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[new merlin plurk]
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"are you saying it's wrong to harbour a young magician?"
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/sits
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zing
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/lays out picnic blanket
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/brings the wine
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by the way here is an article about the finale I found particularly eviscerating
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/sits too
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/bookmarks for later
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sob i'm on 5x08 I haven't seen the finale yet
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god morgana
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seeing her like this
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so openly compassionate and loving and selfless and tender
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i love that morgana has that red cloak
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passion that's what drives her
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her heart is so open
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and so easily bruised
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...god i'm making morgana-jean parallels now
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because that's what happened with the phoenix
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the greatest love turning into the greatest hate, passion turned on its head
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man I just want merlin to have the "btw I'm a wizard" conversation with her. it's been 5 seasons, man.
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just tell her how you feel. i mean uh.
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: why did you link that oh my god
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you're welcome
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you're cruel
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yep
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and
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I am going to need more of them
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yes good
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god merlin's first Horrible Decision
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the first time he has to make a difficult heart-wrenching choice
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merlin bb .-.
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which one is this THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL
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he has to decide if he saved mordred or not
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i think this is the first time this happens to him
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ugh I just. something I want for him in rp is a better mentor who actually teaches him what to do in these situations.
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ah yeah
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welcome to your life, merlin
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"those socks are very clean, of course i'm proud of them."
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oh sir owen :c
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just to build myself a small soapbox on the subject of Horrible Decisions
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I am kinda resistant to the much-tumblr'd idea that 'none of this would have happened if Merlin hadn't fucked it all up' because 1) you can't know if something is a bad decision until its consequences play out
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2) it's very easy to say as am omniscient viewer that 'if he hadn't done X then Y could not possibly have happened' - the audience doesn't and can't know that
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3) he was getting terrible advice left right and centre
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yeah like - even if I do think a decision was objectively Bad I think it's reasonable for him to not think so
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often merlin is between a rock and a hard place/doesn't have all the facts/is bombarded by shitty perspectives
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he's not perfect but things would be kind of boring if he were
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and it's kind of strange to assume that Morgana would have necessarily just gone along with him when he was, effectively, loyal to Uther - or that Morgause would have just gone 'welp I guess I lost this battle'
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i think waaay early on if merlin had worked told her he had magic and worked with her things could have turned out differently
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but it's not like he could have predicted...all of this
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and like - even though morgana has magic she's still in a position of privilege over him
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i DO wish he'd told her but i understand why he didn't
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Yeah. And (admittedly my S2 memories are fuzzy) he did do The Right Thing in introducing her to the druids, and she did tell him she wasn't afraid any more.
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yeah, definitely
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i mean it went horribly but that's not his fault
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and this at a time when both Gaius and KG were telling him in no uncertain terms to step off
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gaius, now, i can definitely blame.
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i get his reasoning, i do
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but christ
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the fuck did he expect? just drugging her forever was going to work out?
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never telling her the truth, never giving her a choice
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taking her under his wing would have been a grave risk, i know
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Though he had his reasons too. I think he was afraid of Uther, and afraid of having to put Uther in a position where he had to choose Morgana or (his vision of) Camelot and Morgana was...probably not gonna win.
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well, i'd think he'd tell morgana to...
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not tell uther
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dang arthur throwing that gauntlet
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that is a swoon moment for me
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Well of course, but saying 'hey you've got magic and that's okay, just keep it on the down-low' might still represent an unacceptable risk compared to
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'you've got magic, but if I can keep it suppressed then I never have to risk you getting caught'
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He could at least have told her "hey, you have magic, I am going to supress it so you don't get caught"
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so at least she'd know.
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I don't think Morgana would have gone for that somehow 8|
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baby morgana might have :|a
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maybe :|a
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But yeah, he made ultimately damaging decisions because he wanted to keep the peace and protect people, and Merlin ended up doing the same thing.
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Yeah. I think - I resent it more because the show doesn't make it out to be a bad decision really.
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That does kind of suck. :C I need to rewatch Series 2 though not just yet because imminent canon update and I don't want to have S2!Merlin too fresh in my mind.
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Yeah, I don't mind morally ambiguous characters as long as they're PRESENTED as morally ambiguous. The show excuses Gaius too much imo.
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/nods
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ngl I think my favorite feasible au about Merlin telling Morgana still results in Morgana going FUCK THIS I'M OUT
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and it would end up being much more bitter and personal much earlier
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you're my favourite, marry me
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...holy fuck merlin did you jut straight up try to burn the black knight to death
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because then she'd be an insider, so to speak, she'd be Merlin's confidant, but she'd still be watching Uther doing these terrible things and bb Morgana would not stand for it well
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I do think Morgana would have taken a different path still, yeah
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I don't think things would wind up exactly the same at all but I do feel like her anger and bitterness would grow exponnentially
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it would be slower because she wouldn't be alone and she'd have a friend she could trust etc
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but I think it would snowball, because she'd be in Camelot longer
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'Cause Merlin - he learns from Gaius to accept a LOT
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but Morgana? No, she wouldn't.
