#no love for mordred

[justaz]

*merlins magic gets exposed in front of the knights*

merlin, magic user: oh fuck

arthur, finally taking this opportunity to pretend as if he just found out merlin has magic after agonizing for the past month on how to bring it up: you have magic?

lancelot, merlin defender, already knew of merlin’s magic: no! i have magic

gwaine, merlin defender, already knew of merlin’s magic, lover of chaos, ride or die: no, i have magic!

mordred, desperate for his hero’s approval bc no matter what he’s done emrys just stares at him with distrust and the poor boy is tired and so close to tears: no…i have magic.

percival, raised by druids and bonded strongly with mordred over that and does Not agree with the persecution of magic in camelot, had an inkling that merlin had magic but no proof: no. i have magic.

*leon and elyan exchange a look, elyan, amused and leon, exhausted, elyan shrugs*

elyan, knows how much gwen adores merlin and completely understands her stance bc merlin…is merlin, down to clown and put on a show, really playing up the dramatics: no! i have magic.

leon, exhausted, has known of merlin’s magic since he stepped foot in camelot, knows of his feelings for arthur and arthur’s feelings for him, knows arthur knows of merlin’s magic and wouldn’t harm him, thinks everyone is being absolutely ridiculous:

*the knights stare hard at leon and even merlin looks slightly offended at leon not jumping to his defense with the rest of the knights, arthur hasn’t said anything and is staring at leon expectantly*

leon, sighing: …no. i have magic.

[silkywishes]

my dream fantasy high liveshow would be a quadruple date (trackerbees + skuttlespring + mazbian + figayda) that gets interrupted by the characters' angry exes who have formed a league to enact revenge on them. gertie & nara are a given of course. ecaf has escaped adaine's jacket and is now actually a turncoat for real. zelda is really awkward about the whole thing at first - she's only here because someone told her to be and she didn't wanna say no - but she goes into a rage once she realizes gorgug is dating another tiny barbarian girl. dr asha is there and he has NO idea what is going on. there's a 200 year old elf woman who calls ayda her ex wife. she has never met this woman before.

in the end they find out aelwyn orchestrated the whole thing simply because she was bored and she thought it'd be funny.

[pearlsdiamondsandvodka]

damn i almost wish the intrepid heroes had done worse this episode because the concept is of this battle was epic as hell. i would have loved to see more of baron being creepy, a confrontation with jawbone and i would have loved to see the other players play baron

[earthshine-moon]

Merlin Parallels

“The more brutal you are, the more enemies you’ll create.” (1x01)

“I want his annihilation, Mordred. I want to put his head on a spike and watch as the crowd feast on his eyes.” (5x02)

“And allow him to grow more powerful, more dangerous until he strikes out against us?” (1x08)

(5x13)

“Are you ever going to change, Merlin?” (1x13)

“I don’t want you to change.” (5x13)

“Maybe that one’s worth dying for, eh?” (3x05)

(5x13)

[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.

[ollyrewind]

jedi knight merlin on a diplomatic mission?

[reegis]

pendragon (unknowingly) family bonding over tea 🍵

(commission for @jewishlancelot!!)

[gazpachoandbooks]

The Knights of the Round Table Merlin Squad

Wonderful gifs by: @poisonedfate, @sircolinmorgan, @repmet, @donttouchtheneednoggle, @atdawn (hope it's okay to use them, please let me know otherwise)

[gods-favorite-autistic]

Track list for Fig and the Cig Figs independently published Junior Year album (officially named “Infaethable”)

Teenage Rebellion

Night Yorb (a heavy metal banger)

Summer Scaries

Devils Nectar

Time Quangle (a love song about Ayda)

Multiclass (Gorgug sings on this!)

The Ballad Of Lucy Frostblade (Kristen was the one who convinced Fig to write this)

So Late, So Tactical

Do You Have A Fucking Warrant

Cassandra (Can You Hear Me)

Hall Of Mirrors

President Applebees (written entirely in the night after Kristen gets elected by a drunk Fig with extremely drunk notes by Kristen)

Raging For Love (inspired by Gorgug, of course)

The Elven Oracle (Has A Day Job) (So Stop Bothering Her)

Maximum Legend

Fury Of The Ball

Cursed

Infaethable

The Bad Kids

[emthimofnight]

a,i know i just sent the mordred ask recently but please take this art of dimension traveling mordred babysitting his little siblings and having one of them make friends with another nerd,,,,

also since mirage is a bit covered by hedgehog quills,,heres a separate mirage drawing for you,

ok bye *dies*

OH???? MY GOD??? WHAT??? THIS RULES 😳😳😳😳 Mirage looks so cool in your style, wow!!!

Also, Mordred, Mirage is a terrible influence, you shouldn't let your little brother near him HAHAHA 🤣 Go have him hang out with someone responsible like Jade or Calico!!! He's only going to teach him how to do crime!!

