#knights of camelot

[tiredcowboyy]

I like the idea that if camlan never happened and everyone lived happily every after, when arthur figured out merlin has magic he decides to repeal the ban on magic. And people realise why. Shortly after its been repealed, people start asking merlin to ask the king for things, on behalf of himself.

E.g “hey arthur, I think maybe we should plant more flowers around the town” “i think it would be a good idea to move the knights training to midday.” “Arthur I was thinking maybe the kitchen could do with new supplies”

And every time arthur agrees, sure he might pick the ideas apart or pretend they were his own ideas but everyone quickly learns that if you want something, you dont ask the king, you ask merlin.

[ineffablejaymee]

its hillarious how protective arthur and the knights are of merlin

whicheverone you ask, they would say that merlin is a precious angel, anyone who would dare lay a finger on him would taste their swords, merlin is the best of them all the only one worthy of love

meanwhile merlin is leaning against a nearby wall, sighing dramaticaly with hands litetally covered in blood

and as far as the knights are concerned this aint blood, what are you talking about. this is merlin. the red on his hands is the paint he uses to customise clothes for orphans because hes such a good person, they dont deserve him hes so precious look at him

[rycbarmerlin]

Merlin ended 10 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO.

I made a post last year for 9 years saying how I love that the fandom was alive and thriving. A lot of people shared their stories of Merlin and what it means to them, which was so special. But a few people didn't agree that it was alive and thriving...

... for a show that ended 10 years ago, almost every day new fics are posted, fanart, edits, reactions, interactions, friendships made. It is incredible how much of an affect Merlin had on so many lives.

So, please feel free to tell us your experience of Merlin, or take this chance to reflect on it, and celebrate a show that continues to mean so much to so many people.

Long live Merlin!

[merlin-gifs]

#sir leon's long suffering has nothing on the suffering of the entire round table during report time MERLIN | 5x03 "The Death Song of Uther Pendragon"

[merrilinie]

Things I like to think would happen if the Knights and co knew about Merlin’s magic (and merthur):

• “Merlin, can you do the fire trick with the dragon again?”

• “I’m not drying your clothes, Gwaine. You chose to go in the river fully clothed, you pay the price.”

• Merlin making them flower crowns and them bullying Arthur into wearing his

• Everyone asking him if he can make them fly

• Merlin pretending he can talk to the horses and making them think him and the horses are shit talking

• Him and Gwen pretending to do chores together but really he magicked it and they’re just having a nice evening

• Merlin and Morgana having lessons in the forest while the knights what over so none one spits them

• “No, I can’t read minds.” One of the knights, “oh, okay.” *realises they didn’t ask that out loud.* “WAIT-“

• Merlin and Arthur cuddling together at night accidentally and everyone knows because Merlin’s magic is safe now and leaves a patch of flowers under him when he sleeps

• Merlin creating plants with his magic so he doesn’t have to spend so much time gathering herbs for Gaius

• the Knights and Gwen taking this a step further and making a garden of herbs for him and Gaius

• Arthur realising they should have done that years ago and putting the royal funds into it despite Uthers annoyance

• Morgana and Merlin being taught how to fight with swords (even if she already knows a fair bit) so they can protect themselves with something other than magic

• the two of them then teaching Gwen because they both think she’d be an amazing knight

• Gaius having a mini heart attack whenever he hears Merlin and the Knights talking about magic

• them realising he’s insecure about his healing magic because it’s the hardest form of magic and being sure to praise him whenever he does it or any other form of healing

• After Merlin and Arthur finally get together, his magic doesn’t want to leave him alone and so when he does his little fire show for them it instantly goes to Arthur and the others get jealous

• after an attack and Merlin nearly gets hurt, Arthur ‘forces’ his Knights to be sworn to Merlin with Merlin’s staff and so technically, they’re also his Knights and Merlin is a royal

• The druids instantly knowing this and calling him a prince

• the knights going along with it

• After a while the Knights (who know how) begin to teach the Druids things like reading and currency

• everyone teasing Merlin by saying his magic has a crush on Arthur despite the two being together already

• he blushes every time

• Merlin openly enchanting their amour to be stronger and magic proof

• him giving Gwen and Morgana matching necklaces that are also enchanted that they keep hidden

• all of them are so impressed with his power but then they are just straight dumfounded because like… how the fuck did he keep this hidden for so long?

• Growing strawberries once he sees how much Gwen loves them and they are really rare

• tricking the Knights into thinking he can talk to ghost just to laugh at their faces

• Just constantly embarrassed by the Druids cause they see him as a god or, as the knights point out, as a king and the Knights decide that means he’s Arthur’s wife and Queen of Camelot

• Arthur making this worse by saying, “Queen or Consort?”

