#alternate merlin

[tiodolma]

🤔 I imagine that the universe Merlin and Morgana arrived in will have to rearrange itself around them. Some things change, others stay the same:

- Merlin's mother is Nimue, rather than Hunith.

- Morgause grows up with her parents. When Morgana's counterpart is born, Gorlois and Viviane are like, maybe we should name our daughter Morgan instead of Morgana. Later, another daughter is born called Elaine.

- Mordred is born to Gorlois and Viviane. Morgana is happy that little Morgan has him as her brother, while Merlin is going through another five stages of grief or something.

- Balinor senses him and Merlin have a connection and just assumes that's because they're blood kin. Merlin doesn’t tell him that in another universe the man was his biological father.

I'll have to think of more changes... 🤔🤔

what a lively colorful world this wouldve been.

Merlin going over five stages of grief over mordred is hilarious tho. he defiinitely would do this. HIs Morgana would be elated but also sad that she never got that kind of family.

It's also a nice coincidence that alternate merlin will also have blue eyes like nimueh hahahaha but god that kid would probably spoiled af

baby arthur's going to grow up with all these magic kids is cute.

[ollyrewind]

With you, I serve

With you, I fall down

Watch you breathe in

Watch you breathing out

[wistfulvulpine]

S1 vs S5 + extra

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[bisclavret]

gwaine being like fine i'll join your cringe round table after a whole season of resisting it makes a lot more sense when you put it within the context of the fact that just a day or two before arthur knighted him he fully thought he was about to live out his last days as a slave cage fighter for a guy named jarl and he had been there for god knows how long. hes like yeah okay the tyrant king uther isnt even dead yet and i just watched prince arthur hold a child at knifepoint to barter with peaceful druids for a sacred cup that he then immediately lost and my crush and lifeline and tether to sanity merlin is already ignoring me in favor of this new old friend lancelot and i have 20+ years of conflicting emotions about knighthood because of my dad's mistakes but i have accrued so much fresh ptsd from days/weeks of surviving by killing men with my bare hands as a slave fighter for fucking jarl that idrc about all that right now

[just-here-for-the-whump]

@whumpcember24 Day 14 Alt. 9: Alternative Bandages

Merlin 2x12 The Fires of Idirsholas

[mandoriana]

FEM MERLIN!

(She's called Myrddin!)

[aeshamish]

another AU(?) where's merlin is mermaid🎣🎣

im so in love with mermaids AU i can't not to draw this🤧🤧

[moon-meteor-star-sun]

What if I wrote a very complicated Marauders fanfic that’s a Merlin au with Wolfstar and maybe a little Jegulus and Sirius was Arthur and Remus was Merlin and it had a bit of angst but was a happy ending?

[motionsikmerlin]

system of a down's hypnotize/mesmerize era

: )

[spookyspiritwriter]

Thinking of writing a modern day Merlin au.

Like, it's him sitting in a coffee shop, and he's just about to leave, when in walks Arthur, dressed up in a suit, ready for work, and Merlins freaking out in his head like "omg he's finally reincarnated!" And then he does something and Arthur gives him a business card, and then the next chapter or something pans to him being Arthur's personal assistant, and the entire Camelot gang works there too, and no one remembers anything for a while except Merlin.

Posted the first Chapter of this on Ao3. The Title is The Bitter Smell of Coffee by SpookySpiritWriter.

[tiodolma]

I imagine this happening regarding jealousy...

Morgana: *presents all her arguments against Nimue and how Merlin shouldn't talk to her*

Merlin: My lady, if I didn't know better I'd say you're jealous.

Cue denial and both proceeding to argue about it.

Merlin: ...Morgana you actually care about me?

Morgana (red faced from all the Nimue exposition she just laid out): I DONT CARE ABOUT YOU I HATE YOU. YOU POISONED ME STFU

Merlin (coming closer, with shoujo sparkle eyes): no... you do.

