#leon is immortal

[runboybeneaththemoon]

Merlin: it's been over a hundred years since the fall of Camelot. Everyone I've ever known is dead

Merlin: except for this fucker

Leon: it is my duty to serve and protect Camelot. As you are still here, Camelot isn't completely gone, so neither am I

Merlin: No, I'm supposed to serve Camelot until its gone! Which it isn't cause you're still here! You're taking my job!!

[aspentreeonahill]

Sometime after Camelot fell and Merlin and Leon discovered they were both immortal:

Merlin: does magic have a gender?

Leon: what…?

Merlin: do you think magic has a gender?

Leon: no?

Merlin: would that mean that i don’t have a gender? I mean, i AM magic

Leon: can’t you turn into a women?

Merlin: I’ve only turned into an old one, never tried turning into one my age

Leon: so you can turn into a women?

Merlin: yes.

Leon: so you can be any gender you want?

Merlin: yes?

Leon: yeah i have no fucking clue what you are

Merlin: damn, maybe in a thousand years there will actually be a label for people like that.

Leon: what? A label for magic being your gender?

Merlin: sure why not

This is so fucking stupid I’m sorry

[maddybthorne]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Sir Leon the Long Suffering is one of the best tags ever invented.

[justaz]

arthur is immortal in the same way merlin is immortal, he can die but he bounces back after a while. merlin putting arthurs body on a boat and sending him out onto the lake but not burning him as he did to lancelot and freya. merlin disappearing off the face of the earth, unable to go back to camelot where every stone is carved with arthur's name, every room holds the faintest echo of his laughter, the shadows cast by the flickering flames of torches match each line and curve of arthur's body which merlin had memorized after years of dressing and undressing him, wandering and lingering hands that were just casual enough to pass off as platonic.

arthur crawling out of the lake the night after the morning merlin put him to rest, dazed, confused, and alive. arthur searches for merlin but can't find him. he's disappeared. gwen rules camelot as queen, she lifts the ban on magic, and rules fairly. arthur is content to leave his kingdom with her as he searches the land for merlin. he visits every place he and merlin every visited but he's nowhere to be found. time passes but arthur only grows more desperate. he's sure he's searched every inch of albion twice. no merlin.

enough time passes, everyone he's known has died and he looks exactly as he did when mordred drove his blade into his abdomen. arthur is forced to admit to himself that enough time has passed that merlin was bound to have died, leaving arthur all alone. immortal merlin is literally like chilling in ireland or some shit. but both immortal idiots are living in the same area and end up just missing each other. literally like end up holding the door to a coffee shop for one another but they don't meet each other's gazes bc they're busy mourning each other

[stoneddoom]

Merlin: Those dead round table bitches don't know what they're missing. How come they didn't return yet?

Leon: Aye, Merls. They should have been smarter.

...

Gwaine: We literally were five minutes late and my body is pretty much alive and hot, thank you!

Arthur: Merlin! Would you stop pretending that I'm still at the lake? I'm right here. HEY! Notice me GaAawdDAmmiT!

*flustered gay king noises*

Ok hear me out:

Leon is Immortal imo. So is Emrys. So could I please get an edit of them meeting in a random place, like idk TacoBell, McDonalds or smth 1000 years later?

ok this actually ended up being so cute?? i feel like 10% less sad about the finale now

[theroundbartable]

Leon: one day you're gonna get me killed

Arthur: don't be ridiculous, it's not that bad

Leon:...

Leon, the immortal, shaking Arthur: stop destroying my dreams!!!!!

[captainfairygodmother]

You know what I really love that should be explored in even more Merlin fanfics?

Immortal Leon. Like, you've just got Merlin over there sulking about while he waits for Arthur to return. Then there's just Leon, living his best immortal life, doing the most randomest shit known to mankind

[tiredcowboyy]

Immortal leon looking after immortal merlin until arthur returns will never not be one of my favourite fic types

[escespace]

Leon: Ok. What's going on?

Merlin: What do you mean?

Leon: What's the matter? What's wrong with you?

Merlin: Listen, I know myself so you have to be a little more specific if you want a short answer.

