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ambriel-angstwitch · 9 months

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Unknown/Nth is Ridiculously Merthur Coded

At least in my hyperfixated mind. So I actually was thinking about this concept before Speak Now TV released and it was pushed to the side so now here it is.

You know the distance never made a difference to me I swam a lake of fire, I'd have walked across the floor of any see. Ignored the vastness between all that can be seen And all that we believe

Merlin would have done anything for Arthur. He put himself in pain and hard situations to protect Arthur. He wanted to believe that one day Arthur would create the prophesied Albion and return of Albion despite how different that was from the current situation.

So I thought you were like an angel to me. Funny how true colours shine in darkness and in secrecy. If there were scarlet flags, they washed down in the mind of me

This speaks both to the way their relationship was kept in secrecy and how they adored each other. But it’s also reminiscent of the secrets that Merlin kept and how Arthur was so blind to them. Merlin wasn’t the best at keeping his magic secret despite using them usually in the shadows. He’s even admitted to it but Arthur never noticed it if he did he choose to ignore it because it would only cause him pain. If Merlin had magic he’s been betraying him since the beginning. He’d “need” to kill the one person he trusted most.

Where a blinding light shone on you every night. And either side of my sleep Where you were held frozen like an angel to me

The moment with Merlin in Ealdor is forever frozen in Arthur’s mind. The light eliminated Merlin’s features

It ain't the being alone. It ain't the empty home, baby You know I'm good on my own Sha la la, baby. You know, it's more the being unknown So much of the living, love, is the being unknown

Merlin understands more than anyone that being unknown is painful. But now years in the future all of his friends are gone. He used to be ok with being alone and having an empty but now that he’s experienced the full castle with the knights and Arthur it’s so much harder to be completely unknown. The unknown is the worst of it. But in a way he’s been unknown most of his life even Arthur didn’t really know him

You called me angel for the first time My heart leapt from me You smile now, I can see its pieces still stuck in your teeth And what's left of it, I listen to it tick Every tedious beat going unknown as any angel to me

Ok these lyrics I don’t really have a connection to Merthur for other than Arthur feeling betrayed when the magic is revealed but I just really love the imagery of the betrayal being the loved one devouring and destroying the heart that once beat for them.

Do you know, I could break beneath the weight. Of the goodness, love, I still carry for you

Everything they do they do for each other. They’ve both done so much just to keep each other safe, some of which they regret.

That I'd walk so far just to take. The injury of finally knowing you

Arthur finally gets to see everything that Merlin’s been hiding. It hurts that Merlin never trusted him and that Merlin isn’t exactly what he thought but it’s an injury Arthur worked towards and it’s worth it to understand the man he loves. (Or alternatively canon wise Arthur literally was injured when he finally knew Merlin)

You know, it's more the being unknown And there are some people, love, who are better unknown

And to end it on an angsty note. Merlin feels it’s better for people to have never known him. Because all of the people who have ever known about him have died.

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purpleandstarlight · 8 months

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I am planning and somewhat writing a BBC Merlin rewrite where:

-Merlin and Arthur are both women. Merlin is a lesbian and Arthur (here named Arthelia) is bi. Merthur endgame even though it's slow burn af.

-Artheria is very much raised in a "manly" way bc Uther wanted a son but got a daughter and with his wife dead and no intention to remarry that's what he went with. She grew up having to prove herself to the men in her life (The knights, Uther himself) and WILL skin alive anyone who tries to say men are stronger than her just because she's a woman, but internalized misogyny exists because of how Uther raised her + the companies she keeps being usually men. She goes very "I'm not like other girls" at times, but she has character development for that too dw.

-Morgana is good cause I loved early serie Morgana. She's also a huge lesbian and spends some time being in love with Gwen (i ship them) but seeing as i LOVE SingleButHappy!Morgana and Lancelot and Gwen are cute together, Gwen is straight so they aren't endgame. Morgana doesn't stay unhappy for too long tho, and they stay very close best friends!!

