Prompts (21-35)
PROMPT #21
Characters/Pairing/Gen: ancelot/Gwe
Time-period or theme: arly-canon, if Gwen had chosen Lancelo
Place: amelo
Emotion: opefu
Sense: igh
Object: tars, tower
Action: tar-gazing
Mood: reaming
Maximum rating: rtist's choice
Squicks: one that I can think o
PROMPT #22
Characters/Pairing/Gen: erlin
Time-period or theme: anon
Object: ragon
Mood: owerful
Maximum rating: ny
Squicks: uteness ;)
PROMPT #23
Characters/Pairing/Gen: rthur/Merlin
Time-period or theme: ano
Place: valon
Emotion: oss, love
Sense: ight, touch
Object: igil
Action: iss
Mood: ight/early morning, peace
Maximum rating: ny
Squicks: one
PROMPT #24
Author:xfortytwo
Drabble or Excerpt:
There are still grains of resentment left in him when he realises all of them have come through, that he’s seen of all of them, except Merlin. He seeks out Gaius, pretending to talk about a million other things until he finally cracks, looks up at him and says, “Merlin’s not dying, is he?”
And Gaius goes still, studying him solemnly before he shakes his head, his hand resting on Arthur’s knee for a brief moment.
“No, I’m afraid he’s not.”
It’s a strange how being dead is so much like being alive and yet nothing like it at all. Arthur has never wished for anyone’s death before, but as he sits there and listens to the stillness of his heart, knowing that Merlin’s will never falter, he knows that if he could wish for one thing, it is Merlin’s death - the very thing he has always feared.
The last, resilient wisps of resentment seep out of him when Freya takes his hand and lets him see. She lets him see when Merlin stands at the crumbled, old ruins of Camelot, looking exactly as young as the day Arthur died in his arms, but his shoulders look heavier, rounder around the edges like he’s carrying too much.
Maximum rating:
Squicks: irly men, overt fluff
PROMPT #25
Characters/Pairing/Gen: rthur/Merlin
Time-period or theme: eincarnation
Emotion: ittersweet, longing, enlightenment
Sense: ight, touch
Mood: oonlight
Maximum rating: ny
Squicks: on-con, infidelity
Author: e
Drabble or Excerpt: he man up on the stage was brighter than anyone Arthur had ever seen, despite the wane lighting the stage lights provided. His outfit was splashes of colour more than anything else, but Arthur still remembered his eyes at the beginning of the show-a bright, vivid blue. He seemed to fly, swinging from the trapeze as graceful as could be. There was something oddly familiar about him, Arthur thought, but as it was he was content to just stare at the man until the lights finally went down.
PROMPT #26
Author:fuckyeah
Drabble or Excerpt:
“...Let me get this straight, Mr. Emrys--”
“Merlin.”
Arthur sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose. He’s been fighting off the beginnings of a migraine ever since the man in front of him just traipsed into his university office twenty minutes earlier. “--Merlin: you expect me to just drop everything and go off with you to god knows where to search for an artifact that doesn’t even exist?”
“The Cup of Lif is eal, Arthur,” Merlin says, jabbing at the stack of papers he had unceremoniously dumped on top of Arthur’s desk. “Its existence has been well-documented by multiple sources over the years, and all signs point to its current location being somewhere in Mercia.”
Arthur’s eyes flicker over a block of text that’s been photocopied so many times the words are nearly eligible, keeping his features impassive. “Let’s say you’re right. I still fail to see why I should get involved with some wild goose chase.”
“I thought you’d be jumping at a chance like this,” Merlin says, flailing his arms around. It’s comical, and slightly endearing, if Arthur thinks about it for too long. Which he is definitely not. “You know, to be a real life Indiana Jones!”
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: nfidelity, major gore/belly wounds, scat, vorarephilia
PROMPT #27
Characters/Pairing/Gen: waine/Merlin
Time-period or theme: et in Canon
Place: he castle
Emotion: re-slash, crushing, and thinking feeling are unrequited when they're not
Sense: ouch, taste
Object: n apple, book
Action: anding somebody something in a form of a present
Mood: ervous tension that leads to happiness
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: on-con, extreme violence, heavy angst with no resolution, scat, watersports, and character death
PROMPT #28
Characters/Pairing/Gen: waine/Merlin
Time-period or theme: anon
Place: amelot
Emotion: onging
Sense: ouch
Action: assage
Mood: ensual
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: cat, guro, preg
Maybe Gwaine comes back from a particularly trying knightly outting (or practice), and Merlin helps relax his sore muscles with a nice massage.
PROMPT #29
Characters/Pairing/Gen: ancelot and Gwen
Time-period or theme: odern da
Place: offee Shop
Emotion: ove.
Object: offee cups or flowers
Action: lirting? hands touching?
