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ad astra per aspera — Latin : to the stars through difficulties
A study in Todd Anderson's relationship with grief, anger, and guilt with Neil Perry.
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- Part 2 of forwards beckon rebound
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10 Jun 2026
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"It’s new, yes, and terrifying, but I feel a changed man, steady and bright. Oh, how your magic thrills me.”
Todd folded the paper up once again and looked up, eyes searching. They found Neil’s, locking, asking some sort of question, and Neil almost forgot how to breathe. His heart was pounding rapidly, almost painfully so. Incredible. That was incredible.
Todd’s eyes finally left his as the other boys gathered around him, cheering. The light of the fire danced across his face.
“Todd Anderson, everybody!” Charlie cheered. “What a man! A czar of romance, if I do say so myself.”
“Yeah, Todd, tell the people who that lovely sonnet was about!” Meeks clapped him on the back.
“Not a sonnet, idiot,” Knox cut in. “All the same, who’s the lucky girl, Todd?”
Oh.
If Neil hadn’t been able to breathe before, he sure couldn’t now. He’d been so lost in the language. He hadn’t even considered the clear implications.
“A summer love?” Knox proposed eagerly.
“Something like that," Todd said quickly, and Neil's stomach dropped.
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Todd reads one of his own poems aloud for the first time at a meeting. Neil, convinced it's for a girl, spirals.
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10 Jun 2026
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"You have magic." Arthur declared, eyes wild in his panic.
He had seen Merlin. His clumsy body had brushed all inelegance away seamlessly, arm lifting and eyes flashing amber in one movement. Arthur felt a breath at his neck, all too late, before Merlin spoke a forgotten language and snap.
A thousand sunrises shone in his eyes as Merlin ruined Arthur's life.
or: Merlin has magic and refuses to sleep, and Arthur doesn't deal with either of those things well.
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09 Jun 2026
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With King Uther’s health rapidly deteriorating, Arthur Pendragon must do what all kings before him have done: go on a quest to prove himself the next worthy leader of Camelot. But when his quest leads him to a mysterious tower with a rumored dark past, Arthur begins to question the things he’s been told.
There are stories about what lurks in the tower outside of Gorra. Some say it is the wellspring of evil itself; the beating heart of all magic. Others claim to have glimpsed a twisted creature through its single dirty window. They say whatever lives there is cursed—trapped forever in a labyrinth of rooms, and if you go in, you don’t come out. Nobody ever comes out.
Arthur is sure they’re all old wives’ tales. The building is clearly abandoned, after all. But as Arthur delves further into the tower’s past, nothing is quite as it seems. Is this place truly home to a monster, or is there something else afoot? And who is the mysterious man who wanders its halls?
Inspired by art by count-pudding . A merthur-shaped mystery for BBC Merlin Reverse Big Bang.
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07 Jun 2026
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Built to fall apart - and fall back together by Saltedkiss for a13merlinfan
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
13 Apr 2026
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Three years have passed since Camlann. King Arthur's army was victorious, but at what cost? When Arthur found out about Merlin's magic and the lies he's been told all those years, something broke within him.
King Arthur may have lifted the ban on magic, but the distance between King Arthur and Court Sorcerer Merlin grows wider each day. Can they find the way back to each other and to the bond they once shared?
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07 Jun 2026