#bbc merlin kin

[findinyourkin]

hi. merlin from bbc merlin here looking for just about anyone. i was trans and gay and I think found a way to bring arthur back. im 24, no arthur kins under 20 please.

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#canon calls #merlin kin #bbc merlin kin

[rahdoll]

Do people still watch BBC Merlin?

Cause i can't be the only mf out here Kinning Merlins Twink looking ass

#bbc merlin #bbc merlin kin #bbc merlin was my childhood #kinning #gay

[that-nerd-who-writes-fanfiction]

Writing Mordred is slowly making me realise I don’t actually hate him.

The more I think about it, the more I realise he’s just a traumatised child who felt trapped and ran out of options when every single person in his life who was supposed to help him failed in some way or others. Most in more than one way if we’re being honest.

The kid literally had no one to turn to when the girl he loved died and was openly hated by the guy he’s thought of as a god since he was a child.

Like let that sink in.

Merlin openly wished him dead, and Mordred literally worshipped the ground he walked on.

(I’m usually a Merlin apologist but bloody hell he fucked up at every opportunity when it came to Mordred)

Morgana was the exact opposite of his morals but wanted magic free, (at the cost of non magic users lives which is also problematic, but that’s a different conversation) so he didn’t stick around with her, but when Camelot no longer felt safe for him, he ran.

Which is definitely a trauma response considering how he grew up with the Druids and then whatever the fuck happened after he left them.

Arthur was the only person who was continuously good for him, saving him as a child and later becoming a brother/father figure, but then he killed Kara and Mordred had to watch another magic user be killed by Camelot except this time it was someone he truly believed was good. He didn’t see her attacking Arthur like she did, just that the king of Camelot was killing another magic user which was bound to bring up trauma that he hasn’t felt safe enough to unpack and heal from.

I have a lot more to say on this, but I’ve got to leave for work in a few minutes so I’ll come back and scream about it another time

Fucking Mordred though, poor kid. He really went through it.

#writing this out made me realise I probably kin him a little too much #bbc merlin #mordred #character analysis #merlin emrys #uther pendragon #is shitty #kinnie moment #arthur pendragon #merlin #Kilgharrah hate club #kilgharrah #morgana #they’re all just traumatised kids #Mordred apologist apparently #long post #rant

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

My brother (in med school): today we learned that humans lack the capacity to regenerate neurons. Why are you wasting yours on finding gay subtext in arthurian legend?

#lets just say that i kin morgana for many reasons and an intense rivalry with my brother is one of them #bbc merlin #merlin #arthurian legend #arthuriana

[galadrail]

I was bored last night, so here are some sketches of my favorite audhd characters in my current hyperfixations.

#is was bad because i was too sleepy that night to make good art #they also ace #i found that funny #maybe i just kin them a little bit too much #tori spring #tori heartstopper #solitaire #donnie tmnt #rottmnt #rottmnt donnie #merlin #merlin bbc #muriel #muriel good omens #good omens #nimona #nimona netflix #audhd creature #actually audhd #adhd #autism #they just ace audhd and not really have binary gender #(for the most of them for gender) #i love them so much #digital sketch #sketch #digital fanart #I just can't draw real people so sorry merlin #Yeah tori look bad too I know #I was just so tired

[doctorcrowley]

New headcannon just dropped: arthur isn’t oblivious and dumb he’s just severely autistic

#there’s no reason for this other than I kin him #arthur pendragon #Merlin #merthur #bbc merlin

[tiodolma]

i can't believe that Kilgharrah and Gaius were technically Merlin's uncles on both his Father's and Mother's sides.

#kilgharrah #bbc gaius #bbc merlin #bbc kilgharrah #i was thinking how ursula was ariel's aunt #and im like wait kilgharrah is basically his kin and his dad's fave dragon #i think this was mentioned before in the kilgharrah tag #anyway idk what to do with this info #gaius and kilgharrah were brothers-in-law to the 2nd degree?

[jay-birds-fly]

I have a type. And I am ashamed. That is all.

