*merlins magic gets exposed in front of the knights*
merlin, magic user: oh fuck
arthur, finally taking this opportunity to pretend as if he just found out merlin has magic after agonizing for the past month on how to bring it up: you have magic?
lancelot, merlin defender, already knew of merlin’s magic: no! i have magic
gwaine, merlin defender, already knew of merlin’s magic, lover of chaos, ride or die: no, i have magic!
mordred, desperate for his hero’s approval bc no matter what he’s done emrys just stares at him with distrust and the poor boy is tired and so close to tears: no…i have magic.
percival, raised by druids and bonded strongly with mordred over that and does Not agree with the persecution of magic in camelot, had an inkling that merlin had magic but no proof: no. i have magic.
*leon and elyan exchange a look, elyan, amused and leon, exhausted, elyan shrugs*
elyan, knows how much gwen adores merlin and completely understands her stance bc merlin…is merlin, down to clown and put on a show, really playing up the dramatics: no! i have magic.
leon, exhausted, has known of merlin’s magic since he stepped foot in camelot, knows of his feelings for arthur and arthur’s feelings for him, knows arthur knows of merlin’s magic and wouldn’t harm him, thinks everyone is being absolutely ridiculous:
*the knights stare hard at leon and even merlin looks slightly offended at leon not jumping to his defense with the rest of the knights, arthur hasn’t said anything and is staring at leon expectantly*
it makes me laugh when I go on twitter or tiktok and see people complaining that alicent and rhaenyra were the only two posters to be released first because it’s just like….people still don’t want to acknowledge that this is THEIR story at the end of the day. everything in this plot revolves around these two women and their relationship with each other. everyone is simply a side player to their show
merlin absolutely baffles me every day. cos he’s a small lad (minus s5 merlin 🥰 but that’s a topic for another day) and quite unassuming, but he has absolutely zero social anxiety, and simply does not get embarrassed ever.
bro rocks up to Camelot on his first day and just picks a fight with this random bulked up dude WHO TURNS OUT TO BE THE PRINCE. and the next day, after having been briefly thrown in jail for his antics, just starts calling this dude names, firing off OUTRAGEOUS insults to the point the guy is left completely speechless, cos why is this peasant boy sassing me and why am I allowing it? and then bro gets in a physical fight with this guy. mind you, this guy is twice the size of merlin and also happens to be a KNIGHT, who has trained in combat his whole life. AND MERLIN JUST SENDS IT, using magic left right and centre, in front of a massive crowd of people, to ABSOLUTELY DESTROY THIS DUDE.
and then no explanation or apology, merlin casually saves this guy from a dagger to the heart, and proceeds to flirt with him for the next ten years. like???!!!
and there are so many examples of this absolutely shameless behaviour across the series. it is absolutely hilarious, terrifying and strangely commendable.
one thing about merlin is that he will not give a single fuck ever.
Obsessed with the fact that in the two towers when they're hunting the orcs that took Merry and Pippin, Legolas is like "the smell of trees...better than any sleep! Let's keep going!" And Gimli is like "please I'm begging, I would like a rest, just five minutes"
It's Mumbo who approaches Doc. His suit is askew, and he's loosened his tie, which is generally a very bad sign. Mumbo, for all he's a very poorly put-together person, normally leaves his clothes well put-together unless things have somehow gone very wrong indeed.
"Tell me, Doc," Mumbo says. "After the whole Easter Egg thing that I heard about--"
"I was very normal, comparatively!" Doc protests. "I was very, very normal!"
Mumbo pauses. "You know, I left town, so I can't dispute that."
Doc nods vigorously. "You can't dispute it at all. And, eh, Ren, if you're going to yell about him, he didn't have any eggs. He was briefly False's pet dog, though. I think it, eh, traumatized him."
Mumbo looks faintly dizzy. "Right. That. How did we solve that again?"
"That was all Cleo and Jevin," Doc says. "I know Cub has some of the surviving remnants in his museum. Why do you ask? Oh no, don't tell me you secretly still have one of the babies! What if it's lost and alone?"
"No, no, nothing like that! It's just that you dropped several thousand dragon eggs on Grian's base, is all."
Doc smirks. "A cunning revenge--"
"You covered Grian's base. In eggs," Mumbo says, very slowly, as though Doc might be particularly stupid. Doc stares back.
"Yeah. It's karmic revenge for the chickens," Doc says back, equally slowly.
"Doc I wasn't there but remind me how Grian reacted last time to the eggs," Mumbo says.
Doc thinks about it for a moment.
Doc's eyes widen.
"Mumbo, please tell me Grian is not--"
"The good news is that I think the server would crash if they hatched," Mumbo says mildly. "The bad news is that I'm his neighbor, and I very much want to kill you now."
"You're joking," Doc says, struck suddenly with the vision of what it would be like to live next to a Grian who is attempting to get broody over thousands of dragon eggs at once.
"Die," Mumbo says, and pulls out an end crystal. Doc doesn't even move. He deserves this one.
Hey. I'm just saying. It'd be really fucking funny to pretend the king died on April Fools. You could probably trick a couple people.
hi friends! while i do respect april 1st/ april fools i don’t think it would be ethical to use my position to make up lies about tampon charlie’s death. especially because it could cause people to celebrate prematurely.
rather what we will do is say that everyone should send him the most RANCID energy today (like to charge reblog to cast)