meridian_rose

For the gameofcards icon challenge:

Letter L

Lucrezia Borgia / Leonardo / llama/ Luke Arnold/ Lancelot

Graphics made for The People's Palace D'Hara fest, intoabar, kink bingo
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As a gift from dorothydeath, meridian_rose, and with much input from brontefanatic, we present a cracky birthday picspam. We hope you enjoy it and that you have a wonderful day.
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Title: A Glimpse of Avalon
Fandom: Merlin
Pairing/Characters: Gwaine, Morgana, Leon, Elyan, Percival, Gwen, Gaius, Merlin, Arthur. Friendship and multiple implied relationships but no direct pairings.
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Gen, Hurt/Comfort, Angst
Word Count: 9957
Prompt: For the hc_bingo prompt wild card – bruises; angst_bingo prompt guilt; the dark_bingo prompt archaic medical treatment
Summary: Gwaine is hurt, maybe dying. The knights struggle with grief and guilt, while Merlin races home - maybe too late to help. Meanwhile, Morgana gets a glimpse of her future, but fate demands she first ensures Gwaine can fulfil his destiny.
Warnings: Minor mention of past suicide by a non-canon character
Notes: In terms of spoilers and canon compliance this takes place between 4x02 and 4x09

Also at A03 // FF.net
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My completed hc_bingo diagonal line!
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For legendland's writing marathon

Team: Cara
Title: More Alike Than Not
Prompt: LotS/Merlin crossover
Wordcount: 1124
Warnings (if any): none

Summary: In a magical inn open to all with magical powers, Gaius and Zedd compare notes on being the mentor to a precocious apprentice with a destiny

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Cloak picspam for merlin_land
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Title: Duty
Characters: Morgana, Arthur
Rating: G
Challenge: Merlin100 #25:"freedom" & 100_Tales prompt #094 “Duty”
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Not for profit. I don’t own Merlin, Shine/BBC does.
Summary: Freedom is the opposite of duty

“Sometimes,” Morgana said, watching the children in the town square below, “I wish I were a commoner.”
“Except for the clothes,” Arthur quipped, elbows leaning on the stone window ledge.
At her look of admonishment, he relented.
“I know; you mean being free to do what you wanted without worrying what everyone thought about it. Not having to worry about being a disgrace to the royal family.”
Morgana nodded. “You do understand.”
“We can’t have freedom,” Arthur said, “because we have duty.”
Morgana’s duty would be to marry a noble. Arthur’s to rule. Freedom meant choices that neither could have.

Title: Five secrets Morgana kept from Uther.
Author meridian_rose
Characters: Morgana
Pairings: none
Warnings: none
Spoilers: throughout first season
Words: 332
Summary I think the title says it all :)
Disclaimer: I don’t own Merlin or any of the characters
Notes: For the merlin_rarepair Five Things Challenge


The first secret Morgana kept from Uther was that she knew his grief at her mother’s death wasn’t just shared mourning with his friend, her father. That she’d heard laughter from her mother’s room while her father was away fighting a war Uther had started. That, creeping to the doorway long after she should have been in bed, she saw Uther, shirtless, lying alongside her mother and pressing kisses to her shoulder.

The second secret Morgana kept was that when her father died, she was visited by a maidservant she’d never seen before.
“Uther Pendragon will take you from here to his own castle,” the woman said, “and raise you as a daughter, though he’ll make a poor job of it. He’s too harsh to be kind. But you will survive, Morgana, and grow strong. And one day I will find you and you will have a true family and more love and more power than you can ever dream of.”
No-one believed her when she asked about the woman, the woman whose eyes were the colour of gold, and who had vanished through the door rather than opening it. And since Uther was harsh and not charitable towards daydreaming, she never told him of it, and tried not to think of it often.

The third secret was that her dreams were prophetic. As she matured they grew in intensity but all she ever confessed was that she had nightmares. Deep down she became certain she was a Seer and that was more magic than Uther would tolerate.

The fourth secret was that she’d plotted to kill Uther when she’d lured him out to her father’s grave. He must never know how close he’d come to dying at her hand.

The fifth secret was that Morgana, since her latest dream, knew exactly when Uther would die, and how. How his son would take control and unite the kingdoms under a fair and just rule. And she couldn’t wait for this to happen.