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Merlin's Natural Charm (and how the entire kingdom fell for it) by injeong
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
01 Sep 2020
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In Camelot, life goes on, and Arthur discovers more and more about his servant-turned-friend-turned-lover.
AKA Arthur accidentally learns about the all nice things Merlin does for everyone, and then one big magical one too!
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- 5,462
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- 1/1
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16 Dec 2025
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Every knight who's spent five minutes around Merlin and Arthur knows the secret.
They also know these two are one hell of a blind spot for the other. They'll be here to support them while they figure it out.
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- Part 8 of Quarantine Drabbles
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- English
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- 3,636
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- 1/1
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- 7
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- 93
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16 Dec 2025
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Takes the place of S4E12: The Sword in the Stone.
When Morgana attacks Camelot, Merlin is forced to save Arthur with magic in front of everyone, but is captured and taken prisoner in Helios' castle. Morgana seeks to use him as a weapon and Helios seeks to own him as a slave. While Arthur finds a way to get Merlin back, he struggles through to sort his feelings regarding Agravaine's betrayal, Merlin's magic, and Merlin's devotion with a little help from his knights.
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- Part 1 of The Process of Healing
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- English
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- 22,043
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- 3/3
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- 2
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- 183
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15 Dec 2025
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When Merlin is captured and injured, Arthur must face up to his own feelings for his manservant as well as the many secrets he discovers are being kept from him.
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- English
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- 12,561
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- 1/1
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- 117
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12 Dec 2025
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While Arthur and the knights are off doing knightly things, Merlin gets into a spot of bother - as usual - with some roaming bandits, and it's up to his friends to take care of him - and of his attackers (although perhaps in a slightly different manner).
Tag to my drabble series, Small Packages.
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- English
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- 11,051
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- 3/3
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- 156
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12 Dec 2025
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Merlin and Arthur find themselves captured and tied up. Merlin plays dead without warning in order to escape and Arthur goes through something.
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11 Dec 2025
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Arthur saves Merlin's life, and then he almost does it again.
AKA Arthur sees Merlin covered in blood and jumps to conclusions.
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11 Dec 2025
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Three years into King Arthur’s reign, magic users across Camelot are growing restless. Though no more executions have taken place since Arthur made peace with the Druids, sorcery is still punishable by death. Frustrated and increasingly impatient, a group of rogue sorcerers decides to take matters into their own hand, kidnapping Merlin right from under Arthur's nose.
Thus begins a long journey, one where Arthur unearths some hidden truths about everything he thought he knew and Merlin's loyalty is put to the test.
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- English
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- 30/30
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- 738
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08 Dec 2025
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With a beta for a manservant there is no reason Arthur would have to worry about his pheromones giving away his true emotions.
Except, Merlin isn’t a beta.
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Merlin slowly loses his mind as he scrambles for flimsy excuses to explain why Arthur’s scent is growing hopelessly besotted.
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- English
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- 17/17
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- 693
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Bookmarked by papicorn
06 Dec 2025
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“Merlin has magic!”
It was all that Uther needed— that momentary hesitation in Arthur’s physique... that doubt thrusted upon him ever since the day he had blinked into a world without loving guardians... that silent second of shock emanating from both sides, surrendering to circumstance and fate.
It was all that Uther needed to thrust the sword he had into the sorcerer’s chest.
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- English
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- 11,711
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- 1/1
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- 270
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06 Dec 2025
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After being hit with a spell on a hunting trip Arthur and Merlin must find their way back home. Which wouldn’t be an issue if they weren’t children. Literally.
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- English
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- 15,220
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- 1/1
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- 107
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Bookmarked by papicorn
05 Dec 2025
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SDN Employee Handbook, Page 12:
Personal relationships between colleagues are permitted, provided they are conducted in a professional manner and do not interfere with work performance. All employees are expected to maintain professional conduct at all times in the workplace and avoid behavior that may cause difficulty, embarrassment, or discomfort to others.
Navigating workplace romances is hard enough even when they don't involve ex-supervillains with mile-high egos.
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“Do you think it's a sign of some deeper issue?” Robert muses, eyes tracing the deep v of his ridiculous suit and ducking the swipe of Chase's hand.
“Brain damage, probably.” Chase nods. Not entirely impossible, considering his lifestyle.
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03 Dec 2025
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A random villain-of-the-week makes Robert late for work. It's only by a few minutes, yet the encounter that hardly lasted a few seconds instills a sudden chill in Robert's bones. Its persistence is matched only by the Z-Team's stubbornness as they force their dispatcher to join them in activities they think will warm him up.
