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Merlin had Arthur pressed against the narrow countertop in his flat’s modest kitchen beside two steaming, untouched mugs of tea when the flashes of another life started.
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01 Jul 2026
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To that woman at the shop, Merlin is going home to someone who loves him. The Merlin in her mind might spend the night eating cheap Chinese takeaway with Arthur, arms curled around each others’ shoulders while they watch a film. Merlin surprises him with a special Assam blend. Arthur hops in the shower with him and runs his fingers through his hair. They fall asleep together, and Arthur makes him truly atrocious eggs on toast in the morning, and Merlin gets to be loved back.
Suddenly, Merlin wants to live in that world. He wants it so badly he feels sick.
(Or: Merlin tells his coworkers that Arthur is his boyfriend. Predictably, it backfires).
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19 Jun 2026
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Merlin’s mother had made it very clear to him what he should do when she sent him off to Camelot. Merlin wasn’t to tell anyone he had magic, his mother was scared that he would be collared to keep him in line if someone found out. Yet, Camelot was, above all, one of the best places for an alpha warlock to be. In Essitir, the omega king would drag alphas off to his palace once they were old enough, claim them, and use them for their powers. It was a fate that Merlin’s mother had feared him facing since he presented at twelve summers old. It was why, on the eve of his eighteenth summer, she sent him away to the bordering kingdom before Cenred’s men could show up in Elador to take him away. In Camelot Merlin could have a future.
It was a more hopeful future than what he would have in any other kingdom.
Other than Essitir and Camelot, all other kingdoms executed alphas who had magic, mated or not, too afraid of what they could do. Camelot had done the same, once, but that had changed when the Queen had fallen for an alpha sorceress and had taken her as her mate, changing the law to allow mated magical alphas to live in peace.
All Merlin had to do was catch an omega....
... or let one catch him...
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- Part 2 of Merlin Fanfic
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12 Jun 2026
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He makes it three days in Camelot before becoming Arthur’s.
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11 Jun 2026
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“Don’t you dare touch him,” Merlin growled, “Arthur Pendragon is mine.”
A tall, red-haired woman stepped forward, taking the lead of the group. She looked ethereal in the bright afternoon light. Her face was too perfect, too symmetrical to be completely human, and a strange glint shone in her green eyes. She was alluring, moving with controlled grace. When she spoke, her voice echoed, as if it came from all around them at once.
“You haven’t claimed him yet, not the proper way at least,” she retorted, her hungry gaze still trained on Arthur.
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- Part 15 of Teagirl's Kinkalot 2023
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- English
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- 1,498
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 16
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- 517
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- 87
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- 8,441
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08 Jun 2026
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Merlin Emrys, 1500 years old, clinical medical examiner, professional hermit, has finally made peace with the fact that Arthur is gone.
He has not made peace with this. He has simply gotten very good at pretending.When Detective Inspector Arthur Pennington walks into his morgue on a Tuesday, looking exactly the same and remembering absolutely nothing, Merlin's carefully constructed equilibrium lasts approximately forty seconds.
There is also a murder. Possibly magic. Definitely a conspiracy. But mostly, this is about a man who has been in love for fifteen centuries trying to hold it together in a pub while Arthur Pendragon sits pressed against his leg and has no idea.
Slow burn. Reincarnation. Heavy on the yearning, light on the sense.
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- English
- Words:
- 53,139
- Chapters:
- 14/14
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 140
- Kudos:
- 443
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- 118
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- 8,136
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04 Jun 2026
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King Alined has charged Trickler with averting an alliance between Camelot and the Druids. Simple enough...
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- Part 17 of Kinkalot 2023
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- English
- Words:
- 943
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- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 36
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- 163
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- 1,896
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03 Jun 2026
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Part 1: Arthur is hit by a love spell. Merlin isn't okay with it, until he is.
Part 2: Not all good things come from good means. The spell ends and Merlin deals with the consequences.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 24,745
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 41
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- 1,000
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- 187
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- 10,859
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02 Jun 2026
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A smutty trilogy following Prince Arthur, and Merlin, the kinky peasant brought to Camelot to fulfill his fantasizes.
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- 177
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02 Jun 2026
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“A man cannot be known for…” Words fail the King. He finally manages to bite out, “Hurting their bedmates.”
Arthur wishes he were a sorcerer condemned to the pyre. For years, he’s tried to calm the deep, dark desire living low in his belly demanding it’s due. It’s a possessive thing. A feral thing. A deviance unbecoming of a Prince, but a deviance he desires all the same.
When rumors spread about Prince Arthur’s sexual preferences, the King hires a willing peasant to act as his servant, and be his whore. Arthur’s spent years hiding his shame. Merlin has no shame for what he needs to feel to cope with everything else in his life. They’re quite evenly matched.
