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groundbreakingdot872 · 2 years ago

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don’t know whether to laugh or cry at your tags 🥲

in my head after the events of camlann merlin returns to camelot and, still riddled with terrible guilt and grief, confesses to leon about everything that had happened and everything he had done, magic and all. and instead of outrage or betrayal or scorn or judgement (or even death, as he had briefly considered) leon shatters him with a deeply apologetic expression and a whispered “my friend… you must have been so afraid, and so tired.” and merlin collapses into heaving sobs against him and doesn’t get back up for a long time.

#it’s so interesting to think that they both sit in that barren silence only thousands of years can build up…#and how Leon’s patience can run thin eventually from being the burnt out shoulder to cry on that Merlin came to rely on so tremendously #‘I’d have long figured out where the string of my immortality ends!’#oh wow #what an incredible line #Leon would find his new purpose in watching over Merlin keeping his sharp gaze attuned on him like a unknowable distaster like he did all #those years on patrols #if he contemplated the real shattering truth of what had happened so many years ago #instead of compartmentalizing it #that string might pull taut #and ever dutiful Leon #would complete the cycle #with a slump in his shoulder and a painfully quiet smile #bbc merlin #so many thoughts #this is such a beautiful headcanon #it’s making my head spin #sir leon #merlin emrys

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