Author:
jelazakazoneTitle: Your Secret is Safe
Rating: PG
Character/s: Mordred, Merlin
Summary: Mordred makes a mistake.
Warnings: Major character death hinted at
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #34: Devotion
Author's Notes: I hadn’t intended to write more than one piece this week, but this thought came to me as I was falling asleep and I dashed it out. Probably everything
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Great job on this, bb!
(And yeah, I think Merlin would wipe Mordred off the face of the planet. Hell, he might even go farther than that...)
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Thanks! I am going to have to think about it. I think that the show has turned Merlin into something he's not.
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Damn, I wonder what inspired_being is going to write. Part of me is feeling like I need to write a follow up to this to see what would happen, how my headcanon would play out.
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While I think they've made Merlin act in ways he wouldn't have before, I don't think they are OOC. Yes, he urged Arthur to kill Mordred and opted to not help heal Mordred, which he probably wouldn't have done in the past but we are seeing a Merlin made desperate by the visions he's seen and the prophecies that have been shared with him.
I think it would be OOC of him if he just let Arthur's murderer get away with the killing. Arthur is his everything. I do not see him just letting it go. He'd explode and things would get very ugly.
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Definitely true, that he's desperate now. I feel like he's lost touch with his inner goodness along the way. His focus has narrowed so much, he can't see the whole picture any more. It's why I liked 5.05 so much. It showed how flawed he's become.
Ok, I'm going to write something later. We can agree to disagree on this:D
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While I agree his focus has narrowed, somewhat tragically, I don't think he's lost his inner goodness. He still implored Arthur not to kill Odin. He's not just running around killing off anyone who looks at Arthur cross-eyed. It's just that he's so convinced that Mordred, specifically, is the biggest EVER threat to Arthur that he is out to stop him any way he has to.
But, I'll quit now if you'd like. There's no heat here, I just love to debate :D
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No heat from me either. I love hashing this stuff out too.
And here is what I'm wondering. I feel like in the show, he's lost touch with his inner goodness. Or we are lead to believe he's losing touch with it.
I feel that having Mordred at court has weakened Merlin's notion about Mordred's evilness.
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I think having Mordred at court has muddied the waters as far as Merlin's mental picture of Mordred's nature. But as he said, he's not so sure that Mordred is there yet. He knows what Mordred will do but yeah, he doesn't seem to think Mordred has any clue...yet. Now his dilemma is-cut off the threat before it can do damage? Or wait until that switch is thrown and hope he's not too late to stop Atthur's murder?
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Did Merlin actually say that he thinks Mordred doesn't know his own future? Or was that in a fic? I'm all muddled about what's canon vs not in this season because there has been so much outside my headcanon.
True. It puts him in an interesting spot too, doesn't it? Has Merlin turned villainous? (That's a rhetorical question. Don't answer it.)
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I'm lucky that I don't seem to get my story-canon mixed up with my show-canon because I remember fic and video differently. I always hear the voices from the show speaking in my head. :D
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Yeah. I don't know why they cut that scene. It was a good one.
Impressive! Words are words are words. It doesn't matter if I've watched, read, or listened to something, they are all in the same place.
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