Flashfic: Thaumaturgy (Merlin/Arthur, wing!verse AU)

[b_hallward]

Summary: Each of those who is allotted a place in the Divine Order finds his perfection in being uplifted, according to his capacity. -- Dionysius the Areopagite (AN: Wing!verse, set between Sublimity and By Means of Fire.)

ThaumaturgyIt's so not much that Arthur is looking for Merlin, but he finds him anyway by a backdoor on the industrial side

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[mossylawn]

I have fallen hard for angel!Merlin. There is no turning back.

And for a flash Merlin shifts, changes, a light and a flame, sharp and brilliant and stretching from the roof of the sky down into the heart of the earth. For that moment, Merlin is blinding.

This is poetry my dear, thick and smooth like caramel.

[b_hallward]

One thing I really like about the show is how much Merlin changes and how that change was gradual enough that the full scope of it wasn't apparent to me until I rewatched some of the earlier episodes, thinking about 1x13. So this was something of a bridge piece, getting Merlin to see that the world is a more complicated place than he thinks, starting him down the path that is going to lead him to that dark alley. Though frankly I really like young prideful angel!Merlin.

So, seriously, angel!Merlin or Arthur, who should top, the first time?

[mossylawn]

One thing I really like about the show is how much Merlin changes and how that change was gradual enough that the full scope of it wasn't apparent to me until I rewatched some of the earlier episodes, thinking about 1x13. Oh, it makes me want to rewatch the series again (and I probably will once my essay hell is over), I remember how much I was stunned by the change in the body language between 1x13 and the earlier episodes. He's so unbelievably still, driven my desperation and his mind already welcoming death for Arthur's sake.

Though frankly I really like young prideful angel!Merlin.
I love him too! And I like to think he can be both, just line Merlin can be this sublime warlock and an awkward adolescent boy at the same time.

So, seriously, angel!Merlin or Arthur, who should top, the first time?
YOU HAD TO DROP THAT BOMB, DIDN'T YOU? Frankly I'm in favour of angel!Merlin as a dominant bottom. He'd still be the giving entity, but yet completely in control. OR a top Merlin but a thoroughly worshipful one

[b_hallward]

Colin does a fantastic job in that episode--the scene where Gaius comes and tells him Arthur will live, just watching his face, has to be one of my favorite in the entire series.

He's so unbelievably still

That is just so so sexy. He holds himself the way you handle a weapon. It makes you realize that someday Merlin is going to be very dangerous.

YOU HAD TO DROP THAT BOMB

THAT BOMB NEEDED TO BE DROPPED. And we are scarily on the same page here. My original thought was dominant bottom, receptive and breached and willfully sinking down on Arthur's cock, in control and choosing this--something about exploring the flesh, like waking up one day and finding new colors in the world, since by canon Angels don't feel bodily desire.

And yet Merlin is an intermediary, something that stands between Arthur and higher orders of being, a messenger. So I can see the thoroughly worshipful top. IN FACT THERE MAY NEED TO BE MORE THAN ONE SEX SCENE.

[mossylawn]

And we are scarily on the same page here. My original thought was dominant bottom, receptive and breached and willfully sinking down on Arthur's cock, in control and choosing this--something about exploring the flesh, like waking up one day and finding new colors in the world, since by canon Angels don't feel bodily desire.

And yet Merlin is an intermediary, something that stands between Arthur and higher orders of being, a messenger. So I can see the thoroughly worshipful top
You know what freaks me out even more? It's almost exactly, word for word, what has been running through my mind. Eeep.
Also:

IN FACT THERE MAY NEED TO BE MORE THAN ONE SEX SCENE.
We totally know the answer to this rhetorical question, now don't we?