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Prince Merlin Emeryson of Essetir spends the summer at Camelot and is arguing the whole time with Prince Arthur Pendragon, while spending time with Morgana Pendragon. Merlin and Morgana’s closeness have everyone believing that they’ll be wed.
Instead, Arthur’s servant finds Arthur and Merlin together in bed one morning and leave their parents convinced at the two are in love. They’re soon engaged and set to be married in a year.
While Merlin is back in Essetir, they are encouraged to send letters to each other to stay in touch.
For better or worse, Merlin and Arthur start sending letters to each other
[Written for Glompfest 2025]
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20 Dec 2025
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Mordred lost his mother. Merlin, his father, is doing his best not to fall apart.
Arthur is a child therapist. He’s dealt with grief before — just never his own.
He didn’t mean to care this much. Not about the boy. And certainly not about the boy’s tired, beautiful father.
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19 Dec 2025
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Arthur's hands are shaking—it’s something he notices only once he finally gives himself a moment to breathe, to fully comprehend what is happening.
There's a man locked in the basement. In his father's basement.
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18 Dec 2025
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It's Nice to Finally Tweet You by Pendragons Dragonlord (PseudoAuthor)
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
26 Jun 2014
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Merlin's eyes scan the headline.
Arthur Pendragon reveals mark in attempt to find the one.
"I pity the guy who's unfortunate enough to get him as a soul mate.”
In which Arthur is a famous celebrity, Merlin is a beloved teacher, and they break Twitter once. Well, twice. Okay so it's a whole bunch of times actually but it's not their fault. Really it's not.
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17 Dec 2025
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Then, a realisation hits him, sudden and sharp, and Arthur freezes mid-motion. His breath catches in his throat as the pieces fall together. That’s what had rattled Merlin so deeply… It wasn’t the shock of becoming a servant to a prince or the brief jolt when their skin brushed near the birthmark. No, Merlin hadn’t flinched from a simple spark of static earlier…. It was the mark. This mark. Arthur’s birthmark. Merlin knows what it means.
On Merlin's first day as Arthur's servant, he discovers that Arthur has an unusual birthmark. Is his subsequent weird behaviour linked to superstition or something much deeper – something Arthur has yet to learn? And what is Arthur to do with this weird pull he feels towards Merlin?
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17 Dec 2025
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It's a Strange Way of Saying That I Know I'm Supposed to Love You by Ally_Oop
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
26 Mar 2024
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Soulmate marks are viewed very differently in Camelot and Ealdor.
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17 Dec 2025
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“Oh. It’s you,” came a dry voice from the other side of the bookcase, and Merlin’s head snapped up. He sensed no gods around, and never in his nearly three millennia had a mortal ever said those words to him; not once.
His gaze landed on Arthur Pendragon.
“You can see me?”
Arthur paused, blinked. “Sorry?”
“You— you can see me?” Merlin rushed to the other side of the case. “You remember me?”
In which Merlin is a lonely god incharge of the mortals’ soulmarks, one of whom he keeps running into.
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16 Dec 2025
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Merlin attends a new school after experiencing a vicious hate crime and meets Arthur Pendragon.
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16 Dec 2025
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Arthur, Merlin, and the knights stop in at a local tavern for a hot meal and drinks. They don’t expect knights from the nearby kingdom to drop by as well or for one knight in particular to take a rather special interest in Merlin. And, honestly, they aren’t having it.
Basically Merlin starts a tavern brawl but really it’s not his fault.
He can’t help he’s pretty.
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15 Dec 2025
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Merlin can’t remember the last time he’s locked his bedroom door, if ever. But he chooses not to think about it. He merely sulks his way back to his bed, taking a moment to contemplate taking off his trousers and tunic from the night before. He decides not to think about that either.
Instead, he decides not to think at all. He just falls back into his bed, covers up his body more so in shame than for warmth, and closes his eyes.
Basically Merlin is sexually assaulted and this story follows how he and everyone else deals with it.
Spoiler alert: THEY DON'T HANDLE IT WELL.
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15 Dec 2025
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When Merlin finds himself alone and adrift at sea, he starts rethinking his choice to become a pirate. Fortunately, he is rescued by another pirate ship. Unfortunately, the captain of his new ship is Arthur, the man who loved him and left him.
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15 Dec 2025
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It’s 1953, and Arthur is a young, up-and-coming architect working on rebuilding London. All he wants is to be successful and live his life in peace and quiet. All his boss wants is to find a good match for his daughter Elena, and he thinks he’s found that match in Arthur. Arthur agrees to go out with her to get ahead at the firm, but the person he’s really interested in is her friend Merlin, and it turns out Elena has her own purposes for being with Arthur.
