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Merlin meets a mischievous older alternate future Arthur who doesn’t know how he ends up there. While keeping him secret from the Pendragons, Merlin tries to send him back home while ignoring his suggestions to seduce Young Arthur, which “accidentally” happens many times anyway. Arthur begins to fall for Merlin and tries to help him send the other Arthur home, even if Arthur doesn’t like or trust his future self.
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📕 Darker Prequel HERE: Immortal Kings.
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02 Jun 2026
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Arthur had never wanted to send Merlin away, especially not when Merlin thought the reason was because of his magic. Arthur loved him, magic and lies and all, but there had been no time. Merlin's life worth everything. Arthur was happy to suffer at his father's cruel hands in Merlin's place.
Only years later, with the danger finally past and his scars slowly healing, Arthur still can't find Merlin to bring him home. But destiny isn't done with them yet. The clue to Merlin's whereabouts shows up to Camelot wearing a cloak and a familiar face with the most interesting request.
Will their love be able to heal the trauma of their years apart or will they need help from destiny's newest addition?
Get ready for my cutest and most heartbreaking tale of love yet!
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- Part 1 of The Once and Future Dads
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Despite all the supposed trips to the tavern none of the knights have seen Merlin drunk. They decide to rectify that. A poor decision, really.
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Me @ Merlin Writers: What if You Didn't Murder My Favorite Characters? by CaffeinatedFlumadiddle
Fandom Merlin (TV)
05 May 2020
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This is just me being salty and writing a bunch of AUs where certain characters survive and are awesome later on in the series (none of them are related). They all have some sort of relationship with Arthur. Here's What I got so far and an updated version of what is officially coming.
- Balinor Lives: Returning the Favor
- Gwen and Merlin’s Friendship Lives: Loyalty before Royalty
- Will Lives: In Which Arthur Lets a Sorcerer Live and Regrets It
- Freya Lives: The Prince Who Cried Witch
- Lancelot Lives: Calling the Middle Man
- Uther's Redemption Arc Lives: Fool Me Once
- Hunith's Relevance in the Show Lives: Exceptionally Exceptional
- Ygraine Lives: The Only Rules that Apply to Rulers
- Alator Lives: The Salt of the Forsaken
- Aithusa's Potential Lives: 10 Reasons Not to Fight a Dragon (a Guide by Arthur Pendragon)
- Deagal Lives: The Servant's Apprentice
- Mordred Being Good Lives: Guarding the Guardian
- Gwaine and Merlin's Love Lives: Needless to Say
- Elyan Lives: (Not Written Yet)
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“Father, with all due respect, you can’t honestly be suggesting that Merlin freed the Great Dragon?”
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It could certainly be described as a rather bad week, between Morgana's kidnapping, and a dragon all but levelling the lower town and making a good effort on the upper, not to mention Merlin's subsequent arrest. Arthur's new orders; to leave Merlin behind in order to meet with the not-so-last dragonlord and attempt a negotiation with his manservant's life as the lure, only feels to be the natural continuation for the entirely unwelcome developments.
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Muscles jump in Balinor’s clenched jaw.
“I knew you wanted him,” he says. “You could never be satisfied with just your own son.”
“I need a loyal dragonlord,” Uther explains to him. “And we both know that it won’t be you.”
“You vile man,” Balinor says. “You used my love. You used my son.”
“And I would do it again. Do we have a deal?”
(Uther, desperately lonely after sending Arthur away to become a knight, manipulates Balinor into giving him Merlin to keep as his pet dragonlord. Balinor, furious at having been tricked a second time, joins a rising resistance to Uther's rule. When Arthur comes home, he falls in love with his father’s strange ward and in doing so unwittingly ignites a war.)
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During his adventures as the magical saviour of Albion, Merlin meets a tired old Dragonlord. What he doesn't know is that the man is actually his father. Not that that really makes a difference.
This was low-key kind of inspired by Double Life (yes the despicable me song, don't come for me). I wrote most of it in one weekend.
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A sequel to Tra Bo Dau.
