2I had this dream in the wee hours of the morning about Merlin and Arthur, and I just know it’s because of the next episode coming up.
Arthur and Merlin are tied together, back to back, and in very serious danger of some sort – like having their heads chopped off by bandits. IDEK. There isn’t really any way out of it except by magic, and Merlin begins to explain very calmly to Arthur beforehand what is going to happen.
“I have something to tell you, Arthur, and you’re going to hate me for it.”
Arthur probably makes a smart comment here or an “Oh god, this is not the time, Merlin. Yes, I know about the tavern.”
Merlin continues very calmly, ignoring Arthur, “I have magic. I was born with it. I need to use it now to save us.” [The moment I stepped foot in Camelot I had to hide that part of who I am. But I stayed for you, because your destiny is great and mine is to see you achieve it.] Not quite sure if he says that last part or not. Maybe he’s thinking it. …This is all my emotional brain anyway.
Then Merlin does what he has to, freeing them and distracting Whoever-The-Villain-Is. At one point, there is an open (probably immediately, as people start freaking out and fleeing for their lives) and he tells Arthur to run.
Arthur does.
…And once Arthur is far enough away, or has been by himself a day or so, he turns back for Merlin. Because my brain cannot handle any universe where Arthur doesn’t go back for his friend and faithful servant of many years.
Is this because I know Arthur is not going to give up on Gwen once he realizes she is behind the attacks on his life? Arthur may rationalize that it’s Morgana’s fault and Gwen is under a spell, etc, etc but even if this weren’t the case, I know he would still, in his heart, not turn his back on Gwen the first time around.
Can’t the same be true for Merlin? *sadface*
Related Posts:
- The VERY, VERY End of Merlin – from December 24, 2012
- The End of Merlin – from December 23, 2012
- Merlin at its end? – from November 26, 2012
- Oh, TV – from November 11, 2012
- Merlin-y things – from October 7, 2012
*adds to very few possible acceptable head canons* I agree wholeheartedly – if Arthur is who I think he is, and in fact who the legends portray him to be, he would do just that. I can see him being angry enough to do something stupid in the heat of the moment and only in the heat of the moment, but I don’t see it taking very many hours, if that, for him to get his head back on straight and go after/accept/come to terms with Merlin’s magic. His character is one of forgiveness, I believe, when he isn’t blinded by his own sense of duty. This isn’t the first time Arthur’s forgiven Gwen for a ‘betrayal,’ he’s offered to forgive Morgana many times, he still loves his father even though Uther’s ghost tried to kill Gwen, and I would hope he’d extend that same love to Merlin, esp. given that Merlin never betrayed him but rather the old laws of the old Camelot. I would think Arthur’d have enough sense not to do something that would wreck the…what’s it been, at least eight or nine years? that Merlin’s stood behind him without a single instance of betrayal or even undependability. I would, alternatively, accept Arthur exploding from the shock of the reveal and start to do something really, really stupid that would wreck his relationship with Merlin due to spur-of-the-moment anger (like ordering Merlin to be arrested or banished or whatever, only to have the primary Round Table knights basically surround Merlin and be like “LOL no. Unless you no longer want any knights?” :)
I love you for ultimately having faith in them. You see, because of how we expect Arthur to handle it, doesn’t it make sense that the reveal won’t be in the last episode but the one before it? I cannot imagine a reveal and reconciliation in one episode.