#Arthur deserved so much better

[rnmidnm]

Good fathers do not leave their children in dungeons for a week.

Good fathers do not train their children to kill since birth.

Good fathers do not make their children watch executions.

Good fathers do not hit their children for mere disagreement.

Good fathers let their children learn of their mother, if she is dead.

Good fathers do not choose power over their children.

Uther Pendragon is NOT a good father.

[star-streaks]

Drawings plus game snapshots. I am still simply obsessed

[holyratrimony]

#1 Mary Linton hater

[vole-mon-amour]

"I gave you all I had. I did."

[rnmidnm]

And the thing about it is that you can write a whole ton of hurt/comfort Arthur. He is the perfect character for it.

Merlin was raised by loving and gentle mother. Arthur?? Uther.

Merlin was taught kindness since he was little. Arthur? Trained to kill since birth.

Merlin hurt/comfort makes sense after season 1-2 when Merlin had seen and had done enough. (Don't get me wrong I love Merlin)

But Arthur hurt/comfort?? In the 2nd episode with Valiant the way he said "I can't!" when Merlin said to him to withdraw bc he was in danger. The amount of responsibility on his shoulders, uther, the was everyone expects him to be perfect. This. This is what people should write about. There are a lot of examples about how hard everything was for Arthur and how Merlin helped him to get through most of it

I will never forgive fandom how unfair it is about Arthur

Dark Merlin It's usually good angst. You know, Merlin had had enough. Dark Arthur? Arthur is a fucking rapist, a monster.

Merlin guilty? Merlin feeling guilty and comforted by the entire cast. Arthur guilty? Arthur doing the worst things possible and someone razing him to the ground

Merlin always gets these nice things. always flowers, courtship, everything. Found family? Everyone comforts Merlin because big bad Arthur. (literally almost every Merlin "found family" is everyone loves Merlin and treats Arthur like shit)

Merlin gets an apology. Arthur? My parents will love me faster than someone will apologize to Arthur in fanfiction.

"suicidal, self-harming Merlin" but Arthur has no right to have mental problems (a whole lot of people have wanted him dead since he was born)

Protectivr knights? Always about Merlin.

Even the fucking omegaverse. Alpha Merlin is a nice calm creature who pretends to be a beta. Alpha Arthur... wild animal, keep Merlin in a cage.

No. Just no.

(forever grateful to those stupid British people that arthur never told merlin he was fat. because the fandom understands that something is a comedy if merlin says it. if arthur it would be ,,abuse")

[gldnstrngs]

this is definitely not healthy but i feel sadness for arthur. like, so much genuine sadness because it was like he was born to die.

he was never meant to be born. ygraine was not able to have a child, but uther demanded an heir by any means. the boundaries of magic were crossed and arthur was born, but then ygraine’s life was sacrificed.

i can only imagine the burden arthur felt growing up, knowing that his mother passed away giving birth to him. there’s never a word uttered about her; he has no clue if he has her smile or personality. he spends his days with the lingering thought in his head that maybe his father wished he’d never been born, just so ygraine would still be alive. arthur probably began to feel that way eventually.

but there’s nothing he can do to change the past, so we see arthur do everything to make uther proud. yet, somehow, that isn’t enough, despite arthur being the one to go out and fight monsters and magic users while other sits comfortably in his throne and preaching his anti-magic rhetoric.

eventually, arthur is crowned king and learns to rule with his heart rather than with vengeance. then uther’s ghost returns, telling him that he’d failed. arthur was destroying camelot.

“you’ve had your turn… it’s mine now,” is what arthur says before blowing on the horn of cathbhadh, watching his father dissipate into thin air. finally, he doesn’t have to face the burden of his father watching his every move with disapproval.

but then arthur dies. after the constant betrayals from the people he loved and the self-doubt, he dies.

[thenightshadowqueen]

Anyone else ever notice how Uther is willing to use magic to save Morgana—begs Gaius to do it, even—but never once considers it for Arthur? Like, we knew he had a favourite, but fucking hell.

[hallaburger]

my biggest dracula movie/tv adaptation gripe is that they never. Ever. get jack seward right. and they seldom get arthur and quincey right. but nobody does jack the way he should be: young, handsome, charming, smart, deeply observant, driven by curiosity, and devoted to a fault.

the hero boys commonly feel like an afterthought by directors and screenwriters - like they're interchangeable, easily omitted or substituted, swallowed up by abraham van helsing's significance. it's really unfortunate, especially since they each feel, in the book, so lovingly created and characterized. they each have importance and i wish more people understood that.

[phantom-of-the-501st]

I've fallen back down the RDR2 rabbit hole and the Charthur brainrot is real 😵‍💫

[ranna-alga]

"Black" - Pearl Jam

[illhaveyouforbreakfast]

Morgana confronts Arthur's army, saying they have no hope of defeating her.

"I am a high priestess of the old religion!" She snarls, casting a spell that sends a wave of destruction at the knights. It's stopped in its tracks against a shimmering wall of energy. Merlin steps forward, eyes glowing gold, hands raised.

"And I am your god."

[pyjamacryptid]

I'm currently rewatching the dark tower for reasons (fic reasons), and when Gwen said "Morgana's enchanted it to protect me," it rang an alarm bell, this time 'round.

"[...]to protect me."

hm. huh. you don't say. interesting. As in, the knights are the enemy not the rescuers? hm. curious.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it (i mean, hey, that's the fun of it), but that choice of language stood out to me.

[ismyteadoneyet]

" 'You are angry, my Scion. In pain.' 'Yes' 'Good. Then I will show you why dragons never die.' " - 'ʙʟᴏᴏᴅᴍᴀʀᴋᴇᴅ' ʙʏ ᴛʀᴀᴄʏ ᴅᴇᴏɴɴ, ᴘᴀɢᴇ 372

drawn as per request by our lovely Legendborn anon <3 there are no demons in this one but I'll make sure to include them next time lol

[tangents-within-tangents]

Arthur at Lucy's death bed à la Branson and Sybil

idk it just happened, I'm sorry

Also what is with Stoker pulling a Hamlet on us in these chapters? Like Lucy's mom, Arthur's father, Mina and Jonathan's father figure, and then Lucy, all dead within the same few days. Bro chill

[kokiyoh]

something ain't right....

WHAT IS MY PROBLEM WITH "DOOMED MEN"?!??!

[goldenispunk]

Dhmu just remembered that Arthur Morgan never got to live the life he deserved