A female!Merlin AU but not actually. He's just a closeted transmasc. In canon era. Is this anything?
featuring a repressed!Arthur Pendragon who thinks he got feelings for a girl for the first time in his life (he's gay) (it's internalised homophobia) only for Merlin to come out to him and now Arthur has to confront the fact that it doesn't change his feelings. instead, it just makes it worse. welcome to gay crisis
meanwhile Merlin is worried that Arthur is behaving strange around him and ohmygod what if he doesn't actually accept me?
angst ensues













