Leon: *throwing Water Bottles At The Knights* HYDRATE OR DIEDRATE

merlin: gwaine, quick, you’re losing blood! what’s your type?

gwaine, dazed and bleeding out: blue eyes, dark hair, big ears-

merlin, blushing: blood type gwaine!

gwaine: oh

gwaine: *looks down*

gwaine: red

Thank you.

Actual image of Arthur with his sisters:

I'm feeling the biggest clown ever because I'm excited about the things Eion and Bradley have been saying about Merlin but I think they'll just do a zoom meeting

this will be Colin the entire meeting trying to figure it out how to turn on the mic because the poor man don't have technology in his cave

“On no level is magic metaphorical in this show.” 


“It’s funny because I don’t actually feel like you’re being sincere.” 


-Julien Murphy and Katie McGrath, Merlin 5x13 Audio Commentary

I would bet that at one point, probably S1-2, Arthur tries to teach Merlin how to use a dagger and then immediately regrets his entire existence.

Think about it. He has a manservant who is bound and bloody determined to follow him literally everywhere, sometimes literally into the jaws of malevolent creatures, without armour or weapons or even basic survival skills, it seems. Of course, Merlin is more likely to injure himself than anyone else with a sword, so Arthur decides to give him a dagger instead. He was given his first dagger when he was seven. Merlin should be able to handle that, right? A dagger is small enough to be carried around without general suspicion, it’s not heavy enough for balance to be an issue (of course, with Merlin, balance is always an issue) and it doesn’t really require the skill a sword does. Hold the dull end, stick the pointy end in whoever is trying to stick you. It isn’t like Merlin isn’t ever in the thick of a melee anyways, so hopefully he’ll never need much skill.

At first, it almost seems like a good idea. Arthur gives Merlin his very own blade (it was Arthur’s, years ago, so it’s far better than whatever kitchen knife peasants normally use) and it takes, oh, about three days for him to realise that he’s made a terrible mistake when a guard comes and tells him that Merlin almost shanked someone in the tavern and started a brawl that sent three people to see healers. According to Merlin, his almost-victim had been talking unfavourably about Arthur. When he refused to shut his trap, Merlin decided to shut it for him. At dagger-point. He doesn’t know if he should be flattered or horrified than Merlin is willing to bleed someone just because they were speaking ill of Arthur.

This becomes a Thing.

Arthur has Regrets.

Arthur, trying to wrest the dagger out of Merlin’s hands: Let – let go. You can have it back when you learn some self-control. Daggers are for good servants who don’t assault people at random.

Merlin, keeping a death-grip on the hilt and glaring at the drunk who’d compared Arthur to the King: It isn’t random.

Colin Morgan 

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Gaius: Merlin's magic is beyond all comprehension. With each passing day, he only grows more powerful.

Merlin, with his face pressed against the microwave window at three in the morning: All right fucker where's my mac and cheese I want answers

Morgause, on the phone: Hi, my idiot brother chased a cat and is stuck in a tree.

Fire department: Sorry, right now we’re only responding to fires.

Morgause: I see.

Morgause:

Morgause: Give me a second.

Gaius: Where's Merlin?

Leon: Doing stuff.

Gaius: I don't like the sound of that. Where's Lancelot, then?

Leon: Trying to stop Merlin from doing the stuff.

Gaius: What? Well, then, where's Gwaine?

Leon: Trying to stop Lancelot from stopping Merlin from doing stuff.

Gaius: And what are YOU doing??

Leon: Stopping you from stopping Gwaine from stopping Lancelot from stopping Merlin from doing the stuff.