Achilles

Merlin in the show is always sneaking away, moving in the shadows and stopping attempts against Arthur life. Merlin has kill quite a number of people and I want Arthur to understand that Merlin can be scary for people that is not him, because Merlin would never want Arthur to be scare of him.

There are fanfics, fanarts and fancomics in which Arthur sees the power of Merlin and he sees all the beauty and tenderness that it can come with magic, and if he sees Merling using against his enemies is always a fast Merlin vs bandits ending in some wave of power that cleans the bandits away, but there are other ways in which Merlin can use his magic to be incredible dangerous.

I have been having the idea that maybe a enemy of Arthur, notices how Merlin is the reason why Arthur has been able to survive so long and against all odds, and knowing that attacking Arthur directly is a suicide mission, they use magic (I know that Merlin is inmune to most of it, or can see through, but for the sake of the idea, lets pretend this magic is very strong or tricky) so Merlin would be unable to recognize Arthur as his Arthur. It could be that he sees a complete stranger, or it could be like the Capgras delusion and Merlin thinks that Arthur has been exchanged by a copycat.

There is also this fic (not finished yet 😔🤚 ADHD and exam are squeezing me by the ball) https://archiveofourown.org/works/78842036 where I want to do a few badass merlin😌✨

Gwaine was rudely awoken by his flatmate ringing him at the nice and civilised time of 06:30 am. He answered the call begrudgingly, praying that whatever Merlin had rung him about was worth waking him up so bloody early. It was.

"I just fucked Arthur Pendragon."

"What?”

Then Merlin says he is willing to die for Arthur, who's "more important than anything."

The hunting Merthur has become my obsession in recent days

Merlin talking about Gaius, when Agravaine kidnapped him and Arthur didn't believe Merlin.

"There's something I want to say."

"You're not going to say goodbye."

"No."

Arthur and Merlin, moments before Arthur dies.

The Great Dragon tells Merlin Arthur will rise again. Why shouldn't Merlin believe him?

After all...

S1&2 were not giving us an opinion on the relationships, they were just showing them to us, asking us questions about them, poking at them from different directions

TVL has none of this ambiguity or curiosity, and, among other tiny missteps, it's strangling the relationship between Lestat and Gabrielle - a relationship that means a lot to book readers and is among the most compelling, confusing, and complex relationships in the series.

Rolin and co have essentially said, "No, it is not compelling, it is not confusing or complex or chewy, it is simply sexual abuse beginning in childhood and carrying over into vampirehood and that is bad; Gabrielle is a predator and Lestat is a victim; this is the conclusion we want you to come to"

and while I support telling the story you want to tell even under the umbrella of adaptation, this is an

i n f i n i t e l y

Eeeeehhhh

In the lead up to the train scene, we see that Lestat has not only not killed Antoinette but 'stashed her a town away' (much closer than she was before). Why? Louis says it's because he's fucked up and wanted them to find her, but another interpretation could be that Lestat needed her to serve the purpose that we see her fulfill later-- spying on Louis and Claudia's thoughts. 

We know that when Claudia leaves, Louis sits out all night contemplating killing himself--which Lestat almost certainly knows via Antoinette. We also know that Claudia gets several cities away before he catches her, so he might not even have originally intended to go after her before discovering Louis' suicide plans (which Louis only temporarily puts on hold so as to not spoil the memory of Claudia's escape). This would make Lestat understandably desperate (without even mentioning/considering his personal history with suicide).

In this scenario, perhaps Lestat doesn't threaten Claudia at all, but just says 'we hate each other, but if you don't come back Louis' going to kill himself'. She of course doesn't want this, but I can see her returning and telling Louis a different version of the story: the horrific kidnapping and rape/murder threats we see in 1.6 ---because 1) she sees that Louis will never separate himself from Lestat on his own (and she herself can't be free until then), and 2) she thinks that Lestat will hurt Louis again (which she says many times) - and the only way to get him out of the situation is to get him on board to kill Lestat. (And we also know she's not too shy about murder or a bit of manipulation like her second papa - but whatever I am a Claudia apologist so you did what you had to, baby girl!)

In this scenario, Lestat 1) doesn't have an accurate picture of why Louis and Claudia are murdering him since he didn't do the kidnapping/threats (which might also better explain songs like 'Brutal Love') and 2) would understandably be devastated to see such an account of him/his behaviour in print - thus the meltdown (and might even think that Louis made it up just to be spiteful).

I'll also note that the other things we see him questioning the book on seem to be minor (fashion, Lelio, opera) - so the train incident marks a significant departure that warrants further investigation.

As a ride-or-die Louis and Claudia stan I have shocked myself by coming out with what might be read as a Lestat apology. I may not be the first person to suggest this, but wanted to document it here (in case I'm right!).

Claudia not only wants to get it through to them that she hates them and wants them to stop using her to fuel their own self pity, but I think there’s also another element to this quote.

She states that she’s been in a “spidery ass nowhere” constantly searching for Madeline but can’t find her. But at the same time she has ALL of the information about important parts of Louis and Lestat’s lives since she died. All moments where her NAME and MEMORY were brought up.

So my conclusion is that each time they bring her up, her spirit is summoned and she’s PAINFULLY dragged away from her search for Madeline. And that makes her outburst here even sadder, because yeah keep my name out of your mouth but also STOP pulling me into YOUR bullshit when I have my own SHIT to deal with.

merthur text posts pt2 .. materials from pinterest of course

However his blood? Absolutely fucked. To a level that is almost comical. Let’s remember that ancient vampires are not supposed to make fledglings because their blood is too strong and it’ll fuck the fledgling up.

Marius explicitly says in The Vampire Lestat that he should never have made Armand. It is his biggest regret (that’s your biggest regret with Armand, you piece of shit?) that he turned him when he did. Though he doesn’t mention his powerful blood when he does, but it is absolutely a factor in Armand’s often erratic behaviour.

He says this:

“I never should have taken Armand in his youth, and his centuries of folly and suffering are a penance to me even now. You did him a mercy driving him into the Paris of this century, but I fear for him it is too late.

He is also the one to explain to Lestat about the potency of blood. It decreases with every fledgling you make. Marius had only ever turned Pandora before Armand, and when he did he was I want to say roughly 1500 years old.

So if Armand turned Daniel when he was 500 years old anyway, it would be bad for Daniel. Very bad. Armand has never made a fledgling, meaning his power has never been diluted and he’s had 500 years for that power to grow. But Armand himself was already dealing with three times that thanks to fucking Marius. Even without the relentless trauma or his arrested development, Armand literally never so stood a chance at being normal.

And then he passed it down to Daniel. So Daniel is absolutely fucked basically. He also spent the first three years of his transformation alone which definitely didn’t help.

I do wonder what happen when a sick vampire (brain wiring, so akin to having a thumb stuck backwards. You can’t really change that) get turned ? Does the blood can cure it ? Does an older stronger blood can cure it TOO MUCH ? Daniel looks to get close to those symptoms he is very hostile to Lestat and not in a simple journalistic way, he seems to have a hard time sleeping (he has no coffin ?), the seeing nobody when there should be there but Armand is cute but that could be an hallucination in a way,