Arthur + Sword Twirl

she’s so cute!!

Another try at my fem merlin since my style has changed a bit. This time with a closer study of Colin Morgan's facial features. Can't decide what hair she would have but i think this shorter style would be good towards the beginning of the series and it grows out over time. Maybe she got something in it and had to cut it off?

Also really tried to think up a distinct sillhoutte for her that would be distinctive from Morgana and Gwen but still fit the shows medieval-ish aesthetic. Still cant decide how to encorporate the neckercheif in a way that still looks cute and not like shes a cowboy....

“A clever plan..because if Harry here and his friend Ron hadn’t discovered this book, why–Ginny Weasley might have taken all the blame. No one would ever have been able to prove she hadn’t acted of her own free will…and imagine…what might have happened then…The Weasleys are one of our most prominent pure-blood families. Imagine the effect on Arthur Weasley and his Muggle Protection Act, if his own daughter was discovered attacking and killing Muggle-borns…”

It brings me SO MUCH joy that the plot of Chamber of Secrets basically happens because Lucius is terrified out of his mind of Arthur and Molly Weasley and their SEVeN kids who were all raised to hold the line in case anyone tried to start a genocidal regime again. They are so powerful and so dangerous to any attempted rise to power from the Death Eaters, and Lucius feels the need to try and marginalize and demonize them in order to decrease the threat they pose.

And boy was he right to be concerned, they are…unstoppable. Each and every one of them. You thought it was impressive that it took five Death Eaters to kill their uncles? Try having a couple Weasleys illegally on the airwaves, one destroying Voldemort’s Horcruxes, one protesting at Hogwarts, one running loose in the government, one housing escaped prisoners, and one getting foreign support!! More children than they can afford? Try more children than you can effectively stop!!

And then when they ALL show up to fight in the Battle of Hogwarts? What a trip for Lucius Malfoy! Hey bigots! Would you like to pick an opponent based on which Quidditch position they excel at, or do you wanna roll the dice and go with one of the brothers who got 12 OWLs? Those are your only two options because Weasleys are EVERYWHERE and the weak link is NO ONE. The fear that must have been in his heart when one or two of them was around every corner of the school taking down his DE pals…is so amazing to think about. Glorious. Iconic. Every Weasley has red hair, freckles, and a drive to destroy the concept of blood purity at all cost!!

The Weasleys are not always nice or right, but they are GOOD and they believe in standing up for what is good, and when evil is around they SHOW UP to fight it. No questions asked. And evil is so scared of them, so worried about what they can do, that it resorts to desperately weaponizing a little girl to try and stop them.

worldbuilding: problems

there’s no place where everything runs smoothly. every country has it’s problems. that might be poverty, weak government, fake news, gun violence, or abuse of magical abilities. it could really be anything. so what’s wrong with your world?

what could go wrong:

poverty

corrupt government (a few infiltrations? biased officials? a dictator?)

discrimination/persecution of any kind (sexism, racism, religion, anything that makes someone unique)

violence (gangs, guns, magic, sexual assault)

failing economy

counterfeits (money, expensive products, anything)

drugs (fake drugs, very real and dangerous drugs)

weak government (ie. the government isn’t necessarily corrupt, but no one listens to them and they have no real power at all so everyone just runs amok)

environmental crisis

relations with other countries/regions

war

fake news (can be something smaller like what goes around on the internet today, or something as horrible as the propaganda the axis powers fed their people about the allied powers)

scarcity

terrorist groups

stereotypes (remember, even seemingly positive stereotypes can be damaging)

manipulation/using people

there’s a whole lot more, get creative! as saddening as this will be, scrolling through news articles will give you some good inspiration because our world is pretty messed up

how to choose which problems to include

what is your world like? as obvious as this probably sounds, your world’s problems are directly related to the things in your world. choose pretty much any element of your world, however small it may seem, and there can be made a problem out of it.

