#elyan

they get together because one day somebody asks if they're a couple and elyan says "not currently" and merlin spends the next week staring into the distance processing that answer.

leon_degrance// arthur_pendragon

And Gwen absolutely knows more about cars than she lets on because she grew up listening to Elyan rant about engines for like ten years straight. Half the time she quietly fixes problems before he notices and lets him think he figured it out himself because it makes him happy. i also lit made character sheets for all merlin characters recently for a fic that might never make it into reality so hear it is mine Elyan Smith - he/him - pan + demisexual (figured out the pan part immediately. took him YEARS to realize most people do not need an emotional bond before attraction kicks in. genuinely thought everyone else was exaggerating) - 5'9 - Film + Media Studies major - Gwen’s younger brother and somehow both the most and least functional member of the family - walks around campus like he’s being followed by an invisible camera crew - thrifted fashion king. layered jackets. silver rings. fingerless gloves during weather that absolutely does not require them - has directed exactly three short films that made people cry and twelve that made professors ask “what was the intended message here” - says he’s “between artistic eras” whenever he misses deadlines - owns a camcorder he treats like a beloved child - records EVERYTHING. there are candid videos of the entire friend group doing embarrassing nonsense archived on four separate hard drives - half his projects are accidentally just “arthur pendragon experiencing emotions” - claims it’s “visual storytelling” when everyone accuses him of shipping merlin and arthur - hopeless romantic unfortunately trapped inside the body of someone who acts too cool to care - falls in love slowly, catastrophically, and all at once - the type to remember tiny details about people for YEARS - once traveled forty minutes because a friend casually mentioned liking a specific pastry - flirts by becoming deeply emotionally available and staring at someone like they hung the moon - physically incapable of casual dating. tried it once. hated every second - everyone thinks he’s effortlessly charismatic but he actually rehearses conversations in advance - has a playlist for every person he loves - gets absurdly attached to professors who give meaningful feedback - cinematography snob. will pause movies to rant about lighting composition - cried after watching “Dead Poets Society” and then got mad at himself for crying - Gwaine keeps trying to get him on dating apps and Elyan keeps deleting them after one conversation because “what do you MEAN people flirt without knowing each other’s favorite childhood memory” - protective older brother energy despite literally being younger than Gwen because she spent most of childhood protecting HIM - Arthur was TERRIFIED of him at first because Elyan kept silently observing him - Merlin accidentally ended up in one of his films freshman year and the clip of him laughing in fluorescent lighting is still Elyan’s favorite shot he’s ever captured - the only knight capable of roasting people with the calm tone of an indie coming-of-age narrator - listens to frank ocean, mitski, lorde, and weird experimental indie artists with monthly listeners in the double digits - has definitely said “love is stored in the mundane details” unironically

knights of the round table week | day 3: steel and shadow (elyan and lancelot)

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