we all know how kilgharrah feels about destiny. he just made sure not to tell merlin the extent of it.

so anyway. i disagree with the whole “they didn’t reach their end goal” bc i do genuinely think it was arthur’s death that was the end goal. this, i think, also kind of explains this post where we talk abt how it was almost like destiny wanted arthur to hate magic: if he hated it, then he could die by mordreds hand, and voila, the end result that had always been foretold.

n e way, idk if that made sense but thats just always been my opinion abt it.

birich-dasha

What about the scene with the aged Merlin in the modern time, though? The world as it's depicted there doesn't look like the one where magic has been legalized. If magic had indeed been legalized at the cost of Arthur's life, don't you think the show creators would've somehow hinted at it in the very last scene?

#bbc merlin #merlin meta