#the knights of camelot

[lucylichtenweg]

Knight: *wants to become a knight of Camelot*

Arthur: and now for the most important test

Arthur: *puts Merlin before the knight*

Merlin: approved

Arthur: welcome to the knights

Knight: what just happened?

[wickedwitchofthesouth]

I hate to break it to you guys but once you Merlin you can't Merlout

[lets-talk-ships]

Do you ever wonder what would have happened if when Merlin declared himself the sorcerer Arthur had believed him. Not the entire court just Arthur.

Arthur, yelling during a bandit attack :Merlin, there are too many of them. Do something

Merlin(panicked): Starts throwing logs at the bandits and creating butterflies to distract the bandits because god damnit Arthur, Sir Leon is just there

[stressed-and-queer]

You think the knights have a bet going on about whether or not Merlin and Arthur are going to get together? Like, it started as a joke but then it actually got serious and now the amount the bet is at is like really high and now the knights are either trying to get Merlin and Arthur to kiss or trying to prevent that so they can win the bet and Merlin and Arthur are just so confused caught in the middle of it all

[georgies-ftts]

the Merlin tag should just come with a one or two word explanation as to why we’re randomly trending every two months. For example: ‘sad’ ‘very sad’ or my personal favourite ‘utter despair’

[cinnabon-sweetroll-tiramisu]

Arthur: *rubbing his hands over and under Merlin's thighs* Move your legs higher.

Merlin: *leans back and places his legs upon Arthur's shoulders*

Merlin: *pouting* Arthur, I thought we were training?

Arthur: *massaging Merlin's thighs* Hm. Later. Right now I'm measuring you for your new saddle.

The roundtable knights, used to their King's and his manservant weird "friendship" continue training, the newer knights however remain baffled.

Gwaine walking past the new knights.

Gwaine: *eating an apple* You'll be seeing something similiar to this a lot, probably with less clothing and more moaning. *chuckling*

Leon following behind Gwaine: *seen some shit he never in his life wanted to see or hear* Stay away from any alcoves you come across...and always knock before entering ANY room.

Random newbie knight: May I ask—

Leon with a dead asf stare

Random newbie knight: —I'll just, go over there and um yeah. *shuffles away*

[ambriel-angstwitch]

Arthur: Anyone d-

Merlin: Depressed?

Leon: Drained?

Gwaine: Dumb?

Mordred: Disliked?

Arthur: -done with their work... what is wrong with you people

[achillesuwu]

“We don’t talk about Bruno” but make it Merthur : Basically Arthur (the knights and Gwen ?) coming back after 1500 years and they have to find the Legendary Emrys to complete a quest but people got afraid of his power (Merlin did nothing except scare Kings and peasant alike when they tried to do a Purge 2 but no matter how right he is people are afraid of his power) so they get VERY exaggerated description about him (like some 1000 years old rumors STILL going around)

[hannahhook7744]

Merlin fans!

What songs make you think of Modern Merlin/Merlin Reincarnation fics.

Leave suggestions with artists down in the comments down below.

Especially if said songs could be taken as platonic!

Girlie here needs some musicial inspiration for her modern Merlin series.

Songs I got so far:

"The one that got away" by Katy Perry.

"You got a friend in me" by Randy Newman.

"I'll Be Good" by Jaymes Young.

"See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa.

"Castle on the Hill" by Ed Sheeran.

"Don't You Worry Child" by Swedish House Mafia.

"I Lived" by OneRepublic.

"Brother" by Kodaline.

"Centuries" by Fall Out Boy.

"Time is an Illusion" by Rebecca Sugar.

"I Remember You" by Rebecca Sugar.

"A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri.

"Coming Home" by Diddy.

"Stressed Out" by Twenty One Pilots.

"Dead Hearts" by Stars.

"House of Memories" by Panic! at the Disco.

"Counting Stars" by OneRepublic.

"Warriors" by Imagine Dragons.

"Thnks fr th Mmrs" by Fall Out Boy.

"Long Live" by Taylor Swift.

Enjoy this Modern Merlin fic regarding Will I wrote:

William of Ealdor No More.

[olli-is-a-fish]

Merlin: I want to learn how to use a defensive magic, the Knights in my kingdom are practically useless

Arthur: You.... you live in OUR Kingdom, WE'RE the knights

Merlin: Yeahhh, don't read into that too much

The Knights™: ....

Merlin: ....

[earlgreyinpajamas]

any knight!merlin AUs? :)

1. Our Shared Wardrobe by InkThroughHerVeins 

Arthur and Merlin develop a habit of sharing of clothes… eventually Merlin ends up in Arthur’s old armor.

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i dont know if you'd count this, because merlin technically isnt a knight here, but he's fighting like the knights and in knight armour?

