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Merlin has lived a hundred lives. A healer. A chef. An architect. A man lost in the quiet rhythm of the world.
In the year 2025, he works at a small art museum, curating an exhibit of Arthurian legends. The paintings unsigned, half-forgotten are more than historical curiosities. They are memories. His own. Each brushstroke a thread tied to a man he can’t afford to forget.
But even memory fades. After fifteen centuries of waiting, Merlin’s grasp on the past begins to blur until a stranger walks in. A young man with familiar eyes.
But the question was, was it really Arthur returned ? Or just another echo — a face that haunts every lifetime?
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the weight of time by Knight_of_Tartarus
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Sherlock (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Teen Wolf (TV)
15 Nov 2025
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“So… he really is the Merlin?” Tony asked before Sherlock could continue.
Sherlock rolled his eyes. “Yes, Stark. Do keep up.”
“But he’s your brother?” Sam frowned.
The sigh that left Sherlock was long and exasperated. “He’s adopted, obviously. It took me a moment to realize it myself, so I don’t blame your simpler minds for the delay.” He clasped his hands behind his back, pacing slowly. “But once you know the facts, it’s quite simple. How do you best hide as an immortal man?” He pauses and then sighs, like he’s disappointed in them. “By not being one.”OR: Merlin waited centuries for Arthur’s return. But when the time finally comes, he realizes he isn’t ready. Dragged into a crisis by a brother he believes hates him, Merlin is left scrambling for steady ground and his memories aren’t what they used to be.
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- Part 1 of The Third Holmes
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What if Merlin's father knew about Hunith's pregnancy before he left? What if he didn't leave? What if Merlin was raised by the druids and he knew about he destiny for years before he arrived to Camelot?
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For a split second that lasts eons, Arthur exists in that horribly weightless space before gravity conquers, and then he's falling. Distantly, he hears Merlin cry out his name in panic, and then he’s bracing himself for impact.
An impact that never comes.
Silently hoping, begging, for anything but what he knows he’s about to see, Arthur turns his head to look.
And sees Merlin, hand outstretched, and eyes ablaze with gold.
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Faced with the revelation of Merlin's secret and a sudden internal war between duty and sentiment, Arthur must make a decision that will affect both of their fates. And when Merlin is gravely injured, the time to make that decision rapidly dwindles. Arthur must quickly choose what matters most: the demands of the law, or those of his heart.
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The Old Religion (don't let it find me) by waxcloth_din for JamieLaNelle
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
13 Nov 2025
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After an accident, Merlin's injuries render him almost completely blind. He decides to move back home. This goes about as well as one might think.
(Enter, Arthur Pendragon.)
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When the war ends, Arthur finally captures Emrys — the sorcerer who burned Camelot and shattered the life they once shared.
Merlin is chained, starved, and defiant; Arthur is haunted, furious, and unable to decide whether he wants answers or revenge.
Between threats and silences, the past claws its way back.
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Merlin has been wandering for centuries. Waiting for the exact, unknown time that Arthur shall rise again.
He becomes a lady of King Henry VIII.
He meets Robin Hood and they share a fondness that once reminded him of a certain Prince.
He bumps into Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, more times than he would like, dying a different death each time.
But he always comes back.
He falls in love and, in turn, becomes a father, a grandfather, and a lonely old man still waiting, waiting, waiting.But this is Matty's story - Merlin's granddaughter. And the ghost of Arthur follows her everywhere.
This fic is completed, so don't worry about me not updating it. All in due time :)
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In all Merlin’s long years of waiting, he never thought he’d re-meet Arthur in North America taming the Wild West. Let alone with everyone else from his past along for the ride.
And he’s stuck as a horse.
This is going be problematic isn’t it.Or
Merlin in a Wild West AU because I can.
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- Part 4 of The Ark of Merlin
- Part 1 of The Drafty Crypt
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"Wooden wheels creaked over the barren earth."
When Merlin is kidnapped on his way to a druid camp, he is at the mercy of the elements as a new villain subjects him a new deadly truth serum.As the rest of the knights rush to his rescue, will they make it on time?