-A lot of the early-serie flirting between the four main characters doesn't exist here. Morgana and Artheria are only siblings coded and there isn't anyone implying otherwise in court either. Merlin sees Gwen like a sister and so does she. Morgana and Merlin befriend eachother instantly when Merlin goes to deliver the sleeping potion, and bond over hating Artheria (and later on in the story also over being lesbians and having magic), but they never see eachother in a romantic way, even if Merlin does notice how attractive Morgana is very early on. Since we're on the topic, Artheria never crushes on Gwen either, because i don't really see much chemistry between them in canon tbh.

-Gwaine is bi. Flirting is a bit of a way to befriend others for him (and if he scores in the mean time, he's not complaining) plus Merlin is really nice and pretty, so he flirts with her once and immediately notices she's uncomfortable with it so he apologises and says he will stop, but the conversation leads to him coming out to her as being both into men and women, so she happily tells him she's gay too, and now that Merlin knows he knows and that he has no intention of having anything other than friendship, Merlin lets him flirt with her as their inside joke. It's funny to them. It's less funny to Arthelia who doesn't know Merlin's into women and therefore becomes jealous of any man trying anything with her lmao. Also even when Arthelia and Gwain become friends, he never flirts with her, even as a joke. That's just the relationship they have, no hate from Gwaine.

- I haven't really rewatched the serie in ages. Only funny moment compilations and crack videos. I am listening to a Merlin rewatch podcast thought, so I will just use the way they recap the episodes as my basis for each episode rewrite, and just write them my own way like i immagine them with my version of the characters.

-Arthelia and Merlin do share one (1) kiss kinda early on but they don't enter a relationship for a long time. Its based on that one time Gwen had to kiss Arthur to break a love spell? Expect it says "A kiss from a soulmate" Instead of "A kiss of your one true love" because a one shot i haven't read yet had this change and i felt like it was a good way to change the plot and give more romantic development even early on without putting them in a relationship in this series rewrite! Because the idea this gave me is:

Arthelia is about to do something stupid bc of the love spell, and Merlin is still trying to make her reason, but in vain. In a rush of panic to save her, her mind goes "Wait i could be a soulmate. We are destined and two sides of the same coin and blahblahblah!! It doesn't have to be romantic!" So she kisses her fully expecting it not to work but it does. Merlin is (pretends to be) unbothered by the kiss bc "It wasn't romantic!! It's just that we have a connected destiny!!!" and Arthelia doesn't remember the kiss clearly bc the memories of the time she was under the spell are hazy, but she does gain them back in her sleep sometimes. Especially the kiss - she keeps dreaming it, but just doesn't know if she should believe it and doesn't ask Merlin abt it.

-In the future, once Merlin and Morgana come out as sorceress to Arthelia, she works to make magic legal and then puts them in the position of Court Sorceress. They share the position so they can cut the work in half and Merlin can keep helping Gaius (+ When Arthelia goes out of the castle, Merlin can follow her to keep her safe without them worrying about leaving the castle without a Court Sorceress).

-Mordred is good. Merlin still is quite distrustful of him when they meet again once he's grown up because of what the dragon said, but she trusted Morgana not to do anything bad despite the dragon's words in the past, and Arthelia herself decides to trust him once Merlin warns her of what the dragon said, so she tries to be more chill and then finally warms up to him a bit more with time, though their interactions are still a bit awkward sometimes and Merlin never 100% leaves the matter completely out of her head.

#longpost #merlin #bbc merlin #merlin rewrite #bbc merlin rewrite #Please excuse any typos or wrong grammar. its almost 6 am and i didnt get a blink of sleep.#merthur

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i-never-even-wanted-to-be-here · 1 year

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Hi...how are you? I know you said that you just wrote random stuff in your blog, but your analysis are always spot on (in my opinion).... Can I ask something random? Do you think Merlin and Arthur (from BBC Merlin) love each other in a romantic sense? (They are my first mlm non canon otp)....

Also, do you ship characters from anime 'sk8' more than 'free' or not?

When you read TGCF or MDZS, did hualian or wangxian remind you of a ship dynamics from other anime/manga or tv shows?

Sorry for all the random ask....Feel free if you want to answer them or not....

Hope you have a wonderful day....

Hey, anon!

