#they’re insane. imagine how i felt when bbc merlin was all ‘she is the darkness to your light and the hatred to your love’ like. literally.

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tell me about ouat's merlin <33 I know he's hot and a cunt but is there anything else going on there...

he is SO. i know i say this about every random once upon a time character whether they were in a hundred episodes or just one, but he is literally my close friend…. he is the reason i never wanted to see bbc merlin before this year (cassandra clare’s fault she broke me) and he is the reason season 5 is sooooo slay serve cunt pussy etc. basically his deal is that he was literally just some random dude in a desert somewhere (and it’s like are we meant to assume that desert became camelot? via merlin’s magic? we see him turn sand into grass and then we cut to him in the place that would eventually became camelot. is once upon a time implying that england was once a desert. i love this show) and he stumbles upon the holy grail and drinks from it and becomes an immortal sorcerer. and then some unidentified amount of time later he meets nimue (my best friend. she’s the most character of all time. she became evil because she was a feminist. like honestly work) and they fell in love (pre-her turning evil. one could say he turned her evil by being a kind of annoying boyfriend. i won’t say that. but. like i mean he was a little annoying and then she did turn evil so) and he wanted to cut away his immortality to be with her for one single lifetime and she wanted to become immortal and be with him forever (which. slay) and they came up with this insane convoluted plan to turn the holy grail into a sword that would be able to magically cut away merlin’s magic and immortality (in essence cut away his fate, which is something ouat did the very next season when they introduced the shears of destiny, and thinking about this specific thing further will cause my brain to hemorrhage so). BUT. before they could do that nimue secretly also drank from the holy grail and became immortal (which. the show literally says when it’s introduced that the “gods” (idk who the Gods are supposed to be within this show’s mythology. the greek ones ig given the rest of season five)(bizarre to imply that the greek gods created merlin via the holy grail. i love television!) choose who gets to drink from the grail and who gets its gifts and if you’re not Worthy you die. so clearly nimue was like. cosmically meant to live as merlin’s dark counterweight forever. which makes me feel insane sorry i haven’t even finished explaining the backstory) anyway so she does this and then what happens is hard to explain but she uses her magic to kill someone, and as per the ouat mythology, that makes her Dark, and she becomes the first Dark One. and merlin takes the holy grail sword (excalibur) and breaks it in half and makes the tip of it into a dagger that her soul is magically bound to and it lets him control her and stop her from i guess generally wreaking havoc and the like

AND THEN. she gets the dagger back and she turns him into a tree for like 300 years or something before our girl emma eventually gets him out. which like. totally insane that nimue as the first dark one was the one that trapped him and emma as the last dark one freed him. what if we were cosmically bound together and only you could hurt me and only you could save me. haha. 😐😐😐😐. and then he died because hook (as a dark one. meaning he was using nimue’s power, because all the dark ones magic comes from her)(quick explainer the dark one can only be one person at a time they have to kill the previous one to become the next one it’s a whole thing. emma however is a weird special case and her and hook were the dark ones at the same time and also they didn’t die) crushed his heart. (he’s not dead tho no matter what the show wanted me to think. he was just taking a little break from like. life. he’s out there tho. ESPECIALLY when you remember that the dark one power still exists meaning nimue still exists and her power doesn’t exist without him because they’re linked. whatever. he’s out there the writers just forgot to bring him back because they ran out of time and they had to do other stuff. like aladddin <3 and the count of monte cristo for some reason. and fucked up hansel and gretel)

anyway his whole deal was built up so much in season four with the introduction of the Sorcerer being some all powerful guy who no one has ever met except presumably his apprentice who was this old man that ana from frozen accidentally turned into a rat one time it was a whole thing. anyway they spent season four being all ohhhh The Sorcerer…. he’s sooo powerful…. he created the Book and he chooses The Author….. and then season five comes around and it’s just some cunt who got turned into a tree because he was such a simp for his evil fiancée. and he’s a deadbeat pseudo father figure. and he’s my friend <3