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for he is a star (and your world is dark without him) by hell_to_breakfast
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
23 Jun 2025
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Arthur is safe; he had saved Arthur. His duty is done.
That’s why he doesn’t see the arrow coming.
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Or, Merlin saves Arthur from his fate at Camlann. Under any other circumstance he might ask for the rest of the week off. Unfortunately for him, it seems like an arrow in the back will have to do.
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Merlin really didn’t understand why Arthur kept assigning him more guards. He was Camelot’s Court Sorcerer and, oh you know, the strongest warlock to ever live. He really didn’t need the protection, but his stupid overly protective husband just refused to see reason. Though maybe all the trouble Merlin got into every time he left the castle wasn’t helping his argument.
Or the 5 times Arthur adds a new guard to Merlin’s protection detail and the 1 time Merlin does something about it!
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- Part 12 of 5+1 Murther Stories
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The Gods play games with us mere mortals. This is a fact. They see our scheming and planning and laugh at us.
Sometimes they punish us. They smite those who anger them. They kill crops, send plagues or floods. This is also known.
But less known is sometimes. If we are lucky. They may on a whim decide that a mere moral deserves to have their deepest secret desires fulfilled. Merlin didn't expect to be noticed by a god and yet here is one crouched before him.
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“You don’t seem like a king.”
Arthur lowered the scroll onto his lap and peered over at the child, curious and maybe a little offended. “Why not?”
Merlin shrugged. “You don’t sound like a king, for one.”
“And pray tell, Merlin, how is a king supposed to sound?”
“I don’t know,” he muttered. “Strong. Powerful.” Suddenly Merlin sat up straight, puffing his chest out and pinching his face into a rugged scowl. His voice pitched low, sounding odd in his young body. “My name’s Arthur Pendragon,” he imitated theatrically.
Arthur couldn’t help his amused snort at his antics. “Wrong," he said, returning to the scroll. "A king doesn’t have to say his name, the people would already know it.”
Merlin smiled, a teasing gleam in his eyes. “A good king doesn’t,” he mumbled under his breath, obviously still intending for Arthur to hear.
“The only reason I don’t ‘sound like a king’ is because I have to put up with all your insolence.”
That gloating smile grew on Merlin’s lips and Arthur knew he was going to lose this battle. “A good king wouldn’t put up with that either.”
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Arthur is in the wrong profession and Merlin has a personal vendetta.
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The woman was still looking, her delicate face blank as if she was considering… Taking Jericho in, head to toe.
Traitorously her guts twisted when she received a smile back, a small one, but a smile nonetheless.
Then the woman turned back, reacting to something the girl next to her had said, their attention back on whatever was going on behind Jericho.
That was when she heard it, the sound of her brother saying something insanely stupid, followed by a loud groan.
“Merlin…” Jericho sighed and turned around to find Merlin with his hands twisted behind his back, held by some blonde man.
“And who do you think you are? The king?” Merlin said, unable to see the man behind him break out into a proper grin.
“No. I’m his son.”
Jericho sighed again, her feet moving on their own.
or: A rewrite of the first episode in which Merlin had a twin sister, who might not have magic like him, but a reliable survival instinct, the ability to wield a sword and small impulse control.
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In Those Who Understand (Community Gardens) by Alecto_Pete
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Jun 2025
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Merlin really shouldn’t be surprised anymore.
Whenever his life starts looking like it might be taking a turn for the better, fate finds a way to send him spiralling in another direction with nothing to hold onto. It’s happened more times than Merlin can count, from having to leave Ealdor the first time to freeing Kilgharrah from Camelot’s underground cell. Magic and fate, it seems, are just unable to leave him alone.
So yeah, nothing should really surprise him anymore.
Although he doesn’t see a way anyone could have expected this.
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We all know the legend of Merlin and Arthur, how they came to be two important figures in British and Welsh history. But was that truly their first encounter? No. Their destiny had been written eons prior, when the first important civilizations had started to form.
That is where it all began, during Arthur's first life.
When a god walked the Earth for the first time.
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Arthur Pendragon has spent his whole life untouched—by kindness, by desire, or anything resembling real intimacy. It never mattered. Not until a certain annoying manservant came to Camelot—Merlin—who disregarded all strict royal etiquette and showed no restraint when it came to sudden, reckless displays of affection. Now, there’s something impossible in the space between them, something Arthur doesn’t know how to name—only that he aches to close the distance.
