#bbc morgause

[starrieisdelusional]

morgause calling merlin out is so fucking funny “why are you so obsessed with arthur merlin 🤨???”

i like to think that the antagonist had a silent agreement that merlin is just a clumsy servant who had a one-sided crush on arthur that somehow managed to stay alive and ruin their plan every single time for reasons unknown

Morgana: when i was in camelot back then those two were kinda 👨‍❤️‍👨

[steve-needs-a-hug]

𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒓

[heartxout]

merlin x textposts pt.3

[ft. behind the scenes uther on his pink nintendo DS]

[goth-emrys]

morgause: why does a lowly servant continue to risk everything for arthur and for camelot?

Im curious about the origins of the prophecy this entire show revolves around. Kilgharrah and other magic users who know merlin and emrys are knowledgeable about the destiny arthur and merlin share, but why doesnt morgause know? She is a high priestess of the old religion, but maybe hasnt been around long enough to be anything other than revengeful? Now that i think about it, there is a distinct line between those obviously connected to magic (anhora, the druids, those spooky priestesses in that sacred cave in s5) and those who seem to just be using magic for their own gain (the antagonists in s1, morgause, etc). Maybe the prophecy is so old that only those connected to magic know about it, but magic was only bannished after arthur was born, so was it known that it would go away and come back? Was magic in the realm dwindling even before it became illegal? IS THE PROPHECY EVEN REAL? (< not ready to go into that)

[twistedshipper]

Notes on the Mandrake Root from The Witch's Cabinet: Plant Lore, Sorcery and Folk Tradition by Corinne Boyer

[daisymintt]

Merlin: Who's that?

Arthur: His name's Cenred. It's Morgause’s right-hand guy.

Merlin: He's got a very punchable face.

Arthur: Yeah, I noticed that.

[tiodolma]

Morgana: I prevented a murder today. Morgause: How did you do that? Morgana: Self-control.

Morgana when she sees Merlin still freely walking down Camelot halls.

[kessilover]

The day after : a season 3 Mergana AU

[nightcereusss]

My entry for The Merlin Library – Merlin Finale 10 Year Anniversary Challenge Week 6 Challenge is up! It features one of my favourite to hate characters, Morgause :>  

Story: her legacy

[runboybeneaththemoon]

[springs-hurts]

But you know, altho I do agree that it was haard waayy too hard for Merlin to listen it but yk what Merlin did was wrong.. He should've tell Arthur about his mother.. He just himself proved that sorcerers would do anything to hurt/kill them and this they're bad..if he had known tht uther was to be held, accountable for his mother's death and because of that he's on warpath against sorcery.. He'd have done the right thing.. But for all Merlin's talk, he never believed in Arthur atleast that what you gain from this.. It was partly his own fault that Arthur believed that his father is right. And also, Merlin had no right and absolutely no right to let Arthur not know the truth about his mother's death... He himself was so bitter when gaius told him about balinor but didn't do the courtesy of telling Arthur about ygraine and that was wrong. Always kept him in dark.

The fact that Arthur said this just after we saw Merlin do him the biggest kindness I've ever seen anyone do another person. Like. A sorcerer just selflessly shattered his own dream, and that of many people, just so Arthur would not have to bear the guilt of killing his own father, in one of the purest and most horrifying demonstrations of love I've ever witnessed, and it went unseen and unheard, and then he had to listen to this

Sometimes it just hits me, the amount of emotional pain Merlin has been going through since the beginning of the series.

It makes me think of this post

[starrieisdelusional]

Uther’s death:

Merlin fights for his life as he battles hundreds of the undead with only one thing in his mind: Arthur is going to die. Knocking the last soldier away. He rams the door open.

Morgause sat on the throne with Arthur under her heels, bloody and bruised. On the other side of the floor, Uther lays unconscious. Merlin runs to her but immediately collided into nothing. There’s an invisible wall separating them.

Arthur: …merlin…

Morgause: Oh great, you’re here

Merlin: GIVE HIM BACK!!

Merlin tries to break the barrier with the sword he’s carrying, but it’s futile. Merlin tries to hit it again with higher force but the sword snaps in half.

Morgause: You can’t break it, not unless I die. It’s useless.

Morgause pulls the ends of Arthur’s hair and rest her sword on his throat

Morgause: Here’s what’s going to happen Emrys. Either you kill that tyrant- (tilts her head towards uther) or your prince dies

Arthur: Don’t do it! MERLIN DON’T DO IT!!! Damn you! Let me die for him-

Morgause: You don’t get to decide that (presses her sword)

Arthur and Morgause stares at Merlin in silence. Merlin doesn’t know what to do.

