Arthur/Merlin - Oneshot - Underneath The Sycamore

[tsumetaikaze]

Title: Underneath The Sycamore
Author: tsumetaikaze
Fandom/Pairing: Merlin [Merlin/Arthur]
Genre: angst, romance, waffle, attempts at being deep, rambling sentences, wtf
Rating: 15+ (it's a rating in my country!)
Warnings: It’s dark by my standards, it’s disjointed, it’s somewhat experimental (again, by my standards). Also Morgana is in hospital but no character

Comments

[brunettepet]

I loved the flow of this and how you captured Arthur's focused, desperate desire for Morgana to wake up and be his sister again. His claustrophobic routine and her lack of progress were smothering him. Merlin broke into that routine, beguiled Arthur back to himself inch by inch.

It was beautifully written and quite atmospheric. Morgana getting a new beginning, too, is a heart warming bonus.

[tsumetaikaze]

Thank you so very very much! I was really worried how this would come across, and if it would make sense to other brains that weren't mine and/or as tired as mine :P
Really pleased you enjoyed it! <3

[kianspo]

Beautiful, atmospheric, and very hopeful despite everything. ♥

[tsumetaikaze]

Thank you so much!

[archaeologist_d]

I like the thought flows and how Arthur is trying not to think about Morgana and the hospital. I love the images, looking up into the leaves. So very vivid.

[tsumetaikaze]

Thanks heaps, love, glad the images came across as strong as I'd hoped :)
Thank you for commenting!! <3

[solanyxe]

I love the imagery, and I think trees inevitably make for poetic and unusual prose.
Or maybe that's just my latent fixation with tress as literary motifs that's resurfacing.

At first I thought you were going for the variation of the legends where Merlin is trapped in a tree, and is eventually freed in your fic (perhaps only in Arthur's somewhat unsteady mind), but I like how you developed the story too. :))

Some background information is never revealed, but that works well with Arthur's confinement within his own world.

Thank you for sharing!

[tsumetaikaze]

Thanks very much!
Funnily enough, I don't even know the legends where Merlin is trapped in a tree, though I remember reading a few fics where that happens. No, I just like trees, haha.
I was never planning on revealing background information, just sneaky little comments here and there, because they're not the point of the story :)

Thanks so much for commenting, glad you enjoyed <3