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In which Merlin wakes up and chooses violence, and decides not to rethink that choice.
Or: Merlin realizes that, if he's going to keep Arthur safe and keep his magic a secret, he will have to get a little bit physical. Arthur has to rethink everything in existence when he's suddenly forced to confront the fact that Merlin can fight, and is in fact, bloody dangerous
Or: The author randomly thought "Murder Twink Merlin" while re-watching the show, and decided it was his mission in life to make that a tag.
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- Part 1 of Murder Twink! Merlin
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- English
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- 13,802
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- 9/9
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Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
04 May 2026
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When the well-being of Camelot's greatest hangs in the balance, Merlin undergoes the trial of the Arcane Dominion. He is alone, forced to enter a magical realm and confront a dangerous enemy in order to save his friends. Little does he know, those very friends are watching his every move. Trapped by the magic of the trial, Arthur and the knights are made to witness Merlin's journey - and discover some uncomfortable secrets along the way.
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- English
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- 81,070
- Chapters:
- 12/12
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- 426
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Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
02 May 2026
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A trap in the woods allows a meddling, mysterious stranger to render Arthur and the knights unconscious, leaving only Merlin and Lancelot alone. The two of them must complete 3 trials to get their friends back.
With Merlin's powers it should be a cinch, but unbeknownst to them, Arthur and the knights can see everything they're doing—and Lancelot has decided now is the best time to have a personal, in-depth conversation about Merlin's power and recklessness.
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- Part 5 of Living's Standalone Merthur Fics
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- English
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- 35,288
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 146
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Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
30 Apr 2026
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Someone in the Camelot (Merlin) has rooted out a spy on the council. This anonymous person (who is obviously Merlin) put this accusation into a long letter, full of evidence from a thorough investigation and infiltration of the spy's circle within the staff. Arthur is remarkably impressed with this mystery detective (again, Merlin) and becomes set on uncovering their identity.
Merlin didn't think things would get out of hand. He only wanted to get rid of the spy publicly and legally, so he forewent the magic and decided to conduct a counterintelligence mission for months to gather evidence the old-fashioned way—like anyone would! But suddenly Arthur is searching for him, and magic or not, he learned a long time ago to stay in the shadows.
George is so tired. It is so obvious. King Arthur is disappointingly unobservant, and George cannot take this much longer.
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- Part 6 of Living's Standalone Merthur Fics
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- English
- Words:
- 27,520
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 143
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- 1,660
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Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
30 Apr 2026
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Don't Hide Your Flaws (I'll Cause Them All Again) by livinginthetheater
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
17 Aug 2025
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No servant should have so many scars. When a visiting knight sees Merlin's, he can only come to one conclusion: King Arthur is a violent abuser, and Merlin must be protected at all costs.
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- Part 7 of Living's Standalone Merthur Fics
Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
30 Apr 2026
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Robert Robertson cannot die. When a bullet enters his frontal lobe and exits through his occipital, it takes roughly twenty-eight minutes for him to wake up in a puddle of his own blood—the team in hysterics.
Funnily enough, the chromosome mutation that means he cannot feel pain, fatigue, hunger, or fear is a genetic issue entirely unrelated to the generation-skipping powers.
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- English
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- 12,297
- Chapters:
- 2/?
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- 124
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Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
22 Apr 2026
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Several months after Invisigal disappeared with Shroud's mask, Robert is falling apart. He can't taste, can't feel, can't stop his off-the-books investigation into underground surgeons removing failed Red Ring implants. Every back-alley beating, every late-night break-in is just him chasing pain to cut through the numbness. To feel alive again.
The Z team are starting to notice, and they have their own plans to help Robert.
Flambae's got an alternative therapy in mind. The kind that doesn't end with Robert bleeding out behind a club. The kind that involves heat, control, and getting his dispatcher out of his system once and for all.
A story about choosing to live and finding heat in all the wrong (right) places.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 132,301
- Chapters:
- 22/?
- Comments:
- 413
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- 801
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- 177
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- 19,857
Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
12 Apr 2026
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The man was in a suit that almost reminded Robert of something from Cirque du Soleil, all skin-tight, shimmering fabric with bursts of red and orange and a V-neck that showed a lot more than neck. The wrap-around sunglasses didn’t even look that ridiculous.
Infuriatingly, he managed to be beautiful, like a Monet in an Ikea frame is beautiful. He had changed very little in the years since Robert first encountered him, at least physically. Robert couldn’t say the same.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 76,200
- Chapters:
- 19/?
- Comments:
- 1,336
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Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
09 Apr 2026
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A World Unbound By Fate (A History Unwritten) by KelpietheThundergod
Fandom Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
28 Apr 2026
- Words:
- 86,327
- Works:
- 4
- Bookmarks:
- 27
Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
28 Mar 2026
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Catalyst by kzam
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
04 Apr 2020
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All Cloud wanted was to wait out his enlistment and move on with his life—to put ShinRa behind him. If he got to piss off some of their personnel in the meantime, great.