• Merlin flicking water in his face despite none being near them

I’ll add more as I think of them :)

[notozthewizard]

Mostly season 5 inspired doodle dump :D

With a little creature!merlin sneaked in there while I'm working on proper designs

[grandmameredith]

EXCUSE ME fuck all of the others, the biggest plot discrepancy in all of BBC Merlin is the fact that the Knights of the Round Table, the Bestest Bros, literally the Merlin protection squad, just locked him up without a trial or question at all for arthurs poisoning in s5e7. ARTHUR. everyone knows they're in love.

idgaf abt anything else, this is without a doubt the biggest plot hole I've seen anywhere at any point in time.

[lightasthesun]

Some Merlin BTS I love because they look like snapshots of their life's in the show we never got to see :'))

[wishiwasadruid]

Leon: What do you call disobeying the law?

The Knights and Merlin: A hobby.

Leon: *crosses his arms*

The Knights: That we do not engage in.

Arthur: I am the law.

Merlin: I engage in this hobby, regularly.

{Merlin: I also want to get engaged to the law}

[stevenslittleshop]

Listen, I love going “the people of Camelot must’ve been so oblivious” just as much as the next person

But think about it

You’re living in a time of constant crisis. People are getting accused of magic, most of those people barely even know what magic looks like. People are killed, every day, just because they were accused of something they couldn’t disprove.

And in comes this young lad. This awfully cheery little man who takes his punishments with a smile and is slowly turning the future king into an actual person instead of some little spoiled twat. And everyone loves him. It’s the most joyous Camelot has been since the queen died.

And yes, maybe his eyes glow a little sometimes, and maybe things move on their own when he’s around, but he’s a good person and hes not hurting anyone, quite the opposite in fact.

So at a time where Merlin could’ve been killed if you said the wrong thing to the wrong person, nobody was gonna say a damn word because they did not want to see this boy, practically the one who kept the place running, the light of Camelot, burned at the stake.

They weren’t oblivious. They knew. They just refused to believe it, because if they did, then the great purge would most likely restart and Camelot could fall.

[knightofmordred]

the way leon was the only knight to be in all five seasons and was the closest to arthur before lancelot and gwaine came along yet we hardly know anything about him other than the fact he grew up with arthur, gwen and elyan and is also loyal asf we so deserved to know more about him and his character. we should've seen him as just being himself and the servant of two masters ep gave us a small glimpse of that.

same with percival. there's so much to unpack with him. his friendship with lancelot (and the fact they like never interacted again after his introduction) but also his grief and rage at what morgana did to him and his family. we saw glimpses of it, but it was only in the finale where he went with gwaine to seek revenge that we saw even part of that grief and rage.

leon is so much more than his loyalty to the crown and percival is so much more than a himbo !!

[tiredcowboyy]

my favourite merlin hc of mine is that arthur will only return when merlin gives up on the idea of him doing so. That when merlin gives up on him coming back, his magic starts to fade with his hope and that the danger albion faces that requires the king to return isnt world wars or global pandemics, its when the world loses its magic.

Basically merlin is albions greatest need

Edit: if arthur did come back bc of this, him and merlin would reunite and then I imagine Merlin would be so stressed and on edge for months he would just constantly be in a state of ???? Looking at the world confused on what catastrophe was finally so bad that arthur returned (not knowing it was him who was the catastrophe) he would probably only realise later when Arthur cracked a joke about how bad merlin looked when arthur first got there.

[alannacouture]

Look, I don’t ship Merthur (totally respect those that do), but the Knights appreciating Arthur’s flirting skills was too good to pass up.

[olli-is-a-fish]

Gwaine: In my defense, I was left unsupervised

Arthur: .... Wasn't Merlin with you?

Merlin: In my defense, I was also left unsupervised

[cinnabons-treasure-trove]

Merlin: [eyebrow raised] Gwaine, there's no way Arthur likes me that way.

Gwaine: Merlin my dear lad, he so does! Which is why Lancelot is going to help me prove it.

Merlin: [suspicious] Exactly how are you going to do that? [Looks at a guilty Lancelot then back at Gwaine]

Gwaine: [wink] Get ready boys.

Gwaine turns to see Arthur in a conversation with Leon out on the field when he begins to shout, pointing at Lancelot and Merlin that has Arthur and Leon as well as some other knights turning towards his direction

Gwaine: [gleeful] WOOHOOO! WOW MERLIN I DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD IT IN YOU, GET IT TIGER! RWAR! <3

Lancelot: [quickly dips Merlin into a romantic pose, whilst apologising] May I kiss you?

Merlin: [bewildered with his arms around Lancelot's shoulders] Um, I guess? [And he was kissed ever so gently by his friend, unaware of the impending blond doom making its way over to them]

[merrilinie]

Merlin who was born blind and uses magic to see. His eyes are actually a light colour, closer to grey, but when using the magic that grants him sight they turn blue.

So, when he looses his magic both in existing plot lines and any other, he has to learn to navigate the world without sight, something he was able to avoid before.

This could be how he tells Arthur, maybe he gets some curse on him or someone uses a magic object to subdue his power and he goes blind once again and ha to tell the Knights that he can’t see without it.