my favourite merlin hc of mine is that arthur will only return when merlin gives up on the idea of him doing so. That when merlin gives up on him coming back, his magic starts to fade with his hope and that the danger albion faces that requires the king to return isnt world wars or global pandemics, its when the world loses its magic.
Basically merlin is albions greatest need
Edit: if arthur did come back bc of this, him and merlin would reunite and then I imagine Merlin would be so stressed and on edge for months he would just constantly be in a state of ???? Looking at the world confused on what catastrophe was finally so bad that arthur returned (not knowing it was him who was the catastrophe) he would probably only realise later when Arthur cracked a joke about how bad merlin looked when arthur first got there.
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And like the cycle of the year, we begin again ~ Mini comic (part 1)
Hi !! I finally come with the promised comic 😁 I started it several months ago, and although there have been days when I haven't known how to move forward, I have had a lot of support from @ineffablesbooks GRACIAS AMIGA!! We are both big fans of Merlin and especially of the INCREDIBLE fanfic that @katherynefromphilly wrote. I don't know what I would have done after finishing s5 without this story, so thank you so much, I love how you write Merlin and Arthur. Anyway, I hope you like this comic as much as I liked doing it. Stay tone, because this is only the first part!! So in a few days there will be part 2, I also don't rule out making more mini comics of other scenes in the future, so wait for it, I hope you like it and enjoy it!!
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( nice dream )
If you think that you're strong enough, if you think you belong enough
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hey man, you ok? i’m only asking because you’ve been listening to once and future king on repeat for the last four hours. yeah the whole house can hear it. do you wanna talk or
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It is the tragedy, the Aristotelian and comprehensive tragedy, of sin coming home to roost. That is why we have to take note of the parentage of Arthur's son, Mordred, and to remember, when the time comes, that the king had slept with his own sister. He did not know he was doing so, and perhaps it may have been due to her, but it seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.
T. H. White, The Once and Future King
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i think part of the reason the ending of high noon over camelot is hitting me so much harder than once upon a time (in space) or ulysses dies at dawn did is that they had a chance
we go on and on about “it was always going to end like this” and “they’ve been dead since the beginning”, and those are very good but like. knowing that it didn’t have to go like that—that’s a little worse sometimes
ouat(is) is a story about a war, a rebellion specifically, and those tend to end with everyone dead. it’s pretty clear from the beginning that all or most of the characters won’t survive. there has never been a war that wasn’t a tragedy
udad, well, it’s in the title. and while it wasn’t impossible for ulysses to survive that, the story was a softer kind of sadness anyway, in that dying in the vault, where his brain couldn’t be taken for the acheron, was really one of the better ways things could have gone
but hnoc. they could have lived. they weren’t doomed. they had a chance. they didn’t even only make bad choices, they did so many things right! camelot and the saxons could have reconciled and were very close to doing so. but then the scorpion, and gawain, and it all went to shit. the pendragons could have used the grail to fly the station to safety, and everyone could have lived, and they were very close to doing so. like love won! it won! they all loved each other enough to not kill each other over the grail, they had it figured out! but then camlann, and mordred, and it all went to shit.
i just—they were so so close to fixing everything, or at least fixing a lot. and then they failed anyway. and i went into this knowing they would because, well, these are tragedies, it’s to be expected, but tragedies are so much sadder when they didn’t have to be tragedies
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About to start my annual Merlin rewatch and it just hit me, it’s been 12 years since this masterpiece ended. Yet we’re all still here, making posts, writing fics, creating art and compilation videos. I love fandom
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