He hadn’t been prepared for Genesis Rhapsodos to walk into his life and get him conscripted into SOLDIER.
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- Part 1 of Conscription
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 84,927
- Chapters:
- 29/29
- Comments:
- 636
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- 3,225
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- 882
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- 59,204
Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
27 Mar 2026
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Unraveling by kzam
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020), Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997)
14 Mar 2022
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Cloud Strife is an unblessed, born without the gift of magic in a village of mages. He flees at his first opportunity, and his skill with a sword gets him recruited into SOLDIER. That's where he learns something strange - SOLDIERs can use magic too, by equipping special rocks that they call materia.
Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
26 Mar 2026
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On Friday, Blonde Blazer found a new sucker to try (and fail) to wrangle the infamous Z-Team at SDN's Torrance location. On Friday, they all bet he'd be gone by Monday. On Monday, he showed up. On Tuesday, he showed up again. On Wednesday, they got to put a face to the voice.
He was the most basic and boring man he’d ever seen in his life. Average height, average brown hair cut into an average look, with big doe eyes and even bigger bags underneath them, a freckled face supported by a frame so thin and frail looking a soft breeze might knock him on his ass. All in all, he was entirely unremarkable in any and every way. Kind of cute, but in the same way a malnourished puppy covered in mud on the side of the road was cute.
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- English
- Words:
- 99,490
- Chapters:
- 9/?
- Comments:
- 255
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- 1,561
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Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
15 Mar 2026
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When Mecha Man Astral died, his legacy died with him, his murder never solved, his son left behind, and his Astral Pulse never seen again.
Fifteen years later, Robert Robertson III, working under the name Mecha, is still chasing down leads on his missing birthright. Leads that always end up turning up nothing. After his latest failure to locate the Astral Pulse, Shroud gives Robert a new mission: infiltrate the SDN as a dispatcher. A laughably simple job.
Well it would be, if he could keep his eyes off of Flambae for five fucking minutes.
The closer they're drawn to one another, the harder Robert's inevitable betrayal will be. For both of them.
- Language:
- English
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- 112,268
- Chapters:
- 28/?
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- 795
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Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
16 Feb 2026
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Every power has a price. Something that would make you laugh at the irony if it wasn't so damn infuriating. A man with the strength of ten at the height of half of one. A woman with asthma who needs to hold her breath to stay invisible. A walking fireball who can lose his eyebrows to a rogue flame.
So of course when Robert realized he wasn't powerless, he could only laugh at the irony.
An immortal man who wishes he was dead really was the icing on the cake.
Updates weekly (mostly), 2/16 post delayed
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- English
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- 18,790
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- 8/?
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Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
12 Feb 2026
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When Shroud murders Mecha Man in cold blood, he takes the man’s twelve-year-old son with him into hiding. Turns out, turning a child desperate for any kind of love from a parental figure to your side isn’t all that hard, especially when the parenting bar has been set so low.
But now, almost twenty years later, Shroud needs SDN infiltrated, and Robert, with his particular set of augments, is uniquely qualified. Robert’s loyalty is absolute, there is no way that a group of ex villains could possibly show him another way.~
Villain Robert AU
Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
06 Feb 2026
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Chase spent his early years helping a villain named MechaMan, sometimes reluctantly babysitting his son Robert. Many years later, when Project Phoenix finally started gaining momentum, Chase knew exactly who the perfect candidate for reform would be.
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 5/?
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- 408
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06 Feb 2026
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05 Feb 2026
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Robert's sexual frustration is palpable, enough to make it the entire Z-Team's problem, and Flambae's stuck trying to figure out how to fix it.
It can't be that hard, right...?
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Robert and Flambae are both fucking whipped and everybody knows except them.
Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
03 Feb 2026
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Robert Robertson is the most infuriating man Flambae has ever met. Even more so since he revealed that he is, in fact, Mechaman.
However, somewhere between beating Shroud and returning to work, Flambae gradually begins to realize that maybe there was more to Robert than just the blind hatred he'd held onto for so long.
Between not-dates and vet visits, Flambae's feelings slowly begin to shift, from irritation to something that feels a lot like heart-palpatations.
Or: 5 times Flambae fails to kick Robert's ass, and the one time he actually does
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03 Feb 2026
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But Elliot made a crucial mistake, he may have killed his dad, but he did not kill Mecha Man.
Because the Mecha Man Armor was sitting in his dad’s garage right now, absent of a pilot to put it to use. People may be mourning that Mecha Man is dead, but they are also expecting a new Mecha Man to appear.
And this mantle falls to him to pick up.
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When Elliot Connors shot Robbie Robertson, Robert was only 11 years old. Instead of going to therapy or continuing schooling. Robert dedicates himself to becoming Mecha Man in his father’s absence. This leads to a 15 year old Robert being the Mecha Man that the SDN and Team Z will have the misfortune of dealing with.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,743
- Chapters:
- 5/?
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 340
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- 1,120
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Bookmarked by Defective_Emrys
02 Feb 2026