imagine what the ealdor villagers must have thought of merlin. when he lived there they thought he was a bit odd, probably accident prone, on the outside, bit of a funny guy. he had exactly one friend. all of a sudden he leaves to go to fucking camelot of all places. why? stfu we don't need a why. they think nothing of it and forget about him.
IMAGINE THEIR REACTION WHEN HE RANDOMLY SHOWS UP WITH THE FUCKING PRINCE OF CAMELOT, THEIR ENEMY, FOLLOWING HIM LIKE A LOST PUPPY. I WOULD BE SHOCKED OUT OF MY FUCKING SKIN IF A LITTLE WEIRDO REAPPEARED HAVING BAGGED A PRINCE. NO WONDER WILL WAS SUSPICIOUS. WHY IS AN ENEMY PRINCE HERE. WHY IS HE HARDCORE FLIRTING WITH MY BESTIE. WHY IS HE SO WHIPPED.
Oh my gosh this is actually so cool though!! I didn’t know this!!
Fourth person uses plural first pronouns for the narrator/titular character(s)
An example might be instead of:
‘I sit in the chair by the window’ Or ‘Jon sits in the chair by the window’
‘We sit in the chair by the window’
Here’s an excerpt from The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides that uses 4th person:
“It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
My favorite thing about merthur is how utterly little Arthur knows about Merlin. Like he doesn’t know he has magic, he doesn’t know what he does when he disappears for days on end-hell, he thinks he spends it all in the tavern. He watches merlin sleep on the floor, make him rat soup, pretty obviously lie about many, many things, and still he’s just like “yeah that one. I want that one. Give him to me”
I’d love to see an outsider POV fic where Merthur is involved bc it had to be WILD to see Arthur try to kill Merlin TWICE when he first came to Camelot to hearing rumors Arthur went against Uthers wishes to save Merlin from a poison AND help his village. All the way to the Prince dragging Merlin OUT OF THE THRONE ROOM?
POV: you’re having a conversation with thomas shelby at the pub. (background music/noise does not belong to me)
i made this a while back and i’ve always wondered if i should write a fic based on this, based on their conversation, why they’ve decided to have a drink together? are they reconnecting after many years?
this pov has been inspiring a lot of ideas for a fic, let me know what you think is happening, any ideas that spark from this pov for a fic. i’m curious to know what you all think. hope you like it!