Behold: Awkward Tangets & Randomness Galore

From Cork who got limericks

Who liked to compose limericks

But he failed at the sport

All the princesses (Vivian, Elena, Mithian) couldn’t awaken him.

Merlin found a spell eventually and then he was about to use it he stumbles over his own feet and falls down lips smacking lips onto Arthur.

Arthur wakes up.

It was all seen by a maid that entered the prince’s chambers at the wrong time. She ran to tell the great news to the king.

And you would think that one of them would notice, but every time Merlin does something suspicious/different, Arthur just thinks, "Oh, he's probably doing a magic thing that I didn't catch last time." And whenever Arthur does something different/suspicious, Merlin's just like, "Ah, my actions are having a butterfly effect. Good."

You've got two people trying to keep Morgana from turning evil. Arthur is telling her that things will be different when he's King, while Merlin is trying to relate to her more. Arthur automatically knows who to trust and who not to trust, and when Merlin points those things out, he actually listens. Arthur is always in the know. Uther has no idea what's going on. Merlin is out here doing ALL THE THINGS with his magic, and Arthur doesn't even notice. And neither of them can tell when the other is lying because both of them are such idiots. Somehow, Arthur ends up in mortal danger just as often as he did last time.

But it's not just silly-goofy-fun-and-games. There is so much angst. The whole time, Merlin is missing his Arthur, the one who died, and he thinks that he's never going to have that Arthur again. Plus, he knows this time that, if he fails, Arthur will die, and so there's a whole other level of pressure there.

Arthur, on the other hand, doesn't want to put Merlin through all of the trauma that he faced before. He feels responsible for making Merlin feel unable to share his secrets with him, and also knows that he will be causing Merlin unimaginable grief if he fails, which he does not want to do. Again.

and Gwaine's like ☝️ "Ssshut up"

So his mother writes to Gaius, and they somehow come up with the idea of giving Merlin iron cuffs to wear. To not draw too much suspicion, they get ones that are thin, to look more like bracelets rather than cuffs, and possibly get them engraved too.

I've read fics where Merlin's put in cold iron cuffs and because he's magic in a physical form, and it's essentially like cutting off his airways, so all the built up magic ends up breaking the cuffs; but I thought it'd be interesting if because Merlin is magic and basically a god in human form, the iron doesn't really effect him, or in this case, it grounds him and allows him better control over his magic. So, truly, no one ever suspects Merlin of having magic, because whenever asked about the bracelets, he'll answer and say that they were gifts from his mother (maybe they go with a story that it was one of the few things Merlin’s father left for Hunith).

And maybe just to add some Merthur elements, when he starts to try to court Merlin (whether merlin recognizes it as courting or not), he gets him silver jewelry, only to notice how the colors of the metals kinda clash and then learns that they're actually iron. He's confused by it, but brushes the strangeness way with a, "well it wouldn't really make sense if Merlin had silver," and just saves this information somewhere in his brain, where it resurfaces when someone accuses Merlin of being a sorcerer (bc I'm headcanoning that any magic user would be in pain if they come in contact with cold iron, except of course Merlin, bc his magic just flows through the iron like it's any other element of the earth)

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Or, Arthur from the future is trying to make everything right this time with some help (probably from the Triple Goddess and later from Merlin) and pretending to be oblivious to Merlin's magic and protecting him

(to be continued...)

Me: it’s not that bad most of it is reading

Friend: what are you reading?

I mean, at first he’s dressed like “An Angel”. This takes place during the periods when he is just observing Earth as an Angel of heaven.

Then once he’s “Gone Native” and is hanging out on Earth on a more permanent basis, he dresses to keep up with style and the times, and most importantly to blend in.

Then we get to 1941 and suddenly his outfit is static and unchanging. For 80 years he remains in the same outfit (and yes for this example I’m not including Brother Francis or Warlock’s birthday party because those were disguises).

He even laments to Crowley about his jacket being ruined when it was hit by a paintball.

And then is so happy when he fixes it.

So why is this? Why does he insist on wearing the same thing? For 80 years? Well after fashion has moved on multiple times. What’s so special and significant about this outfit exactly? Why does he love it so much?

It’s almost like perhaps something happened in 1941 that Aziraphale is trying to preserve. Or maybe, to recapture. Something to remind him of that night. GEE, I WONDER WHAT THAT COULD BE?!