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    The dreams begin five days after Merlin’s execution.

     

    The dreams— colors and shapes made from the wreckages of Arthur’s memories, as meaningless as words like loyalty and friendship— begin with the gentle questioning of something uncertain of its own right to exist.

    And Arthur answers the question the only way he can— with his mind turned away from the thoughts that filled him at night, facing the morning with nothing more than a frown and a promise not to think of his dream again.

    There are more important things to face, anyway. Whatever his father has planned each day, it leaves no room for Arthur to think of petty things like a moment of a bad dream.

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    Merlin's a traitor. Merlin's a sorcerer. Merlin's dead and no longer a problem.

    Or, at least, he would be-- if he hadn't shifted into Arthur's dreams instead. Not a ghost but still not quite there, Merlin fills the place in Arthur's head at night. At first, Arthur does all he can to ignore it. Eventually, though, he has no choice but to speak with the man who broke his trust.

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    10 Jul 2022

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    Bittersweet and angsty and beautifully crafted, with the perfect ending in the nick of time.

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    You can determine the measure of a man by observing how he treats his lessers, except that, to Arthur, Merlin has (almost) never been his lesser, and Merlin himself (almost) never saw them as anything other than equals. As their destinies steadily intertwine, both young men realize it is more than just fate that ties them together.

    A series of firsts and defining moments for Merlin and Arthur...

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    10 Feb 2022

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    Well developed alternative plot line

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    Modern AU. For the last twenty two years Uther Pendragon has been waging war on magic. Now his son Arthur has been framed for a magical crime and sent to the prison for magic users. Arthur is instantly targeted by the inmates, but mysterious top dog Merlin takes him under his wing. They form a bond, and Merlin decides to help Arthur clear his name.
    (Warnings: non-con and dub-con, though it's brief and not M/A, violence, death of minor characters )

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    21 Dec 2021

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    A well imagined, dystopian future where the boys are both BAMFs and together, they change the world

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    07 Jun 2021

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    A brilliant series of honor and love and very funny bickering, brilliant!

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    I thought it would be fun to write a series of little vignettes about the floriographic symbolism of the plants Crowley chooses for his cottage garden, and then centuries of pining happened. I'll show myself out.

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    03 Apr 2021

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    A summary of all the ways Crowley loves his Angel, told in the language of Springtime.