#kilgarrah

[thesorcerersshadow]

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[gramnel]

[wild-flowerhoney]

one thing the show doesn't care about enough: the dragonlords and the dragons themselves. they were hunted to extinction. merlin is the last of his kind. and he'll never know anything about being a dragonlord because his entire family and anyone who might've known about them is gone. how do you fix that? you can't. there's nothing you can ever do to make up for something like that. absolutely nothing.

and i love fics that explore arthur surviving and struggling through the realisation of just what kind of monster his father was for everyone else but also. they rarely focus on that bit of history, on the fact that uther actually managed to destroy that part of magic completely as merlin is the very last of his kin and there are only two dragons left (the first one won't live much longer and he has no knowledge on how to help the second). uther actually did eradicate something, it wasn't magic as a whole maybe but an entire branch of it is just gone.

[loki-the-bi-frost]

It’s been years and I’m still not over the switch between “rests on the shoulders of a young boy” to “rests on the shoulders of a young man,” and I doubt I ever will be

[jesus-of-bisexuals]

The character I hate the most in Merlin, other than Uther, was that fucking overgrown lizard. The dude speaks like a fucking fortune cookie and then gets mad at Merlin for not listening to him.

ALSO, I fully believe if Kilgarrah had left my boy alone things would have gone better. I know he was just using Merlin to get him out of the cave but he totally deserved to be there. He never actually cared about Merlin.

"Nobody, no matter how great, can know their destiny." THEN LEAVE THE POOR MAN ALONE!

Everything was Kilgarrah's fault. Fuck you.

[blazeshardcat]

realistic depiction of episode 1

based on this post

[sociallyanxiouspyrate]

"Two halves of the same coin" like top/bottom? Elaborate Kilgarrah.

[himbo-aficionado]

understandable, have a great day. 

[cinnabon-sweetroll-tiramisu]

Bro, imagine if Merlin went back in time to the first moment he met the Great Dragon and turned Kilgharrah into a tiny asf dragon then freed him lol

Kilgharrah: GASP

Merlin: Yeesss, payback for the horrible advice you gave me in the future.

Kilgharrah: YOU CANNOT DO THIS TO ME WARLOCK

Merlin: LOL

[rosemarytales]

I forgot how fun it was to make these

[morganaconda]

[my-destiny-my-chicken]

AITA for manipulating a young warlock into moving fate towards my design, therefore trapping him into an inescapable and tragic destiny?

Years ago I (M1000) felt the presence of a warlock (M28) enter the kingdom of Camelot. I called to him in his mind and he found me, and long story short I ended up being the one he came to for advice.

My friends think I was in the wrong because I knew about all the details of his destiny and didn’t tell him (for context he is the greatest wizard to ever walk the earth) but I think I was justified because I was trapped under the castle for 20 years and needed him to get me out.

I did tell him really vague answers to everything he asked so that he’d do what I wanted, but I know what’s best because I’m a 1000 year old dragon and he’s just some guy who was rude to me once. Am I the asshole?

[spitefulcheddarcheese]

guys unpopular opinion i like kilgarrah

ok here me out

1. he has every right to be pissed off bc uther killed all of his people and then locked him in a cave i would also be mad and want revenge

2. prophecies are not accurate and do not give step my step cause and effect and he just wanted magic back

3. he genuinely cared for merlin and helped him many times

4. he’s really funny

pls feel free to argue with me in a friendly and respectful manner :)

[thesorcerersshadow]

assigned trans at dragon. is this anything

[sepezzz]

merlin fanart?????? in 2023????????

more context for these in the tags

[youshouldjustliveinmychurch]

Not to Merlin-post in the year of our Lord 2024, but I love Gwen as a character. She goes through too much honestly. She deserves such a good life and so much love. I want to see a spin off show about Gwen's reign as queen because that would be awesome.

FULFILLING THE GREAT PROPHECY

I was always frustrated because I felt like the "Arthur is going to be this great king and unite Albion" thing never came to pass or only kind of did sparingly BUT maybe it's that thing with prophecies where they come to pass in unexpected ways.

So maybe the great prosperity and uniting of Albion happens because of Gwen's peaceful, fair, and progressive reign, which technically happens because Arthur made the choice to marry when she was a commoner. She wouldn't have been on the throne otherwise. I'm calling it. I believe she would be a freaking great queen. With her empathy and intelligence and bravery? Hell yeah!

It's very likely that she had the guts to finally lift the ban on magic during her reign (and all that entails) which Arthur was never able to do because he had trouble /didn't have the chance to work through the negative feeling about magic that had been instilled in him by his father. Merlin was never able to push him to do so because he became too entrenched in supporting the current power structures because he was blinded by his love for and devotion to Arthur. Maybe they could have gotten there in time (there are hints of that), but instead the revelation is made inadvertently and the end of the show happens before they cross that boundary. That's one of the great tragedies of the show. It painfully demonstrates how power corrupts and people can be forced to try to work within a system that is actively harming them, especially when they love and believe in the people entrenched in that system.

Maybe Morgana had a twisted sixth sense about this too because she's peculiarly focused on Gwen being queen for a lot of reasons (SHE EVEN HAS VISIONS ABOUT IT).

Anyway, I'm sure someone has said this before.

Thoughts?