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PRESENTING: The Merlin/Arthur Royal Wedding Comment Ficfest

Apr 29, 2011 15:11

Tired of the Royal Wedding hype? Couldn't care less about cakes and canapes? Bored of the same footage being shown over and over? Fear not! I have an antidote! Of the Merlin/Arthur variety!

Yes, how much cooler would the Royal Wedding have been had it been between Merlin and Arthur?

(blame goes to thisissirius for giving me the idea. *cough ( Read more... )

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DRP Wedding (1/4) rageprufrock April 29 2011, 20:20:09 UTC

OKAY OBVIOUSLY I COULD NOT RESIST THIS:

Merlin had been in absolute, exquisitely embarrassing ecstasies for the entire first month he was engaged. Lancelot said he should come with a fine-print warning he could cause nausea, Gwen started shunning him after the second week because she was too nice to tell him he was being revolting, Everett threatened to seduce Arthur, just to burst Merlin's bubble of unbearable happiness.

"A terrifying sacrifice for you, for sure," Merlin had said, after he'd dispatched Arthur to the bar for another round of drinks, and also to be stared-at by a fuckload of wide-eyed tourists taking indiscreet cameraphone photos.

Everett looked hunted. "Emrys, you have no fucking idea."

Anyway, all of them were just jealous, obviously, because Merlin was engaged. He was engaged to the most wonderful and handsome and kindhearted man in the world, and it was even better for the way that Arthur was so embarrassed by all of his goodness, and hid it underneath a thick layer of being a twat. It was a sentiment which ( ... )

DRP Wedding (2/4) rageprufrock April 29 2011, 20:21:00 UTC

It was primarily out of pity, Merlin figured, that Lancelot broke his friend quarantine and furthermore tricked Gwen into coming out to meet with Merlin in the shitty bedsit he still kept for appearances. They huddled on Merlin's lumpy mattress with a number of bottles of Tesco's Finest wine - just because Merlin rubbed elbows and genitals with royalty now didn't mean he couldn't have his petty rebellions - and a profusion of chips drenched in vinegar to examine the shambles of Merlin's life.

"How on Earth did you manage to get engaged to Arthur Pendragon without realizing you were going to marry the fucking Prince of Wales, I ask you," Lancelot asked him, giving Merlin a side eye he was much more used to seeing in people like Arthur. And Morgana. And Gwen. And Gaius. And his mother. Upon reflection, Merlin spent of a lot of time with terrible, cruel people.

"He's not the prince to me!" Merlin complained. "He's Arthur. I was just too busy being overjoyed! I totally forgot ( ... )

Re: DRP Wedding (2/4) rageprufrock April 29 2011, 20:22:40 UTC

"If I could vomit on cue like all the girls in sixth form, I would vomit on you," Merlin swore at him, and spent the rest of the drive trying to convince himself every world dignitary would boycott the ceremony in moral revulsion ( ... )

DRP Wedding (4A/4) rageprufrock April 29 2011, 20:23:37 UTC

Arthur was quiet for a long time, and Merlin thought that this was just the engagement. That soon - April 29; it would be a bank holiday, and that was entirely too strange to wrap his mind around, still - there would be a wedding and sometime after that there would be state visits, royal duties. There would be birthday parties and vacations. Maybe, if they were lucky, there would be kids and birthday parties and they would go away to school and meet people of their own and get married, too. He'd known, abstractly, since he'd said "yes," that these things would be public, but he'd also thought that at least they'd be his. It was only now he was starting to realize that was too naive, too ( ... )

DRP Wedding (4B/4) rageprufrock April 29 2011, 20:23:58 UTC

But mostly, Merlin remembered meeting Arthur at the front of the church, the dark blue of Arthur's uniform jacket, the very blond of his hair, the absolute terror in his eyes.

He remembered saying, "Hello, breathe," and Arthur, surprised in the oppressive formality of the day, whispering to him, "You know, I thought you would have smartened up and run away."

