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When I Didn't Know The Answer, I Found It In Your Eyes by ironfamjam for muguetmuse
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
26 Mar 2023
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“It was never supposed to end like this. You were both meant for such happier things.”
“I was always meant to be a tragedy.” Arthur disagrees.
“Dearest darling, you are the king of kings, this will not be your end.”
With Arthur's death comes a single chance to go back to the beginning and save everyone he's ever loved. Seeing home in Merlin's eyes and a hope for a better world in Morgana's, Arthur knows what he must do.
Only bringing magic back to Camelot will prevent the future he knows is coming from happening, but in his way is the only mountain he's never been able to climb; his father won't change for anyone, not even for his son.
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- 36,625
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22 Oct 2023
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Poison and Oaths (A Paladin of Emrys) by thenerdyindividual for Tastelikesleepdeprivation
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
02 Jul 2021
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Morgana is escalating her attempts to see herself on Camelot's throne. When her plan to have Gwen executed or have Arthur leave Camelot with Gwen fails, she decides to cut her losses and poison Arthur. Merlin saves him, of course, and reveals his magic in the process much to Arthur's annoyance. Once the dust has settled things seem to go back to normal, but on a hunting trip gone wrong Arthur's blade gleams with a silvery magic light as he kills the last bandit attacking them. The thing is, Arthur never had magic before Merlin healed him.
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- 35,331
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- 11/11
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- 163
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19 Oct 2023
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09 May 2023
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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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- 86,000
- Chapters:
- 30/30
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- 748
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- 4,235
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05 May 2023
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22 Mar 2023
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Arthur makes Merlin a lord, and Merlin does an astonishingly good job of running a village.
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- English
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- 11,445
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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- 1
- Comments:
- 466
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- 12,836
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- 82,120
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09 Mar 2023
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No one understands Arthur and Merlin's relationship, least of all Arthur and Merlin. Limping home after Camlann they have time to figure it out.Now if only people would stop trying to give Merlin a promotion.
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- English
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- 16/16
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- 1,102
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22 Feb 2023
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Merlin takes the final battle into his own hands after Mordred's blade finds Arthur's heart. Wielding power over life and death there on the battlefield, Merlin's magic is revealed.
But the only surviving witness is Arthur, and he has carefully spun the tale to keep Merlin's magic a secret. The King is determined to keep it so until he can drag the truth from Merlin's lips and press his own revelations back into his sorcerer.
COMPLETED! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!
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- English
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- 61,732
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Comments:
- 154
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02 Feb 2023
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“I can never trust magic, not when it has taken so much from me.”
So Merlin hides his away, buries it so deeply within himself he can forget it was ever there. And there it stays, even as his hands start to slow, to ache, to burn with the pain of loss, mourning for something inherent.
And then a dragon comes looking for it.
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- English
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- 7,246
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 7
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- 103
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06 Jan 2023
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“Merlin, what is in your hair?” Gaius asks - rather judgmentally, Merlin thinks. It’s not as though Gaius can turn into a bird, making his opinion irrelevant. Everyone’s opinions shall now be irrelevant to him unless they can turn into birds, he decides. He puts a hand to his hair and feels a leaf.
(So this is a very canon-inaccurate sort of re-telling, with some big divergences, minus a dragon or prophecy or two)
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- English
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- 145,262
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- 32/32
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- 1,603
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- 127,194
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22 Oct 2022
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They accidentally take over a castle. Well, Gwaine calls it liberating. Merlin’s not sure what to call it—there was a lord, and now there isn’t.
(Kanen comes to Ealdor early, and that changes everything.)
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- Part 1 of Dyed in the Wool
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- English
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- 18,764
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- 3/3
- Comments:
- 424
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13 Oct 2022
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“Ok,” Merlin says before he can talk himself out of it, and suddenly they are signing up for the two week introduction to Italian cookery course. Their elbows knock as they fill out the sheets, and Merlin hides his pleased smile.
When someone tries to take Arthur’s spot the first lesson, Merlin politely tells them he’s saving it for a friend if they don’t mind, thank you very much.