[nerdyerror]

Leon (1600s)

[mandoriana]

Merlin to Leon at some point in their eternal lives:

Merlin: I was just remembering when Arthur and I were in a boring meeting and Arthur said, “There are 20 minutes left in over, that’s 4 times 5 minutes.” That’s how I got through the meeting, it’s how I get through my immortality, and it’s how I’m going to get through life.

[anyzakki]

Luca glasses 🩵

[aspentreeonahill]

Leon: can you stop adopting everyone you find?

Merlin: I do not!

Leon: who’s that then?

Merlin, *who definitely isn’t hiding anyone behind his back* : … his names Daegal…

Daegal, *who is peaking over Merlin’s shoulder* : hi!

Leon: I let you keep Mordred and the dragon, no more.

Merlin: her name is Aithusa and she’s my actual daughter thank you very much!

Leon: THATS THE WORSE PART.

[blubellion]

LATE HALLOWEEN POST ummmm the vampire Luis and werewolf Leon grind never stops

(this one is from like september)

[justaz]

merlin places all his friends to rest in avalon. first freya, then lancelot, then arthur, then gwaine. and then the rest of the knights when they pass along with gwen. freya and co spend time together in avalon but freya is the lady of the lake so only she has the power to manifest herself to merlin. she does so when he comes to visit. she tells him that all his friends arrived safely in avalon and are resting peacefully, recovering from their lives. merlin passes her messages that she carries to the rest and they pass her messages which she carried to merlin.

its a few years later when freya manifests and asks about morgana. merlin isn’t a fan of the conversation but freya says that they’ve all made progress with themselves and each other and have kinda sat back and viewed everything that happened from and outside perspective and gwen wants her best friend and arthur wants his sister to have that same chance, they can’t bear the thought that she’s wandering the forest, driven mad and in pain. they ask that merlin puts her to rest. she’s been tormented enough in her life, she deserves a chance at rest and peace.

merlin begrudgingly treks out to the spot where he stabbed morgana and gathers her remains to carry the bones to the lake. he puts her to rest. freya thanks him and keeps him updated on her progress, it’s slow going but arthur, gwen, and leon want their morgana back, the girl who fought for what was right and just, damn the consequences. years layer freya shares how morgana is more akin to the young girl they described from all those years ago. merlin cries and finally mourns his friend.

morgana’s apology is carried by freya and merlin’s apology is carried back. her first request is for mordred to be put to rest in avalon as well. arthur seconds the request. the knights echo the same sentiment for their brother in arms. morgana tells freya where she buried him and merlin follows her directions and finally puts him to rest in avalon. freya tells him that mordred sobbed when he realized emrys put him to rest, he had thought that bridge was forever burned. merlin will never admit it but he definitely shed a few tears for him as well.

all his friends are together now. at rest. in avalon. more and more years pass but merlin’s health never declines. he’s old, too old, past 100 now at this point. yet he lives. he thinks it might be a cruel joke played by the gods but man can’t live forever so it’s only a matter of time. more and more years pass and he still lives. out of morbid curiosity, he closes himself and imagines himself as he was when he first arrived in camelot. at once, all his aches and pains melt away, his skin tightens, his beard and long hair shrivel up and when he peers into a looking glass he barely looks 20.

a cruel joke by the gods indeed. all of his friends are at peace, resting in avalon, and merlin will never join them. he will remain walking the earth until the end of time or when the gods deem his punishment fulfilled. he will never see his friends again. not unless they rise as the dragon said, but merlin has since come to terms with the fact that the scaly bastard is as manipulative as they come. he may have been lying about that too.

as more time passes and magic begins to fade from the minds of men and they turn to science, pillaging the environment of it’s resources and pumping it full of pollution, freya finds it harder and harder to manifest until she all but can’t. merlin sits by the lake for days without moving and she never appears. the world is different now and merlin is all that remains of albion. camelot fell centuries ago and invaders conquered the isles and made it their own. merlin is all that remains. he is completely and utterly alone.

[erraticsketchings]

I spent way more time on one of these than the other. Bet you can tell which one.