baby Aithusa is my gift

[inamagicalhallucination]

merlin fic where merlin lies and says “w h a t ??? mordred, my baby brother, a druid?? nooooo” but mordred is horrible at lying

he just repeats phrases he knows he’s supposed to say like

gaius: merlin are you secretly keeping a druid here ???

mordred, who’s practiced for this, chanting: merlin’s my little brother !

merlin: older

mordred, nodding and still chanting: merlin’s my older brother!

//

arthur staring at the little thing staring up at him: and who are you?

mordred, who has this also memorized: I Am Mordred. Merlin Is My Older Brother. We Are From Ealdor. Our Mother Is Hunith. 

arthur: …right.

arthur, later to merlin: is your brother okay

//

literally, anyone who asks mordred who he is gets the very rehearsed response that he is mordred. merlin is his older brother. he is from ealdor. hunith is his mother

//

every time someone looks suspicious mordred just yells it out 

so its common to just randomly hear a child chanting that he is merlin’s younger brother

//

arthur finds out that perhaps mordred isn’t merlin’s crazy brother because when merlin finds out he has a dad mordred promptly changes his little speech so that he also mentions a father and arthur gets curious

arthur: if you never knew your father but you and mordred are siblings with the same parents…

//

mordred: Hello Mr. Balinor. I Am Mordred. Merlin Is My Older Brother. I Am From Ealdor. Hunith Is My Mother.

balinor: oh so hunith did marry someone el-

mordred: Balinor Is My Father.

balinor: say what now

//

merlin tells balinor everything, of course, and balinor lives of course, and balinors like yeah okay and now he has two sons <3

//

no theres no plot i just love the image of tiny mordred just randomly saying that he’s merlin’s younger brother but its rehearsed and awkward ajsdlfkj

//

for a while some people think that mordred is merlin’s son but the age wouldn’t align so it doesn’t stick

but people still think mordred’s weird

but he’s also really cute so whatever

yeah

[achillesuwu]

Amnesiac!Merlin (goes by Emrys and Arthur thinks he is just look like Merlin (who they think got killed/disappeared years ago) because he wants to destabilise him) and Arthur (who need magical help for his kingdom ) interaction that I could not get out of my head (and I NEED TO STUDY)

After listening to Arthur, Emrys began to slowly turn around him. "Have you no shame?" He asks and Arthur is stuck for a moment, not knowing what to answer. Ermys doesn't wait for one.

"You came here to my home trying to make me believe that I know you? That we are friend? And now, you dare to ask for my help?" his voice stays even but the air feels louder, as if it responding to Emrys anger "I bet you expect me to ask you to graciously let my people live finally in peace if and only if I trade their lives with yours?" he stops again in front of Arthur.

"You joke surely." he looks at him with comtempt, never making his gaze waver "If you are not you must be a hypocrite arrogant fool " he smirks " or maybe you are just an idiot"

"Tell me, pendragon." he whispers "give me one good reason why you have no problem with my people living freely if I help you but feel no remorse for how they live now under your rule"

Arthur can not think, he does not what to say to this man wearing his best friend face. To see spite in his eyes "I know some magic users are peacefull but–"

"Hum, interesting. So you know, you know and yet you do nothing... Why is that? It's not very honorable to kill people just because some of them are murderer. Oh, oh" he laughs, loudly "I think I know why" he takes Arthur forearm in his hand and raise it "it's because you fear the blood on your hand isn't it? For as long as being of magic are outlaw it's justified you can't remove the law by yourself, can you? If you did you would have to accept your monstrosity. But if you graciously allow them to live in your realm when you graciously reward a filthy sorcerer " he snatch arthur arms back down making him nearly trip" then you did what was right, you had no choice"

He look at him from above, his face barely one or two centimeters from his. "Leave"

[inkstaindusk]

knight/lord ships are like. what if i would die for you. what if i wanted you to live for me. what if i wanted to touch you but could only be satisfied with being near you. what if i could touch you but only through the safety of our gloves. what if i couldn’t stop thinking about you right next to me. what if i bloodied my hands for you and never looked back at the wreckage. what then

[inkstaindusk]

what if i wasn’t allowed to love you. what if i loved you anyway. what if you knew and i knew but we wouldn’t dare to take that step. what if we made meaningful eye contact as i knelt at your feet and devoted my whole being to you. what if i whispered your name for only you to hear

[inkstaindusk]

“my lord” is actually something that can be so personal

[inkstaindusk]

what if i said “my lord” but i actually meant “my love”

[coecoecoe]

[insane laughter]

[motherfucker-unlimited]

It's so unfair when my mutuals experience hardships, like they already follow me, that's enough suffering for one person

[camelotsheart]

sometimes i imagine what would have happened if merlin was the one who died and im just like. that's literally impossible because arthur wouldn't even allow him to stay dead. we're talking about the boy who went to the underworld to talk with his abusive dad and was willing to put his head on a chopping block next to a sorceress to see the spirit of his mother. this is the same arthur pendragon who joked about meeting merlin in the next life and refused to say goodbye as he was dying

like, this boy can and will form attachment issues lasting beyond life and death. you died? funny you say that because no you didn't! i'm dying? guess you'll have to put up with me in the next life. either way you're stuck with a ball of once and future king with separation anxiety. no it's not a choice