"Oh," Merlin murmured back, ignoring the way the vicar was looking at them in affectionate disapproval because someone else had picked the suit and the venue and the suit but this was his wedding, "I tried, but I fell down ( ... )

Re: DRP Wedding (4B/4) misssnowfox April 29 2011, 20:54:19 UTC

I DON'T THINK YOU WILL EVER KNOW WHAT THIS FIC DID TO ME!!!

Seriously, you wrote pretty much every part of the DRP verse I would ever want to see- the horny post marriage phase, the honeymoon, the kids, the problems, the actual MEETING, everything BUT the wedding- and then I see THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS- I am not even joking when I tell you that I am in tears reading this. After loving DRP for so long and it being my favorite fic in the whole fandom, to actually SEE the wedding and read it it's just... oh my god!!! Also, the bit about Arthur texting Merlin before the wedding- that was when I started to bawl- because if I am correct (and I THINK I am) it's the first time we get an "I love you" from Arthur to Merlin directly- ever. It just made me heart sore!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SOOOO HARD!!!!!

Re: DRP Wedding (4B/4) debris_k April 29 2011, 20:57:04 UTC

*\o/*
Now this wedding I wouldn't have minded giving up our Food Fight Thursday to.

Edited because I can't even remember TLC's program properly, I get to actually watch it thanks to TLC so little.

Re: DRP Wedding (4B/4) dancinbutterfly April 29 2011, 20:57:23 UTC

ALL OF THE YES IN THE UNIVERSE! SERIOUSLY THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL AND SWEET AND ALL OF THE CHARMING IN ALL OF THE LAND! <3 YAY!!!

Re: DRP Wedding (4B/4) such_heights April 29 2011, 20:59:50 UTC

PERFECT ANTIDOTE TO TODAY, THANK YOU KINDLY.

Re: DRP Wedding (4B/4) myricarubra April 29 2011, 20:59:58 UTC

HAPPINESS. PERFECTION. <333

Re: DRP Wedding (4B/4) chibirhm April 29 2011, 21:02:57 UTC

lkajdskljadsfjkl SOBBING FOR REALSIES OH MY GODDDDD THIS UNIVERSE I HAVE RE-READ IT ALL AN ALARMING AMOUNT OF TIMES THE PAST WEEK.

Re: DRP Wedding (4B/4) tourdefierce April 29 2011, 21:07:36 UTC

I want to molest this fic in the most obscene ways.

Merlin is perfect. I love how he is just clueless--flawlessly in love with Arthur and it's lovely.

The image of Arthur laughing at the alter is just... stunning.

♥

Re: DRP Wedding (4B/4) overtsock April 29 2011, 21:13:30 UTC

"Oh, God, shut up," Merlin begged, and pressed kisses to Arthur's mouth to make him stop breaking Merlin's heart, and kept kissing him until Arthur's uncertainty and his hurt washed away into gratitude instead.

OH MY HEART. <3

All of this makes me so full of joy, I don't know what to say...

Re: DRP Wedding (4B/4) magog_83 April 29 2011, 21:17:02 UTC

"Oh," Merlin murmured back, ignoring the way the vicar was looking at them in affectionate disapproval because someone else had picked the suit and the venue and the suit but this was his wedding, "I tried, but I fell down."

This was AMAZING, and sweet, and wonderfully romantic <3 I've always wanted to see the DRP wedding and this delivered it in spades, thank you!

Re: DRP Wedding (4B/4) ems April 29 2011, 21:26:10 UTC

I JUST CANNOT WITH FANDOM THIS WEEK. Ugh, we are so spoiled.

As ever, this is perfect and wonderful. And Gwaine! So nice to slip him in there.

You know, I read DRP before I even saw an episode of Merlin, and I don't know if it's that, but the characterisation of Arthur and Merlin in this universe always feels so completely right to me. ♥

Re: DRP Wedding (4B/4) a8c_sock April 29 2011, 21:27:43 UTC

OMG. When I started this fest I had DRP at the back of mind because...well who wouldn't? And...it's here! THE WEDDING.

ITS SO THEM AND SWEET AND LOVELY AND PERFECT. *FLAILS*

Thank you for sharing it with us!

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