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that-nerd-who-writes-fanfiction · 14 days

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Part 3 of the Merlin Saves (tries to kill) Arthur fic

(Part 2)

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“Gaius, is there any way to break the curse completely?” Arthur asks. Merlin is more focused on the hand resting on his knee.

“I fear the only way will be to destroy the mother beast.”

“The other eight heads?” Merlin asks, knowing the answer.

Gaius nods gravely.

“I’ll have the knight’s prepare to ride out in an hour.” Arthur stood, his hand slipping away from Merlin’s knee as he mourned the loss. “Do you remember anything about where she was hiding?”

Merlin bit his lip and shook his head, not meeting Arthur’s eyes.

“Okay. I’ll have Gwaine and Sir Kay keep an eye on you once the snake wakes up again. For now stay here and do whatever Gaius says.” Arthur says as he steps away, then he looks to the physician. “Anything he needs, Gaius.”

“Of course, Sire.” Gaius bows his head

“Should I have George prepare your armour?” Gwen asked, standing up and already walking towards the door.

“Yes. Thank you, Guinevere.” Arthur said before leaving.

Gwen followed and Merlin looked at Gaius, a determined look in his eye.

“It can’t be killed without magic, can it?”

Gaius takes an apprehensive breath.

“I fear not.”

“Then you’ll have to get water from the well and deny that you saw me leave.” Merlin pushed himself up and made for his room, taking a bag with long flowing robes and a potion he keeps with them to keep his magic getting stuck.

Gaius was gone by the time he left his room so he scribbled a note saying “gone hunting” with an eight headed stick drawing. It… almost looked vaguely like the Fomorrah in the book. He was in a hurry. It did the job.

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This part was shorter than usual, but I honestly kinda forgot this existed. There’s probably another three parts to come, but I don’t know when I’ll get to them. I’m working on it. Leon’s knowing and unknowing treason is my main priority for this week, so that’ll be the next fic thing I post.

Also I just hit 750 followers and wanted to say thank you, i really didn’t think that many people would be interested in my ramblings about tragic gays but thanks! Happy to have you here :)

#bbc merlin #merlin #merlin emrys #arthur pendragon #merthur #a servant of two masters #gaius merlin #merlin fanfic #fix it fic #fix it #fic in progress #i’m bad at tagging #merlin fic #merlin bbc

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wumiings · 10 months

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merwencelot chaos demon moments

Gwen helping Merlin steal a statue

the infamous identity fraud incident

the fact that Merlin and Lancelot both get the ‘says something nice and then immediately panics and backtracks’ treatment from Gwen

“if you had to… Arthur or Lancelot?” “but I don’t have to and I never will~”

Merlin, at Gwen’s door in the middle of the night: “can I have your most fanciest sword pls” Gwen: “sure :)”

Lancelot “let me in on your kingdom-saving scheme and I will 100% lie to the crown prince for you” du Lac

Gwen catching Merlin stealing things (a dress, jewelry) on two separate occasions and just letting his ridiculous excuses slide

Lancelot encouraging Merlin to do magic in the middle of a busy hallway

“you’re supposed to be dead” “sorry~”

Lancelot meeting the great dragon and going “this might as well happen”

Gwen knocking Merlin out w/ a pan twice during the fomorrah incident and then it seems like they never tell anyone abt it??

Merlin using an aging spell disguise to save Gwen on two (2) separate occasions

Lance + Gwen = king and queen of just rolling with a magic reveal

literally just [sees some magic] “oh shit merlin?? ahh that’s cool that’s cool”

#bbc merlin #mergwencelot #merwencelot #merwen #mercelot #gwencelot #they are everything to me #we deserved to see the three of them commit more crimes together #and do magic #just my personal opinion

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imhereimqueerimreadytodie · 2 years

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I was re-watching Merlin for the hundredth time and I realised something

In the Servant of two Masters (s4 e6) Merlin has to kill Arthur but keeps failing despite us knowing that he has killed before and would be totally capable to do so again if he so wished. So it didn't really make sense, right? (Unless we consider the "his love for Arthur was fighting against the Fomorrah" and all that)

However, one dialogue stood out to me

At one point Morgana tells him "Everything that makes you Merlin will be gone"

(And that's why when Merlin comes back and Gaius makes him his favourite meal Merlin hates it)

