#merlin's assistant

[itzy-bitsy-spidey]

Merlin's assistant

Pt.2. Introductions

Merlin BBC X fem!reader

"This, my dear assistant, is king Arthur Pendragon of Camelot" Merlin introduced, and the sheer joy that showed in his smile managed to drown any posible witty remark Arthur had thought of making.

"HOLD ON A SECOND" on the other hand the loudness from the girl kind of made him wish she was once again arranging bottles in silence.

"He is Arthur Pendragon, as in the Arthur Pendragon I've heard so much about these last few years?" The smile in her face could barely contain all of her exciment, if the way she was flapping her hands up and down was any type of sign. A little bit more emotion and she would surely be jumping up and down in front of him.

Merlin eyes softened at the sight of the girl and his smile went from excited to fond rather quilckly for Arthur's liking. He had just then remembered the way she had called his friend a few moments ago.

Love.

Now, Arthur might not had been the brightest one in the room, even if he would never admit it, but if something was not up between those two then he had never been dead.

So lost he had been in his own thoughts he had missed what Merlin had to say about him. But whatever it was it certaninly reassured who he was, because she looked ready to explode.

"Oh, you have to tell me about Camelot, I've asked Merlin before but with his memory we honestly never get anywhere and all he can tell me is about how you would always get in trouble, or be cursed, or how your father would be cursed, or the kingdom, or..." somehow, the girl had managed to get all of that out of her sistem in just one breath before Merlin cut her off.

"Alright, that's enough kiddo, why don't you better go look for some clothes for our guest?"

"I'm literally your age, you old man!" She complained to the warlock but nevertheless got up anf started walking away.

"No you're not, and if you were, that would make you an old man!" Merlin quiped right back at her, raising his voice so he could be heard.

"Age doesn't change gender you dumbass!" at that point the girl's voice was just that, a voice, because she had completely dissapeared from sight. Two seconds passed in silence before she finished her statement "But apparently it does make you lose braincells!"

Merlin shot a nasty look at the door she had left through, but decided against continuing fighting, and instead chose to put his attention on the very confused king.

"Sooo, who was that exactly?" Finally asked Arthur after a while of sitting in silence.

In response Merlin grabbed a chair and sat in front of his friend, his eyes flashed golden for a second and tea started preparing itself while the warlock answered the question.

"She's my assistant, helps me with things around here and in exchange she lives here where it's peaceful" he explained at the same time a cup filled with chamomile tea landed gracefully in front of Arthur.

"Your assistant? You? Have an assistant?" The tone of the king's voice sounded almost mocking, but Merlin raised both his eyebrows at him and continued.

"I don't see what you find so funny you clotpole, I was tecnically your assistant back in the day".

Something about hearing Merlin speak about them as if they had happened a long time ago hurted deep inside Arthur's chest. His heart twisted into a knot when he realized that for Merlin, for his best friend, it had truly been long ago.

Truth to be told, the blonde king had woken up that day in the lake and had just felt as if no time had gone by, as if he had just slept for a few minutes, a few hours at most.

But it hadn't been like that for Merlin, if he had understood it right it had been hundred of years of loneliness for the magic boy, hundred of years of waiting, never really knowing if he would come back.

Suddenly the idea of the girl being around Merlin didn't sit so bad with him anymore, at least he wasn't completely alone, he hoped there had been other friends for Merlin before her too, people that could have helped him carry the load that waiting for his friend might have been.

[thedragonlies]

Merry Christmas Merlin fandom!

Wrapping this one up a little later than planned, but we can all use some more Merthur fluff and smut for Christmas Eve, right?

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“ballistic markings are like the fingerprints of a gun”

[planet-poptropica]

⋆ Happy Holidays and Happy New Years to all! I finally finished this art piece that took me a couple of months to finish- But it's done! ⋆

⋆ I thought it was ABOUT TIME I drew my favorite old goobers on their special day. Space themed and all. ⋆

⋆ Totally normal wedding, definitely not disguised as their return to villainy- nope. ⋆

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btw i hope you guys like whimsical old wizard guys

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Title: For Worse or For Better

Author: anna_zee

Rating: Teen and up Audiences

Summary: Merthur The Proposal au.

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Merlin

He's great at any type of magic and well if you were expecting computer magic......yeah kinda, he's usaully great when working with Genie and some people ask if they were in a relationship but Merline denied those claims......unless?

[thegoodviolinist]

HELP MERLIN FANDOM

Im looking for this fic! It was on Ao3 and its was a Merlin and Gwen friendship fic. Some scenes are where Gwen and Merlin hide under a table because she broke her heel. Another where Gwen keeps buying Merlin shit. And where Arthur finds out about Merlins magic and Gwen rushes in and says that she had Merlin use the magic. It was a part of this series where Arthur keeps having to deal with Merlin and a bunch if character who are friends/together with Merlin. One fic was about Gwen. One about Freya. Others include Balinor, Will, and Aithusa. Please! They were so good!!

[pastaparade]

Guillermo is just Nandor’s Merlin

[epic-sorcerer]

This one time I was talking to soemone about how abled fandom can really bend over backwards headcanoning characters as neurotypical. And I brought up how a character in a show I watched can’t dress themselves without assistance and is still seen as “normal” by a lot of people.

And they laughed.

Hard

[itzy-bitsy-spidey]

Merlin's assistant

Pt.3 Comfy clothes

Merlin BBC x reader

Arthur had been given a 'hoodie'. It was a red one and apparently it belonged to Merlin.

He didn't mean to judge but the name certainly confused him. Sure, it did have a hood on it, but it gave him the impression of a shirt with a hood. Yeah, that's what it should be called, shirt with a hood, gosh, he was such a genius.

Except he was in fact wearing it on top of a shirt. So it couldn't be considered a shirt. Arthur felt confused.

