#freya/lancelot/merlin/will

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- Ma Belle, My Beauty

For day 5 of @merlinrarepairfest

[ramblings-of-a-chaotic-neutral]

[starchaser45]

"I mourned you longer than I've known you"

Merlin probably at some point about everyone he's ever loved

[nynevefromthelake]

Merlin and his ghosts

Last year work for a zine that I can finally post

[argentasterdisaster]

A Dragon Lord's Tears

[dilfluvver4eva]

I CANTTTT

Bro Merlin has chemistry with everyone. Sighhhh he really had half of Camelot pining over him

freya- HIS CANNON GF!! He loved her so much with such little time

morgana- could’ve been enemies to lovers

Gwen- canonical friends to lovers (even it was only for a lil bit)

Lancelot- IDC CANNON!!! Lancelot died for him and basically said he was everything. Gwaine- UGHH SO MUCH CHEMMM!! Sunshine and sunshine protector

Arthur- OLD MARRIED COUPLE TROPE

I’m convinced him, Arthur, and Gwen could’ve been a throuple also!

Sadly, there wasn’t much of him and Elyan or Leon or Percival. YET I LOVE ALL OF THEM STILL

p.s.: notice how all but one died🤗💔

[doyelikehaggis]

BBC let Merlin be happy for two seconds challenge: Failed.

[mandoriana]

Merlin explaining to the knights what happened to him looking all disheveled and like he came out of a fight against dragons.

Merlin: I got to the room and Arthur was sitting on the bed with a scowl on his face…

Gwaine *laughs*: Uh-oh, did you mess up?

Merlin: Well, I hadn’t at the time, but I did later. Anyway, I saw he was angry and got worried, so I asked, “Did something happen?” I thought he would answer, but he just looked at me and said, “Nothing!😡”.

Merlin imitates the prince’s accent and the knights laugh at his imitation, he was very good at mimicking Arthur’s voice.

Merlin: That “Nothing” from Arthur seems to have a direct connection to the devil! When Arthur said “NOTHING!” it was almost like Morgana knew things were going to go wrong and came out from behind the curtain to cause more trouble! I could almost hear her saying, “Go, go, go, fight, fight!”.

Lancelot *drinks his beer*: Jesus, but what happened after all? Why was he so angry?

Merlin: So, that’s what I was trying to find out! So I asked and he replied, “If you did something, then you should know 😡”. So I told the truth, right, that I had no idea what I did. He looked at me and said, “Who is Freya?”.

Leon and Elyan took a deep breath understanding where the story was going, Gwaine and Percival choked on their beer and Lancelot bit his lip to keep from laughing at his friend’s misfortune.

Merlin: Yes, I know, it sounds funny, and it could have turned into a funny situation, but I got so nervous talking about my ex that the best answer I could come up with at the moment was “Which Freya?”

All the knights lost their smiles and were now just looking at Merlin in disbelief.

Elyan: That was so stupid to say, even for you!

Merlin: I know!

Leon: Merlin, if you knew Arthur was jealous, why did you say something so dumb!?

Merlin: I got nervous! But the worst part wasn’t even that, the worst part was that after I said that, I saw Morgana go “Ihhhh 😰” and run away! She left! She left me alone with angry Arthur! That coward! 😡

Gwaine fell to the floor laughing, Leon seemed to suffer from headaches due to the couple’s antics, Elyan just got up and left to laugh and maybe tell Gwen what Merlin said, Percival was just laughing shamelessly while drinking, and Lancelot was on the verge of a stroke while holding back his laughter. Merlin sometimes hated his friends, those idiots.

[inalandofsadclowns]

bbc merlin is a show that has the power of queerbait and straightbait at the same time, and is not afraid to use it. I started watching for merthur and ended up shipping hard mergwen and mergana as well, only for none of these to happen.

Merlin had such a ridiculous amount of chemistry with everyone he met, the writers panicked and just killed everyone instead.

[chronicowboy]

just merlin and unraveling by the crane wives

[morganadeservedbetter]

Merlin: God, if only someone loved me… Arthur: standing behind them with a wedding ring roses Freya: holding box of chocolates Gwaine: has balloons Gwen: holding out a flower crown Mordred: has a card Morgana: bringing him special books Lance: literally just dropped everything he was doing because Merlin needed help carrying things Gaius: facepalms This is sad.

