Merthur She Wrote

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This song but anyone dating Arthur (and his friend Merlin).

Merlin accidentally becomes Camelot’s Spymaster, a fact which only a few individuals ‘know’ (Leon as the first knight, the captain of the guard, and the castle steward). Others suspect he’s close to the Spymaster, passing on the information and rumours he collects. It’s just assumed that Merlin is passing on his reports to King Arthur during some of the many hours they spend sequestered away as master and ‘manservant’.

No one knows who Emrys is. There are prophecies about him, but no way to identify him, as he keeps his magic shrouded, hidden, so he can’t be discovered even when standing in the same room as him.

(They say Emrys will only be revealed by the Once and Future king himself as his closest and most powerful husband ally after the golden era of magic has arrived.)

Not even Merlin knows who Emrys is. After all, no one could tell him when they didn’t know themselves.

But he does believe in Arthur’s future, that Arthur is the king the prophecies have spoken about.

And he’s glad. He’ll keep protecting Arthur, uphold the status quo, holding on until Emrys arrives at last.

After all, it’s hard work looking after this prat; he’d appreciate the help from someone who knows what they’re doing.

Through a series of unfortunate circumstances, Prince Arthur finds himself lost and stuck in a nearby kingdom. An enemy kingdom. A kingdom of magic.

He keeps his head down, disguising himself as a peasant and trading anything of value on him for coin. (He needs the money to survive and find a way home, and he can’t risk being discovered as a nobleman.) The only items he keeps and hides are his ring and his mother’s sigil.

The borders are closed with magic (Arthur still can’t understand how he stumbled to the wrong side), so he goes to the capital to see if he can find/buy a way to one of the neighbouring kingdoms to them make his way back to Camelot. On his first day in the city, he witnesses a man being executed for crimes against magic, and the king reminds his people that the views of Camelot will not be tolerated. Arthur knows he can never let his identity be discovered.

Through another series of unfortunate circumstances, Arthur finds himself the manservant of one of the young sorcerers in training, a boy called Merlin.

Arthur soon notices that Merlin too is keeping his head down, that he’s more powerful than he lets others see, but like everyone else, he hates Camelot. He hates it both for the suffering to magic as a result of the legislated and lethal prejudice, and more personally, for costing Merlin a life with his father. Despite how much Arthur comes to respect and even admire Merlin, he knows he can never tell him the truth.

In a world where a-b-o is a thing, Prince Arthur is an Alpha. He’s been told all his life that one day he would marry an Omega, likely one of Royal blood.

There are fewer Betas in this world (the minority rather than the majority), and they are looked down on by the other genders. Betas cannot have any status and are always common no matter their birth. Betas are considered lesser, considered these sexless things. Yes, Betas have been known to have families with other Betas, but this is thought to be more of an anomaly (which they would realise isn’t true if they looked for even a moment). As a general rule they are assumed infertile, asexual. This is one of the reasons why Betas are used as personal servants to nobility.

Despite all the noble Omega’s his father keeps parading before him, the only one Arthur wants to take as his mate is his Beta manservant (if he’s amenable).

Arthur’s known about Merlin’s magic almost from the beginning.

When he first discovered it, he tried to warn Merlin, discreetly - commenting on the dangers of magic without addressing Merlin’s magic specifically so he won’t have to arrest him. Over time though, he slowly learns - from Merlin - that magic isn’t all that his father has always claimed.

After this, it becomes a bit of a game to them; Arthur warning Merlin about magic, and Merlin coming up with the most outrageous of stories to try to explain it away.

In a world where soulmates are a thing, you can find your soulmate by matching it to its pair. The common people will often leave their marks uncovered (so long as their mark doesn’t appear somewhere scandalous) in the hopes of finding their soulmate, whereas nobility are know for keeping their marks hidden as to not be taken advantage of (and disguising when they marry for politics despite their soulmarks). Royalty are even more secretive, understandably. (Somehow, most people find their soulmates within their own classes. Shared experience perhaps.)

Only select few have seen Prince Arthur’s soulmark, one of those being the captain of King Uther’s knights. By chance, this knight sees Merlin’s mark when forcing him into the stocks once more.

The knight takes Merlin before the king, exposing his mark. Uther doesn’t want his son to end up with some peasant, some boy, but he can’t just have the boy killed either - he knew what it was like to live with a broken bond and wouldn’t wish that upon his son, especially when most broken bonds end in suicide.