2. The Issue of Knighthood by evaelisaa (@madebyevaelisaa)

Arthur offers Merlin knighthood (he has his reasons), but Merlin declines (he also has his reasons).

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this is my fav knight merlin fic of all time

3. Protect You Anyway by thenerdyindividual (@thenerdyindividual)

Merlin accidentally reveals his magic to Arthur. It goes about as well as he can expect. Only Arthur is still furious about the lies between them, and refuses to let Merlin back into his role as manservant. So Merlin requests to be made a knight. If Arthur can't trust him to be a friend, at least Merlin can continue to save his life. Their friendship hangs in the balance, and it is unclear whether they are going to come through on the other side stronger than ever, or broken beyond repair.

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i also really really recommend this au!!

[wickedwitchofthesouth]

Thinking about how the moment arthur found out about merlins magic he did not think about killing him; He didn't even register why merlin would be afraid to tell him because he never once thought of executing him. Thinking about how the great betrayal was not the fact that Merlin had magic but the fact that Merlin believed that arthur would harm him, that arthur wasn't trust worthy even after all their years togther.

Thinking....

[kaviiinsky]

If you have an answer not on this list (or I’m forgetting something obvious) tell me in the tags!!

[lucylichtenweg]

There is only one brain cell between the knights of Camelot

And Lancelot had it

[georgies-ftts]

just another Merlin headcanon/fic idea that i may or may not write… (AU: Post canon/nobody dies, Arthur knows about Merlin’s magic but not quite what Merlin does for Camelot in his spare time)

Merlin and Arthur have been teetering around each other since the Battle. Arthur showing a more protective and outwardly caring side to the younger man. Merlin leaving lingering touches and soft glances whenever he’s able, defending Arthur more openly and strongly to those he never would’ve dared to before.

The Knights have bets on their relationship. Leon is winning. Gwaine is in debt. Percival wants to rip his hair out, Lancelot and Eylan are secretly betting on Gwaine going bankrupt before Merlin and Arthur even admit their feelings out loud.

After a particularly close encounter with his servant, soon to be court sorcerer, Arthur finally works up the courage to ask Merlin if he feels the same as he does, to tell Merlin that marrying for an heir is what the court want, he wants to marry for love, and he loves Merlin.

He asks Merlin, by a letter that he thinks gives a clear light to his intentions, to meet him outside the castle, in a spot they sometimes sit at together when the days have been long and stressful. The spot where the moonlight shines brightly over the flowers and the grass is somehow soft year round and in the summer a small refreshing cross breeze is created by the way the trees are sprayed out scarcely before them.

But Merlin never shows and Arthur feels embarrassed, hurt, somehow more betrayed than when Merlin revealed the gold dragon within the flames of the fire but he understands that Merlin must’ve read Arthur’s intentions loud and clear and saved him the mortifying rejection of his manservant. So instead he turns to avoiding Merlin, that seeing him after the clear rejection would only send him into a spiral so he tries his best to stay away.

However he notices that, despite his effort to avoid him, he hasn’t seen the sorcerer anywhere at all, his chores untouched, a dreadful feeling that hasn’t been there until that morning fills the air. It’s obvious the others within the castle feel it too.

Arthur turns to the knights, questioning if they have seen Merlin, if he is okay and well, but they have not seen him and that only causes Arthur to panic more.

He sends the guards to search the castle, the stables, Gwens house, even the small opening by the lake where Merlin traipses off to when he’s feeling rough, when he’s hiding. But he’s never gone this long.

He orders them to tear Camelot apart if they have too.

But he’s found in none of those places.

Instead Merlin and Gwaine find him, bloody, broken and shivering beneath the castle where he hasn’t been able to move himself for the past two days even calling for help had been pointless so far below the occupied layers of the castle.

Merlin is rushed to Gauis as he his eyes flutter and Arthur can do nothing but sit and panic as Merlin’s wounds are tended too.

Once he is awake and competent Arthur sits beside his cot and, though it feels wrong too, he questions him deeply, his voice tremors and his fingers shake but he does it anyway.

And Merlin tells him everything, how he received the letter and his heart almost gave up on itself at the thought of alone time with the King, how he’d been sneaking around near the stores, trying to find a bottle of wine or two just before their meeting so they could truly relax after a stressful council meeting and had caught the assassin that had been snooping low in the castle. A poisoned dagger strapped to his belt.

He had been strong and relentless and had nearly left Merlin with less than his life but Merlin had fought for Arthur and he had won, even if he ended the scrap with blood coating his body and an ache in his ribs that made him hiss and cough with each movement.

That even before Arthur knew about his magic this had been a large part of his daily life, to keep Arthur safe and to never let him know just how much it hurt him, how much it broke him. He jokes that he doesn’t even know where the tavern is.

