Ive seen arguments about this line like “oh but we don’t know if her husband actually cheated or not soooo yeah”
and that’s true we have no idea because it’s not confirmed, however, I genuinely believe he did cheat. And I think this because the gay couple is super paralleled with Stolas and blizt
I don’t think the couple exist as fleshed out characters, I think they exist as a writing device to mirror stolas’ situation, otherwise what’s the point of them? (Especially because the family is animated exactly like blizts fantasy too)
another thing is blizt doesnt even ask her “how do you know if your husband cheated or not?” He immediately just defends cheating and doesn’t try to figure out the situation, because this scene isn’t fleshed out characters talking to each other and learning about each other, it’s just a weird character insight on blizt
just mentioning this because if this is correct then this lady has every right to be mad at her husband and the show sucks for just portraying her as a b**ch (im open to believe that im wrong though, I just think it’s weird to write a parallel situation but for the situations to end up being completely different to each other)
First I wanted to say hello and tell you that I love your works. They really have me on the edge of my seat every time I read them.
Second. Can you imagine that Merlin, in some new alternative universe, for some reason, upon arriving in Camelot, arrives with a baby? It's all still a Merthur ending, it should be noted.
Like, we know that Merlin was already a bit of an outcast in the village for the reason that nobody knew who his father was and even more so because strange things were always happening around him.
The situation gets much worse when he finds a crying baby in the middle of a burnt tent near the village.
Will and his mother try to help him for a while, but with the visits of the evildoers to the village becoming more and more frequent, Merlin and the baby have no choice but to go to Camelot.
And so the adventures begin!
Only now Arthur wonders if they can make crowns for babies, because he is willing to marry Merlin and legally adopt the baby as his own.
And Morgana… well, she and Gwen enjoy dressing up the baby in all the clothes from her old dolls. Not to mention that she notices that by taking naps with the baby she no longer has nightmares.
The knights become, in some way or another, glorified nannies. The servants and maids must chase after a baby who never stops causing mischief in the castle.
And Merlin just wants to survive colic season and potty train his baby… and everything would be easier if there weren't a murderer or a resentful wizard trying to kill Arthur every 3 minutes.
First, thank you so much for the compliments! 🥹🤧❤️
About the concept. I love it! I don't think going to Camelot to live would be Merlin or Hunith's first option for a baby that can't control their magic at all. So I firmly believe Hunith would send Merlin with the baby there so Gaius can take them to a druid camp so they could take refuge there.
The problem is, before Gaius can do so, Merlin is made the prince's personal manservant. Merlin can't exactly deny the king and he does need the money to take care of his baby so he decides to stay to Gaius dismay. Gaius and Merlin try to keep the baby hided at first so they take turns taking care of her (in my mind is a her) in Gaius' tower in secret. It works out for some weeks but then the plague (Nimueh's Afanc) happens and Arthur searches Gaius' tower.
Arthur: (enters Merlin's room) Merlin: (running inside) Arthur, wait! Baby: (sitting on the bed, looks up at Arthur and gives a cute giggle) Arthur: (Turns to Merlin slowly) Merlin? Merlin: Yeah? 😅 Arthur: Why is there a baby in your bed? Merlin: (in panic, shouts the first thing that comes to his mind) She is mine! Arthur: ... Arthur: What? 😧 Merlin: (repeats more quietly but more firmly) She is mine. (runs to hold her up and embraces her) She is my daugther. Arthur: (thinking) But... but he is so young. (says) Where's the mother? Merlin: (with pain as he remembers the burnt tent) She passed away. Arthur: (his heart hurting for Merlin) I'm so sorry. But Gods Merlin, why didn't you tell me? I wouldn't have given you so many chores if I knew... (thinking) And I almost sacked you. I almost sacked a single father with a baby in arms! (says) And why the hell are you hiding her? Merlin: I... wasn't sure if I could keep her. Arthur: Of course you can keep her! What kind of master do you think I am? Knight x: (from outside) Sire? Arthur: (shouts back) In a minute! (to Merlin) What's her name? Merlin: Brigitta. Arthur: (repeats softly and smiles) Brigitta.
From then on, Arthur doesn't give Merlin as many chores and raises his salary considerably. And then everybody else finds out about Briggitta and go "I've only met Brigitta for a day and a half, but if anything happened to her, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself".
Some events would change, obviously, and some would remain the same but with a new perspective. I don't think Merlin would have time to make Lancelot a fake seal, for example, having to look after Brigitta and all. I can imagine Lancelot becoming Brigitta's first unnofficial babysiter, then Arthur makes it official so poor Lancelot has a salary and a place to stay in Camelot. The Poisoned Chalice episode would remain the same, except Arthur would be more in panic mode and desperate because MERLIN HAS A DAUGHTER! BRIGITTA CAN'T LOSE HER FATHER TOO!
