Definitly not living as God intended

I wonder how long its gonna take him to realize.. BONUS:

merlin, magic user: oh fuck

arthur, finally taking this opportunity to pretend as if he just found out merlin has magic after agonizing for the past month on how to bring it up: you have magic?

lancelot, merlin defender, already knew of merlin’s magic: no! i have magic

gwaine, merlin defender, already knew of merlin’s magic, lover of chaos, ride or die: no, i have magic!

mordred, desperate for his hero’s approval bc no matter what he’s done emrys just stares at him with distrust and the poor boy is tired and so close to tears: no…i have magic.

percival, raised by druids and bonded strongly with mordred over that and does Not agree with the persecution of magic in camelot, had an inkling that merlin had magic but no proof: no. i have magic.

*leon and elyan exchange a look, elyan, amused and leon, exhausted, elyan shrugs*

elyan, knows how much gwen adores merlin and completely understands her stance bc merlin…is merlin, down to clown and put on a show, really playing up the dramatics: no! i have magic.

leon, exhausted, has known of merlin’s magic since he stepped foot in camelot, knows of his feelings for arthur and arthur’s feelings for him, knows arthur knows of merlin’s magic and wouldn’t harm him, thinks everyone is being absolutely ridiculous:

*the knights stare hard at leon and even merlin looks slightly offended at leon not jumping to his defense with the rest of the knights, arthur hasn’t said anything and is staring at leon expectantly*

From Camelot.

He's done. Merlin is gone, and nothing means anything anymore.

Uther burned Merlin while Arthur was in the dungeons for protesting. Uther who claimed to love Arthur's mother, and still bargained with her life for a son.

I want Uther to see his son's devotion (feelings realized too late, too late) to the dead servant boy. To realize that unlike him, Arthur would never have sacrificed the love of his life for a legacy.

I want Uther to realize that Arthur's love for a dead sorcerer is far greater and purer and more selfless than Uther's obsession for Ygraine ever was. (Because Arthur would never take his anger out on innocents. Cannot bear to imagine what Merlin would say if he did. Caring about a sorcerer's opinion, loving the sorcerer -Not really his father's perfect son, eh?)

And I want Uther to realize that he, King Uther Pendragon, has done to his son what he accused Nimueh of doing to him. (And knew, always, deep down that she didn't.)

I want Morgana, so recently "rescued" from the clutches of her sweet sister, to find out that the boy, once a friend, who poisoned her to save Arthur and Camelot and was rewarded with his death for it, was like her all along.

I want Morgause to exclaim in delight to Morgana that with the Crown Prince having taken himself out of the way, Camelot is ripe for the taking.

And for Morgana to hear this and think -none of this makes sense, what even is the point?

I want Arthur's last words ever to his father to be that he would never forgive him for this.

That in killing the sorcerer who had prevented Arthur from ending Uther's miserable worthless life, he's lost his son forever.

Uther Pendragon's young dynasty built on blood and bones and tears and screams and ash did not have it's legacy robbed by magic.

The legacy walked away.