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Camelot gets a chance to get rid of the too-powerful Emrys. What happens when Arthur refuses to let innocents die?
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“Please.” It sounded desperate. He needed to know. ‘Please show me I’m not crazy for trusting you. For saving that boy. Show me my father was wrong, and I am right for disobeying him.’Series
- Part 2 of In honour of pride month
- Part 3 of Useless Merlin fluff
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Season 5 AU. Merlin gives Mordred a chance. Mordred wants to please Lord Emrys. A slow and very rocky road to friendship or at least understanding. Merlin is a God! What happens when Arthur finds out exactly who his manservant is?
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The look Mordred gave him was so hopeful that it almost made Merlin’s heart ache. “I want us to be allies. Perhaps even friends?” he said, cautious and unsure in a way that made him look desperately young. “The love that binds us is more important than the power we wield. I love you, Emrys, even though you don’t love me. But we both love Arthur, don’t we? Can’t that be a common ground between us?”
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- Part 3 of Teagirl's bingo 2025
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Merlin and Mordred set off on a mission to retrieve Morgana after the battle of Camlann. Secrets are revealed and stories are told as the two men embark on an impossible journey. Part 6 in my Magic Reigns Free series
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- Part 6 of Magic Reigns Free
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Merlin hates having someone voice his thoughts. It pushes him to break promises, pushes him to the brink of his strength, pushes him to his wit's end. It pushes him... out of a window.
Him and Arthur have a wholesome breakfast.
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The rock accelerated out of Merlin’s hand, shattering the window as it flew into the world. He placed his bare foot and hands on the sharp-edged ledge.Cold wind blew on his face, ignoring everything else. Just as his body was just about to fall, a wrist grabbed his ankle.
“Let go!” Merlin screamed out. His voice was warbly and raw.
“Are you insane?! No!” Gwaine shouted.
“Of course I am! Let me go!”
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Arthur hugged him tighter and Merlin raised his own hand to detach Arthur from his body.Arthur looked so torn. Heartfelt. Merlin looked broken. Empty.
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“Leave me alone!” he attempts to persuade. “Oh? How would I punish you for eating my cake then?!” Arthur says, cackling as he grabs Merlin by the legs, pulling him down to land on the bed. “Mine!” Merlin says, going to eat the last bite from his fingers.
Arthur rushes forward and takes the last 8th of the cake with his lips. “What a delight. The last bite of my cake."
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- Part 14 of Mentally-Ill Merlin (Merthur)
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Merlin admits to having magic and is promptly put in cold iron and thrown in the dungeons. Arthur doesn’t know what to do. He lets time pass onward as he tries to come to a decision, all while lying about Merlin’s location. When he can’t procrastinate any longer Merlin’s trial is held.
But Arthur doesn’t need to make a decision. Merlin makes it for him.
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In the Throne Room there is Nothing but a Dance of Death and Banquet of Bloody Murder. by fallen_stxr
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
10 Apr 2025
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"Maybe Merlin was a lost child. Never been able to get to 18 without… this burden."
"Merlin. I’ll help you.”
“Kill me. I don’t want to feel anything anymore. Burn my corpse in the courtyard - serve it for dinner, for all I care.” He laughs, swaying towards Arthur’s chest a little. Arthur doesn’t move. His throat feels scratchy. What’s he supposed to do or say?
“I know you want me to die.” Merlin states. Arthur’s brows pinch and he shakes his head with a wince.
He wanted to retire to his chambers forever. He wanted to throw up his guts.
“You’d enjoy it, right - killing me?” Merlin asked as if he was already certain of the answer. Pale and frail fingers twisted the sword so the sharp edge scraped against the King’s armor. Arthur gulped but made no intention to move.
Merlin slid his fingers up the side of the blade, leaning in closer until his lips were centimeters from Arthur’s ear. “You don’t have to hide how you truly feel. I accept all of you - even the part that wishes people like me dead.”
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After a long period of self isolation, Merlin tells Arthur about his magic and begs for his life
To be taken.
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- Part 11 of Mentally-Ill Merlin (Merthur)
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Merlin wakes up in the forest and attempting suicide. How ironic he didn't die. He'll find a way to put an end to his misery, especially after he had replaced everyone that would usually do his duties. He'll find a way. No matter what.
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"He didn’t want to look Arthur in the eyes, knowing he hadn’t planned to see him ever again. He didn’t want to look at Gaius or Gwen or Gwaine. He didn’t want to look at Mordred or Morgana. He didn’t want to look at Lancelot or Leon or Percival or Elyan or anybody.
