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    Arthur kisses Merlin in an attempt to save their lives. It becomes a lesson in trust and talking about your emotions.

    pull your trousers up because we have got one hell of a kiss-me-so-our-pursuers-think-we're-just-a-random-couple trope.

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    After being hit with a spell on a hunting trip Arthur and Merlin must find their way back home. Which wouldn’t be an issue if they weren’t children. Literally.

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    Merlin is mentally Ill. This is his... journey? Start to finish of... healing? That's the word I want to use. He gets better in the end. Please remember mental illness wasn't really acknowledged in this era. They didn't have a word for depression or a diagnosis like nowadays, but people felt that common ground of low mood, they would have somewhat known it existed.

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    Arthur does what anyone would do to protect Merlin from some unsavoury nobles. He keeps him in his lap.

     

    TW: there is some non-consensual touching but it doesn't go very far.

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  5. 39

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    Arthur is cursed to 'open his mind'.

    The only problem: his mind is open towards his manservant.

    Who has a lot of imagination.

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  6. 17

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    Titles a work in progress

    Arthur is overworking himself trying to build the kingdom back his family won’t stand back and watch any longer

    Aka the round table helping (forcing) Arthur to take a break

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    There’s not nearly enough everyone loves Arthur fics some I’m writing them for my best boy 🫶🏽

    Some will be wildly out of character ngl but I’ll try to stay in character

    Most will be one shots and 5+1 fics

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    Once again, Merlin finds himself in a bit of a situation after he performs a transfiguration spell in his sleep. Things can only get worse when Gwaine gets involved, not to mention when a stressed-out prince and the rest of the knights join in. Can Merlin keep his secret and change back?

    Set between series' 3 and 4. Canon.

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    Arthur has a bad feeling about a job that Dutch is sending you on.

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    While Merlin knew Camelot was one of the worst kingdoms to be a magic user, he couldn’t refuse his mother. But Merlin was a clumsy idiot.

    So, after a horrible day where he fought the prince, met a dragon and finally was caught using magic to save the life of his uncle, Merlin found himself in the pyre. On his first day.

    But another thing about Camelot was also true.

    This other tradition was almost a joke. The foot-of-the-gallows marriage.

    When presented, it was carried out until the end, treated as something serious. The man being executed would be saved by marrying the woman who asked for his hand even before he could descend from the gallows. His crimes would be pardoned as long as he continued to be married to her, and they would have the opportunity to begin a new life in a blank slate.

    But it has never occurred when the crime was considered serious, so no one had to put the tradition in a balance against the law.

    So, when the executioner lit the torch and the prince shouted, “Stop the execution! I’ll marry him.” no one knew what to do.

    Or

    Series rewrite where merthur is married since the beginning.

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    The knights, Arthur, and Merlin can never have a normal border patrol without some form of trouble. When bandits manage to sneak up on them and Merlin gets injured in the process, Arthur has to watch over his manservant as the knights race to get help.

    Will they get some form of aid in time or will Arthur have to watch his best friend slowly bleed to death?

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  12. 4

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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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    It’s been a few months since both graduated high school, and since they started dating. After an awkward confession junior year in June before they were out for summer, Merlin confessed. So casually too. Arthur was rightfully taken aback but after some long discussions, and undoing the works of homophobia, Arthur accepted Merlin. They took things slow, and by the time they graduated, it was time to celebrate their one year anniversary.

    Arthur had met Merlin’s parents – Hunith and Balinor – but now it was Merlin’s turn to meet Arthur’s. That’s the thing though: Arthur’s scared shitless of his father’s reaction. Morgana, his half-sister, knows about them and planned together a small dinner for Arthur to both come out and introduce Merlin.

    I mean, how bad can Uther’s reaction be?

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    When a usual hunting trip goes horribly wrong Merlin is cursed to become his namesake, an actual Merlin bird. He must learn how to keep the Royal Pratt safe in his new form while trying to navigate the drastic change of his life. When Merlin's body is restored there are well… side effects.

     

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    Merlin immediately falls for a newer cashier at the local book store, but he has a couple of secrets that Merlin didn't expect.

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    Arthur needed his servant. No. He needed his friend.

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    The stories can be seen as one-shots but also makes sense with an over-arching storyline.

     

    Thank you for all the support, it's insane!

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  20. 12

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    Becoming king is harder than Arthur thought. He is stressed and overall not very happy lately. Merlin has noticed and intends to do something about it before Arthur collapses under the weight of the crown. Arthur needs a break and he is going to give him one.

     

    "Let's go somewhere"

    "Merlin, I'm the king. I can't just get up and leave."

    "Yes, sire you're the king. You can do whatever you want."

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