Funny you'd ask that since I just recently started rewatching Merthur with my mom and am quite excited about them again. They are one of my otps as well. So thanks for giving me an excuse to rant about my favs.

Are they canonically romantic? No. But are they canonically soulmates and destined to be with each other? Yes! With the amount of staring they have between each other, including at the other's lips, I think it's safe to say that Merthur shippers aren't delusional in shipping them. I will never stop fretting about how much potential this show had but the writers didn't do enough with especially Arthur's character. "It's a kids show" idc idc. They should've done this better. But no, they had to reset him all the time. He had many learning opportunities and every time we think he had development, the next episode it was reversed again. The plot was too loose as well. Villain of the week is a fun lil trope but I'd have preferred it if more characters learned about Merlin's magic and that way it had become closer to being legalised again. There's great fanfics that did this well I think.

I've never been invested in Free for some reason. My love belongs to sk8 and I'm so incredibly happy that we're getting a s2 + OVA!! I hope they pick up the show where they let off to continue the plot lines. I'd love to see the sexy police officer again trying to arrest Adam and making things interesting at S events. Adam suffering real consequences for his actions would be favourable. Idk if they'll finally make the shippings canon, since they were always meant to just be queer coded, but I'm beyond excited to get more content for them. Renga could have gotten closer through their lil break up and be more invested in each other than ever, which would make for cute moments. Matchablossom could solve their dispute with Adam, though I want Cherry to say that he's completely over Adam after how violent he's been. Actually, it'd be best if they told Adam off, not forgiving him and letting him know that his actions aren't excusable. Reki's backstory with his ex friend, Miya reconciling with his friends. There's a lot of potential for fluff with the younger caharcters and angst with the adults. It's gonna be great! :)

Hualian and Wangxian are special so they didn't necessarily remind me of other shippings. I always try to not think of other people's work or compare too much, unless it serves a real purpose. While reading I want to be fully invested in these specific characters and stories without being distracted.

On the topic of xianxia danmei, I started reading Dumb Husky And His White Cat Shizun recently but can't find good translations past chapter 50 so I don't know if I have to drop it permanently. I didn't love it but I am now invested. I'm not a quitter, I'm a not-even-starter. But because I've already started reading it I at least want to finish the first book to judge it properly so if anyone has good translations pls send them my way.

#sk8 the infinity #merthur #hualian #tgcf #wangxian #mdzs #dumb husky and his white cat shizun #bbc merlin

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hall-of-merlin2 · 4 years

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Magic, Monsters and Merthur - 1x03 - (Magic)

Been a while, hasn’t it?

Alright so I totally forgot to post the two other parts for this episode. I just put so much into the Merthur part that I... kind of got sick? Blergh, that was awful.

Magic is way more fun! A little recap.

Two prophecies for the world, we got the bad timeline. Magic is a living Being that blessed humans, but humans didn’t like that it didn’t give them god-like powers over all of nature, so they made their own blessings purely out of spite and they fought something that shouldn’t even be fight-able, or even like... physical, and won.

What the Episodes taught us.

1x01 - Teleportation is a thing, but is apparently complicated. Veil spells - covering ones form with a look that deceives human eyes, but not the world. Dragons were so fancy they re-purposed Druidspeak to turn it into Dragonspeak - a similarly echo-y way of communication. Imagine snapping your fingers to a tune and doing magic at the same time. A dream scenario, but nothing to confirm such an amazing possibility. Merlin is resistant to sleep magic, or in other words, enchantment magic (Stuff that puts people under a spell, different from amulets that put people under a spell.). Amulets can be shattered - they can break under a certain amount of force applied and the spells they were keeping alive break at the same time. Quite a useful way to render a sorcerer harmless.

1x02 - Human lives are not higher than those of animals - I refuse to accept anything else, and I made up a whole theory of how the Cup of Life doesn’t take lives, just life-force, which every living being has, to continue my theory. Which means that any life is worth another’s life, even a flower’s, and making dead material into living things is a trend that just keeps going.

Let’s see what bullshit the afanc can do!

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00:40

(Wow thanks subtitles…)

Anyway if you’ve heard it, then you know it’s similar to what Merlin used to revive stone. So it’s the same spell with little variations depending on what material you’re using.