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A slow-burn touched-starved Arthur Pendragon story.
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Guys, there was only one bed.
Guys, some obscure quest in the cold far-up mountains made them "huddle for warmth".
Guys, they might give in to this farm fantasy of theirs.
Can't I just put all the tropes in there?
This fic is rated MSI for Maximum Self Indulgence.
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Just as quickly as it entered the suspicious look on his face was fleeing away and his features were smoothing out into an all-knowing look Gwaine had gotten very accustomed to seeing over the years except now it was too flat, too trusting, too young. "Oh, I see what this is." Gwaine was glad someone did because he had no clue what was going on. "Will put you up to this didn't he"
i.e Merlin getting de aged to his teenage years before he came to Camelot.
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To Choose is to Begin by Jorie2127 (JorieDS)
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan, Fate/Grand Order, Fate/stay night & Related Fandoms
15 Jun 2025
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A stranger wakes without memories in a city drowned by ruin, carrying a name from another world and power that should not exist. Merlin—once a legend, now a mystery wrapped in magic and soft laughter—chooses not to remain a bystander.
Thrown into a war of titans and survival, he weaves himself into a broken world with charm, mischief, and quiet strength. But even legends are shaped by the choices they make—and his might tip the balance between hope and annihilation.
Magic meets steel, myth walks beside man, and the future tilts with every step he takes. After all—to choose is to begin.Series
- Part 5 of OC's being isekai'd
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Merlin, Arthur, and their Wyvern Daughter Wrenkalrenth travel to visit Leon in his new home, only to discover things aren’t what they seem. Merlin and Arthur’s own nuptials are approaching and they couldn’t be happier. But will whatever is going on with Leon put a damper in that joy?
This fic is a sequel to Merlin Mother of Dragons. You will probably be confused if you haven’t read that one so go give it a read first!
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- Part 2 of Merlin, Mother of Dragons
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Uther finds out about Merlin and Arthur's courtship and accuses Merlin of using enchantments.
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Or, "No I am Spartacus!" but it's gay.
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Why would I lie when I can tell you the truth? by HadrianPeverellBlack
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
08 Jun 2025
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Merlin tries to figure out how many people he can admit to having magic without getting caught.
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- Part 51 of Merlin Bingo 2024
- Part 5 of Merlin Bingo 2025
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Merlin works the night shift at a small cafe, Magical Brews. Arthur is a night security guard at the Avalon Museum of Antiquities down the block. They meet on a rainy night, and it's magic. Just like all the other times before.
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When Life Gives You Lemons.... Throw Them At People Or Make Lemonade by Clumsyjedi92
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
05 Jun 2025
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Keira James had a semi boring life, intill she decided to try traveling. Next thing she knows she dies and her afterlife is almost like a fanfiction. Not only did she get pulled into Arthorian Legands but three Jedi and a senator crash there ship in Camelot as well. Will the dark side preval. Or will they save Camelot. To be honest, Keira kinda wished her life, or death, didn't become a verse of we didn't start the fire by Billy Joel.
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"For the first time in a while, this morning was anything but quiet."
i.e Hunith finds out about a certain relationship. And basically becomes the only parent to all of Camelot.
You don't need to read the entirety of the series before this, but I would at least recommend the Arthur chapter, otherwise you might be confused.
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- Part 4 of Taste of apples
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In which Merlin gets sloppy and one by one the knights of the roundtable all discover their favorite servant is a sorcerer. Or, I wanted a Merlin fic that was goofy and mostly about the Knights.
So I wrote it.
(I'm attempting to write 6 chapters, but no promises) -
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When Merlin needs his magic the most, he just so happens to be completely mortal with limited magic. Horrible timing really. Arthur and Merlin must traverse the world of the past in order to find their path back home where Arthur’s Coronations waits.
(Five years after Intransigent)
(Ten years after Inexorable)Part 4 of this series!
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- Part 4 of Very Magical Gays
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”I remember following you. You said you had something for the hangover I was going to have”
Something clicked in Merlin’s head, “Oh bugger”
Arthur was glaring at him now. “Merlin, what did you do?”
I.e Golden age Arthur and Merlin travel back in time hungover and have to figure out how to get back.