Black_Betty

"Valiant" [1x02, Merlin]


*Arthur is going to fight a guy strong as a bear. Gwen notices how nervous Morgana looks *
Gwen (sneaky): Not worried, are you?
Morgana (trying to hide her fear): N-No...

. : R e a s o n s : .



Because . . .

01. ..the sight of her makes him beg for mercy.
02. ..he was jealous of Valiant.
03. ..the armor scene is still the most sensual scene in the show.
04. ..he wanted to be her man to the feast.
05. ..she is his Lady.
06. ..he is her Champion.
07. ..he thinks her beautiful.
08. ..she worries about him.
09. ..he couldn't let her dying without trying everything he could.
10. ..he wants her to admit she likes him.
11. ..she tries to protect him.
12. ..he does dangerous things only for her.
13. ..she thinks he's a better man than his father.
14. ..some people are just born to be queen.
15. ..if they don't do something about it the sexual tension will kill em.
16. ..she always sees when he is in danger.
17. ..they shared their childhood.
18. ..she pushes him to do the right thing.
19. ..he stands up for her with his father.
20. ..when he notice she's trying to manipulate him into something he lets her.
21. ..they look beautiful together.
22. ..denial can only go so far.
23. ..only she used to beat him.
24. ..he'd defy his father's orders for her.
25. ..she likes him less and less more and more by the second.
26. ..it's not every day a girl gets to save her prince.
27. ..she fought at his side.
28. ..she saved his life.
29. ..he doesn't want her to get hurt.
30. ..she won't let him leave her behind while he risks his life.
31. ..he didn't do it for the boy, he did it for her.
32. ..for him it's (more than) okay if she's jealous.
33. ..he can't take his eyes off her.
34. ..they already are King and Queen of Denial Land.
35. ..they so clearly belong to each other that even TPTB got scared.
36. ..even Bradley admitted they had to exchange Morgana and Gwen's place in Arthur's heart to give the latter a role.
37. ..Katie wants to be Queen, and we want that too.
38. .."God I love you".
39. ..Bradley's favorite scene is an ArMor one.
40. ..They finish each others lines.
41. ..Bradley is a total A/M fanboy and who would want to make him sad?
42. ..they'd cheat destiny to be near each other.
43. ..Bradley James is Prince Arthur, and if he wants it, Arthur does.
44. ..They both knew she was lying when she used his father to confess her feelings.
45. ..He said he feels the same.
46. ..Arthur couldn't run fast enough to Morgana's room when he feared she was in danger.
47. ..he kicked the door to her chambers ready to fight to defend her.
48. ..when they fall back into banter and tension it feels like home.
49. ..when everything else is lost for her, he still remains.
50. ..he's glad thinking she worries about him.
51. ..he says her name like it's the sweetest song.
52. ..Arthur is the only intruder admitted in her chambers.
53. ..Katie thinks Bradley is pretty hot.
54. ..Katie is the only one who ever made Bradley blush.
55. ..when in the end, he'll be left all alone, she'll be the one there for him.
56. ..they are together forever on the Island of Avalon.
57. ..they held hands to run away together.
58. ..he wanted nothing else then to protect her.
59. ..he can't forgive himself for not being able to save her.
60. ..he trusts her with the King's life.
61. ..she's been his companion in life, love and war.
62. ..she was scared he couldn't survive.
63. ..he was broken when he couldn't save her.
64. ..he didn't want to let Morgause take her away from him.
65. ..he can always say when she is lying.
66. ..he didn't want her to worry.
67. ..Arthur is the only one Morgana has left in Camelot.
68. ..even SyFy can see they are made for each other.
69. ..even with the lack of interaction of Season 2 their few exchanges are still spiky and masking a deep hidden attraction.
70. ..she's the only one that can call him names and get away with it.

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. : F u t u r e..T i t l e s : .

They have no platonic scenes only flirty.
She knows he's a better man.
I know my saviour's love is real. Your love is real.
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight. In the shadow of your heart.
I traveled half the world to say "I belong to you".
You were the sunshine, headed my front-line. I was alone. You were just around the corner from me.
It DOES matters to him what she thinks.
"Any girl in the fort, except perhaps Morgana, would come running at a click of his fingers." - SyFy
"Here is the secret nobody knows: I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart" - E.E. Cummings

The purest love will lead to the Greatest legend ever told between an enchantress and a warrior


"... He bowed to Igraine, more formally to Morgause, but as he approached Morgaine he leaned forward and kissed her on the cheek. She stiffened. Mother, Goddess, what a tangle we have made. He says he will always love me and long for me...
[Morgana (hearing Arthur's thoughts), THE MISTS OF AVALON]

"...and I love you Morgana, with a love that is stronger than death. If sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!"
[Arthur, THE MISTS OF AVALON]

We are one in a Million. Meant to Be.