Apparently, I WAS A GODDAMN FOOL FOR THINKING THAT.

I was going to somehow find the spell that Nimueh used here and then put it through a translator to see what it meant, but some very dedicated people on the wiki have already done that for me.

Yes, there is a Merlin Wiki, there’s a wiki for everything but I was just shocked how much information it held on everything…

And… The only difference is Nimueh calls the afanc “ancient” or “old” and Merlin just skips that and tells the stone to wake up already (as you do).

It WOULD have been fun if there was ONE spell that made DEAD material ALIVE, but it CHANGED based on what MATERIAL you USED.

But no. Clay is more ancient than stone. That’s all.

*Writes this down on “Reasons I’m adding to the magic”*

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01:45

Those rocks look familiar.

Because of that… not even fact, I used to think that Nimueh was just hiding out in one of Camelot’s deepest caves, very far away so no one could find her. Dumb idea, but imagine how many creatures would reside in these caves if they really were that large? Unending magical creatures attacks from somewhere underneath Camelot and the knights having to storm some “stronghold” of the creatures – that’s a whole episode!

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16:36

Yeah… I’m not gonna try to explain how the hell healing spells work. Mostly because… I’m not sure the sorcerers know themselves.

Are there magical herbs at all? Or are simple herbs given better healing qualities through the use of magic? Are the herbs there as a placebo and healing magic doesn’t need anything but the incantations that all other magic needs?

There is one type of healing magic that I CAN explain, but that’s… Oh boy that’s in another season, and only relevant there.

But does any of this matter, really? Should we just accept that spells are spells and leave it at that?

I wanna leave it at that. It’s way more fun just thinking of what ways those spells can be used.

(I know that the whole point of this part of the re-watch is to try and fill in the gaps that the show left, but... Spells and what they do have always been iffy for me. I don’t like them, I don’t even know why. I like “silent” spells, or magic that you can do without speaking, I actually have no good reason for why I like that more and hate spoken spells and spells with rituals and specific materials.

Oh wait I did say why I hate them... But who read that rant anyway?

Not me, apparently.)

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33:25

Oh no this line spiraled yet another theory.

This is taken from my “Too many reasons to hate Kilgharrah”, a book that I’m not sure when I’ll release since paper is scarce.

(I also think that everything Kilgharrah does is to somehow manipulate Merlin and get him to trust him.)

(Oh and assuming innocent and meaning-nothing lines have actually incredible meaning and are definitely hiding something is… The basis of this whole theory, I’m only staying in-character.)

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Kilgharrah already knew of the afanc before Merlin came to him. Yes, you could say that Merlin hadn’t come to him before, so his advice on how to defeat it isn’t just another attempt to get the warlock to rely on him, but how did Kilgharrah know? If the dungeon he’s trapped in is connected to the other dungeons and the one Nimueh is doing her thing in, and the chain is long enough for him to reach and see her, why didn’t he call Merlin the moment he found out? A creature of his knowledge knows what the afanc does and he knows Camelot is in grave danger, what was he waiting for? For someone important to Merlin to die? Was he just petty and thought that half of Camelot getting destroyed was funny? What if it would have deterred Merlin further from him, make him leave Camelot, did this lizard really not think of that? Did he want Nimueh’s plan to succeed? Does Kilgharrah feel any kind of attachment to Nimueh? She is of the Old Religion. Maybe he feels that they are kin and he doesn’t wish for her plan to fail.

And if this has nothing to do with Nimueh at all and he doesn’t even know she still exists, then what reason would he have to withhold information? If he felt the afanc moving through the water, why didn’t call to Merlin and warn him? No excuse.

But when Merlin comes by, he has no choice. He tells him how to beat the afanc, but says nothing about Nimueh. He probably knows that she’s smart and she will see what Merlin is capable of and… who knows what she’ll attempt next.

Kilgharrah is willing to bet she doesn’t want to kill Merlin.

(ALSO MERLIN COULD HAVE KILLED THE AFANC HIMSELF, BUT OF COURSE, LET’S TRY TO HAMMER HOME THE IDEA THAT HIM AND ARTHUR ARE SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING TOGETHER EVEN MORE SO MERLIN COMES TO TERMS WITH THE IDEA THAT HE HAS TO BE A SERVANT ALL HIS LIFE.)

