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My six stages of shipping Merlin/Arthur

Stage 1: Just friends?! You’re telling me that’s all Merlin and Arthur are even after that goddamned finale??? Dear BBC, you are lying liars who lie.

Stage 2: Man, how bloody cool would it be if before the show ended, Arthur grew one single brain cell, stopped pining like an idiot, and just kissed Merlin already like the show has been building up to all this time?

Stage 3: OK but what if they just talked about their feelings? What if Arthur fucking admitted in all honesty how much Merlin matters to him and how he doesn’t really agree with the whole magic ban anymore and then Merlin reveals his magic so he and Arthur can openly build their kingdom TOGETHER? What if we had 4 whole seasons worth of the golden age of Albion??? The BBC robbed us.

Stage 4: Do you ever think about how Merlin was in love the WHOLE TIME and like with the magic Arthur just never knew? At the end of it all Arthur had the GALL to accept Merlin for all he is and all but tell him he loves him too before fucking dying in Merlin’s arms. Merlin, now aware that Arthur would’ve loved and accepted him anyway, has to spend the rest of eternity beating himself up over what they could’ve had if only he had trusted his king more, what the two of them could’ve been if only Merlin had been better at confessing stuff to the other side of his coin. For thousands of years all Merlin has for company is the persistent feeling that he’d let everything slip through his fingers.

Stage 5: anD THEN ARTHUR RISES FROM THE LAKE AND FINALLY GIVES MERLIN HIS LONG OVERDUE SNOG AND THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. THE END. THAT’S THE REAL LAST 5 MINUTES OF SEASON 5 EPISODE 13 AND NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.

stage 6: What do you mean “”“canon”“”? Morgana is queen and Merlin and Arthur have been blissfully married on a farm for TWO DECADES