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Morgana ties Arthur's life to Merlin's, thinking that it'll be much easier to kill a helpless servant than the King of Camelot.
Aka, Morgana unwittingly binds Arthur's life to the most powerful sorcerer to walk the earth.
Aka, not only can they physically not leave each other's sides, but also anything Merlin feels, so does Arthur--and vice versa.
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04 Dec 2024
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“When you said the Sorceress didn’t spell you. You were lying. I know you were, you did that weird nose flare thing you do when you lie. What did she do, Arthur?”
Arthur tensed. Did he really have such a tell? Damn Merlin and always being able to read Arthur like children’s book. “It doesn’t matter,” Arthur sighed in defeat, “She tried to something but it clearly didn’t work. I’m perfectly fine, as Gaius said, and when she finished speaking, she collapsed to the ground, dead. Her magic backfired and killed her instead of me, I suppose.”
He purposefully left out the part about the gold and the touch and the constant buzzing beneath his skin. He was sure it was nothing, and he knew it would only worry Merlin further.
When out with his Knights and Merlin, Arthur is targeted by a vengeful Sorceress (per usual), and struck by a spell with...Unusual effects. Dangerous effects. Faced with a fearful challenge, a treasonous secret to keep, Arthur let's Merlin in to help him, only to discover Merlin could help more than he would have thought.
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29 Nov 2024
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The one where the Captain doesn’t die in Button House by IneffablyProfound
Fandoms: Ghosts (TV 2019)
24 Jun 2024
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Short little story where the Captain and Havers reunite at the Gala and retire to a seaside cottage together.
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20 Nov 2024
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your words are the lifeblood rushing through my veins (your shine burns brighter than a hollywood star) by stolenstars for OnceFutureEmrys
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
27 Dec 2022
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This is wrong, this is so, so wrong. He needs to tell Merlin who he really is. He shouldn’t be doing this – whatever it is that this is – when Merlin doesn’t even know the half of what he’s getting into. When Merlin doesn’t know who Arthur really is. When Arthur can feel himself falling in love with a man who knows him better than anyone else in the world yet doesn’t know him at all.
But Merlin’s hand in his feels like everything he’s ever wanted, and there’s always tomorrow to tell him. Everything was too perfect, too earth-shatteringly wonderful to risk.
Until it wasn’t.
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19 Nov 2024
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“I’ll give you whatever you want,” the king says, shoulders drawn back, “just help me save my people.”
The sun strikes his face and for a moment, Arthur looks made of gold. Pretty, Emrys can’t help but think. But still just a man.
“Whatever I want?” Emrys’ smirk widens, “I want your pride. Now bow down to me and beg.”
When long-time immortal and full-time hater of humanity, the great Emrys himself, finds the newly crowned King Arthur at his doorstep asking for his help, he gets way more than he bargained for on their journey to revive Camelot’s old wards and save the kingdom from war. Unfortunately for him, he's going to make friends, fall in love, and become a hero whether he wants to or not.
Or, Merlin's been waiting centuries for something to believe in.
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16 Nov 2024
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Leon is kidnapped by a group of renegade Druids who attempt to sacrifice him to Emrys. However, Leon is immortal. When he comes back from the dead, the Druids assume he is a Priest of Emrys.
Leon wasn't sure how he got into this mess, but now he's committing high treason and potentially angering a very powerful god.
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- Part 1 of All Roads Lead to Treason
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19 Oct 2024
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In the aftermath of the incident with the Fomorroh, Merlin realizes how much he had come close to hurting Arthur.
What use was he, when he can't protect Arthur, even from himself?
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- Part 3 of Merlin fix it or break it
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Bookmarked by Esileartemis
18 Oct 2024
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Arthur loved fairy tales. And he loved to twist them and understand what stereotypes were made of.
That didn't mean he was prepared for Merlin.
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- Part 23 of Merlin's magic
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15 Oct 2024
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It would be peaceful, he thought, To die in the midst of a King’s rage. To die knowing that, despite it all, you can finally rest amongst the flowers.
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Merlin wants to bathe in the stream near their makeshift camp after waking up and feeling rough, so he does. But he gets ambushed by a mythical creature though he slips up and accidentally reveals his magic to the King and his knights.
