Yes definitely. Arthur does need Merlin. But he's going to cope with Merlin not being so readily forgiving. :( Poor Arthur.
I agree about Merlin not liking Arthur risking his life as penance. Merlin can't stay angry forever. Once he realizes that Arthur is gone for good, he'd feel awful about it and rethink his situation with Arthur. Nothing like the loss of a person to make you see what's most important in life. Not that Merlin will have to deal with Arthur dying, but it's certainly one route to take with this story. I can't bear to have either of them die though. :(
Yeah, I wanted to get a reference to The Dark is Rising in this story because it's one of my favorite book series. Since it wouldn't work to have Bran from DiR here, I had to do an AU version of him. And for the purposes of this story, it fit better that this Bran was more grounded and sort of like Will with seeming older than his age. But since I had already introduced the premise of other versions of the same person especially with Merlin and Arthur, I couldn't resist doing the same with Bran -- to have another world's version of him be that Bran from DiR.
I'm working on a sequel to this story for the Merlin Big Bang where DiR!Bran will actually be in the story (in two scenes for now). He's a minor character, but it just made sense for him to be in the story. I'm so glad I'm close to finishing this story because I want Wolf & The Phoenix to be completed prior to finishing the sequel.
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I agree about Merlin not liking Arthur risking his life as penance. Merlin can't stay angry forever. Once he realizes that Arthur is gone for good, he'd feel awful about it and rethink his situation with Arthur. Nothing like the loss of a person to make you see what's most important in life. Not that Merlin will have to deal with Arthur dying, but it's certainly one route to take with this story. I can't bear to have either of them die though. :(
Yeah, I wanted to get a reference to The Dark is Rising in this story because it's one of my favorite book series. Since it wouldn't work to have Bran from DiR here, I had to do an AU version of him. And for the purposes of this story, it fit better that this Bran was more grounded and sort of like Will with seeming older than his age. But since I had already introduced the premise of other versions of the same person especially with Merlin and Arthur, I couldn't resist doing the same with Bran -- to have another world's version of him be that Bran from DiR.
I'm working on a sequel to this story for the Merlin Big Bang where DiR!Bran will actually be in the story (in two scenes for now). He's a minor character, but it just made sense for him to be in the story. I'm so glad I'm close to finishing this story because I want Wolf & The Phoenix to be completed prior to finishing the sequel.