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Arthur’s on a patrol when he finds something he wasn’t looking for, but maybe it was something he needed.
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A new spin on the Arthurian legends, with Merlin and Arthur as lovers. Basically revising a lot of the flaws I saw in the BBC Merlin series, with a lot of the same characters and events, while also drawing heavily on the old legends, and inventing some new ideas of my own. Imagine it as a reboot of the series, but in fic form.
Morgana, Gwen, Vivian, and Nimueh will all be more fleshed out, complex, and sympathetic than they were in the TV show.
This story deals heavily with Merlin's father - who is nothing like Merlin's father from the TV show, but is instead a way for me to reconcile with Merlin's character and actions in the original legends. In those stories, Merlin is much older than Arthur, is directly responsible for his birth, and does a few morally reprehensible (that is, misogynistic) things prior to Arthur being born. I've decided to give that role to Merlin's father Wyllt (named after Myrddin Wyllt, a Welsh legend on whom Merlin is partially based).
Merlin and Arthur are both faced with the problematic legacies that their fathers left behind, and the destinies which have been forced upon them.
Can they change their fates, or are they doomed to repeat the mistakes of their ancestors?
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When Merlin goes to the Isle of the Blessed to save Gaius, she takes his life and sacrifices him instead of Gaius. Gaius wakes up to find his boy has been killed. He goes back to Camelot and tells only those closest to Merlin the news. Arthur goes to the Isle of the Blessed to seek vengeance, even though he's not calling it that. Lancelot goes with him and they take Excalibur. Arthur kills Nimueh. Merlin comes back to life. Arthur makes a promise to protect Merlin.
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When Arthur turns eighteen, Nimueh tells him the truth about his birth and about the Purge. By the time he is twenty-one, the two of them are working together to smuggle magical people out of Camelot before Uther can execute them.
Then Merlin comes onto the scene.
If you think revealing conversations are had, you're wrong. It's just that THIS time, Merlin isn't the only one with a lethal secret to keep.