**This is copious amounts of kinky bdsm smut, with some romantic fluff, feelings, and bits of plot. Part 1/3. Trilogy now complete!**
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- Part 1 of Matched
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 54,576
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Comments:
- 208
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- 1,433
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- 37,938
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28 May 2026
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This really hasn't been Merlin's day. Or week. Or month, really. Seeing his best friend die in front of him was bad enough. But magicking himself into the future in order to save Arthur? Probably not as good an idea as it seemed on paper. And this future version of Gwaine will not stop hitting on him. Even in front of the future Arthur - talk about embarrassing. Especially since Merlin needs to get to know this Arthur if he's ever going to figure out how to save his.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 44,938
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 110
- Kudos:
- 689
- Bookmarks:
- 155
- Hits:
- 12,427
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15 May 2026
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When Arthur returns, he find he doesn't hate the various changes Merlin has been through. Darker hair, crimson lidded eyes, midnight black clothes, and blacker nails. The way they plucked the guitar strings, Arthur knew that it was now or never.
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Arthur returns from the dead, and Merlin's changes spur him to finally realise what he's wanted all along.Bookmarked by Shadow_Hole
15 May 2026
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When Arthur decides a truce between Camelot and the Druids is long overdue, he must meet druid king Emrys.
Merlin, frantically trying to keep his alter ego hidden, must disguise himself and get the treaty over and done with before Arthur puts two and two together.
Except.. He never expected Arthur to be so heavily drawn to Emrys. Merlin almost doesn't mind it.
In fact, Merlin almost wants to play along...But how long can he keep it up for?OR:
Three days of flirting with the king. In the name of magic, that doesn't sound quite so bad. What could go wrong?- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 118,458
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Comments:
- 326
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- 1,765
- Bookmarks:
- 385
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- 47,453
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14 May 2026
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Merlin's magic has become increasingly unruly since Arthur found out about it.
It wants.
Merlin can feel it tingle under his skin whenever Arthur is close, craving his attention, and making it awfully difficult to concentrate...
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13 May 2026
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Morgana devises a plan to rid herself of Merlin. And she plans on using Arthur to do it.
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13 May 2026
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So Arthur will lay here. In all of his pain, all of his hurt, all of his throbbing aches. He will not ask for help. He will not burden another with the problem that is himself.
Or Arthur is in an abusive relationship with Guinevere. One day she goes too far, and Merlin is there to save him.
(Warning: This is not the Gwen we know and love, heed the tags.)
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11 May 2026
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a new day will follow, there’s always tomorrow by highfunctioningclotpole
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
13 Apr 2026
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Merlin wakes up to the same day over and over again.
A spell gone wrong has trapped him in a loop that won’t break until he tells the truth “from the heart.” He tries everything—confessing his magic, admitting his feelings to himself—but nothing works.
Because the truth isn’t meant for him.
It’s meant for Arthur.
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11 May 2026
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Arthur is a Sword by HiddenDreamer67, KnightsWaypoint (BreadBoxRye)
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
04 Apr 2026
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When a mysterious sorcerer comes to Camelot, Arthur becomes trapped in his own sword, mere moments after witnessing Merlin use magic. Simultaneously, Merlin is cursed to be mute. The poor warlock is unable to explain himself as he listens to Arthur-the-Sword shout at him, and Merlin frantically journeys to save them both from their curses.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 13,114
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 13
- Kudos:
- 312
- Bookmarks:
- 41
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- 2,139
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11 May 2026
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With King Uther’s health rapidly deteriorating, Arthur Pendragon must do what all kings before him have done: go on a quest to prove himself the next worthy leader of Camelot. But when his quest leads him to a mysterious tower with a rumored dark past, Arthur begins to question the things he’s been told.
There are stories about what lurks in the tower outside of Gorra. Some say it is the wellspring of evil itself; the beating heart of all magic. Others claim to have glimpsed a twisted creature through its single dirty window. They say whatever lives there is cursed—trapped forever in a labyrinth of rooms, and if you go in, you don’t come out. Nobody ever comes out.
Arthur is sure they’re all old wives’ tales. The building is clearly abandoned, after all. But as Arthur delves further into the tower’s past, nothing is quite as it seems. Is this place truly home to a monster, or is there something else afoot? And who is the mysterious man who wanders its halls?
Inspired by art by count-pudding . A merthur-shaped mystery for BBC Merlin Reverse Big Bang.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 71,930
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 45
- Kudos:
- 207
- Bookmarks:
- 46
- Hits:
- 3,971
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10 May 2026
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Merlin came to Camelot harboring a life-threatening secret and throughout his years living in Camelot serving and protecting Arthur, he never thought that the prince might be harboring a life-altering secret of his own and that prince arthur was not all that he presents himself as.
Or,
A retelling of Merlin with abo dynamics.
Bookmarked by Shadow_Hole
10 May 2026