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[fan-a-tink]

"You are a son of the earth, the sea, the sky. Magic is the fabric of this world and you were born of that magic. You are magic itself. You cannot lose what you are."

Merlin regains his magic | 5.12 "The Diamond of the Day - Part 1"

[rosefpramy]

merlin’s at his hottest when he’s unhinged

[rosefpramy]

“no grave can hold my body down i’ll crawl home to (him)” and if i say work song by hozier is a merthur song

[frankherbertsdune]

It's so funny to me that Mary Shelley, her husband, John Polidori, and Lord Byron had a competition to see who could write the best horror story and she wrote fucking Frankenstein. Imagine losing a competition that badly. Imagine just doing a silly little competition with your friend and she basically invents a new genre and creates one of the most famous characters in fiction. Imagine being proud of your little story and then she shares one that people will still read every day in 200 years. Imagine doing a writing competition with your wife and she becomes so recognizable that you'll always be known as Mary Shelley's husband

[rosefpramy]

you know in fanfics, when arthur finds out about merlin’s magic and he’s really upset and feels betrayed and admits angrily that he’s more mad at the secrets kept than the actual magic? love it. however, i need merlin to snap back. and i don’t just mean yell at him for a bit. i mean angry wants to leave and never look back angry because revealing that secret is a threat on his life for god’s sake!!

all i’m saying is i need arthur to beg for forgiveness like a prince/king would never usually allow himself to

[rosefpramy]

my question is why was gaius paid dust when he was court physician and sat at the table with uther’s most trusted advisors? shouldn’t he have been rich?

[mossmx]

It has to do with the Medieval England social status hierarchy.

We know from episode 01x06 (A Remedy to Cure All Ills) that up to that point Gaius had been a serf to Uther, which is most part as saying he was a slave. Canon obviously never goes too much into the social system and it's not known for historical accuracy, but I still would assume BBC Merlin canon serfdom precluded Gaius from owning property and getting paid as a freeman would, so he couldn't accumulate any kind of wealth during that time.

Afterwards, even as a freeman, he would still have to pay dues/taxes to his Lord (in this case King). I'm not really sure how much of this applies since Gaius didn't use any land and I'm not an historian... All the same, I'd assume that his lower status meant that even if he sat at the council he was i no way regarded the same as a Noble would have and his payment would have been just enough for him to get by.

I'm forever fascinated by the fact he was a serf, because not only that poses him as lower in status than Merlin (which I pin as paesant - he could move freely away from the land his family was working and Uther actually "hired" him as his son's manservant/domestic servant), it also poses the question: was he was born as such because of his parents indentured servitude (how many generations long?) or did Gaius became Uther's serf after some event tied to magic/the Purge?

In either cases, he's still poor...

[rosefpramy]

my question is why was gaius paid dust when he was court physician and sat at the table with uther’s most trusted advisors? shouldn’t he have been rich?

[shutupandmakemepizzaroll]

yeah but i like when merlin is just a little bit inhuman. i like when he’s got pointed ears that seem too elvish to be coincidental. i like when his eyes are just a little too golden, more than other magic users. i like when he’s unreadable and off-putting. i like when people realize his abilities go far beyond that of a mortal man, and they can’t help but wonder if he’s even a man at all

[queenpersephonekore]

I desperately NEED a fic where Uther executes Merlin after somehow finding out about his magic, and Arthur straight up loses his mind and just... walks away. From his father. From the hatred of magic. From his knights. From his friends. From his people.

From Camelot.

He's done. Merlin is gone, and nothing means anything anymore.

Uther burned Merlin while Arthur was in the dungeons for protesting. Uther who claimed to love Arthur's mother, and still bargained with her life for a son.

I want Uther to see his son's devotion (feelings realized too late, too late) to the dead servant boy. To realize that unlike him, Arthur would never have sacrificed the love of his life for a legacy.

I want Uther to realize that Arthur's love for a dead sorcerer is far greater and purer and more selfless than Uther's obsession for Ygraine ever was. (Because Arthur would never take his anger out on innocents. Cannot bear to imagine what Merlin would say if he did. Caring about a sorcerer's opinion, loving the sorcerer -Not really his father's perfect son, eh?)

And I want Uther to realize that he, King Uther Pendragon, has done to his son what he accused Nimueh of doing to him. (And knew, always, deep down that she didn't.)

I want Morgana, so recently "rescued" from the clutches of her sweet sister, to find out that the boy, once a friend, who poisoned her to save Arthur and Camelot and was rewarded with his death for it, was like her all along.

I want Morgause to exclaim in delight to Morgana that with the Crown Prince having taken himself out of the way, Camelot is ripe for the taking.

And for Morgana to hear this and think -none of this makes sense, what even is the point?

I want Arthur's last words ever to his father to be that he would never forgive him for this.

That in killing the sorcerer who had prevented Arthur from ending Uther's miserable worthless life, he's lost his son forever.

Uther Pendragon's young dynasty built on blood and bones and tears and screams and ash did not have it's legacy robbed by magic.

The legacy walked away.

And it will keep walking, wandering, alone from this land to that, until over a thousand years later, when it finds its soul's mate again, in a world forever changed to the both of them.

[rosefpramy]

i eat so good when authors give me blindly jealous af arthur in fics yum

[yourdeargatsby]

so tired of all these fics where merlin is captured and is like "p-please n-n-n-n-no" like this hoe didn't show up to camelot, immeadiately commit aggravated assault, get arrested, get out of prison, continue to try both commit aggravated assault and regicide, and then within the next 30 minutes of the episode commit like 3 counts of murder 😭😭

[rosefpramy]

just read the best multi chapter merthur fanfic i’ve ever come across and they didn’t even end up together. excuse me while i go stare at the ceiling for the longest time

[rosefpramy]

hugo basically telling zoe that she doesn’t need to read the contract should have been the first red flag. like girl i would’ve tripled checked

[rosefpramy]

am i the only one who actually likes amaia? like sorry that’s my princess

[rosefpramy]

nah that olympo guy gets so close to them, it’s so creepy. back the f up man

[rosefpramy]

PAUSE! robert lightwood is gay??

[rosefpramy]

not me being excited about a potential kevin day duology when i haven’t even read the golden raven yet