#cos the ACTUAL servants (george) have put everything away properly

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I'd like to remind everyone of that episode where Merlin just dumps Arthur's armour behind a chest... like...the WHOLE suit. Just shoves it behind a chest...

...I like to think Arthur finds it one day, or finds his sword shoved under his bed covers, or all his moth-eaten shirts are tucked behind the wardrobe... and Arthur just... never mentions it. I like to think he just keeps a mental log of Merlin's hiding places and whenever he can't find something, he starts looking under and behind things...

Wait a damn minute Merlin is an actual nightmare of a servant. Imagine you're the Prince and all of a sudden and only two seconds after surviving an assassination attempt you're stuck with this scrawny, clumsy fucking dude with a really shifty air about him who spends literal days in the tavern with zero notice, steals your food, tried to spy on a guest, doesn't let you hunt, can never fucking be found when you need him even though he is the literal manservant to the prince, which you would think should be a priority but apparently he has better things to do, and is always talking like he's the only thing standing between you and certain death???? Then he gives you attitude? Literally I would throw things at him too. Arthur is misunderstood he's actually being too nice