hi. gwaine overthinker here. i love this scene because the way eoin performed it does not sound like he's joking at all. to me. in fact he sounds like he's in a miserable mood.
mind you this is what the past few days (an optimistic estimate) have looked like for gwaine so far:
and lest we forget:
yeah.
so my interpretation of this scene is that gwaine really is being short with merlin, but it's merlin. and gwaine catches himself making him feel worse. so fuck it! ptsd and moral apprehension can wait. merlin needs firewood.
and to be fair, it's probably a relief to have someone drag you out of your doom spiral and pout at you until you run an errand for them.
in conclusion,
I'm continuing my very lengthy ff (after I finally finished my exams whoop) and I'm currently in a scene where Morgana thinks there is an intruder in the castle but it turns out it's just Percy and Gwaine making out in the middle of the hallway and I just wrote the sentence:
"How well I will sleep tonight, knowing, should someone decide to kidnap me again, they will be scared off by Arthur's troops of excited manwhores."
And how is your day going?
You care so much, but yet you defend Raph and lie about him being an SA victim just to save your own skin.
You disregard SA victims, who are uncomfortable with the depictions of rape and abuse being downright glorified.
You lied and called Ken and Ashely creeps
STFU honestly, you're embarrassing yourself
One of my favorite things about Merlin is that if he's asked about his body count he wouldn't know which body count they're talking about and also he wouldn't be sure which one's higher.
MERLIN REWATCH ✦ 1.05 Lancelot
Merlin on his most respectful day.
Merlin: Hey, mom, can I throw away these old things that no one is eating?
Hunith *distracted*: You can, dear.
Merlin: okay, you heard it, Gaius, let's go.
Gaius: 😮
Hunith: No, no, Merlin, wait, son, not that old man🤣
Merlin: Oh, okay then, and can I throw away that old man over there? *points to Uther*
Uther: 😡
Arthur and Morgana: You can throw him away!
Merlin was a serial killer.
This is a technical truth, Merlin thinks as he hears the terrified whispers of the townspeople, of knights and guards and stable boys.
"So many people have mysteriously died."
"what if we're next?"
They don't know that all the murders had been evil people, people who planned to kill their King. But it wasn't always obvious, sometimes the evidence was destroyed before Merlin could take it, other times it had been more difficult to explain to himself.
"We have to find this killer!" Arthur says at court, completely unaware that he's standing right next to him.
'A technical truth.' Merlin thinks as people applaud their king.
'Technically, being a sorcerer is the worse crime too.'
Merlin: *lets out a sad little sigh* I wish my life was less difficult.
Gwaine, already sprinting halfway across Camelot: SOMETHING TELLS ME MERLIN NEEDS A HUG-
I love "Merlin crossdressing for plot reasons" fics lmao
merleon as the round table parents
it started on a hunting trip, gwaine was teasing mordred and took his stuff and hid it. merlin told him very sternly to give it back and mordred said "thanks dad"
from then on they all started calling merlin dad
with leon it came slower and from lancelot. lance was struggling with his relationship with gwen and he confided in leon
leon helped him work through it and when lance left he clapped leon on the shoulder and said "thanks pops"
of course the others all found out about it and started calling him pops
neither of them fits into "mom" or "dad" categories but they each have a role
the kids go to leon when they need solid advice, when they feel like they cant handle something alone and they need a real answer to a problem
they go to merlin when theyre hurt (physically or mentally) and he helps heal them. they also go to him when they need someone to vent to and not get a real answer from, merlin is more than happy to bitch with someone and he'll hold your grudges for you
when on hunting trips, leon makes sure they have food and merlin prepares it and makes sure everyone gets their share
theyre equally protective of the kids and they'll work together to move heaven and earth for them
when they dont want to deal with the knights they try and pawn them off on each other. they ask merlin for advice and he says "oof that sounds like one for pops"
gwaine gets mad at arthur and goes to leon, who tries to give him advice, gwaine gets even more upset and leon calls for merlin because he cant handle the big shows of emotion
the kids all fight to be the favorite. arthur tells the others he has to be the favorite because he's king, leon grounds him for holding his station above the others heads
merlin's favorite changes based on how much trouble they've cause him
leon's changes based on how well they did in training
raising the knights eventually gets merleon together.
I don’t think I need to explain this one 😭
(I hate radioapple too but that doesn’t make incest fine and dandy like what the hell)