A good Merlin and Morgana scene from “It didn't have to end like this" by tothevision
"You knew," she said with a quiet realization. "All this time."
He couldn't bring himself to look at her and the rage burned even more. She could feel the tears threatening to spill, but held them at bay. He looked guilty. He was guilty.
"When I told you I had magic, you said nothing. You could see what it was doing to me and you said nothing. YOU SAID NOTHING !" she screamed. "It was tearing me apart and all I wanted was someone to tell me that it would be alright, that they were there with me, that this world didn't exist to leave me utterly alone. I trusted you! And all the while, you were just pretending to be my friend? Was it a good laugh you had at my expense?"
"Please…" Merlin said, but she didn't know what he was pleading her for.
She scoffed bitterly. "You think me so evil and heartless, acted like you were so much better than me. Oh, but you, Merlin… you are a hundred times more cruel." She tried to keep her voice from cracking, but failed. "I would never have done what you did. I would not have left you alone."
He seemed to have recovered somewhat from the attack and stood up straight. "No," he said darkly, "You just try to kill the people who love you."
"Love me?" she repeated in biting disbelief. "If any of them had even an inkling of what I really am, I would have been executed on the spot. Is that love? Besides, at least I stand up for what I believe in. What have you done? Whimpered and kowtowed to Arthur? Stood by like a coward as Uther murdered people before your very eyes for the same crime you yourself are guilty of? You've been protecting the man who would have all of us die simply for being who we are! What kind of a person are you, Merlin?"
"One who would fight for the people he cares about until his last breath."
"And what was I?" she shot back. "Was I not worth fighting for? To deserve the truth? WHAT - WAS - I?"
He was taken aback, opening his mouth only to close it again. Tears sprang forth to his eyes but she had no sympathy for him, no pangs of consciousness, and only shook her head in disgust.
"Perhaps the world is not as black and white as you would like it to be. Nothing is ever that simple." Morgana added.
"Some things are."
"This isn't," she sighed, "Which is what you have so utterly failed to comprehend."
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hello merlin fandom, today im here to humbly offer you this, tomorrow who knows
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saw a template today and i went OH it's that fruity medieval magic show again
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I think it would be insanely funny if after Arthur’s death everyone returns back in time to the place they were the day Merlin arrived in Camelot. But like, everyone thinks they are the only ones who has returned. We see it all from Merlin’s pov, who’s traumatised and wondering why the fuck Arthur is so much sweeter to him this time around and keeps saying ‘thank you’. He wonders why Lancelot shows up earlier, why all of a sudden Gwaine is there three years too early, saying he got hurt in a tavern bawl and needs a physician. He wonders why Leon keeps pretending like he didn’t just accidentally see Merlin do magic. Why Gwen keeps giving him these knowing looks. And why Morgana doesn’t seem as afraid as she used to when she was figuring out that she had magic. Everyone is trying their best to change history for the better, thinking they are alone with this duty... and then one day when uther is dead and they are sitting around the round table, merlin steps forward and is like: ‘I need to confess that I have magic, but also that I have returned from the future.’ And everyone just whips around and is like ‘YOU TOO??!’ And then they realise that they’ve all returned and wasted their time thinking they were alone.
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s2e11 the witch's quickening / s4e5 his father's son
ough the inescapable poetic downfall as morgana becomes the very person she hated most
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