fav genre of merthur fic is when arthur makes a throwaway comment abt a fruit he really likes thats either out of season/doesnt grow there that he had Once and then the next day merlin just happens to have found a tree/supplier completely coincidentally that had that Exact fruit so he got like 20 for arthur to eat alone. like. yeah🫶
thinking of pre canon arthur who was lonely and unloved and abused; of a teenage boy spending his nights in the cold believing that he killed his mother and is nothing but a disappointment to his father.
merlin walking into camelot was the warmest spring of his life skfgskjaf
the final scene of merlin was so unnecessary and for what. traumatizing an entire country on christmas eve with the implications that the magical twink with the death wish has spent 1500+ years waiting by that mother fucking lake for his wet golden retriever of a mythical noble boyfriend to come back. and it DOESNT EVEN END WITH A REUNION. haunting. jail for ten thousand years. i am devouring it with pita chips and hummus.
no, it's actually crazy to me that, arthur, ARTHUR, mr Very Weird about feelings, mr gets real wobbly when talking about them (see: calling merlin wise in 03x02 for reference), yeah, that same arthur said "if i need a servant in my next life..." to merlin's face in 02x12, as he was about to fight some very much unkillable dudes. he didn't give his usual lines, such as "take care of those i love" as a sign of complete trust, no. instead, he decided to stand smack in the middle of the point - the point being "i wish to see you again, (and again and again) even if it won't be for some time", point being - one lifetime isn't enough. maybe it was the sleepiness getting to him, maybe it was the pretty certain death scenario, but i just think that was a little crazy of him.