Morgana (backs away, hits the wall): I... I...

Merlin: (actually presses into her personal space)

Morgana: (blasts him away)

Merlin: Ow

Morgana: GET YOUR PRETTY FACE OFF OF ME YOU JERK

Merlin (cradling his bruised cheek): You called me pretty?

Morgana (head tilted high): I AM NOT BLIND YOU ASSHOLE

Merlin (now suave): Well my lady, if it helps you sleep at night, you are the most beautiful creature I ever beheld

Morgana: (throws all the chairs and tables at him)

[escespace]

Merlin And Arthur modern settings with a twist

Merlin walks into his trusted coffee shop. Locally owned, familiar customer service, he's known them since he moved to the city. Strangely there's someone at the cash register when he goes to place his order , it's not a place where there are lines or a lot of new customers.

He doesn't pay much attention until the conversation in front turns up the volume beyond what is normal for the quiet place.

"There is no way to screw up a simple order of black coffee and yet human idiocy ends up surprising me!" Said the burly blond who turns his back on him

"Hey hey! that's enough, My friend"

"Do I know you?" He turns to it and can tell that the front is just as impressive as his back had indicated.

"I'm Merlin..."

"so I don't know you"

And we know how this romantic introduction continues. The difference is that this time Freya, who is working the cash register, has been tired of the customer since he came into her store like a wrecking ball pushing other customers and ordering fancy franchise coffees until that after a lot of time wasting she forced him to make a normal request, then she decides to push the coffee in the hands of the unknown man as a courtesy of the house hoping that he would eventually go away (and hoping she would not have to intervene in whatever that pair is referring to by " Take You Apart" and "blows")

The unknown blond does not leave but has the decency to seem surprised by the attention he's been drawing as he retreats to the corner table.

Merlin is near the cash register to talk to Freya but it seems that the only thing he wants to talk about is the blond idiot, which tires his friend out. With a cake stuffed in his mouth she shushes him away, which makes him sit at a table with a direct view of the blonde.

From that position Merlin comes up with the brilliant idea of playing a harmless joke.After all, anyone who yells at the adorable Freya deserves it, right? I won't say yet what happens but it involves public wifi.

It's only when Arthur arrives at his apartment complex, where of course all his loved ones live, that he notices people looking at him strangely. Leon handed him a cream without saying anything when he passed by. Morgana can't stop laughing like a deranged hyena and Gwen is hovering around him like a disappointed mother, trying (and failing) to give him a lecture on safe practices (SAFE PRACTICES OF WHAT?)

After a while they finally take pity on him (more like they want to see his face when he finds out) and they show him a Twitter post he apparently made that same afternoon where he asked: "what could it mean if there are itchy welt near my You know?"

HE DOESN'T EVEN POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA

That one was definitely not posted by him. But then, what happened?

He delegates to Morgana the task of investigating what happened because he has no experience with technology and she has contacts. It is clear that someone entered his media but they doubt that it was only to post a silly message in an abandoned account.

The problem was that Morgana's contacts couldn't find anything even the next day. Luckily, Arthur was expecting it and didn't stop, instead preferring the old way. He checked the time the post was made and remembered that right at that the day before at that moment he was in the annoying cafeteria.

Surprisingly, the tall black-haired man is there again. And Arthur's not lying to himself, the back and forth he had earlier with that guy distracted him from the terrible day he'd been having, you could even say it was fun. He can go and bother him and do what he came to do, he is a multitasker and a skilled one at that.

"looking for trouble again?"

"That would be looking for you and, no thanks, I wouldn't disgrace myself that way"

...

"You think you're so smart but the truth is it takes more than just a quick tongue to get you far"

"You wish you could see my tongue being quick, my friend, you're not so lucky"

...

"that's not even a word!"

"Didn't you hear me say it? Let me repeat it, DOLLOPHEAD! That's what you are! "

...

