#enchanted!merlin

[sneakyboymerlin]

It’s the fact that when enchanted!Merlin calls Gwaine filthy, instead of a hands-out, “What the hell, man?” he just turns into a kicked puppy.

…Or perhaps, more accurately, a pangolin.

[earlgreyinpajamas]

Got any enchanted Merlin fics? (Preferably without sexual content?)

1. Love is a Many-Splendored Thing by archaeologist_d (@archaeologistd)

When Merlin mistakenly intercepts a love spell meant for Arthur, Arthur thinks it’s funny—until it isn’t. As Merlin gets sicker and sicker from love unrequited, it’s up to Arthur to try and find a way to keep Merlin from dying.

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this is my top recommendation for this genre

2. Lovesick by vintagelilacs (@vintage–lilacs)

Arthur’s heart thumped hard in his chest. If Merlin ingested the potion, he would fall in love with the first person he laid eyes on. He would fall in love with Arthur.

Arthur opened his mouth, a warning perched on his tongue. He didn’t let it fall.

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i don't know if you'd count this as enchanted, but he did ingest a love potion sooo

3. only love can thaw a frozen heart (and some are worth melting for) by borealisaurora

It seems like every magic user in Albion knows that Merlin is besotted with Arthur, and many believe that Merlin and Arthur need to get together in order for their Destiny (TM) to be fulfilled. When a witch takes it upon herself to speed this along and puts curse on Merlin that requires True Love’s kiss to lift it, chaos ensues.

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this fic makes me smile. 11/10 would recommend

[noodles-and-tea]

This trope would be so funny for them

[ethan-acfan]

I love the idea of merlin being like a crow and constantly looking for shiny things, and eventually, he starts giving some of his stuff to Arthur, and Arthur is just so fucking confused on why his servant keep handing him shiny rocks with the biggest stupidest grin.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

art by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1910s)

[poisonedfate]

bbc merlin - 04x05 His Father's Son

[dont-let-me-eat-pears]

me to me: girl, don't do it.

me: *imagines an au where the show didn't practically forget about merlin and gwaine's friendship after series 3, and gwaine found out about his magic sometime in series 4, and merlin got to have a friend again who knew everything about him and who he could be his true self with and tell everything to and share sneaky, knowing looks with when he secretly performed magic and—*

me to me: well, now you've done it. enjoy the pain.

[fairyuniverse]

[hurglewurm]

this post by @cursedmerlinedits had me overjoyed but i also really wanted to see merlin as the enchanter... so here we are

[id: two illustrations of characters from bbc merlin as monty python and the holy grail. in the first illustration, arthur is monty python arthur, and merlin is patsy. they are wearing camelot red instead of gold, and they are both grimacing. in the second image, merlin is wearing the costume of tim the enchanter, with ram's horns and a big wooden staff, in front of a rocky backdrop. end id.]

[rosalie-starfall]

Miranda Richardson

Blackadder - 1986

Sleepy Hollow - 1999

Merlin - 1998

Dance With a Stanger - 1985

Good Omens (Season One) - 2019

The Crying Game - 1992

Snow White: The Fairest of Them All - 2001

Good Omens (Season Two) - 2023

Enchanted April - 1991

Damage - 1992

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2005

Phantom of the Opera - 2004

[yourfavecharacterisqueer]

sometimes i think ‘how could arthur never know merlin was a sorcerer? he used magic so obviously’ then i realised this was the “greatest sorcerer to ever walk the earth” when attempting to commit regicide mere feet away from his target

[calebauer]

how i imagine merlin’s top surgery scars

[justaz]

pan merlin and gay arthur no one understands you like i do

[amaranth-aether]

[gawrkin]

(From The Welsh Triads, translated and edited by Rachel Bromwich)

Man, the concept of Wizard-King Uther Pendragon...

Like, the idea Uther never really needed Merlin for anything magical - he would've just it done by himself.

Also, the implication that Uther is very magically powerful. The other people listed in this triad are nothing to scoff at: Math and Gwydion are the two supreme magician characters of the Mabinogi. Gwythelyn/Rudlwm the Dwarf is unknown, but his protege, Coll ap Collfrewy, is a powerful swineherd who owned Henwen, the magic pig that gave to a bunch of things, including the dreaded monster Cath Palug.

Neither Merlin nor Blaiddud (the Necromancer King from Historia Regum Britanniae and father of King Leir) are included here. AFAIK, Merlin's magical deeds are seemingly never lauded by the surviving Welsh poetIc material.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Merlin - art by Hal Foster (1977)