#elyan

[andromaex]

elyan x merlin headcanons that live in my brain rent free:

elyan is one of the few knights who genuinely likes listening to merlin complain. he'll just sit there like "go on." biggest mistake of his life. merlin has three years of grievances ready to go.

merlin falls asleep everywhere. tables, horses, castle walls. elyan starts keeping an eye out for him and makes sure nobody bothers him.

elyan teaches merlin how to properly use a sword. merlin remains terrible at it.

merlin teaches elyan how to identify medicinal herbs. elyan pretends not to care but starts bringing him rare plants he finds while patrolling.

they become an unstoppable gossip duo. if information exists, they know it.

elyan is the first person merlin tells about being Emrys because he trusts him enough to risk it.

elyan absolutely joins merlin in making fun of arthur and unlike gwaine, elyan can keep a straight face.

after magic becomes legal, elyan becomes the knight most likely to tell people to stop being weird about it. "it's magic, not the plague. get over yourself."

half of camelot assumes they're dating years before they actually are. the other half assumes they're already married.

they get together because one day somebody asks if they're a couple and elyan says "not currently" and merlin spends the next week staring into the distance processing that answer.

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Unshakeable opinion - Elyan should have been a sorcerer. Why did he leave Camelot and wander around for years without getting back in contact with Gwen? Magic. Why did he connect so strongly with that druid boy? They had something in common. You could have had SO much delicious angst if Merlin had just caught him doing magic as they escaped the castle of Firyen. Either you have Merlin and Elyan keeping this secret from Gwen, even as Elyan rises to become a knight OR you have Gwen and Arthur courting all the while she's keeping this secret about her family from him because she cannot see another loved one in Camelot's dungeons, not again AND Elyan is keeping Merlin's secret from her. Elyan does magic in front of Arthur while possessed by the druid boy and it's like all his past sins are folding in on him at once - his shame over what he did at the druid camp combined with this new terrible choice he has to make, Tom's death and Gwen's S1 arrest, all coming together to the moment he makes an impossible choice. ALSO ALSO ALSO if Merlin knows about Elyan's magic does he tell Elyan that Morgana is evil? Does Elyan try to convince his sister to leave her? Gwen loves Morgana but Elyan just knows her as the person who tried to hurt his sister. What do you do when your sister won't let you protect her? Plus there's fabulous angst potential about him being sorcerer and knight at the same time. Maybe Gwen only finds out the truth when he dies for her. Much 2 consider.

[andromaex]

Let’s talk about Elyan headcanons bc as a fandom we don’t talk about him enough!

I’ll start; Modern Elyan would be super into modding cars and invites the rest of the crew over to “help” but ends up doing it all himself bc everyone keeps messing up and does not understand how expensive car parts are

YESSS and also Elyan absolutely has a garage playlist that switches violently between early 2000s rock, niche indie bands nobody else has heard of, and the most embarrassing pop songs imaginable and if anyone comments on it he’s like “shut up this song is technically important to the process.”

Also he keeps asking people to hand him tools and immediately getting annoyed when they don’t know the difference between a torque wrench and a socket wrench (“why are you all like this.”)

Gwaine is banned from touching anything expensive after “the coolant incident.” Merlin is banned because he somehow always manages to make things worse while trying to help. Arthur THINKS he’s useful but mostly just stands there holding a flashlight wrong. Leon is the only person Elyan trusts near the actual car.