He didn’t want to look at himself. Know himself. Know he was still here. Know he had failed as miserably as he failed living. Know he would never bring himself to change.""He loved Arthur more than life itself. He’s sure. Merlin had never told anybody like Arthur about his secret.
Morgana was like Arthur. Except Morgana had magic. And Lancelot was like Arthur. But Lancelot wasn’t a noble. And Arthur? Arthur was everything.
As long as Arthur would never be able to see inside his bones and know - know the man he trusted so much was a rotten liar. Of course, he couldn’t know. It was him - and him alone - that he would never show his magic to."Series
- Part 9 of Mentally-Ill Merlin (Merthur)
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Wiping One's Memories, In Attempt of Saving One's Heart. Dig This Hole With Me, My Undead Darling. by fallen_stxr
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
08 Apr 2025
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Merlin has to prepare to go to the borders to help a small town on the border of Camelot. He feels... different. Everything feels surreal - fake. He's losing his grasp on what's real and what he's imagining. He feels empty, lost and disoriented.
Everyone's worried. He covers it with lies of course.
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He’s beside Arthur. He’s next to Arthur - where he belongs, yet all he wants is for the ground to swallow him whole.
He’s walking and walking and walking.
The world is deaf when he speaks and begs and cries, the world doesn’t stop when he takes a break; When he is deaf the world send riddles and people to frustrate him, the world continues wherever or whoever he is or choses to be - whether the chores are never done, whether he feels defeated, whether he gets to have fun - Life is never completed.
When the balance of earth is repaired at one end of the coin - Magic, it collapses on the other - Courage.
The tear ducts keep breaking loose, the secrecy won’t end, there are cracks in the foundation of his life, and the repairs of one’s chainmail - one can't keep everything in mind.
(Remix of a poem: The washing never gets done - Jaan Kaplinski).
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- Part 3 of Mentally-Ill Merlin (Merthur)
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With less than a week until the wedding, and more importantly, the arrival of Merlin, Arthur was incredibly restless. It didn’t help that he wasn’t allowed to go hunting either and naturally, being cooped up in the castle wasn’t helping his frustration. Yes, he was the king and no one told him what he could and could not do, but Guinevere was now in charge after he snapped at one too many maids for asking useless questions like how many forks to put for each plate.
One was fucking generous.
His knights were no use. Gwaine had somehow rounded up the servants to put on a re-enactment of how the two met. It was particularly hilarious given he didn’t know the full story and was now trying to convince Leon to help him. Elyan, on the other hand, had become his sister’s second-in-command and assigned himself as Arthur’s chief body guard.
Guinevere had good intentions, yes, when she advised him to not hunt but that didn’t mean Arthur had to like it. He tried on multiple occasions to slip away and catch a rabbit, but Elyan followed him closer than his shadow even did.
Or Merlin and Arthur are forced to carry out rituals in order to marry. Will the trials be too great for this couple?
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Day 17: “Oh God, I’ve Lost My Will To Live. Someone Call The Best Knight Of Them All, Sir Lancelot, To Find It.” by cactuscandle
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
17 Feb 2025
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“Well, this is the game. It is remarkably simple. You just have to steal Merlin’s neckerchief.” Immediately, complaints erupted from the knights.
“The neckerchief? He always wears it!”
“How are we supposed to steal it?”
“Merlin never takes it off for some reason — no way I’m going to risk my life and find out why!”
“Silence!” Arthur stared at the group, incredulous. “My knights, the most feared in the five realms, are terrified of my manservant?” They hung their heads in shame. “Even a squire probably could nick it off the idiot!”
“Is the squire still alive?” said a knight under his breath. Around him, his fellow brethren nodded their agreement, avoiding Arthur’s eye as he snorted.
“Merlin can be scary, Sire,” tried Lancelot. Arthur still looked like he seriously disagreed with the statement but after seeing the effect one pathetic coward had on a score of knights, he was forced to accept that yes, the Knights of Camelot feared Merlin the Buffoon.
Or 5 times Arthur gets blindsided by Merlin's ingenuity to stop the heists involving his neckerchief and 1 time Merlin gives up.
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Day 15: “Every Time I Faced Off A Bandit Or Dealt With A Murderous Sorcerer, I Just Fainted And Emrys Did The Actual Work, Did He?” by cactuscandle
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
15 Feb 2025
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“Sir Leon, are you hearing yourself?” Arthur tried his hardest not to groan and patiently listened as his First Knight explained eagerly that…
“Mordred is a god, Sire!” nodded Leon. Behind him, Merlin snorted.