"We were not gentle. We came together like lance against shield, battered and ground against each other. Possessed, we tore from each other the elemental thing we fed on, and when the combat ended, she cried like a she-wolf about the edges of my soul for what I took away. No right or wrong or justice, only need answered or left begging".
[Arthur (about his relationship with Morgana), FIRELORD]

"...And I knew her from the last moments of dreams before waking, from the shadows beyond Cilurnum's watchfire, glimpsed as she slid around the corner of imagination, over the shoulders of other women whose faces were not half so well remembered even in my arms. A strong face who knew sorrow, joy and rage. But not beautiful.
"Very beautiful" Merlin answered the though "when you have eyes to see"
[Arthur (about Morgana), FIRELORD]

"Do love you, Morgana"
It is painful and delicious between us, a starved need beyond hunger, and somewhere in it is the thought: I have never said love before. And though there's a memory of beds and faces gone or yet to come, the echo of the same words deeply meant and even better understood, this first time a piece of self arcs out like a fierce comet, burning with a never-again brightness and falling, always remembered, down the lonely space of life.
[Arthur (to Morgana), FIRELORD]

Because some people are just born to be Queen. And the Future King acknowledges that.

"He let out his breath "We can't stay children forever" he tried to keep his voice light.
"I wish we could".
"I don't" the lightness was gone. His voice was intense, almost fierce "Don't you understand?" he said "Don't you feel how hard it is to be young?" his hand on her wrist tightened "There's everything I want, everything I'm ready for, and I'm too young"
[Arthur and Morgana, THE ROAD TO AVALON]

"You don't understand..." Arthur replied, his face was stark "Without Morgana... I cannot live without Morgana."
[Arthur (after Merlin's refusal to let him marry Morgana), THE ROAD TO AVALON]

"...Arthur has been attached to Morgan ever since he first came to Avalon. They have been inseparable since childhood. I would say that Arthur loves Morgan more than anything else in the world"
[Merlin (about Arthur's love for Morgana), THE ROAD TO AVALON]

"I saw Athur's face last night. He will toss everything aside if he must - Uther, the high kingship, Britain - before he will give up Morgana"
[Merlin (about Arthur), THE ROAD TO AVALON]

"Do you think Arthur would stand for that? You don't know him very well, Igraine, if you think he would. He would tear apart the country looking for her. The only way you could stop him would be to chain him up"
[Merlin (answering Igrain's suggestion to send Morgana away), THE ROAD TO AVALON]

Our story isn't a fairytale. But it's a Legend. And in the end, I'll come back to you.

"-Morgana told you I am your father, Mordred, asked finally Arthur.
-Yes Milord. She told me too that I can't say this in front of anyone, cause she and yourself are half sister and brother, sharing the same mother, and that I am the fruit of a crime in humans eyes.
-Yes. The fruit of my greatest crime, and of my greatest happiness too. My pleasure to be. My reason to be (My raison d'être). And my bitterness to be as well, because of her exile.
-I thought your reason to be (raison d'être) was the Round table.
-No. It's Morgana.
-I don't understand. My mother raised me in the single anxiety of the Table of Camelot which was her enemy. And you, who are the table, You prefer to it, its enemy, which mean yours ?
-I am not the Table Mordred. I am not an idea. At most it's bad servant, but before anything else, a flesh loving another flesh, which is Morgana.
We are lovers and foe, and more lovers than foe, even if, eventually, enmity is ruling and keeping apart our destinies."
[Arthur, talking with Mordred after Morgana's exile, ARTHUR]

"Do you want to make of Guinevere the balm of a love wound caused by Morgana ?" ARTHUR

" I have made a promise to your father, Leodegrance, dying in Badon hills, the promesse I will take care of you, and this promise is an holy one for me. In addition, despite whatever you may think, I like you, enough for not lying to you, and our embrace would be for me only a desire and a pleasure fugacious, because I am full of another women."
[Arthur and Guinevere, after he refused her, still drown in the sorrow of Morgana's exile, ARTHUR]

"Arthur's pleasure ravaged him, sending him soon at the bitterness and at the cruelty of the reality. He encircled the women of his arms with gentleness and hugged her. And he cried, like he cried when he had see Morgana at the return of her first exile, after thirteen years of an absence he had felt the weight at each moment since"
[Arthur, after sleeping with a prostitute reminding him of Morgana, ARTHUR]

"They are in Morgana's chambers"

"If he dares touch a hair on Queen Morgana's head, I'll lead against him a war to the knife. Which means that of him, his soldiers, his allies, and his servants, I will not let even one survivor."
[Arthur, threatening Claudas's action against Avalon and its Queen, ARTHUR]

