#arthur and gwaine

[mandoriana]

Gwaine: Hey princess, why do we always bring Merlin with us on hunts?

Arthur *shrugs*: He likes it.

Gwaine: 🤨

Gwaine turns to Merlin.

Gwaine: Hey Merls, what do you like most about going hunting?

Merlin: I like coming home. I love coming home. I’m addicted to coming home. I’m the biggest fan of coming home!

Arthur: 🙄

Gwaine *laughing*: Seriously, Merls, then tell me, what’s the best part of coming home? Is there a lady waiting for you? Maybe a knight? 😏

Merlin: Oh, you know, there’s no better feeling than coming home. I don’t need anyone waiting for me. Actually, I love it when there’s no one waiting for me. I can pass by Arthur’s room, put him to bed, and then have peace for the rest of the night. When I enter my room and close the door, it’s like peace reigns in my life!

Gwaine: Your first concern is always to stop by Arthur’s room first. Are you afraid he might need you for something?

Merlin: I just serve him before entering my room. Once I’m in bed, he can shout all he wants, I’ll be asleep.

Arthur *rolls his eyes*: Liar, once I sneezed in my sleep, and you came running to my room asking if I had been poisoned.

Merlin: It was a reasonable question!

Arthur: I just sneezed, Merlin!

Merlin *rolls his eyes*: As I was saying, I love coming home. Sometimes I just leave home so I can come back and have the happy feeling of entering my room. Staying home is my favorite event because I’m the guest, the audience, and the main attraction. In other words, everything is better when I’m home, and no, I don’t like going hunting.

Gwaine: Haha, it seems he doesn’t like going hunting.

Arthur: 🙄

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Gwaine is so cool

[cynthia39100]

Merlin rewatch -- S3E4: Gwaine

I wish we could see Arthur's reaction here. He must have reappraised Gwaine (and possibly recruited him in his mind), knowing that Gwaine wasn't just blind bravery and trouble.

Arthur (unintentionally) won Gwaine over with his kind and just personality is my favourite thing. It's probably more significant from Gwaine's point of view since he'd just given Arthur a big bill to annoy him.

Awwww <3 It's a bit of a dramatic turn from hating all nobles to saying Arthur is worth dying for, but I think it showed the knightly nature in Gwaine. Deep down he wanted to find someone worthy or his loyalty, however much he escaped from it.

It's nice that Arthur complimented Gwaine (he always appreciates good skills even if it surpassed his~~) but had he seen Gwaine fighting...?

A new shining knight material could always make Arthur admit Uther's wrongness out loud~~ I really like that Gwaine told him no need to explain. Such a lovely understanding.

[S3E4] [other episodes]

[sapphickittykatherine]

they're fighting for merlin's hand in marriage

[alex-the-bringer-of-chaos]

Gotta love this post and tags

lol arthur realizes with the other knights after watching merlin flirt and being hit with a wave of deja vu: holy shit you asked me out

merlin and the rest of the knights around a campfire after leaving a village bc gwaine and leon somehow started a brawl in the tavern: ???

arthur points at merlin: after valiant! you asked me to buy you a drink! you were asking me out!

merlin is busy cooking dinner and confused out of his fucking mind: what???…..valiant….oh the knight with the snakes.

gwaine who was slightly tipsy now stone cold sober and sitting up straight against a tree: wait. explain. what do you mean merlin asked you out??

arthur snaps his fingers as he recalls the memory: i apologized for sacking you and you said that if i bought you a drink we’d be even.

merlin now remembering how he had stumbled into camelot, picked a fight with a pigheaded bully which quickly turned homoerotic and flirtatious, and continued their teasing-flirting for days before merlin shot his shot and asked the prince out only to be rejected: oh yeah, i forgot i did that…..wait, you mean you didnt realize what i was asking?

arthur: no?? we argued everyday, how was i supposed to realize you were asking me out??

merlin now abandoning the dinner and staring across the camp at arthur while the rest of the knights watch their back and forth like a game of tennis: to you we were arguing, to me that was very much flirting. i thought you were flirting back so i decided to ask you. then you rejected me

arthur, mentally beating his past self up for fucking up their chance: i didn’t reject you!!! i just didn’t realize what you were asking me. how was i meant to? we fought every chance we got

leon, nudging elyan, glee and excitement riling through him: its happening!!! its finally happening!!! seven long, grueling years is finally paying off!!!

merlin, realizing the misunderstanding and acknowledging the fact that he wasn’t rejected, his flirtations just weren’t noticed - realizing he still has a chance: oh…oh i see. arthur, my dear, our fights were extremely flirtatious. need i remind you of what you said? “do you know how to walk on your knees? would you like me to teach you?” or “i could take you apart with one blow”

arthur, mental capabilities at an all time low: m…my dear….?????????

merlin grinning devilishly as he realizes that his flirtatious persona he had hidden away after falling head over heels for arthur can make a come back: that is what i called you. should i call you something else? say…mine?

percival gags in elyan’s ear: cheesy

elyan hides a laugh: at least they’re finally getting somewhere. better than the hopeless pining

arthur, flushed from head to toe: ah uh no um im uh

merlin thoroughly enjoying himself: oh come now, your majesty. use your words.