Mood: appiness. Warm. Sunlight.
Maximum rating:
Squicks:
PROMPT #30
Characters/Pairing/Gen: erlin/Arthur
Time-period or theme:
Emotion: appiness
Action: ug
Maximum rating: hatever you get for a hug :p
Squicks: irly men. (Can I get some scruffiness??)
PROMPT #31
Author: lossomdreams
Drabble or Excerpt: erlin couldn't believe that he had to tutor Gwaine. Gwaine only came to school when he felt like it and sometimes he spent most of the day running away from angry boyfriends. Gwaine was someone he didn't want to be involved with, well that's what Arthur told him, but Merlin couldn't help wondering what it would be like to have Gwaine as a friend or something more.
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: on-con, extreme violence, heavy angst with no resolution, scat, watersports, and character death
PROMPT #32
Characters/Pairing/Gen: waine/Merlin
Time-period or theme: anon
Place: amelot
Emotion: weet
Sense: ouch, sight
Object: eckerchief
Action: waine wears Merlin's neckerchief
Mood: weet/romantic
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: cat, guro, preg
PROMPT #33
Characters/Pairing/Gen: rthur/Merlin
Time-period or theme: anon
Place: amelot
Emotion: weet
Sense: ouch, sight
Object: athtub
Action: erlin's sick, and the roles are reversed when Arthur offers to bathe him.
Mood: omantic/gentle
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: cat, guro, preg
PROMPT #34
Characters/Pairing/Gen: erlin/Arthur
Time-period or theme: odern AU
Place: offeeshop
Emotion: appiness, nervousness, and anticipation
Sense: ouch, smell, and sight
Object: offeecup, cologne, and coffee beans
Action: mall talk, accidental touches, and mixed up drink
Mood: appy, light, and airy
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: on-con, extreme violence, heavy angst with no resolution, scat, watersports, and character death
PROMPT #35
Author: arksagegrl0
Drabble or Excerpt: t's thousands of years after Arthur's death. Merlin has been alive all this time. Every night he sleeps in a bed that's too big for him, arm stretched out into the empty space in the middle, grasping for someone who isn't there. Every night he dreams of Arthur lying there next to him, hand clasped in his. As he dreams, Merlin's magic forms a spectre of Arthur on the bed. But every morning as Merlin wakes, the spectre slowly fades and his hand is left tugging at the sheets on the other side of the bed.
Maximum rating:
Squicks: on-con
Characters/Pairing/Gen: ancelot/Gwe
Time-period or theme: arly-canon, if Gwen had chosen Lancelo
Place: amelo
Emotion: opefu
Sense: igh
Object: tars, tower
Action: tar-gazing
Mood: reaming
Maximum rating: rtist's choice
Squicks: one that I can think o
PROMPT #22
Characters/Pairing/Gen: erlin
Time-period or theme: anon
Object: ragon
Mood: owerful
Maximum rating: ny
Squicks: uteness ;)
PROMPT #23
Characters/Pairing/Gen: rthur/Merlin
Time-period or theme: ano
Place: valon
Emotion: oss, love
Sense: ight, touch
Object: igil
Action: iss
Mood: ight/early morning, peace
Maximum rating: ny
Squicks: one
PROMPT #24
Author:xfortytwo
Drabble or Excerpt:
There are still grains of resentment left in him when he realises all of them have come through, that he’s seen of all of them, except Merlin. He seeks out Gaius, pretending to talk about a million other things until he finally cracks, looks up at him and says, “Merlin’s not dying, is he?”
And Gaius goes still, studying him solemnly before he shakes his head, his hand resting on Arthur’s knee for a brief moment.
“No, I’m afraid he’s not.”
It’s a strange how being dead is so much like being alive and yet nothing like it at all. Arthur has never wished for anyone’s death before, but as he sits there and listens to the stillness of his heart, knowing that Merlin’s will never falter, he knows that if he could wish for one thing, it is Merlin’s death - the very thing he has always feared.
The last, resilient wisps of resentment seep out of him when Freya takes his hand and lets him see. She lets him see when Merlin stands at the crumbled, old ruins of Camelot, looking exactly as young as the day Arthur died in his arms, but his shoulders look heavier, rounder around the edges like he’s carrying too much.
Maximum rating:
Squicks: irly men, overt fluff
PROMPT #25
Characters/Pairing/Gen: rthur/Merlin
Time-period or theme: eincarnation
Emotion: ittersweet, longing, enlightenment
Sense: ight, touch
Mood: oonlight
Maximum rating: ny
Squicks: on-con, infidelity
Author: e
Drabble or Excerpt: he man up on the stage was brighter than anyone Arthur had ever seen, despite the wane lighting the stage lights provided. His outfit was splashes of colour more than anything else, but Arthur still remembered his eyes at the beginning of the show-a bright, vivid blue. He seemed to fly, swinging from the trapeze as graceful as could be. There was something oddly familiar about him, Arthur thought, but as it was he was content to just stare at the man until the lights finally went down.
