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It Had To Be You by izhann, red_windmill
Fandoms: Chinese Actor RPF, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) RPF
08 Sep 2020
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The first time he saved Yibo, he was just another upperclassman that just happened to be at the right place, right time. He couldn’t really say the same about the second time, when Yibo found him lying on the school grounds with a hand frantically trying to shake him awake.
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Reasons For Not Letting Go by izhann, red_windmill
Fandom Chinese Actor RPF, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV) RPF
08 Sep 2020
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“Get out of my sight, and don’t come back until you can prove to me why I should allow you to remain in my service.”
Merlin stares at Arthur, confused. His tone was ominous, and it certainly sounded like a threat, but Merlin can’t quite work out what part is supposed to have him shaking in his boots. He’s halfway back to Gauis’ chambers when it dawns on him: Arthur actually thinks this stupid, degrading job is something he would be willing to fight for - as though Merlin’s life wouldn’t be complete without the honor of scrubbing the sheets Arthur manages to soil on a disturbingly regular basis.
In which it takes Merlin a bit longer to warm up to Arthur than it does in canon, but he gets there in the end.
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22 Jul 2026
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SSS+ tier sass and banter, I love!!!!! Oh how i miss their season 1 dynamic :^)
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A decennial hunt draws neighboring princes to Camelot to track a dangerous three-headed beast, but things go south when one of them starts pursuing Merlin instead.
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Books are defaced. But it's all for a good cause. Really.
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06 May 2026
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“I asked you about this once, you know. Whether or not magic had a place in Camelot.”
The oddest expression springs across Merlin’s face; hope. “And what did I say?”
(After a magical artifact comes into play, Merlin from s1 is transported into a version of s5, a time where Merlin will do anything, anything to keep Arthur alive. Arthur has to deal with the aftermath.)
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07 Apr 2026
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“I now know what it’s like to see the light leave a man’s eyes,” Merlin says, and he steps towards his younger self. “I have condemned my people to the pyre for years because it will keep Arthur safe. That’s who you are, Merlin, and that’s why I never told him. I know the prophesies, and if magic was allowed into this land, it’ll kill Arthur.”
“You’d condemn yourself and your entire people just to keep Arthur alive?” Young Merlin whispers. Tears are welling up in his eyes.
“Course I would,” Arthur’s Merlin says simply. “I was made to serve him.”
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He can't explain it. One day, Arthur's swinging a mace at the boy with the big ears and red neckerchief and the next, he's tackling a man twice his size for having the audacity to look at Merlin wrong.
Or, Arthur protects Merlin over and over, falling a little more in love each time.
“You’re the only person in the world that I think really sees me Merlin.” Arthur confesses. "Forgive me then, for wishing harm on the people who would hurt you for just being who you are.”
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But every day there is Merlin.
His father and uncle are dead. Morgana is gone. Just a servant, he thinks, bitter. He was always worth twenty of you. Merlin’s affections would never be weaponized like Uther’s. He will never betray him like Morgana did, over and over. He will never lie to him like Agravaine. When he lost his family, when he lost his crown, when he lost his way, there was always ever only one that remained.
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“I think you’re the only person who truly knows me.” Arthur confesses, pulling away “And the thought of that scares me, because if one day you choose to leave me, I’ll know it’s truly because of me.”
Merlin looks like he wants to protest, profess his endless fealty. Arthur can’t help the fondness that gushes from every bit of him. “Merlin, you really do worry too much.” His teasing is gentle, like the flap of a butterfly’s wing, “I just meant…I’ll keep putting in everything I have into becoming the man you think I am.”
“You’re already him, Arthur.” Merlin insists, shaking his head, “One day you’ll see that, you ridiculous man.”