#Lancelot: Leon has seen things he don't want to see

[drlettuce]

At a tournament

Merlin:*fixing Arthur's armor*

Merlin: there your all set

Arthur:???

Arthur:aren't you forgetting something?

Merlin:????

Merlin: ummmm.....wait

Merlin:*starts removing his neckerchief*

Arthur (internally): what is he doing??

Merlin: *tied his neckerchief onto Arthur armor*

Arthur:sbfiehwksufhsodhssbndk MY SWORD YOU IDIOT!!!!!!

Merlin: oh right

Merlin: ummm so here you go I guess I should probably take tha-

Arthur shoving Merlin face: honestly Merlin do ever SHUT UP

Arthur walks away

Arthur:Omg he bestow me his favor 🤭🤭🤭

Merlin in a distance: what a prat

[sehnsuchts-trunken]

Ooh I’ve got a fun question!! It’ll make sense once you’ve started season 5 but I want to hear your thoughts before this particular episode

Out of the knights, Merlin, Morgana and Gwen, who would survive a horror movie 😂

(I promise it’ll make sense at some point, it will lol)

omg i don't even care rn if this makes sense, that is a wonderful something to think about and I'll never get this out of my head again

Arthur would do pretty good, but I'd say he have nightmares after. Like he doesn't scream but maybe he does flinch at some point, but in general he's doing really, really good.

Leon would manage pretty well too. Like this man has lived through a shit ton of stuff that I don't even want to think about, much like Arthur, so I'd say he's doing okay. He may be flinching but I could see him falling asleep too, probably depends on the film.

Percival is, against expectation, I think quite scared. He'll definitely flinch, he won't scream, but you can see on his face and in the way he holds himself that he's definitely in a state of shock.

I can't place Gwaine. It's one of those things again where I can't place Gwaine. I could imagine him acing it honestly, like he just straight up vibes with the film and has the most fun ever. But I can see him screaming as well. Like I think he may be a very big fan of horror films but then again he does get scared by them at times. He's screaming but he's having fun, so that's alright.

Lancelot,,, idk. I'm quite sure that he doesn't scream or flinch at all. I don't know if he'd enjoy these types of films but he'd totally be holding his s/o in his arms if they want him to (which would be me I hate horror films you'd have to force me to watch one). He just doesn't really mind. Like he may flinch once during the whole film and it's probably a jumpscare (I'd say Lancelot has fight or flight the most out of all the knights, like his reflexes are the best, and when there's jumpscares he just has the need to move you know).

l don't know shit about Elyan but I think he could sit through unless a child is shown or someone that's drowning. Just, gets old memories back out that he's shoved far, far, far down to the very bottom of his brain.

Morgana would honestly really ace it. like, really. She'd be a bit like Lancelot, holding people in her arms and protecting them, but she'd probably not really flinch. Like she's just sitting there, having fun watching a horror film. She's probably the one who picked it out (or the knights had a competition going on)

Gwen I could see as someone who'd join Gwaine in his screaming, and I do believe she'd flinch a lot. Like if you were to sit behind her she'd come across as really scared, but genuinely she's good. She may be screaming at the scary scenes but apart from that, she's fine.

Merlin. Merlin is something. Idk. I just think he'd be good. Like he's lived through so much, he's seen it all. I don't think he'd flinch at jumpscares either. He'd just sit there and maybe lean back a bit. But I'm convinced that everyone else thought he would be scared as fuck (and he was teased relentlessly for it) so he's one of the people wrapped in someone's arms (probably Lancelot's).

on that note tho, which ones of them would be like us, commenting what they're watching, and who are the people trying to watch in peace and scolding the others?

[abbydjonesoffaerie]

I had absolutely zero intention of loving this show. I have a dear friend who loves this show, and in honor of her, I tried it. Goodness. Bad graphics and bad writing. So cheesy. And not a good cheesy. Just bad. Quit after 3 episodes. Couldn't do it. Then, I had a flare-up. I was so out of it I needed something that required no attention. No focus, nothing. I wanted something cheesy. And, deep down, I wanted something good. Good friends, good characters, and not just raunchy. I wanted something that wasn't dark and gross, but clean and good. It's hard to find clean and good stories that have hearts and souls.

Merlin does. But, you have to look for the pain.

Just like with Marvel. A couple years ago my cousin made me watch the Marvel Movies after I complained about them. She said the pain isn't tourture-death-in-your-face, but it's there all the same. So I watched Marvel and found so much pain I fell in love with it. Merlin is the same. You have to look for the pain under the lighthearted, 12-year-old-boy humor, and when you look, boy is it there. It's Merlin growing up choosing to hide who he is for the sake of his King and friend, never really bring seen. It's the girl he loves dying, it's Lancelot dying--the only one besides Gaius who knows about his magic--it's his father dying, it's being forced to try and kill Morgana and Mordred to save Arthur. It's betrayal, curses, always fighting for the belief in the Once and Future King. It's so many well loved legends told in a slight different manner so they feel fresh and familiar. Holy crap, it's Merlin's dragon voice that moves him from bumbling idiot into something mighty. Gave me chills every time. You get used to him being the smiling kid with big ears and then suddenly he's a man.

I also truly enjoyed the almost entirely male cast. I get really tired of the constant need to have women front and center. I'd rather watch boys be boys and have stories of knights and dragons, personally, so it's just nice to have something masculine to enjoy instead of the constant feminist need to have a woman do everything.

