#arthur hates it

[th30ra3k3n]

“arthur, how many times must i ask you to call me merlin?”

”at least once more, your highness, as always.”

[sunnynabons]

Man also RIP Sir Arthur Conan Doyle you would've loved House MD

[skltart]

pov you're some noble attending a royal gathering or whatever in camelot and you're all excited to meet the prince and then you get there and he's just hanging out with his twink of a manservant the whole night

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

Happy pride month to these two specifically I can’t believe that Merthur is real

[thefabledpheasant]

During this sequence that’s supposed to feel victorious and like, “yeah things aren’t perfect, but the good guys won today!” Merlin watches Guinevere and Arthur hug intimately and you know what? He looks sad.

He looks like he wishes he could touch Arthur so freely and affectionately. He looks like he’s desperate to be seen for everything he is and everything he’s done for him. He looks like he’s accepting he’ll never be with Arthur like that and it’s breaking his heart.

That man is deeply in love and he can’t do anything about it. He is happy for them because he just wants them to be happy, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel like a dagger in his heart.

It reminds me of that quote from Sherlock, “you look sad when you think he can’t see you”

[morganafayes]

because at the end of the day it’s about how love and hate will destroy you equally. it’s about the fact that merlin and morgana both lost themselves because they became so consumed by their love and hate respectively that it made everything else not matter. because merlin loved arthur so much he hollowed himself out for the sake of it and morgana hated uther so much it ate her alive and became all she was

[bajablastflavoredsaxreed]

i’m enjoying myself thus far

[lightlysaltedsalt]

So. It's established in Malevolent episode 16 that Arthur and John's emotions bleed together sometimes and there's some degree of overlap in what they think and feel. So.

What if all those times when everything seems so okay and then thirty seconds later John and Arthur are trying to kill each other are instances of that. What if all those times John becomes suddenly enraged with Arthur over things he's done (really, what business does John have being mad at Arthur for killing people etc etc?) are not John being mad at all, but rather, Arthur being so angry with himself that the emotions bleed over and are so intense as to spark a murderous rage in John.

What then.

[justaz]

just watched an edit of all the times arthur protected merlin, the subtle moments in battle where arthur grabs merlin and drags him behind him to act as his human shield. someone in the comments said merthur considered themselves one another’s protector. something something arthur being merlin’s knight in shining armor something something uther calling merlin arthur’s guardian angel

[koszmarnybudyn]

Monster John is something that can be so very special.

[opera-is-not-cool]

i'm sorry but i find it lowkey hilarious that in almost every modern au merthur fic, arthur's a CEO/CEO's son. i know it's not intentional, but it's so funny to think that we immediately translate prince/king of an entire kingdom to the head of a business. because they hold the same power, resources, and money. like i feel like we SELDOM make arthur a prince in a modern au. nope. give our boy a corporate office job, he'll still hold the same power over people's income and means of supporting their families. AND I EAT IT UP EVERY TIME

[thedoodlebuggo]

"arthur would you still love me if i was a worm"

[elizaisdunn]

merthur are both so dumb this is exactly how a love confession scene would go

[that-nerd-who-writes-fanfiction]

Merlin: *says something almost flirty as part of their usual banter*

Arthur: Don’t tease, Merlin.

Merlin, still joking around: It’s only a tease if you have feelings, Sire.

Arthur, really not having a good day: …Don’t tease, Merlin,

[sijjelly]

HOLY SHIT??

[godwaltz]

embarrassed to post this but. i thought it was silly