And somehow they end up talking about why Arthur is there:

"Hahahaha! Whoever made this is a genius!"

"It's an eight-year-old's joke. It's not funny or stylish. Apart from that, this person entered my abandoned social networks, I don't even remember the last time I logged in... Who knows what else he has done with my data"

"You know what? I have exactly what you need"

He hands him a card that says "Golden Age: Private Investigation" and Arthur laughs

"What? You a private investigator?"

"If you don't want it..."

He tried to take it from his hand, but Arthur quickly put it in his suit jacket and, without stopping to stare at it, he walked away.

A week passed before he decided to visit the supposed offices of Golden Age and it was not in the least because of his problem with infiltration of his social networks. The truth was that nothing happened after the damn post. There was no missing money or corrupted files, and Morgana had her best technicians checking the devices associated with the organization at all times.

Before Arthur reaches the building where the offices are, he notices that there is a commotion in a remote place. There he finds Merlin surrounded by unfriendly looking men and what does the idiot do? He makes them even angrier with his mockery.

Arthur couldn't even get close because Merlin ended up showing them something from his phone. He held the device being too haughty and it seemed to be well earned given the cautious reactions he received

It seems that it was not enough because the next moment the thugs were advancing on the slender black-haired man. He was agile enough to get under the pile of arms but almost ran over Arthur, who was stupidly blocking the exit from the alley, before continuing straight towards the road with tremendous car traffic

Arthur will never admit that he was paralyzed when he noticed that Merlin didn't even take his eyes off his cell phone as he continued running. The thugs followed soon after, though not as nimbly, among the honking vehicles.

It was a miracle (more likely thanks to his obsessive observation skills) that he noticed what was really going on.

It wasn't that Merlin was a lucky bastard. The bastard was controlling the cars in some damn way until he finally reached the opposite end of the street Just as the police sirens started to sound nearby and the thugs had no choice but to start running towards a parked van

Now, now. If there's one thing Arthur is grateful for in life (and there isn't much of that) it's for making him smart. He's gotten to where he is because of his abilities, despite what anyone says, among which he takes most pride in his ability to recognize talents that would be valuable in his organization, and no matter what Merlin was doing he surely could serve well in the team.

Unbeknownst to Arthur, of course, that during the week he took to think about whether or not he should go to Golden Age, Merlin was also doing research and nothing he found about Arthur sat well with him.

This is then just the beginning of the most ridiculous and exasperating relationship of rivalry-friendship (and perhaps something more) between a genius hacker with a Robin Hood complex and a corporate who works on a line not very legal (aló? Mama? I'm in love with a criminal)

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Holy heavens, have mercy on me and stop sending me ideas because I don't know how to write them!!! 😫😫😫

I swear that after so much thinking about this idea I already know what the first meeting between Arthur and Merlin's associates in Golden Age would be like: Lancelot and Gwaine (a disaster involving weapons and a very stressed Merlin). I also know that Arthur is in a relationship with Vivian at the time he accepts his friendship with Merlin for what it is (and neither of them like each other romantically at this point but they don't need to be in love to be their weird themselfs with each other) And VIVIAN BEGINS TO COMPETE ALONE FOR ARTHUR'S ATTENTION (She thinks she's competing against Merlin but the reality is there's no competition to begin with)...

Now now if only I could SIT DOWN AND WRITE INSTEAD OF FANTASIZING

[niishiki]

 “Do you think he’s brought back another stray today?” “Well … as long as it's not another raccoon…” 

[merlinktober]

Merlinktober will be returning for 2024!

As the days get shorter and October gets closer, so does our challenge to appreciate two marvelous things: Merlin and ink!

Stay tuned for this year's list and spread the word 🖤

Again I'd like to thank @lefayeart, who started with the 2019 list and @schweetheart that kept the event going before me.

I'll love to see what comes out of everyone's pens this year!

