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   Polished Armor, Quiet Rituals, Sacred Dark by CaughtInTheRa1n

   Fandoms: Merlin (TV)  

   • General Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen, M/M
   • Complete Work

   31 May 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
   • Merlin & Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
   • Merlin (Merlin)
   • Arthur Pendragon (Merlin)
   • Angst
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Post-Canon
   • Hopeful Ending
   • Hope
   • Sad Merlin (Merlin)
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • but not much comfort
   • Post-Battle of Camlann (Merlin)
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Past Character Death
   • Once and Future King
   • Merlin Needs a Hug (Merlin)
   • Hurt Merlin (Merlin)
   • Implied/Referenced Character Death
   • Gratuitous Descriptions of Armor
   • Armor
   • Fate & Destiny
   • I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping
   • Merlin Waiting for Arthur Pendragon's Return (Merlin)
   • Catharsis
   • Tragedy
   • Love

   Summary

   Merlin had dressed Arthur every day for a lifetime. It was a universal truth, no matter the mission: if Arthur wasn’t ready, Merlin would make sure he was.

   But Merlin never talks about the way the armor had felt when he touched it for the last time.

   A little oneshot about Merlin's grief Post-Camlann. Can be read as Merthur or gen.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   999

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   6

   Kudos:

   31

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