Then he collapses.Bookmarked by Esileartemis
10 Oct 2024
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When Merlin is dosed with a truth serum, he resolves to avoid Arthur until its effects wear off. The problem is, that's hard to do when you're the prince's manservant, so of course it was too much to hope that his little plan might work.
But when seemingly all's been told and Merlin's deadliest secrets are out in the open, he still has one more to tell...
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09 Oct 2024
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Merlin, Prince of Dracaneard, only meant to go visit Camelot in secret so he could see the land of prophecy and meet his uncle. He really didn’t intend to save Prince Arthur’s life or be given a job as his manservant for the trouble.
But it’s a good way to get to know the prince who is prophesied to unite Albion and bring back magic by Merlin’s side, isn’t it? And it’s not as if Arthur knows that his newest servant is the crown prince to Camelot’s enemy.
Surely, this won’t turn ten shades of complicated all too soon.
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Bookmarked by Esileartemis
29 Sep 2024
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Merlin and Arthur get hit by a spell
Smol Arthur and Merlin are menaces to society
Uther and Gaius are so done with them. And Uther realizes some thingsSeries
- Part 3 of Merlin one shots
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Bookmarked by Esileartemis
25 Sep 2024
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During his adventures as the magical saviour of Albion, Merlin meets a tired old Dragonlord. What he doesn't know is that the man is actually his father. Not that that really makes a difference.
This was low-key kind of inspired by Double Life (yes the despicable me song, don't come for me). I wrote most of it in one weekend.
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21 Sep 2024
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Merlin for once doesn't listen to the dragon or Gaius and tells Morgana about his powers. This leads to nightly magic lessons in Morgana's chambers that have Arthur a tad jealous. Morgana soon decides to tell Arthur about her magic, and he's a bit scared, of her and for her, but he's working on it. He decides to be a good brother and learn more about magic in order to make Morgana feel accepted and understood. His terrible stumblings through the world of magic soon lead him to rumors of a man called Emrys. What happens when they finally meet each other and Emrys turns out to be unexpectedly flirty?
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19 Sep 2024
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Inspired by a Tumblr post @aeagle62 made
A drunk Merlin finds himself in Arthur’s room, Arthur takes care of him. Merlin is very affectionate when drunk and Arthur finds he isn't all that opposed to it.
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14 Sep 2024
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“What is… this?” Arthur questions, upon walking to his cell, flunked by the two guards who will take him to the pyre.
Dragoon the Great is also great at distractions. Well... Butterflies. But he and the butterflies make a wonderful team!
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Bookmarked by Esileartemis
12 Sep 2024
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When Kilgarrah had bathed Excalibur in his fire, he’d said it would enable the blade to kill anything, mortal or magical, living or dead. Later, when Merlin was able to think more deeply on the prophecies and began to have some rather disturbing realizations about himself, he came to the conclusion that being stabbed by Excalibur would just kill him. Mortal or non-mortal, after all; that was the clause.
Apparently, that clause didn’t apply to Emrys. Merlin should have known.
Merlin wasn’t just immortal; he couldn’t die. The Balance wouldn’t let him. So the two had compromised: Merlin had, by the cut of Excalibur’s blade, been broken into millions of tiny pieces and scattered across the entirety of the globe.
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OR: An exploration into what would happen if Merlin got stabbed by Excalibur.
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- Part 1 of Splintered
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07 Sep 2024
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of evenings in front of the fire and shared conversations by buch_in_der_hand
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
06 Feb 2023
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After Merlin told Arthur about his magic, their relationship sees a change. They grow closer together until one day, they take a leap of faith and act on their feelings.
//Technically not a stand-alone, I think it could be read as one though?
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05 Sep 2024
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"Better to serve a good man then rule with an evil one,"
That's what he had said hadn't he? He was a sorcerer. A sorcerer who protected him. Who in the face of danger and greed, chose him. Why did Merlin choose him?
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- Part 3 of Merlin episode rewrites
- Part 29 of Merthur
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05 Sep 2024
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“Magic should be legal,” Merlin says just barely above a whisper. A single tear escapes his eye and leaves Arthur stunned.
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03 Sep 2024