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That bit about Nimueh being of the Old Religion and Kilgharrah sort of… being an accomplice of hers, it…

It made me think that the dragons and the Old Religion used to be connected.

And with how Kilgharrah manipulates Merlin and then how Nimueh is a slave to prophecies – that’s probably because the dragon told her of the prophecies.

I think that the dragons used to rule over the members of the Old Religion.

Why not, right> Dragons are powerful, they’re knowledgeable, why not turn a few puny humans to their side? It would help to know more things, and it would stroke their egos just a bit more.

I’ve literally no basis for this idea, but knowing that Dragonlords exist, it makes you think.

Why would dragons allow/need humans to speak to them? I honestly don’t think that Dragonlords are natural. Commanding dragons? Humans? What about eggs hatching? Why the fuck couldn’t an egg just… hatch like all other eggs do? How is a dragon’s soul equal to a human’s – the two don’t even have similar magic among them! Their bodies decay differently, their thinking is different, how can the two’s souls be considered brothers if the human part of the soul retains no memories of past reincarnations? It’s like it’s a new soul, and the thing that’s actually passed down after death (HOW COULD IT BE A SOUL THAT’S PASSED DOWN IF A PERSON WAS PERFECTLY FIND WITHOUT THIS QUESTIONABLE GIFT UP UNTIL THEIR FATHER DIED?) is just a type of magic. A very specific type of magic, that’s coded to only be passed down this way, and to work in the way that it’s described – a dragon’s soul is felt like that of a sibling’s.

I think… I think that Dragonlords were a thing created by the Old Religion sometime after dragons tried to rule over them. This caused the tables to turn, and suddenly the Old Religion had knowledge of the Draconic prophecies, which Nimueh actually seems to follow.

This is far-fetched, obviously. The two prophecy sets were far-fetched. But I’m nothing if not a stubborn believer in going big or going home.

And oh boy the documents of text for each episode each have like… 5k+ words. It doesn’t count the screencaps, otherwise, the character number would be in the hundred thousands.

I am not even halfway of going big.

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35:25

So the afanc is a beast born of clay, needs considerable power to be conjured, and we all know Merlin has enough power to do that so the stone-resurrecting is not ooc. Exudes some sort of toxic waste from its body that drains the life force of everything that has any (which is everything, apart from non-organic stuff – includes glass, stone, rock that formed incredibly long ago and leather, etc.), but it takes a few days for it to finish what it starts in the first burst of draining. It is defeated by using fire and wind, the two of the four base elements the afanc isn’t made out of.

(We never heard of elements again though. There are some fire spells, but if this type of effective-against-one-weak-against-another thing is going on, then certain alchemy is conducted every time you cast these spells. Water extinguishes fire, fire eats up wind(oxygen), wind… erodes? Earth?, earth… Yeah no, it’s the other way around. Water extinguishes fire, fire scorches earth, earth… takes over wind? Doesn’t leave space for it to move? And air just carries water around so the little droplets get separated and can’t form something stronger. Yeah, that sounds better.

The other way around is empowering then, I guess. Or… making different elements? Wind picks up the earth, making it more impactful in the air current, earth… turns into… lava… because of the heat? Fire… makes water vapor? And water… gets inbetween the air and also makes it more impactful? I don’t know… NOT ENOUGH INFO DAMMIT. AND THAT’S SAYING SOMETHING SINCE I’VE SPUN AN ENTIRE NEW UNIVERSE FROM LIKE 2 EPISODES OF THIS SHIT. THIS IS DISAPPOINTING LEVELS OF LOW INFO.)

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#magic monsters and merthur #(magic)#merlin #arthur #gwen #morgana #uther #nimueh #1x03 #mark of nimueh #how fun is this #reading rants #i bet its not too much fun #it seems that the further we go the more i can stretch everything #its good for me!#i like typing out stuff #but... i see that not many people like my ridiculous theories XD #ill get back to the merthur in a moment #maybe do episode 4 soon

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