#fuck agravaine

[that-nerd-who-writes-fanfiction]

Rewatching Merlin season 4 reminds me just how much I hate Agravane.

I just got up to the Alator episode where Gwaine finds Agravane about to kill Gaius and despite being suspicious just does nothing?!

I get having priorities, Gaius needed medical attention and whatever, but later on he should’ve said something to Merlin or Arthur.

The writers did Gwaine so dirty after he became a knight.

I’ve never been so inclined to start playing fifty two card pick up with every orifice on a man’s face than I am having to watch 13 episodes of that snake skin, oil slick, unwashed shit stain. Why Arthur ever decided to trust Agravane is a mystery to me.

I kinda wish there was some more context there than just “surprise, conveniently evil uncle for all your plot device needs”

I don’t know what I want that context to be, my headcanons are mostly more graphic ways Merlin could’ve killed him in the caves, but there should be something. Like a way to prove himself to Arthur or something he did instead of just showing up out of the blue.

Then again, Morgana turned evil between seasons off camera so I don’t know why I’m expecting much.

#bbc merlin #merlin #merlin emrys #arthur pendragon #gwaine #sir gwaine #gaius merlin #agravaine #fuck agravaine #merlin bbc #i’m bad at tagging #ramblings #headcanon #morgana

[krug3r2312]

Did you hear my covert narcissism

I might disguise as altruism

Like some kind of congressman

Tale as old as time

I wake up screaming from dreaming

One day I'll watch as you're leaving

And life will lose all its meaning

For the last time...

#bbc merlin #anti hero #taylor swift #midnights #merlin #merlin x arthur #merthur #lyric quotes #merlin is the antihero #camelot #incorrect merlin quotes #merlin emrys #arthur pendragon #morgana #fuck uther #fuck agravaine #agravaine #the knights of the round table

[theroguequeenaniki]

“I’ve already had my heart broken enough today I don’t want to lose another friend”

Merlin should have hit hard and said you already have…maybe that would have knocked some sense into Arthur’s stupid head.

#merch #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #gaius #fuck Agravaine #s4 ep7 #first time watching

[emrys-merlin]

We’ll deal with your uncle later.

#merlin #merthur #merlin bbc #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merlin 4x12 #merlin season 4 #my gifs #fuck agravaine :D #merlinedit

[chronicowboy]

god the start of season 4 when agravaine is shamelessly manipulating arthur, trying to craft him into uther so he's more justified in his hatred of him, trying to isolate arthur from the people he cares about because its not proper or a sign of strength, and the fact that it works !! or it should, it almost does, but agravaine didn't account for merlin. merlin who isn't just a manservant, isn't just a kinda-sorta friend, isn't just an informal advisor, but is arthur's main pillar of support and council, merlin who would never let arthur lock himself away all alone, merlin who pushes arthur to the fucking limit and suffers his rages and his insults just so that arthur knows there's someone there. yeah, fuck, its all well and good that merlin's willing to die for him, but idk for me its the smaller acts of unwavering devotion that make merthur so fucking good.

#sami rambles #its just like. merlin will take all the insults and the 'you're not my friend's as along as arthur knows that he has a friend #and fuck idk #im not coherent enough about s4 merthur its too good #the perfect cross-section of silly wizard show and tragedy #bbc merlin #merlin #merthur #merlin x arthur #arthur pendragon #agravaine

[mortiscausa]

i can't stop thinking how funny it would be if gareth's brothers did in fact recognise him and were just like 'well clearly he has his reasons so let's all be good big bros and pretend we don't know him' and then spend the next few weeks before he goes off on his quest pretending extremely badly that they have never ever met this kitchen boy before nope not at all even while other knights are looking at them and looking at gareth and going 'hmmm'

#gawain can't resist giving weird brotherly pep talks every time he passes him like 'keep up the good work kid! we're all rooting for you!' #and then turns to ragnelle to whisper loudly 'that was ok that was normal and convincing right' while she rolls her eyes #gaheris bumps into him in a corridor and startles like a deer and is like 'hahaha random kitchen boy i certainly have never met before what #fine weather we are having in these parts hahaha i shall be leaving now through the door over there good bye' and then #walks into a broom cupboard and has to awkwardly back out again while gareth stands there #holding a broom that he was just about to put back in the broom cupboard #agravaine nearly manages to pass by without incident while gareth is scrubbing floors but at the last second brotherly instinct takes over #and he kicks the bucket of suds over yelling 'you missed a spot dickwad!' before sprinting away #gareth is just 'wow my brothers are bigger freaks and weirdos than i remember i don't want to be associated with these losers' #meanwhile arthur is like 'kay can you please just tell them all that you know who he is because i cannot take this farce much longer' #kay: ... oh so now im not allowed to have fun am i? fucking tyrant

[queer-ragnelle]

every orkney bro is a wife guy. for your information.

#arthurian legend #arthuriana #arthurian legends #arthurian mythology #gawain #sir gawain #agravaine #agravain #sir agravaine #sir agravain #gaheris #sir gaheris #gareth #sir gareth #mordred #sir mordred #my post #don’t fuck with me i have receipts

[repmet]

Still can't get over how Arthur knew there was a traitor in S4, narrowed it down to Agravaine or Gaius, cleared Gaius completely then went 'damn guess we have no more leads :/'

#bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #ngl i dont mind arthur's emotional stuntedness to a point #he had uther as a dad #but this fucking plot makes me want to hit his head against a brick wall #merlins a better person than i am #as soon as arthur saw agravaine was the traitor #id have been like 'damn whod have seen that coming' #'oh thats right' #'you fucking donut' #then again im not in love with him... #i mean s4 and 5 in general just make a lot of terrible choices

[pieplease]

Feeling bad? feeling weird? Not to worry! Write Merthur fic! It doesn't really fix anything, but then you have Merthur fic! How lovely.

