Merlin Headcanons

Stop Blowing Holes in My Ship!

I love Jack Sparrow.
Moving on: Had Merlin truly been just goofy, brave, ordinary Merlin, I would have shipped him with Gwen. Or, to be clearer: I ship them first season and would have continued to if they'd stayed like that. If Merlin hadn't been magic and Gwen had grown up in Ealdor, than they would have been perfect for each other. But instead, Gwen had to grow and change as her father was slaughtered, she was kidnapped - multiple times - her brother died, she was enchanted, she became queen - Gwen changed. Not in a bad way, but she was no longer the easily flustered "Gwen". She was Queen Guinevere. Merlin, in turn, became Emrys, no matter how much he tried to hide it. His goofiness had to hide ever more difficult decisions and more painful memories. Maybe he wasn't even using it as a mask; maybe it was a release, a chance to take a break from destiny and doom. They both grew up, and thus Arwen and . . . And I still can't decide whether I ship Merlin/Freya or Mergana, but it doesn't matter, because neither of them worked out. Sigh.