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• Pain is Cold Water by slayspeare

  Fandoms: Merlin (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  25 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
  • Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
  • Gwen (Merlin)
  • Lancelot (Merlin)
  • Leon (Merlin)
  • Percival (Merlin)
  • Morgana (Merlin)
  • Elyan (Merlin)
  • Gwaine (Merlin)
  • Alternate Universe - Top Gun Fusion
  • the violence is not that graphic but i can never be too carefuk
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Found Family
  • The Knights as Found Family (Merlin)
  • Angst
  • Near Death Experiences
  • Hurt Merlin (Merlin)
  • Arthur Pendragon Needs a Hug (Merlin)
  • Minor Gwen/Lancelot (Merlin)
  • Protective Morgana (Merlin)
  • Siblings Morgana & Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
  • !!!!! they are siblings yall
  • The Knights are Good Friends (Merlin)
  • Protective Knights (Merlin)
  • Caring Knights (Merlin)
  • Worried Knights (Merlin)
  • The Knights Love Merlin (Merlin)
  • though merlin aint here physically everybody LOVES that mf
  • Merlin Has No Magic (Merlin)
  • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
  • Hurt Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
  • Worried Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
  • Whumptober
  • Whumptober 2025
  • Established Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)

  Summary

  Arthur remembers how he got the callsign. His leadership qualities, his boldness, bordering on stupidity, alongside his, how Merlin would grow to call it, ‘pratishness’, granted him the callsign ‘King’.

  Where were all the king qualities tonight, then?

  TOP GUN x MERLIN AU

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  WHUMPTOBER 2025:

  No. 25: Collision Course

  Series

  • Part 6 of Slayspeare's Whumptober 2025
  • Part 1 of Top Gun x Merlin AU

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,600

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

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  Comments:

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  Kudos:

  36

  Bookmarks:

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