PSA: MERLIN.
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MERLIN.
All caps thanks to _becca84_!
~THE STORY~
Once upon a time, there was this totally adorable skinny country boy named Merlin. Merlin is utter dork and fail and really a Very Nice Boy! Unfortunately he's got this problem... no, don't worry, it's not VD. He just has a bad habit of levitating things with his mind and making his pretty blue eyes go all goldy.
His mum is, understandably, a bit worried. You see, in the kingdom Merlin lives in, that's magic. And Magic is punishable by swift and highly public beheading. Awwwwkwaaaaard. So Merlin's mum Hunith sends him off to be taken care of by Gaius, your neighborhood court physician!
Gaius' response to Merlin's Little Problem is something along the lines of HOSHIT ~DESTINY!~
Through a series of lolz, Merlin ends up stuck with Prince Arthur Pratdragon Pendragon.
The rest of the series is pretty much a lot of ~DRAMA~ intermixed with Arthur and Merlin's incredibly unsubtle UST.
No, I am not making this up.
~THE CHARACTERS~
MERLIN EMRYS - Well, first, there's Merlin. He's young and cute and just happens to be a warlock. You know, like it goes. Merlin's hobbies seem to be Getting Into Trouble, Talking Back At Inopportune Moments, and Accidentally Making His Eyes Go All Goldy. Also sometimes he's gay in Arthur's direction.
Actually, he does that a lot.
ARTHUR PENDRAGON - Arthur's the prince. He's also a total PRAT most of the time. Probably because, you know. He's the prince. So everyone usually falls all over themselves to make him happy and amused and such, and Merlin... doesn't. In fact, Merlin proves his Epic Ability to get into trouble by telling Arthur he could take him down (this was before he knew Arthur was the prince, in all fairness.) But even as the series continues, Merlin pretty much fails at treating Arthur like anything but Arthur, and for his part, Arthur seems to (in general) appreciate it.
He also has this gay really strong attachment to Merlin pretty quickly which, uh. Has to do with ~Destiny~, but also might have to do with Merlin's really cute big ears. Just a guess.
UTHER PENDRAGON - Arthur's dad, the King. Uther's the reason why any who practice magic are executed; there's a backstory to that, by the way. He's rigid in his stance on magic, and can be (and usually is) completely unflinching in his rule. Basically, when Uther says jump, you say how high whilst fluttering in midair.
Arthur isn't entirely sure his father is right about everything, and there's a lot of resistance on his part about certain things; it's just one more example of how Arthur will be a better king than his father. Unfortunately, Arthur is still unwilling to outright disobey Uther unless dire circumstances dictate, so there's some Angry Nostril Flaring about stuff.
GAIUS - Gaius is the guy Merlin comes to live with. He's the court doctor and an ex-sorcerer; when Uther purged the kingdom, Gaius "gave it up" and went to straight up science. He spends a lot of time raising his eye brows in Merlin's directions and sighing heavily over his antics, but he's repeatedly said that Merlin is like the son he never had, and I love Gaius a whole lot.
MORGANA - Morgana is Uther's ward; she came to Camelot when she was 11 after her father was killed at war. Uther dotes on her in kind of a strange way; she's one of the few people he generally allows to openly criticize him. She's also really hot. Which... is probably not related, but whatever.
She and Arthur spend a lot of time snitting at each other. There's some sort-of UST between them, but half the time they seem to just be barely resisting the urge to kick each other in the face. The other half, they are delightedly ribbing each other. That said, Morgana cares about Arthur a whole lot in her own way, and man, when she's afraid for him, she is totally terrified. Basically, she's awesome.
GUINEVERE (GWEN) - Gwen is the daughter of Tom the blacksmith and Morgana's maidservant. She's adorable and quite cheeky, and she and Merlin meet when he's in the stocks being pelted with rotten food. They hit it off right away. Gwen has a rather adorable habit of backing herself into ridiculous verbal corners and then babbling her way out again.
Also, Merlin's her type. Only not Merlin. Not that there's anything wrong with Merlin! He's just not--er, she isn't--GWEN HAS TO GO FOLD SOME CLOTHING NOW.
I ♥ Gwen.
THE GREAT DRAGON - The Great Dragon is the last of his kind; all the other dragons were slaughtered at the start of Uther's ban on magic, and this one, the last, was chained up beneath Camelot. He's been there roughly 20 years, and as Dragons usually are, he knows the future. Or at least, vaguely. He and Merlin have a very odd relationship; Merlin goes to him for advice, and the Dragon responds in cryptic statements which drive Merlin crazy.
Also, the Dragon has a tendency to say things like, "You are two sides of the same coin" and "you are his other half" and "your destiny is to be by Arthur's side, Merlin."
You can see why fandom has taken to cheerfully calling him the Slash Dragon. He seems to be just as invested in The Gay as we are.
CONVINCED? GOOD. You can download direct from dramatic_eps, or stream on both www.surfthechannel.com or www.sidereel.com. TONS of fic can be found, although as always when starting in a new fandom, I recommend hitting up tomomichi for reccs, because Becky knows what she's doing.
COME ON, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO WRITE ME FIC. :Db
MERLIN.
