#arthur is dumb

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

mini malevolent meme dump

[unsat-and-strange]

eldritch-pilled horror-maxxer

[sir-walton-goggins]

[ispaintingcalmly]

"Are sure that’s the way, sir?"

"Shut up, Merlin"

[violent138]

So something I really liked about this comic was:

The way Dick subtly misdirects Aquman's annoyance with Garth's move and softens it with a respectful honorific.

He gets there and immediately clocks the situation and the unstable (and distractingly so) hierarchy.

He steps in, manages to make it more of Arthur's thing to get him on board, and gets things moving.

[esperfraud]

When John keeps gaslighting himself into believing that he became attached to humanity because of a random nurse and not because of Arthur

[justaz]

merthur marriage of convenience. arthur is complaining that his council is on his ass about marrying and siring an heir and they keep trying to arrange marriages but arthur doesn't fucking want any of them. merlin knows that arthur would like to marry someone he loves but he also knows that arthur has shown no interest in like anyone except when he was enchanted so like...who tf is he gonna marry? he needs to marry someone to get the council off his ass so he's just like "why not marry a friend? ik it wouldn't be a marriage of love but at least you'd have some control and choice in this." and arthur is like "hm. but who tho?"

anyways they make a list of everyone they know who can bear children (bc arthur will need an heir eventually). then they narrow it down, crossing off names like gwen bc she is happily married to lancelot and in a loving relationship with morgana (she has two hands and i love morgwencelot) and morgana (she's literally arthur's sister but they were just putting every name they could think of down first) and elyan (he may be able to bear children but they know he wouldn't be happy going through it bc of medieval dysphoria). eventually it's down to two names, mithian and merlin and arthur looks at merlin's name then up at him and is like "you're literally a trained physician so you should know this but you were literally born a man...how tf are you gonna bear children?" and my beloved genderfluid magic incarnate emrys just shifts her form to female and is like "don't be an idiot. anyways, mithian or me?"

dumb idiot whipped and in love arthur is like "you" and dumb idiot whipped and in love merlin is like "bet". anyways they marry but they're very insistent it's just as friends. lol they have to consummate the marriage the losers. they insist they did that as friends too. the entire round table has way too much fun with this. anyways they remain married "as friends" as they slowly morph into a very loving and touchy relationship "as friends" until they're like casually kissing as greetings and farewells and have that moment of "oh shit we're like actually married and in love" bc they're stupid dumb idiots.

anyways they unite albion and are recognized as high king arthur and high queen merlin and finally have an heir - the high prince/princess whatever you prefer. uhhhh anyways merthur happy ending bc i'm a sucker for it.

[renif]

had this idea in my head for like a week and just had to draw it mand'alor arthur trying to find peace after galidraan and explorcorps merlin who tries to document mandalorian history (they fall in love)

[samglyph]

Parker in the Dark World Voice: Arthur! Buddy, I’m so happy to see you, no hard feelings, I figured it wasn’t really you, sorry you had to join me so soon, hey, how’d you end up here anyway?

Arthur:

[mothnether]

scene redraws

[yaksinhats]

Astarion meets the oathbreaker paladin (durge edition)

[arthursfuckinghat]

So, I was nosing around the gang's tents and I thought that it was honestly so sweet that so many of them have photographs of themselves or of family right?

Little baby Charles with his parents, a young Susan, young Hosea and Bessie, but then I found something interesting in that pile of junk down the cliff just behind Arthur's tent-

Dutch actually writes notes for his famous camp speeches.

And if you've seen the speech that these notes are referring to, Dutch seemed to simplify it a lot when he recited it, almost dumbing it down for the gang entirely?

Writing notes for an important speech isn't the strange part, but the fact he dumbs them down and that these notes are hidden/thrown away out of sight is really strange to me. It makes me think that this is possibly a rough draft or early version of what he wanted the speech to be, sort of implying that Dutch practices and revises his speeches.

Which, if he ultimately dumbs them down for the gang, then what is the point?

The likely answer is that he holds himself to a higher standard because he feels he's above the gang members, in a way. He's the visionary, the leader, the man in charge, the one who reads philosophy books almost exclusively, to say that Dutch didn't think highly of himself would be a lie. And because the gang is 'below' him, he simplifies his speeches for them - despite majority of the gang being well educated and understanding. He doesn't think that the gang is as intellectual as him.

I made a post previously talking about Dutch and his Evelyn Miller philosophies and how he argues with gang members that don't agree or understand. It's especially interesting how Lenny, also an avid reader, disagrees so strongly with Miller's writings when that's what most of Dutch's philosophies are based on.

It solidifies that Dutch was manipulative from the beginning, and probably long before too.

[koszmarnybudyn]

He's smoking (hot)

[ispaintingcalmly]

"The destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young boy..."

[whizzing-fizzbee]

If the boys of Hogwarts Legacy had Tinder:

(Please don't take these seriously. They're literally just my boredom brainrot.)

[xandyflare]

Sobbing from laughter at rereading the webcomic and getting to this part knowing what I now know from the KIM convos I've been having with Arthur like

We've now learned that Arthur got the protokol Skana from Albrecht stabbing him with it. He has it here, which means that event happened before this

So he has been stabbed by Albrecht before

And STILL LEAVES HIMSELF OPEN TO BE STABBED AGAIN

HOW DID THIS MAN SURVIVE EITHER THE BRITANNIC ARMY OR THE IRC