in all default verses , arthur is not yet married to anyone. he rules alone with only merlin —and in some instances, his mother— by his side. in that, all marriages / romances are fair game. i would just rather develop them than have something set in stone. i’ve read all those variations, and i want my own.

additionally , in all default verses , he has open , advisory communication with viviane / niniane / nimue / the lady of the lake at all times. he also trusts his sister morgaine / morgana always , even when he shouldn’t. it’s why nimue ends up saving his ass so much in le morte verse.

in all verses , arthur has made a vow to avalon, which is the only way he is able to acquire excalibur no matter how he does it. he keeps that vow until the day he dies, which is why he is welcomed back and healed in avalon after the battle of camlann. it also means that if the church were to ever challenge him or ask that he renounce avalon, he wouldn’t, and it would be means for war. 

any and all threads with children of arthur , mainly mordred , will have to be plotted , at least lightly , beforehand.

while arthur does have a cursed verse , i will NOT write with nimues who use k.atherine lang.ford and heavily favor her played as a woc as she is in the book and should be in the show

         ‘ alright, easy solution. ‘ if anyone in this court knew arthur, really knew him, it was kay. they were brothers, even if they shared no blood. perhaps even better that they shared no blood. he’d seen blood turn on blood so quickly it had made his head spin. ‘ let me hear them. and, if it sounds like someone else, i’ll tell you, we’ll start over, and keep going until i don’t hear a wizard or a knight from orkney. we’ll keep going until i hear my brother. ‘ despite the resentment he felt for merlin that had grown in the years since arthur had become king, he didn’t take that resentment out on the wrong people. ‘ it isn’t too late. ‘

        ❝ not impossible, ❞ morgana relents.  ❝ regrets, perhaps not, but i have had bitterness. anger. there is always anger, inside. ❞ she fears it, sometimes. the things her rage would have her do, the places she would go if she did not keep it under control, locked away inside her. tinges of it appear, yes, but if it unleashed its full force…well. arthur deserves some of it—but not as much as she would like to throw at him, sometimes.  ❝ we’ll never know, will we, brother? ❞

SENTENCE STARTERS | accepting. 

@luridtruths​ said: ❛ if you don’t ask, i won’t tell. ❜ - spencer

The crown rests upon the table across the room , and yet , Arthur’s head feels no lighter. In fact , it has begun to ache , and he is not sure whether it is due to Viviane’s visit or Merlin’s commentary on Viviane’s visit. Or both. Regardless of which , it makes an initial reaction to her appearance in the doorway impossible. 

He still is not entirely sure what to expect from her. She has been pleasant enough thus far , but quiet though she may be , Arthur sees something no one else seems to. Her silence , deafening in its own right , does not imply a lack of intelligence. If anything , quite the contrary. So her little riddle does not simply settle in the pit of his stomach like a warm meal. Instead , it is heavy as brick and just as chalky on his tongue. 

I Want to be Apocalyptic, something only the end can see ( Assassin’s Creed ) — When Arthur becomes king , he is immediately approached by the Order of Ancients, who had previously seduced Uther and now laid claim to his throne. Arthur , at the behest of Merlin , agrees to work with them , not at all realizing what it was he was signing up for. It is not until Avalon’s faction of the assassins come to him and prove exactly what the Order is that he comes to terms with the fact that he was a puppet. When the Order realizes that they are losing their grip on Arthur —albeit unaware he is now actively working with the brotherhood— they begin to groom Mordred, who they had saved after having Merlin orchestrate the massacre on May Day, for the throne. And the killing of Arthur. 

Dear Terror, I know what hunger is and there is little I can offer you ( Faerie Podcast ) — Reincarnated for the nth time , Arthur finds himself in a vastly different world that not only distrusts magic and the fey but actively seeks to experiment on , torture , and destroy them when they slip through the veil. Arthur helps to found The Department , a secret branch of government set out to protect the fey. Of course , there are those who do not believe and worse , those who snake their way into the job in order to disrupt the plan. Arthur , still clinging to the memory of his oath to Avalon and the fey folk , must do everything in his power to protect them while shielding himself from those within his organization who threaten to smother him and his intentions. 

Assassin’s Creed

Faerie (Podcast)

Old Guard

@ofadeadgod​ said:  “I was left to my own devices.” viviane

         ‘ and would you consider that a good thing, or a bad thing? ‘ it was something merlin had brought up as the bark of the hawthorn tree spread up his chest. arthur would be alone, no more advice from the wizard. viviane had only looked at him sadly, and turned away before the bark covered his face. ‘ if bad, i had nothing to do with it. ‘

            It’s strange, how  g r o w n  he’s gotten, last she saw him he was but a babe Merlin insisted should not stay with his parents, for his own safety the sorcerer said. Ygraine isn’t so sure. She smiles slightly at him, not in the way a mother would smile to her child, after all, he’s a stranger and it feels like he always will be such.  ❝ Merlin. I understand he’s still around. ❞  Plotting certainly, under the guise of advising.  ❝ I would take care, witchcraft is tricky and often unreliable. ❞

@ofadeadgod​ said:  “You must have the words in that head of yours.” kay

          ‘ i mean, yeah, i’ve got plenty of words up here. ‘ he was known for words, and the fact that they weren’t always highly complimentary. he didn’t figure that was what arthur was looking for just now. ‘ but you’ve got your own words, wart. use those. ‘