#merlin's importance to arthur

[citharaposts]

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[noodles-and-tea]

Your Arthur art of him thinking a TV is a magic mirror makes me think that he would have freaked tf out the first time he heard a phone ring.

"MERLIN! WHERE IS THAT ACCURSED NOISE COMING FROM!?" lmao

Old timey peoples reacting to modern tech is obvious, what I'm always more curious about is old timey people reacting to modern music for example, or a supermarket (this just in: medieval man faints in a Walmart)

I love Arthur and Merlin, I shall never get over them. Love <3 your art, it is most wonderful

Coming soon: Arthur in a grocery store

[thatgaywizardoverthere]

Arthur keeping tabs on Merlin day 1 so they can “accidentally” run into each other at the market

[nextstopparis]

this scene makes me sosososo insane omfg why r u looking at each other like that. stop

[the-mother-of-lions]

You promise that you'll stay But that's a promise you can't make Someone dies or someone gets hurt But if one of us dies — nessa barrett

[wolfiery]

MERLIN | 4x05 “His Father's Son"

[mr-merlin]

“How can you go out there and fight like that?” “Because I have to. It’s my duty.”

[someguyinc]

yknow a take on morgana pendragon's story i see often is that if merlin had told morgana about his magic in that moment where they were in his chambers alone that she wouldn't have turned to become evil,, i disagree,, i think that morgana as a character would have eventually turned to become evil and bitter even with merlin as a mentor if she'd learned his secret early in season 2.

let's not forget merlin himself is NOT the most stable of mentor options (not that gaius or kilgahrah or ANY of the druids were a great help either) but he didn't know what the fuck he was doing,, just trying his best consulting that outdated spell book and had cryptic messages from a conniving dragon who MIND YOU still wanted morgana dead and was manipulating merlin the whole time and gaius was a traitor to most magic people like,, he literally was pro-gaslight morgana

merlin also loved arthur, however you view that love (romantic, platonic, brotherly, whatever) merlin loved arthur more than he did magic. we see this multiple times with merlin choosing what kept arthur safe and happy over him doing what would be best for the old religion (fuck them too but that's another post),, major example being the episode with the disir where he straight up tells him there is no place for magic in camelot (which is crazy considering he IS magic made flesh but anyways)

morgana HATED. uther, she hated everything about him and for awhile she disgusted that hate as righteous fury, raining down terror and pain onto innocents (even other magic users) and justifying it as payback. she hated arthur as an extension of uther because that's what uther raised them both as (again another post for another time) and tried to kill him without even asking what his stance was on magic (i believe arthur would have immediately done some introspection and realized he was wrong but thats imo)

i think that eventually,, their two stances would have come to blows (merlin's love for arthur above his magic/morgana's hatred for uther above all else) and morgana would still go to immeasurable heights to murder uther once more, merlin would have stopped her (or tried) because he knew the pain it would cause arthur even if he hated uther too, and morgana would've hated merlin for getting in her way,, her anger triumphing her love for arthur (see: s1ep12: to kill the king)

i feel like often times i just see morgana painted as someone who just needed a little love and light,, when in reality she's been heavily abused and pit against arthur since she was like 10/11 (however old she came to Camelot) and is now a grown woman who is realizing she hates her abuser and everything he's done and wants to destroy him and everything he loves !!

likewise merlin was manipulated and gaslit and forced to become a compulsive liar and would've NOT !! been good for morgana and eventually everything would've gone to shit !!

they are worsties for better or much much worse

[centurieslove]

rewatched 4x07 and this line left me dead in the street

[gaiussleechtank]

Arthur returns and is fasinated by everything, most of all: the new food.

Merlin and Arthur come back from the supermarket, which was an entire fiasco in itself, and Arthur rumages through all the bags and pulls out all the food he forced Merlin to buy because it looked good.

Arthur pulls out a jar and reads the label aloud: pea nut butter. Theyve managed to make butter out of peas??

Merlin: what? No, peanut. Its a nut. Like a chestnut.

Arthur opens the jar, with little struggle thank you very much Merlin and sticks his finger in it and pauses because Merlin is glaring at him: yes yes yes, I know, manner and all, but no one is watching

Merlin being internally panicked and holding several epipens that have materialised out of thin air: yes. Manners. Obviously

[citharaposts]

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Huge thank you to @elirwen for tracking down the deleted round table scene for me.

[noodles-and-tea]

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[poisonedfate]

bbc merlin - 03x08 The Eye of the Phoenix

[nextstopparis]

sorry but the way merlin tells arthur that girls prefer pretty things like jewels and stuff and arthurs solution to that is to BEJEWEL A DAGGER is hilarious. any other person wouldve been like oh fuck i shouldve gotten her a necklace and hes like wait the dagger is too ugly???

[ghostpuppets]

been rewatching bbc merlin for the first time since it originally aired and now i have merthur brain

[morganasmissus]

the way bbc’s merlin means so much to so many people consistently. i only got into the fandom a couple years ago and when i tell you i’ve consumed fan-content all the way from 2008 to yesterday