Melin: You're A Mile Away And You Have Their Shoes (3/3) PG-13

[10leaguesbeyond]

Title: You're a Mile Away and You Have Their Shoes 3/3
Author: mad_maudlin
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur, and also Merlin/Arthur
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: All episodes
Warnings: Crack, shovels, massive rupture of the fourth wall.
Summary: Arthur wanted to know what was going on in Merlin's head. He just didn't mean it so literally.

Comments

[gweneiriol]

OMG! I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS FIC! There's so many good lines and I can't choose one I love the best!

I also think it's totally awesome how you mixed the "prince and pauper" story idea w/the body swap story idea and then turned them both on their head!

Also, I love how you managed to keep everyone in character doing it!

[10leaguesbeyond]

Actually, my second choices for a title for this would've been something twee like "The Prat and the Pauper." But then I remembered the old Jack Handy line and decided I liked it better.

[betsyli]

Oh my goodness, this is just ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. It was so epic and satisfying and well-executed! *goes back to read it all over again*

[korilian]

Cool! To bad about the reset. I get that it was necessary, but I liked Gwen being in on everything :)
I loved how Arthur was being so thick about the magic. First blaming it on the curse and then even when it got spelled out for him, he still couldn't quite wrap his mind around Merlin being warlock. Merlin flipping out about Arthur lying about the magic was a fun twist as well.

[rane_ab]

Oh, this was lovely! I love how the story is by turns creepy, sad, funny and touching. I particularly liked the creepy things happening (... this seems to include Morgana), giving such a nice tension to the story. And I love that in spite of switching places, they're still basically themselves. (And I love that Merlin still doesn't like Uther, that there's something missing between them.)

[daisy_chan]

very cute. ^^