#mxa

All Characters are 21+

Tags: Psychological, Slow-Burn possible Dark Romance, Historical (Victorian/Western), Corruption, Character Driven

Pairings: M x Any! IF ROMANCE THEN M/F only, with me playing a male.

Key Details: DMS OPEN for long-term roleplay partners who like gritty dark RP with a side of sweetness. We don't have to be angsty all the time, promise.

About Me:

Hi, my name is Stew and I'm 25 they/them. DM me for specific boundaries and to tell me about your own! Use any FCs you want. I RP ON DISCORD ONLY.

Mild NSFW I'm only open to if we get along and it's natural. Not full smut but touching, kissing, fingering etc is fine. It must come naturally with OOC communication. We can headcanon and tease our OCs 'til thine kingdom come though! We can also fade to black if you want. Smut is not necessary.

Plot Ideas. 🧠⚡️

Screw fixing; I want to make your character worse. Think power dynamics, unhealed trauma, attachment issues, redemption vs corruption, criminality, or anything else. If romance if involved then I like mine Slow burn. I want tension over outright chaos. Gimme codependency, manipulation, angst-the lot. Your morally grey gritty OCs will feel right at home in this house. Don't worry.

Maybe our OCs are using each other or maybe there's a forbidden element. One could be distrustful of the other or there could be revenge or rivalry. OR... maybe Muse A thinks they have figured out Muse B only to fail miserably?

What I offer. 😈

- Third person, past tense POV ft. a wonderfully deluded unreliable narrator. He's well-developed and well-attuned to your OCs' weaknesses, while being fallible in his own special ways. My characters have strong internal logic and don't pull punches emotionally. They're not cruel for the sake of it, but they won't play nice unless there's a reason. And no, your OC being beautiful or misunderstood is NOT a reason.

- Prose that l've put my all into. I like to set the tone and I write to make you feel, not to honour the thesaurus. I use em (—) dashes but I'm not an Al writer.

- 400-600 words in a reply. Rarely 200-300 unless we're having a quicker fire moment

- a well-organised 1-1 RP server once we've started talking

- clear communication if I am confused or need more time to reply

- OOC banter and chatter any day, and RP replies every 1-2 days. We can be friends if you want or just get excited over the RP.

- genuinely being psyched for your OCs provided you are for mine.

- memes, songs and headcanons for both mine and your OCs.

- "Yes, and" approach where my replies give you something your OC can grab onto. No "he stands menacingly until you have to walk 5 yards to meet him".

I'm looking for someone who 🤔

- Reads my OC bios properly and doesn't try to flatten them into tropes (grumpy, golden retriever, uptight straight man, etc). If you're confused about something, ask me. But I don't make tropey characters with simple arcs.

- will communicate if something is wrong with my reply or my vibe, DON'T GHOST. You can do better than that.

- DOES NOT EXPECT MY OC TO ORBIT THEIRS OR VICE VERSA. I want fragile power balances, not master/servant. My OCs do not grovel at anyones feet (or coochie) and neither should yours.

- DOES NOT WRITE WITH AI.

- likes psychologically tense roleplay where Humour/domesticity is fine provided there are NO COMIC RELIEFS, MANIC PIXIES OR GIRLBOSS TROPES.

- Third person past tense, whether limited or omniscient

- a pre built OC that isn't entirely passive. I want my character to be thrown off just as much as your character will be. They can be feminine and sensitive and soft provided they have a spine.

- Interest in layered, deep charater development where BOTH our OCs fundamentally change each other for better or worse.

- Shares their ideas and opinions as much as I do. We do "yes, and" in this house. I'm not carrying this plot alone, alright? My back isn't that

big.

- Literate to novella partners 400+ words. If we're in a quick fire moment then we can do much less

- Sends an intro/profile and samples of their writing style, if they've read this far of course

- Adds to the story and moves it along with me. Don't just react to my OC or do everything they say.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Merlin (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Gwen/Morgana (Merlin) Characters: Merlin (Merlin), Arthur Pendragon (Merlin), Gwen (Merlin), Morgana (Merlin), Uther Pendragon (Merlin) Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, First Kiss, Angst, Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Modern: No Powers, Good Morgana (Merlin), Internalized Homophobia, Pining, Mutual Pining, Idiots in Love, Uther Pendragon's A+ Parenting (Merlin), Alternate Universe - High School, High School, Love Confessions, Confessions, Theatre, Alternate Universe - Theatre, Waltzing, Major Character Injury, Injury, they're fine, Don't worry, Shakespeare, References to Hamlet, Based on a True Story Summary:

Merlin’s phone landed on the bed with a dull thud, followed soon after by the boy himself. The text conversation was still up, though the damning texts themselves had long since been deleted. }Me: Listen }Me: I wanted to tell you something }Me: Just… delete it once you’ve read it, don’t bother responding }Me: and don’t hate me }Me: I have a crush on you }Me: I really want to stay friends, so let’s pretend this never happened, k?

Rk900: Gavin, you need to get ready for Tina’s party

Gavin: I’m not going. One, I don’t have a date to go with. Two, I don’t feel like going.

Rk900: you don’t need to go with a date

Gavin: it’s a couples’ party, tin can.

Rk900: if not having a date bothers you that much, I could go as your date

Gavin: *blushes* n-no.

Review:

Behind this intricate and lengthy title is a work of art just as intricate, just as lengthy, and just as astonishingly unique and completely rewarding. 

It’s set post Merlin series 5 and yet not.  It’s Merlin living a lifetime and then going back again to re-live it without invalidating anything.  It’s canon staying valid and ALL the magic-users finding redemption and even Uther, quite believably, finally seeing sense -- and all without invalidating any of the characters.  

The plot is unique and clever and well thought out, with obvious research that doesn’t get in the way of the telling of the story.  

I have no idea why it doesn’t have more kudos than it does.  It’s one of those works that you won’t forget about afterward, because it’s so utterly its own.

Anyway, I stayed up until 6am reading it last night, so I wanted to rec it for all the Merlin fic readers out there.

Thank you to @jenroses and @procoffeinating for writing this masterpiece. 

:)

Story Description from AO3:

Merlin was once told that Arthur would rise again at the hour of Camelot's greatest need. But a thousand years pass, with no Arthur. 

When the last war comes, and the world dies, and Arthur still doesn't return, Merlin suddenly realises that the hour of Camelot's greatest need… was a thousand years ago. Sometimes he's a bit slow on the uptake. Fortunately, he's figured out how to go back. What would YOU do if you had 2000 years of experience in the body of a 17 year old, and absolutely nothing left to lose?

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