Merlin's power doesn't resonate much with the idea of foresight. The odds and ends he's been shown, the titbits of information he's been fed - Merlin's been slowly realising in horror the conclusion that all the magical world expect him to somehow live forever.
He guesses telling the future to someone who's supposed to live it is a little redundant.
This, though. He's seen this battle. He's seen it in a borrowed prophecy from Morgana, a few slideshows of an image that scraped into his brain when their magic clashed together. In her head, she saw an old magician taking her to her doom. In her head, she saw Emrys, the old man who would destroy her.
When Merlin realised the image spilling in his head wasn't his own, he spent some time mulling it over. He cast spells and threw runes in the dark corners of Camelot, looking for the truth of it, and everything Merlin encountered followed the same line: Emrys would be Morgana's doom.Emrys would be Morgana's doom. Not
( ... )
writing your own future: (2/3)Once upon a time, Merlin would have followed Arthur to his death. Except Arthur doesn't even seem to notice that what he's demanding, over and over. To Arthur, Merlin's an ordinary servant. No powers, no actual skill with a sword. Just a young man, with an awkwardness to him and too much of a liking for hanging out in a tavern at inappropriate times
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writing your own future: (3/3)But even if there is a reason of the heart for this, Merlin needs to be himself. And that's not possible in Arthur's world. In this new world, his mother will be safe, and Gaius and Gwen and his mother, and that's not a lot, but it's enough
( ... )
Arthur's bravery drops away and for a moment, it's not them on a battlefield, it's just them. "I guess now we'll never know." *WAILS* OMG, noooooo! I honestly wanted to cover my eyes and stop myself from reading at that point (I couldn't, of course). This story was like a punch to the gut, but so very good - I guess sometimes it's worth the pain. As other's have said, very intense and extremely well written.
Let's hope it'll never come to this point in the series, but with these writers - you never know! *wibbles*
The future is mostly hidden to Merlin.
Merlin's power doesn't resonate much with the idea of foresight. The odds and ends he's been shown, the titbits of information he's been fed - Merlin's been slowly realising in horror the conclusion that all the magical world expect him to somehow live forever.
He guesses telling the future to someone who's supposed to live it is a little redundant.
This, though. He's seen this battle. He's seen it in a borrowed prophecy from Morgana, a few slideshows of an image that scraped into his brain when their magic clashed together. In her head, she saw an old magician taking her to her doom. In her head, she saw Emrys, the old man who would destroy her.
When Merlin realised the image spilling in his head wasn't his own, he spent some time mulling it over. He cast spells and threw runes in the dark corners of Camelot, looking for the truth of it, and everything Merlin encountered followed the same line: Emrys would be Morgana's doom.Emrys would be Morgana's doom. Not ( ... )
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I liked it a lot though!
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*WAILS* OMG, noooooo! I honestly wanted to cover my eyes and stop myself from reading at that point (I couldn't, of course). This story was like a punch to the gut, but so very good - I guess sometimes it's worth the pain. As other's have said, very intense and extremely well written.
Let's hope it'll never come to this point in the series, but with these writers - you never know! *wibbles*
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That was amazing. <3
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