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Arthur returns but Merlin finds he can no longer understand him.
“You can't understand me, so I will say this-”
“I’m sorry I couldn't stay the same.”
“If I was afforded the choice, Merlin, if there were only one thing left of my kingdom, one soul, it would be you.”
“I've lived so long, I've lived too long.”
“So please.”
“You deserve someone who could’ve held on for you.”
“I need you to understand.”Can be read as romantic or platonic
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16 Jul 2025
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When Merlin's clumsiness gets out of hand, Merlin reaches out to Lancelot for help. He's a bit skeptical, however, when Lancelot's solution turns out to be teaching him and his two left feet how to dance.
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- Part 2 of Mini Mercelot Week 2021
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16 Jul 2025
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Lancelot decides Merlin deserves a nice long break from all things Camelot. It's just a bonus that their time on the road provides the perfect chance to sort out his complicated feelings toward the warlock.
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- Part 4 of Mini Mercelot Week 2021
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16 Jul 2025
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Merlin’s back to bustling about, unfolding the bedrolls, checking to see what’s dry and what needs hanging. He starts making up a bed near the fireplace.
One bed.
At Lancelot’s askance look, he shrugs. “It’ll be warmest this way. Gwaine’s clothes are all wet. You don’t want him to freeze, do you?”
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14 Jul 2025
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Merlin, in all his wisdom and inability to read the proper signs - or the proper want ads - has signed himself up as a student.
In high school.
He's sixteen hundred years old. He should not have to put up with this shit.
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- Part 1 of Too Old for This Shit
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12 Jul 2025
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"Her name is Aithusa," Merlin says with certainty, and Arthur looks at him like he's rethinking this whole friendship thing.
The baby crocodile scuttles toward them, and snaps her tiny jaws.
_____"Sorry," Arthur says, "I've no idea who you are, but Martin Emerson's Crazy Friends' Society meets every weekend. Bring your own reptile."
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In which Merlin is foolish, and it is a good thing that Arthur went to the trouble of learning how to safely snatch a bird out of the air.
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- Part 3 of Fate Will Force your Hand
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12 Jul 2025
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Aithusa can sense her egg-father as a steady presence in the back of her mind, even when he's not with her. His dreams and thoughts blur together with hers, until she wakes from nightmares of a pyre burning and feels his pain mingle with hers.
It’s how she knows to go to him when he’s lost, stumbling through the forest and close to death from a mace wound to his chest.
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- Part 1 of wanting was never enough
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11 Jul 2025
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Out of instinct honed by a decade of battle and split-second decisions, Arthur whirls around, and is promptly faced with the sight of Merlin—Merlin, who trips over about ten things an hour and cannot lie to save his life and has proven his loyalty to Arthur in a thousand different ways—thrusting the ceremonial sword towards Arthur’s chest.
The very air seems to have stilled.
Or: Merlin tries to kill Arthur, courtesy of the Fomorrah, and this time, Gwen and Gaius don't get to Merlin soon enough to knock him out.
[written for whumptober day 5: betrayal | misunderstanding | broken nose]
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11 Jul 2025
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De-aged!Merlin, Caring!Arthur, Caring!Knights, Reveal!Fic. If that doesn't say it all, Merlin is turned into a child by ex-druids bent on raising "Emrys" to be their weapon to free magic. Plot is actually just an excuse to write Merlin-as-a-kid fluff. SPOILERS for S4. Set during S4, after episode #whatever, when Elyan is ... you know. This is one I wrote way back in 2012 and have finally migrated it over to this archive in case you recognize it. That's also why it's being posted all in one go. If you haven't read this, I hope you enjoy!
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09 Jul 2025
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The Threads Of Fate Tangle And Twist by Misthios
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
07 Dec 2024
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“About that,” Vi says. “How’d you end up here? What did a girl like you do to get tossed into this two-star shithole?”
“Really? That’s how you ask? No subtlety in it?”
