#in memory of merlin

[myths-and-girls]

Bleh

#lizard #bearded dragon #beardie #reptilien #reptiles #Arthur #herptology #herptiblr #reptiblr #in memory of merlin

[adhd-merlin]

#yes I'm aware I could break these into smaller posts. no I'm not going to #“earnest sex with my genuine wife” cracks me up idek why #sorry if any of these has been done I didn't mean to plagiarise you #I can't even remember if *I* have already used any of these my memory is shit #merlin memes #text post meme #bbcm #merlin #bbc merlin #merlin text posts #*

[hopelessromantic5]

Merlin loses his memory.

Well, most of it.

“Merlin, what day of the week is it?”

The dazed look came back over Merlin’s face.

“Haven’t the foggiest.”

Arthur’s stomach plummeted into the Earth.

“Do you remember my name?” The mighty King of Camelot was nowhere to be found when these words were whispered in the depths of the Darkling Wood.

At some point, without his permission, Arthur had grabbed Merlin by the biceps, holding him there, as if he would run away.

The other man scanned Arthur’s face, starting with his jaw, his lips, moving up over the slope of his nose. He reaches the top, a mop of golden blonde hair, but then drops his eyes back down again. Freezing there. Their gazes locked.

Merlin‘s face shifts to an odd expression. One Arthur doesn’t think he’s ever seen, at least not without all the Merlin barriers over top.

This was something pure, yet Arthur still did not have a name for it. This disconcerted him even farther because Arthur knew every look on that beautiful face. A frustrated scowl before it’s fully formed, a quick retort on the tip of his tongue that must be held back due to present company (to which Arthur usually throws him a self-satisfied smirk and a quirked eyebrow, as if daring Merlin to say it anyway).

“No, I don’t know your name.” Merlin whispered softly, warm breaths carrying on the wind in the short space between them, and caressing Arthur’s face like a summer breeze.

The King could hear his own heart cracking, echoing through his rib cage. The first crack of a lake after an unforgiving winter.

Merlin did not allow it to take hold entirely, though.

“But I remember your eyes.” Came the second half of Merlin’s reply.

Arthur Pendragon almost collapsed out of pure affection right then and there.

Merlin would surely be his downfall.

#merthur #merlin #merlin and arthur #arthur pendragon #merthur fic #memory loss #just a clip #from the drafts

[dragoncall]

so I was clearing out my room and look what I found, my merlin calendar from 2013 ☠️

All I wanna know is where tf is the 2023 merlin calendar bbc ????

#also I wonder how I did in that biology exam #merthur #merlin #bbc merlin #bradley james #arthur pendragon #merlin bbc #merlin emrys #merlin x arthur #eoin macken #gwaine #colin morgan #merlin calendar #2013 #memories #throwback #nostalgia

[achillesuwu]

Post-return & reincarnated Arthur but it’s Arthur, 6 years old, trying to learn how to send a letter to the Great Emrys after he saw him on TV then crying when his father tells him he won’t read it. Then Arthur 14 year old trying to learn magic because he wants to be ‘’Merlin’s apprentice’’ but falling miserably.

Some sort of 5+1 times, 5 times Arthur tried to come back to merlin and one times he succeed

#merthur #I just noticed that this could also be a ‘before Arthur got his memory back he developed a frankly embarrassing celebrity crush on his #bestie and now he has to live with the fact that all his friends know and now they KNOW’’ #which could be endlessly funny #arthur : *say something * #Morgana : Sorry I can’t hear you over your ONE METER AND 50 CENTIMETERS LONG 89 CENTIMETERS WIDE poster of MERlin #and your 15 CENTIMETERS HIGHT AND 10 CENTI- #Arthur : MORGANA #Merlin : his what now #arthur pendragon #arthur returns #my shit #immortal merlin #merlin emrys #merlin bbc

[lizstiel]

arthur gave him his mother’s sigil

#bro can you even #can you fathom that #'i have no memory of my mother. #she is both myth and something so beloved. #she gave her life for me to be born #and i never got to tell her i loved her. #this belonged to her. i carry it with me. #it is something precious to me just like you are something precious to me. #so take it. #it's yours.' #like??????????????????????????? #nah that's like #that hits different #AH #merlin #merthur

[druid-boy-punk]

mordred got grounded for a month after this

#my art #merlin fanart #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #mordred #good mordred #good morgana #morgana pendragon #arthur pendragon #merthur #< because i’m delusional #false prophecies au #context is that in this au merlin kinda took mordred under his wing but decided it was safer for him to be with the druids #after a few year mordred gets knighted without merlin knowing and merlin is his mother hen self #we stan drunk morgana #also in this au the reason why arthur doesn’t recognize mordred isn’t because he got a shot memory but because mordred is trans now #that right i transed another character #trans mordred #Spotify

[mirayladraws]

Ahh good to be back to my boy!

