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The thing about Merwaincelot is that Lancelot is Merlin’s dead wife and Merlin is Gwaine’s emotionally unavailable wife and then Gwaine dies so now Merlin has two dead wives
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Merwainecelot would be so funny if it happened because those boys would always be trying to tell each other that they are deserving of love, that they are good people, that they are each amazing, not just despite their mistakes, but because they have grown from them, while at the same time each of them has some of the worst self-esteem issues you've ever seen. And I could just see them bickering about it nonstop.
Lancelot: You two are the most beautiful people to ever grace the world with your presence, inside and out.
Gwaine: Do you own a mirror, love? I'm pretty sure that you and Merlin hold that title.
Merlin: lol, nope, you two are worth more than all that's in Camelot's vaults. I still don't understand why you want me here, when I'm in the company of such gods.
Lancelot: What are you talking about? If any of us are made from divinity, it's you two. I'm not even sure how you put up with a lowly peasant, murderer, horror, such as me.
Gwaine: What are you talking about? I'm a drunk and a scoundrel, I'm pretty sure any divinity is just your reflection on me.
Merlin: No, no, no, you two have it wrong. You, for whatever dumb reason, have chosen to keep proximity with an actual abomination. I'm not sure that you're sane, but I know I'm not deserving of this.
And it would just go on and on and on! Forever and always! These were actually their marriage vows!
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Merlin (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Gwaine/Lancelot/Merlin (Merlin), Established Lancelot/Merlin - Relationship Characters: Gwaine (Merlin), Merlin (Merlin), Lancelot (Merlin) Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hurt Gwaine (Merlin), Gwaine Knows About Merlin's Magic (Merlin), Exile, Canon Era, Lancelot Lives (Merlin) Summary:
Gwaine can’t stay in Camelot a second longer.
As soon as he manages to stand up on his own two feet, he’s gone. He leaves in the dead of night, with nothing but a note as goodbye.
He rides for as long as his body can physically endure before he needs to stop to throw up from the pain, force some water down his throat and keep going. And going. And going. The sun rises and sets and rises again, but Gwaine doesn’t dare stop.
He only has the vaguest idea about where he’s going, something Merlin mentioned once about where he might go if he were to leave Camelot which, of course, at the time they thought would never happen. Something about a lake by the mountains.
Gwaine’s well aware that there’s every chance that even if he finds the lake he’s looking for and even if that was, in fact, the lake Merlin meant, Merlin and Lancelot might still not be there. If they’re smart, they won’t be there. Or anywhere else Gwaine would know to look.
But still, he goes on. If he can’t find his friends, he’ll just return to the life of the wanderer.
The only place he can’t go is back.
since merlinthecharacter is a walking talking metaphor for queerness and for being torn between a duty and a dream always and forever the fact that lancelot and gwaine both fall in love with him and fight for him and die for him means they both live and die for the same impossible gay love that stands in the way of duty and must therefore never be addressed or consummated. this makes merlin both a protagonist-sized barrier between them and a mirror through which their tragic arthurian relationship is reflected back at them: loving the same man as an echo of the way their older counterparts loved each other. not to mention how lancelot knowing about merlin's magic and having the most intimate and secretive relationship with him out of anyone while all gwaine can do is suspect and yearn from the sidelines is a direct equivalent to gawain watching the guinevere/lancelot affair from afar and pretending he doesn't know what's going on for as long as he can. follow for more remarkable cornplating
Gwen: why is my husband unconscious?
Gwaine: he took the piss out of Merlin way too much.
Lancelot: and then he fell off his horse.
Gwen (knowing full well that Gwaine and Lancelot knocked her husband out): carry on then.