So this means that his loyalty for Arthur and his personality are not the only things that were changed. All of his stealth and magic were also eliminated by the Fomorrah because those are still (a very significant) part of Merlin. And that's why he never tried to kill Arthur with magic because that would be something that Merlin would do

In conclusion: Morgana sabotaged her own plan without even knowing it, because she took a perfectly good assassin and turned him into a useless servant

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

#i needed to rant #sorry #it is entirely possible that somone else thought about thus before me #but i never saw this theory before and i just needed to share #bbc merlin #merlin #morgana #king arthur #servant of two masters #merlin season 4 #episode 6

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ladyofthelake · 6 months

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Once again stating that I am dying on the hill that Merlin was not yet taken by the fomorrah in A Servant of Two Masters (since we didn't see it move until he got back to Camelot) hence he remembered ROCK EMBRACE and boys being boys they never spoke about it because fEEliNGs so yes Merlin remembered the hug no I will not be taking questions and in this thesis I will

#merthur #don't even THINK about telling me different #that was Merlins smile when he approcahed Arthur and Gwaine #and nothing is gonna change my mind #good day :)

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merthurotica · 1 year

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Since I'm hyperfixating, why not make some art about it? I just keep thinking about the way Uther destroyed this family, directly or indirectly, and how much Arthur was loved by these three people he never even met. ( Yes, I'm including Agravaine. I'm convinced that Morgana used the fomorrah to rob Arthur of his last living family.)

#bbc merlin #merlin #fanart #arthur pendragon #tristan dubois #igraine dubois #agravaine dubois

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tiodolma · 1 year

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all the deaths of merlin's loved ones had a connection to arthur and morgana bruh lmaoo

season 1

WILL - morgana was the first to offer support to merlin's cause, arthur followed, will got hit with an arrow for arthur

season 2

FREYA - merlin stole morgana's dress for her coz he wanted to make her more confident and happy, arthur ran a sword thru freya in her bastet form

BALINOR - dragon's payment was to be freed in exchange for telling merlin how to cure the curse (kill morgana), merlin and arthur persuaded (guilted) balinor enough to come back, balinor takes a hit for merlin

morgana loses alvarr and the other radicals, gains an ally in morgause

season 3

NOBODY THAT MERLIN MORGANA LOVES DIES. (yay?)

merlin gains an ally in gwaine (but dude dislikes magic so he's kinda like arthur too)

season 4

LANCELOT - morgana unleashes dorocha to spread havoc, lancelot sacrifices himself to stop merlin from sacrificing himself in arthur's place

at this point, morgana loses morgause too.. and then agravaine and helios later (close confidants and allies of morgana).

season 5

FINNA - arthur and morgana both chase merlin and the sorceress down to the point where finna sacrificed herself for merlin

DAEGAL - morgana machinations made him and daegal meet, daegal works for and then against morgana, takes an arrow meant for merlin

at this point morgana loses daegal and also the whole catha sect. (possible strong allies of morgana). Notably though, this is Morgana real attempt to kill Merlin once and for all (bruh it took morgana 5 seasons and it wasnt even for revenge, but just a step in the destabilization plan) merlin has no real magical allies now. tho gwaine is there as next closest thing (but not magic related)

it's interesting how it's all interconnected though.

S1 and S2 Morgana started out as Merlin's biggest direct and unknowing supporter, with her being the first to offer support to save his mom and also her dress clothed Merlin's girlfriend in her final resting place.

Fires of Idirsolas tore them apart and lead to Morgana and Balinor slipping from Merlin's life.

S3 was a respite with no familial deaths. Though it was the tipping point with the addition of Gwaine serving as Merlin's new sword ally (kinda like replacement for Lancelot/Morgana but not quite).

S4 Morgana steps into her power and destiny to terrorize the whole community, although the price merlin paid was his own and last true best friend and ally as well.

S5 Morgana is at the peak of her hunt for Emrys and her quest to truly embitter Arthur against all magic-folk. She personally targets t kill Merlin using Daegal and was finally successful (more successful than the fomorrah incident at least).

Merlin lost friends and allies first tho. It's because the machinations of his destiny and his freedom constantly being tightly tethered to a unclear future (arthur) that he pushed Morgana (and also Mordred) away, turning them from strong allies to really bitter enemies.

