#merthur au

[reggieslocket]

happy 15th anniversary to the gayest first episode in the history of cinema everyone!!

[emberheartbeat]

Them basically

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[papysanzonew]

Head canon: Merlin knows that a strange (handsome) guy is trying to kidnap him for reasons and he simply goes with it. He writes a letter to his parents “hey mum, dad, I met this guy and he is REALLY handsome. I decided to go on adventures with him and maybe I’ll marry him. See you soon, love you, bye~❤️”

My other Merlin art

[inamagicalhallucination]

merlin and arthur should have planned on getting married for a really dumb and random reason and then realized that they were in love with each other on their wedding day

lemme explain

arthur is sick and tired of people throwing themselves at him while he’s trying to do his kingly duties

and also he’s sick and tired of his advisers talking about how he should marry

and he wishes he could get rid of all of this

and then he’s like “oh my fucking god im a genius”

and he goes to merlin and is like “will you marry me to get all these suitors off my back”

and merlins like ????

but then he’s like “wait itll be so much easier to do all the illegal shit i do if i don’t have to say ‘actually i have a permit to do whatever the fuck i want curtesy of king arthur’ and have them doubt me and try and get me jailed anyway and can just be like “um the king MY HUSBAND said i could”

and he’s like “yeah sure lets get married”

so they announce it to everyone and literally no one’s surprised surprised

most of them are like omg finally 

leon thinks that he’ll finally get a moment of peace now that these two arent pining

he’s wrong

no but everyones like omg called it

because merthurs so obvious

to everyone but merthur ofc

and merlin adn arthur plan their wedding and to make it “authentic” looking they both try their best 

and they go through the whole thing; they stay married

and then like 3 months in theyre like “wait our marriage as besties is turning really romantic” and confess

like it takes them a wedding, and spending months as a married couple to like realize

anyway i think its funny

[ollyrewind]

ah yes, arthur and merlin, horror junkies

[cinnabon-sweetroll-tiramisu]

I think we all need to conjure the image of Merlin sitting on Arthur's lap whenever a princess/noblewomen comes along to woo Arthur. The mighty warrior, killer of bandit losers, sword twirly hand gesture guy, Crown Prince of Camelot just straight up panics and his natural reaction is to pull Merlin onto his lap and say he's gay for his manservant or throws Merlin over his shoulder and runs away, far away from the beautiful women.

My boi Merlin however wonders why Arthur doesn't just court someone already and stop trying to get him in trouble with Uther or his Uncle Gaius who keeps his fluffy caterpillar eyebrow in constant doom mode; Merlin is not in the mood to deal Arthur's romantic inability nonsense and people thinking he and Arthur are together when they're obviously not.

Seriously they're not together...they both protest loudly as Arthur holds a pantless manservant wearing a loose and very familiar red tunic whilst the prince himself is shirtless and the laces on his breeches are untied.

Definitely not fucking together.

[samwinjester]

Merlin & Arthur | Someone You Loved

Hey guys! 🌟

Dedicated to @imagine-dragonlords @godmerlin and @atdawn for hooking me up with the modern scenes (which I needed for something else. This was me just messing around.)

Honestly am not sure what this even is, but I hope you enjoy the video!💖✨

"Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi

Now the day bleeds

Into nightfall

And you're not here

To get me through it all

I let my guard down

And then you pulled the rug

I was getting kinda used to being someone you loved

[pandalikeelf]

would that i by hozier

[mysticsublimeperson]

Part 1 >>

Merlin was disappointed, but mostly at himself. He always knew that Arthur would never actually be in a relationship with him, he will humor Merlin sure, he would tell people as long as they didn’t know Uther, and there weren’t risks of his father finding out, he would say that he loved Merlin but then did shit like this all the time. He would cancel plans and dates, and once even a week long trip that they had planned in favor of his father, and his company. Sometimes he would even cancel Merlin to have a date with one of the girls that Uther threw his way.

Usually it didn’t bother him that much, of course it hurt but he had known Arthur for most of their lives, they had been friends before… whatever they were now, he had always been like this and Merlin had always permitted it. He guess he never thought about asking for a change before, so that’s also his fault.

But he had been trying, it was sad enough when Arthur missed his birthday dinner Merlin had cooked, because his father had booked a flight to France, but he could understand it, it was his birthday, it was normal to spend it with one’s family. He made a point to tell him, tell him he was sad about this stuff, tell him when a plan was important to him, tell him when his words were too harsh or hurtful. It usually didn’t stick, they were to used to say shit jokingly but a few things he did, and he’ll try his best to keep his promises unless Uther was in the picture.