[drlettuce]

Merlin: I've mourned you longer than I have held you...

[warblingmoss]

thinking about post camlann mergwen...

they had the potential for romance, once. before everything. before everything started changing, went wrong, before their stations in life made them the closest of friends then pulled the tide that drifted them apart.

before they changed, too.

they both lost so much, gained and lost everything. their first loves, their best friends, the shared love of their lives, and it's all they can do to cling to what he built; to preserve his legacy.

so they let themselves embrace that "what if," of so many years past, to find comfort in one another. because merlin held arthur's attention in ways guinevere did not, even as she wanted to, and gwen held arthur's heart in a way merlin never did, even as he wanted to. and they are both the closest thing the other has to holding him again.

[justaz]

merlin places all his friends to rest in avalon. first freya, then lancelot, then arthur, then gwaine. and then the rest of the knights when they pass along with gwen. freya and co spend time together in avalon but freya is the lady of the lake so only she has the power to manifest herself to merlin. she does so when he comes to visit. she tells him that all his friends arrived safely in avalon and are resting peacefully, recovering from their lives. merlin passes her messages that she carries to the rest and they pass her messages which she carried to merlin.

its a few years later when freya manifests and asks about morgana. merlin isn’t a fan of the conversation but freya says that they’ve all made progress with themselves and each other and have kinda sat back and viewed everything that happened from and outside perspective and gwen wants her best friend and arthur wants his sister to have that same chance, they can’t bear the thought that she’s wandering the forest, driven mad and in pain. they ask that merlin puts her to rest. she’s been tormented enough in her life, she deserves a chance at rest and peace.

merlin begrudgingly treks out to the spot where he stabbed morgana and gathers her remains to carry the bones to the lake. he puts her to rest. freya thanks him and keeps him updated on her progress, it’s slow going but arthur, gwen, and leon want their morgana back, the girl who fought for what was right and just, damn the consequences. years layer freya shares how morgana is more akin to the young girl they described from all those years ago. merlin cries and finally mourns his friend.

morgana’s apology is carried by freya and merlin’s apology is carried back. her first request is for mordred to be put to rest in avalon as well. arthur seconds the request. the knights echo the same sentiment for their brother in arms. morgana tells freya where she buried him and merlin follows her directions and finally puts him to rest in avalon. freya tells him that mordred sobbed when he realized emrys put him to rest, he had thought that bridge was forever burned. merlin will never admit it but he definitely shed a few tears for him as well.

all his friends are together now. at rest. in avalon. more and more years pass but merlin’s health never declines. he’s old, too old, past 100 now at this point. yet he lives. he thinks it might be a cruel joke played by the gods but man can’t live forever so it’s only a matter of time. more and more years pass and he still lives. out of morbid curiosity, he closes himself and imagines himself as he was when he first arrived in camelot. at once, all his aches and pains melt away, his skin tightens, his beard and long hair shrivel up and when he peers into a looking glass he barely looks 20.

a cruel joke by the gods indeed. all of his friends are at peace, resting in avalon, and merlin will never join them. he will remain walking the earth until the end of time or when the gods deem his punishment fulfilled. he will never see his friends again. not unless they rise as the dragon said, but merlin has since come to terms with the fact that the scaly bastard is as manipulative as they come. he may have been lying about that too.

as more time passes and magic begins to fade from the minds of men and they turn to science, pillaging the environment of it’s resources and pumping it full of pollution, freya finds it harder and harder to manifest until she all but can’t. merlin sits by the lake for days without moving and she never appears. the world is different now and merlin is all that remains of albion. camelot fell centuries ago and invaders conquered the isles and made it their own. merlin is all that remains. he is completely and utterly alone.

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Merlin

Character: Merlin

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Source: AO3

[cuteasdeath]

Will: First Love

Gwen: Platonic Love

Freya: Tragic Love

Morgana: Forbidden Love

Lancelot: True Love

Gwaine: Passionate Love