10 months? Yet no playbills in sight
Yeah, to everyone who bought playbills, I don't think you will ever get it.
I mean, you might get it? But like in a year type situation. Where are you going through your mail and boom! Your playbill is here! And you completely forgot you got that.
That is what happened to me, but instead of playbill, it was a pin from Etsy.
(Honestly, you all are saints for this type of patience)
At first, it's innocent stuff and Gwaine complains that it's all dull trivia and they need to start getting into the more interesting questions. Leon looks him dead in the eyes and says "Fine. Never have I ever been arrested" Literally everyone but Leon drinks.
From that point it becomes a challenge to see who's done the most outrageously criminal shit "Never have I ever been in a bar fight" "Never have I ever committed identity fraud" "Never have I ever broken someone out of the dungeons" "Never have I ever stolen from the royal vaults" "Never have I ever committed treason with the King still in the room" And Merlin. Just. Keeps. Drinking. Now it's about trying to find something Merlin hasn't done but one of the others has. The answer turns out to be "Never have I ever been banished from a kingdom"
Merlin passes out before he runs out of criminal things he's done. Magic is the only reason he's still alive the next morning after how high his blood alcohol level was.
After Merlin passes out the knight just look at each other wondering how Merlin hasn't been executed yet with all the shit he's done. Gwaine chuckles and shakes his head "Perks of being the king's mistress"
I think it would be insanely funny if after Arthur’s death everyone returns back in time to the place they were the day Merlin arrived in Camelot. But like, everyone thinks they are the only ones who has returned. We see it all from Merlin’s pov, who’s traumatised and wondering why the fuck Arthur is so much sweeter to him this time around and keeps saying ‘thank you’. He wonders why Lancelot shows up earlier, why all of a sudden Gwaine is there three years too early, saying he got hurt in a tavern bawl and needs a physician. He wonders why Leon keeps pretending like he didn’t just accidentally see Merlin do magic. Why Gwen keeps giving him these knowing looks. And why Morgana doesn’t seem as afraid as she used to when she was figuring out that she had magic. Everyone is trying their best to change history for the better, thinking they are alone with this duty... and then one day when uther is dead and they are sitting around the round table, merlin steps forward and is like: ‘I need to confess that I have magic, but also that I have returned from the future.’ And everyone just whips around and is like ‘YOU TOO??!’ And then they realise that they’ve all returned and wasted their time thinking they were alone.
It’s the fact that when enchanted!Merlin calls Gwaine filthy, instead of a hands-out, “What the hell, man?” he just turns into a kicked puppy.
…Or perhaps, more accurately, a pangolin.
Let it be known that I also love Morgana x Gwen but they usually flirt pretty normally aside from the whole evil Morgana manipulation plot point but I couldn’t find a good screenshot to encapsulate that
You know what, really angst gravity falls material/headcannon I have!
Just imagine young Bill is telling his parents about the shining small lights he sees. Only for his parents to look at their son with concern, but his parents just chalk it up to just be his wild imagination.
Now, as years go by, as Bill gets older, he is growing more and more angry. Saying stuff like, "There are lights in the sky! Look, one fell, quick make a wish!"
Now Bill is too old for this type of stuff, so his parents grow more concerned and realize they can no longer just go with, "it just his wild imagination!" So they take him to the doctor and get Bill medicine.
Not knowing this just pushed Bill off the edge some more......
Now, the day came... now Euclid and Scalece could only watch as their son slowly destroyed their home. But as they slowly met their demise, they looked up to tiny lights in the sky... but as the dimension fabric started to destroy itself even faster, Euclid and Scalece looked at each other one last time. Then, they looked at the sky again.
3 perfect stars, but as the two big stars started to fall, they both said their first and last wish.
Now, all that is left behind of them and that night. Is their most prize possessions. Their bow, top hat, and most of all, their son.....
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Do you have any fics where they watch Merlin? Thanks.
Here’s what we’ve got for you:
Time Travel and TV
Growth in Magic (WIP)
Who You Really Are (just Arthur watching)
Life Outside the Shadows
Different Eyes (WIP)
The Past is Key (WIP)
There’s a community with fics but most are WIPs.
