Okay but Will/Gwaine is now living in my head rent free thank you other anon for that. The chaos. The shade throwing. The angst when Will finds out Gwaine is a secret nobleman. The glorious terror I felt when my polyam brain went "ah but for Maximum Chaos, consider: Will/Gwaine/Merlin/Lancelot"
that would be a hell of a pairing, alfkjhg. especially when combined with my headcanon that Will has been using dice magicked by Merlin to cheat in whatever taverns are near enough to Ealdor for him to get there in a dayās ride.Ā
soooo, what iām saying is that Will encounters Gwaine in a tavern and swindles him at dice. or more likely, he swindles someone else (letās say some Soldiers TM obviously on leave), and said someone else gets pissed about it and calls his buddies over to kick Willās arse. at which point, Gwaine steps in cuz heās literally always ready to throw down just for funsies but especially to protect someone else. so Will and Gwaine end up fighting side by side against a crew of soldier thugs in a bar brawl, and itās not until theyāve made their daring escape that Gwaine is finally likeĀ āhey, why were those guys mad at you?ā and Willās like āoh i conned them out of 200 gold, but only cuz they were uppity noble pricksā and Gwaine is likeĀ āright on, my man, fight the powerā
and that is the story of how Will joined Gwaine on his cross-country bar crawling extravaganza, and they bond over their fondness for Merlin and also probably fall in love or something, idk