Have some sketches of the character who is muscle memory for me by now ahaha

#my art #digital art #art #fanart #fantasy #merlin #bbc merlin #merlin emrys #emrys #merlin fanart #merlin fandom #sketch #he is muscle memory by now i can’t help it #my precious baby

[merlinssaggyyfronts]

i just think theres so much more to that time merlin was freeze-dying (get it? like freeze drying? im funny i swear) from the dorocha attack. like what if after those events, hes become extra sensitive to the cold??

like that man absolutely cannot STAND the cold, it not only brings back bad memories (and, unfortunately, reminds him of lancelot) but his body as an in general is weaker to it. so hes always looking for warmth- im talking sitting practically inches away from the fire, stealing blankets, jackets (particularly arthur-), cloaks (particularly arthurs)- you get the gist

and the others catch on, obviously- though they dont realise the severity of it til merlin nearly lights his arm on fire on a particularly chilly night on a hunt (“MERLIN what on EARTH DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?!” “im cold” “you’re ON FIRE” “im cold :(” “?!?!”)

after that arthur, the knights and gwen start gifting him little things- an old cloak arthur insists is too damaged and fugly to wear (its in nearly perfect condition), one of elyan’s old jackets he’d long since outgrown from gwen

and the knights, well their gift to merlin is their physical body heat (gwaine in particularly enjoys holding onto merlin like a koala with the excuse of keeping him warm. the only reason arthur doesnt kill him for it is cause of merlins content smile at being warm)

#also ive had this idea in my head of merlin going into lancelots room after his passing and wearing his clothes over his own #cause with lancelot was the last time he ever felt warm #and gwen finds him and they mourn together #i just think there were fanfic opportunities here #like merlin is a dragonlord (lizard) so #hes probably not good at regulating his body temp #the knights r like his heat mat or something #honorable mentions are leon gifting merlin new boots and percy knitting him mittens #elyan (who i still think really likes amphibians and by extention reptiles) probably redesigns merlins room to be a proper habitat for him💀 #but like sorry my memory of merlin is rlly rusty! i havent been able to rewatch it ever since netflix took it down #and plus its been years since my hyperfixation ended #tho its recently come back… anyway #bbc merlin #merlin #merlin emrys #lancelot du lac #lancelot #the dorocha #the darkest hour

[adhd-merlin]

I've read few Merlin fics but I love those that fully lean into the Eccentric Wizard™ trope. Stuff like, yeah, he's married to a woman who lives in a lake! He once went slightly mad and spent a decade at the bottom of a well. He got drunk on magic and moved Mars slightly more to the left. More of this shit, please.

#these are all vague references to fics I've read #and before you come at me - no they're NOT 100% exact #'he didn't actually move Mar–' I KNOW #they are not exact examples this is just about the vibes ok #also my memory is shit #merlin #fanfiction #fandom

[ravennhearted]

Thought about Arthur Pendragon a little too hard today and made myself cry

#merlin #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #I say this is merthur because this is both me thinking about Arthur and also Merlin thinking about Arthur #like the boy just #thinks #and his dead lover in a lakes memory makes him cry

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

in the same way that I wasn't born gay, I saw katie mcgrath in merlin when I was 9 and that made me gay - I wasn't born autistic, I saw david tennant in doctor who when I was 10 and that made me autistic

#i love that silly skinny space man #my doctor who special interest had been sitting dormant for a decade and it's coming back with a vengeance #it truly unlocked something in me #a core memory for me: in year 6 we had to do a presentation about any topic we wanted and I hate public speaking but #I was sooo excited to talk about doctor who. I spent so long on my presentation and I brought in all my memorabilia to show the class #and everyone laughed at me and I didn't understand why #huh that was actually maybe traumatising #ah hindsight #anyway #bbc merlin #merlin #katie mcgrath #doctor who #david tennant

[theroundbartable]

Merlin: What happened? Where am I?

Arthur: you were unconscious. And you're still here.

Merlin with temporary amnesia: you're a stupid one, aren't you?