"It is forever, this goodbye of ours"
"Do you think I don't know that?" she demanded, suddenly fierce "I'll be born knowing it! I'll never forget it, not when I'm fifteen, not when I'm a hundred and fifteen! Look at me Arddu. Do you really think I want to do this?"
She was weeping. He put his arms around her. For a time they were silent.
[Arddu/Arthur and Morgana (saying goodbye), THE THIRD MAGIC]

"He, too, was trying. Suddenly he hugged her, then brushed her eyes with his lips".
[Arddu/Arthur and Morgana (saying goodbye), THE THIRD MAGIC]

The Girl saves her prince, twice. And she will save him again, because she is his protector, his fairy, his Queen of Avalon

"Where? (Laughs) In my heart."
[Arthur (when asked where Morgana lived), CAMELOT THE TRUE STORY]

"I can't marry her. The thing that sticks out in my mind the most about Morgana is our absolute oneness. I can be myself. She was me, I was her. When we ere together, there was no... airs. I wasn't' Arthur, I wasn't anybody. I was just me.
When we made love, we were animals. Pure animals. Pure nature. If I have to choose between the two things that mean the most to me, between "nature" and all the "power"... (Laughs). Give me the "nature"."
[Arthur (when asked when he and Morgana became lovers), CAMELOT THE TRUE STORY]

"SHE is my true love."
[Arthur (about Morgana), CAMELOT THE TRUE STORY]

"She was everything to me."
[Arthur (about Morgana), CAMELOT THE TRUE STORY]

● S o u n d t r a c k ●.....

♫ LISTEN ♫

Star crossed lovers
They say we're not meant to be
'Cause the stars in the sky, and the fashion that they are aligned.
I say if the futures been drawn out there's no point in living.
I wont give up my love so that fate can have its way.
. Star Crossed . Scary Kids Scaring Kids .

This one world vision
Turns us in to compromise
What good's religion
When it's each other we despise
Damn the government
Damn their killing
Damn their lies
Hush, It's okay
Dry your eyes, dry your eyes
Soulmate dry your eyes
Cause soulmates never die
. Sleeping with Ghosts . Placebo .

By my side,
you’ll never be.
By my side,
you’ll. never. be.
'Cause I’m fake at the seams,
I’m lost in my dreams, and
And I want you to know,
that I can’t let you go.
. Swans . Unkle Bob .

Still the same, pursuing pain
Is it worth all that I've gained?
We both know how it will end,
But I'd do it again
And it finds me
The war within me pulls me under
And without You
The fight inside is breaking me again
. Nothing and Everything . Red .

Picture you're the queen of everything
as far as the i can see
under your command
i will be your gaurdening
when all is crumbling
steady your hand
. Never Say Never . The Fray .

I'll be your everlasting
And enemies they take your peace but they won't last forever
I'll be your sword and shield and
I'll be your sword
I'll be your shield
I'll be your army
. Sword and Shield . Sister Hazel .

This love
Doesn't have to feel love
Doesn't care to be love
It doesn't mean a thing
This love
. This Love . Craig Armstrons f/t Elizabeth Fraser .

For I am finding out that love will kill and save me
Taking the dreams that made me up
And tearing them away
But the same love will take this heart that's barely beating
And fill it with hope beyond the stars
Only love
. The Beauty and the Tragedy . Trading Yesterday .

You, you were always gonna be my king
(I was always gonna be your king)
I was always gonna be your queen
You know that we can always be anything
Remember now
Whatever may come, whenever you're lost
Remember there'll always be a place for us
Castles we build, they crumble to dust
Don't worry, there'll always be a place for us
. A Place for Us . Leigh Nash f/t Tyler James .

Give me something to return to
In your heart
I fear nothing but to leave here
Without you for life
We were left in this world for each other
But I can`t run from the fate
I`ve been fighting for so long
. Fate . Bleak f/t Ana Johnsson .

● F a n v i d s ●

Love Story - crazygirl786
Hot N Cold - peri7766hhyeg
Shattered - ForsakenWwitchery
Foundations - melodyofafallentree
7 Things - blondetitch
I Still Need You - OViolentDarkKnightO
All Around Me - 0mimx0
Forgive Me - VisnovskyGirl17
Run - VampireWytch
Broken - nattt4991
Shimmer - 01zebra

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. : B o o k s : .

"The Road to Avalon" - Joan Wolf
"The Mists of Avalon" - Marion Zimmer Bradley
"Firelord" - Parke Godwin
"The High Kings" - Joy Chant
"The Third Magic" - Welwyn Wilton Katz
"Merlin", "Morgana", "Arthur" - Michel Rio
"Camelot, The True Story" - Michel H. Miller

● F a n f i c s ●

The Price Of Pride - Anya2
Future Fragments - emerald sorceress
Your Mouth Is Lovely (Not That I'm Watching) - dollsome
Stonewalled - falseeeyelashes
This Earthly Fire - fried_flamingo
Beltane - gnimaerd
The Brush of Wildfire - ed_84
Guarded - mirrorOfsin
A Different Kind of Magic - a_boleyn1230
A Lesson From The Shadows - doylefan22

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Jared ❤︎ Jensen

Tftnt!