After finally making it to Camelot and becoming Arthur’s manservant, Merlin is overwhelmed by, but excited for, his new life. While hiding his magic and his relationship with the prince, Merlin discovers Arthur has secrets of his own, a complicated family history, and a shared destiny to bring about the new age of Albion and return magic to the land. Meeting new friends along the way, Merlin does his best to guide Arthur into accepting him and other users of magic, all while upholding his sacred duty as the last dragonlord.
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- Part 2 of The Last Dragonlord
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It's one thing for two people to choose each other. It's another thing making that relationship work long term.
King Arthur and Prince Merlin may finally be mated, but they still have to contend with cultural differences, political opposition, bigotry, and of course, each other.
A/N: This is part of The Dragon Dance AU and will likely only make sense if you read the original work.
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- Part 2 of The Dragon Dance AU
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Arthur and Merlin aren’t friends. A collection of interrelated fluffy and adorable one shots of Arthur and Merlin growing up in a golden wonderful Camelot where they can be bickering, petty children who grow into awkward teens and eventually enamored well adjusted adults.
Written for Fluffbruary 2023 on Tumblr
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Balinor is king of the Dragonlords and has conquered Uther in battle. In order for there to be peace in Camelot, marriage is arranged between Merlin and Arthur.
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..... as if Balinor could be killed by Bandits O.o
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An alternative take on Balinor surviving and saving Camelot.
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And then proceeding to hold the entire kingdom hostage, because he has a frigging Dragon at his disposal :)Series
- Part 26 of Merlin's magic
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"Really?" Arthur asked, brushing the dirt off of him as he glowered at the man. "Again? I had it under control - and we aren't allies!" He added heatedly. Balinor shrugged, looking nonplussed by Arthur's anger as he stroked the dragon's wing.
"I know." Balinor said simply. "But I promised my son I wouldn't let you die."
"Your...You have a son?" Arthur demanded. Again, Balinor shrugged. "Why does your son...? Nevermind. Don't save me again!" He snapped, pointing a finger at the man. He turned to stalk back to the horse only for a column of fire to blow past him. The prince jumped. He spun around to tell the man off again but immediately noticed one of the remaining bandits who had been slowly creeping towards him burnt to a crisp. He looked back at Balinor.
"Sorry."
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Balinor lives. Arthur will do pretty much anything to get the man to stop saving his life.
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Lay Your Head Down on the Shoulder of a Good Friend by Skitz_phenom
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
31 Oct 2019
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With Camelot readying for the upcoming gathering of rulers of the Southern Kingdoms to discuss peace, Uther has tasked Arthur with an additional duty: befriend the Prince of Essetir and learn anything he can of King Balinor, and of magic, and of dragons, that might be of interest should the treaty not succeed.
That's easier said than done, as he and Prince Merlin don't exactly hit it off immediately. But, befriending Merlin and learning of magic and life in Essetir leads Arthur down the paths of discovering long held secrets surrounding his own birth, and his mother's ill health, and his father's hatred of all things magic.
Adding even more complications to the mix are rowdy knights, frustrating princesses, a possible traitor in their midst, and an overly-verbose dragon; not to mention the burgeoning and peculiar feelings for his fellow prince that Arthur struggles to put a name to.
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“I am your Arthur, am I not?” Arthur pleaded frantically, not above begging anymore. As prince, as king, there was not a day when people didn't remind him that he was Camelot's. But as a man? As Arthur?
He was always and forever Merlin's.
“Show me that my choices matter, Merlin. Show me that they are worth anything to you.”
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diamond of the day fix-it, with a secret that only Arthur Pendragon knows.
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Merlin defies his fate. He decides to trust Arthur, and their lives change forever. Together they learn to navigate their new realities, amongst friends and foes.
In other words: What if Merlin listened to his heart more and Kilgharrah less?
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After he dies, Arthur wakes up ten years in the past
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After a rather strenuous week in the forest, Arthur’s offer of his bath to Merlin blurs the line between prince and servant, forcing the two to confront the potential of a relationship between them.
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The one where Merlin & Arthur face their feelings after making out in the prince’s tub.
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A/N: Though this canon divergence is set somewhere between end of Season 3 and early Season 4, I have moved up some of Season 4’s events to suit my storyboard needs. (ie. Gwen & Arthur’s relationship failing after S4E9 doesn’t go as written- this leaves both Arthur and Merlin a bit apprehensive about starting a relationship together.)