He knew the situation with his father was tense at best, Arthur had always fought for his approval, and, aware or not, that was still his primary concern. He knew he had no right to get between their relationship, and knew he would be losing that battle before it began. He didn’t doubt Arthur’s feelings for him, but he could not help but doubt whether they were worth fighting for in his mind. In the end Merlin had always been there, he had always been prone to forgiveness, because he cared for Arthur above all, in the moment he didn’t really notice but in retrospect he really didn’t put much of a fight.

But he had done it this time. He had made sure his voice was heard. He had said that this night was important to him, he had made sure to tell him to save the date in advance and to explain several times what this night was about and what was important to him. He made sure Arthur knew the date, the time, the place, the dress code and the reason.

Merlin was excited.

His organization and research were going to be awarded, and if it all went well he may end the night with the funding necessary to keep the NGO going and even maybe expand some projects.

But then Arthur had wrote, “my father is in town” and then a couple of minutes later “sorry”

When Uther was in town, that meant that night he had to have a dinner with his children, a boring and stuffy dinner in a top restaurant to expensive for Merlin to even look at, and sometime he invited the daughters of some friend of his just for them to get to know each other.

He breathed slowly, looking at the message, here in front of the theater where the Gala was going to take place, dressed up all fancy. Trying to decide how to convey in a text message all the things that he was feeling.

He was going to be awarded, celebrated god damn it. It was unfair, it was terribly unfair for Arthur to do this just before the Gala, he was supposed to be happy and now he only wanted to go home.

He had wanted to share this moment with him and maybe He had also hoped to show off a little, Arthur was a very important person by definition. Maybe he had wanted to show Arthur that Merlin also had value.

But none of that mattered now.

He had gone to the Gala, alone. Regretting the moment he decided to invite Arthur instead of Gwen, he had put a smile on his face and turned off his phone, he had drunk Champagne and eating those mini tart of savory food with strange textures and tried to enjoy the evening with his colleagues. He had gone up the stage a grand total of three times, one to present, the other two to receive the great honor that were those awards. He had smiled, and changed the speech on the go to not mention “one special more than a friend” he had answered the questions of the reporters and declined the offer of his colleagues to extend the evening.

And now he was there. In a bench in a park eating a Kebap in a too-fancy-for-this place suit, next to a fancy bag, which contained two fancy boxes of two really important awards, while questioning his relationship.

He had seen cases like this all the time, he dedicated his life to help people in this kinds of situations, more or less, his relationship wasn’t dangerous of violent, and he was very much independent but the root of the problem was the same. The relationship was destined for failure.

They clearly wanted different things.

They had different ideologies, and priorities.

It was a disaster waiting to happen.

But it hurts so much.

He was freezing, but he still ordered another Kebap, he hadn’t been able to eat because of the nerves all day and it was catching with him.

He needed to make a decision.

He couldn’t keep going like this.

This was supposed to be a happy night.

He walked up to his flat, quietly thinking to find Arthur sitting in front of his door.

“Where were you?” Arthur accused upon seen him.

Merlin let his eyebrows go up. Trying to remember that it was early in the morning, and his neighbors were sleeping.

“Shit, sorry… it’s just… I been calling you and…”

“Get away from the door Arthur” he let the voice come out angry but he didn’t really want to talk right now.

“Of course, yeah, sorry” If this were any other situation, Merlin would had joked about the fact that Arthur never tended to say sorry, but right now that made him rather sad.

He opened the door and walked inside, and blocked the way when Arthur tried to do the same, just letting his tired expression do the job, he was way too tired and he had eaten two Kebap in a shop open at 2 am, and was starting to regret it.

“Merlin, I… Look I know today… I am sorry Merlin, it was a shit show at work, and my father came at the worst possible moment and…” he said trying to coax his way into the flat, but Merlin didn’t move “Can I enter? I think we need to talk… I need to apologize properly and explain my self and…”

“No” he stoped the Arthur’s babbling “It’s been a rather long day, and I want to rest” his voice was maybe a bit too loud and hard “and I don’t wanna talk right now” he added honestly.

“Ok.. yeah, I understand” he clearly didn’t, but at least was trying to or having a stroke, either way not Merlin problem right now. “Can I..?”

“Go home Arthur” Merlin stopped Arthur again.

“I hoped this was it” Arthur said sharp. And Merlin didn’t have the fight to shout all the shit he wanted to say.

“Not while your father is in town”

Merlin closed the door. He stunned Arthur enough to do it without a fight. And he could only hope that he had the common decency to not bring his door down at four in the morning. He had wanted to do a lot, but he was way to tired, physically and emotionally so he just laid off the bed and slept.