[hopelessromantic5]

I feel bad for not having posted any merthur in a while.

Here’s a small, Cinderella-esque AU snippet from my drafts. 🫶

Apollo didn’t even snicker in discomfort at the boys approach, in fact, he almost preened.

“He’s beautiful.” The boy murmured, putting his palm flat to the horses snout. Apollo loved it, which was strange.

“He never lets anyone touch him, aside from me.” Arthur says, mostly to himself.

“Tell them to be gentle. And approach with respect.” The boys, startlingly blue eyes flick up to Arthur then back down to the horse.

“What do they call you?” He asked before he could think better of it.

“Never mind what they call me.” He patted the snout once more and moved two paces back, finally taking in Arthur’s full form.

“What is someone like you doing in the forrest alone?”

“Is my identity that obvious?”

“I’m afraid so, sire.” A small smirk finds its way onto his face. “It was your cloak…and your posture, that gave you away.”

Arthur laughed despite himself.

“Well, now we are unbalanced. You know my name and I do not know yours.”

Merlin did not respond but the small smile didn’t leave his face as he turned to look out into the forest.

“Your knights will be here soon, Prince Arthur.”

The prince snapped his neck in that direction and held his breath, listening for sounds of movement. He heard none.

“How do you know?”

That got him a small shrug.

“I have my ways.” The raven haired boy began gathering his bag full of plants.

“I fancy keeping my head, sire, so I’ll be taking my leave. You will be safe with them.”

“Why would they take your head?” Arthur couldn’t help but question gently.

The boy shook his head and said nothing.

His blue eyes found Arthur again, which caused little bubbles of nerves in his stomach.

“Please, be careful. These woods are not always kind and surely will not show a Pendragon any mercy.”

“If that is the case, how are you surviving without a weapon?”

“Who said I didn’t have a weapon?”

The sound of hooves and clanking armor distracted his eyes, and when he looked back to the spot the boy had been standing, he was gone.

Vanished into thin air, or into the trees. But Arthur never heard a rustle, never a footstep.

He was disappointed to see him go but glad that he was gone before the knights broke through the tree line. If Arthur’s suspensions were correct, he didn’t want the boy interrogated by them either, even if a handful of them were as noble as they come.

Arthur didn’t really want to take that chance.

[i-rec-this]

Chapters: 100/100 Fandom: Merlin (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Merlin (Merlin), Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Morgana (Merlin), Gwen (Merlin), Knights of the Round Table (Merlin), Gaius Additional Tags: Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst, Slow Burn, Minor Gwen/Lancelot (Merlin), Grief/Mourning, Good Morgana (Merlin), Previous Self Harm, Multiverses, Magical Bond, Hurt/Comfort, Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Implied/Referenced Suicide, The suicide and self-harm tags apply to Merlin struggling with his immortality, Good Mordred, Mutual Masturbation, Oral Sex, Anal Sex, Merlin used as a weapon in the past, brief mention of addiction and substance abuse, Happy Ending, Angst with a Happy Ending, Dragons Series: Part 1 of Hiraeth Universe Summary:

A hand grasped his arm, sending a brief thrill down Merlin's nerves as he was forced around to face the person behind him. Armour gleamed in the firelight: supple chainmail glinted, and the solid iron of a pauldron curved lovingly over one broad shoulder. The length of a sword blade separated them. The point hovered, steady and sure, over Merlin's heart, braced to run him through, but he did not care about any of that. He was too busy drinking in the sight of the man before him.

He could never forget him, no matter how many centuries had passed.

'Arthur?'

When Merlin ultimately fails in his destiny, the fading remnants of magic that linger in the modern world fling him not just back in time, but sideways as well. He ends up in a Camelot where all his friends are alive, well and aware of his magic.

He ends up in a Camelot where his alternate self died almost a year ago.

Can he, Arthur and their friends still forge the golden age he was once promised, or will grief and suspicion tear them apart?