in a world of magic:

magic can be abused

magic can be faked (ie. in harry potter, around exam season, students sell items that “enhance your brain” or whatever when it’s really pixie poop, i’m not even kidding)

discrimination between magical and non magical people (muggleborns vs. purebloods)

people rely too much on magic and become weak (a great example of this is the Renegades series, where the non prodigies depend on the prodigies way too much)

non magic people using magical people (or magical people using other magicals, ex. grindelwald/percival graves using creedence to find the obscurial)

really, the problems for a magical world are endless - you can use regular real-life problems with a twist. the magical government lies to the public, buying out the main news source? people of pure magical lineage are somehow better than those related to non magical people? harry potter is a fantastic example of magical worldbuilding, steal stuff from jkr (but don’t make gay characters who are never actually gay)

in a world of science:

i’m a big fantasy nerd, much less sci-fi, so i don’t really have any good examples from books/movies, but here are some ideas anyway

the people who live on a different planet are starting to run out of resources and take over the earth (literally the plot of the Lunar Chronicles series)

the government is testing out new sciencey techy stuff and they accidentally make superhuman demon things (Incredibles, but they’re nice guys, not demon things, except maybe jack jack but he’s a cutie don’t hurt him)

terrorist groups steal a smart guy to make weapons for them (Iron Man)

the world is dying 

two + planets are fighting over something

technology/inventions/whatever can be abused

wow these are terrible i’m sorry i need to read more sci-fi

again, you can take regular real world problems and put a sciencey twist on them; a gang that kills people with laserbeam contact lenses, a new invention that uses a very rare element that’s important to the ecosystem and is starting to destroy the planet, the little robots we send to mars become self aware and build a colony of robots. go off sis

Fascism sells a synthetic nostalgia.

Masterlist of Headcanons

It is finally here. You never realize how bad you are at tagging things until you have to find shit lol. If there isn’t a link that either means a) I’ve somehow lost them or b) I have an ask for that person and I haven’t gotten a chance to publish it yet.

Character Headcanons: Knights: Elyan, Lancelot, Leon, Percival, Gwaine, Mordred Arthur Merlin Gwen (why were hers specifically so hard to find?! I tagged them! I did!) Gaius Annoying Characters: Agravaine High Priestesses: Nimueh, Morgause, Bonus Morgana Minor Characters (Who are Major in our Hearts): Geoffrey, Balinor, Mithian, Annis, Ygraine, Freya, Will, Elena

Situational Headcanons:

Arthur and Pollen: A Story of Hate

Merlin + Relationship (Morgana and/or Freya)

Gwaine + Lancelot Being the Dream Team

Lancelot + Mordred Being Another Dream Team

Good Morgana Headcanons

Lancelot + Gwen + Merlin Being The Golden Trio

Gwaine Learns About Merlin’s Magic

Morgana + Gwaine Being Bros

Merlin/Arthur Being Married 

Merlin/Lancelot 

Evil!Merlin

Daegal and Mordred Being Chaotic Teenagers

Merlin & Leon Being Bros

Merlin/Mithian Being a Power Couple

Lancelot/Gwaine Content

Merthur Courting

The Time Merlin Poisoned Himself and Everyone Thought He Died

Before/Beyond the Series Headcanons:

Young Morgana and Arthur

Merlin in Ealdor

Merlin After Arthur’s Death

Merlin’s ‘Citizen Test’

Arthur ‘Teaching’ Merlin to Read

General Merlin Headcanons (Part 1, Part 2)

Keeping Up  With The Pendragons (Uther + His Father Getting Camelot)

Merlin + Other Servants

Dragonlord Merlin

How Percival & Lancelot Met

Leon & Arthur (ft. Arthur Receiving Affection)

What Even Happened After the Lamia Episode?

Merlin and His Lovely Singing Voice

AU Heacanons:

Hogwarts(Part 1, Part 2)

Genderfluid Merlin (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 - more discussion in the tags here #genderfluid Merlin)

Elf/Fae Merlin

Demon Merlin (There’s a lot of content here so you can also use #demon merlin for more)

Merlin + Ganieda Siblings Headcanons

Hunith Finding A Bae And Merlin Not Dealing

Dark!Merlin & Dark!Arthur

Modern People Sent Back To Camelot

Nimueh Raising Arthur

Okay… I think that’s a good chunk of them. If you guys remember some headcanons that I probs forgot, let me know and I’ll try to get them on the list for you! Enjoy!

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Petition to start calling Adam earth dad

Paolo e Francesca, Roberto Ferri