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14 Dec 2025
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when the fog comes rolling in, I know a new world of green will begin by SlantedKnitting
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
16 Nov 2025
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A man stepped out of the car with a cane and stood there in the sun like something divine. He was young and handsome, his golden blond hair shining and his white suit nearly blinding. His gaze swept over the line of servants, but he didn’t seem to really notice them. He looked out over the grounds for a moment, and even at a distance Merlin could see his sadness.
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Camelot Manor has been without a lord for over three years. Merlin is hired in late spring of 1919 to assist the head gardener prepare for the earl’s return from fighting in the war. He is happy to spend his days amongst plants and flowers, working with his hands and bringing more beauty into the world. When the earl arrives, Merlin is unexpectedly drawn to him, and the feeling seems to be mutual.
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14 Dec 2025
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Merlin is in the thick of his PhD thesis. The topic? Appropriation of Old English and Latin in Occult Practices. This makes him a perfect candidate for translating an old occult journal on behalf of Cedric Sigan, the world's most prolific Occult YouTuber (or so Sigan likes to say). Golden opportunities like this don't fall in academics' laps often, and Merlin leaps at the chance for a huge pay out.
However, when he attempts to read a section of the journal aloud, he accidentally summons a demon. Said demon refers to himself as a Knight of Hell, but tells Merlin to call him Arthur.
Now Arthur is refusing to leave until Merlin makes a contract for his soul. Merlin refuses, but quickly realizes he may be stuck with Arthur forever.
At least Arthur is nice to look at.
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07 Mar 2025
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Merlin has been equal parts terrified of and crazy for Arthur, his beautiful and arrogant boss at Pendragon Pharmaceuticals for some years now.
He's already resigned to the fact that Arthur's completely out of his league, but the universe just won't cut him any slack. During the most important lab presentation of Merlin's life, a deaging spell goes awry and turns Arthur back into his seventeen-year-old self: a brash, expressive and cheeky young man so different from the one he knows.
Arthur has to stay in Merlin's flat while he races to develop a cure, and by God, the teenage Arthur's new penchant for flirting shamelessly with Merlin is going to be the death of him, it really is.
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06 Mar 2025
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Morgana and her sister Morgause take over Camelot with Cenred's help. Morgana decides to rub the salt in Arthur's wounds, and marries him off to Cenred in a sham wedding. Stuck alone in Essetir, Arthur has no means of escape, until a mysterious servant named Merlin arrives. He might just be the key to Arthur's release.
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06 Mar 2025
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The Dragon Lords once lived and ruled happily in Camelot. That all changed after the Battle of Camelot. Now they live in the Wilds, No Man's Land, a place where clans and dragons rule. A routine errand to collect herbs for Gaius gets complicated when Merlin ends up saving the life of one of Camelot's best knights. Which begs the question; how and why would a knight from an enemy kingdom come to be in the middle of nowhere?
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06 Mar 2025
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Merlin's life in Eadlor is quiet. He keeps his head down, or tries to anyway, and spends his day working the land with his mother and Will. Then a peace treaty between Camelot and Essetir brings Ealdor into Camelot's borders. With it comes not only a flock of Camelot knights, but Prince Arthur himself; a man who was magically altered to give him special abilities to track and kill sorcerers.
Arthur's duties in Ealdor consist of chasing off bandits, providing aid to the people, and making sure Ealdor follows the law of Camelot. Through a twist of fate, Merlin ends up as Arthur's scribe, and as they work together, Arthur comes ever closer to discovering Merlin's secret. Perhaps the worst part is that Merlin can't bring himself to hate Arthur as much as he should hate someone designed to kill him and his kin.
He thinks if things had been different, he and Arthur might have been good friends.
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06 Mar 2025
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It was over. Arthur was here. The Lamia was slain. Gwen was alright. The knights would be back to normal. It was over.
Able to relax for the first time in days, he let his knees buckle and his back slide down the wall. He hit the ground, and his vision turned to mist.
Merlin didn't make it out of his encounter with the Lamia unscathed, or so Arthur thinks when he slays the beast and finds Merlin slumped against the wall and bleeding. When he learns the true source of Merlin's injuries he is furious. He does his best to push that anger away though, because being there for Merlin matters far more right now.
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The Lamia episode but Merthur, and the knights actually injured Merlin.
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05 Mar 2025
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“You’re a mechanic?” The man asked, eyes dancing briefly to Will’s oil-stained hands. “Perhaps I could ask for a business card. My engine has been a tad temperamental of late.”
Will's only bit of peace is the time spent alone in his storage unit-turned-workshop....until Hannibal rents a unit on the same row.
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04 Mar 2025