You know what would be funny? If Gwaine 'I'm a noble who thinks knights are silly' and Lancelot 'My only dream is to be a knight' were at Camelot at the same time.
Why it would be funny is because you know Merlin would be like 'I have a great solution'
And either convinces Gwaine to 'trade' places I.E. give Lancelot his seal of nobility or convince them to pretend to be brothers.
Which lead to shennanagains where Gwaine has to teach Lancelot how to act like a noble and Lancelot having to act like none of this is new and confusing to him
Also gaslighting Arthur, 'what do you mean that's not the way, I've done it this way my entire life' and it's not a lie it's just a commoner's way.
Gwaine is having the time of his life doing chores with Merlin and flirting with Morgana and generally making a nuisance of himself.
They also both know of his magic so there are those shennanagains going on, Gwaine swearing Merlin was in the tavern with him all night and Lancelot too, of course, he was there, someone had to carry Merlin home because Lancelot and Merlin are both missing, off fighting whatever evil is trying to kill Arthur/Uther this hour of the day.
Just imagine how funny it would be.
thinking about how immortal merleon actually get together
they might have been attracted to each other in camelot, but i think they both would have been too busy to realize it, especially merlin
the first few years without the others are hard. theyre in mourning and so they never consider their feelings
once they start to move on, they part ways for a while, trying to figure out who they are individually in this new life
they find each other again, of course, then drift off, then back together, many times over the years.
theyre never surprised when they find their way back to each other, it just makes sense to be back with the other
one day, after about 150 years, merlin mentions that his magic always seems calmer when he's with leon. he can control it better, like in the golden days of camelot when he was surrounded by everyone he loved.
it takes another 30+ years (they both stopped counting after a while) for leon to realize why it always felt so right being together
he'd loved the man for hundreds of years, its why he always instictively looks for him, even if he knows he's nowhere around
its why when they finally find each other again, he feels like he can breathe properly.
at first he isnt sure if merlin feels the same, but then he remembers merlin's magic comes as easy to him as breathing. they feel the exact same way
so he plucks up the courage to say something the next time he sees the man.
which somehow happens to be the very next day, almost as if merlin felt the same pull in his chest that leon was feeling
leon doesnt hesitate to tell merlin how he feels, and how long he thinks he's felt it
merlin, of course, beams at him and tells him he had just had the same epiphany the day before
they never part after that.
It started small, with a sausage, a bit of egg, a few berries missing from Arthur's plate. He wouldn’t have noticed had Merlin not had traces of his thievery left on his lips.
Not that Arthur paid attention to Merlin's lips. Never. He wouldn’t.
Instead he requested the kitchen staff in person to increase his portions. It wasn’t by much but enough so Merlin could get his tribute and Arthur had enough energy for training with the knights.
Slowly the portions increased further, not that Arthur ate more, while the prince watched his manservant fill out his clothes, his face becoming softer although his cheek bones still stood out.
Now, if asked Arthur would deny it even under threat of death, but he was less scared for Merlin when he couldn't feel his vertebrae through at least two layers of clothing, or count his ribs whenever his tunic clung to his body.
With finally enough food Merlin built up muscle, the gangly boy turning into a handsome man. And Arthur knew he shouldn't look but there Merlin was, shouldering open his door while sneaking a raspberry into his mouth, the pink juice glistening on his lips. "Rise and shine, it's a beautiful day!"
Arthur rolled his eyes in exasperation. "Beautiful day and yet you have half your breakfast smeared over your face." His hand held Merlin's chin as the other gently wiped away the traces of fruit.
Arthur licked his thumb clean.
"The harvest was good this summer. I hope the fall has similar results." He humms in content.
Merlin stands and stares at him like a startled deer, his face slowly reddening in a blush and Arthur wonders how far it extends.
"My clothes for the day, Merlin. We have a lot to do," he reminds the servant as he begins his meal.
Merlin huffs and turns, barely missing the satisfied smile on Arthur's face.
Straight is a concept that Arthur's court rejected. No but really now, queer people flock together, you always find them in groups, so what makes you think the Knights of Camelot were different? Most of them were crushing on both Gwen and Merlin.