I think it would be The Beginning of the End where Arthur and Morgana find out about Brigitta's magic and Merlin's magic. Not because they discovered her, surprisingly, but Merlin decided to tell them all the truth about her and himself after seeing how they saved Mordred. Also, since Merlin saw Brigitta's possible future in Mordred, he wants to leave Camelot too to keep her safe. Screw all what the dragon told him about destiny, his daugther comes first.
So Merlin and Brigitta are about to leave with Mordred with the druids. They are having a heartfelt goodbye with Arthur, who scorted them there, but then...
Brigitta: (cries very loudly in Merlin's arms and the earth starts shaking a bit) Merlin: I know, I know, baby, but we have to go. Brigitta: (cries more loudly and extends her little arms to Arthur) Arthur: (barely containing his tears) I'll miss you too, Biddy. But this is the best for you- Brigitta: ATHU! 😭 Arthur: (open his eyes wide) What did she just said? Brigitta: (still crying and making grabby hands at him) ATHU, ATHU, ATHU! 😭 Arthur: (tears roll down his eyes) She said my name... Merlin, she said my name! (grinning widely) Let me hold her one more time, please! Merlin: (gives Brigitta to Arthur) Druid leader: (urgently) We need to leave now! Merlin: (looking at Arthur and Brigitta tenderly and smiles) Leave, we'll stay.
I also can imagine Nimueh going after Brigitta's life instead of Hunith, and having to confront not only a very furious Merlin, but a feral protective prince.
That's how far my imagination can go. If you have any ideas of how Merlin and Arthur or other character would act in other episodes now with Brigitta in the equation, share it in the comments or reblogs. I'll be happy to read you 🥰
Illegally streaming the Turkish dub of Merlin with auto-translated English subtitles as god intended
Gaius has his priorities straight at the Round Table
Elyan is a little more self deprecating in this version
At least the knighting ceremony is going well. Up Knight has risen.
The Mercelot of it all lmao???
Arthur goes rogue due to the stress
Introducing ✨Circuswain✨
I'm rewatching BBC Merlin for the hundredth time and just need to talk about The Witchfinder episode from season 2 and how this impacted Merlin's decision to keep his magic a secret.
By now, Merlin has been in Camelot long enough to see how Gaius is a trusted advisor to Uther. They've been friends for decades. Uther trusts Gaius as much as he is capable of trusting anyone.
And yet. And yet Uther STILL orders the execution of his most trusted advisor on the word of the Witchfinder.
To Uther, the years of service and trust mean nothing in the face of sorcery. Uther tried to apologize (ish) later, and rightfully so, Gaius refused to just brush the near execution aside.
Now think about Merlin. He has come to care about Arthur as a person at this point, not just part of his destiny, but they aren't as close as we know they will be later.
Merlin has been traumatized by seeing his father figure almost die because the king was blinded by his hatred of sorcery. Merlin knows it was almost his own execution here.
It's no wonder he didn't want to tell Arthur at this point. If Uther was ready to kill Gaius, we know canonically he was fine with Merlin dying.
Once Arthur became king, I believe Merlin still remembered this. We know what Merlin said: he didn't want to put Arthur in this position, to have to make the choice of life or death. But I believe there was still this deep seated fear that his years of service and council would never be enough to out weigh the death sentence of being a sorcerer in Camelot.
Does anyone remember that velvette supposed to be a witch/potion maker?
I sure didn't!
I was checking her wiki because I wanted to include something about her during a conversation with my friend.
And I read about how she made love potions with the help of Valentino. And then I remember the whole she is a witch/influencer/fashion designer.
I don't know whether making her have a talent in potion making is a good idea when everyone forgets. Or it mashed in with her other stuff.
I have a au idea.
So essentially this au is built on the prospect that Kai from Ninjago look like Mk and Red Son from LMK. The idea is that years later, MK and Red Son get together (Spicynoodles) and have a child together (Who we'll call MS) Everyone is happy and stuff. Until the child reaches the age of two (human years). It is discovered that MS have both of his parents powers. How they find out? MS burns the house down by accident and another time accidentally make hair clones of himself. So naturally everyone starts freaking out. Then, Sun Wukong offers to temporarily lock some of MS's powers away, just until he reaches a certain age. Mk and The Red Son agree to this.