[runboybeneaththemoon]

[wavesechoes]

hello merlin fandom, today im here to humbly offer you this, tomorrow who knows

[akelafang]

Merlin and the knights playing never have I ever

At first, it's innocent stuff and Gwaine complains that it's all dull trivia and they need to start getting into the more interesting questions. Leon looks him dead in the eyes and says "Fine. Never have I ever been arrested" Literally everyone but Leon drinks.

From that point it becomes a challenge to see who's done the most outrageously criminal shit "Never have I ever been in a bar fight" "Never have I ever committed identity fraud" "Never have I ever broken someone out of the dungeons" "Never have I ever stolen from the royal vaults" "Never have I ever committed treason with the King still in the room" And Merlin. Just. Keeps. Drinking. Now it's about trying to find something Merlin hasn't done but one of the others has. The answer turns out to be "Never have I ever been banished from a kingdom"

Merlin passes out before he runs out of criminal things he's done. Magic is the only reason he's still alive the next morning after how high his blood alcohol level was.

After Merlin passes out the knight just look at each other wondering how Merlin hasn't been executed yet with all the shit he's done. Gwaine chuckles and shakes his head "Perks of being the king's mistress"

[magicbey0ndyou]

Arthur: Merlin kissed me!

Leon: Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!

Arthur: It was unbelievable!

Leon: Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!

Gwaine: Okay, we wanna hear everything. Leon, get the wine and unplug the phone. Arthur, does this end well or do we need tissues?

Arthur: Oh, it ended very well.

Leon: Do not start without me! Do not start without me!

Gwaine: Okay, alright, let’s hear about the kiss. Was it a soft brush against your lips or was it like a, you know, “I gotta have you now” kind of thing?

Arthur: Well, at first it was really intense, you know? And then, oh God, and then we just sort of sunk into it.

Gwaine: Ohh... So, okay, was he holding you? Or were his hands on your back?

Arthur: First he started out on my waist and then they slid up and then he were in my hair.

Leon and Gwaine: Ohhh.

*meanwhile*

Merlin eating pizza in their house: And, uh, and then I kissed him.

Morgana: Tongue?

Merlin: Yeah.

Gwen: Cool.

[jesus-of-bisexuals]

[mandoriana]

Okay, but have you ever stopped to think how INSANE Merlin should be for the people of Camelot?

"Yeah, death had a near-Merlin experience,"

"Merlin doesn't cheat death. He wins fair and square."

"Witch Morgana checks his closet every night for Merlin."

"Merlin once played Death roulette with a crossbow and won."

"Merlin was once bitten by a snake and after five days of excruciating pain, the snake died."

Then somehow the knights and Arthur heard about it and it went downhill from there.

Arthur: When Merlin enters a room, he doesn't turn the lights on, he turns the dark off.

Gwaine: Merlin doesn't have good aim. His arrows just know better than to miss.

Laneclot: Merlin actually died four years ago, but the Grim Reaper can't get up the courage to tell him.

Nobody knows, but Lancelot was telling the truth.

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Can we talk about how all of the knights except for Leon were there for Merlin more than Arthur in s3 final gwaine immediately stuck around for Merlin, Lancelot came running the moment Merlin sent to him bringing Percival with him , elyan has equal loyalty to both Arthur and Merlin

[cynthia39100]

Merlin rewatch -- S3E8: The Eye of the Phoenix

Since the Courage, Magic, Strength thing was introduced in this ep, I hope they gave Gwaine and Arthur more bonding time...

It's fair enough that Gwaine said he came only because of Merlin and Merlin was his only friend since this conversation was for Merlin and Gwaine and Arthur weren't exactly friends. But Gwaine was willing to risk his life to help Arthur in the melee. There was care and respect there. I just hope it was explored a little more in this ep so that the trio didn't seem to be Gwaine & Merlin (+Arthur) and they wouldn't be antagonistic in so many fics.

And I know it's meant to be funny and friendly(??), but it's unfortunate that the little time Gwaine and Arthur were in the same room were mostly Gwaine looking at Arthur's pratty behaviour (or how Merlin indulged that) annoyingly.

… right after so many scenes with Gwaine and Merlin laughing and messing around together or exchanging looks about how much of a prat Arthur was being (which he was, but he also trusted Merlin and Gwaine not to use it against him, and Merlin's exasperation was always with fondness while Gwaine hadn't had enough relationship with Arthur to be perceived like that.) I could see how Gwaine seemed to only tolerate Arthur for Merlin's sake...

“Go on then. Don’t be such a princess.”

The only scene these two properly interacted. It's quite cute, the way Arthur pushed up his glove was funny. But because how annoyed Gwaine seemed to be with Arthur before this, it seemed prickly, not the friendly kind of jibes.

At least the farewell scene was quite nice.

[S3E8] [other episodes]

[adageyer]

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[justaz]

The knights love and hate Merlin coming to training. They love it because Merlin is their little cheerleader and they seem to perform better when Merlin is there to cheer them on. They hate it because he never cheers Arthur on and Arthur gets jealous and shows off to catch Merlin’s attention which means that Arthur performs better when Merlin is there which makes him a demon on the field. Which means the knights have to visit Gaius after training to get new bruise salves and that one time when Percival had to get his broken nose set because he ducked too late when Arthur was swinging the hilt of his sword down because he was exhausted from how hard Arthur was pushing them

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