“Uh, yeah? I saved you from getting shanked in the shower, so fair’s fair. What’s your deal, topside?”
“Caitlyn,” she says. That isn’t right. That wasn’t the answer Vi was after. Names are easily given away but so seldomly remembered in Stillwater, but it echoes in Vi’s head. She almost doesn’t hear the actual answer. “And though I have no doubt a thousand people have given this answer before, I did nothing. I was doing my job, and then I was here. No trial. No sentencing. No crime to speak of.”
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Half a decade into Vi's stay in Stillwater, a topsider turns up, raving about being a Councillor's daughter.
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05 Jul 2025
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Vi raises an eyebrow. “The one time I leave, and now I’m missing an entire chunk of the narrative, huh.”
Caitlyn can’t help but laugh. “We just had a… hair braiding session.”
“Fill me in on the details. Right now.”
Jinx answers for her. “Well, you see, your girlfriend over here needed something to spice up the lame hair she’s always got, so I braided it for her.”
Vi shoots Caitlyn a questioning look.
“What she said,” Caitlyn enforces.
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04 Jul 2025
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Valkyrie by musicofthespheres for SeeMaree
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jul 2025
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Upon rescuing some young colonists from their corporate overlords, Murderbot gets compared to a Valkyrie from a show it watched once. It doesn't see the resemblance.
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02 Jul 2025
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Merlin learns to time travel, and time itself decides to cause problems. (Or solve problems? Only time will tell…)
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30 Jun 2025
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Arthur just wants to sleep in.
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29 Jun 2025
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In which Arthur tries to teach Merlin that the word "hypothetical" does not mean what Merlin thinks it means.
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29 Jun 2025
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Merlin messes up, again, and Arthur decides he needs to be punished this time. So, he pairs him up with George for a day.
Neither Merlin nor George is particularly happy about it. At first.
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27 Jun 2025
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“Uh, I sleep in my room, I guess?” He said around a scoop of mushed up something with cinnamon in it, a good spice for a poor hunk of mystery. “You know, in the basement.”
Armin blinked slowly. Wait. So he’d been right…no, wrong. Because he’d reassured himself that that wasn’t and couldn’t be the case.
Jean dropped his spoon hand, deadpanning, “You mean the dungeon?”
“What? No—” Eren defended almost instinctively at hearing Jean’s voice, before his eyes shifted over to Mikasa, unsure. “I mean, I wouldn’t call it that. It’s not like the Captain chains me up anymore.”
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Or, Armin realizes Eren still sleeps on a cot in the dungeon of what became the Scout Special Operations headquarters. He petitions to get the Savior of the Walls a real bed.
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26 Jun 2025
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"There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear."
Eren Yeager, or Mr Kruger, as he's now known as, will soon destroy Liberio.
Falco Grice, unaware, confides in him about his grim home life.
Eren knows he shouldn't care - yet he does: haunted by what he must do yet conflicted by what he wants.
In this cruel world, how much space is there left for generosity?- Language:
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25 Jun 2025
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"And maybe it’s just because Kruger looks so fragile all the time, sitting on his bench, grasping at his crutch, remaining eye hidden behind slightly greasy hair, but Falco wanted to be the one to give the man this one comfort. That’s what you were supposed to do with traumatized people, right? Make them as comfortable as possible? Falco would simply be helping a veteran cope after battle."
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young boy looks at emotionally dead man, only sees kicked puppy
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25 Jun 2025
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In the winter following the reclamation of Wall Maria, the New Levi Squad is sent on a mission to restock an old outpost up north, and as a result of the close quarters, impatience rises up among the group. On a completely unrelated note, Eren keeps slipping further and further from his squad. Both of these problems are struck head-on by a reindeer that decides to latch on to Eren out in the cold. Levi is not a fan.
Prompt 1: rescuing a reindeer
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- Part 1 of Winter Prompt Fics
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24 Jun 2025