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The Once and Future Professor by Buffoonery
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Nov 2025
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Professor Emeric Ambrose is Hogwarts' new Muggle Studies teacher. His qualifications include a deep, personal animosity towards every major author of the Arthurian legends, an unnerving ability to reason with sentient furniture, and the eyes of a man who has been tired for a very, very long time.
He's also Merlin.
All he wants is a quiet life. But with a king in a painting who won't stop giving bad advice, a magical portrait of his nemesis down the hall, and two red-headed apprentices who are determined to learn the art of "narrative chaos," Merlin is about to discover that the only thing worse than being forgotten by history is having it come back to haunt you. Literally. -
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They meet three times in a lifetime.
The first time, they are just boys in a sunlit apple orchard, a prince and a dragon, equals in a secret world of dirt and laughter that they swear to keep.
The second time, thirteen years later, they are men in a cold throne room. One is a judge, bound by his father’s brutal laws; the other is a prisoner, condemned for an act of selfless magic. To save a life, a terrible choice must be made, and a lie must be told that will shatter a memory and break a bond before it ever had the chance to form.
The last time, it is the end of everything, and a lifetime of what-ifs and unspoken words must find their meaning on the misty shores of Avalon.A story about a connection that spans an entire life, but only ever truly lives in three impossible, stolen moments.
Deeply inspired by Eileen Chang’s beautiful, devastatingly short piece, 『愛』 (Love).
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A life is not lived in grand chronicles, but in the fragments left behind. This is the story of a 1500-year love, unearthed piece by piece: a complaint about a king's appetite scribbled on a napkin, a desperate message tapped into a telegraph wire, a note left on a lover's pillow fifteen centuries too late.
It is at once a chronicle of an immortal's vigil, a history of a private haunting, and an intimate portrait of the golden age of Camelot. It is a quiet testament to a love that was never recorded in the history books, but was written in the margins of the world itself. -
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Merlin enchants Arthur's armor to protect him—it works a bit too well.
(I’m making this up as we go. No promises. Just crack.)