But none of it matters if Robert can't learn to believe he'll ever be warm again... or that he deserves the warmth this team brings him.
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Post-Episode 8 (Good/Pacifist/No Romance/Everyone is Forgiven ending)
Trigger Warnings: Self-destructive/self-harming tendencies, suicidal ideation/thoughts, near-death experience(s)- Language:
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01 Dec 2025
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"One more word out of you, and I swear to God I will send you into exile."
He knows it’s not the pyre, knows there’s much worse, but banishment would mean staying away from Arthur forever – and, as pathetic as that might sound, he thinks he would rather die than let that happen. It is clear that the feeling is not reciprocated, clear that in Arthur’s eyes, he will never come first. There’ll always be people coming before him, and he’s made peace with that long ago – but if even Agravaine can come before him, then anyone could, no? Anyone could replace him. Call Merlin a traitor and have Arthur get rid of him. Anyone could.Merlin no longer feels safe in Camelot.
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Arthur threatens Merlin of banishment.
To Arthur's eyes, it's all forgotten.
To Merlin's, however...
Well, let's just say that his faith in their mutual destiny, once unwavering, finds itself faltering at a dangerously quick rate.- Language:
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29 Nov 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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- English
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- 62,057
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- 15/15
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- 1
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- 1,094
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28 Nov 2025
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Merlin’s life isn’t his own to live. The tattoo that sets him apart as a magic user has the annoying tendency to glow gold, and no one will give him a job, and he’s been pining uselessly after his straight best friend slash housemate—who, he knows, mostly lets him live there because Arthur is decent enough not to let him sleep in the gutter, even if he’s an annoying prat the rest of the time.
But then Arthur decides to take the world by storm and starts pushing for some new laws to be accepted, and Merlin finds himself in the middle of Arthur’s attempt to change England.
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- English
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- 33,433
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25 Nov 2025
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“Do you want more wine, too? Come on, Merlin, don’t stand around so uselessly.”
“As opposed to sitting around uselessly?” Merlin quips, but he comes over easily to pour more wine into Leon’s goblet. He lets him, his eyes careful on Merlin to see if his eyes will glint again, the colour of fire against the midnight sky, so bright and fiery.
But all Leon sees is blue. “Thank you, Merlin,” he mutters.
Or: Five times someone finds out about Merlin’s magic and decides not to tell Arthur, and one time they realise that Arthur already knows everything there’s to know.
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25 Nov 2025
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“I don’t want him as my soulmate,” Arthur complains. “He was rude, and he’s magic, and he’s old and quite frankly, I think he’s insane and—”
“And he’s not Merlin?” Morgana asks, crossing her arms.
“Shut up, Morgana,” Arthur says heatedly, feeling the flush settle awkwardly in his cheeks. “Merlin isn’t my soulmate, so there’s clearly something severely wrong with him, and I just haven’t figured out what it is yet.”
Or: It turns out that Arthur's soulmate Emrys is a dodgery old sorcerer. No one is happy about this, least of all Arthur, who has to come to terms with the facts that he's bound to someone with magic and that his inconvenient attraction to Merlin won't lead to anything at all.
So he thinks, anyway.
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- Part 7 of Liz's Merlin Bingo 2023
- Language:
- English
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- 9,900
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- 1/1
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- 1
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- 124
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24 Nov 2025
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“Merlin!” he calls out, and nearly falls over himself to take the three remaining steps to his manservant. He breathes hard, putting a hand on the raw, red material of Merlin’s tunic. There is something under there.
A head peeks out, and blue eyes stare at him.
“Who are you?” a child demands, with Merlin’s familiar eyes and a mop of dark hair falling over his forehead, and two ears sticking out from his face. “How d’you know my name? Are you a knight?”
“Oh, no,” Arthur says, in what he thinks is a very apt assessment of the situation.
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- English
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- 3/3
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24 Nov 2025
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An alternate ending to 4x05. When Merlin interrupts Arthur's negotiations with Queen Annis she agrees to Trial by Single Combat, but only if Arthur's servant is the Champion. With little other choice Arthur must agree and face losing his longest and oldest friend. But as much as this has turned Arthur's world into chaos Merlin seems strangely confident.
Or: Merlin is the champion for Camelot in 4x05 instead of Arthur and fights the best way he knows how. Magic Reveal.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 11,235
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 10
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- 112
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Bookmarked by papicorn
23 Nov 2025