Merlin: Why Do Knights Feel The Need To Clobber Each Other In Melees And Tournaments?

Merlin: Just because something is not perfect does not make it is any less worthy of love.

Arthur: I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Merlin: You’re father made you believe otherwise. He was wrong.

Arthur: You don’t know that-

Merlin: *his eyes glowing* Should you need any proof of the matter then look just here.

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

Arthur: *going through the kingdoms records* we met a few days before you became my servant didn’t we?

Merlin: Yeah? Why do you ask?

Arthur: We met each other 1,706 days ago

Merlin: 1,706 days of hell

Arthur: Merlin, what the hell are you doing?!

Merlin: I was taking a nap, clotpole

Arthur: On my throne?!?

Merlin: Well you weren’t using it. Besides, I do most of the work. I deserve this overrated chair

Arthur: Get off of it!

Merlin: No!

The knights: *betting on who’s going to win this argument*

I think more people need to see this

The extremely jealous Arthur mentioned in this post, video by @sirleoninsunglasses on tiktok

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.

Arthur: my father was wrong

Arthur: magic is fun when you do it to me

Arthur: *flirty*

Merlin:

Merlin: I've literally killed people -

I don’t know how I would feel about a season 6 of merlin.

Would I love to see what happens and how merthur finally plays out?

Absolutely

Do I want to see Arthur adjusting to the 21st century, and Merlin trying not to go insane?

With a doubt

Do I think it’s worth the chance of finishing a beautiful series that already has a tragic yet meaningful ending, with something that doesn’t have the same sentiment?

No, not in the slightest

Merlin Sword Fighting Headcanon

You know the headcannon where Merlin knows how to use a sword and turns out that he’s basically a master because of how much training he does with Arthur.

I think that it would be hilarious if he was only able to beat Arthur. Not because he’s skilled with a sword but because he knows Arthur’s every move. He’s been practicing with him for years, he’s bound to anticipate the next strike.

When it comes to any other knight though, Merlin has no idea what to expect. Because he doesn’t know them like he knows Arthur. When he spars with any of the other knights he loses, but when he spars with Arthur he wins in 2 minutes tops.

Imagine Arthur making him fight all of the round table knights and then him (maybe as some kind of punishment for being in the ‘tavern’). Merlin loses to each and every one of the knights. Arthur has been calling him names and poking fun at him as he does.

The tables completely turn when it’s Arthur’s turn to fight him. The knights gather round to watch as Arthur struggles to surprise Merlin with his attacks. Merlin even manages to get in a few jabs before he disarms Arthur.

Merlin brags about it for a week at least and Arthur sets up a private sparring session with him so he can become less predictable.

if there is a fic out there like this please tell me