12 Years Since Merlin’s Finale

Merlin: why can’t you just admit your feelings?!

Arthur: Cause nothing can ever happen between us!

Merlin: you can choose to love me as much as I love you. It shouldn’t be up to anyone else. It can’t be up to anyone else. It can only be up to you

This girls are gossiping

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I hate it when people say Merlin and Arthur are black cat × golden retriever (respectively), because have you seen Arthur?? That's the most cat-coded human I have ever seen.

He's weird about touching and emotions, he's bratty and arrogant, and he thinks he can beat big scary monsters all by himself—exactly like those videos of orange cats attacking bigger animals.

I headcanon him as a pretty blond cat whose owner spends a lot of money on him, basically living like The Aristocats movie.

And for Merlin, he's a frail-looking street dog that someone thinks is so adorable and takes pity on him, so they adopt him.

He's friendly, loyal, and his owner swears the dog doesn't bite (he hunts 'bad' humans and sometimes eats their flesh), but his owner doesn't know, so it doesn’t count. Also something about Merlin still waiting for Arthur to return for 1500+ years is too similar to Hachi the dog who waited by the train station for his owner until the day he died.

But in this case the dog is unfortunately immortal, so I guess he will wait forever.

messy haired merlin we deserved to see more of u

At the Lake of Avalon

Kilgarrah: What are you going to do young warlock?

Merlin: …

Merlin: I might just wait here for a little bit

Merlin: Let time pass

There's this intensity in the way that Merlin and Arthur look at each other, like they're discovering the other half of themselves within every glance.

Imagine this

Arthur and Merlin get cursed by a sorcerer/sorceress to feel pain when they get too close to each other. The opposite of the forced proximity trope.

When they finally figure out how the curse works, they don’t seem that worried about it. Arthur jokes about how Merlin was annoying him recently and Merlin mentions getting some time off for once.

However, it’s so hard for them to stay away from each other. They keep accidentally getting too close to one another. It gets so bad that they have to be dragged to Gauis by some knights that found them passed out in the hallway.

Arthur and Merlin are more bothered by the curse than they would care to admit. They make a silent promise that they won’t leave the other alone for at least a week when it’s done.

as always, send me any fics that are like this

Uther: You gave my wife’s sigil to a servant?!

Arthur: Ah, but he’s my favourite servant :D

I think I’ve read every Lamia fic in the world twice. I need more. I need it like I need water. Scratch that, I need it like I need coffee.

I need Merlin angst and protective Arthur. It’s what I live (and die) for.

Me when there’s no more Lamia fics to read

This is possibly my favorite moment in the series. It’s just such a pure moment between the two of them. There should’ve been more moments like this. I could write a novel based on this scene and I will.