#formorrah

[tiodolma]

Flower of Poison

[merlinpetpeeves]

[mumble-muse]

📘!

Hey Will <3

So I fully reblogged this ask game so I could have a reason to ramble about one specific idea (I mean I have others I can talk about so anyone feel free to send more 📘)

Okay, so this is currently more of a series of character moments than a plot but enjoy!

So canon AU diverging specifically from 04x09, where at the end of the canon events of that episode, when Lancelot says goodbye to Merlin at the end he doesn't actually die (yay!).

So Merlin has a de-shaded Lancelot who has vague and unsettling memories of being a shade and the veil, but is aware Arthur et al still thinks he's a traitor (oh no!).

Merlin does their usual thing and tries to talk to Arthur about Lancelot being enchanted and Gwen being banished, and they have the conversation they have in Hunter's Heart where Arthur threatens to banish Merlin.

And Merlin fucking snaps.

I really feel like given that Merlin has just gone through everything with Lancelot (resurfacing all that stuff from the veil), Lamia just happened, Gaius being accused of being a traitor, Gwen getting banished, everything with the Formorrah etc etc that it's a pretty reasonable reaction. Like, Arthur still doesn't trust Merlin? Arthur would threaten to banish Merlin?? Merlin has a baby dragon waiting for them, maybe it's time to go be a full-time dragon parent.

Anyway, so Merlin and Lancelot leave, and go find Gwen. At some point before Gwaine tries to go with Merlin, but Merlin stops him due to a combination of look after Camelot, Lamia trauma, and Gwaine's latent anti-magic stuff.

So now it's Merlin, plus a very traumatised Gwen and the man who caused her banishment in the woods. So y'know, awkward.

And then Gwaine shows up anyway. So now it's Merlin, a guy who knows they have magic but was very recently dead/enchanted, one traumatised bestie who doesn't know about the magic (but I'd argue suspects), and a guy who doesn't know about the magic (and has anti-magic tendencies) and is pretty suspicious of Lancelot.

Basically it's a bunch of confused and sad people wandering around the woods.

(Elyan has been asked by Gwen to look after Arthur, and no one else knows Lancelot is alive. Leon and Percival and Elyan and Gaius are still in Camelot).

Merlin tells Gwen and Gwaine officially about their magic (cue drama).

Gwen and Lancelot decide to just be friends cuz yikes enchantment will mess up any relationship.

And this is 100% where my story plan ends and it's just a set of bullet points with question marks next to them:

Merlin goes full Emrys, and at some point brokers a peace with Arthur (but doesn't tell him they're Merlin). I really want to write no Merlin+Arthur reconciliation, because I just feel like if Merlin had space and lived for a little while with people who loved them and their magic, they might think even less kindly of Arthur and Camelot (although anger softened with time etc). They just become allies, with maybe some hope for proper friendship in the future. So two sides of one coin, but at a distance - which is pretty damn tragic.

Percival and Elyan and Gaius as Merlin's people on the inside ;)

I really want to write something where Gwen goes to Morgana as a emissary of Emrys and she somehow sorts out that whole deal.

I want to write a pro-magic legalisation/decriminalisation plot where Merlin stops being so damn patient and complicit, but also where Morgana kills fewer people...

Some plot point which mimics the outcome of the ghost druid boy ep, but is driven more by Merlin using their knowledge of Arthur and his personal actions against the druids etc.

This is set pre-season five so maybe child/teen mordred shows up.

Maayyyybe reunited Arwen, with Gwen important and cool in her own right as Emrys' ambassador etc. But maybe no romance stuff at all, I dunno.

Plus dragons.

Ooof, so yeah... that's what I have so far and I cannot stop thinking about it... As you can see it would be... long... so we'll see if I ever write it!

Put “📓” in my inbox and I’ll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven’t written but daydream about.

[merthur-she-wrote]

I’m sure others have already said it, but can I just scream about how much I love this image:

Merlin, under the influence of the formorrah, walking down the hall with a plateful of poisoned food to serve his king, with a pair of god damned black wings!

Nothing says, “I’m evil today. Don’t trust me,” like a pair of black wings. 😈

[ao3feed-merlin]

A Servant Of Two Masters; Alternate Fic

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/37rAlbK

by TheWeirdOnes

What if Gaius couldn't paralyse the Formorrah? What if Gwen had total access to a mallet? What if it was up to the knights to fix everything? (And about time, too!) Find out here!

Chapters every week (not necessarily on the same day each time) By LowFlyingOctopus

Words: 312, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Merlin (TV)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Merlin (Merlin), Gwen (Merlin), Gaius (Merlin), Gwaine (Merlin), Percival (Merlin), Elyan (Merlin), Leon (Merlin), Morgana (Merlin), Agravaine (Merlin)

Relationships: Arthur and Merlin friendship - Relationship, Gwen and Merlin friendship - Relationship, all the knights and Merlin friendship

Additional Tags: Alternate fic, Humour, what if they couldn't paralyse the formorrah

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/37rAlbK

[hayleysstark]

Can you do a short fic where Morgana tortures Merlin? Like in the episode with the formorrah, but she actually hurts him. And stuff. Thanks!

I wish you would write a fic where… Send me an anymous (or not) summary of the fic you wish I would write. (maybe I will write a tidbit)

OH MAN OH BOY OH MAN I HAD WAY TOO MUCH FUN WITH THIS ONE OH MAN HERE YA GO ((you specified “short” so it’s,,,,,,,,,, REALLY short lmao))

It’s getting really hard to hold his head up now. The dark dances always at the edges of his vision, an endless taunt, an eternal tease, look what you can’t have, look what you can’t have, look what she will never let you have, because nothing is too kind, isn’t it—

Morgana pulls back. His blood gleams, a sickly black in the shadows of her hovel, on the pale palms of her open hands. She smiles, and there is something cold and hard and viciously proud in it, in the smooth curve of her cracked lips. 

“Careful, Merlin,” she says, sweetly, and her quick fingers tap lightly at the coarse ropes round his raw and bloody wrists, “you mustn’t struggle. I would absolutely hate for you to hurt yourself.”

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