Apr 15
Just how there's jarlic, I imagine Merlin, maddened by grief, created ✨ jarthur ✨
Yes, it's a jar with Arthur's body parts/head preserved.
Yes, he talks to it.
Yes, he's not doing great mentally.
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Just how there's jarlic, I imagine Merlin, maddened by grief, created ✨ jarthur ✨
Yes, it's a jar with Arthur's body parts/head preserved.
Yes, he talks to it.
Yes, he's not doing great mentally.
Just finished Red, White & Royal Blue movie
THEY ARE SO MERTHUR
AND THE MOVIE WAS SO GOOD
THE ACTING 🤌🤌🤌
EVERYTHING ABOUT IT REALLY
This month is SO full of good queer series/movies, I'm so high on it rn
Their is always this moment in "Arthur returns" fics where the subject of how government has changed comes up and Merlin invariably goes "Oh yeah we have this thing called democracy now and it's really good haha" and each time I can't help but be taken back.
Cause look. I love Merlin but that boy is a hardcore, dyed in the wool Royalist if there ever was one. He believes in his King so much that he waited for more then a thousand years for the crisis bad enough that it would call Arthur back from Avalon to reclaim his throne, never doubting that he would return and he would fix everything when he did.
Merlin 100% believes in the institution of absolute monarchy as a result of Arthur. He would still be bitter about the Magna Carta in the year 2023 and have a dart board somewhere with a picture of Cromwell taped to it. He would be disgusted by the office of sovereign being reduced to figurehead celebrity and is convinced their hasn't been a proper sovereign since Anne Stuart. He calls the Hanovers "those posers from the continent". He likes the Windsors a little bit better but not much: George VI and Liz II won some points in his book for their services in World War 2, but he detests the advent of the modern "celebrity royal" for degrading the dignity of the crown to new lows.
Everything wrong with England and Britain, in his mind, is the fault of Parliament who he still sees as a bunch of unruly Barons and angry Roundheads squandering the nation's future to stay in power.
(If anything Arthur "I want what's best for my people always" Pendragon is the one much more into the idea of democracy and parliament, and would crush Merlin's hopes of simply dissolving to body by instead reforming it to make it more fair.)
day 3: vessel
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Fandoms: Merlin (TV) Relationships: Gwen/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin) Characters: Gwen (Merlin), Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, POV Gwen (Merlin), Married Couple, Established Relationship, Reminiscing
Summary: While cleaning out the spare room for her nephew to move in, Gwen finds some photographs from her and Arthurs wedding. Arwen Fest Day 2: Marriage
Arthur is in love with Merlin.
It’s a feeling Arthur can’t put his finger on. He never really can when it comes to Merlin. It’s unfathomable… just there. Somewhere. It slips away from him just when he thinks he is going to grasp it. He doesn’t know when it happened. One day he noticed, and it was as if it had always been this way. Even in his memories before Merlin feels as if he is waiting. Had he been waiting all that time?
He is himself when they are together— a version he didn’t know existed until Merlin came along. Words come easy, his thoughts run clearer. It’s just different when he is around, and yet the same. Things seem to just fit. Somehow. He doesn’t really get it. All he knows is he loves Merlin. Any further description is just semantics.
He thinks Merlin is his true self too, even though he knows there are secrets between them. Merlin is still different when they are alone, in a way he cant put his finger on. Arthur just knows. Like he knows which way is up.
Over the years that side of Merlin has been appearing less and less. It’s rare now to see That Merlin. He doesn’t know how he knows. He just does.
He reaches for Merlin and he isn’t there. He doesn’t know what happened, what changed, but something did. Even when they are alone, he cannot find Merlin. He misses him.
[Arthur’s in love... part 3/3]
Arthur is in love with Lancelot.
It’s a burning feeling at the back of his neck, in his arms and legs. He saw Lancelot and his heart started racing. Colours seemed sharper. There was hope. No matter what had happened, what he had to overcome, there was hope. He was all that was right in the world.
When their eyes met there was fire. When they trained together, when they fought side by side, he felt a rush of… something. And he chased that feeling. He need it, needed him. He still needs him. And he still loves him.
When he died, it was as if heavy iron chains had been clipped around his wrists and ankles. Like the world had become a swamp in which he had to trudge thought, with no end in sight. Food had tasted of nothing for so long. Gods, he has never known such grief.
Even after all this time, the world seems so much bleaker without him in it. Grey. Everything is permanently overcast. Arthur knows the colours will never be as bright again.
[Arthur’s in love... part 2/3]
even when Uther is basically a shell of himself and I have a teeny tiny almost non-existent part of my heart feeling sorry for him, Arthur says “I hope that this time you’ll be proud of me.”
I mean—
what kind of emotional—
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After everything Arthur has done at that point, he STILL thinks that Uther still sees him as a disappointment.
I just hope he was listening when Gwen told him he was precious, because GAH