#mergana notes #mergana #bbc merlin #bbc morgana #merlin critical #merlin thoughts #essays #merlin crit #notes

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pigeonwhumps · 2 years

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8 & 50

Thanks for the ask!

8. Favorite trope to write

Hurt/comfort. Very closely followed by whump, but... I like to comfort characters after they've been hurt they say in the middle of writing an arc where a character does not get comfort. It's more fun to write if I can give them some sort of comfort. Makes me sadder sometimes, actually.

50. Weirdest story idea you've ever had

Hmm... probably the one I had the other day, entirely inspired by a friend on a BBC Merlin Discord server, of a BBC Merlin fic from the point of view of a fomorrah called Kevin.

Alternatively, one of my fanfics has an assassin-eating ram called Esmeralda, and I was tempted to write the scene of him eating an assassin from the ram's pov.

I'm not sure they're... that weird though? Idk. I've definitely had weirder ideas that I can't remember rn.

#answered asks

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none-ofthisnonsense · 1 month

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Merlin S4E12, “The Sword in the Stone: Part One”

Beltane!

Merlin is so mischievous bahaha

I’m not that much of a Merthur fan (I don’t mind it, and the fnadom is nice, I just don’t have any seriously strong opinions about any Merlin ship) but that scene really does make me believe in it.

Cheeky grin Merlin: check, check, check

Oh. Arthur missed Gwen…

OH SHIT CAMELOT IS ON FIRE

Leon! And Elyan getting an actual personality!

…who are they??

Oh it’s Helios’ army!

His sister with his brother, and they’re both against him…

Merlin is right.

Leon my love for you will never end.

Helios, you’re forgetting that Morgana grew up here.

Okay I am a sucker for an “I can try”.

I always forget how tall Gwaine is.

Gwaine not even fighting…

Camelot is burning. And if there’s one thing Arthur is loyal to, it’s his people.

EALDOR?? YOU’RE BRINGING KING ARTHUR TO EALDOR?! Though we’ll probably get to see Hunith again! But also what the fuck that’s such a stupid idea

If Arthur gets captured, he’s so impressionable right now that it would be ruinous.

MORGANA??!! I LIKED YOU…

Helios is smart and that does make for a nice break. I like Helios’ character.

Peasant Arthur looks like a teenage girl in summer going out with her friends

“My goooOOold!”

Is that a relative of the Fomorrah? (Or however it’s spelt…)

Elyan please don’t die.

All this “one true…” is making me think of the “one true king” (= Arthur).

Agravaine is definitely planning on betraying Morgana. Also are you in love with her because if so ew

holy shit she makes me want to be a lesbian.

Blue eyes here, blue eyes there, blue eyes everywhere

I thought Ealdor was in Cenred’s kingdom? Has Lot taken it over? That seems unlikely.

The more I see him, the more I feel like I’ve seen that actor before.

ARTHUR HUGGING A TREE

…c’est censé être Tristan et Iseut ça?

So he’s knocking on wood now. Great.

Damn, how tall is Colin Morgan?

Oh Merlin is ENJOYING THIS

Merlin and Arthur’s TEAMWORK AND FIGHTING TOGETHER

Nothing better happen to Gwaine. WAIT SHE’S GOING TO TORTURE HIM HOW DID I NOT REALISE THIS

Gwaine your loyalty will be the death of you

I love scenes like this between Merlin and Arthur. His ABSOLUTE FAITH.

(But also, Merlin, you may be slightly biased.)

Gwaine I fucking love you. (S3E4, “Gwaine”, is second on my rewatch list.)

I can’t with Arthur im those sandals.

MERLIN AND HUNITH ARE THE BEST PARENT-CHILD EVER.

Who is that?

GWEN??!!

THE MUSIC

This was a great episode.

#Merlin #bbc Merlin #Merlin s4 #Merlin s4e12 #the sword in the stone #the sword in the stone part one #Merlin liveblog

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sneakyboymerlin · 1 month

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This deleted scene. This transcript for it. The fact that it took place during the filming of 4x06 A Servant of Two Masters. What the fuque…

Transcript: https://chayiana.livejournal.com/64956.html

#1) Fomorrah!Merlin tampered with Arthur’s weapon at the start of the scene #2) Even Fomorrah!Merlin is feeling a little naughty for Gwaine #He might not like it when it’s Arthur’s food but he’ll take Gwaine ‘filthy fingers’ any time 😏#no but fr he was really pushing for Gwaine Superiority here #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #arthur pendragon #the knights of the round table #merwaine #mergwaine #fomorrah!merlin #murderlin #video #audio #transcript

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emachinescat · 3 years

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Night and Morning with My Tears

A Merlin Fan-Fiction

by @emachinescat

@febuwhump day 20 - betrayal

Summary: Takes place when Merlin is Morgana’s prisoner in "A Servant of Two Masters.” When Morgana looks into Merlin’s eyes, what she sees there surprises and angers her in equal measure. Merlin has no right to act betrayed, not when his betrayal was so much worse.

