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Arriving in Camelot to celebrate 15 years of peace between Camelot and the Druids should have been a happy occasion for Merlin. However, when an altercation with Crown Prince Arthur Pendragon threatens to put that peace at risk, a drastic solution is suggested.
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Arranged marriage, Prince Merlin AU. Inspired by RWRB and The Swan Princess (1994)
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What if Balinor had returned a couple of years after he left? What if Merlin had grown up with a father, knowing more about magic and Uther’s actions? What if he was more than happy to see Uther dead, so long as his destiny was fulfilled?
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Merlin grows up hating Uther and is more than happy to ignore the dragon and his yapping about his destiny.
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I will add any trigger warnings here but since I have no idea how this story will go I will try to keep all topics somewhat light but still realistic as I can. Feel free to comment if you think any trigger warnings should be added!
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Arthur is relieved when Balinor the Dragonlord agrees to help, but dismayed when he refuses to come back to Camelot. Instead, Arthur is stuck waiting in the middle of nowhere while Balinor calls the dragon. To make matters worse, Arthur’s idiot manservant clearly has a massive crush on the guy: despite him being a grumpy, straggly, cave-dwelling sorcerer, who makes terrible cabbage pottage, Merlin hasn’t taken his eyes off him! Arthur will tolerate this nonsense for a couple of days, but only because he must save Camelot.
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After the 100th or so betrayal, Arthur Pendragon, King of Camelot has had more than enough.
He summons the Knights, the Queen and Merlin to a secret meeting where he asks them to tell him any secrets they feared him finding out.
He promises them amnesty and forgiveness as long as they tell him now instead of waiting to be found out.
But are some secrets just too much to forgive?Or : Arthur wakes up one day and uses his brain. All of Camelot face the consequences.
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- Part 2 of Give Merlin a break<3<3<3
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Under the wide skies of Montana, Merlin Ambrose arrives at Pendragon Ranch a broken, runaway sixteen-year-old with nothing but secrets and scars. What he finds is more than shelter — it’s a family he never knew he needed, a wild mustang stallion that answers his untamed spirit, and a bond with Arthur Pendragon that begins in fire and stubbornness but grows into love.
Through storms, loss, and trials of faith, Merlin discovers that home isn’t built from blood alone but from trust, forgiveness, and the courage to love. Together, he and Arthur carve out their own Camelot — a place where destiny, family, and forever are written beneath wild Montana skies.
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“The Old Religion demands a sacrifice. The Pendragon line will give back what was taken. Camelot will fall.”
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Having escaped from Uther's sentence with the aid of magic, Arthur and Merlin have reunited with friends old and new, weaving a small resistance community. But tension still lingers in the air and, as Camelot remains under the King's tyrannical reign, whispers of a new Prophecy soon coming to pass begin to reach them.
Something has to be done, and soon, or everything they have fought for will be lost.
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- Part 2 of There Are Other Places
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“Merlin. Even if you’re … even if you’re right, it doesn’t matter. It’s too late. He’s going to kill me. And I—listen to me, you idiot. I don’t want you to watch. And I don’t want you to be next.”
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After confronting Morgause's vision of his mother, Arthur rides for Camelot, intending to make his father pay for his hypocrisy. He falls short of luck, for the King has fallen back on the counsel of his faithful Witchfinder, Aredian, who is convinced that Arthur is not Arthur, the crown prince, but a changeling, bound to Morgause's will and let loose upon Camelot to usurp Uther of his crown.
As Arthur is dragged away to the dungeons, sentenced to a death by fire, Merlin must race against time to change the course of events which seem to spell out Arthur's demise. Time is scarce, however, and for all intents and purposes, it might be too late already.
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- Part 1 of There Are Other Places
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Our Fab Four from Camelot have magical adventures...
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Kidnapped and banished at a young age, Merlin is a prince without a crown or kingdom. Though raised with magic and sword by his side, he faces a tumultuous path that takes him to Camelot and brings with it a destiny he never believed in. But at every turn he faces the consequences of his actions, unwilling as they might be, and his two secrets—magic and his dusty title— have never been close to tearing apart the life he built for himself in Camelot until a letter finds its way into Arthur's hands.
And the two lives Merlin has led begin to bleed together.
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Balinor leaves Hunith 3 days after the 6th child birth. Family fells carried by two sons, later one. One by one everyone leaves. Family reunite at Camelot grounds. They have stories, ups and downs. But once broken bond rebuilds, now stronger then ever. The siblings finds, they best life’s at Camelot grounds. Yet way to this happiness is way too long
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The title except I'm just going to change a couple things. First Balinor is alive and there for a lot of Merlin's childhood. Magic is exceedingly clear inside Merlin. Every other kid but Will doesn’t like Merlin. He’ll be meeting Arthur just a little bit earlier than expected. Oh yeah, and dragons.
