#uther pendragon

[quotidian-oblivion]

For the Merlin ask game, number 25? Pre-Merlin headcanon?

what- what does this mean??? Is it before the timeline of the show? An Old Religion hc?? Before the Purge hc?? Before Merlin came to Camelot hc??

In any case, I have a li'l ol' Arthur hc. Baby Arthur was attracted to magic.

Hear me out.

Everyone knows that he was born of magic, right? That won't come without consequences and side-effects. Like, come on.

I believe that when Arthur was a little baby or toddler, perhaps up till the age of 3 or 4, Arthur found himself strangely drawn towards magical objects. Objects have a different calibration of magic than people because sorcerers' magic flows and shifts constantly because it is living. Objects are more dense and solid and set. It may become drained of magic overtime or tainted, but it doesn't shift constantly and fluctuate and move like people's.

So Arthur, a simple-minded child who follows his id and hasn't completely grasped his ego and superego yet, follows those objects because his dormant inner magic is drawn to the objects. I think the reason it's drawn is because of the prophecies. Arthur's magic knows that it is a part of a bigger vassal of magic (i.e. Merlin), and it wants to find it.

So at times, Uther or his nannies or the knights sometimes found little Arthur toddling to the vaults or drawn to jewellery some of the visiting royalty and nobles wore. No one knows why, they thought it was his adventurous heart, to be quite honest Arthur himself didn't know why, but he felt a sense of longing at times. Nighttimes were a nightmare for his nannies sometimes because occasionally, the magic got frustrated at its missing half, its missing piece. Uther ended up patting Arthur back to sleep during those nights when his nannies could not.

Then, one day, the sense of longing and the mysterious urges to walk down to the vaults or grab the ring from the visiting queen disappeared.

It was also the day Hunith held her small son with the odd stuck-out ears and raven-black hair in her arms for the first time.

When Merlin came to Camelot and picked a fight with Arthur, on a whim, the prince decided to let him go. He didn't know why, but there was something about the snarky and stupid commoner.

Little did either of them know, after two decades of searching, Arthur's innate magic finally found its missing piece.

[caffeinatedbisexual]

My toxic trait is thinking that I could take on the BBC Merlin antagonists in a fight and win

[jaybirds-chirps]

we fuckin hate Uther in this house but those times he'd look at Merlin and be like "wtf is wrong with Arthur rn??" were so funny

like Uther was very firmly on the you're too close to this boy train but the moment Arthur was doing something weird he'd look at Merlin like "boy fix this rn"

[xgermankittycatx--commsopen]

uther doesn't approve of bottom!arthur, but nevermind the relationship with his manservant

[ALSO, thank you guys so much for all the love in the last merlin meme redraw, i really didn't think it would get that much attention!! :00 so thankyaa <3 you're amazing]

i'm so glad my parents don't follow me on tumblr

[dryadalisliv]

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.

[bigmommycommie]

uther: fuck sorcerers

arthur: alrighty

[nvexe]

my pronouns are she/her bc I'll never be him (anthony head playing on his pink ds in full costume on the set of merlin)

[thefabledpheasant]

One of my favorite merthur scenes is Merlin’s “I didn’t want you to feel that you were alone” and it’s so beautiful for so many reasons, but what I don’t see ever mentioned is the moments right after Arthur opens the doors. Merlin doesn’t look at Arthur or give any indication he’s awake until he says Merlin’s name.

I think it’s so special because he’s giving Arthur the choice of what he wants to do. He can leave Merlin there and be alone or he can ‘wake him up’ and have a friend. He knows Arthur might not want to engage with anyone after an entire night spent with his deceased father. It’s a beautiful, understated act of consideration, love, and empathy.

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

BBC Merlin & Text Posts (16/?)

[bramblebush3]

Uther: I'm grounding you. Your grounded.

Arthur: What about training?

Uther: Fine, except for training. And no hunting trips.

Arthur: I have to take the new knights on hunting trips.

Uther: Fine, then...No Merlin.

Merlin: Wha - NO MERLIN?

Uther: NO MERLIN!

[himbo-aficionado]

[caffeinatedbisexual]

Nah Mordred’s stressing me out already and he’s still A CHILD

[eddiediaaz]

BBC MERLIN 1.12 ✽ To Kill the King

[dryadalisliv]

I don’t think that we, as a society, talk enough about Uther cc’ing someone on the email

[pyjamacryptid]

completely forgot I made this

[exyzedd]

lives were changed. trauma was HAD.