“you are special, you and you alone can draw out that sword” 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫 only arthur can pull the sword because merlin wills it. because merlin’s controlling it, it’s merlin’s story. and he only wants arthur to be the hero of it. 😐 he devoted everything to The Story and making sure arthur was The Hero and in the end it wasn’t enough and it didn’t save him and it didn’t fix anything. you turned the man you loved into a living statue and forced everyone to recognize him as such and all it did was turn him into a martyr, a symbol, a story. so you wrote the story and killed the man, was it worth it. would you do it again. when the story resets will you change anything. or will you let him die over and over and over so the whole entire world remembers him and loves him and thinks of him all the time, just as you do. would you rather your love die after one natural life or live on and on and on for centuries as the legend you made him. the legend where you can never even touch him. the legend where he’s always wearing that armor and always wearing those gloves and always having a barrier between you because you can touch a man but you can’t touch a legend, you can’t touch a statue, once you’ve turned him to gold you can’t make contact any more. but hey, you made it a great story didn’t you? well didn’t you.