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in which Arthur Pendragon SAVES US ALL
CAMELOT 3000. A comic-book series (or comic book-series??) in which "King Arthur, Merlin, and the reincarnated Knights of the Round Table reemerge in an overpopulated future world of 3000 A.D. to fight off an alien invasion masterminded by Arthur's old nemesis, Morgan Le Fay."
And of course I can't help but imagine this in Merlin-verse. 'cos omg. YOU GUYS. If you find yourself suddenly moved to write Merlin fic about Merlin and Arthur FIGHTING ALIENS IN THE FUTURE, I will love you forever. Forever ever ever, I SWEAR.
Morgana would totally mastermind the shit out of an alien invasion. You go, girl!
'Kay, so the whole deal with Arthur returning during Britain's greatest hour of need got me thinking, like, what if Arthur comes back now? And he's all like, "We're a parliamebabble constitu-what?" and like, "GTFO, Gordon Brown." And he looks at the London stock exchange and is like, "WTF is this shit?" but he makes it better somehow, 'cos these are the terms of his return. 'Cos maybe by "greatest hour of need", they meant "global economic recession and financial crisis".
Arthur Pendragon, only you can restructure the financial sector!
ETA: HAHAHAHAHA WHAT: "In the year 3000, Mordred is reincarnated as Jordan Matthew, a corrupt United Nations official in league with Morgan Le Fay." Also, Galahad is a samurai.
And of course I can't help but imagine this in Merlin-verse. 'cos omg. YOU GUYS. If you find yourself suddenly moved to write Merlin fic about Merlin and Arthur FIGHTING ALIENS IN THE FUTURE, I will love you forever. Forever ever ever, I SWEAR.
Morgana would totally mastermind the shit out of an alien invasion. You go, girl!
'Kay, so the whole deal with Arthur returning during Britain's greatest hour of need got me thinking, like, what if Arthur comes back now? And he's all like, "We're a parliamebabble constitu-what?" and like, "GTFO, Gordon Brown." And he looks at the London stock exchange and is like, "WTF is this shit?" but he makes it better somehow, 'cos these are the terms of his return. 'Cos maybe by "greatest hour of need", they meant "global economic recession and financial crisis".
Arthur Pendragon, only you can restructure the financial sector!
ETA: HAHAHAHAHA WHAT: "In the year 3000, Mordred is reincarnated as Jordan Matthew, a corrupt United Nations official in league with Morgan Le Fay." Also, Galahad is a samurai.
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CAN'T YOU JUST imagine Uther as the mighty shogun, and Arthur being like the awesomest samurai, and Morgana being a badass with a katana, and Gwen makes the best katanas in all the land.
And Merlin spits out, "There's more to life than tea ceremonies, Gaius," and Gaius knows this, but that's why he sticks to the tea ceremonies. Tea ceremonies are safe.
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Arthur knows that he'll be shogun when his father dies. The daimyo might get restless at times, but they aren't strong enough to oppose him, not unless they all banded together, and that's about as likely to happen as Merlin actually folding his fukusa correctly.
Arthur despairs of Merlin. The man can't even do a bloody tea ceremony with out forgetting something, or screwing up the order, or on one particularly atrocious occasion, spilling the thick tea down Arthur's second favorite kimono. Sen no Riyku he's not. Hell, Arthur'd even settle for a tea master that practices the less wabi style of chanoyu that Sowa's been promoting in the imperial court if it weren't for one thing. Merlin's *brilliant* at picking out utensils.
He once pulled together a whisk, tea scoop, and water jar that had absolutely no right, none what so ever, to work the tea bowl that Merlin had picked out for Arthur. Somehow Merlin coordinated one of the most perfectly wabi tea bowls Arthur's ever seen, the glaze worn where his fingers fell, and with a small crack in the rim, with a brand new scoop that practically screams daiymo chanoyu, and a whisk where a quarter of the prongs are broken or bent. Merlin's the apprentice of the shogun's fucking tea master, there's absolutely no reason for him to be using a broken whisk, none at all, when he could practically snap his fingers and have a new whisk would fall into them. Plus the water jar, he's pretty sure, is the one used to make sweet cakes from that stall Merlin and Arthur go to every time they're in Kyoto proper. The stall owner doesn't recognize them, or at least pretends not to recognize the shogun's heir and his tea master as the sneak around the lower city incognito. Merlin always gets at least three sweet cakes and stuffs his mouth full, a blissful look on his face that makes Arthur want to push him up against the nearest wall and snog him senseless.
The combination of the items in one ceremony shouldn't have worked, wouldn't have worked, if it had been anyone else besides Merlin, serving tea to anyone else besides Arthur. Merlin, who held his fan all *wrong*, and who had on the stupid hat Arthur made him wear by telling him if Riyku wore a hat (http://www.city.sakai.osaka.jp/foreigner_en/people/images/1_1.jpg) then Merlin should too, although admittedly Rikyu's hat didn't have any feathers in it. Merlin spent the whole ceremony looking at Arthur as if he was trying to communicated something into the depths of Arthur's soul, and Arthur kept glaring back because Merlin was interrupting his zen, and what the hell was he looking at anyway, didn't he know that Arthur could have him thrown in the stocks?
So maybe it wasn't that Merlin was so brilliant at utensils as he was brilliant at Arthur, which was terrifying in and of itself. Arthur thinks that sitting silently in the soan, drinking thick tea with Merlin, might have been the most emotionally fraught conversation he's had in years. Only Merlin could make tea ceremonies complicated and difficult emotional fields that Arthur couldn't navigate, didn't have any maps of to help help him plan an assault on, or even have the slightest fucking clue where he was and what was going to do next.
I TOOK AN ART HISTORY CLASS ON TEA CEREMONIES. You might have noticed the way I kept (probably incorrectly and definitely without the correct accents and marks and such) dropping terms. The class itself was so much fun though! The teacher was wonderful, and our final project was to organize an themed tea ceremony and do a presentation. Mine and my partner's was based on Howl's Moving Castle.
YOUR TURN.
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my knowledge of feudal Japan is sketchy. Mostly I am thinking of this (http://draykonis.livejournal.com/61502.html)! And Arthur and Morgana practicing their mad ninja skillz under the shadow of the... large Buddha statue? In the peaceful garden where they also practice calligraphy, 'cos the same control and technique that goes into calligraphy goes into ninja skillz. And I totally ripped that off from 'Hero', which isn't even Japanese. Nimueh is a fox spirit?? Basically, I FAIL JAPAN.
And Merlin watches from a distance, admiring the grace of their fight. And Gwen too, watching. They have both sworn to be by Arthur and Morgana's sides, respectively, so there's a certain feeling of pride as they watch, like, "Chyeah, my master is awesome." Maybe they place bets on who wins.