#poor mental health? AND they cant keep their lives together? #boom on the list and I now will care for them #its just me and my comfort characters being mentally ill #this one’s about Harry Osborn in particular but #comfort anime #comfort character #kin list #marvel #mcu #anime #manga #movies #tv shows #dream smp #dc comcis #bbc sherlock #bbc merlin #stranger things #banana fish

[ascandalincamelot]

I'm a weird person

#merlin #merlin bbc #bbc merlin #merthur #hannibal #hannibal nbc #hannigram #gilmore girls #rory gilmore #lorelai gilmore #sherlock bbc #sherlock #johnlock #ineffable husbands #good omens #friends #i kin chandler bing so hard #tv series #anyone wanna be friends #if you put them in the right order you can observe my downfall

[theecosystemdid]

Lancelot Introject / Kin Flag requested by Anon

Thanks for the requests, hope you enjoy ^^

#did #udd #osdd #system #introject #system disorder #alter #kin #introject flag #kin flag #bbc merlin #lancelot

[n3ooo]

fellow arthur pendragon kinnies: hows those abandonment issues? and that ftm transition? oh yeah and questioning your sexuality

#bbc arthur #arthur pendragon #king arthur #merlin #bbc merlin #kinnie #my kins #transgender #ftm #questioning sexuality #again #here we go again

[jaylikesrainbowtigers]

New post series

It will be what it would be like to date my kins. Pls help me because my kins are either f-d up parent issues, depressed, or insane. Or all three. Or the few surprisingly stable women. Featuring autism. So stick around to see the chaos! Recommended by a friend.

#kinnie #kins #bbc merlin #my hero acedamia #mha #harry potter #stranger things #wednesday #the owl house #she ra princess of power #avatar the last airbender #atla #beetlejuice #marvel #beauty and the beast #percy jackson #magnus chase #trials of apollo #howls moving castle #glitter force #smile precure #Red dwarf

[kincalling]

(Asking on behalf of an alter)

We have an Arthur pendragon fictive from Merlin BBC looking for anyone really. We're bodily 19 and okay with doubles.

Please he's so grumpy because he misses everyone desperately.

🃏

#arthur pendragon kin #merlin bbc kin #canon calls

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

"joining the Merlin fandom" but I just kin Grendel's Mom really hard and figured I'd show up to Tumblr's other big 600s A.D. British Nonsense Fandom

yes ik yall are Britons, not Angles and/or Saxons

but uhhhh

hi????

#merlin #bbc merlin #kinda #beowulf studies #grendel's mom #merlin oc #???i guess??? #shoving my mythology kin into other fandoms #*pops my head out of the local swamp* whassup i heard yall got WIZARD #merlin rp #if thats a thing

[frostbite-merun]

I got reminded BBCs Merlin exists and that spiraled into remembering a bunch of other really, really shitty adaptations of Arthurian canon and now I'm mad so I'm going to list some true facts about it that should hopefully demonstrate why adding "gritty realism" to it pisses me off so much

-Morgan le Fay serves as a Rita Repulsa-esque figure who throws problems at Arthur. She is also a wholly separate person to Morgause, the mother of Mordred. Morgan le Fay is a badass sorceress who's only motivation for being a Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain(tm) is that Guinevere snubbed her in some way.

-It's full of Welsh folklore, especially regarding faeries, and initially started as a recounting of a bit of Welsh military history before people started adding their OCs to it. It then broke containment and spread across europe, especially during the renaissance.

-Loads of the knights have superpowers. Straight up superpowers. Gawain gets stronger (and in some sources, bigger) the higher the sun is in the sky. Kay has some sort of fire shit going on... It's great. People would add their own guys to the round table and give them Cool Powers because they could. Though mostly it was just super-strength. This fell out of favor as it was Christianized because people are COWARDS.

-Lancelot is a French guy's OC, and despite the whole thing being full of those, Lancelot is the most OC of them all (affectionate). The second most OC of the bunch is a dude known for his edgy coat that he always wore that belonged to his dead dad (I am not joking)

-Half of the dudes are described as 'the fairest' or 'the most handsome'. Some have the caveat of 'second only to Arthur'. I legit read a description of how handsome a random knight was that filled a full page once. This is hilarious.

-There's a knight called Bedivere (he whose name has no set spelling) and he's my favorite. He has a prosthetic hand, is head butler, and is the only bitch to survive the big last battle in retellings that I respect. He's also one half of a comedy duo with Kay, also in retellings that I respect. I am admittedly biased because I played him in a middle school production of a really bad adaptation of a knockoff spamalot

-People just fucking murder each other on accident all of the time to show off how STRONK they are. After jousting got added they started having the horses die when lance met shield which DOESN'T MAKE SENSE but is there to, once again, show how STRONK the knights are.

