The Making of Merlin

[lostwolfchats]

Title: The Making of Merlin
Characters/Pairing:  11, various characters from legend
Rating: U
Disclaimer: Not mine. I don't own Dr Who or Arthurian Legend. Sniff.
Spoilers: None
Author's Notes: A prequel/sequel to The Mettle of Merlin.
Summary: The Doctor knows he is Merlin - his past tells him so - but nothing is fixed, is it?

Comments

[scarfman]

Nits first: I see an except for an accept and a consciousness for a conscience.
Nice misdirection using Geoffrey's name for the girl, though students of the legend knew who she was anyway. The hawk thing worked nicely too. "It would be his previous body that would cement the myth" - when Mettle was the incarnation before last, this imples stories yet to come?

[lostwolfchats]

Thanks and for spotting the mistakes.

I didn't know Geoffrey used Ana - and while I could pretend super knowledge, I've always thought honesty was the best policy! I only knew Geoffrey Monmouth refers to her as Morgan le Fay (the fairy).

I just thought a little girl would be inclined to shorten her mouthful of a name...

Oh - and yep - there is a story with Ten and Rose in the planning stages.

[qtrhorserider]

*Sigh* he's always like this. Winks affectionately at Scarfhusband....

Loved it. Loved how you worked the naming into this story. Marian Zimmer Bradley represented Merlin as a title that was granted, rather than a name. I like how you made it that he was named for a hawk.

I've been avoiding Eleven fiction so I have no preconceived notions of what he'll be like, but this was one of yours so I couldn't resist.

[lostwolfchats]

Aw - thank you.

I approached this as him being still new and forming, so his final personality isn't determined and is more a mix of the past, each resurfacing in certain responses or memories, as his regeneration settles down. That way, it doesn't really matter if the TV version is very different, this should still work...

I hope!

[sunnytyler001]

Brilliant!

[lostwolfchats]

Thank you :-D

[catyuy]

:-D
Brillant.

[lostwolfchats]

Kisses

[silencing]

I really can't tell you how much I love this. The convoluted time lines, the multiple regenerations...I'm immensely excited for whatever else you have in store for this series. Plus, an eleven story! Poor guy. I half expected him to tell Ana that his nose wasn't as big as it used to be

ps. in "and to be asked to walk the paths were she and he had/would wander together -" should 'were' be 'where'?

[lostwolfchats]

Thanks :-) It was rather liberating writing 11 with no idea how he'll actually be!

Thanks for picking up the spelling mistake!

[janna_hawkins]

Wow. What an amazing thing to wake up to on a gloomy Monday morning. Thank you! :)

I really like how you wrote Eleven. I hope that's how he'll be like once we finally get to see him!

[lostwolfchats]

I think he is still channeling a bit of Ten here, with echoes of Nine - I'm glad he worked for you :-)

Huggles!