PRESENTING: The Merlin/Arthur Royal Wedding Comment Ficfest

[a8c_sock]

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

Comments

Previously Unexpected - 2

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He does regret it, later; he has a heart, after all, and a good sense of guilt, and in retrospect he shouldn’t have been so rude to someone who is apparently going to run the country someday. But frankly, he really doesn’t see why it matters.

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Arthur’s not looking at him the next Tuesday, when their class next meets, and Merlin takes the unrepentant line of his profile to be the answer he’d expected; ha, Merlin thinks triumphantly, inwardly crowing and pushing away the still-lingering strains of his guilt over being impolite, because see, Arthur is just as much a sore attention-seeking loser who can’t get over not being loved and all-popular as Will and his violently anti-government hippie friends had promised him, and Merlin is justified. He’s got proof

Previously Unexpected - 3

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Re: Previously Unexpected - 4

[bramble_rose]

Loved how they grew together, and how Merlin began to like Arthur just because of how he was, not who he was :-) Very much AWWWWWW!!

Previously Unexpected - 5

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Re: Previously Unexpected - 5

[moiraes]

Oh, Arthur.
I love how Merlin's the last one to know about his own marriage, bahaha.

THIS FEST. I APPROVE OF IT SO MUCH.

Re: Previously Unexpected - 5

[monicaop]

Oh wow... I loved this, so completely!!! Not only how everything starts, with Arthur being... so not Arthur and yet so much like himself, if you get what I mean, and Merlin, oh I love him!! And the ending?? the "Oh"?? That was amazing!!!

Loved this, be well :)

Re: Previously Unexpected - 5

[filmatleven]

HAHAHAHA. I adore this sooooo much. I really, really do. =)

Previously Unexpected - 6 (END)

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Arthur ends up proposing twice, because he insists that the first time didn’t count because it was over a shitty long-distance phone connection and he didn’t even mean to do it, and so he ends up taking Merlin into the royal gardens and making this grand declaration of love as they stroll through among the roses and he’s so earnest about it that Merlin doesn’t even have the heart to point out how redundant this is, since he’s already basically said yes. Stammered it, in shock, more like. But said yes all the same

Re: Previously Unexpected - 6 (END)

[filmatleven]

OH BOYS! *draws hearts everywhere*

Re: Previously Unexpected - 6 (END)

[giecast]

This is such a wonderful story. I love the gradual development of their relationship, how they've known each other for years and years before falling in love. Though I think Arthur is actually waiting for Merlin to wise up.

My absolute favorite line:

It only goes downhill (or uphill, depending on your perspective, or sideways, or pear-shaped, or completely lost in a gravity-defying spiral of a black hole) from there.

Re: Previously Unexpected - 6 (END)

[tetsubinatu]

I really liked the pacing of this fic - nice and slow without losing momentum. Fun!

Re: Previously Unexpected - 6 (END)

[skeletonwords]

I don't think. You quite. UNDERSTAND. How much. I LOVE this. My favorite person in the entire world, this turned out ten times better than I could've hoped for and I love this and I love you and I love them and seriously, SERIOUSLY. You should probably expect a shitty proposal from me soon, just so I can make sure I have you there with me forever to always write me things like this. *draws hearts around fic* *draws hearts around you* *sits in corner and sobs at the perfectness*

Re: Previously Unexpected - 6 (END)

[ronsoftie]

This is brilliant :D I feel all warm and fuzzy inside now, oh boys ♥♥♥ So much love for you writing this and sharing it :)

Re: Previously Unexpected - 6 (END)

[a8c_sock]

Oh that was lovely. Such a good buildup of the relationship. Really nicely paced. <3

Re: Previously Unexpected - 6 (END)

[marguerite_26]

That was AMAZING. What you did in so few words??? AMAZING. God, what a great read. Thank you for this.