All caps thanks to _becca84_!
~THE STORY~
Once upon a time, there was this totally adorable skinny country boy named Merlin. Merlin is utter dork and fail and really a Very Nice Boy! Unfortunately he's got this problem... no, don't worry, it's not VD. He just has a bad habit of levitating things with his mind and making his pretty blue eyes go all goldy.
His mum is, understandably, a bit worried. You see, in the kingdom Merlin lives in, that's magic. And Magic is punishable by swift and highly public beheading. Awwwwkwaaaaard. So Merlin's mum Hunith sends him off to be taken care of by Gaius, your neighborhood court physician!
Gaius' response to Merlin's Little Problem is something along the lines of HOSHIT ~DESTINY!~
Through a series of lolz, Merlin ends up stuck with Prince Arthur Pratdragon Pendragon.
The rest of the series is pretty much a lot of ~DRAMA~ intermixed with Arthur and Merlin's incredibly unsubtle UST.
No, I am not making this up.
~THE CHARACTERS~
MERLIN EMRYS - Well, first, there's Merlin. He's young and cute and just happens to be a warlock. You know, like it goes. Merlin's hobbies seem to be Getting Into Trouble, Talking Back At Inopportune Moments, and Accidentally Making His Eyes Go All Goldy. Also sometimes he's gay in Arthur's direction.
Actually, he does that a lot.
ARTHUR PENDRAGON - Arthur's the prince. He's also a total PRAT most of the time. Probably because, you know. He's the prince. So everyone usually falls all over themselves to make him happy and amused and such, and Merlin... doesn't. In fact, Merlin proves his Epic Ability to get into trouble by telling Arthur he could take him down (this was before he knew Arthur was the prince, in all fairness.) But even as the series continues, Merlin pretty much fails at treating Arthur like anything but Arthur, and for his part, Arthur seems to (in general) appreciate it.
He also has this gay really strong attachment to Merlin pretty quickly which, uh. Has to do with ~Destiny~, but also might have to do with Merlin's really cute big ears. Just a guess.
UTHER PENDRAGON - Arthur's dad, the King. Uther's the reason why any who practice magic are executed; there's a backstory to that, by the way. He's rigid in his stance on magic, and can be (and usually is) completely unflinching in his rule. Basically, when Uther says jump, you say how high whilst fluttering in midair.
Arthur isn't entirely sure his father is right about everything, and there's a lot of resistance on his part about certain things; it's just one more example of how Arthur will be a better king than his father. Unfortunately, Arthur is still unwilling to outright disobey Uther unless dire circumstances dictate, so there's some Angry Nostril Flaring about stuff.
GAIUS - Gaius is the guy Merlin comes to live with. He's the court doctor and an ex-sorcerer; when Uther purged the kingdom, Gaius "gave it up" and went to straight up science. He spends a lot of time raising his eye brows in Merlin's directions and sighing heavily over his antics, but he's repeatedly said that Merlin is like the son he never had, and I love Gaius a whole lot.
MORGANA - Morgana is Uther's ward; she came to Camelot when she was 11 after her father was killed at war. Uther dotes on her in kind of a strange way; she's one of the few people he generally allows to openly criticize him. She's also really hot. Which... is probably not related, but whatever.
She and Arthur spend a lot of time snitting at each other. There's some sort-of UST between them, but half the time they seem to just be barely resisting the urge to kick each other in the face. The other half, they are delightedly ribbing each other. That said, Morgana cares about Arthur a whole lot in her own way, and man, when she's afraid for him, she is totally terrified. Basically, she's awesome.
GUINEVERE (GWEN) - Gwen is the daughter of Tom the blacksmith and Morgana's maidservant. She's adorable and quite cheeky, and she and Merlin meet when he's in the stocks being pelted with rotten food. They hit it off right away. Gwen has a rather adorable habit of backing herself into ridiculous verbal corners and then babbling her way out again.
Also, Merlin's her type. Only not Merlin. Not that there's anything wrong with Merlin! He's just not--er, she isn't--GWEN HAS TO GO FOLD SOME CLOTHING NOW.
I ♥ Gwen.
THE GREAT DRAGON - The Great Dragon is the last of his kind; all the other dragons were slaughtered at the start of Uther's ban on magic, and this one, the last, was chained up beneath Camelot. He's been there roughly 20 years, and as Dragons usually are, he knows the future. Or at least, vaguely. He and Merlin have a very odd relationship; Merlin goes to him for advice, and the Dragon responds in cryptic statements which drive Merlin crazy.
Also, the Dragon has a tendency to say things like, "You are two sides of the same coin" and "you are his other half" and "your destiny is to be by Arthur's side, Merlin."
You can see why fandom has taken to cheerfully calling him the Slash Dragon. He seems to be just as invested in The Gay as we are.
CONVINCED? GOOD. You can download direct from dramatic_eps, or stream on both www.surfthechannel.com or www.sidereel.com. TONS of fic can be found, although as always when starting in a new fandom, I recommend hitting up tomomichi for reccs, because Becky knows what she's doing.
COME ON, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO WRITE ME FIC. :Db