[justaz]

battle of camlann but merlin wasn’t ancient as shit. he blasts the warriors around arthur away and arthur turns to see a glowering, golden-eyed merlin. he tightens his grip on his sword but isn’t able to raise it. the inconceivable notion that merlin has betrayed him runs through his mind but he cant quite grasp it. his father is screaming in his head to kill the wretched sorcerer but all arthur can see is his friend wearing a face that looks too much like morgana’s. merlin glances up at arthur and the expression of rage fizzles into one tinged with fear and concern - all too confusing for him to unpack in the midst of battle. merlin is slow to approach his side and even then he keeps his distance. before either of them can say anything, mordred appears, sword in hand, glaring at arthur.

merlin tries to draw the former knights attention away from arthur, tries to goad him into fighting merlin instead, but mordred is deadset on fighting arthur. he calls morgana over instead and says emrys’s fight is with her while his is with arthur. with the extra seconds of back and forth, arthur isn’t as shocked when he raises his sword against mordred’s. morgana and merlin blast each other great distances until they’re far away from modred vs arthur and land on the front line between the two armies. both armies back off and watch the light show as morgana and emrys battle until morgana’s army uses the distraction to close in on camelot’s army.

three battles occurring at once until morgana gets a lucky hit in and merlin goes flying. he lands next to a gwaine who is currently bleeding out. he smiles when he sees who’s next to him “merlin!” which sounds so much like his greeting every time they ran into each other before gwaine became a knight. he reaches out and heals gwaine’s wound and leon just looks up at him for a moment before going “you’re always full of surprises, aren’t you merlin?” merlin grins and goes “i got one more” he stands up on surprisingly steady legs and calls on kilgharrah. in for a penny, out for a pound. arthur is already fuming at him, might as well rip the bandaid off right?

kilgharrah attacks morgana’s army while merlin orders aithusa to stand down. camelot’s army is able to march through the charred army and bring down those who remain, mordred is loosing but persevering through rage and spite alone, morgana is screaming (like she always is nowadays). merlin and morgana battle once more until mordred and morgana’s armies have fallen. merlin makes a tactical retreat to arthur who is still staring at him wearily (and definitely irate). he requests permission to kill morgana which is baffling but she is his sister and he’s always cared for her even after her betrayal so he supposes it makes sense. once he gives it, their fight doesn’t last longer than a minute. emrys was always stronger than her, he was just buying time.

camelot emerges victorious though they don’t seem all that excited about it. the other warriors cheer and clap each other on the back, but arthur is just watching merlin. the knights watch them uneasily. merlin returns arthur’s gaze. “is that the fucking dragon i killed?” merlin looks up at kilgharrah who is needlessly burning the remains of morgana’s army. merlin turns back to him “yes.”

[dreamofcamelot]

School of little vampires merthur, Merlin is Oskar n Arthur…. Arthur is Sunshine 🥹🥹🥹

[tongjaitongjai]

Happy!AU where Mordred accidentally calls Merlin ‘Mom’ at the roundtable meetings and like ‘gdandhajsh i am so sorry the wordz Merlin and mom are so similar i got confused it s probably a druid thing everyone is one big family and since emrys is god of magic and magic is the nature that creates everything you are technically my mom anyway??? djdausj oh it is not like i saw you as my protector and wish you trust me and love me and are my mom or anything you kno what lets forget about this because arthur is here! HELLO DAD!’

at this point, he might as well just die now because he just calls the king of Camelot his dad (and out Merlin as Emrys and admits to being a druid in front of the entire council) so he shouts ‘I AM A SORCERER.’

To which Arthur replies, ‘Hi sorcerer, I am dad ’ as that meeting is held because they are officially lifting the magic ban in Camelot today, so, not even an execution can save him now.

The knights have to coax him out from under the table with the promises that Momlin is not angry at him and King Dad will teach him Camelot's secret sword move tomorrow. Mordred finally gets the happy life and one big family he deserves. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

[hellish-riddles]

the Mordred Manor is so lively, adopted sisters annoying each other, way too many cats. imagine poor little ghost edgar getting chased but has the last laugh bc he can go through walls now 🥹🥹

[citrinegay]

archdevil of rebellion 🔥🎸

saint of mystery and doubt ✨❓

eleven oracle 🗡️🔮

[necromosss]

Ya know, drow society sucks balls and Mordred is a huge bitch, but I can honestly see why he hates his sister so fucking much.

I mean, your a boy born in a tyrannical matriarchal society and you wanna make a place for yourself in it, preferably in the form of a position in power where people will actually respect you. But not only are you nor able to hold ANY claim to being an heir to your house because of your gender, the sister that you have that actually CAN go places is very much not qualified for it, and just fucks off. (barring any context to the situation that only u are privy to of course)

Anyway this sibling dynamic saddens and intrigues me

YES! YES YOU GET IT!!!! THIS IS EXACTLY IT! (ILY!!)

I know I wrote Mordred as a huge bitch but he's rightful to be one! Placing oneself on Mordred's side, it would be as clear as day that his sister destroyed and has taken everything he knew for him. His beliefs, his goals, his overall ambition.

To surfacer, yes, he might sound like he's wired 'wrong' but to him? To Mordred its what he believed in. It's just the classic case of 'different culture, different perspectives', and whether Mira realized it or not she did wasn't respectful of that due to her 'surface' influence (their father).

So if we switch this whole protagonist role, i won't lie Mira is definitely the bad guy in his story. No one is 100% true no matter how good their intentions are. After all, good-ness is more often than not, subjective at best.