“Anything to add, Merlin?” asked Arthur, knowing full well he did indeed have things to say. Arthur just wanted to sleep. He had had one hell of a day filled with back-to-back meetings with nobles and townspeople complaining alike. Being king meant he could never catch a break, it seemed.
“Merlin, you would know who Emrys is, right?” asked Leon, shifting his focus to him. The knights also leaned in, waiting for Merlin’s answer. He took his time folding Arthur’s clothes before finally looking up.
“Yes.”
“It’s Mordred, isn’t it?”
Another long pause and Arthur had half a mind to send his useless servant to the dungeons for the very valid reason of annoying him. “It is,” agreed Merlin and instantly, Leon’s head snapped back to Arthur.
Or Merlin will go to any length to make sure he's not revealed as Emrys. Any length.
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“What about Merlin?” Arthur interrupted. It was suddenly very important that he knew exactly where Merlin fell on the magical spectrum.
Merlin and Mordred looked at each other, and then Mordred said, “Merlin’s the most powerful sorcerer to walk the face of the earth.”
One of those fics where Arthur learns that Merlin has magic but doesn't realize how powerful he is. Feat. a competition for the position of court sorcerer.
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Day 8: “I Absolutely Love Having To Keep Two Blonde Prats Alive As Opposed To The Usual One And The Fact They’re Related Makes My Job Harder Because They’re Both Equally Dumb.” by cactuscandle
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
08 Feb 2025
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“You’re hurting me,” whined Aurelian. “Merlin, please let go! I swear I’m not gonna run. I can’t even go anywhere because I’m—”
Merlin paid no attention to his words and threw him roughly inside the Physician’s chambers. Gaius watched with mild interest from his work bench and frowned when he saw the boy. “Who the fuck are you?” asked Merlin, picking up a broom from the floor and twirling it in his hands expertly.
Aurelian sighed. It was like nobody actually paid attention to his words. “Prince Aurelian of Camelot,” he repeated duly. Gaius’ interest was further piqued as he put down his books and turned to the commotion.
“Impossible. Are you a sorcerer out to kill Arthur?” asked Merlin harshly. No point beating around the bush. To his shock, the boy snorted. “What is it?”
“That’s right, Merlin,” he said in a tone awfully similar to Arthur’s. “I absolutely travelled back in time just to do my own father in.” He laughed as Merlin’s jaw dropped open.
Or Arthur's (alleged) son travels back from the future and of course Merlin has to somehow send him back without causing massive panic. This is far easier said than done in his humble opinion.
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Merlin is tired. Magic had been dying for ages, and he'd tried to stave it off but to no avail. So now the apocalypse has descended upon humanity, and he is so, so tired. So in true Merlin fashion he had to do one last stupid thing, but truly, he couldn't possibly harness that kinda power, right? In his last moments he wished for when things were simpler, before things had turned to right shit.
He hadn't expected it to work. What was he supposed to do now? Could he fix everything?
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"It won't always be like this. One day we will live in freedom again."
"You really believe that?" Mordred asks, and he looks so hopeful, Merlin wonders how he could ever fear that boy.or
A continuation from "I didn't know where else to go", set in The Disir
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- Part 2 of Two Mages in Camelot
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After his promotion to court sorcerer, nothing really changed very much for Merlin. He still acted as Arthur's servant (when he felt like it), he still apprenticed under Gaius, and he still taught Mordred to control and command his magic. But then, apparently everyone decided that that needed to be fixed.
Merlin is absolutely not throwing a tantrum. Facial hair is not a tantrum, it's very warlock-y of him, actually.
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- Part 10 of the druid boy
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"Ah, Merlin," Arthur said, looking up from his desk. "I expect you have my speech ready for tomorrow?"
Merlin nodded and approached the desk. He bowed his head as he put the scroll down then kept it bowed before moving back and standing in front of him.
Arthur, immediately, was suspicious.
"Merlin? Is something the matter?"
Merlin didn't answer, just keeping his head down.
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- Part 1 of Empire For Two
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I saw a Tumblr post that said, "What if everyone got sent back to the day merlin arrived in Camelot" and as soon as the rats in my brain saw that, they took over and starting writing (I am being held hostage by the brain rats)
! TRIGGER WARNINGS WILL BE AT THE TOP OF CHAPTERS BC I AM NOT GOOD AT TAGGING THINGS!
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Arthur wants nothing more than Merlin and Mordred getting along. So, naturally, Arthur is going to be an idiot as soon as they do.
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- Part 75 of Merlin's magic