-More on the note of casting, but there are dark skinned people in the canon. Specifically Moors (which is old europe for muslim north-african people with dark skin, a term not really used anymore because it wasn't actually one ethnic group but several). MORE SPECIFICALLY there is one explicitly biracial knight who's the son of one of the other knights and a (and I quote) "Moorish Princess". His name is Morien because people have never been subtle and was one of the knights for whom the tales waxed poetic about how stronk and handsome he was.

-Saved the best for last but this all gave way to the an early historical examples of larping and possibly kinning. King Edward the Third loved a knight named 'Sir Lionel' so much to the point where he'd hold big round table tourneys where everyone would larp as different characters from Arthurian legend (himself always being Lionel) and even named his son after him. The kicker? Lionel doesn't actually have that much in the way of story. He has like one story to himself and is functionally a sidekick in every other appearance I can find. King Eddy 3 had a Blorbo.

All of this to say that Arthurian canon is lovely and goofy and if I see someone make Morgan le Fay into Mordred's mom again I will spew fire and rain hot, bloody terror from the skies. I also think we should start adding OCs to it again and nobody can stop us.

#long post #i just love this shit so much #i didn't even get into the goofiness that is merlin #text post #queue #king arthur #arthurian legend #arthurian mythology

[merlincersei]

Merlin BBC UK TV Show - A Psychological Analysis Series Part 9

The Disney Dead Parents Troupe In Merlin

Disney is the undisputed master of the dead parents troupe and the Merlin series adopts this troupe fairly consistently.

This is the status of all the main recurring characters's parents:

Even though Merlin is the only character whose both parents were alive, he was still raised by his mother as a single parent. The episode where Merlin meets his father, the father ends up dying.

Morgana was initially introduced as an orphan but we come to know later on that Uther is her father.

The psychological impact of being raised as an orphan and / or single parent manifests in very interesting ways among the characters, however this phenomenon deeply affects Arthur Pendragon.

Uther is a typical distant and repressive father who has channeled all his hopes and emotions on Arthur.

This style of upbringing however has left his son emotionally repressed and the absence of a doting mother figure has rendered him needing to be tended to like a child along with major abandonment issues. His psychosexual development couldn’t follow the normal path, as he never had the chance to experience and overcome the attraction to his mother. As Uther had to play the part of both mother and father, we could say that Arthur didn’t successfully resolve his Oedipus complex. This manifests in the form of Arthur constantly seeking attention from Merlin from the moment Merlin becomes his servant. Merlin basically acts as his nanny from waking him, to bathing him, to dressing him, to feeding him and everything in between. AND THIS IS FOR A FULL GROWN ADULT AND NOT A CHILD !

SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 ENDS WITH SOMEONE COMING INTO GAUIS CHAMBERS SAYING ARTHUR IS LOOKING FOR MERLIN. LIKE REALLY ARTHUR YOU CANT GO ONE EPISODE WITHOUT HAVING MERLIN WAIT ON YOU HAND AND FOOT!!!

People can excuse this behavior stating Arthur is a royal and hence it is normal for royals to be tended to constantly by their servants. However you never see Uther being tended to hand and foot like Arthur does. Uther even comments that Arthur is strangely fond of the boy.

In addition, Arthur throws a tantrum whenever Merlin goes missing highlighting his need to be nurtured and looked after.

In the The Hollow Queen episode where Merlin goes with Daegal Arthur literally seems exasperated over Merlin’s disappearance searching the whole castle like a lost child. He even has Gwen and Gauis replicate some of Merlin’s duties for him.

In the Diamond Of The Day Episode 1, when Merlin tells Arthur he wont be going to Camalan, Arthur cannot bring himself to say he needs Merlin with him but chooses to express his hurt by calling Merlin a coward.

Arthur fear of losing people close to him is a running theme in the series even at his own deteriment.

Arthur goes to help & rescue Merlin and Gwen even when Uther forbids it. Arthur goes to help & rescue his knights even when Merlin disapproves. Arthur trusts Aggravaine so readily because he is his kin and Arthur is traumatized and vulnerable after Uther’s death. Arthur even agrees to legalize sorcery because he thinks it will save Uther’s and Modred’s lives.

Overall this series has such rich and complex themes .

No wonder that even after 10 years since the series ended, it is still trending strong !!!

#arthur pendragon #bradley james #merlin bbc #merthur #gay subtext #lgbtqia shows #queer coding #colin morgan #merlincersei #Youtube #merlin meta