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arthur "you shouldn't come near me, danger has followed me since birth and I cannot bring you into this mess, it's a miracle I am still alive" pendragon and merlin "the miracle" wyllt

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Something I really love about Merthur is that Arthur, no matter which season or episode, he's the most comfortable around Merlin. And yet, he always seems a little - tense.

Like, he will confide in Merlin and even though Merlin is the only person he trusts, his reactions around him are always the most extreme, the most emotional.

His father says Gaius has to die? Arthur is repressing his emotions, there is nothing he can do (until Gwen talks to him.).

Several episodes later, Arthur condemns Gaius as a traitor himself. But telling Merlin? Impossible. Merlin's reaction, worse than Arthur anticipated. Arthur gets loud, forbids Merlin to speak.

And it's always like that. Arthur is so resigned with Uther, but with Merlin, he's like - everything he does stands and falls with Merlin's opinion. He gets upset or sad or angry or overjoyed.

Agravaine tells him to kill a guy? Arthur first keeps a mask up. But after everything, Arthur is the most tense around Merlin. The most lost, the most wounded.

Even when they laugh and joke, there seem to be these moments when Arthur just halts and looks at Merlin a second too long, smile glued to his face until reality sets back in and he claps Merlin on the shoulder and leaves. It always feels like there is something between them, something that's always keeping them apart. And they can both feel it. The only difference is that Merlin knows what it is.

Not like a coin, like too magnets whose south poles are directed towards each other.

And it's only in that final episode when that tension finally breaks and Merlin's pole turns upside down. And suddenly, even though it's sort of tense between them, the distance is no longer that untangible weird something that almost feels massive to bridge. It's gone. The distance is a choice, one solidified by Arthur's wish not to see Merlin right away. But now they are slowly glueing together, closer than ever, snapped into place and it's so raw and so new and that weird tension is just gone.

And I just... i just love that.

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Merlin: If Arthur ever finds out, he’ll try to kill me.

Lancelot: you don’t know that!

Merlin: I suppose not…

Merlin: I do know that I would let him.

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Just your reminder that this actually happened:

What’s even worse is that Merlin pulls and turns Arthur’s head to him, just so that he can… Brush their foreheads together, for the first and last time.

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what have you done?

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Aka “even if I live, you still lied”

MERLIN | 5.13 The Diamond of the Day Pt. 2

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Can you IMAGINE the RAGE that Morgana would have had if she knew that it was Merlin who abandoned Aithusa?!

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“I want you to always be you”

This line is so important because the entire trip, Arthur was sure he never knew the real Merlin. And Merlin kept trying so hard to show that he the same goofy, loyal servant he always has been.

Arthur sees who Merlin is now. He doesn’t want him to be anyone other than himself.

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Merlin: whenever I start hating my job, I'm thinking about how Death must absolutely hate me.

Arthur: huh?

Merlin: can't claim me but has to work extra hours to clean up after me. His job is worse than mine, I'm sure.

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Merlin is out again, fighting monsters, returning home covered in blood.

The guards don't recognise him, so they refuse to let him in and Merlin's magic is too tired to flick them out of the way.

Instead, he climbs up the windowsill on the outside (because he's physically fine, just his magic is used up.)

He finds an open window and more or less collapses into Arthur's arms.

Arthur, who couldn't sleep and just stared at the moon, startles as this blood covered intruder gets in. Instinct kicks in, and he - embraces the man? What took Arthur's instincts less than a moment, takes Arthur a second glance to recognize his manservant.

Arthur: Merlin, what the hell?

Merlin: oh, hey, Arthur. Thanks for letting me in, the guards wouldn't.

Arthur: how the heck did you get up here?

Merlin: ... I ... Climbed?

Arthur: in the dead of night and - why the fuck are you covered in blood?

Merlin: haha, you should see the other guy

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ALT

make a terrible comic day 2024, took this opportunity to play with my dolls

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Arthur: now are you going to be a part of the problem, or the solution?

Merlin: oh the problem for sure

Arthur: what?

Merlin: I have some ideas on how to make the problem even funnier

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Words from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

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🙌🏼 God gives his deepest v-necks to his sluttiest men 🙌🏼

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i love when arthur asks merlin "Where's breakfast?" and Merlin says "say ah" He actually proceeds to say Ah. could actually be my favorite moment of their dynamic 🤣