Characters: Morgana, Merlin

Words: 1,756

TW: None

Notes: Takes place during “A Master of Two Servants,” with flashbacks to “The Fires of Idirsholas,” so there will be spoilers for both of those episodes!

Keep reading here, or on AO3!

If you enjoy, please consider liking, commenting, or re-blogging, and you can follow me for more content like this! :)

I was angry with my friend:

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

- From “A Poison Tree” by William Blake

And I watered it in fears.

Night and morning with my tears:

And I sunned it with smiles.

And with soft deceitful wiles.

Morgana Pendragon stands before her prisoner, eyes cold and green like the deep forest. Despite her anger at her men for failing so miserably in their task, she cannot say that she is displeased to see Merlin again. Although the servant’s mere presence incites a furnace of rage within her, he could prove very useful in her plans to kill Arthur – and if she is able to play with him in the process, make him pay for what he did to her sister, then all the better.

Merlin hangs, unconscious, from his wrists. He is too tall for the stooping ceiling of her hovel, so his legs fold awkwardly beneath him. His chin rests against his chest, and he sports a nasty wound on one shoulder. She will probably end up healing it eventually, as infection is beginning to set in. She needs Merlin healthy for her plans for him. Still, she supposes she can let him suffer a bit before she takes on the task of cleaning the wound. Any amount of pain he endures will be nothing compared to what he has inflicted upon her, time and time again.

When she throws a cold bucket of water into his face, he wakes, coughing, and gasping; she smirks. When he regains his bearings and locks eyes with her, any satisfaction or pleasure she receives from his struggles melts away like candle wax under a flame. It has been a long time since she has looked into those very blue eyes from mere feet away, and what she finds in them is unsettling and unexpected – they are familiar, but foreign, and they stir up memories that she prefers to keep hidden, even from herself.

Stolen glances, conspiring winks, soft smiles. Fighting bandits in Ealdor, not out of duty, not for Camelot, but out of loyalty, for a friend. Defeating a clay monster, teasing Arthur, smuggling Mordred out of the citadel. This is a part of her life so disconnected from herself that she has all but convinced herself that it happened to someone else.

But a chilly fierceness has descended over his eyes like a veil, and it is as if she is looking at an entirely different person all together. Long ago, back before Morgana knew of her powers and heritage, when she was young and naive and living a life of luxury, Merlin had never failed to have a smile on his face. He spoke softly and kindly, and Morgana had loved the compassion for others she could sense in his gaze. That innocence has vanished, leaving him suspicious, cruel, and hard.

There is one emotion that Morgana detects in those blue eyes that causes a righteous fury to swell inside her like a summer tempest, tints her vision red and sends her hurtling back into her past, to the worst moment of her entire life, and she has to restrain herself from ending Merlin’s miserable existence then and there. Pace yourself, Morgana. You have use for him yet.

But it is a hard battle. Indignation seizes her heart and squeezes. How dare Merlin have the audacity to look betrayed when he looks back at her? How dare he act as if she is in the wrong, as if she is the one who has turned against her friends? Morgana has no friends, not anymore. She has no family. And she has Merlin to thank for that.

He has no right to act like she is betraying him by capturing him, holding him as her prisoner in the hovel he might as well have picked out for her. Morgana is the only one who has the right to feel betrayed – what she has planned for Merlin is nothing, nothing, compared to what he did to her.

***

Dying is strange, if you think about it. It is the one thing, other than being born, that unites all of humanity, all creatures. Two people may live out lives on opposite ends of the map, may never meet one another; one may be a king, the other a slave, one a scholar, the other a simpleton. And yet, someday, they both will die. Death unites us all, even as it tears us apart. The funny thing is, although everyone is plodding forward to the same destiny, only those who have walked the path to completion know what it is like. Death is the great equalizer, but no one who meets it can divulge its secret. It is at once the most common experience of mankind and its greatest secret.