#merlin #merthur #mine #I have written what? 3 AUs in the pat 3 days? #robin hood au #map maker merlin! au #bamf!merlin #he's fun to write #also the plot of one of them is just #what if merlin was undergoing torture and barely lucid and his inner monologue was just #'fuck agravaine. what an asshole'

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

poor Lleu. he's the last one to get the incest memo

#the winter prince #elizabeth wein #also Agravain what the fuck #at least Medraut has the excuse that he was traumatized #tw child abuse mention #I mean it's heavily implied #jewel reads stuff

[adhd-merlin]

OK I already put this in the reblog tags but I find the morgana and agravaine dynamic quite compelling. like I wanna know more. why did he side with her over his own family. I know we get hints that he has romantic feelings towards her. but where did this come from... I know everyone likes to hate agravaine and I do too but I still wanna know more

which is funny because Morgana was clearly a lesbian

#asks #no that's valid though #it was fascinating in a disturbing kind of way #it certainly added to his creepiness #I still don't know how I feel about agravaine as a character though #he got the most random introduction #or rather no introduction at all #'I have an uncle now and I trust him with my life' #who the fuck is he arthur?? #where did he even come from

[gringolet]

”my lord sayd Agrauayye I shal telle yow that I may kepe noo lenger”

Le Morte D’Arthur book XX chapter II

details under the cut

god this took so long please rb u have no idea how close i am to snapping lol

#arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian literature #agravaine #lancelot #arturiana #its not perfect but its done i dont care #oh fuck i gotta go to work

[nextstopparis]

“the kingdoms my responsibility and mine to bear alone” OK THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU TAKING ALL YOUR ADVICE FROM AGRAVAINE SJSNSISNSKSNSKSN MAKE IT MAK E SENSE GOOD GOD

#like i SWEAR if they actually let arthur have his own agency when he’d first become king things wouldve been so FUCKING different #like couldnt they have waited until the SECOND half of s4 to i trodu e agravaine cOULD ARTHUR NOT HAVE PLEASE JUST BEEN GIVEN THE CHANCE #JESUS FUCKING CHRIST #IM SO SKSNSKSNKSNSKS IM SO MAD AT HIM

[emrys-merlin]

Here's a question for you (since I really love the takes you have on this godforsaken show (/affectionate)) if you would like to answer - how would you change Agravaine as a villain so he's less mustache-twirling-evil and a bit more fully-fleshed-character-with-reasonable-motivations?

You know, i wouldn't change Agravaine as a villain, because i don't think he was a bad villain.

He hated Arthur for being his father's child, but he didn't hate Morgana for the same thing. And if he loved Ygraine so much then he must know she'd likely be appalled that he's betraying her only child. That didn't happen. BECAUSE HE WAS A CREEP IN LOVE WITH MORGANA. That's the point of the character. He didn't care for his sister. She was just an excuse. He wanted power and Morgana.

I do think this is part of the tragedy for Arthur. Agravaine's betrayal is so senselessly cruel, so pointless, so inexplicable, and so, so damaging.

Agravaine was good as a villain, because he plays into Arthur's weaknesses so well. Until episode 7, where Arthur suspects either Gaius or Agravaine. Suddenly Gaius then becomes super sus, but is later found to be innocent. So logically, that would be the end of it, right? It's obviously Agravaine.

But nope, Arthur just never mentions it again.

That's why it's mostly annoying, because the 'smart' part of how the villains manage to stay undercover often comes at the expanse of other characters being made to look like idiots. Which is so sad, because they all start off as amazing ly smart, but then just get lucky because everyone else is oblivious or forgets because it's not the season finale yet…

#merlin #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #morgana pendragon #agravaine #fuck agravaine :d #merlin bbc

[fluffypotatey]

Cornelius Sigan you say?

bestie 👀 i got notes for this shit. too tired to share it at the moment but tomorrow.

anyway, yeah i just think there's untapped potential with that character. like say we keep ep1s2 the way it is. that stays. but come s4 we got Agravaine trying his best to isolate Arthur from his allies (Merlin, Gaius, Gwen, his Knights), and i can't remember currently if he was just interested in the vault with magical items or if he just used them to accuse others of sorcerer

BUT say he learns about the stone that's in the vault. how much does he know? enough to know it's powerful and would be a great token for Morgana. so he gifts it to her and oops Sigan is released by them and Morgana and Sigan form and alliance to defeat Emrys and bring an end to Camelot.

this is not concise or a great explanation but I just think what we've been shown of this dude (possession, great powerful magic almost on par with Merlin, craves being immortal -> envious of Merlin's own immortality -> could be an interesting plot thread to use) it would cool to expand on that ya know?

#anyway most of the notes i do have for this is for a wip of mine #how i even get sigan involved in the story is because my oc fucking HATES him and wants to destroy his stone but just smashing it won't wor #agravaine spies her always sneaking into the vault and notes how much time she pays to that stone so he's like 'must be a powerful relic' #anyway her storyline's tragic but in the best way 🙂 #bbc merlin #cornelius sigan #untapped potential antagonist bbc merlin slept on #headcanon??? idk #canon divergence? yes #asks #also i chose sigan as my antatoginst to play with bc he only has that episode & they hype him but for what???? #just to be defeated by some twink who still barely realizes his powers and that he's technically immortal smh

[duologies]

nobody understands my xianxia novel except for my friends

#i won't lie talking about it is kind of really fucking hard. because there's so much shit people don't get right off the bat- #so i have to explain a lot. well nini and agravain understand. so hi 👋 #entry