Black_Betty

YW

Neda16

Tftnt!

Black_Betty

YW!

Natasha Romanoff

TFTNT! title

Black_Betty

YW! I love all the GoT icons in this thread

Natasha Romanoff

I haven't seen the finale! Going to see it tomorrow when I get back home so freaking excited already

That gifset hurts me they could have had it all

Black_Betty

I had mixed feelings about the finale but there was a lot I liked about it

They really could have

Jared ❤︎ Jensen

Those arts and gifset

Kreuse

Eeek! Ben Daniels changed his twitter photo to one of Tristan!!! I hope he came back

Natasha Romanoff

I'm planning to rewatch S1 in this summer I miss them a lot lately

malaguetta

Hello everyone! A brand new ArMor thread, thank you, Betty.

I'm sorry I haven't been posting here much. Truthfully, I pretty much over Merlin. Like many ArMor fans, Capps & Co. have demoralized me into just not caring about this show anymore. All the attendant secrecy surrounding season 5 is only making me indifferent to the upcoming episodes. Mordred is coming back; at one time I would've been interested, now, who cares? A the mystery surrounding the new season only makes me think that season 5 is more of the same old tired crap we've had since season 2.

Okay, I'm a bad a fan. I truly do hope that season 5 is the end of Merlin. I love the legends too much to deal with this bowdlerization. I have no problem with adapting the legends, (I love Monty Python and the Holy Grail), but this is beyond all hope. Merlin has pretty much ceased to be about the Arthurian Cycle at all.

This article has been around for a months:

Merlin season 5 and beyond

“Blood and incest doesn’t appeal to us,” say the co-creators of Merlin

Merlin co-creators Johnny Capps and Julian Murphy talk exclusively to SciFiNow about the future of the show and why there will never be “blood and incest” in this Arthurian legend retelling…

You’ve always said there’s been a five series plan for Merlin, why was that?

JC: Because at the time we were pitching the series and talking to Judy Gardener about it we thought that we want to be ambitious and do a five year plan, it doesn’t mean to say it will only last for five series, it was just how we conceived it at the time. It was all about slow-burning all the character arcs and the legends and the mythology of the series so we didn’t do that thing that happens in British drama a lot, which is piling up the story and burning the character arc too quickly so it certainly doesn’t mean that Merlin will only run for five series.

Do you have an idea of where you’re going each series?

JM: We have a pretty good idea of where we’re heading each series but how we get there grows and changes in an organic fashion. With this series we have largely followed what we set out to do and that’s unusual, most of the series change quite radically during their making.

JC: And you write to the actor’s strengths. We’re really lucky that our young cast have really grown as actors so we literally throw them any challenge and we’re not working around their shortcomings. I think one thing that has developed in a great way, the way we always hoped it would, is the banter between Arthur and Merlin, Colin (Morgan) and Bradley (James) have a great comic relationship onscreen so we certainly enjoy writing for that and doing more of that. It’s the heart of the show.

It feels as though the series has definitely grown more adult, was that a conscious decision?

JM: Colin is not the innocent figure that walked into season one, he’s been on an immense journey as Merlin and we have to reflect that or we’re not going to be true to the drama.

JC: Just look at the Harry Potter franchise which is a great example, you watch these characters grow up and the films get darker and there’s that same sense with Merlin. We talk about it getting darker but the thing that’s really important to us is that there’s still an air of innocence about it, there’s still a warm heart and comedy.

There are plenty of bloody, gritty medieval dramas out there at the moment; would you consider going in that direction?

JC: No, to be brutally honest. I’m not sure it would appeal to us. What’s great about Merlin is it has that sense of wonder and magic and I think to tell the real version of king Arthur and all it’s blood and incest is not something that would appeal to us. Game of Thrones is a little bit different in that it is a genuine fantasy, a more violent one than Merlin, we’re great admirers of it but it’s a totally different thing. What we’re trying to be is like a PG-13 Hollywood film and I don’t think we’ll ever take the program to a place that isn’t that

Merlin season 5 and beyond | SciFiNow

Natasha Romanoff

Thanks for the article, Cheryl! Lol, what could I expect from this show anymore? they said they were going to tell the truth and history of Arthurian legends and then kept messing with it. they said they were going to become darker but then they never did. they just keep having those rainbows everywhere. maybe it's just the camera effects getting darker? Luckily I've quitted this show long ago.

Black_Betty

Wow this sounds like ****. I don't actually know what else to say