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Arthur's biggest problem to date, Merlin thinks darkly as he carries yet another load of suspiciously not-really-dirty clothing down the stairs, is an unaccountable fear of anyone, anywhere, suspecting he's capable of being other than a complete and utter prat.
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01 Dec 2025
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It's easy, holding himself back. Arthur's the guy who's got a new girl on his arm every other week, the sort of guy who groans and covers his eyes and objects loudly should he be witness to even the briefest glimpse of male nudity in a TV show or movie. It makes it easy for Merlin, knowing he's straight, knowing there's no chance.
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29 Nov 2025
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The first time it happens, Arthur does it in front of all their friends.
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21 Nov 2025
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"Did you know, Merlin, that you have the most distracting mouth in all the five kingdoms?"
A clatter sounds through the room—Arthur's half-polished hauberk falling to the stone floor—and Merlin squawks, "I have what?"
"And not just because of the nonstop prattle that's always coming out of it," Arthur grouses. "It's just too goddamn pretty. Incompetent manservants are not supposed to have pretty mouths, I'm quite sure there's a rule against it."
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20 Nov 2025
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Right way of Chiding your manservant by Merlioske for Flight_of_Fantasy
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
26 Jun 2022
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Arthur Attempts to chide Merlin. Again.
Merlin Does Not Approve.or
Merlin's tired of Arthur's nagging. And horny. Nagging Arthur is strangely hot, as it happens.So he does something about it. Something to... Fix the situation, so to speak.
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- Part 4 of ~PrOmPtS BrAiN CouLd NoT rEsiSt~
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12 Nov 2025
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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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11 Nov 2025
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Merlin, Arthur. Geek, jock. Unpopular, popular. Homo, homophobe. Scorpio, Leo.
All of their fighting was overcompensating for something.
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02 Nov 2025
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The Southrons have been defeated, Camelot is recovering nicely, and the time of Albion is nigh. But Merlin can't get over what almost happened that night in the forest, and Arthur still hasn't taken a wife.
Canon era AU set after S4 (divergent from 412)
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24 Oct 2025
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Merlin goes to a brothel to get rid of that virginity thing and runs into Arthur. From there on, it's all madness.
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23 Oct 2025
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“Ow!” Merlin yelped, and just barely kept himself from shoving Arthur’s chest with his foot. “You could be a little more careful there!”
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22 Oct 2025
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22 Oct 2025
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Shortly after Arthur is resurrected in the 21st century, he finds Merlin's vibrator.
That's it. That's the plot.
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18 Oct 2025
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“Perhaps we are doing her a favor then,” he says, pausing to chew the inside of his cheek before adding in a measured, careful voice. “I wouldn’t want to live without my love, either.”
Arthur whips around in the saddle to stare at him, eyes hard and dark, like the storm clouds building on the distant horizon. “What love? You haven’t got a love,” he snaps, like he’s the sole keeper of all Merlin’s secrets.
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10 Oct 2025
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Merlin needs money. Arthur needs company. That's it, really.
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07 Oct 2025
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All in all, Arthur was one of those men about whom it could be said that their heart was in the right place, although he did take great pains to hide it. Still, the core of decency made Merlin endure the thick layers of arrogance (and their thin crispy crust of arseholery) with more patience than he’d ever thought possible. There was indeed a promise of greatness about Arthur that Merlin was willing to believe in.
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Merlin learns to live and work by Arthur's side. And vice versa.
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02 Oct 2025
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The silhouette is backlit from the headlights on the Mini Cooper and he’s maybe hit his head harder than he thought because it almost looks like…
“Merlin?”
And Merlin feels as though his heart is exploding in his chest because that voice and his real name and as he looks up...the golden hair reflected in the light from the car.
Arthur Pendragon is standing, completely starkers, in the middle of the road leading up to Lake Avalon.
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15 Sep 2025
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Kings, even new ones, were not supposed to long for their menservants. They shouldn't let their eyes linger on their wrists, the plump of their lips, or the shape of their thighs. Arthur knew this, but he still wanted. There was nothing about Merlin he didn't want.
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14 Sep 2025
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Arthur was tipped back against the wall, his mouth open for breath and staring at the small arrow-slit window over Merlin's head, trying to work out how it could possibly be that good with Merlin, of all people.
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- Part 14 of Merlin works
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13 Sep 2025
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In many ways, things are the same as ever.
It’s only… Well, back when Merlin still had things like secrets, or privacy, or self-respect, he would have thought that of the secrets, the magic would have been the one to truly catch Arthur’s interest.
But no. It’s the other secret that Arthur picks and plucks at.
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11 Sep 2025
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Arthur's not sure if what he wants is wrong or if it's the wanting itself that's wrong.
As always, Merlin complicates everything.
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- Part 4 of Merlin Fanfiction
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10 Sep 2025