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09 Oct 2022
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"The king sent me to get you," Merlin said, with a tone that implied strongly that he wasn't rolling his eyes where Arthur could see, but just wait until his back was turned. "He said you're to get changed into formal clothes and meet him in the Great Hall, there's a delegation coming from the Summer Court."
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- Part 12 of Astolat Sampler
- Part 11 of Merlin works
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- English
- Words:
- 24,339
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- 1/1
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- 9
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- 671
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05 Jun 2022
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Let us take back the Castle now, and you can behead me later, Sire. by coldishcase
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
26 Apr 2021
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An AU of the season 4 finale, wherein Arthur refuses to abandon his castle during Morgana's seige, and Merlin refuses to use magic to take away Arthur's will, so they're at an impasse.
Rather than break his moral code to bewitch Arthur, Merlin decides to break his secrecy. If Arthur doesn't want to leave his Castle... fine. They won't. Merlin will just have to take it back for him... and all that entails.
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- Part 2 of Merlin 2021 Rewatch Canon Divergent Drabbles & Fics
- Part 1 of Taking Back The Castle (season 4 finale au)
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- English
- Words:
- 39,790
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Collections:
- 11
- Comments:
- 491
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- 7,961
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- 1,703
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- 148,120
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02 Jun 2022
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When Arthur catches Merlin doing magic, he has to come to terms with the betrayal and figure out what to do next.
“ Arthur swallows hard, the undeniability of this feels like poison in his chest all over again. He backs out of his own chambers, presses his back to the wall outside the door and tries to regain his breathing. Merlin is a sorcerer. He can’t ignore it now, it’s obvious.”
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- English
- Words:
- 5,542
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- 1/1
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- 30
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- 8,636
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30 May 2022
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Merlin has fulfilled his destiny. Albion is united and magic is restored to the land- but nothing in the prophecies had mentioned what to do afterward. Merlin's old roles are suddenly filled by people more competent than him, and there is no need for him any longer.
So Merlin disappears.- Language:
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- Words:
- 31,311
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 7
- Comments:
- 348
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- 8,435
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29 May 2022
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Arthur had not been raised to be comfortable with showing affection. Or just showing how he felt, full stop. Emotions were, for the most part, something of a mystical entity; something he dealt with internally but never shared.
Until he met Merlin.
In which Arthur overcomes his fear of expressing emotion, and explores his relationship with Merlin through the love language of physical touch.
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28 May 2022
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Teasing and banter have always been part of Merlin's friendship with the knights. But when a prank hits a sore spot for Merlin, the fallout is fiercer than anybody imagined.
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- English
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- 14,515
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 297
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- 6,277
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- 1,218
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- 63,440
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20 May 2022
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Season 4 AU:
Merlin's carried Arthur's sigil around everywhere after being entrusted with it. One day he runs into trouble, where the wrong people discover the sigil, and he gets mistaken as Arthur's husband. While Merlin's life is being ransomed and Arthur is freaking out back in Camelot, Merlin manages to escape but doesn't know that he is now considered the king's consort. Cue shenanigans.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,224
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Comments:
- 182
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- 7,659
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- 51,678
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16 Apr 2022
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Navigating life events that turn his world upside down, including his ascension to the throne and a revelation that rocks him to his core, Arthur's ever-evolving relationship with Merlin becomes the most important of his life. No one ever said love was easy.
“I would die before I hurt you,” Arthur said, his voice strangled. “I would kill anyone who ever tried to do you harm and it pains me to think that you could ever fear me.”
“I don’t understand,” Merlin said breathlessly. “You’re the king, you – ”
“I’m not standing here as a king, Merlin!” Arthur shouted, his voice breaking as he did so. “I’m standing here as a man, a man who believed he knew you completely, a man who thought you were the one constant in his life, a man who thought…who thought you were his,” he finished, horrified to feel tears pricking his eyes.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,622
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Comments:
- 1,122
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- 5,231
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- 1,605
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- 158,453
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11 Jan 2022