For a while everyone is happy. But qué some villain or something and MS is taken away to only Budda knows where. While everyone is freaking out, two people named Ray and Maya find a two year old on their door step in a separate realm called Ninjago. They decide to adopt this child seeing they can't find his parents. They rename him Kai. You can guess the rest.
Did anyone else forget about this necklace?
Like this piece of information is so forgettable! This jewelry can protect the user who wears it, but it has never been mentioned again since this short.
There are so many questions I have!
● How does the merch company know how to make this?
● Is the company owned by heaven? (Or the very least angels)
● Does anyone else know this type of jewelry exists?
● Is there more jewelry like that out there?
Honestly, I wished they played more with this idea. Instead of a stort, it was a full episode of I.M.P trying different ways to kill her.
It starts with blitz because he believes it is going to be a normal, easy job that he can do by himself since moxxie sick, millie on a another kill job, and loona is busy with getting clients schedules to work. However, over time, he calls for backup one by one.
It goes millie, loona, and finally a very sick moxxie.
Blitz - "Mox, I gonna be real you look like shit."
Moxxie - "Thank you, sir... now what the problem? All I see is a normal human girl."
Loona - "That normal human girl necklance is literally helping her survive every trick we got on killing humans."
Millie - "We have tried everything! We tried the axe trick to-"
Blitz - "To the rope trick I did at your guys' 1st date."
Moxxie - *blowing his nose* "Then why I'm here? You couldn't use the Grimorie to find more information?"
Loona - "We already tried to find more information on the necklace in the Grimorie, but we couldn't find anything other than the user willingly has to take off the necklace."
Then Moxxie goes up to Emberlynn, then we have the exact same scene in the short where Emberlynn is, "Oh demon, you here for little old me~? But instead of Blitz, it Moxxie
After all that, she takes off the necklace for Moxxie, and Loona/Blitz is like, "we wasted the entire day for this when we could've called Moxxie ages ago."
And Millie is being held back from stabbing Emberlynn even more.
More for this AU
Honestly, I wonder if octavia knows her parents are getting a divorce.
I mean, she doesn't understand how her parents didn't hate each other when she was younger. So like does she know her parents are getting a divorce, or does she think her parents are taking a break.
I think octavia is aware of her parents' divorce.
I mean, in the episode seeing stars, we see stolas yelling at stella on the phone, and in the background, we also see stella stuff being put into moving trucks. So they are not really hiding their divorce from her.
I don't think octavia is aware of the full picture on why her parents are divorcing. For all we know, stolas could have just told her a white lie or never communicated the full truth on the reasoning behind their divorce.
Honestly, if the show takes this path, it would be very interesting. We could see andrealphus or stella manipulate or lie to octavia into believing that it was because of stolas cheating that they got a divorce.
Also, I want to point out that sometimes kids aren't always aware of their parents fighting. Some parents make an effort to fight away from the kids or fight when the kid is distracted or sleeping. Also, young kids may not fully understand the argument. So, they might simply tune out or dismiss the conflict altogether.
Sadly, since we don't know much about anything related to how octavia childhood was (other than some short clips) or her relationships with stella.
We can just assume stella and stolas agreed on tolerating each other for octavia sake. But the tolerance for each other broke once stella found out stolas cheated on her with an imp. So, that is why octavia growing up didn't really realize how much her parents didn't like each other.
Another scene that fueled me as a Merleon shipper
I LOVE HOW LEON DOESNT EVEN THINK OF THE POSSIBILITY OF MERLIN DOING SOMETHING EVIL.
AND HE WAS SO HAPPY TO GIVE MERLIN THE CROSSBOW.
I have a confession, i HATE owling at the moon (Loona x Octavia).
After what canon has presented of both characters, since the begining i felt that a romantic relationship between them is the worst possible route for either of them in terms of character developtment since neither of them seem to be in the right emotional (Loona) or mental (Octavia) state to have something healthy, specially since it would be mentally scaring for Octavia to interact further with blitzø taking in count she resents him, which is not healthy in the slightess.
A lot of people seem to think that they would be a healthier stolitz, but i think that comparing it to them is a giant red flag.
I don't know ¿what is your opinion?
Honestly, personally, I find the ship to be a bit weird. I won't hate anyone if they ship it, I could see the appeal, but like with additional context, the ship is just a bit weird for me .
for two major reasons why I find this ship a bit weird:
1) If Stolas and Blitz were to get married, they would become step siblings.
I personally don't like shipping step-siblings. It is just not for me.
2) it been canon that Octavia is 17 years old, and Loona is implied to be around 18-21 years old.
Even though the age difference isn't that big, it is still very weird to me. Like Octavia is still in school, while Loona is technically an adult with a job.
Overall, I don't see these two together in a relationship.