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A compilation of Merlin Stories that can be read as standalones.
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“What's the last thing you remember?”
There is plenty that Lancelot could give as an answer: Morgana. The Veil. Death. Nothing.
Instead, Lancelot says: “you” and, this time, Merlin knows this man is his Lancelot.Or: while Arthur holds a trial for Gwen, Merlin sneaks to the dungeons to free Lancelot before he can die again.
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don't leave me alone with your absence (the lack of you is crippling me) by no_nutcracker
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
04 Jan 2026
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Mordred's God died today.
Or: Mordred's POV after Merlin went inside the Veil.
Companion piece to in my end you were my beginning.Series
- Part 2 of r a w
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Merlin is tired of being left behind.
Or: David son of Ruth offers a helping hand to Merlin after he is once again left behind and it changes everything.
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- Part 3 of Merlin & OUAT crossovers
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Wyatt comes back to the past instead of Bianca.
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Lancelot does not succeed in exchanging his life for his friend's. As a consequence, Arthur has to live in a world void of Merlin.
Or: during the Darkest Hour, Merlin sacrifices himself to close the Veil.
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- Part 1 of r a w
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If you ever come to harm again, think of me and I shall come, he had told her.
There had been snow; cold and shining like diamonds under the sun; and thick, pearly rivulets of bloods staining it.
(A body lying just out of a child's sight and a dagger presented to small and trembling hands.)
Do you promise?, the child had asked, taking the dagger he offered her.
He had nodded, solemn, I promise.
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- Part 2 of Merlin & OUAT crossovers
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'Why didn't you come sooner?'
'What do you mean?'
Morgana keeps her gaze away from her. 'You've always known we're sisters and yet you let me stay in Camelot. With Uther,' she adds, a shiver running through her. 'Even without knowing with certainty I'd have magic, you must have expected me to have it. Yet, you left me there. You never came.' Morgana gazes up from her contemplation to stare at her. 'Why?'
Or: Morgana asks her new sister a question.
A missing scene taking place in the second timeline of Both are Light and Dark.
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- Part 4 of Merlin and Morgause are siblings
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I'm a natural kind and you won't find what you like by no_nutcracker
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
30 Dec 2024
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Several conversations held between two sets of siblings in the two years between Arthur's coronation and Morgana's Coup.
Missing moments set in the second timeline of Both are Light and Dark.
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- Part 5 of Merlin and Morgause are siblings
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The search for the last dragonlord digs up secrets some people would rather have kept buried.
Or: Merlin and Arthur go in seach for Balinor without Morgause.
A sort of missing quest set in the second timeline of Both are Light and Dark.
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- Part 3 of Merlin and Morgause are siblings
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Missing moments from the first timeline of Both are Light and Dark; happening about a year after Uther's abdication.
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- Part 2 of Merlin and Morgause are siblings
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The one in which Morgause is not Morgana's older sister but Merlin's.
It changes certain things.Series
- Part 1 of Merlin and Morgause are siblings
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Destiny's got no say in this by no_nutcracker
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Once Upon a Time (TV)
04 Mar 2024
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In a land of myth and a time of magic, you can find more than one person with skin white as snow, lips red as blood and hair black as night.
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- Part 1 of Merlin & OUAT crossovers
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Lord Merlin le Fay, son of the deceased Gorlois and Vivienne le Fay and previous ward of King Uther Pendragon, comes back to the Citadel in time for the Twentieth Anniversary of the Ban on Magic.
Meanwhile, Morgana, daughter of Hunith, comes from Ealdor to Camelot to meet her destiny.
Neither of them is pleased by this.
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- Part 3 of Merlin is a Pendragon
- Part 1 of Morgana is Emrys and Merlin is a Pendragon (again)
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I've been watching dandelions grow and die and grow by no_nutcracker
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
18 Apr 2023
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Roles Swap AU: what if Morgana was Emrys, destined to help Arthur become the Once and Future King, while Merlin, Uther's beloved ward, was the Seer?
Except that, instead of being destined to end as Arthur's foe, Merlin's destined to die.
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- Part 4 of Merlin is a Pendragon
- Part 2 of Morgana is Emrys and Merlin is a Pendragon (again)
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'Why are you haunting me for my failures and not Morgana? Hasn't she done worst, father? Or is it that even in death you keep on favoring her over me?'
Or, Arthur can't understand how he could have failed Camelot more than his sister has. Why is it that even in death his father only sees his failures but refuses to see Morgana's?
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You may not be of my flesh and blood,
But you are of my heart.
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Or, Sir Gorlois Le Fay had always known he wasn't Morgana's father. It didn't mean she wasn't his daughter. -
flowers and words dripping from his mouth by no_nutcracker
Fandoms: Merlin (TV), Doctor Who (2005)
01 Nov 2022
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He had always thought that being Emrys had been something Kilgharrah, Destiny, Mordred, his own people kept on burdening him with.
He had been wrong.
Being Emrys had always been a choice.
His.
And being Emrys is a choice he made/is making/will always make. -
Trust. Loyalty. Destiny. Doom. (and then you add poison and let your cauldron on the burner for your potion to simmer and boil) by no_nutcracker
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
16 Oct 2022
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Morgana finds a dead Merlin on the roof of the tower Finna sought refuge.
And then, Emrys comes back to life.Series
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Guinevere does not live well with the fact that her husband did not notice she was not herself for weeks on end, especially not when he always notices when something is amiss with Merlin.
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