Kink Me! #7

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Kink Me! #7
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Re: "it's all right with me" | arthur/original male character, arthur/merlin ust | 2 of 2

[anonymous]

Oh, no, don't worry, I didn't feel pressured. ♥ I'm just a bit frustrated with myself. Everyone here on the meme has been lovely.

I agree completely about Merlin being confusingly different from Arthur--I actually started to ramble about that in my previous comment, and then decided I was talking too much and cut that bit. Arthur's just completely not used to dealing with anyone like him. I actually wonder whether Arthur might get Merlin's lack of respect for his rank confused with lack of affection for him as a person--I'd imagine nearly everyone who'd chosen to spend time with Arthur expected some sort of personal benefit from knowing him (that's not terribly well-phrased, but maybe you know what I mean? people who wanted political considerations, or something), and then here's Merlin who doesn't seem to want anything.

(To be fair to Gwen, mind, Merlin is keeping a pretty enormous secret from Arthur himself, and lying by omission in doing so. But other than that, I do agree that the show hasn't put much actual effort into Arthur/Gwen, and pretty much all the effort they have has gone into the Forbidden Love™ aspect, which makes me wonder what the writers expect Arthur and Gwen to talk about once for whatever reason it's no longer Forbidden. (I mean, I love Gwen and I support people shipping whatever they want to ship--I've actually dabbled in Arthur/Gwen myself on occasion--but it's still something I don't quite get in canon.))