[camelotsheart]

are you ever a prince's second-in-command and you've watched him be a self-sacrificing prick your whole life and you're on the way to literally go face death when the prince's servant/bestie yeets himself infront of a smoke skeleton to save the prince which puts him into a semi-coma, and then rather than coming to the logical conclusion of making a knight take the bestie back to the castle, the prince literally announces that the whole team is abandoning the mission and going back, and when you try to explain to him that the lives of a whole fucking kingdom hinges on the mission he basically retorts "but his life is important to me". and then, and then, hours later the prince says to you that he should've saved his servant and be the one in a semi-coma instead which, ok, could be attributed to general survivor's guilt but then a few days later you find out that the original plan was for the prince to willingly sacrifice himself to save the kingdom and so he basically admitted to you that he would have rather died for his best friend than for the kingdom. (or, well, seeing as how the prince knew he was going to die anyway, mayhaps he wished to be the one in a semi-coma so he could be given as a possible half-dead human sacrifice - if he managed to stay alive for the trip, which was a dangerous risk so the point still stands). this is the point where you realise that your prince is not only a self-sacrificing prick but also a prick who doesn't realise he has codependency issues which may or may not endanger the kingdom; the level between "may" and "may not" entirely dependent on how close his best friend was to death at any given point. it is also at this point you realise that your job as the official royal bodyguard actually includes not only the prince but also his manservant, and that you should ask for a raise because you're not paid nearly enough to deal with this shit

[moreaithusaplease]

Recs?

[saurix5]

[achillesuwu]

People said that Merlin would never leave Camelot on his own but

But

Hear me out

What about amnesiac Merlin? Depending on when it happens :

1. There is no dragon to tell him about prophecy

2. If Gaius is not there for X or Y reason he would not know about the prophecy

3. If he get amnesia when he is outside of Camelot for (exemple he fellowed some dude in the wood and then killed him) he won't even meet Arthur and thinks "oh maybe there is a reason why I stay 🤔

Like, amnesiac Merlin has zero (0) reason to even wonder if he has a life in Camelot. After all, why would a sorcerer like him live there?

I think Amnesiac Merlin is a fucking unexplored golden mine.

"I can't take you apart with less then that" merlin but with some "I have 0 trauma about living in a kingdom where magic is outlaw/they will enslave you for it" meeting his friends again? Can you imagine the angst? The betrayal?

Or Merlin who work for another kingdom? Arthur who find Merlin years later because Camelot doesn't really have good relationship with magic friendly kingdom.

Amnesiac Merlin who get "fired" (Merlin : oh, well, guess I will go somewhere else?) / get told he was "fired" / resign (Arthur : *pikachu face* when it happens) and has 0 feeling about the whole thing because it's just a job, right?

Or Merlin who live in a little cottage in the wood with his dragon child?

You can even put MORE angst if Merlin doesn't believe Arthur when he says they know each other. After all it isn't the first time someone try to get Emrys ™ on their side.

[moreaithusaplease]

Need recs

[whydon-twego]

When Uther decides to sacrifice a life for a son and Destiny chooses the life of Ygraine Pendragon, Uther begins a genocide against the people who possess magic. Little does Uther know, however, that this will cause the magic to concentrate in the earth, to concentrate all at once and give birth to the most powerful being that has ever existed on the face of the earth. But what Uther also does not know is that the magic has split and half passed to his son Arthur, dormant, to keep him safe until his other half goes to find him and they can finally be together and reunite all of Albion under two great leaders.

When Arthur and Merlin meet for the first time, Arthur has a secret and Merlin has a secret. It's the same secret.

[vintage--lilacs]

i hope this hasnt been done to death already

[insanity-laughs-under-pressure]

Something we should acknowledge more as a Fandom is that Uther has never forgotten Merlin's name. I always read fics where he gets Merlin's name wrong but in canon he has that man's name engraved in his brain. You can't tell me Arthur doesn't bring Merlin up in almost every conversation.

[dollopheadsandclotpoles]

It would have been so fun to see the opposite of the George scenario with Merlin. Some nobles are visiting and Uther forces Merlin to serve one of the new princes who's so well-behaved and polite, and Merlin's like... this one isn't a lil bitch and can't take my sass, I'm so bored

[irishyuri]

sillies supreme

[tiodolma]

here be an au: Merlin doesn't have magic and Morgana doesn't understand why if he's the great Emrys. In short, Morgana thinks Merlin is hiding a secret and confronts him.

Morgana -> do not lie to me, you have magic.

Merlin -> I told you, I don't. Really.

Morgana -> you're lying.

Merlin -> (sighs) forbearne. (tries magic). forbearne. (nothing happens).

Morgana -> (frowns) that's impossible. You're... well, you.

Merlin -> i appreciate the confidence, my lady. But I'm not remarkable, unless you count me being Emrys.

Morgana -> (laughs) you? Emrys? You jest.

Merlin -> not jesting. Ask Mordred, ask any of the druids.

Morgana -> if you're the great so called Emrys and you don't have magic... how are you even alive?

Merlin -> honestly? Plain rotten luck.

Lmao

He should just be a diplomat 🤣

[moreaithusaplease]

He does not have magic himself, But every single magic creature seems draw to obey Merlin's wishes and agree with his doings.

His honey coated words work way too well with humans or creatures.

There is it.

Merlin Emrys.

A simple man that could very well be a silver-tongued Fae.

[nightcereusss]

merlin: *trying to steal a statue of a dog* do you have a wheelbarrow?

gwen, who has absolutely no idea what merlin is going to do with the statue: i got you 

[echoesofcamelot]

Never over how happy and carefree Arthur looks when he is with Gwen and Merlin.

Look at him he is glowing! You can tell he doesn't need anything else. He has his whole world with him.

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BONUS: Merlin and Gwen reading him like an open book

[purplepingupenguins]

They’re in love, your honour.