#merlin and arthur are cursed

[magicourageandstrength]

Imagine this

Arthur and Merlin get cursed by a sorcerer/sorceress to feel pain when they get too close to each other. The opposite of the forced proximity trope.

When they finally figure out how the curse works, they don’t seem that worried about it. Arthur jokes about how Merlin was annoying him recently and Merlin mentions getting some time off for once.

However, it’s so hard for them to stay away from each other. They keep accidentally getting too close to one another. It gets so bad that they have to be dragged to Gauis by some knights that found them passed out in the hallway.

Arthur and Merlin are more bothered by the curse than they would care to admit. They make a silent promise that they won’t leave the other alone for at least a week when it’s done.

as always, send me any fics that are like this

[regulusrules]

are you normal, or do you regularly think of how merlin spent more time mourning arthur than knowing him

[thetempleofthemasaigoddess]

Limiting the choice to the shows and movies I have seen/know of. I'm not asking who the first actor you have seem playing Arthur was, rather the one you instinctively think about when someone mentions him or the one closest to your heart.

[justaz]

arthur and the knights getting cursed so they can’t hold a weapon, fight, and can barely walk. clumsy x1000 blast. the cure is idk somewhere in the woods or with the druids or something idk idk don’t ask me. anyways they get ambushed and arthur and the knights cant fight so merlin is like “damn it” and pushes them all back and looks at arthur and is like

merlin: you can’t fight so i’m going to fight them.

arthur, stumbling over his own two feet even while merlin is pushing him up against a tree: you can’t fight

merlin: i can. i’m going to. what i need you to do is wait, alright? you’re going to be mad, i get that, but that’s going to have to wait until later. can you do that?

arthur: you can’t fight, merlin.

merlin, rolling his eyes: will you just listen to me for once? be mad later. appreciate that i’m saving your life right now.

merlin, leaving arthur to fall flat on his face, muttering under his breath: like always

and then woosh merlin saves their lives and is a bad ass sorcerer yippee gwaine is very turned on and so is arthur but he’s also definitely pissed while lancelot is so proud of his bestie (and a little turned on)

[wanderinggoddess]

fuck it, lesbian arwen

[princess-of-morkva]

i think in a situation where arthur and gwen break up, merlin would be taking it way worse than the actual people breaking up

[adhd-merlin]

Queen Guinevere at the stake

Le Morte d'Arthur, Thomas Malory (x) // The Once and Future King, T. H. White (x) // BBC Merlin, Queen of Hearts (3x10) // Camelot: The Musical, Alan Jay Lerner // Merlin (1998) // Lancelot, Edwin Arlington Robinson (x) // The Rescue of Queen Guenevere by Sir Lancelot, William Hatherell (x)

[dont-let-me-eat-pears]

2x01 || 1x07

[casually-eat-my-soul]

Re-watching season two episode one of Merlin is so Ahhhh

Imagine if this was the episode that Arthur just started listening to Merlin about bad people. After seeing his people die because he trusted the wrong person, Arthur feels guilty. He realizes that Merlin knew that Cedric was sleazy (although Cedric wasn’t trying it kill everyone, it’s just the process of things). So now everytime Merlin vaguely gives a nose scrunch Arthur is like “well you have to go, banished”

Or like Merlin just is so petty and hold it against Arthur. He doesn’t immediately go back to work for Arthur right but instead he stays with Gaius and lcommits to the physician assistant position. Until Arthur is like “Merlin please everyone is being nice to me and you keep calling me sire, and everyone is spending time with you but me and sir Owen keeps wistfully talking about you ..” and so on.

But after Merlin comes back to being Arthur’s servant he makes petty remarks under his breath like a scorned wife. “Oh yeah George is a great servant, maybe he should be your manservant” and “you’re completely right Arthur, Henry did a fabulous job with your armour, maybe you should throw me away again and hire him.”

Arthur’s just like “Merlin please, it was one time” and tries to be better.

OR Could you imagine If one high ranking person believed in Merlin?? Like Leon starts to realize that Merlin has frighteningly correct assumptions of peoples and situations. So he just starts to pay more attention to when Merlin says “hey I think this person sucks”.

At first he thinks that Merlin is complaining about Cedric becuase he’s getting kicked out of the manservant position, and he empathizes but there is nothing Leon can do. Accept be coldly cordial around Cedric. But then Merlin is like “he’s been possessed” and Leon thinks it would be remiss to ignore that becuase it puts Arthur’s life at stake. So he follows Cedric around and sees him in the courtyard heeling out a spell and wacks him in the head whiles he is distracted.

[aquariusshadow]

'watch merlin' they said 'itll be fun' they said 'its family friendly' they said UTHER FUCKED A TROLL ITS CANON THAT IMAGE IS BURNED IN MY HEAD WHYYYY

[buckleyirondad]

I believe Season 5 of Merlin, could have been improved simply by altering one variable; Arthur should have found out about Merlin's magic in the two part opener. I wouldn't have minded if he'd had the exact same reaction that he had in the finale, but at least then we'd have an entire season of him knowing the truth. It's not only about knowing Merlin's secret, I would have loved to see an entire season where Arthur played an active role in his destiny and was fully aware of what was to come. We saw four seasons of Merlin battling it alone, I would have liked a couple of episodes where they were battling it together.

[chaoticallymuse]

Quote that reminds me of : Merlin

"If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."

- Margaret Atwood

[morganafayes]

god im just thinking abt how. merlin is always saying that before he came to camelot he thought he was cursed and he hated his magic because he thought it made him a monster but it was also all he had. and then him telling lancelot in s4 that since he found the purpose of his magic (protecting arthur) he doesn't feel that way anymore. sigh. the way out is just another cage!!!

[cynthia39100]

Merlin rewatch -- S2E1: The Curse of Cornelius Sigan

Things I like

Clotpole! The reaction from all three was iconic. Merlin didn’t even know what he said. And I’m sure Cedric and Arthur had zero clue what a clotpole was either.

Merlin learned to read Arthur’s gestures!

Merlin was so petty and instantly took it out on Cedric lol

Bradley's incredulous face was used so much in this ep lol so many ridiculous things happened around Arthur.

Arthur looked genuinely happy when he asked who threw the spear. I liked that he never felt jealous or outshone when his knights (or servants I guess) did better than him.

The face Merlin had after he received the magic was beautiful. The wide eyes. The epiphany. The breathy voice.

I Love Sigan’s speech. The way the lines were delivered. Mackenzie Crook was brilliant.

[S2E1] [other episodes]

[achillesuwu]

You see that dude, sigan, who turned day into night? Well what if he never turned it back and Merlin had always feel that something was very wrong with daytime and nighttime. As if he should be awake at night and sleeping in the day you know.

Then one day he just figures it out and turns it back as it should be he thinks then he goes back to bed while Camelot (the whole world actually) is freaking the fuck out. Which would be hilarious post-magic reveal or not. Like imagine Arthur trying to wake up Merlin while the other mumbles "nothing is wrong, it's right again. I will take care of the tides tomorrow" "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WILL TAKE CARE OF THE TIDES TOMORROW?!?! MERLIN DON'T YOU DARE PUT A SILENCING SPELL AROUND YOU. MERLIN. MERLIN!!!"

[shehungthemoon]

"The melee is the ultimate test of strength and courage" Arthur saying this in the episode Gwaine's first introduced is sooooooooo. sooooooooooooo something oh my god.