Or will blood loss along the bitter cold catch up to the Court Sorcerer?
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To leave Leon would be to cut a thread with which Merlin had been weaving a tapestry. In cutting it, in completing it, they would be left with a stunning piece of craftsmanship, but they would no longer be the working thread with which the beauty was made.
When the Camelot that they knew falls, Leon and Merlin part ways. A decade on, an arrangement is made to meet each year when the leaves change colour. As the world around them begins to alter, they both find themselves grasping for a familiar face. Immortality may skew the perception of time, but even they can't keep one another at arm's length forever.
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Another time by HadrianPeverellBlack
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Merlin (TV)
11 Nov 2025
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Merlin knew he wasn't okay.
How could he? He'd just watched his partner die, and he'd realized he'd lost him. Forever, this time.
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- Part 36 of Merlin Bingo 2025
- Part 32 of Merlin & Percy adventures
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"Merlin can’t relax without air and thinks Arthur Pendragon might be the biggest idiot in Albion at that moment. He shakes his head again, making sure to glare at Arthur as well, because it is the only way he knows how to communicate that it simply isn't possible to relax since he can’t breathe and everything hurts too much..."
Arthur helps Merlin through a difficult moment in a very unexpected way.
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Arthur catalogues things he notices about Merlin. It's second nature for him, alright? But, even Arthur can admit that he perhaps is too familiar with what Merlin's expressions mean.
one-shot where Arthur begrudgingly realizes he has feelings for Merlin.
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Arthur has had it! He’s done with Merlin and his stupid self-sacrificing, self-sabotaging bullshit! After a dramatic reveal, and an even more terrifying injury, Merlin finds himself struggling to let his body heal. Enter Arthur who is determined to make sure his new lover gets some proper rest.
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- Part 30 of Would You?
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A gentle hand rested on his shoulder. Merlin turned his head to see Lancelot smile softly at him before addressing the Cailleach.
“I will go.” Lancelot stood, gazing unflinchingly into the portal of light. Merlin’s heart stopped cold as he watched Lance take a step towards his death.
“No!” His eyes flared gold...
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Lancelot didn't die on the Isle of Blessed, but it was at the cost of Merlin's secrets. How will Arthur and the Knight's react when magic is revealed so close to the heart of the Kingdom and the heart of their King?
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After rescuing Merlin from Morgana's fortress in Ismere, Lancelot and Merlin find themselves stranded in the wilderness, and are forced to confront their feelings.
Or: homoeroticism on ice!
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Once keepers of balance between light and shadow, the Brotherhood of the Hollow Flame stood as guardians of all magic born of dragon flame.
But when the last dragons began to die, they tried to take that power to preserve it — and were cursed instead.
What became of the order is uncertain.
Some writings say the curse hollowed them from within, leaving them forever hunting for the fire they lost. Others claim it bound them to the dragons’ dying breath, turning their blood dark and restless.Since then, the Brotherhood has withered into a scattered order, haunted by the hollowing the curse left behind.
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An ancient order — the Brotherhood of the Hollow Flame — has begun to stir, drawn to the spark in Merlin’s blood.
And when Arthur finally discovers what Merlin is, neither of them can go back…
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This letter was written by Merlin after Arthur’s death as a confession of his true feelings towards the late Arthur Pendragon.
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It is Yuletide in Camelot. On the eve before Yule, Arthur and Merlin profess their love. Then Arthur finds out about Merlin's magic and his years of deception. He is furious until the spirits of Yuletide come to him and show him the full truth about Merlin. There is some anger and angst along the way, but an eventual happy ending makes for a satisfying holiday story. This tale is, of course, inspired by Dickens' timeless Christmas story: "A Christmas Carol."
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3 unconnected stories based on the Scottish prayer: From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
Part 1: Gwen investigates a haunted house. Part 2: On a University field trip, Merlin may or may not have been drugged to summon a monster unaware. Part 3: Merlin's younger brother Mordred is cursed with an equal and opposite destiny; what will be the cost of deflecting it?