Morgause: well?? Hurry up!!

Arthur: NO! Don’t you DARE DO ANYTHING!!

Merlin: I…let him go morgause…

Morgause: Not unless you kill him

Merlin stays still. Not knowing what to do. Morgause grew impatient.

Morgause: Fine then, you think I’m not serious?

With quick reflexes Morgause stabs Arthur’s stomach, Arthur howled with pain, gripping his wound. Merlin felt like his heart just stopped.

Morgause: the next one is through his heart (forces arthur to look at merlin) well???

Merlin bit his lip. Stading still. Morgause tsked, and plunged her sword at Arthur’s heart

Merlin: NO WAIT!

Morgause stops

Morgause: Yes?

Merlin took a deep breath and picked up his broken sword, he started walking torwards uther.

Arthur: Merlin…? Merlin? MERLIN! MERLIN STOP!!

Merlin stops at Uther’s unconscious body.

Morgause: Wait!

Merlin looks at her with a questioning glance.

Morgause: Do it with magic

Merlin: …what??

Morgause: I want you to kill him with your magic

Arthur: are you insane…? Merlin doesn’t practice magic!

Morgause waits for him but Merlin didn’t do anything.

Morgause: do you want him to die?

Merlin: i don’t have magic.

Morgause: oh stop pretending emrys

Merlin: isn’t…isn’t killing him enough?

Arthur: ARE YOU INSANE?? Merlin if you kill my father I’M GOING TO KILL YOU!

Merlin: …why are you doing this?

Morgause: kill him now.

Arthur: merlin! Don’t listen to her! Please!!

Merlin: i…i don’t…i don’t have magic…

Morgause: liar! Do what you’re meant to do! Kill Uther Pendragon! What are you so afraid of? Magic will thrive again!! You can stop hiding who you are….or if you’re a coward…things will stay the same…with the loss of your prince.

Arthur: Merlin…if you kill him, i’ll never forgive you.

Merlin looks towards at the floor looking deep in thought. Just as Morgause got tired of waiting, Merlin’s eyes suddenly glows gold and Uther’s body levitated on the air. Arthur was stunned, shocked at the display.

Merlin: I’m sorry…Arthur, but between you and everything. I will always choose you.

A resounding crack echoes throughout the room, and Uther’s body lay motionless. Dead.

Arthur: no…

Morgause smiles, pleased.

Morgause: good choice

She undid the barrier and throws Arthur across the room. She disappears to thin air.

With a bleeding abdomen, Arthur forces himself to go to Uther’s side. Merlin tries to tend him but Arthur weakly shoves him away.

Arthur: get away from me…

Merlin: i need to heal you

Arthur: i don’t want to be healed by a traitor!

Merlin: You’re in critical condition!

Arthur: I DON’T CARE!! GET AWAY FROM ME!!

Arthur struggles against Merlin’s hold before passing out.

season 3:

main post:

To find my other ramblings about this AU, filter with the hashtag #must we really rely on fate?

[poug1y]

[henwilsons]

MERLIN 2.12 ✗ 3.13

[goth-emrys]

Geoffrey: I've searched the records going back more than 300 years. I could find nothing to say a woman cannot issue a challenge.

Uther: There must be some way to put a stop to this.

Geoffrey: According to the knights' rules, it appears her challenge is perfectly valid.

HECK YEAH. WOMEN WITH SWORDS.

[twistedshipper]

prompt: "harvest" | Morgana & Morgause | Not Rated | Major Character Death, Grief/Mourning

{November written for @the-king-and-the-druidess and @merlinmicrofic}

The harvest season has come and gone, and with it the days of fraught peace in the aftermath of their failed siege upon the Citadel of Camelot.

In the time betwixt and between, into the darkling woods they had gone to rest and recuperate, but as the leaves fade and drop from the branches above, and the wind grows shriller with October cold, Morgause, her strength waning into premature cronehood, knows it is time for her to return to the Isle one last time.

And Morgana sees the grief in her eyes, and soon knows it for her own.

She accepts the dagger and plunges it into her sister’s heart—

And just like that, it is November, and she is alone again.

She buries her sister there upon the Isle of the Blessed, beneath a single Rowan tree with its crimson fruit, and slicing open her palm with the same blade, gives unto Morgause’s spirit her own blood in a somber oath to not let her death be in vain.

Where she has fallen, Morgana will take up their shared fight in her name.