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adhd-merlin · 1 year ago

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#THANK YOU. EXACTLY.#my favourite merlin & arthur & mordred dynamic is: mordred being the embodiment of 😊🥺 while merlin thinks off to the side of ways to get#rid of him/kill him. and arthur is APPALLED by merlin’s apparent hatred (it’s not rly hatred just the decaying of merlin’s morals and an#unwavering blind faith in arthur) of mordred and he subtly is being hard on merlin while also trying to understand why he hates mordred so#much! bc i do think arthur IS quite fond of mordred and since he’s the youngest one of his knights he has a soft spot for him but merlin’s#his best friend!! 🥺 and he wants them to get along or at least not have merlin wanting to shove mordred into a hovel or smth 😭#and i love the idea of arthur’s insistence that mordred’s a noble knight and a kind man and even WHEN merlin breaks and tells him of the#prophecy arthur just gives merlin the saddest look ever and is like ‘merlin he has done no crime against me. i cannot punish him for what h#may or may not do. it's not right.’ & merlin’s tearing his hair out bc he CANNOT let arthur die & his morals are SO fucked at this point &#arthur realises this i think. because HE would be merlin’s moral compass. he will be merlin’s true north as merlin has been to arthur#anyway. don’t know why i just rambled for so long i just have SO many thoughts abt them <3

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you know, if arthur had ever come to know that merlin considered letting a literal child die to save his life, however briefly, he would have been horrified. even if mordred did end up killing him. that's just not what arthur was about

#lys: hold my beer i gotta type an essay real quick #“i do think arthur IS quite fond of mordred” < YES he is!#i mean in the arthurian legends mordred's literally arthur's son so #they did play on that #i think it's not SO obvious because mordred isn't actually that present in S5 #(he should have been in more episodes imo)#but yeah arthur was extremely fond of him #like the only times* he turns to magic are #to talk to his dead mother #to save his father's life #and to save gwen #the people he loves more than anything #and even then he's VERY conflicted about it #(perhaps not so much in S2 but definitely after uther's death)#so for him to even consider ACCEPTING magic in camelot #to save mordred's life. that's huge #even if he said before that perhaps not all sorcerers are evil #(he believed it at some point)#that was before his father's death #after which he vowed never to forget that magic is evil #so for him to reconsider it. to save mordred. that was big #//#*and the ghost-summoning horn if we are counting that #which i think is not on the same level as asking a sorcerer to perform a whole-ass magic ritual for you #like there's still a level of plausible deniability in just using a magical artifact #but yeah that too i guess #still he did it for his father so

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