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His manservant clears his throat, still on his feet with his hands folding around themselves, “It’s a spell. It’s the old language, from before men. It will end your curse.”
Arthur looks up at him in disbelief, “It’s that simple?”
Merlin shifts, eyes going somewhere past Arthur before darting down again, “Actually, it’s a fairly complicated spell. You’d need a magic user of considerable strength.”
Arthur growls, crumpling the paper and tossing it down the table, looking down at his now unappetizing meal, “What’s the point, then? I’m never going to find a mage willing to read this off for me. While it’s nice it somehow missed you, I can’t rule Camelot with the people flinching every time I speak.” Never mind that was his father’s method.
Merlin meets his glare, “The curse didn’t pass me over, Arthur.”
“Of course it did!” he objects, “You haven’t been acting like everyone else. You're not afraid of me.”
He smiles then, soft, and says nothing.
Prompt Fill: Arthur’s cursed by a witch to experience his worst fear.
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03 Aug 2025
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Set directly after Arthur's return in "The King's servant."
Arthur is now aware of Merlin's new role in the royal household.
Oh, and they're lovers now <3Series
- Part 2 of The King’s servant
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17 Jul 2025
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In which the gang goes on a luxury train holiday, and Merlin and Arthur share a cabin and a double bed, but not a single brain cell.
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16 Jul 2025
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He saw Arthur burst from the forest, wide-eyed and pale-faced. Sweat plastered his hair to his forehead, and fear locked his expression in its clutches. One hand stretched out as if to grab him. So near and yet so far.
The moment fled. Gravity won, and there wasn't even time for Merlin to cry out as the bandit's weight dragged him over the cliff and into the stormy waters below.
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When Merlin is hurt during a bandit attack, Arthur finds himself torn between the longings of his heart and his duties to the crown.
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16 Jul 2025
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“Nothing it’s just,” Merlin shrugged. “You’re in the process of overturning the ban on magic, some of the kingdoms have made you their enemy, some have allied with others. We’re not sure who stands on our side in the fight for magic. I’m just... concerned some might try and take it out on you during the tournament.”
“Well, I won’t need to worry, not with an all powerful warlock watching over me.” Arthur said confidently and Merlin gives him a toothy grin. “Though, if you’re that concerned... you could always, you know.... Give me your favour.”
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Merlin insists on helping Arthur into his armour for a tournament, just to make sure everything is secure and his King is protected.
Arthur asks Merlin to give him his favour, just in case.
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16 Jul 2025
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5 times Arthur almost lost Merlin + 1 time he actually did by feyver (itsnautica)
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
13 Sep 2024
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What's Arthur's greatest fear?
Arthur didn’t like to think about it - because he might do something awful, like burst into tears - but there had been a few terrible times when he really thought he was going to lose Merlin.
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16 Jul 2025
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Through Destiny to Freedom: The Letters of Merlin and Arthur by allatonceornothing for Raphale
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
07 Apr 2024
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Arthur is King, Merlin is Court Sorcerer, and they've been dancing around their feelings for years. Now that their duties often take them away from each other, they start to write to each other when they're apart. Letter after letter, all the words they cannot say aloud are finally spilled out on the page. Their bond becomes even tighter and more epic.
Song lyric that inspired the prompt: "If I don't make it back from where I've gone, just know I loved you all along." (The Amazing Devil, Inkpot Gods.)
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16 Jul 2025
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When due to a lucky coincidence, ballet dancer Merlin gets the chance play the the role of White and Black Swan in Swan Lake, he is beyond elated. That is until he realises he will be dancing alongside the golden boy of Camelot Ballet, Arthur Pendragon - an arrogant twat and Merlin's personal nemesis. Can they overcome their differences, or will their mutual animosity destroy the production and their career?
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16 Jul 2025
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For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost. For want of a rider, the message was lost. For want of a message, the battle was lost. For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
Merlin manages to wrangle a visit back to Ealdor out of Arthur by telling Arthur that he will be unable to run his kingdom on his own. After Merlin leaves on his vacation, Camelot slowly but surely falls apart to Arthur’s horror and chagrin and he realizes just how much he has come to rely on Merlin’s help.
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16 Jul 2025
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“There are many famous duos in the Albion Tournaments esports scene,” wrote one journalist, “but none so well-known and beloved as that of crownprince and Emrys. They play like two halves of a whole: where one is, the other always follows."
