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Arthur’s Love Confession

The word choice for Arthur’s confession is really… interesting. As many people have pointed out, if you remove the pronouns from the conversation, everything Arthur says can be true for Merlin as much as Gwen.

Here’s the thing: I’m a writer. I’ve said this before, and I’ll keep saying it when it comes to posts like this.

If I was writing a love confession from one of my characters, I wouldn’t have what they say be so vague that it would be unclear who they were referring to when taken out of context.

If you showed this conversation to someone who had no idea who these characters were other than a knight and a servant, it would be completely believable that the knight is talking about the servant he’s with.

Hell, Merlin’s reaction to Arthur being unable to say he’s in love and how certain he is that nothing could happen seems a bit strong considering the conversation is about Gwen, not him. He’s her friend and would understandably try to convince Arthur that they could be together, but the dialogue does it in such a round about, vague way before they get to the point. There’s no reason for them to be vague. They both know full well who they’re talking about.

I suppose I have to say this is an opinion of the writing because I can’t claim that the writers did anything with underlying intentions. It’s just seems strange to me how perfectly the description aligns. Even the lines not here could easily have the pronouns swapped and still make sense.

“How can I admit that I think about her (him/you) all the time? Or that I care about her (him/you) more than anyone? How can I admit that I don’t know what I’ll do if any harm comes to her (him/you)?”

It still works. We can’t prove that Arthur thinks about Merlin all the time, but there’s a damn huge amount of evidence that he cares for him deeply and can’t handle him being hurt. Anyone wanting to argue with me on this, go watch The Poisoned Chalice again, which is the FOURTH EPISODE by the way.

Other than that iconic episode, there’s plenty of other things. He doesn’t let Merlin drink the “poison” during the test at the labyrinth. He denies any accusations of him having magic whenever they come up, which is because he genuinely doesn’t believe he has any, but it also has to do with the fact that he would be executed. He always protects him in dangerous situations and tells him to run when things get too dicey. We all know how he acted when Merlin was believed to be dead.

Like I said, it’s weird how well the lines match up. And Arthur looks at him like this before the conversation:

And like this after this conversation:

Maybe I’ve just never had a “true bestie” because I have never looked at someone or had someone look at me like that. Arthur looks so flirtatious in that second gif man.

But anyway! That’s just some thoughts I was having about the love confession!

A wee bit of Merlin. I love thinking of him drinking in the nature, and while the knights are fun and all, he would probably like it best alone.

Pen and ink, 2024

More Merlin doodle oodles from my school notebook

George’s favourite moment of each month

Yeehaw and abracayodle

Arthur is an Ally (a meme redraw)

I mucked up his proportions. Was going to scribble it out. But the chaos demon within me said “no. No…. Destined for meme greatness”

Tater tot date (incorrect quote from a tumblr post)

and Hate Date, 6th Century CE on Tapestry

Arthur Pendragon 💕💕💕💕

(drawn by me- I had to give to the Merlin fandom in some way :) )

He’s a clotpole, but at least he’s pretty 😍

HE IS ALIVE AND WELL AND HIS USUAL KINGLY AND OBLIVIOUS SELF AND WE LOVE HIM FOR IT

anyways that was my arthur appreciation post

He even LICKS his LIPS!

“Allow me to help you, Sire.”

drei ??? line-up! (firm believer of justus socken in sandalen)

heavily inspired by @captbexx i hope you dont mind :o

Here si Sunday of Fanart! This time I wanted to draw a fanart of Avatar the Last Airbender, one of my favorite series from my childhood ^^ (and more fanarts will come ^^)

Remember that I have open commission, for more info click the link in my bio ^^

experimenting

I'm just a man

Every time I read a fic where Merlin is the court sorcerer or king consort, I will ALWAYS have this Colin Morgan in my mind dressed in the finest blues and silks and a silver circlet on his head