#leon the Immortal

[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!!!!!

[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!!

[akelafang]

Leon my beloved!

Sketch of Leon as an archer at the Olympics

[aspentreeonahill]

Again i have no clue what im doing but i made this

[futurepastme]

Concept: During the many, many, many years Merlin and Leon had spent waiting for his royal pratness to return, Merlin's magic — still eager to help and fulfill his every need — had created physical images of Arthur and all the others every time it felt his or Leon's hearts fill with longing and despair.

The figures were not only palpable but could also speak and move and talk on their own, all based on Merlin's memories of his friends.

It happens enough times for them to get used to it.

Somewhere through the centuries, both Merlin and Leon gave up waiting, convinced that neither Arthur nor the rest would ever return.

A good amount of years pass after they giving up so that Leon and Merlin had fully accepted that Arthur's not coming and are okay with it.

But Arthur and the rest do come back, and now they have to follow these two stubborn immortals around trying to prove they are real.

So we have scenes like:

Arthur puts himself in front of him, grabbing Merlin's shoulders to make him stop walking and looking at his eyes with reassurance. "Merlin, it's real, it's me." Merlin, with two bags of groceries in each hand, annoyed by the insistence of this clone: "I think you are the worst one so far." He extricates himself from not-Arthur's hands and walk back to his car, putting the groceries away before entering it and leaving the supermarket. Arthur stands there like a fool, mouth open and hands still kind of raised where he held Merlin. Shocked still and confused by the idiot's reaction.

Or

Merlin and Leon: talking about the others out loud and unashamed, discussing how to get rid of them Arthur: "Excuse me, we are right here!" Merlin and Leon: Look at each other. Leon: "Of course you are, buddy."

And

Gwaine: Follows Merlin to the bathroom when he goes to shower. Merlin: Rolls his eyes and doesn't stop him Arthur: Pulls Gwaine back by the ear.

Last but not least:

Arthur: "I've loved you for a very long time, Merlin." Merlin with wide eyes: "Holy shit" Arthur: looks at him with hope Merlin: pulls his phone from his pocket and opens Grindr, "Jesus fuck, I need to get laid."

I don't know, I just think it could be funny.

[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

[escespace]

Leon: What is your costume about?

Merlin: an emotionally stable person

Leon: Ah! I think something is missing

Merlin: What?

León: The emotionally stable person

[tiredcowboyy]

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

[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.

[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

[anyzakki]

Luca glasses 🩵

[nerdyerror]

Leon (1600s)

[teto-hobie]

[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

[inalandofsadclowns]

Everyone who learns Merlin is magic either dies, Merlin fears will react bad, or will possibly betray Arthur.

What's the point of immortal Leon, once saved by magic, devoted to Arthur until death, if he stays just as unaware as the rest??