[ID: a comic meme of two characters talking with pictures of gwaine and percival from bbc's merlin edited onto them. in panel 1, gwaine says, "don't worry, I'll watch your back." in panel 2, percival imagines two people fighting together back to back, and gwaine imagines staring at a butt. end ID]
Gwaine: For what it's worth, we all got regrets. You'll move past it.
Percival: How did you learn to live with what you've done?
Gwaine: I decided not to care. I didn't care who I hurt, who paid me. And when Merlin put this team together, I thought it was one and done, that I'd go back to that. But Arthur, Leon, Elyan, and Merlin showed me that there was another way. And little by little, you get a piece of your soul back.
Gwaine is in love with Merlin, but Merlin is in love with Arthur. Gwaine encourages those two, but is obviously left heartbroken. Percival enters the story, he can see the crack in Gwaine and puts effort into helping him heal by just being his friend and showing him the world is not over. The two of them start as great friends, but slowly fall in love.
I think these two are great together. Love love. Honestly tempted to write about them. Gwaine is definitely turned on by someone bigger than him.
my newest hobby is tweeting things almost as shamelessly as posting here, then tweeting that i probably should've left said content for tumblr. then continue to tweet about merlin or good relationships/fanfic with zero engagement.
i'm losing followers there (if you can imagine) and gaining them here.
taking the rejection like gwaine.
bonus content
sorry i forgot what your lips looked like for a second there, bro.
shoutout to @katherynefromphilly as always cause i just got to the chapter in the One and Future fanfic where Arthur has that dream about Gwaine and friends...
Title: Save a Horse, ride a Knight
Writer: Laevateinn
Rating: T
Warnings: N/A
Medium/Word Count: 1k
Pairing/main characters: Gwaine/Percival
Up to 10 tags: Canon Divergence, Gwaine admitted he was of noble blood, Percival came to Camelot to work, Tournament, Favours, Gwaine is oblivious
Summary:
Imagine a world where Gwaine admitted being of noble blood and stayed as a knight, long before he actually does in the show. What if, in that world, he and the other Knights of the Round Table had met differently? What if Percival, for example, had decided to travel to Camelot and work there? Where he would have met Gwaine, and worked with him? Surely, these two can stay professional, or simply friends, right?
Here is @eachpeachpearplume and I's collaboration! A big thank you to the @bbcmerlin-reversebang mods for organising the event! It was a blast and I loved working with Peach the entire time!
About the collab that you can find on AO3:
Title: All the Way Back You Held Out Your Hand
Creators: eachpeachpearplum and Laevateinn
Pairing: Gwaine/Percival
Rating and length: E, 14.4k
Tags: Curses, Werewolf Gwaine, Angst with a Happy Ending, Kidnapping, Animal Transformation, Getting Together, Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Arm Wrestling, Tournaments
Summary:
It's not that Gwaine's complaining, not really, because this is definitely the friendliest conclusion he's ever seen to a kidnapping. It's way better than torture and starvation followed by either a dramatic rescue or his untimely demise, but yeah, being knocked unconscious, tied up in a shack, having gibberish chanted at him and then being let go again is very definitely strange.
Or: Gwaine gets kidnapped and cursed by an evil sorcerer, but it's okay