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Original Kinkme prompt: Arthur loves Merlin, but he thinks that Merlin wants Gwaine so he keeps trying to get them together. Merlin loves Arthur, but thinks that Arthur knows and doesn't reciprocate, because he's always pushing him towards Gwaine. Somehow they figure things out before Merlin sleeps with Gwaine.
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19 Jul 2026
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“Aren’t you worried you’re going to get her pregnant?”
Arthur looks indignant at the insinuation, despite the fact that his hair is still sticking up in the back, and his tunic is still askew. “No?”
“All right. I just thought… you know. You being the king’s only son, and Sevain being an ambitious chap, it could cause quite a bit of--”
“We don’t do anything that could result in--Christ, Merlin, it’s just none of your business, is what it is.”
Moronic flirting & poorly communicated affection, with an eventual tipping point. And then another, of a different kind.- Language:
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26 Dec 2025
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There, on a shelf, rest Merlin's glass bottles. They look ordinary, yet each of them contains something precious.
Each of them contains a memory.
This is the story of Merlin's life, and how it could have but did not end.
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27 Aug 2025
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Coming back to the flat after a night out partying, Merlin doesn't expect Arthur to be waiting for him. He does, however, expect Arthur's anger at his escapade, yet he knows better than to retaliate. Not when Arthur gets like this, hiding distress behind a mask of cruelty.
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27 Aug 2025
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All in all, Arthur was one of those men about whom it could be said that their heart was in the right place, although he did take great pains to hide it. Still, the core of decency made Merlin endure the thick layers of arrogance (and their thin crispy crust of arseholery) with more patience than he’d ever thought possible. There was indeed a promise of greatness about Arthur that Merlin was willing to believe in.
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Merlin learns to live and work by Arthur's side. And vice versa.
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08 Jul 2025
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In an attempt to distract himself from his unrequited feelings for Arthur, Merlin hooks up with Mordred. Arthur, for some indiscernible reason, is not amused.
"But back to the topic of the aforementioned feelings – it would be one thing for Merlin to have some elaborate wank fantasies over a bloke who's hot, can't help it, nobody's fault, a hot bloke's a hot bloke. But the whole falling-in-love thing, was that really necessary? Couldn't destiny have been content with making Merlin think with his private parts, did it have to bring his heart into the equation?
Well. Most likely, Merlin mused, destiny had nothing to do with it and it was just the usual, as it has been all throughout human history: a combination of bad judgement and shite luck."- Language:
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25 Jun 2025
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"Leave it, Arthur," Merlin says, scrubbing his face dry with the cuff of his tunic. Half-shadowed, half-moonlit, the curl of his body seems fragile, but his tear-clogged voice is as fierce as ever. "I know what you’re going to say and I know you mean well but I don’t want to hear it, not now."
After the veil between worlds has been repaired, Arthur finds himself unequipped to deal with the emotional fallout from Lancelot's sacrifice - especially as it pertains to Merlin and Lancelot's relationship.
The one Arthur never knew about, and now can't stop thinking about.
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25 Jun 2025
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In many ways, things are the same as ever.
It’s only… Well, back when Merlin still had things like secrets, or privacy, or self-respect, he would have thought that of the secrets, the magic would have been the one to truly catch Arthur’s interest.
But no. It’s the other secret that Arthur picks and plucks at.
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19 May 2025
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Renaissance-era Steampunk reincarnation AU featuring brilliant engineer Prince Arthur, his savant mechanic Merlin, a robot bird, and an evil mecha.
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16 Mar 2025
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"A young man appeared hidden under a thin veil of powder. His cheeks were frost-burned, his hair black as ravens. Arthur had never seen anyone so beautiful."
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02 Mar 2025
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Shosholoza Meyl: A Pleasant Experience, or, Arthur Gets Laid on a Train by Mellacita
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
07 Oct 2012
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Arthur Pendragon is on a last holiday before assuming the mantle of responsibility, and receives an unexpected roommate for a night aboard the Shosholoza Meyl train from Johannesburg to Cape Town, South Africa.
Originally posted on livejournal in March 2010.
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- Part 1 of Travel Fic
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01 Feb 2025
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Business magnate Uther Pendragon has died, and his son is horrified to learn that he had properties filled with furniture, art, and books. One property's library is filled with rare and antique books, prompting Gaius to call in Merlin Emrys, an expert on the matter who can help appraise the collection.
Arthur is forced to stay in the middle of nowhere in Belgium with Merlin and Gaius while this gets sorted. He can deal with his godfather, but the bookseller irritates him to no end. He is absolutely not at all interested in the insolent man.
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This is a romantic comedy about Arthur dealing with grief, an egg-smashing bookseller, his batty godfather, and coping with being stuck in the middle of Belgium with all three of those things.
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29 Jan 2025
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When Arthur opens the door to low tapping, he knows immediately what awaits him. Merlin looks even worse than Arthur's expected though—he’s pale and shaking, his eyes full of pain and pupils blown wide. Fuck, Arthur thinks. It hasn’t even been two weeks.
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Coda to ep 5x2. On the way to Ismere, Merlin falls prey to the harsh winter.
It’s what Arthur should’ve done in the first place, when Merlin was dying of the cold: pried open this searing place in him to reach his heat; let it save them both.
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Morgana had a habit of getting Merlin into scrapes of one sort or another. But introducing him to her brother, Arthur, may have just set in motion the most eventful one yet.
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Reincarnation story set in 1940. In Albion's hour of need Arthur is brought back from his rest in Avalon. He learns that the world is at war, and that the enemies have dark magic at their disposal. With the help of the mysterious Vril society the invaders are about to gain air superiority and become unstoppable. Only Merlin could fight the new magical threat, but Merlin has been missing for a long time.
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03 Oct 2024
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An epistolary look into Merlin and Arthur's relationship.
This work stands alone, though I may add more in the future.
Warning: Image Heavy
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02 Oct 2024
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Summary: A long time ago (in the 1970s), in a galaxy far, far away, a country boy named Merlin sets out to save a young senator (also a prince) Arthur from the clutches of the nefarious Darth Uther. With the help of a dashing smuggler and her first mate, he rescues Arthur and falls in love with him. But then Darth Uther totally strikes back, and angst ensues.
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17 Sep 2024
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These days, Arthur is as grey as the sky and she wants to cry for Merlin’s absence because Arthur won’t, but they are playing a waiting game and soon enough the King will be made of light again.
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21 Aug 2024
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When King Uther gets word of a dragon sighting, he sees a chance to finally get his hands on Balinor’s son, the last dragonlord. Prince Arthur is determined to prove himself and makes it his personal mission to slay the beast and capture its master. But amongst rising tensions with Mercia, Camelot’s hunting party is attacked and Arthur ends up alone in the forest, severely injured. He stumbles upon Merlin, who has been on the run with Aithusa ever since his father’s death. Merlin, oblivious that the injured stranger is the Prince of Camelot, ends up helping him – a fateful decision…
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21 Aug 2024