[Professional gamer AU] Halfway through the season, Merlin gets signed to the Ealdor Warlocks. Arthur, team captain of the Knights of Camelot, finds this bothersome. Very bothersome.
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16 Jul 2025
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“What was his name? The gardener’s son?” Merlin said casually as if he didn’t know that it was him.
His heart was thundering, and it felt like an eternally went by, but it was barely a second.
“Can’t remember,” Arthur said, looking down at his drink. He shrugged before taking a sip then adding, “I remember it was something unusual though, an uncommon name but it had suited him.”
As they continued the drinking game Merlin kept wondering if he should have told Arthur right then it had been his first kiss too.
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Merlin finds out that one of his best mates from uni is also the same boy he shared his first kiss with when he was nine.Bookmarked by linotheghost
16 Jul 2025
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Arthur decides to cheer up a homesick Merlin by making him a holiday gift. The significance of this specific gift, however, completely escapes him.
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16 Jul 2025
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One day, a stranger, seeking shelter from the rain, stumbles into Merlin's little magic shop. The stranger turns out to be a right prat. And yet...
“Hello again, Mr Emrys.”
The ladder creaks dangerously as the man turns to look over his shoulder. “Congratulations, you've found out my name. Should I be flattered?”
“You're too cheeky for your own good,” Arthur says and nearly smiles. There's a brief pause, during which the guy – Emrys – continues to dust off the uppermost shelf, leaning to the side so far Arthur is expecting him to fall off any moment now. “Looked you up in the company database.”
“Okay, I'm definitely flattered now.”
“In the database of the company that owns this whole block of buildings.” Arthur steps closer, puts a foot against the ladder and grabs one of the staves to stabilize it. “The company which happens to be mine.”
“Ohh, what are you gonna do, evict me on grounds of being cheeky?”- Language:
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16 Jul 2025
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'Fear not, my boy. There are many pitfalls between negotiations and an actual wedding day. Perhaps there'll be no need for your jealousy.'
'My what? I am not jealous!'
Gaius merely smiled at him and returned to his stew. 'Of course not. Now eat your vegetables.'
When Uther's usual efforts to arrange a match for Arthur take a more serious turn, Merlin comes to a few realisations about his own feelings. He also learns that maybe he does not know Arthur as well as he once thought. Can he get to the bottom of the tangle of Arthur's emotions, and maybe sort his own out in the process?
Based on the word "Felicitous" For Melissa
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15 Jul 2025
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Arthur makes Merlin a lord, and Merlin does an astonishingly good job of running a village.
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15 Jul 2025
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Returning from his first tournament as a knight’s squire, young Arthur finds himself snowbound in a small hamlet right at Camelot’s border. Bored and restless, he roams the village and, despite himself, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an insubordinate peasant boy.
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- Part 7 of Advent Calendar 2023
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14 Jul 2025
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“So, Merlin,” Arthur says, and leans forward. Despite having climbed a tower that’s taller than the Big Ben, he doesn’t have a lock of hair out of place. Merlin despises him for that, a little bit. “What are you currently doing in a tower that seems to have no entrance and does have a large dragon on top, which really, that doesn’t help with being perceived as a princess, you’re aware?”
“How did you get past Kilgharrah?” Merlin wonders.
“Dragons sleep too, Merlin.”
Or: Merlin has stuck himself in a tower in a desperate attempt to make himself focus on his dissertation. A lot of knights seem to be under the impression that this makes him a princess in need of rescue, but fail to climb all the way up—that is, until Arthur.
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- Part 5 of Liz's Merlin Bingo 2023
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14 Jul 2025
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Whereat the Two Swore On the Field of Death a Deathless Love by horsecrazy
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
21 Jan 2019
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In a land of myth and a time of magic, the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young boy. But not quite in the way you think. 'The Once and Future King'/Merlin mashup; now with 50% more gay.
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13 Jul 2025
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Arthur discovers Merlin’s magic, and takes necessary measures to protect him from evil. Merlin forgives him.
He must be what Arthur wants. See, it’s a craft he’s perfected: effortless contortion. Anything he needs to be. Merlin can be perfectly fine perfectly fine perfectly fine.
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- Violence/themes of intimate partner violence
- Sex with dubious consent: implied, or explicit (if you choose to reveal hidden text)
- Brief allusion to self-harm (if you choose to reveal hidden text)
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11 Jul 2025
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In which Arthur Pendragon, who has long been plagued by his manservant's accidental innuendo and unknowingly inappropriate touches, is finally prodded into doing something about it
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11 Jul 2025