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    Caves and Valleys and Magic, Oh My! by

    Fandoms: Merlin (TV)  

    22 Sep 2021

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    Merlin stepped back. He was… appalled. Shocked. Angry. Slightly hungry. MAD. Who did they think they were?!

    “Excuse me?!” Arthur screeched. “Merlin has magic?!”

    “Yes.” Leon deadpanned. “Now please, Merlin.”

    How did he get here? How did this happen to him? Why was his life like this? He just wanted to be in his nice warm bed and instead he was soaked, stuck in a magical cave, and made to listen to his friends reveal all his secrets.

    Right. Sounded about accurate.

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    Merlin just wants to be home. Unfortunately, it seems like everyone else his different ideas. Typical.

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    13 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Merlin, mate, we’re gonna need you to use your magic and get us out of here because none of us want to go towards the mysterious, quite possibly dangerous, glowing light in the middle of the cave."

     

    Merlin stepped back. He was… appalled. Shocked. Angry. Slightly hungry. MAD. Who did they think they were?!

     

    “ Excuse me?! ” Arthur screeched. “ Merlin has magic?! ”

     

    “Yes.” Leon deadpanned. “Now please, Merlin.”

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    How to Reveal Your Magic Because You Have No Sense Of Self Preservation Whatsoever: A Guide By Merlin Emrys by

    Fandom Merlin (TV)

    21 May 2023

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    A series of unrelated one-shots and short stories about Merlin revealing his magic because both he and all his friends are idiots. Also, Merlin, for the life of him, has no sense of self-preservation at all and I try to embody that in these fics.

    1. Best + Bitter = Better
    2. Ironically Alive
    3. Pick Your Poison (Literally)
    4. Caves and Valleys and Magic, Oh My!
    5. Let's Do The Time Warp (Hopefully Not Again)
    6. Just Another Tuesday
    7. Today Has Been Like... Torture
    8. Call It Like It Is
    9. To Be A God
    10. Just a Minor Accident

    Requests are welcome!

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    Best + Bitter = Better by

    Fandoms: Merlin (TV)  

    08 Sep 2019

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    This was actually happening. They were being serious. They were actually being completely, utterly serious.

    “You can’t actually believe this.” He gestured wildly to the group of people in front of them. Well, as best as he could tied up. This was one of the most ridiculous things he had ever heard. This was… this was… he didn’t even know. “This is complete bullshit.”

    “Emrys was clear in his instructions. You must be sacrificed in order to bring peace to Albion”

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    The one where Merlin has had enough of everyone's shit.

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    13 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Merlin shook his head at that. “I don’t think that’s possible. Also, are you even sure that you actually spoke to Emrys? Because I’m not sure you would know who he is if he was right in front of you.”
    Lancelot snorted quite loudly at this before shooting him an amused look.

     

    He slowly turned back to his group of friends, who were all looking at him with horrified expressions. Well, except Lance and Gwaine. Lancelot was giving him the most exasperated look he could muster, as if to say was that really necessary ? And well, Gwaine was grinning at him like a madman.

     

    Then, of all things, Gwaine started laughing. Lancelot was grinning and trying very hard to hold in his laughter. Based on the bewildered expressions he-and now Gwaine and Lance-were getting, this was not the expected reaction. He moved to where the group was tied up and proceeded to disintegrate the ropes with a wave of his hands. Lancelot was the first to stand up and he rubbed his wrists were they had been held together. “That was just a little dramatic, Merlin. You really didn’t need to die to prove your point.”

    “Yeah, but it was just a teensy tiny bit fun.” Gwaine, who’s laughing had just died down, burst into laughter again at that comment.

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    Call It Like It Is by

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    18 Feb 2023

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    “How do you…” Arthur wiggles his fingers, like he’s teaching magic to a five-year-old, “conjure the fire?”

    “Oh, that’s easy,” Merlin starts, because what the fuck else does he have to do, and Lancelot just looks at him with that stupid look he always does when Merlin’s about to say something particularly stupid- “I call it forth from the deepest pits of hell.”

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    Everyone may know about Merlin's magic, but nobody knows what he's actually capable of. Merlin decides that this is a great advantage when your boyfriend is an idiot.

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    13 May 2026

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    Lance just continues to stare at the ground, disappointment radiating off of him. And because Merlin has the slight hunch that Lance also thinks this to be absolutely hilarious but because he’s such an upstanding and great person, won’t say that in a room full of rowdy knights that will most definitely make fun of him.

    Then he takes a look at the final knight in the room. Or more he looks up, and locks eyes with Leon, who is staring deep into the depths of his soul. By the Gods of the Old Religion–

    Oh. Leon knows. Leon knows and Leon is going to rip him to shreds later, after Arthur has his little princely breakdown and falls asleep like a child after a temper tantrum.

     

    Arthur stares at him for a long, long time. Arthur stares at him for an eternity and no time at all. It’s all very beautiful and everything. Arthur then punctuates this by walking up to him and placing his hands on Merlin’s shoulders. Merlin’s next thought is along the lines of are we about to kiss? Is this all I had to do? I should’ve made these jokes way earlier if that was all it takes. It’d be really nice to get another kiss. Arthur, it seems, is not thinking the same thing. “What the fuck, Merlin.”

     

    Arthur blushes, Gwaine wiggles his eyebrows. Merlin has a secret wife now, apparently. He wonders how long it’ll take Arthur’s thick head to figure out that all of this is bullshit. It can’t be that much longer… right?

    Three years later, Arthur walks up to him and says: “Was it all a lie?”

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    Infiltrating Great Minds by for TristiCorde

    Fandoms: Merlin (TV)  

    29 Feb 2024

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    Merlin pranking Arthur and the knights by mentally speaking to them with his magic, making them think that they're crazy, and getting them to do a bunch of ridiculous stuff to get rid of the ominous voice of "the great Emrys". Mordred pops in along the way.

     

    Oh, the chaos.

     

    Translation into 中文-普通话 國語 available!

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    13 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    "Speaking of the tavern…" Arthur mused. "You were never there, were you?"

    Merlin shook his head. "I kept telling you, you didn't believe me."

    "Where were you then?"

    Merlin thought back. "Well, the first time, I was saving your and Gwen's hides as Dragoon—"

    "THAT WAS YOU?" Arthur and the knights screamed alike.

    "The old man who mouthed off at my father then called me a donkey and a toad and hit me over the head with a helmet and made me sweep his house, that was you?!"

    "The doddery old man who defeated us during a patrol without even uttering a word and then used us as stairs to climb his horse? You?"

    Merlin scratched the back of his head, exchanging a sheepish glance with Mordred, vowing to tell him the story later. "Yep." He cleared his throat. "Is now a good time to tell you that I'm also the last dragonlord?"

    Arthur stopped his steed and Leon fell off his. "WHAT?!"

    Merlin was wrong, admitting secrets was much more fun than keeping them.