Merlin + Never Quite Believing That Arthur Can Get Dressed By Himself.

Gwen: How dumb does Gaius think we are?

Merlin: Sometimes he leaves me pictures of food instead of a shopping list.

Elyan in a cropped hoodie

Gaius: You lost a lot of blood. Do you remember anything?

Merlin: Only the ambulance ride.

Lancelot: There was no ambulance. I drove you here.

Merlin: But I heard a siren?

Lancelot: That was Gwaine.

Seeing that my other Guinevere piece is getting notes again, I thought I should share my most recent art of her!

Took me 32 hours to complete 💕🥺

I still miss Merlin 😭

*please dont steal my art, thanks*

Gaius: Okay, who else thought Merlin was my son?

Gaius: Put your hand down, Merlin.

merthur summer fest [x] ↳ day seven: aesthetic - moodboard arthur {merlin}

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.

Have we talked about the sleeping arrangements here?

I remember cackling about Merlin and Arthur’s angsty back to back sitting but there’s so much more going on

Percival’s so freaking tall Arthur has to sit all scrunched up

Leon and Lancelot seem to just be doing their own thing and good for them

Why does Gwaine need to sleep right there? Elyan’s practically resting his feet on him. You could ask why is Gwaine not moving but you could also ask why Elyan has not made him move. Why are they like this

Also if Gwaine’s not careful his hair is going to set on fire

Are any of them actually functional human beings or

Never mind we all know the answer