Ok now someone write fanfiction about Merlin (from Merlin) being Arthur's Groom of the Stool, the most seemingly degrading, yet honorable and powerful position in court.
Also the codependency and homoeroticism of making your bro accompany you to the toilet is hilarious, but would also allow Merlin to be able to protect him so.
Also Arthur putting Merlin in being in charge of the King's bedroom and bathroom is probably because he got fed up with all his complaining about everything every time he sleeps over visits.
(Yes I'm also saying that maybe Arthur - accidentally - created the position by being not-married codependent on Merlin)
I guess here King Arthur was a real dude who became legend after his death (in which demons and angels might have been involved). Our heroes now have a mystery to solve, with the help of a certain sorcerer.......
we fuckin hate Uther in this house but those times he'd look at Merlin and be like "wtf is wrong with Arthur rn??" were so funny
like Uther was very firmly on the you're too close to this boy train but the moment Arthur was doing something weird he'd look at Merlin like "boy fix this rn"
I started this year making a meme about John Green being back and I thought that would be the wildest thing to happen this year... Clearly I was wrong. I feel like the universe is just confused about what year it is... I'm in my mid 20s now and I don't need to be going through this again.
I was minding my own goddamn business only to suddenly remember this scene exists
I don't know how to explain it, but it's addressing something so visceral in me.
Like. Did anyone ever expand on how Arthur literally didn't even blink before getting up to save Merlin from the onslaught he would have faced for his outrage? He just got up immediately and took Merlin away, held and handled his anger, and even gave him the respite (visiting Gaius) that he needed.
Wtf. Like boy no you're not supposed to be this fucking in sync with your manservant's reactions. But it's as if he predicted it even, because he saw in Merlin the exact same reaction he wanted to do, but had the tact not to because he grew up with boundaries. So he goes on to save his boy instead.