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happy glorious 25th of may

To everyone going “oh no! Adam thinks Shiro’s probably dead”

Are you ACTUALLY trying to tell me that Sam Holt, after kissing his wife and explaining where their children are, did not PROMPTLY run to the Garrison to be like “oooohhhhh shit you nerds are not gonna believe this”, and NOT stop by Adam’s office?

You don’t think he crashed in there like:

“HeyHEYhey guess who’s alive bitch?! ME! But also your man! He’s leading a rebellion with your adopted son, got a sick ass robot arm and oh…Adam, oh boy…. *deep inhale* he be looking fiiiiiiiine~”

“Oh! Oh… actually…We broke up”

“Well you’re gonna un-fuck that when you see his bobbies”

everybody meet my girlfriend, fa mulan  🐉

Just a quick messy doodle!

this is funny

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Me, applying a protective Gay Barrier™ before heading out to meet up with the Straights:

For people upset at the defenders of tomorrow

Chill it’s just an au that people are having fun with.

It’s no more “disrespectful” than any other au a fan has made. Like we gonna be mad at the coffee shop au’s next?The mermaid au’s?

You really out here thinking we could make a multimillion dollar animated reboot show?

In your Authurian legends post you said you think Merlin has a lovely singing voice, do you have any headcanons about that? It’s my favorite headcanon that he can sing too (especially since Colin Morgan can also sing) :)

Oh for sure! I didn’t know Colin could sing too! That would have been cool to see in the show 😌😌😌

- Hunith sang often. Especially when Merlin was upset or sad. As he got older, that was mostly when he figured you were supposed to sing.

- So more often or not when someone was sad baby Merlin would just appear and start singing in an attempt to make people feel better. Will was the one who would occasionally start requesting Merlin sing while nobody was upset.

Will: hey, sing one of your songs!

Merlin: why?

Will: I’m bored

Merlin: ...but... nobody is sad?

Will: I’m going to be sad if I dont hear a song

Merlin: ....fair enough.

- Eventually Merlin would rope Will into singing with him and they made it into something of a game. Merlin would start the song and Will had to make up the lyrics for the next part and so forth.

- Singing. Magic. Like that Rapunzel type shit. Merlin discovers he can do this by accident (like he discovers most of his magic) but a good chunk of his spells seem to get more powerful when he sings. This generally only works with nature oriented magic tho.

- He can also do the thing Lady Helena (I think that was her name) aka Mary did in the first episode. Where you sing people and enchant them? Yeah - he has to be careful because sometimes that happens depending on the song.

- Like, depending on the tone/mood of the song will affect the audience. So if he sings a happy song then people end up getting really zazzed without knowing why exactly. Or a sad song might make them unbearably sad. A lullaby sends them to sleep. An angry song can cause a war.

- Also, sometimes if you closely enough, his magic makes it so you can see sound vibrations.

- Merlin doesn’t sing too much in Camelot because he’s trying his best to fit in and nobody else is really out there singing. Still, he hums under his breath a lot and whistles along with the birds.

- He also sings when he’s stressed out. This is kinda hilarious because you’ll have Merlin sprinting after a sorcerer like ‘la la la trying not to die... la la la...everything is fine...’

- However, he went back to his roots after Gwen’s dad died. Not really knowing how best to comfort her he just sang a bit until she felt better. After that she often went to Merlin when she needed cheering up and asked him to sing.

- Naturally, if Gwen knows then Elyan knew after he came to Camelot. This uhhhhhh caused some problems for Merlin lol

Elyan: ....this patrol is boring. Merlin can you sing something?

Arthur: ha! Merlin can’t sing, Elyan

Elyan: But Gwen says he sings for her all the time?

Gwaine: W H A T?! Merlin, you’ve never sang for me? What the Hell?

Merlin: um, well-

Leon: don’t be mean. maybe he’s shy

Percival: idk, Lancelot said Merlin usually sings to himself when he’s stressed

Merlin: He told you about that? Snake.

Gwaine: if anyone is a snake it’s you for holding out on us

- Thus began the months of tormenting Merlin to sing to them. They cracked him one by one. Gwaine first. Elyan second. Percival third. Then Leon.... Arthur he remained pretty stubborn with for a long time.

- In the end, Arthur catches him by accident while Merlin is brushing out the horses.

- He snuck by the stables everyday for a week afterwards to listen.

- Merlin is often one of those people who can sing along with birds like a disney princess. Sometimes he’ll chill by the window while some birds sing with him and they entire castle is entranced.

- Leon asked Merlin if he wanted to be a bard at any point and Merlin was just... so offended. So affronted. So upset. Sing for NOBLES?! What? Was he supposed to prance around and tell tales of Arthur’s victories? He thinks not. Ha! As if. If he was a bard then he would sing of how much a prat Arthur was.

- ....you can see where I’m going with this lol. Gwaine obviously jumps on this opportunity and every so often they come up with a song about how much of a prat Arthur is. Eventually they teach it to all of the knights and when it is a patrol with just the round table they’ll all sing it together while Arthur steams in the corner.

- Merlin also sings at all of their graves... Every year.

having a lot of thoughts recently about post-canon merlin's relationship with music

bc like. he would have lived through the evolution of a lot of mediums-- written word, theatre (please dear gods do not GET me started on this one it's for your own good), visual art-- but, arguably, the one that has some of the most dynamic change has been music. (i say this very carefully, knowing i am opening myself up to the fact that, in a lot of ways, i am Wrong)

this is to say, because my brain is rotten--

i imagine merlin being delighted about the way music changes throughout the ages. i don't know much in the way of medieval music past its religious connotations, but i like imagining the centuries of folk music merlin must have been exposed to. the way music was used for storytelling, for communication. musical instruments changing and evolving and choral arrangements changing and evolving and thematic structure changing and evolving. all Very Interesting

here's where the rot comes in

i imagine there's a point in which merlin starts thinking i wish arthur could hear this. and for, you know, the absolute vast majority of his time on earth, merlin wouldn't have the ability to preserve the music he's hearing for arthur to hear it. so maybe he teaches himself how to play, so he can memorize these pieces that arthur will love. and he just has tomes of sheet music that he composes over the years, especially the early years when a lot of it wasn't really written down. (this is where my musical history knowledge suffers. please flay me if I am wrong.)

and he sees all these musicians that he's like. arthur would love this. and he has these wild stories of like, seeing mozart as a child, that he saves up for one day

and then i think of how fucking excited merlin would be when we finally got the ability to record music. at the very least with most other forms of art, there's always been a way to preserve it-- written word has the privilege of being written, visual art has a canvas. but music recording is a VERY young invention (save for the music box, but even then, that isn't a recording moreso than a reproduction), and suddenly merlin has the ability to catalogue all the things he wants arthur to hear

and so i imagine years of vinyl and 8-tracks and phonographs and, as the technology evolves, merlin has to adjust and save and like.

as music becomes more dependent on lyrics, merlin starts finding things that remind him of arthur and just. starts crafting playlists. starts thinking of how to introduce him to how music changes. starts crafting his own history that he can one day show arthur. starts imagining how arthur would react to bluegrass, gospel, blues, rock n roll, punk. (if he purposefully saves a signed edition of never mind the bollocks just to see arthur's face when he hears "god save the queen" for the first time, that's his prerogative.)

just. years and years of saved up songs, all because merlin would be in a concert hall or a church or a community gathering or playing alone in his room and would hear a chord that said arthur. and he would think, "even if he doesn't speak my language when he returns, he will know this."

and, you know, if-- when-- arthur comes back, if arthur finds that the majority of those songs are love songs, well.

he doesn't need to be any the wiser.