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An Account of the King's Acute Stress as Documented by a Court Physician by billiamshakespeare
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
21 Jul 2022
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Uther Pendragon was known to have occasional acute heart issues due to stress. Gaius just didn't have the foresight to assume it was hereditary.
AKA, 5 times Merlin gave Arthur a heart attack, and 1 time Arthur returned the favor
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11 Feb 2026
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Holding back a grunt, Merlin craned his neck backward. Maybe he was injured and didn’t realize? He twisted his head around — neck oddly more flexible than he remembered — as he tried to take stock of himself. And Merlin froze. Because instead of his usual tunic and red neckerchief… were feathers. Lots and lots of feathers.
The resulting screech that left Merlin’s throat was inhuman.
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Or, a hunting trip goes awry, as so many do, and Merlin is hit by an errant spell. If there’s one thing Merlin can take away from this, it’s that clearly the Fates have a sense of humor. Why else would he be turned into a merlin?
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10 Feb 2026
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Muscles jump in Balinor’s clenched jaw.
“I knew you wanted him,” he says. “You could never be satisfied with just your own son.”
“I need a loyal dragonlord,” Uther explains to him. “And we both know that it won’t be you.”
“You vile man,” Balinor says. “You used my love. You used my son.”
“And I would do it again. Do we have a deal?”
(Uther, desperately lonely after sending Arthur away to become a knight, manipulates Balinor into giving him Merlin to keep as his pet dragonlord. Balinor, furious at having been tricked a second time, joins a rising resistance to Uther's rule. When Arthur comes home, he falls in love with his father’s strange ward and in doing so unwittingly ignites a war.)
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03 Feb 2026
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“I said I was dying.”
Arthur sighed.“I don’t have time for this.”
“Would you have had time to retrieve my corpse?” Merlin thought, then nearly smacked himself when Arthur’s expression made him realize he’d spoken out loud.
Could Merlin have told the truth if Arthur had been willing to listen that morning? What would that mean for their future? For Morgana's?- Language:
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27 Jan 2026
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Everyone he trusted with his secret – Will, Freya, Balinor, Lancelot, and now Gaius – was gone. Arthur would never bring magic back to the land, and he would never let Merlin stand at his side the way Merlin had hoped he would. It was a cold awakening, years of baseless faith dashed against the fraying tapestry that destiny had made Merlin sew into his own skin, but an awakening nonetheless.
Merlin is shaken out of his obsession with destiny and his blind faith in Arthur. Arthur just wishes he knew how to get his closest friend back.
(For Merthur Angst Week 2021 Day 7: “No. You don’t get to talk.”)
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16 Jan 2026