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Unbridges greatest mistake by Silvia_blackparrot
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
05 Oct 2025
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Merlin is the defence against the dark arts teacher in Hogwarts during Harry’s 5th year, and Merlin being himself got on umbriges bad side and for this she tampered with one of his lessons by turning him into a 20 year old as she doubted his 20 year old self could handle a a class of 15 year olds and gets quite the shock
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Then he heard voices. Muffled and hushed, but Merlin would recognize those voices anywhere. The door to a room at the end of the corridor was slightly ajar, and beyond it, he could hear Leon, Percival, Elyan, and Lancelot talking. He couldn’t make out much, but a few fragmented phrases filtered through the gap:
“Totally gonna fail,”
“Too much at stake,”
“They can’t find out,”
“Just act normal,”Merlin blinked. What couldn’t they find out? And what was at stake?
His mind immediately jumped to treason. Or an assassination plot. Or maybe an underground fight ring. Were the knights gambling again?
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or Merlin overhears something and spirals
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Merlin, for one reason or the other, is in the dungeons. Again.
Morgana, who burns with fury at the thought of the traitor she trusted, cannot let him die before she gets her revenge, and so she concocts a plan that will put him completely and utterly in her clutches once and for all...
She just didn't realize it was actually going to affect her.
Great.
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- Part 20 of WIPs - (Where I Procrastinate)
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“Ah, I’m unavailable on Thursday evenings, young warlock,” Kilgharrah’s voice intoned, with what Merlin could only describe as deeply apologetic gravitas. “That is a night dedicated to... personal growth and self-reflection.”
“You’re booked?” Merlin asked, tone teetering between disbelief and insult.
“Yes, I have boundaries, Merlin,” Kilgharrah replied, as though that settled the matter entirely.
Merlin stood in the dragon-summoning field, utterly flummoxed and vaguely offended. A dragon—his dragon, the last of its kind, ancient and mighty and presumably unaffected by anything less than cataclysmic events—was skipping a monster-of-the-week consultation for what sounded suspiciously like a self-care evening.
This could only mean one thing. He was enchanted, or brainwashed, or indoctrinated by a sinister, emotionally manipulative cult. Merlin knew the type. Smiles that didn’t quite reach the eyes. Cloaks. Tea and biscuits—probably Custard Creams.
Whatever it was, Merlin was going to get to the bottom of it.
Or: The one where the Great Dragon joins a support group to stop speaking in riddles and Merlin accidentally has a full emotional breakdown over a Rich Tea biscuit
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- Part 2 of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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In the Throne Room there is Nothing but a Dance of Death and Banquet of Bloody Murder. by fallen_stxr
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
11 Apr 2025
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"Maybe Merlin was a lost child. Never been able to get to 18 without… this burden."
"Merlin. I’ll help you.”
“Kill me. I don’t want to feel anything anymore. Burn my corpse in the courtyard - serve it for dinner, for all I care.” He laughs, swaying towards Arthur’s chest a little. Arthur doesn’t move. His throat feels scratchy. What’s he supposed to do or say?
“I know you want me to die.” Merlin states. Arthur’s brows pinch and he shakes his head with a wince.
He wanted to retire to his chambers forever. He wanted to throw up his guts.
“You’d enjoy it, right - killing me?” Merlin asked as if he was already certain of the answer. Pale and frail fingers twisted the sword so the sharp edge scraped against the King’s armor. Arthur gulped but made no intention to move.
Merlin slid his fingers up the side of the blade, leaning in closer until his lips were centimeters from Arthur’s ear. “You don’t have to hide how you truly feel. I accept all of you - even the part that wishes people like me dead.”
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After a long period of self isolation, Merlin tells Arthur about his magic and begs for his life
To be taken.
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- Part 11 of Mentally-Ill Merlin (Merthur)
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"He left everything. He left his room, the Physician’s Chambers, the hallways, the castle, the upper town, the lower town. He left Gaius and Arthur and Lancelot and Gwen and Morgana. He left his mother. He had left Ealdor a long time ago. Now, sitting in the middle of nowhere in the forest, he was leaving his life. He left everything."
"Don’t smell it. That’s what Gaius always says. Don’t smell it."
"I’m sorry Arthur. I’m sorry now - not just because of being a sorcerer, but because I wasn’t good enough to be your manservant. To be your anything."
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Merlin gets ready to go.
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- Part 8 of Mentally-Ill Merlin (Merthur)
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Hell is Just the Liquid Fever Bubbling Between Your Meat and Bones, and the Fever is Just the King’s Mens’ Marinade of Sustenance. by fallen_stxr
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
08 Apr 2025
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Merlin survives what???? Crazy. Wonder why.
Clean up after chaos ensued last chapter.
Merlin may or may not have threatened the knights into silence.
Merlin has a derealization episode. A mysterious stranger (clearly not a stranger) comforts him during a panic attack.
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It’s dark outside. Grey and cloudy. Among the mess the sound of thunder is prominent. Merlin wonders if lightning could kill him in the way it did Nimueh. The way he used lightning, taking advantage of nature, to kill Nimueh.
His eyes linger downwards. If he fell, would his skull splatter on the concrete below, just for his brains to be swept up and blood washed away the next morning? His hand tightens over the glass, it would leave fingerprints - marking such an expensive item.