Morgana came closer to discovering that secret than most people who have played the delicate strings of life and death when she was poisoned by a man she called her friend. Even now, when she recalls that moment when she realized that something was wrong – I can’t breathe, oh gods – her blood drains from her body and fear replaces it, cold and numbing and terrible. She remembers with complete clarity the feel of her throat swelling, can hear the rasp of her breath and see her vision becoming a vignette, dark around the edges, closing in, prowling ever closer.

Dying was bad enough. Dying of poison, feeling her body shut down, attack itself, turn on her, was hell. By far the worst part of Morgana’s death, however, was the moment she realized who was responsible. Her entire world came crashing down when her eyes, bulging from the panicked strain of trying to pull in breath where none existed, traveled from the discarded water-skin to the servant she called her friend. If she had doubted his involvement before, it was confirmed with the expression on his face. He reeked of regret and guilt; shame radiated off of him and contaminated the air around them.

Merlin had poisoned her. Merlin, the clumsy, goofy, kind-hearted, loyal servant of the prince, the man she had risked her life for more than once, who had treated her like a person instead of royalty, who had been her friend when she felt alone and afraid as her powers blossomed – Merlin was killing her. It was like she had been stabbed in the heart, that realization, and for a brief moment that could have been the rest of her life, that knowledge that she was dying at the hand of her friend hurt far more than her closing airway, than her lungs starved for air, than the pain and the fear and the darkness of death swooping ever closer.

She backed away, her limbs clumsy; they no longer belonged to her, only the living had use of them. Through pain-hazed vision, she watched as Merlin walked over, sat near her, saw his lips move without hearing his words, and then he was gathering her into his arms, holding her close, and she tried to fight, tried to call out, tried to escape, but – she was helpless.

He sat with her, held her, rocked her like she was a child, and she felt his face against the top of her head, felt warm tears hit her scalp, and she couldn’t breathe, her ears rang like tinny chimes and her vision flickered, her hands and feet tingled like she’d been sitting on them all day, and her chest wouldn’t move.

Oh gods.

The feel of his touch made her want to scream, burning vile fingerprints into her skin. She heard a terrible noise, a choking, garbled sound, and realized it was her. She tried to squirm away from him, from this disgusting facsimile of comfort, partially wondering what his game was, why he was acting like he cared about her, what he could possibly gain by holding her as she died of a poison he had administered. The other part of her knew that it didn’t matter, and resigned itself to the fact that the last touch she was going to feel before she died was that of the man who had killed her.

Her last few seconds of consciousness were comprised of pure terror; she floated in that empty space between life and death, felt everything and nothing, and was consumed by her fear and the overwhelming, blood-freezing understanding that she didn’t want to die. She had done nothing to deserve this; she had only been his friend. It didn’t matter that she didn’t wish for death, that she had plans for her life, that she could have made a difference, that she had a sister she was just getting to know and that she could do so much more. All control had been stripped away, any choice and free will had been stolen in an act of violence and betrayal that she simply could not understand.

Right before she gave in to the pain and the cold and the dark, she realized that she hated Merlin.

When she awoke, sometime later, to Morgause’s concerned brown eyes, not knowing how she could be alive but grateful nonetheless, that feeling of hatred hadn’t dimmed. In fact, it had grown, and it continued to fester, burrowing deep into her soul like a cherished tumor, one that she fed and nurtured, loved and despised in equal measure.

And she waited, knowing that a time would come to repay Merlin for the terrible sins he had committed against her, for taking the trust she had in him and crushing it beneath his ratty servant’s boot.

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No, Merlin does not deserve to feel betrayed, to look at her through eyes tinted with hurt. He has no right to speak of loyalty, or friends. He pretends at being loyal to Arthur, but Morgana has seen his heart, has felt the rot inside of his soul, and knows that it is only a matter of time before he betrays his beloved king as well. Merlin is no mere servant – he is a hollow man, filled only with cruelty and hate, and sooner or later, he will destroy everything he loves.

Morgana is only helping that process along with the Fomorroh. She relishes the look of betrayal melting into fear. His wide eyes and hitched breath whisper comfort to her innermost hurts.

And when he screams, she smiles.

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