[gldnstrngs]

considering writing a modern!merthur fic where arthur is the prince and goes to eton, which is where merlin also goes as a scholarship student and they dont get along at ALL bc arthur is a prat and merlin doesnt tolerate that like ever lol

but arthur def has feelings for merlin because hes one of the few people who isnt afraid to speak up to him, despite the fact that arthur is the son of the literal king of england

eventually merlin starts to reciprocate those feelings bc he realizes that arthur isnt so bad; he just needs someone to sometimes keep him in line

and around 16 yrs old they start seeing each other in secret ahd its clear that theyre very in love

once theyre 18 arthur decides he wants to come out to uther despite merlin understanding why he wouldnt want to yet, but he does so and obvs uther doesnt handle it well

but its not because uthers homophobic like he dgaf that arthurs gay but he doesnt think itll look good if the prince is gay so he forbids them from being together

so merlin and arthur are separated from each other until theyre about 21, seeing that they reunite,,, idrk where the story goes from there but basically arthur would abdicate from the throne just so he could be with merlin and that is very romantic so 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

i also have a board for this on pinterest hehe

(sorry to those who used the previous link i didnt realize it was for collaborators 🙂‍↕️ this one is js to look at the board)

[ninjatenshi]

Recently started watching bridgerton and thought… merthur?

I hope it reaches the right audience…

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[reggieslocket]

i bet that after their first fight arthur couldn't get merlin out of his head that night and he probably thought "i have to meet that dark haired guy again so tomorrow i will casually wander around the lower town's streets... just to teach him a lesson of course, not because i find him cute or anything haha" like i KNOW he left the castle the next day with the intention of finding merlin and flirt- i mean fighting him

[marcskywalker]

Wait I just thought of it.

Imagine au where after merlin confesses to his magic, at the end he was somehow able to save Arthur. They make it back to Camelot but there is some awkwardness between the two, like they've forgotten how to act around eo.

After years of hiding, Merlin is hesitant to show Arthur his magic, to make himself vulnerable to his King in that way. And Arthur takes longer to believe merlin's stories, there are more questions and double takes than there used to be.

Merlin tries to return the sigil one day, thinking that he doesn't deserve to have it since he doesn't have Arthur's full and unwavering trust any more (his words not the king's).

Arthur presses it back into his palms, "It's a gift, Merlin. You keep those."

obviously inspired by:

[papysanzonew]

Gaius shop is not doing well because it’s a small shop and Gaius can’t compare with bigger flower shops and their new “technological” way of advertising.

And here comes young Merlin, who will help his uncle with an Instagram account (⁠ﾉ⁠◕⁠ヮ⁠◕⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠*⁠.⁠✧

Obviously Arthur fell for the cutie florist (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

I don’t really wanna colour it so it will rest a semi-sketch

My other Merlin art

[inamagicalhallucination]

i love merlin fics where merlin is trying to confess his attraction to arthur but arthur thinks he's confessing his magic

merlin: i have to tell you something

arthur, who's been waiting for this, putting on his most reassuring smile: don't worry

merlin: ...what?

arthur: i already know

merlin: YOU ALREADY WHAT

arthur: i know. don't worry about it.

merlin:

merlin: so ur not... upset

arthur: merlin you are... my best friend. my closest companian - how could i be upset.

merlin:

merlin, blushing: does... does that mean that you... you...

arthur, thinking he means 'you accept me': yea

merlin, suddenly laughing and reaching forward to hug arthur: this is- this is great

arthur, pleased by merlin's happiness, hugging back a little awkwardly: :)

merlin: i understand if we have to keep it lowkey

arthur: once i'm king tho

merlin: really?

arthur: of course merlin

merlin: oh- um arthur... i was really worried you would hate me-

arthur: -i could never-

merlin: -when you found out i was in love with you

arthur: :)

arthur, confused as hell, blushing: um what

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or the opposite where merlin's confessing his magic but arthur thinks its his feelings but yea

[shad0w-ink]

I FINALLY HAD A NEW GOOD IDEA THAT I COULD GET MORE INTO

I really like this Beauty & The Beast AU so I think Im gonna go deeper into it, uh, let me know what you guys think and if you want more of this AU ?

I feel like people give Merlin way too much credit in the level-headedness department sometimes, remember this man fuckin fought the King's son even after said son told him he was the prince. So it stands to reason that Merlin would not be afraid of a giant dragon-man-thing.

Although I think this confidence comes from his magic so-

also the sorceress that turned Arthur into the (kinda)Dragon did it because 1. he be hot-headed and 2. yknow, the whole not liking magic thing

ALSO THIS AU DOES NOT HAVE THE WHOLE PRISONER THING, in fact I think Arthur is like "please leave me alone to suffer in peace" and merlin is like "first of all, suffer in peace??? second of all, I vowed to help people who needed it, and you Mr. DragonMan need some help"

anyway LET ME KNOW IF YOU GUYS WANT MORE CURSED-TO-BE-A-DRAGON(kinda)!ARTHUR AND HEALER/PHYSICIAN!MERLIN