PROMPT #26
Author:fuckyeah
Drabble or Excerpt:
“...Let me get this straight, Mr. Emrys--”
“Merlin.”
Arthur sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose. He’s been fighting off the beginnings of a migraine ever since the man in front of him just traipsed into his university office twenty minutes earlier. “--Merlin: you expect me to just drop everything and go off with you to god knows where to search for an artifact that doesn’t even exist?”
“The Cup of Lif is eal, Arthur,” Merlin says, jabbing at the stack of papers he had unceremoniously dumped on top of Arthur’s desk. “Its existence has been well-documented by multiple sources over the years, and all signs point to its current location being somewhere in Mercia.”
Arthur’s eyes flicker over a block of text that’s been photocopied so many times the words are nearly eligible, keeping his features impassive. “Let’s say you’re right. I still fail to see why I should get involved with some wild goose chase.”
“I thought you’d be jumping at a chance like this,” Merlin says, flailing his arms around. It’s comical, and slightly endearing, if Arthur thinks about it for too long. Which he is definitely not. “You know, to be a real life Indiana Jones!”
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: nfidelity, major gore/belly wounds, scat, vorarephilia
PROMPT #27
Characters/Pairing/Gen: waine/Merlin
Time-period or theme: et in Canon
Place: he castle
Emotion: re-slash, crushing, and thinking feeling are unrequited when they're not
Sense: ouch, taste
Object: n apple, book
Action: anding somebody something in a form of a present
Mood: ervous tension that leads to happiness
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: on-con, extreme violence, heavy angst with no resolution, scat, watersports, and character death
PROMPT #28
Characters/Pairing/Gen: waine/Merlin
Time-period or theme: anon
Place: amelot
Emotion: onging
Sense: ouch
Action: assage
Mood: ensual
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: cat, guro, preg
Maybe Gwaine comes back from a particularly trying knightly outting (or practice), and Merlin helps relax his sore muscles with a nice massage.
PROMPT #29
Characters/Pairing/Gen: ancelot and Gwen
Time-period or theme: odern da
Place: offee Shop
Emotion: ove.
Object: offee cups or flowers
Action: lirting? hands touching?
Mood: appiness. Warm. Sunlight.
Maximum rating:
Squicks:
PROMPT #30
Characters/Pairing/Gen: erlin/Arthur
Time-period or theme:
Emotion: appiness
Action: ug
Maximum rating: hatever you get for a hug :p
Squicks: irly men. (Can I get some scruffiness??)
PROMPT #31
Author: lossomdreams
Drabble or Excerpt: erlin couldn't believe that he had to tutor Gwaine. Gwaine only came to school when he felt like it and sometimes he spent most of the day running away from angry boyfriends. Gwaine was someone he didn't want to be involved with, well that's what Arthur told him, but Merlin couldn't help wondering what it would be like to have Gwaine as a friend or something more.
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: on-con, extreme violence, heavy angst with no resolution, scat, watersports, and character death
PROMPT #32
Characters/Pairing/Gen: waine/Merlin
Time-period or theme: anon
Place: amelot
Emotion: weet
Sense: ouch, sight
Object: eckerchief
Action: waine wears Merlin's neckerchief
Mood: weet/romantic
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: cat, guro, preg
PROMPT #33
Characters/Pairing/Gen: rthur/Merlin
Time-period or theme: anon
Place: amelot
Emotion: weet
Sense: ouch, sight
Object: athtub
Action: erlin's sick, and the roles are reversed when Arthur offers to bathe him.
Mood: omantic/gentle
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: cat, guro, preg
PROMPT #34
Characters/Pairing/Gen: erlin/Arthur
Time-period or theme: odern AU
Place: offeeshop
Emotion: appiness, nervousness, and anticipation
Sense: ouch, smell, and sight
Object: offeecup, cologne, and coffee beans
Action: mall talk, accidental touches, and mixed up drink
Mood: appy, light, and airy
Maximum rating: C-17
Squicks: on-con, extreme violence, heavy angst with no resolution, scat, watersports, and character death
PROMPT #35
Author: arksagegrl0
Drabble or Excerpt: t's thousands of years after Arthur's death. Merlin has been alive all this time. Every night he sleeps in a bed that's too big for him, arm stretched out into the empty space in the middle, grasping for someone who isn't there. Every night he dreams of Arthur lying there next to him, hand clasped in his. As he dreams, Merlin's magic forms a spectre of Arthur on the bed. But every morning as Merlin wakes, the spectre slowly fades and his hand is left tugging at the sheets on the other side of the bed.
Maximum rating:
Squicks: on-con