#and gunthur knows

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More Merlin Crossover 2

Takes place at a dinner after Jane foiled an attempted assassination. They wound up talking about how often it happens in Camelot and poisonings and such.

“Wha- Merlin! Do you mean to tell me-” “That I check all your meals for poison before they get to you? Yes. That’s part of my job.” “It most certainly is not!” “Is so. If there isn’t a personal manservant then that duty falls to the court fool but we can’t have you checking your own food now can we?” Gwendylin gasped and Merlin winced, sure that his accidental slip of the tongue in front of foreign royalty would impede Arthur’s alliance negotiations somehow. But no one from Kippernium was looking at him. They were looking at the bell studded boy playing his lute in the corner for ambiance music. Sensing their eyes he looked up and paused. Beaming he said, “I am proud to report that no one has ever dared try to harm our most beloved King and Queen, nor our precious Prince and Princess.”

Of course Pepper would never but the table is set before the royal family enters and anything could happen to it then.

Also, Jane is so put out about how easy it was to catch the assassin. In her words he was, "Utterly incompetent." The guy was claiming to be a new servant and her father is the steward for crying out loud. She walked away from the whole thing with nothing more than a small cut on her cheek. What kind of scar story would that make for? I hit an assassin over the head with a wall sconce and got this scar in the process. Whole thing took like, forty seconds. No grand battle. Just a dumb intruder. Never mind that Jane was actually super impressive and stopped a well known professional ASSASSIN by herself in under a minute.

[finedinereception]

Remember that episode when Gunthur lay an egg and it hatched into a cat.

For magic married au: what is their reaction to becoming grandparents?

oh they are soooo excited. they were panicked about gunther being sick until they found out about the egg, at which point they are sending invitations to everybody they know. come to the baby shower or die. tell gunther hes the best son ever.

they dont even care that its a weird magic floating cat thing that shoots lasers. thats their first grandkid and they are SPOILING it

[technicallyoneofakind]

7 and 12

7. Of all the places in the Ni no Kuni franchise, where would you want to live?

Hamelin! I love that place! It’s a steampunk city (and my favorite character’s hometown)! Also, it’s got this grand, majestic feel despite it being underground and covered in smog and steam. I consider it my home base (the place I go back to when I’m just derping around/restocking/reading the companion) when I play the game. 

Specifically, I would like to live in the palace there, but then again I’d probably end up living elsewhere cause… well I’m not royalty. (Also it’s the only palace in the game that’s somewhat more explorable than the others.)

12. (For the first game) What was your favorite familiar of all time?

The Greater Naiad. 

Wait… Hear me out. 

The Lagoon Naiad was the least “average” looking familiar that Solomon presented. Like the other he presents, you can find this creature somewhere in the world map. Physical battle wise, it’s more of a support/magic attack type. I wasn’t aware of this when I chose it… So it sat on the back burner in Oliver’s party when I found how weak it was in just spamming basic attacks. 

Then Swaine came along. I needed to fill his roster and do some switching out, getting rid of Gunthur. (Sorry, boy. In my mind, Swaine still thinks you’re number one.) I gave him the Thumblemur at the time along with my Little Bighorn (who I ended up switching out with something else. I think it was a Bonehead or a Grandsun). Because I like having more than one support with healing abilities as back up and it didn’t look like Swaine had any, I decided to throw the Lagoon Naiad in there for good measure. Also, Swaine looked like he needed something cute to brighten his day in his party.  

From then on, the adventure continued. I left the naiad in there and boosted her up. Every time I considered moving her out, I weighed how much Swaine needed her magic defense against other familiars and decided he was better off keeping her. Well, that and after the Hamelin arc, I figured he definitely needed a small, cute creature to look at every once and a while. When she got to her final form, her magic defense and attack was a force to be reckoned with! She got to the point where her “Twinkle Twinkle” attack was one of the most powerful versions of that attack in the entire group. Her magic defense was the reason I could pull the group back together after taking an almost direct hit from the Chaos attack during the optional after game Zodiarch boss fight using Swaine! (A credit I give to the thief for being a tank and having it under his care… even though I know the game doesn’t work like that. Hehe.) 

She’s saved my party more times than I can count. (The only problem is, the AI tends to be funny and I have to remind it to put the naiad away when everyone’s in ok health.) Plus, look at it! It’s so cute and light and pure! I can’t even! 

My second favorite is the Papa Sasquash cause of headcanon reasons. I like to think it’s a big softy on its master- Swaine, again, in my case- and a threat to enemies. 

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More Merlin Crossover

So I decided that the reason Arthur and co are there is to negotiate a trade route through Kippernium.

Naturally Magnus tries to take this chance to line his own pockets. Here's a blurb

As Gunthur passed the guest chamber, he heard his father’s voice from under the door. “-fear you are being too generous, My Liege.” “Oh?” “Kippernium is a small, humble kingdom. I fear that despite your highness's great generosity, King Carradoc will be unable to uphold his promises.” Gunthur felt his gut turn to ice. No. Nonononono no. No. Father, what have you just done? “Such as?” “I am well acquainted with the royal coffers, I know for a fact that there’s scarcely enough for road supplies, let alone laborers to put them to use. If I may, my merchants regularly travel from one kingdom to another and would be honored to do business with such an esteemed land as Camelot. Kippernium lacks the resources to patrol every parcel of land. I, of course, know very well routes that would escape the notice of…bandits.” His father was selling out their kingdom. Gunther would be cast out when such treachery was discovered. No one would want to support him once his father was too disgraced to do so, it wasn’t as if he’d spent his time in the castle making friends- “I see. I hadn’t realized the financial situation here was so dire.” “Our King is rather, tender-hearted. He has yet to raise the taxes these past five years for consideration of the hardship endured by the common man. Kind, yes, but perhaps, not what a merchant would think to do.” Our King is weak and foolish. That’s what he was saying. “I am grateful for a closer look into King Caradoc’s character.” Gunther was going to be sick. “I’m overjoyed to have been of service. I believe an arrangement between my people and yours could be very profitable-” Gunther could practically see his father’s black eyes gleaming. Everyone always told him he had his father’s eyes. That used to make him proud. “However, I endeavor to be a fair and just King. I believe that an alliance between Camelot and Kippernium will be profitable for both our peoples. I came here for this purpose and this purpose alone.” Oh. Of course an honorable man, a king who had also sworn to uphold the knight’s code of chivalry, would never stoop to backroom dealings. Kippernuim, at least, would be safe.