#shout out to the guy who 'helped me' when i had amnesia for like 2 minutes after donating blood and passing out #you sucked #thanks for your help though #bbc Merlin #merthur #amnesia #memory loss #concept

[camelotsheart]

arthur and morgana telling each other that they're not as different from uther as they'd like to think is such a raw 'i can stab you where it hurts' moment because they're calling each other out on the affection they had for someone who had mostly caused them harm throughout their childhood and adult life. they're calling out their inability to let go of a twisted love that had shaped them into the person they are, no matter how much they tried to stop uther from carving them in his image

#and in the end i think they both ended up acknowledging how they'll never be able to let go of arthur #like. morgana's 'uther taught me well' #and arthur saying to mithian 'if it was my father i would have don't the same' #literally the episode after he went up against his father's ghost #it's so interesting actually because morgana ends up remembering uther's memory mostly through his hate and her hate for him #and arthur remembers it through the lens of 'i disagree with and despise the values you stand for but i acknowledge #that i cant stop loving you' so he remembers uther through the lens of love - mostly #and aaaaaaaah. i think thats just a really nice parallel with them #bbc merlin #pendragons #arthur #morgana

[arthurslesbian]

reincarnation au where merlin is a historian and works as a museum curator and has always been drawn to the legend of arthur though he doesn't know why

and he's enchanted by arthur, though he feels silly about it, having a crush just through tales of him, and his friends at the museum, morgana, lancelot and gwaine, tease him about it

one day, they receive a statue of arthur and he feels so drawn to it, and a few weeks later, as he's staying back to work late after everyone's gone home, he can't help but step up close to it, reaching out to touch reverently

and he can't help it, he feels so drawn to arthur, that he tentatively places a hand on his cheek and leans in to touch the statue's lips with his own in a soft kiss

when all of a sudden, memories of his previous life at arthur's side rushes through him, his eyes flashing gold, and the statue comes to life, and it's arthur, he's back, he's back, finally -

#merthur #fic idea #look i can't really write 😭 and ik this is cheesy as fuck lmao #but i just think it'd be cute 😭 #and then arthur would be like merlin??? where the hell am i meanwhile merlin is sobbing in his arms #and he's just like ???? #and then ofc they'd have to adjust #arthur to modern life and merlin to his memories and his magic and his apparently soulmate level connection to arthur 😭 #and arthur would recognize the others who had ofc been in wait for his return not that they knew that 😭 #and then ofc arthur would come to realize merlin's feelings for him and his own for merlin and they'd get together 🥺 #my lil version of true love's kiss #🤧 #and disclaimer i have no idea about arthurian legend or working in a museum jgddgjkhgd

[origamihoshi]

Help I played @oneknightstand-if's demo for their game and I can't stop thinking about the MC and how much I love them, so I drew my version of them.

Her name is Maika (but she's now going by Meika because names have power and there's noway she's going to tell an incubus her real name so why not just change one letter). She doesn't trust any of her allies, but to be fair one is a incubus and the other is a guy from her polo club she think is stalking her so she thinks she has some good reasons not to trust them, but it's okay because she has her beloved plant Audrey III and her magic 8 ball and surely they will never betray her.

I also didn't realize you can avoid getting possessed but when I think about it, it fits her very well that not be able to keep demons out of her head.

I love my weirdo amnesiac changeling who needs to stand out and make sure all eyes are on her, and wishes she could be a fairy princess instead of working in fast food.

#My Drawings #oneknightstand #one knight stand #oks-MC #oks MC #everyone keeps talking about King Arthur and Camelot and she has no idea what any of that is #and blames werewolves for everything #she wants to use magic so badly #but the only magic person she knows is Merlin and she doesn't trust them even if they healed her #and maybe helped push the demons out of her head? #I feel kind of bad for Adrian because he seems like a nice person but Maika keeps running into him and so she thinks he's stalking her #and I don't know if anything will ever change that #once she believes something it's hard to change her mind #she woke up in a desert with no memories and has no idea what her childhood was like #all she knows is that she's a changeling and it sucks that she can't use any cool powers because of that #what's the point of being nonhuman if you can't do anything cool? #her greatest power is lucid dreaming but I don't know how useful that's going to be for her #if dreaming means talking with Arthur and maybe the lady of the lake that probably won't go anywhere #because she most likely won't trust them #I love the fact you can make MC fucking weird as fuck and have nothing normal about them #I don't know if she's going to romance anyone when she can't seem to trust anyone #maybe sleep with people #her vice is lust after all #but fall in love? #I don't know