I love how with both Morgana and Mordred, they let you love them. I loved Morgana and her going evil hurt so much, especially because it was Merlin caught in a lose/lose situation. It broke both of them when she started going evil. Same with Mordred, though you don't trust him as much, but you want to. You want Mordred to not go evil. I also liked how they handled the Arthur-Gwen-Lancelot love triangle. It was much better than how it's normally handled.

I loved Morgana's wardrobe. Absolutely perfect.

There were some things I wanted. The round table was only in a few episodes. That felt odd. Gwaine needed way more screen time. I felt like they really focused on him when Lancelot died, and the whole being forced to fight to feed his friends was so visceral, but he really became background in the last season. Leon has been knocked unconscious so many times it's amazing he's still walking and talking. More Percival would have been nice. Gwen kinda became a backdrop for a while, not doing much once her and Arthur got married other than being a villain for a time.

And then the last two episodes had all this! The round table, Gwaine, Percival, Gwen giving Arthur courage. All of it. And BTW, here's my heart why don't you just stick a knife in it: because Merlin losing his power, seeing his Dad, saving Camelot, finally telling Arthur who he is and finally being seen for all his courage and loyalty, but not being able to save Arthur was so epically painful. It was perfect, satisfying, and heartbreaking.

Yeah, I just cried for two hours straight.

I'm beginning to suspect my friends are sadists.

I'm not ready to go on.

(Not sure who made the picture, but it perfectly sums up how I feel right now. Thank you.)

[sehnsuchts-trunken]

@friendlyneighborhoodcapricorn love languages <3 knights and maybe Arthur lol

So Leon, I've talked about this, very big on Quality Time. Acts of service ofc, but not necessarily very high. I think words of affirmation are quite interesting here, I can see him having had some self esteem issues in the past and just wanting to tell his partner how wonderful he thinks they are. gifts aren't too high, maybe even on the very bottom, I don't think he really likes that. Physical touch is very high too, we've talked about how touch deprived he probably is (seriously how long has this man not seen his family, he was basically a full time knight from like, age 16 on) and I think he needs some good grounding too. so

1 - quality time

2 - physical touch

3 - words of affirmation

4 - acts of service

5 - gifts

Percival is definitely very big on physical touch. it's definitely top. like no debate here. then it's acts of service! I don't even have to explain. I think after that may just come gifts, idk why, I can see that. words of affirmation and quality time are hard for me to place, but I believe he might have quality time all the way down tbh, because I think he does love to be told sometimes that he's, just, enough, and I do (even if this isn't 100% words of affirmation) absolutely know that he really appreciates being admired.

1 - physical touch

2 - acts of service

3 - words of affirmation

4 - gifts

5 - quality time

(I'm not sure about words of affirmation and gifts here, they may just be interchangable, idk)

Arthur is the type to really need physical touch, we've said that already. then it's acts of service, or maybe even before. I think he's really weird about gifts, so I'm putting it all the way down. he loves words of affirmation even though he's bad at giving it (so bad), and quality time well, genuinely I think it's not super important to him, like ofc he loves to spend time with his s/o, everyone does, but you know what I mean

1 - acts of service

2 - physical touch

3 - words of affirmation

4 - quality time

5 - gifts

okay I already did Lancelot and I'm skipping Elyan because I have zero idea about that dude, which means I'm at gwaine now and I've been dreading it. idk. okay. here goes nothing. don't murder me

Gwaine,,,, okay. okay all personal bias aside. I'm doing this very much professionally.

physical touch! he loves physical touch but in a way, it's something really normal to him. so it's pretty much in the middle, maybe two or three. I genuinely am uncertain about the rest. I hate it here. okay, so words of affirmation I'd actually put really far down. it's not that he doesn't like it, he just doesn't even think of it often. like he's pretty confident and ofc he loves telling his partner that they're, quote, "fucking hot damn", but it's not so much words of affirmation and more of a just, general complimenting (no that's not the same to me, yes I know complimenting is actually words of affirmation but just because gwaine compliments doesn't make him pay much more attention to words of affirmation thank you for coming to my ted talk). gifts. gifts is a thing. because I feel like I could place this at the very top. I mean, first scene we see him flirting, he hands Gwen a flower. that's gifts. that is gifts. he's definitely like me, picking flowers and rocks and leaves and lil things and giving them to people. but idk if I can actually put this at the top. so we're moving on. acts of service! yes. I'm really really uncertain about these last two. like I can see acts of service being really important to him. I just don't know if it's as important as gifts. actually scratch that yes it is. he loves gifts but I think he's really big on acts of service. and quality time- ugh, it's high on there as well, I hate this. can I just say "not words of affirmation" and leave it at that lol. like he's not like Leon thinking a lot about dates to have a good time, he's more spontaneous, but that doesn't make him care any less about quality time. ugh. okay here goes absolutely nothing. please, the list is not nearly as accurate as this overemotional paragraph I've typed, so don't take that as the result of it

1 - acts of service

2 - quality time

3 - gifts

4 - physical touch

5 - words of affirmation

(actually, now that I look at it, I think this list is fine. I'd move gifts and quality time onto the same level, like, they're quite similar I think, but I'm genuinely fine with the result)