But Arthur echos that now he doesn’t need to hide, he can ask for help, and he will receive it.

Then Arthur realises that Merlin truly had no idea what he was going to ask him and he knows that if he doesn’t do it now he won’t ever be able too again.

So he asks.

And Merlin replies.

[cinnabon-sweetroll-tiramisu]

The story of how Mordred called Merlin mom and then proceeded to call Arthur dad and now he's adopted into the family

Author: Me aka @dalazygamerneko

Inspired by @tongjaitongjai merthur idea, check out it out here: 🐓x🐦=🐣

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It was ordinary day. Birds were singing, training went well and the maids were busy but happily chatting.

Nothing could go wrong Mordred thought as he made his way to the afternoon roundtable meeting when he came across Merlin or Emrys as he is known amongst druids, quickly he hid into an alcove and gazed in envy at Lord Emrys, no, Merlin smiling and holding a little boy in his arms.

It's moments like these that he wished he knew his mother longer but he could barely remember her. He watched quietly at the soft look in Merlin's eyes and utter joy upon the little boy's face as they hugged each other, Mordred wondered if his mother would've looked at him the same way Merlin did.

He sighed, leaning back against the stone walls Mordred couldn't help but want to revert back into being a child again just so Merlin wouldn't gaze coldly at him, albeit he probably deserved it for the words of hatred he said in his youth. He knew now Merlin never meant to lead those knights towards his camp. That the warlock was only trying to help Morgana.

"What can I do to earn your trust?"

Mordred shook his head, he'd think of something maybe ask one of the knights for help? He's noticed that Sir Lancelot and Sir Gwaine are closer to Merlin than the other knights.

'They're also the most protective of him' Mordred thought dryly, a crease upon his brow as multiple ideas popped into his mind and many he shot down knowing it won't work.

"Well, I'll just have to hope the triple Goddess guides me." Mordred mumbled, he looked out into the hallway, Merlin was gone, most likely doing chores for the King.

Mordred chuckled as he continued walking, he would never understand the relationship Emrys and the once and future King had with each other. There were times they seem like close comrades begrudging in their respect for one another and then other times they would argue fondly like any old married couple.

Not surprising when plenty of townsfolk as well as even the nobles have speculated in the past if Merlin was being courted by Prince Arthur, to any outsider it certainly looked that way therefore Merlin was given the "mistress" treatment.

Now everyone are wondering(more like waiting impatiently) when will the King announce his engagement to Merlin.

"If I remember correctly, doesn't Sir Gwaine have a bet going on?"

Mordred pondered. 'Yeah, I'll definitely join in. There's no way they're NOT together. I mean, I've seen the lingering stares they give each other as if there is no one around them.'

Soon he was at the doors leading to the roundtable meeting, nodding at the vigilant guards they let him through. His eyes slowly moved over the knights, nobles and some commoners before landing on Merlin who was standing behind the King's chair.

An unassuming figure, most often underestimated but to those who know magic deeply or follow the old religion, Emrys entire being is a vast ocean of wild magic swirling in such a magnitude that no mere mortal could ever understand or harness the power Emrys wields.

Then he locked eyes with Merlin, there is no icy stare thankfully, yet he can still see a hint of wariness in his Lord's gaze.

He bowed his head in acknowledgement before finding a seat next to the gossiping pair Sir Percival and Sir Gwaine.

"I could be at a tavern right now, drinking and charming the barmaid Stella instead I'm stuck here." Gwaine said with a miffed face, his hand gripping the air imagining he was holding a mug of ale.

Elyan who sat across from Gwaine raised an eyebrow, "Isn't Stella old enough to be your grandmother?"

Gwaine smirked whilst shrugging. "Just like wine the older one gets the finer they become, besides she has experience, I'm sure there's a thing or two she could still teach mmph—"

Leon had reached over to clamp Gwaine's mouth shut.

The ginger haired knight had just about enough of hearing Gwaine's tavern tales of debauchery to which he thought was an inappropriate topic to be discussed or heard at the roundtable meeting.

"Sir Gwaine, leave your nightly talks at the tavern only, please."

Gwaine pulled Leon's hand away and smiled cheekily at the older knight.

"Oh, but wouldn't you like to know? Stella has mentioned she likes ginger haired men with beards and I bet she could show you—"

"I am going to strangle you—"

Gwaine leaned back avoiding Leon's hands from trying to keep him quiet again.

"Sir Leon I never knew you were this kinky, I think dear old Stella would like to feel your big strong hands—ack!"

Leon finally got him, unfortunately the meeting was starting, so Gwaine was safe from being throttled by him. However, tomorrow morning during training he'll get his chance.

Mordred along with the rest of the knights chuckled at Sir Gwaine's antics and Sir Leon's annoyed expression.

♤To be continued♤