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and she'd have to hide longer and be afraid longer and think her guardian would have her killed etc
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mmhm she's too headstrong
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I WOULD HAVE FOUND THIS VERY INTERESTING HONESTLY
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because it would have been less 'one year later, she is now evil, muahaha enjoy the smirks'
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gosh yes
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i'd have loved to see a gradual, natural progression
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it would have basically been watching Uther and Camelot unintentionally break her down and her reaching the point of no, I can't do this anymore
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which would probably culminate in her trying to kill/having uther killed, but
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hell, she tried to do that in s1
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well yes but she wouldn't stop it or save him
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yeah that would have been awesome :c and it would have given Morgana some much-needed personal agency instead of being made Morgause's weapon, essentially.
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yup :c
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cause then it would be her informed decision
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instead of morgause whispering in her ear
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and then the XMFC comparisons would spiral out of control forever
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YYYYYYYUP
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though lol
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you say this as if they aren't already
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i still want to make a Morgana Is Right shirt
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yeah, naive I know
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Morgana Was Right
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I'd buy it B*
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B(
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with idk some kind of magic symbol on it
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a triskelion obvs
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the tree!
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oh yes, ari wins, the tree
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WHEN I CAN USE PHOTOSHOP WITHOUT MY COMPUTER DYING
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i will go to redbubble
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and this will be a thing
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because frankly even when Morgana is being ALL OUT EVIL i'm just sitting here going "girl has a point"
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dude imagine if uther had died in this fight against the black knight
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everyone would die peacefully in their beds B(
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except Uther
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but no one cares B(
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..aww uther tells merlin to look after arthur.
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SEE UTHER APPROVES.
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idk if this is good or bad.
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honestly morgana and uther are similar in some ways too, they both have a Cause they are willing to do ruthless horrible things for
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they can both love wholly and desperately
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uther does care deeply about his people. when they aren't magic.
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and when he does do awful horrible things he doesn't take any sadistic pleasure in it.
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of course then all his moral ambiguity disappears and he's just evil.
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"you mean more to me than anything i know. more than this entire kingdom and certainly more than my own life."
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"i always thought that i was a big disappointment to you."
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oh arthur :c
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/sits here and sobs
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(and yes i agree on those points about merlin's decisions)
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merlin why are you telling the dragon this
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but of course we have the same feels because we are actually twins
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...honestly Morgana becomes more Uther like than Uther did
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don't tell morgana that
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she's just so much worse than him by the end of s4 alone I just quietly hate her as much as I love her
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yeah she hears it a few times and just makes the best face
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but then later she's like TEEHEE UTHER TAUGHT ME WELL
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oh god s4 is going to kill me isn't it
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she is just snapped B(
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MORGANA WHY
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if it doesn't
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s5 will
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ugh the stuff with gwen and morgana and season 5 is just
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/doesn't spoil but
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sob
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AH MERLIN'S HOME
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i love this ep
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ME
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TOO
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s5 alternately gives me feelings and makes me angry
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"it's very, you know. swordy."
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now I want to dick around with a slow burn au B( damn it B(
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I could be convinced to collude in that
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might marathon S2 this weekend once I've got 'Merlin 's all over the Barge' underway
's all over the Barge' underway
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I would happily (?) join you poke at this
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"isn't she the king's ward?" "not that you'd know it. she's the only person i know who isn't frightened of him."
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sobbing
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forever
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SAVING ARTHUR LIKE A BOSS
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"if i'm to die, then i want to go out fighting"
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merlin's mom is badass
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Hunith 
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also wow will/merlin was totally a thing
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ahh the first time gwen calls arthur on his shit
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in his dad's armour sob
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WILL
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i knew it was coming
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hell i knew it was coming the FIRST time
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but ;_;
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god i love how important merlin's mother is to him
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how fundamental she is
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to his personality, to who he is
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you don't SEE mother/child relationships enough imo
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particularly not in Merlin because everyone's mother is dead 8C
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merlin you really are a comic book
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arthur
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what makes you think killing a unicorn is a good idea
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repeated concussions
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that explains a lot really
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merlin did you just
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are they going to eat the rat
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awww morgana and gwen smuggling food out to people
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yep merlin made rat stew
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hell i love rats but i'd eat 'em if i was starving buck up boys
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and now morgana
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i bet she was just like
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hmm could use some spices
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guys you could fry the bugs first