Endurance beyond Hope & Hope unquenchable.

i love this scene’s aesthetic

Sophia

1x07 “The Gates of Avalon”

Arthur / Merlin / Morgana

merlin-gifs alphabet challenge ↪ s: sophia

Sophia

I was nearly killed. For a moment, I felt what it would be like to die a mortal death. He saved me. Someone so weak, so feeble, saved me! I can't bear to be like this for a moment longer.

“All this time and you still won’t talk to me?”

The girl drapes herself over a broad, flat stone, her head pillowed on her folded arms. Below the water, Freya knows, her legs are kicking lazily swathed in gauzy golden silk. Her face, sweet with mischief, is tilted up to catch the sun on her pale cheek.

Freya pulls her knees tight to her chest, arms wrapped around her shins. The afternoon warmth ripples all across the lake’s unclouded surface and sloshes through Freya’s veins or what passes for them now. In some part of her the clinging ribbons of the girl’s skirt billow to and fro and Freya wants to snag them, pull them, tangle her up, just because she can.

The other Sidhe never talk to Freya. She is beneath their notice, outside their realm, neither flesh nor spirit: more like the sunlight than the water or the lilies or the mist. But Lady Sophia is an exception, nosy and pestering; and Freya, who never had much company in life and certainly never the company of fairy ladies, hasn’t mustered the courage to answer her endless questions.

“Well, you’re not very nice,” Freya reasons, and at the sound of her voice, Sophia perks up.

“It’s not very nice to ignore people, either,” Sophia teases. “So, what’s your name, rude girl?”

“...Freya.”

Eyes twinkling, Sophia holds out her hand, palm down, for a kiss.

“COME GET YO MAN”

AU where Sophia is the Lady of the Lake 💛

When Merlin killed her in the lake, she regained immortality but only pertaining to her role as Lady of the Lake, destiny now intertwined for the rest of time with the prince she tried to kill

She’s a real nuisance every time Merlin shows up to the Lake of Avalon to send off another dead loved one :/ However, when it’s just the two of them for so long…

By the time Merlin sends Arthur off, Sophia sincerely promises to take care of the king until his return

This is my first fill for the @merlinbingo!

the plight of the siren