Would anyone care? Would the Knights care? Would Gaius or his mother care? Would Arthur care? He felt his throat restrict air from escaping his trembling lips. Would he be just alone as he was today in the forest? Would the world allow him to die that time?
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- Part 7 of Mentally-Ill Merlin (Merthur)
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Merlin refuses to use his magic because magic is evil. Is he evil?
An anti-magic Merlin gets kidnapped. Will a handsome prince come and save him? Or will he resort to his monstrous ways?
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"“What do you want from me?” He whispered out. It was more than enough for them to hear with the eerie silence of the night. They all came out from their places and Merlin heard a loud bellowing chuckle."
"Merlin concluded that this experience made him feel a little more human, especially since he almost escaped with no magic. He felt like his throat was a little more open, even with all the blood. He could probably use this as an excuse not to talk, post-traumatic stress disorder or something. He should. Make his life easier."
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- Part 4 of Mentally-Ill Merlin (Merthur)
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Wiping One's Memories, In Attempt of Saving One's Heart. Dig This Hole With Me, My Undead Darling. by fallen_stxr
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
08 Apr 2025
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Merlin has to prepare to go to the borders to help a small town on the border of Camelot. He feels... different. Everything feels surreal - fake. He's losing his grasp on what's real and what he's imagining. He feels empty, lost and disoriented.
Everyone's worried. He covers it with lies of course.
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He’s beside Arthur. He’s next to Arthur - where he belongs, yet all he wants is for the ground to swallow him whole.
He’s walking and walking and walking.
The world is deaf when he speaks and begs and cries, the world doesn’t stop when he takes a break; When he is deaf the world send riddles and people to frustrate him, the world continues wherever or whoever he is or choses to be - whether the chores are never done, whether he feels defeated, whether he gets to have fun - Life is never completed.
When the balance of earth is repaired at one end of the coin - Magic, it collapses on the other - Courage.
The tear ducts keep breaking loose, the secrecy won’t end, there are cracks in the foundation of his life, and the repairs of one’s chainmail - one can't keep everything in mind.
(Remix of a poem: The washing never gets done - Jaan Kaplinski).
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- Part 3 of Mentally-Ill Merlin (Merthur)
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Une orchidée en Bretagne by Enepfopi for AllenNotAllen (AllenKune)
Fandoms: Arthurian Mythology & Related Fandoms
01 Apr 2025
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Il n’y avait jamais eu d'orchidées en Bretagne. Et pourtant il en poussait partout où le roi Arthur croisait Lancelot du Lac.
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It was late at night when Hisirdoux got up to go eat something. When the wrong knight noticed his presence, was when it all began.
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Arthur and his men all sucked in a breath when they saw the cage. It was pure iron, and inside was a man. Well a young one. He couldn’t have been quite twenty years.
His blue eyes were wet with tears and the rest of him were just wounds and bruises. His wrists were clearly raw and torn up under the shackles.
The boy didn’t speak but he did whine and try to cover his eyes. The whining increased when the iron hit his face.
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What if everyone knew Merlin was already a warlock when they met him? What if Magic wasn’t completely illegal in Camelot? And what if uther isn’t as bad as he was in the show?
Merlin is running from something and is captured by a poacher before being saved by Arthur and the knights. When he’s taken to Camelot uther gives him to Arthur as his private sorcerer but Merlin knows little of what that entails.
In this fic we take canon and throw it out the window for a fun slowburn merthur fic.Only posted on a03
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Arthur is cursed to 'open his mind'.
The only problem: his mind is open towards his manservant.
Who has a lot of imagination.
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- Part 36 of Merlin Bingo 2024
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Idiots in love... Merlin kisses Arthur. Arthur gets an error message.
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- Part 27 of My Lady, Albion
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There was something familiar in the way Arthur knew him, something easy in the way he recognised him, the way he looked at him, the way they were with each other - Merlin didn't know if he could bear it changing.
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Arthur finds someone else for the empty seats.
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- Part 5 of OWAAT february 2024
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Arthur died. Then Arthur wakes up. One week after Merlin begins his service as his manservant. Ten years worth of future knowledge is at his fingertips and the chance to make everything right: to rediscover Merlin, magic and all; to be the brother Morgana needed him to be; to spend more time with Guinevere and be the man she knew he could be, the man he aspired to become; to confront his father and change Camelot for the better.
But Arthur’s a prince again. He hasn’t known Merlin for one year, let alone ten, Morgana has no idea they were friends let alone related, Guinevere still thinks he’s a prat, and he has to act the part of a prince if he doesn’t want some poor sod getting killed in the hopes of lifting a fake enchantment Uther thinks was cast on his son.
Things are about to get a whole lot more complicated.
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- Part 1 of Rewind
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Merlin was supposed to have a normal day. Granted a normal day is him being tired to death by doing chores and putting up with His Majesty Pratdragon and basically, you know, surviving his daily life of a servant/secret sorcerer.
But it beats having to run from every Knight of Camelot, who are trying to woo him you know!
Now it is a race against time for Merlin and Gaius to fix this before the Knights kill each other to gain his favor. Will they succeed?
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5 times Arthur touched Merlin without thinking and 1 time he did. by feyver (itsnautica)
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
28 Apr 2023
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Arthur keeps accidentally touching Merlin in caring ways and Merlin doesn't know what to do with himself.
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Merlin has his first day of the second semester and he doesn't want to. He has a bad reputation around and his English teacher, still new, still helped him through school. Why? What will happen between them?