And Gwen absolutely knows more about cars than she lets on because she grew up listening to Elyan rant about engines for like ten years straight. Half the time she quietly fixes problems before he notices and lets him think he figured it out himself because it makes him happy. i also lit made character sheets for all merlin characters recently for a fic that might never make it into reality so hear it is mine Elyan Smith - he/him - pan + demisexual (figured out the pan part immediately. took him YEARS to realize most people do not need an emotional bond before attraction kicks in. genuinely thought everyone else was exaggerating) - 5'9 - Film + Media Studies major - Gwen’s younger brother and somehow both the most and least functional member of the family - walks around campus like he’s being followed by an invisible camera crew - thrifted fashion king. layered jackets. silver rings. fingerless gloves during weather that absolutely does not require them - has directed exactly three short films that made people cry and twelve that made professors ask “what was the intended message here” - says he’s “between artistic eras” whenever he misses deadlines - owns a camcorder he treats like a beloved child - records EVERYTHING. there are candid videos of the entire friend group doing embarrassing nonsense archived on four separate hard drives - half his projects are accidentally just “arthur pendragon experiencing emotions” - claims it’s “visual storytelling” when everyone accuses him of shipping merlin and arthur - hopeless romantic unfortunately trapped inside the body of someone who acts too cool to care - falls in love slowly, catastrophically, and all at once - the type to remember tiny details about people for YEARS - once traveled forty minutes because a friend casually mentioned liking a specific pastry - flirts by becoming deeply emotionally available and staring at someone like they hung the moon - physically incapable of casual dating. tried it once. hated every second - everyone thinks he’s effortlessly charismatic but he actually rehearses conversations in advance - has a playlist for every person he loves - gets absurdly attached to professors who give meaningful feedback - cinematography snob. will pause movies to rant about lighting composition - cried after watching “Dead Poets Society” and then got mad at himself for crying - Gwaine keeps trying to get him on dating apps and Elyan keeps deleting them after one conversation because “what do you MEAN people flirt without knowing each other’s favorite childhood memory” - protective older brother energy despite literally being younger than Gwen because she spent most of childhood protecting HIM - Arthur was TERRIFIED of him at first because Elyan kept silently observing him - Merlin accidentally ended up in one of his films freshman year and the clip of him laughing in fluorescent lighting is still Elyan’s favorite shot he’s ever captured - the only knight capable of roasting people with the calm tone of an indie coming-of-age narrator - listens to frank ocean, mitski, lorde, and weird experimental indie artists with monthly listeners in the double digits - has definitely said “love is stored in the mundane details” unironically

[pandalikeelf]

knights of the round table week | day 3: steel and shadow (elyan and lancelot)

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OFFICIAL SWEETIEPIE POST!!

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No 03 // No 05

Worthyprnce Magazine — Special Edition The Round Table No 04: Elyan Smith !

[cynthia39100]

Merlin rewatch -- S4E10: A Herald of the New Age

It’s interesting how the knights perceived Elyan's action this episode.

It's good that they recognised the fact that Elyan's sister was exiled and that did affect him. Better late than never...

It also made for a relatively valid excuse to not inform Arthur something, even though I don't think going into cantatonic state would make Arthur think his loyalty is divided... Unless he was referring to Elyan trying to attack them in a panic?

It also implies that the knights didn't think Arthur would be able to be considerate of Elyan for feeling for his sister... which I don't like.

Now that they had to arrest Elyan for trying to assasinate Arthur. They each approached it in a different way which is interesting.

Leon, having served the crown loyalty the longest, couldn't fathom that a knight would want to antagonise the king.

Percival, perhaps because having lost his family to a king, perhaps being the more considerate, empathetic person in the mix, pointing out that Elyan has every reason to want to kill Arthur.

Gwaine, possibly wanted to lighten the mood, or to evade the difficult dilemma at hand, made a joke about himself.

From story telling perspective I think it's clever to use the last episode's event as a distraction to delay the reveal of what actually happened, both on Elyan and Arthur's sides. On the other hand, it did seem to undermine Elyan's (potential) distress over Gwen's exile once the real reason of Elyan's rebellion was out... I do appreciate that they at least didn't pretend Elyan and Gwen weren't siblings... it's all we can ask of the show at this point.

Also poor Elyan. He never got to show much of his character in episodes that seemed to be structured around him. The most he showed in this one was that he was a kind person who immediately sympathised with the ghost and offered comfort. Even that, it was unclear how much he was influenced by magic...

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