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Based on @onceandfuturehighpriestess ‘s post!

Yes he would like to have a list!

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time traveling au inspired by this post by @mountmortar

feat. confused af arthur and tired at life merlin

more of this au

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Echoes

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#bbc merlin spoilers

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uther: fuck sorcerers

arthur: alrighty

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Merlin: I have a bad feeling about this.

Arthur: What do you mean?

Merlin: Don't you ever get that little voice in your head that tells you if you're going to get into trouble?

Arthur: No?

Merlin: … That actually explains so much.

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One thing that almost always bothers me about Merlin fics, but is not just the norm, but the rule:

When Arthur tries to repeal the magic ban, it is always the "stuffy old councilmen" who oppose him. Meanwhile, the one or two younger advisors are the ones who are in favor.

Now, I understand why that is. People look at real life and of course, they put it in fics. So if you see that it's the old people who stand against what you fight for, you would imagine that would happen in fantasy as well.

See, here's the thing though: in the Merlin universe, I guarantee that the older people would be the ones who would approve of magic coming back.

And the reason is the very same reason why you despise the elders here today: they are stuck in the old ways, so to speak.

Those men who are 60 or 70 under Arthur's rule would have been 40 or 50 when the purge happened. They would have already been used to a world with magic and would have fought against such an old tradition being outlawed.

Instead, the young men of 30 or even 20, would hardly know a world in which magic was known to be good and everywhere. For them, it would be an old dangerous thing that only mad old people with bad intentions would want to reinstate.

They are people who grew up like Arthur. Indoctrinated by Uther's propaganda. The ones who grew up only seeing magic's destruction.

Of course, this is fiction, YOUR fiction. So you can decide who the bad guys are. But realistically it would be someone older to not only support the return to the old ways but to push for it.

Would they be against Arthur marrying a servant? (a man????????) yes... That's very likely. But not when it comes to magic.

(Of course, there are always exceptions... But still)

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Quietly sliding back into my merlin fixation

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This was supposed to be all three completed of course, but I can’t draw actual human faces for the life of me, let alone the same human faces more than once! This is all there is, goodbyyyyyyyye

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As easy as breathing…

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ruh roh raggy!

INSTAGRAM | TIKTOK

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this is a post about arthur's bracelets

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brushing the king's hair! just normal servant things... apparently (it's canon, and i live because of it >:])

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Yadda yadda yadda that Reddit post about how he had no power to change anything yet everything is his fault

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Arthur Pendragon 🫡🫡🫡

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idk what this is

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