"Do you think we should say something?" The girl questioned the warlock once the king hadn't said anything in more than five minutes.

"No, let him be, I'm afraid we might break the universe if we stop his line of thought now that he is finally thinking"

The girl chuckled and returned to the task at hand, which happened to be preparing dinner for all three of them, while Merlin just read a book and glanced at Arthur every once and then to make sure he was okay.

He was happy to say the very least, it felt as if a bunch of stars had exploded in his chest and he had been filled with their warmth. If he could he would have hugged his friend for the entire day, but that would have been weird and most likely uncomfortable.

He also wouldn't hear the end of it from his assistant.

***

Dinner had been awkward for the most part, and very silent as well. Except for the small compliment regarding the food no other words had been exchanged.

And now Arthur was fast asleep in a bed in the guest room while Merlin washed the dishes in the kitchen with his magic.

Kiddo (that was his official nickname for her now) had left at some point, off to an unknown place and not to be back till morning, it was what she usually did, he never really understood when exactly she slept but she seemed rested enough.

It was a calm night, the wind played with the bells on the front door and everybody slept.

Well, everybody but the young assistant and the figure emerging from the lake.

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You don’t actually understand the friendship between Leon and Merlin is actually so important to me.

That’s Leon’s best friend-in-law. Leon sees Merlin and at first he’s like, “okay, he seems like he’s bad at the job, but he did save Arthur’s life” and season after season it starts to shift until Leon is in full, “If Merlin dies Arthur will never recover” type thinking. He protects him, laughs with him, makes fun of him, assists without being asked, becomes a better knight, and would probably genuinely break the law for him.

The whole point of Merlin is that he isn’t ever seen for what he is truly worth, but I really believe that’s just in his head. His friends love him so so deeply and have always seen him as someone worth not only protecting but following. And they believe that well before knowing of his power.

[authorindistress]

Sometimes I think the biggest tragedy of Merlin ending when it did is the inability for us to see the final growth of both Arthur and Merlin.

I.e. There is the obvious growth of Arthur actually making changes personally and politically regarding the acceptance of magic

BUT

There was also an opportunity for Arthur to push Merlin towards stepping into a leadership role and fulfilling more of his potential, which would have been so fun.

Imagine…

Druid: And good day to you, my king. Thank you for the audience. I will return to you if we have anymore trouble!

Arthur: Of course. I’m glad I could be of assistance.

*silence as the druid leaves*

Arthur: wtf was that?

Merlin: ??? I thought he was nice-

Arthur: No, you. Did you not know anything about what he was talking about?

Merlin: ….no. Why would I?

Arthur: BECAUSE IT IS YOUR JOB?!

Merlin: Nah. Your job. my job is protecting you.

Arthur: Incorrect. Sit down. We are spending the next hour discussing trade policies bc apparently as my servant you paid zero attention to what I did on the daily.

Merlin: you do things?

Arthur: I’m going to make you read legal documents until you cry. You convinced me to legalize magic, now you get to deal with part of the workload.

Merlin: but-

Arthur: two sides of the same coin, bitch.

[dollopole]

Let’s take into consideration:

Arthur would rather waste precious time before an important council meeting to run around the entire castle and search for Merlin, who, in his very honest opinion is the worst servant of the entire kingdom or that he had ever known, than to call literally anyone else to help him dress (as if there wouldn’t be anyone ready to assist Arthur, their king, with clothes);

Arthur, and therefore Agravaine (which makes it all the more hilarious) knows every single place where Merlin could be, at that precise moment, or during that day in general; (EDIT: As someone pointed out in the comments, everyone and Agravaine included knows who is the “dollophead”)

The guards nod to Agravaine without asking anything, which only means that it is canon that everyone in Camelot knows Merlin by name; EDIT: It also means that the guards deal with this on a daily basis. They must be tired.

The aforementioned point implies that everyone knows how Merlin looks like, that also means Merlin is known to never leave Arthur’s side, even during council meetings;

Arthur is running around the castle in what today we would call a pyjama, just because Merlin didn’t wake him up with, “Rise and Shine”. And he’s barefoot. That’s right. The king of Camelot, everyone, has just walked barefoot in Merlin’s chambers, in the armoury, where other knights probably are, and in the bloody stables (yes, the ones where the horses and their dungs both are), without boots on, just to look for Merlin;

Arthur is more distressed in this scene than in the one where Morgana declares war in season five. He’s fretting like a mother hen. Not only he is without breath, which means he was just coming back from his checking around, but he is red in the face and almost yelling in desperation. “Does he expect me to dress myself?!” Because apparently, Arthur literally cannot do anything without Merlin by his side. The way he says, “No sign of him” to Agravaine is so endearing, and he shouldn’t be this adorable. Unfair, Arthur. Really unfair.

Arthur just yells, (and distressingly looks around) in hope that Merlin will come back to him, because he always does. *sounds of my heart breaking into millions of pieces*

And last but not least, Arthur shouts, “Last night!”, which means the actual reason he’s going around searching for Merlin, it’s because he’s worried his world will end without his quirky and clumsy servant by his side (and the love of his life). Merlin is currently out on a quest with Gwaine to look for Gaius, since he has been kidnapped, but the problem is that Arthur doesn’t know this. What he knows is that he has fought with Merlin the day before about Gaius in the council chambers, and believes Merlin is gone for good, this time, and solely for the fight they had. Arthur feels more than guilty that he can’t make it up to his best friend, the love of his life (Agravaine helped Morgana kidnap Gaius, and it explains the ending of the scene, where he understands where Merlin is.) Now Arthur is worried that his last words to Merlin were harsh. He had last seen him when he was done with his duties the night before, and then Merlin disappeared.

No wonder they deleted this scene.