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- Part 3 of You are a stupid Idiot. Come here.
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Merlin had failed. Despite all his efforts, Arthur had ended up dead in his arms on the shores of Avalon, so close to salvation. Surely, this could not be how their shared destiny was supposed to end? No, it was all Merlin’s fault—he had made all the wrong choices, misinterpreting prophecy after prophecy. If only he could go back and try again, now that he knew better, maybe he could right his wrongs. Maybe he— Oh. Maybe he could go back…
Ignoring Kilgharrah’s protests about the impossibility of what he aimed to do, Merlin let all his power loose, becoming one with the fabric of the world and the magic he was born of. After following the bond he shared with Arthur through the winding paths of time, he finally emerged a decade into the past, having successfully seized a second chance to get this whole destiny thing right. Unfortunately, he would have to win Arthur’s trust all over again, seeing as Merlin was alone in remembering anything of the future he was hoping to change. Or…was he?
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“What do I do then? Go back and wait until they kill me, too? How can I prove that I am telling the truth?” Merlin asked and looked Arthur deep in the eyes. He could tell that Arthur wanted to believe him. He saw compassion and care within these blue eyes.
But he also saw a duty too big for such young shoulders, a crown that barely fit his head and a responsibility that weighed him down. He was so young for the power he held and Merlin could tell, he could see and he believed with everything he was that Arthur intended to use that power for good.
Arthur, he decided, was a good man.
Or: Merlin seeks help for his people in Winterfell and meets a young king entirely unlike his expectations.
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- Part 1 of sipping tea in a haunted library
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You've Just Got to Trust Me (I'll Show You How) by ItCouldBeBunnies_OrThemAliens
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
27 Jan 2025
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Uther Pendragon is dead. Arthur is king, and it won't be long before Morgana will have to reveal her magic, or be found out. As secrets are revealed, allies are made, and the looming threat of destiny approaches, will magic ever be restored to Camelot?
And if it is, what price will have to be paid?
Predominantly a rewrite of Series Two, beginning with the end of Series One.
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- Part 2 of Morgana Knows
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The visitor pulls his hood back. Not a magical being then. Just a man; a man not much older than her, dark eyes and lines etched into his face. Despite herself, she can’t help finding familiarity in the curve of his jaw, the depths of his dark eyes. His mouth falls open; he looks at he can’t quite believe she is real. Something stirs inside her and in all honesty, she is afraid.
“Hello Hunith.” his voice is soft, almost musical in its quality. He takes care with the vowels, her name lands gently on his tongue.
A second passes by. A bird caws in the distance.
Then realisation hits her, a winter storn blasting over a field.
“No”.
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Once Arthur becomes king, he quickly learns a lot about Druid cultural practices as he prepares for his political marriage to a warlock.
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Imagine a world where Balinor lives, where dragonlords can communicate over vast distances, and where Merlin gets the dad he truly deserves. This is a little peek into that world!
Set somewhere in early season 2.
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“I’m an activist, Mr. Morgan,” Merlin explains.
“I see that,” Knight Gwaine says.
“I want this place to exist here forever. Forever and ever and ever.”
“You mean until King Arthur climbs out of it?”
“Yes,” Merlin says. “But after that, too, since I’m not like, 100% positive that he’s going to know what a fish ladder is. I figure we’ve got to do some work on that and probably his English before we let him go off into the wild.”
“Right. Obviously, the English. But what happens if someone tries to put another body in the lake while you’re here?”
Merlin doesn’t have an answer to that.
(Three women's bodies are dumped into a lake, and detective Gwaine Morgan is assigned the case. He does not anticipate said lake to be guarded by a local 12 year-old and is even less prepared for what happens when the 12 year-old becomes his murderer's next target.)
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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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In the anthropomorphic metropolis of Camelot, where prey and predator species coexist uneasily at work and at school, Arthur the fawn-boy and Merlin the wolf pup-boy form a close forbidden childhood friendship. Merlin, a gifted sorcerer, and Arthur, a kind-hearted fawn, must keep their bond secret from a society that disapproves of their predator-prey friendship.
As they get older, the natural heat cycle heightens their feelings for one another, causing them to struggle with their taboo friendship and the societal pressures that come with it. A wolf and a deer as friends is silly, but as mates is unthinkable.. right? Lots of UST & internalized speciesism. Uther is a jerk. So is Balinor.